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Carroll smiled gratefully at her. With her words the unpleasant tension had lightened. He dropped into an arm chair. Lawrence followed suit, his close-set eyes focused belligerently on Carroll's face, the hostility of his manner being akin to a personal menace. Naomi stood by the table, eyes shifting from one to the other.
The dead air of the hallway suggested petty crookedness. Milt felt that he ought to fight somebody but, there being no one to fight, he banged along the flapping boards of the second-floor hallway to the ground-glass door of Silberfarb the Society Tailor, who was also, as an afterthought on a straggly placard, "Pressng & Cleang While U Wait." He belligerently shouldered into a low room.
I set my teeth with determination and began again. "Not unlike a fierce and belligerently furious dragon or some other ferocious, blustery and furious chimerical creature, a menacing and comminatory debacle is burning fierily in the heart of our fair and increasingly populous city.
Perhaps I'll teach them a letter or two of the alphabet if they seem interested. They ought to know how to read, Sam." "I never learned to read " muttered Sam half belligerently. "That so?" said Michael as if it were a matter of small moment. "Well, what if you were to come in and help me with the boats. Then you could pick it up when I teach them. You might want to use it some day.
Looking around quickly, she saw that Bud was sitting motionless at his desk, his forehead wrinkled in a fierce frown, his jaw set belligerently, and a look of such, unutterable pity and devotion in his eyes that her heart warmed to him at once and a smile of comradeship broke over her face. "Oh, William! Were you here? Did you hear all that? What do you suppose is the matter? Where have I failed?"
"If there's anybody in the outfit that's disagreeable to you, why, say the word an' we'll make him look mighty scarce!" declared another, glancing belligerently around him. "Shucks, this outfit'll be a blamed funeral!" said Blair. "We'll be gettin' to think that we don't grade up, nohow.
Good afternoon, gentlemen. And, with a sweeping courtesy, Josie led the way, with her hat belligerently cocked up, and her racket borne like a triumphal banner over one shoulder; for having had the last word, she felt that she could retire with the honours of war.
"Who's telling this story?" demanded Stacy belligerently. "You are, I guess. I won't interrupt again." "Well, did I say this fellow was a boy?" "No." "Well, he was he's grown up now. He rushed into a drug store " "Was anything chasing him?" asked Ned innocently. Stacy gave no heed to the interruption. "And he said to the man in the store, 'Please, sir, some liniment and some cement?"
"It was securities he stole and forged people's names to them so as to get money," said Laura. "The Lockwood girls' Aunt Dora lost some money by him." "That is if he did it," said Chet, doubtfully. "Well, the newspapers say so," Jess observed. "What if they do?" demanded Billy, belligerently. "They all said I helped burglarize that department store last summer didn't they?
You see, Burke, you couldn't in a trial even repeat what he told you. It's not permissible evidence." "Oh, the law!" the Inspector snorted, with much choler. "Well, then," he went on belligerently, "I'll charge young Gilder with murder, and call the Turner woman as a witness." The District Attorney laughed aloud over this project.
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