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Course all women things has got mothering borned into 'em, but it comes easier to some than to others. I always feel like giving 'em a helping hand at the start off." "You have a great deal of faith if you feel sure of that universally maternal instinct in these days, Mother," said the Doctor with a teasing smile as he handed her a quart cup of oats from the bin.
Then charge the can cheerily, Send it round merrily: Here's to our country, and captains commanding; To all who inherit Of Lawrence the spirit Disdaining to strike while a stick is left standing." Many were the verses of this notable production; for, to be popular in the forecastle, a song must play a lengthy part in "teasing time."
Palmer's threshold, or bowed his neck under that splendid fury's yoke. My admirer thinks no more of smoking these grave nobles, men of a former generation, who learnt their manners at the court of a serious and august King, than I do of teasing my falcon.
"Ah! that's because you've nothing to do," said Dubova. "Have you so much to do, then?" "At any rate, I have not the time to weep." "I am not weeping, am I?" "Well," said Dubova, teasing him, "you're in the sulks." "My life," replied Yourii, "has caused me to forget what laughing is." This was said in such a bitter tone that there was a sudden silence.
'You're flirting, he thought; 'you're bored, and teasing me for want of something to do, while I ... His heart really seemed as though it were being torn to pieces. 'Besides, you are perhaps too exacting, he said, bending his whole frame forward and playing with the fringe of the chair. 'Perhaps. My idea is everything or nothing. A life for a life.
One and all, they came down from off the earth, and into the mines they went in a crowd. They left off teasing milkmaids, tangling skeins of flax, tearing fishermen's nets, tying knots in cows' tails, tumbling pots, pans and dishes, in the kitchen, or hiding hats, and throwing stones down the chimneys onto the fireplaces.
He would hover high up, at well over ten thousand feet from the ground, then drop straight for the earth, like a plummet, nose directly downward, seemingly bent on destruction. When still at a safe distance up, he would gradually ease his rush through the air by "teasing her a bit," as he called it.
Quite meekly, though she had a quick temper, she bore his teasing remarks as he watched her 'binding up her hair to make her a fair large forehead, and with strait-bracing in her body to make her middle small, both twain to her great pain'; while she on her part was frequently vexed that he 'refused to go forward with the best, and had no wish 'greatly to get upward in the world.
I can't make them up to to whom I would. It's struck me that, as I couldn't, I might be a little decent to somebody else, perhaps if I could manage it! I never have been particularly decent to poor old Aunt Fanny." "Oh, I don't know: I shouldn't say that. A little youthful teasing I doubt if she's minded so much.
She was always doing something sprightly, either making him laugh or laughing at him, talking to the horses, planning some little surprise for their occasional dinners in the Bronson cabin, quoting some fragment of poetry from an outland song, she called these songs "outlandish," and had explained her delight in teasing her father with "outlandish" adjectives; whistling in answer to the birds, and amusing herself and her "men-folks" in a thousand ways as spontaneous as they were delightful.
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