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"Say a month!" suggested the commander caustically. "Say three days for the sake of argument. Then I can put her to rights. I daren't take down a thing while she's rolling twenty-five and more, and I've got to take things down!
"That's just it," said Sir Frank caustically; "he has acted. In spite of his pretended grief for the loss of the emeralds, I should not be surprised to learn from that," he nodded towards the confession on the table, "that he was in possession of the missing gem.
"Might fish through here," remarked Jim. "Yes, with a bent pin," replied the engineer caustically, "as far as getting anything to eat." Jim laughed gleefully. "Well, I'm off, or down rather," he said, his face growing sober. "You're next, Chief." However, before Jim began his descent, he cut off some of the rope. "That might come in handy, you know," he said.
"Sure, and that wouldn't bust him," Mrs. McMahon commented caustically. "I remember the estate a bit of a cabin in a bog." The Amazon's huge frame shook as she chuckled. "Just ask your husband; he'll remember me well. Sure, the last time I saw him was when his aunt, Nora, married Tom McMahon, my husband's uncle. Faith, it's cousins we are by marriage." What might have been Mrs.
At almost every move through the drill he berated them caustically, though in such faultless military language of reproof as to keep him from censure. "Dismissed," glared Brayton at last. "The candidates will go to their rooms until summoned again." Dick and Greg both felt stiff in the legs.
When Angus M'Lachlan saved a certain try by tackling a speedy wing three-quarter low and bringing him down with a crash, a hundred voices demanded his removal from the field. And, when Mr. Waddell, playing a stuffy but useful game at half, gained fifty yards for his side by a series of judicious little kicks into touch, the spectators groaned aloud, and remarked caustically
This man, Musa, and the two chauffeurs entered swiftly into a complex altercation, which endured until Audrey had paid the chauffeurs and all the trunks had been transported behind the immense door and the door bangingly shut. "Vehy amusing, isn't it?" whispered Miss Ingate caustically to Audrey. "Aren't they dears?" "Madame Dubois's establishment is on the third and fourth floors," said Nick.
"It would be the worst piece of work you have ever done!" "May I ask why, signor?" "It would raise my family against you and the result could not fail to be your extermination!" The man laughed loudly, and caustically replied: "You are joking! What can your family do against Luigi Vampa and his comrades, who have long been countenanced by the highest authority!"
The cowboys resting in the shade of the bunk-house rose to their feet, sauntered over and surrounded Old Heck and the Ramblin' Kid, commenting meanwhile, frankly and caustically, on the fagged condition of the broncho Skinny was on: "Must 'a' been scared, the way you run that horse," Parker, range foreman of the Quarter Circle KT, a heavy-built, sandy-complexioned man in the forties, remarked witheringly to Skinny as the cow-puncher climbed from the saddle and slid to the ground.
The famous physician and the eminent clergyman were deep in a discussion which threatened to become acrimonious. "You see," said the minister sarcastically, "you medical men know so much about the uncertainties of this world that I should think you would not want to live." "Oh, I don't know," responded the physician caustically.
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