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While he was gone, having, as I said, left his Nodding Donkey on Jennie's porch, along came sneaking Jeff, the colored boy. Jeff's family had moved back into their basement tenement after the flood, and Jeff was the same dirty, careless colored boy as before. He, too, had heard the music of the hand organ down the street and he wanted to see if there was a monkey.
Jennings must acknowledge to a supercilious, yet sneaking air which charity has ere now been kind enough to think a conscious rectitude towards man, and a soft-going humility with God.
It was a restless and sneaking pack of animals, thought Helen; she was glad after the chorus ended and with a few desultory, spiteful yelps the coyotes went away. Silence again settled down. If it had not been for the anxiety always present in Helen's mind she would have thought this silence sweet and unfamiliarly beautiful. "Ah! Listen to that fellow," spoke up Dale. His voice was thrilling.
I've always had my own way in everything. You must look upon me as a very horrid, sneaking, conspiring person, and I I really think you ought to turn me out." She came a few steps nearer. Under the circumstances I could not sit down. So I stood towering above her, but somehow going through a process of physical and mental shrinkage the longer I remained confronting her.
Admiration for beauty a craving to see that which delighted his eyes. Preposterous, at his age! And yet what other reason was there for asking June to undergo such painful reminder, and how prevent his son and his son's wife from thinking him very queer? He would be reduced to sneaking up to London, which tired him; and the least indisposition would cut him off even from that.
It is probably more instructive to entertain a sneaking kindness for any unpopular person, and, among the rest, for Lord Braxfield, than to give way to perfect raptures of moral indignation against his abstract vices. He was the last judge on the Scotch bench to employ the pure Scotch idiom.
The red cap no longer "rears its hideous front" by day, but is modestly converted into a night-cap; and the bearer of a diplome de Jacobin, instead of swinging along, to the annoyance of all the passengers he meets, paces soberly with a diminished height, and an air not unlike what in England we call sneaking.
When you think of the lot of hard cash that passed through that man's hands, for wages and stores and all that and he's just a cunning thief, I tell you." Ricardo's hard stare discomposed the hotel-keeper, and he added in an embarrassed tone: "I mean a common, sneaking thief no account at all. And he calls himself a Swedish baron, too! Tfui!" "He's a baron, is he?
Why, sir, the sender of these copies of the signal code was so mean, so small minded, so sneaking and so utterly selfish" -how Phin squirmed in his seat! "that, in sending the envelopes through the mail he was not even man enough to pay full postage.
When Angelica ceased sneaking she knelt before the king and awaited his answer, and everybody gazed on her with admiration. Orlando especially felt irresistibly drawn towards her, so that he trembled and changed countenance. Every knight in the hall was infected with the same feeling, not excepting old white-headed Duke Namo and Charlemagne himself.
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