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He had one rule, that stood in place of many: To keep out of every business which it was possible for human wisdom to stave aside. 'What good will you get of going into that? Parliamentary criticism, argument and botheration? Leave well alone. And even leave ill alone: are you the tradesman to tinker leaky vessels in England? You will not want for work.
He is not going to dirty his hands with speculation, information, or any other botheration," replied McShane, tossing off his glass. "I don't say so; but his having letters from the king's brother will be considered suspicious." "The devil it will. Now in our country that would only create a suspicion that he was a real gentleman that's all." "You don't understand this country," replied Dimitri.
There's more credit in it, as you might say." "There's something in that, maybe." "And after all, in spite of the botheration he gives, there's something very cheerful in having a man about the house. They keep you alive, do men. The last time I saw Jemima Stubbs she was as low as low could be. 'Jemima, I says, 'you are out of spirits. 'Mrs. Bateson, says she, 'I am that.
There may have been something in the rather tall and lithe form the brown cheek with a dash of color shining through it the moment she was in the least degree warmed or excited the eyes dark but sunny, wavering between hazel brown and Irish gray, and the most difficult eyes in the world to look into and yet keep your head the profile uneven and partially spoiled by the nose being decidedly pert, retroussé and too small for the other features the pouting red lips that never seemed to fade and grow pale as the lips of so many American women do before one half their sweetness has been extracted by the human bee the wealth of glossy black hair, coming down on the low forehead and plainly swept back in the Madonna fashion over a face that otherwise had the purity and goodness of the Madonna in it, but very little of her devotion, perhaps there was something in all this, besides the influence of her flood-tide of language, to make Josephine Harris the delight, the botheration and the absolute tyrant of more than half the persons with whom she was thrown in contact.
I tried to tighten my strap, to make a new hole; and this botheration of a knife has cut it nearly in two." "Mynheer," said Hans, at the same time pulling off a skate, "you must use my strap!" "Not I, indeed, Hans Brinker!" cried Peter, looking up, "though I thank you warmly. Go to your post, my friend: the bugle will sound in a minute." "Mynheer!" pleaded Hans in a husky voice.
"Botheration!" cried Jack, "we've come wrong; this leads to some farm. We shall never get home at this rate." Retracing their steps the way they had come, the two unfortunate adventurers at length found themselves on the Hornalby road; but when they reached Melchester, and were hurrying down the side street past "Duster's" shop, the cathedral clock struck half-past eleven.
The fact was, that Nicholas Tulrumble, knowing that everybody there had made up his mind beforehand, considered the talking as just a long botheration about nothing at all; and to the present hour it remains a question, whether, on this point at all events, Nicholas Tulrumble was not pretty near right. Time, which strews a man's head with silver, sometimes fills his pockets with gold.
Don't you be the least distressed. I can do what is required to be done, and do it in a manner that shall give satisfaction, too," said Ishmael. "You! you, my boy! could you do that everlasting big botheration of a job?" "Yes, and do it well, I hope." "Why, I don't believe the professor himself could!" exclaimed Gray, in incredulous astonishment.
Substance of a speech by Francis Jeffrey. 8vo. Edin. 1825. Robert Cockburn, Lord Cockburn's brother, was then living at No. 7 Atholl Crescent. This alludes to a strange old woman, keeper of a public-house among the Wicklow mountains, who, among a world of oddities, cut short every word ending in tion, by the omission of the termination. Consola for consolation bothera for botheration, etc. etc.
"Spoken like the best of little women!" cried Richard gaily. I asked him how he liked his profession. "Oh, I like it well enough!" said Richard. "It's all right. It does as well as anything else, for a time. I don't know that I shall care about it when I come to be settled, but I can sell out then and however, never mind all that botheration at present."
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