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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Show me into the house, if you please." "Shan't." The woman placed herself in the pathway, with arms akimbo, barring her passage. "You behave very foolishly in denying me," said Miss Sally. "Maybe; but I got my orders. You never took no orders from a man, I should say not by the looks o' yer." "You are right there."
At five the pig's head was on the table, and the sheep's tongues; the bread was baked; the barrel of porter had come, and she was expecting the piper every minute. As she stood with her arms akimbo looking at the table, thinking of the great evening it would be, she thought how her old friend, Annie Connex, had refused to come to Peter's wedding.
"Why should van der Myle strut about, with his arms akimbo like a peacock?" complained Aerssens one day in confused metaphor. A question not easy to answer satisfactorily. The minister selected was a certain Baron Asperen de Langerac, wholly unversed in diplomacy or other public affairs, with abilities not above the average.
There was a box of bonbons for Louise and for the cross cook a gay fan which displayed the red, white, and blue of the American flag, "for I shouldn't be so cross if I were not so uncomfortable in my hot, hot kitchen," Anne said, waddling along with arms akimbo, "and I'm sure I can keep cooler with such a be-yu-tiful fan."
I turned and stared, arms akimbo, at the thick green behind me, into which the steamy ravine cut like a smoking gash. Then it came into my head that there was one chance before me yet. It was at any rate something to try. So I turned to the westward and walked along by the water's edge. The setting sun flashed his blinding heat into my eyes.
He got up, laid the baby on the soft ground, and stood with arms akimbo, and his monocle firmly fixed, surveying his noisy companion. "What the dooce are you making all this row about?" he asked indignantly. "Have a little patience, young feller, exercise a little suaviter in modo, dear old baby!"
I can see him now. He suggested a bullfrog as he sat in the little room we shared in common, his arms akimbo over a law book, his little legs doubled under him, his round, eyes fixed expectantly on the doorway. And even if I had not been aware of my good fortune in being connected with such a firm as Theodore Watling's, Larry would shortly have brought it home to me.
That she was young, lovely, and yet had sold herself to an old man for his millions, would go far in itself to condemn her; and he was aware that there were many who would accept her very childish innocence as the sophistication of an artist. Waring Ridgway put his arms akimbo on the table and leaned across with his steady eyes fastened on his friend. "Steve, I'm going to answer that question.
Do you remember the woman Squires spoke to on the night he led us into that trap?" "It was too dark to see her face," I said. "I mean the way she stood," said Quarles, "with her arms akimbo; so did the masked woman in the cellar, and when I saw Mrs. Selborne on the lawn she did the same. The pose is peculiar.
"The story that she stayed the night at a hotel in the mountains with young Mr. Brabazon when she was on the Continent." "And did you suppose 'twas true?" demanded Maria scornfully, her arms akimbo, her blue eyes gimleting Miss Caroline's face. "I I don't know what to think," began Miss Caroline feebly. Maria looked her up and down a look beneath which Miss Caroline wilted visibly.
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