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He forced himself sometimes to think of that long-past evening as one presses on a scar to learn how much soreness is left in an old wound, and he smiled at the little tragedy of egotism it had been to him. But it was a wry smile.
"I find that some foolish people have been talking in Barchester about my daughter," said the archdeacon; "and I wish to ask Mrs. Proudie " Most women under such circumstances would have felt the awkwardness of their situation, and would have prepared to eat their past words with wry faces. But not so Mrs. Proudie. Mrs. Grantly had had the imprudence to throw Mr.
"And does a thorough job, too," said the first daughter. Everychild assumed a very grave air. "How often does this happen?" he asked. "Every night," he was assured. He made a very wry face. "But such things . . ." He couldn't think of the right word at first. Then he asked, "But isn't it all very very vulgar?" The first daughter sighed. "I suppose so," she admitted.
There was the same manly bearing about him that I had noticed with pleasure in many other free negroes; but his quiet, earnest manner, and the thoughtful and benevolent expression of his countenance, showed him to be a superior man of his class. He told me he had been intimate with our host for thirty years, and that a wry word had never passed between them.
With many wry faces the bears, although bound to act becomingly in their new character, according to the forfeit, served up the body of their late royal master; and in doing this they fell, either by accident or design, into many curious mistakes.
One may pull a wry face at a costly Bouillabaisse chez Roubillon at Marseilles without doubting that poor old "G.A.S.," and Thackeray too, loved the dish.
And the majority recognized the deliberate purpose lying behind his calmest assurance. The agent knew that his protest had touched the limit, consequently there was nothing left him but to carry out instructions to the letter. He hated the position. His face twisted into a wry grin. "Guess you don't leave much to the imagination, inspector," he said sourly. Fyles was moving away.
"There's some folks around here said you wouldn't have nerve enough to stay." He made a wry face. "But I reckon you've got nerve or you'd have hit the breeze when I started to stampede." He suddenly held out a hand. "I like you," he said impulsively. "You and me are going to be friends. Shake!"
Thorne went bravely through a few mouthfuls until he encountered a lump of soda; the wry face that followed was wholly involuntary. "I declare they are horrid!" exclaimed Ruey, bursting into tears. "I knew soda would spoil them, bitter stuff!" Mr.
It is only a few months since you came home from school; and I fancied that you would have stopped with me for years before you thought of settling." Miss Halliday made a wry face. "Dear mamma," she said, "I don't want to 'settle. That is what one's housemaid says, isn't it, when she talks of leaving service and marrying some young man from the baker's or the grocer's?
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