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Even should they shut the gates, we can reduce the town, and as all the rest of Flanders is with you, surely a short delay will not matter." "You know not these Flemings as well as I do," Van Artevelde replied; "they are surly dogs, but they always listen to my voice, and are ready enough to do my bidding.
Milo hurried faster, for he feared they too had sighted his ship, and sprang down to the shore to accost surly Caliban. "Here, Milo old buck, stick yer beak into this, lad!" screamed Caliban, thrusting forward a brimming horn of wine. The giant declined impatiently, waving a hand toward the activity afoot. "What, won't drink luck, hey?" cried the dwarf, emptying the horn himself.
Spiled ain't the word: disgraced it is." "Degraded," said Plum, in a deep voice. "Ay, and degraded," cried old Joe, with a surly, dangerous nod. "That there little tailor has degraded the honour of our flag. What's to be done to him?" After a pause, Plum said: "Bring him up and sit in examination on him. Try him fairly, and convict him."
He swore again at that; and here, lest I should draw my loyal Richard as he was not, let me say, once for all, that his oaths were but the outgushings of a warm and impulsive heart, rarely bitter, and never, as I believe, backed by surly rancor or conscious irreverence. "That you shall not, Jack," he asserted, stoutly.
"No," said she, "he only cared to have a stylish turnout, as they call it; I think he knew very little about horses; he left that to his coachman, who told him I had an irritable temper! that I had not been well broken to the check-rein, but I should soon get used to it; but he was not the man to do it, for when I was in the stable, miserable and angry, instead of being smoothed and quieted by kindness, I got only a surly word or a blow.
And so, taking surly harshness for a mask when my heart was nigh bursting with shame and grief, I turned my back and cut him off. Looking back upon the hazards and chance-takings of our adventure in the wilderness, I recall no more promising risk than that we ran by sleeping unsentried within rifle-shot, for aught we knew, of the camp of the enemy.
Caius found Day in a small paddock behind one of the barns, tending a mare and her baby foal. Day had of late turned his attention to horses, and the farm had a bleaker look in consequence, because many of its acres were left untilled. Caius leaned his elbows on the fence of the paddock. "Hullo!" Day turned round, asking without words what he wanted, in a very surly way.
The thickest had been cut by the heavy man, and Mr. Wood took it first. "Thank you, friend," he said. The man didn't speak, and he turned his back as usual, but he gave a sideways surly nod before he turned.
People from all parts of the room gathered round her. A few seemed inclined to doubt her description of the stranger's personal charms, but when she applied to Mrs Masterman for confirmation, that lady, who was known to have a strict regard for truth in its most uncompromising form, emphatically agreed with her. "Beautiful! I should think she was beautiful," she said, in her usual surly fashion.
"How do you like that, Bilbil?" "I don't like it," complained the goat. "It reminds me of the alligator that tried to whistle." "Did he succeed, Bilbil?" asked the King. "He whistled as well as you sing." "Ha, ha, ha, ha, heek, keek, eek!" chuckled the King. "He must have whistled most exquisitely, eh, my friend?" "I am not your friend," returned the goat, wagging his ears in a surly manner.
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