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"They say that he had a chance to run in somewhere, and browbeat Dicky into keeping on for Newport at the risk of their lives. They do Hugh an injustice. He might have done that some years ago, but he's changed." Curiosity got the better of Honora. "Changed?" she repeated. "Of course you didn't know him in the old days, Honora," said Mrs. Shorter. "You wouldn't recognize him now.
O'Donoghue will have to ride too, though I don't expect he'll like it. It's twenty miles, and O'Donoghue drinks more than is good for him." "Are you going to tell O'Donoghue the whole cock-and-bull plan about Simpkins and Miss King and the murder?" "No. O'Donoghue is a reasonable man. He doesn't argue and browbeat me the way you do.
He recoiled a step, with a queer, hissing intake of breath. "Swift," he muttered, "I have half a mind to make you prove your words." "Do," said I, grimly. "I would like nothing better." He stared at me so long that it gave me an uncanny feeling. I broke the silence with a blunt demand. "Burke, where 's that ruby?" "Don't try to browbeat me," he said through his teeth.
Lincoln was speaking there was not a Democrat vulgar and blackguard enough to interrupt him," and browbeat his hearers into quiet again. Realizing, perhaps, the immense difficulty of exposing the fallacy of Douglas's reply to his questions, in the few moments at his disposal, Lincoln did not refer to the crucial point. He contented himself with a defense of his own consistency.
They were spoken on April 15th, 1813, when it still seemed likely that Napoleon would meet halfway the wishes of Austria. Such, at least, was Talleyrand's ardent hope. He saw the innate absurdity of attempting to browbeat Austria, and strangle the infant Hercules of German nationality, after the Grand Army had been lost in Russia.
"Well, what about it?" said the clerk, who, evidently cheered by the smiles of his fellow-clerks, thought it a good joke to browbeat a poor green country boy. "Only I've come after it," faltered I. "Have you, though? And who told you to do that, I'd like to know?" "My uncle that is I had a letter " but here a general laugh interrupted my confession, and I felt very foolish indeed.
I've sent the hoss out home, and I don't do business that way. Pa tried to get in a word, but Tobe 'ud cut him short as soon as he opened his mouth, so the old man couldn't do anything but wave the money at him. "'If you get the hoss you'll do it by law, Tobe went on, fairly frothing at the mouth, 'and I'll put your boy in the pen for selling stolen property. You can't browbeat me, you old hog.
Johnstone told this to Lévis, who would not believe it, and so browbeat the Canadian that he dared not repeat what he had said. Johnstone, taking him aside, told him to go and find somebody who had lately crossed the ford, and bring him at once to the General's quarters; whereupon he soon reappeared with a man who affirmed that he had crossed it the night before with a sack of wheat on his back.
Undy Scott, among his other good qualities, possessed an enormous quantity of that which schoolboys in these days call 'cheek. He was not easily browbeaten, and was generally prepared to browbeat others. Mr. Chaffanbrass certainly did get the better of him; but then Mr. Chaffanbrass was on his own dunghill. Could Undy Scott have had Mr.
That of course would have been the reasonable, the gentlemanly thing to do, but just in order to insult me, to break into the privacy of a man who, you know, has always endeavoured to protect himself and his life from vulgar tongues and eyes, you must needs browbeat my servants, and break open my house. I tell you, sir, this is a matter for the lawyers! It shan't end here.
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