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Hilgenfeld, in his edition of the Epistle of Barnabas, repels somewhat testily the imputation of Tischendorf, who criticises him as if he supposed that the saying in St. We now possess six MSS. of the Epistle of Barnabas, including the famous Codex Sinaiticus, the accuracy of which in the Biblical portions can be amply tested, and all of these six MSS., without exception, contain the passage.
"Did that horrid doctor advise you to take me to Algiers?" testily interrupted the young duchess. "He said the change would do you good if you should like to go; but not otherwise. He said that you should be left to decide for yourself." "Then he has quite as much judgment as the world gives him credit for, and that is not the case with every one."
"But you have a plenty of long-limbed stockings," said father, wrinkling his brow. "My good man, look here now!" answered mother, bristling, "well enough you know that all my stockings are very old and holey!" "Oh, darn them!" growled father testily. "Wilhelm, do you wish the king to see my stockings then?" cried mamma, angrily.
"Why don't you put him in the back room, Auntie," she said. "The one Miss Timpson used to have. That isn't occupied now and the bed is ready." Thankful hesitated. "I don't know's he'd better have that room, Emily," she said. "Why not? I'm sure it's a very nice room." "Yes, I know it is, but " "But what?" Mr. Cobb had a remark to make. "Well, come on, come on," he said, testily.
For the first time since the interview began the captain looked ill at ease and embarrassed. "Thunderation!" he exclaimed testily, "you mustn't pay attention to that. He does make up poetry' pieces er on the side, as you might say, but I keep hopin' all the time he'll grow out of it, give him time. It 'ain't his regular job, you mustn't think 'tis." The visitor laughed again.
'The matter? Oh, I was trying to overtake a a person whom I particularly wished to see, I replied; and I saw on his countenance the dawning look of recognition. 'Seems to me you and I have met before. You don't want to arrest me again, do you? I added testily; and then I pulled myself together and asked more amiably, 'Did you think I was running away with another wallet?
But Jan had started to find the boots, and the bow-legged boy, who had overheard the news as he left the house, rushed up the street, with his head down, crying, "It's sold! it's sold!" and, as he ran, he jostled against a man in a white apron, carrying a pot of green paint to some area railings. "Wot's sold?" said he, testily, as he recovered his balance.
"But often," retorted the praetor, "Eros proves to be a substitute for that unhappy friend of the gods." "The true or the sham Eros," asked Balbilla testily. "Certainly not the sham Eros," replied Verus. "On this occasion he merely plays the part of a kindly monitor, taking the place of Pontius, the architect, of whom your worthy matron-companion is so much afraid.
Other nations have been called thin-skinned, but the citizens of the Union have, apparently, no skins at all; they wince if a breeze blows over them, unless it be tempered with adulation. It was not, therefore, very surprising that the acute and forcible observations of a traveler they knew would be listened to should be received testily.
Pierce's diplomatists having so distinguished themselves in Europe. 'Zounds! the old man would continue, testily making a cross on the floor with his crutch, 'a desperate set was soon made on our Bolt by that little world of fashion and intrigue which, lizard-like, crawls about our Legations, and did more particularly so about the one he honored with his handsome person.
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