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Generally, when she said anything cutting, it was so clearly incisive you hardly knew for a moment where you were injured. She did it like the executioner of that Eastern potentate who decapitated a criminal with such skill and with so sharp an instrument that the latter did not know when he was executed and went on talking, his head remaining in situ until he sneezed.
Immediately Hump-back sneezed, stretched forth his arms and feet, and gave several other signs of life.
They make first-rate soup, and that aren't a thing to be sneezed at." "Then we shan't starve," said Carey, laughing. "Starve, sir? No. I can see plenty of good fish to be had out o' this lagoon." "But are these the oysters they gather for the mother-o'-pearl?" asked the doctor. "Them's those, sir, and it seems to me here's a fortune to be made gathering of 'em.
A side saddle is likely to turn and drop you a mile or two down a crack." Aggie went rather white and sneezed violently. But Tish looked thoughtful. "It sounds reasonable," she said. "I've felt for along time that I'd be glad to discard skirts. Skirts," she said, "are badge of servitude, survivals of the harem, reminders of a time when nothing was expected of women but parasitic leisure."
So when it happened I got fairly caught." "When what happened, please?" asked the Boy. "That's just what I don't precisely know," said the dragon. "I suppose the earth sneezed, or shook itself, or the bottom dropped out of something. Anyhow there was a shake and a roar and a general stramash, and I found myself miles away underground and wedged in as tight as tight.
"Certainly not," said Lady Cecilia; "but what is the matter? I am sorry any thing unpleasant has occurred." "Unpleasant indeed!" cried Lady Bearcroft; "I have been treated actually like a dog, while paying a compliment too, and a very handsome compliment, beyond contradiction. Judge for yourself, Lady Cecilia, if this Sevigne is to be sneezed at?"
"She didn't say we mightn't go to the bonfire," sneezed Wendy, on their way down the passage. Wendy as usual had taken a cold in her head. "I kept the squibs dry, thank goodness!" sighed Diana. "Nobody knows about them yet, so we'll let them off as a surprise. Won't they all just jump when they hear them? I'm looking forward to that bonfire as the event of my life!" Diana's English Christmas
"There you go!" said the Hermit good-humouredly, "scaring my poor beastie out of his wits." "Couldn't help it," mumbled Wally. "No, a sneeze will out, like truth, won't it?" the Hermit laughed. "That's how Miss Norah announced herself to me to-day. I might never have known she was there if she hadn't obligingly sneezed!
I tell you, Aaron, it isn't to be sneezed at, leading all the grand marches at the Ancients' dances and being boss of 'em all at the muster, with the band a-playin' and you leading 'em right up the middle of the street. It's worth it, Aaron and I shall be so proud of you!" He grumbled less angrily the next morning.
They took him into the house, and a big man picked him up between his finger and thumb, and said he was not dead but half choked; so they wrapped him in cotton-wool, and warmed him and he opened his eyes and sneezed. It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity.
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