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The fury of the orange-woman kindled her eyes flashed fire her arms a-kimbo, she advanced repeating, "Fitter! Fitter! What's that ye say? You're not Irish not a bone in your skeleton!" Lady Anne screamed. Mr. Montenero forced the orange-woman back, and Berenice and I hurried Lady de Brantefield and her daughter across the hall into the eating-room. Mr.
She put her arms a-kimbo, and examined him with a steady suspicion which would have disconcerted most young men. Bob, however, only laughed more heartily. The scene was prolonged. Bob had no recourse to tenderness to dismiss the girl's jealousy.
The words walk out a-strut, with a slow, stiff bombastic affectation of importance. The arms generally a-kimbo, and the legs at a distance from one another, taking large tragedy strides. Obstinacy adds to the aspect of pride, a dodged sourness, like that of malice. See Malice. Authority, opens the countenance, but draws down the eyebrows a little, so far as to give the look of gravity.
She let the door fall with a crash, and stood upon it with her arms a-kimbo, sniffing prodigiously. When we left the place, I accompanied her into her house, under the outer gateway of the fortress, to buy a little history of the building.
The door of Mother Bunch's apartment stood wide open; the small room was a blaze of gas and glowing from the heat of a great fire; and in the middle, with her arms a-kimbo, her head thrown back, and her bare feet twinkling merrily, stood Mother Bunch on a door, dancing, to the cheers of the audience, an Irish jig.
Glancing up at the many green lattices to assure herself that the mistress is not looking on, the little woman then puts her two little dimple arms a-kimbo, and stands on tiptoe to light her cigarette at mine.
Others stood erect, with both wings raised from the body, half unfolded, and held "a-kimbo," as eagles are often seen, and as they are sometimes represented upon coins and standards.
Sing, I say," repeated the woman, advancing the poker so as actually to singe the skin. "Take it away, and I will," cried Vanslyperken, breathless. "Well then, `Poll put her arms a-kimbo." "`Poll put her arms a-kimbo," repeated Vanslyperken. "That's saying, not singing," cried the woman. "Now again. `At the admiral's house looked she."
He humbly, hat in hand, asks for his orders from a knot of washerwomen standing arms a-kimbo. I give, in response to a request, the reference: Votes for Women, March 18, 1910, p. 381.
The words fell sharply and Markham and the Countess turned toward the Philistine who stood with her head cocked on one side, her arms a-kimbo. Markham's eyes peered forward somberly for a moment and he spoke with slow gravity. "I don't paint 'pretty' portraits," he said. "Mr. Markham means, Hermia, that he doesn't believe in artistic lies," said Olga smoothly.
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