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Updated: May 5, 2025
"Well, it does seem to me that you are most cantankerously particular about a little thing, Sim Robinson. Why, when I can't remember a thing myself, I always " "Ah, please go on!" "Now how can she when you keep fussing at her all the time?" said Aunt Betsy. "Why, with a person pecking at me that way, I should get that fuzzled and fuddled that "
So is his wife. What's the good of sending him away?" "What do you think is on his mind?" I asked. "How do I know? His wife thinks it must be something to do with Boyce's reception. He went home dead-beat, is very irritable, off his food, can't sleep, and swears cantankerously that there's nothing the matter with him, the usual symptoms. Can you throw any light on it?"
Here, however, Purdy brought his eyes back from the garden, and she abruptly dropped hers to her needlework. The scissors were shut with a snap, and thrown, rather than laid, to the other implements in the workbox. "One 'ud think you were paid to finish that wretched sewing in a fixed time, Polly," said Purdy cantankerously. "Haven't you got a word to say?" "It's for the Dorcas Society.
Laura, whose mind was set on a good, satisfying slab of cake, promised to do this, although her feelings had suffered so great a change that she was not sure whether she would keep her word. She was pulled two ways: on the one side was the remembrance of Mr. Shepherd hacking cantankerously at the bare mutton-bone; on the other, the cherry-blossom and the mousmes of Japan.
The quartette consists of Privates Cosh and Tosh, together with Privates Buncle and Nigg, preparing their midday meal. "Tak' off your damp chup, Jimmy," suggested Tosh to Buncle, who was officiating as stoker. "Ye mind what the Captain said aboot smoke?" "It wasna the Captain: it was the Officer," rejoined Buncle cantankerously.
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