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'Take the knife and throw it on the table, he said to Faddo once more, and Faddo took it out and threw it down. "'Come on, then, Faddo says, with a sneerin' laugh; 'we'll see by daybreak who has the best o' this night's work, and he steps towards the door. "'Wait a minute, says Lancy, gettin' in front of him. 'Now take the knife from your boot. Take it, he says again, 'or aw will.
"That's just the way all the time," said Jack, provoked. "I've lived longer than you," began Aunt Rachel. "Yes, a mighty lot longer," interrupted Jack. "I don't deny that." "Now you're sneerin' at me on account of my age, Jack. Martha, how can you allow such things?" "Be respectful, Jack." "Then tell Aunt Rachel not to aggravate me so. Will you let me have the fifty cents, mother?" "Yes, Jack.
I come round here lots, and a swell come too, a cold " "Grexon Hay," said Hurd, pointing to the photograph. "Yes. That's him," said Jessop, staring, "and I hated him just, with his eye-glass and his sneerin' ways. He loved the kid, now a growed, fine gal, as you know, and come here often. In June at the end of it anyhow he comes and I hears him tells Mrs.
And he felt that the Creation Searchers ort to go to New York that day to assist the Aunties in sneerin' at the marchers, writin' up the parade, and helpin' count 'em. Philander wuz always good at figures, specially at subtraction, and he and his Step Ma thought he ort to be there to help. I told Josiah I guessed the She Aunties didn't need no help at that.
But he couldn't help his ears from hearin' the reasonable, eloquent words of earnest and womanly wimmen, so full of good sense and truth and justice that no reasonable person could dispute 'em, and when he contrasted all this with the sneerin' face, the sarcastic egotistic prattle of Maud, the veil dropped from his eyes, and he see with the New Vision.
Davis sat like one bemused; it might even have been doubted if he heard, but the voice of the clerk rang about the cabin like that of a cormorant among the ledges of the cliff. 'That will do, Huish, said Herrick. 'Oh, so you tyke his part, do you? you stuck-up sneerin' snob! Tyke it then. Come on, the pair of you. But as for John Dyvis, let him look out!
I inquired after 'is health from Retallick. "'Don't ask me, 'e says, sneerin' be'ind his silver spectacles. ''E's promoted to be captain's second supernumerary servant, to be dressed and addressed as such. If 'e does 'is dooties same as he skinned the spuds, I ain't for changin' with the old man.
"Which it wouldn't 'a' cost him if he hadn't looked sneerin' at my stockin' feet," said Scattergood to Johnnie Bones. Johnnie Bones prepared the papers for the incorporation of the new railroad, and the organization was perfected. There were two thousand shares of one hundred dollars each.
He paused a second, an' then sez clear an' distinct, "This ain't exactly the way 'at Silver Dick used to play the game when he made a business of it." Piker leaned back an' stared at Dick in a sneerin' sort of way; while me an' the ol' man stared at him with our eyes poppin' out. Silver Dick, Silver Dick: every one in the West had heard of Silver Dick.
"'I'm afther charmin' a burd out iv a three; 'tis a way I have, says I, shovin' in a fresh cartridge from my waistcoat pocket, fair an' aisy, an' kapin' me back to the haystack. "'Was it you kilt the jackdaw? says he. "''Twas meself, says I, 'that did it, says I. "'An' ye carry a murdherin' thing like that in a paceful counthry, says he. ''Tis yer American thrainin' says he, sneerin'.
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