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When, however, Sam, who was most unaccountably late that night, sidled in alone, he looked at the stranger with eyes of belligerence; and when Michael introduced him as his friend, Sam's eyes glinted with a jealous light. Sam did not like Michael to have any friends of that sort.
I know the gang of cowards in your department so I'd advise you to give the dope to these here so that they can disinfect the premises when they go in." "For the love of Mike," Daughtry pleaded, all of stunned belligerence gone from him in his state of stunned conviction that the dread disease possessed him.
Cartwright brought Barker into the room and Leverage dismissed the plainclothesman. Barker, eyes wide with fear, face pallid yet with a certain belligerence in his attitude confronted the two detectives. "I say " he started, "what does this mean?" "It means," said Carroll coldly, "that you are under arrest for the murder of Roland Warren!" "That I'm " Barker fell back a step.
The intimate night spots, frequented by all strata of Sov society. He came to a quick decision. "O.K., Max. Let's give it a look. Possibly it'll turn out to be a place I can take Nadine. She's a bit weary of the overgrown glamour spots they have here. They're more ostentatious than anything you find even in Greater Washington." Max said, in his fiesty belligerence, "Does that mean better?"
But this look of belligerence had quickly passed from the face of Joel Rae when the first heat of his resentment had cooled.
Their dislike of what they regard as America's lightweight leadership and overt and suspect belligerence notwithstanding, the central and east Europeans are grateful to the United States for its unflinching and spectacularly successful confrontation with communism.
But while the formulae of national belligerence are easy, familiar, blatant, and instantly present, the gentler, greater formulae of that wider and newer world pacifism has still to be generally understood. It is so much easier to hate and suspect than negotiate generously and patiently; it is so much harder to think than to let go in a shrill storm of hostility.
If so, they would soon find out their mistake. So, half in belligerence, half in amusement, the soldiers watched their progress. It was a big joke to them, who had come here for serious business and longed to be at it. Steadily, quietly, the work went on. They laid the timbers and erected the framework of their hut, keeping at it when the rain fell and soaked them to the skin.
Bull-and bear-baiting, too, so prominent among the deliciæ of England's maiden queen, have died out. Isolated Spain, fenced off by the Pyrenees from the breeze of benevolence wafted from the virtuous and bibulous North, still utilizes the Manchegan or Estremaduran bull as a means of conferring "happy despatch" on her superannuated horses and absorbing the surplus belligerence of her "roughs."
From the colt pasture to the swimming tank Graham talked with his hostess and rode as nearly beside her as The Fop's wickedness permitted, while Dick and Hennessy, on ahead, were deep in ranch business. "Insomnia has been a handicap all my life," she said, while she tickled The Fop with a spur in order to check a threatened belligerence.
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