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He had been scratching and whining until despair came upon him, and he lay down to die. She lifted the latch, stepped over the dog, and entered. The peat-fire was smouldering low on tho hearth. She sat down and closed her eyes. When she opened them, there lay Snootie, stretched out before the fire!
Just as the children were getting up from the table one morning, to go out and hoe a little among the corn and beans before going to school, they heard a barking, whining, growling noise out in the yard, and the voice of Sammie Porter could be heard crying: "Oh, stop! Stop! Go on away! You're bad! Oh, come take him away! Oh! Oh!"
"A gust of wind; a spatter of rain; perhaps a dash of hail; then, of a sudden, a sky so calm and peaceful one would wonder how it ever could have been disturbed." Even as he spoke the house shivered in every timber as the gale struck it and went whining by. He rushed to the whim-room, but found the boy still sleeping soundly.
Then, finding none to take up her challenge, she strode out through the folk, and I after her, with the mirror in my hand; while the Cheap Jack picked himself out of the tub, whining, and the Astrologer wip'd his long white beard and soil'd robe. Outside the throng was a carriage, stopp'd for a minute by this tumult, and a servant at the horses' heads.
They could easily recognize Buck Looker's arrogant voice, and at times the whining replies of Terry and Carl. There was only one small window in the building, and that was covered by a square of cloth. At the end of the shack opposite the window were two large doors, both closed. An electric light cord had been strung from the house, supplying current to one or more lamps inside the shack.
If you want to feel ashamed of yourself, if you are complaining and whining, just picture to yourself Abraham Lincoln in his father's little hut, with no windows and no flooring, crouching by the fire and developing his mind by laborious writing on the back of a wooden shovel.
There is no alternative. What! be bubbled out of your fortune by a whining old woman? I am ashamed of you! 'But that woman is my mother! 'Yes! and a set of very pretty motherly tricks she has played you! Not that in the first instance it was so much your fault, who were but a boy, as that of your old fool of a grandfather. It is now high time however that you should become a man.
"Fan, do you remember that woman in `The Three Musketeers'? The hellish woman, that all men loved and loathed? Well, Olga's like that. I'm not whining. I'm not exaggerating. I'm just trying to make you understand. And yet I don't want you to understand. Only you don't know what it means to have you to talk to. To have some one who" he clutched her hand, fearfully "You do love me, don't you, Fanny?
From bargaining the Cardinal passed on to threatening and from threatening to whining, and so on until the end St. Auban preserving a firm demeanour the comedy was played out and Mazarin fell in with his proposal and his terms. "Mille diables!" I cried. "And has St. Auban set out?" "He starts to-morrow, and I go with him.
"Aye, there's the rub, Winchester! Are they his country's battles?" "Why, we took him for an Englishman, sir, and we must act up to our own professions, in order to be consistent." "And so hang an innocent man for a treason that he could not commit." "Why, Captain Cuffe, do you believe the fellow's whining story about his being a Yankee?
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