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"Look here; I'm sure my father wouldn't like me to fight you with swords, whether you pinked me as you call it, or I wounded you." "Pish! Frank Gowan, you are a poltroon." "Perhaps so; but look here, Andrew Forbes, you've often made me want to hit you when you've been so bounceable and patronising. Now, we were going to see your friend to-night " "We are going to see my friend to-night, sir.
"You're right," said Wemmick; "it's the genuine look. Much as if one nostril was caught up with a horse-hair and a little fish-hook. Yes, he came to the same end; quite the natural end here, I assure you. He forged wills, this blade did, if he didn't also put the supposed testators to sleep too. Yah, Bounceable! What a liar you were! I never met such a liar as you!"
But what troubled me as much as anything was the behaviour of the four Indians we had shut up with us Chunder Chow, the old black nurse, and two more for they grew more uppish and bounceable every day, refusing to work, until Captain Dyer had one of the men tied up to the triangles and flogged down in a great cellar or vault-place that there was under the north end of the palace, so that the ladies and women shouldn't hear his cries.
"Meanwhile," said Mole, "will some-one be good enough to give me a lift?" The professor was hoisted up on deck, and when they had all changed their clothes, and the great shark-killer had shipped two new wooden pins, he grew quite as bounceable as ever. Especially as the death of the last shark was still jocularly attributed to him.
The restless, rackety, bounceable Mr. James Smith felt a contempt for the weak, womanish, fiddling little parson, and, what was more, did not care to conceal it. For this reason, Mr. Meaning no wrong, and therefore stooping to no concealment, she never thought of taking any measures to keep Mr.
You came on board the Teaser to take your place as an officer and a gentleman, and we your seniors received you in a gentlemanly way." "Yes, you were right enough," I said. "A bit cocky and bounceable at first, till you found that I wouldn't stand it, and then you were both civil." "Well, I am blessed!" cried Barkins, blowing out his cheeks and looking down at me.
Calling to one of the Nomen who were waiting, "Make haste, you brown rascal, and fill me a glass of wine!" the words were scarcely out of his mouth than he got a smart sounding slap on his face, and his elbow was violently jerked, so that he spilt all his wine, whereupon the little lords and ladies tittered, and some were so uncourtly as to laugh outright, and say it "served him right," which made Master King Philip wish he had not been so bounceable.
I think I must have seemed rather conceited and "bounceable," for I have a vivid remembrance of a Fortnightly dinner at the Star and Garter, Richmond, when Anthony Trollope, angry with me for expressing a doubt about the poetical greatness of Horace, wanted to fling a decanter at my head!
Sharp's wig didn't fit him; and that he needn't be so 'bounceable' somebody else said 'bumptious' about it, because his own red hair was very plainly to be seen behind. I heard that one boy, who was a coal-merchant's son, came as a set-off against the coal-bill, and was called, on that account, 'Exchange or Barter' a name selected from the arithmetic book as expressing this arrangement.
Tom Long flushed up as red as a turkey-cock, and looked at his superior officer in the most shame-faced way. "I I I " he began. "Why, I believe you were delighted to hear that the steamer was aground." "Well, no, sir; not that the steamer is aground," said Tom. "I I was not sorry, though, that Roberts had made a mess of it. He is so bounceable, sir."
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