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Having thus, amid a general titter, played very prettily with his interrupter, the lecturer went back to his picture of the past, the drying of the seas, the emergence of the sand-bank, the sluggish, viscous life which lay upon their margins, the overcrowded lagoons, the tendency of the sea creatures to take refuge upon the mud-flats, the abundance of food awaiting them, their consequent enormous growth.
Tell him Amy wants him to do it. 'Ay! tell him so, cried Ellen, and they laughed in a manner that overpowered Amy with horror and shyness. She sprung to seize Charlotte, and stop her; she could not speak, but Louisa Harper caught her arm, and Laura's grave orders were drowned in a universal titter, and suppressed exclamation, 'Go, Charlotte, go; we will never forgive you if you don't!
"Resting in bed," the trumpeter explained. Buster Bumblebee suddenly grew much excited. And he climbed up on a table and shouted for everybody to be quiet. "I don't believe you know about me!" he cried, as soon as the house was still. "The Robber Fly attacked me. But I don't need to go to bed. I'm not the least bit nervous." Several of the family near him began to titter.
There was a titter in the court room as the prosecuting attorney read
Correction, like a centipede, shows a hundred legs and wants to run upon them all. Much of the so-called philanthropy is not well balanced and is run by cranks. Cranks attach themselves to any social movement, as a shaggy gown will gather burrs. It is not all of philanthropy to classify degenerates, titter at ignorance, and to go a-peeping through the slums!
"Not without starchin'," said the man, and amid the titter that followed, Mrs. Beaver made her exit. On the corner she paused to reconnoitre. Across the street was her gaily lighted cottage, where all the guests were waiting.
Sort of 'Oh, Lord, here we are again!" There was a titter here and there. The Coroner smiled, and tried to pretend that he hadn't. "Thank you, Mr. Beverley." The next witness was summoned by the name of Andrew Amos, and Antony looked up with interest, wondering who he was. "He lives at the inner lodge," whispered Bill to him.
"Yes," answered the girl with a titter. "As you please but, I pray you, fair sir, am I not a good milkmaid?" "The best ever," replied Adonis. "Pray let us stroll in yonder meadow." Slipping his hand into the bare arm of the milkmaid, Adonis drew the figure down a pith toward the small lake that was on one edge of the Kimball property.
Their appearance immediately attracted notice, and no sooner had they taken their seats than Duncan and Llewellyn began to titter. The ladies' bonnets, which were of white, trimmed with long green leaves and flowers, just peered over the top of the boys' pew, and excited much amusement.
There was a flutter of expectation, a wink from Mr. Mellen, and an audible titter from Miss Brown. "Certainly" said Miss Ludolph, who thought to herself, "If he will make a fool of himself, he may"; and she played the brief prelude. Then prompt at the proper moment, true to time and note, Dennis's rich, powerful tenor voice startled and then entranced them all.
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