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And I pray Heaven we have no occasion to write to him. To-night at supper I find Moll all cock-a-hoop with a new delight, by reason of her dear husband offering to take her to London for a month to visit the theatres and other diversions, which put me to a new quirk for fear Moll should be known by any of our former playhouse companions.
The Germans were thoroughly confident of victory, and very cock-a-hoop now that Russia and Roumania were knocked out, and Italy, so they said, so thoroughly defeated as to be quite a negligible factor in the future. Our enemies could not conceal their joy at the good news their wireless brought them.
This road does not lead anywhere." "That's a lie, my young cock-a-hoop; if it did not lead somewhere, it would not have been made." The man's companions burst into a hoarse fit of laughter, and the boy flushed angrily. "Well," he said haughtily, "it leads up to Cliff Castle, and no farther." "That's far enough for us, my game chicken. Is that heap of blocks of stone on the top there the castle?"
As, however, they possessed that ingenuous habit of mind which always thinks aloud which rides cock-a-hoop on the tongue, and is for ever galloping into other people's ears it naturally followed that their liberty of conscience likewise implied liberty of speech, which being freely indulged, soon put the country in a hubbub, and aroused the pious indignation of the vigilant fathers of the Church.
"Yes, I have, sir," said I, "and in language that I never before heard on His Majesty's quarter-deck. I joined this ship as an officer and a gentleman, and as such I will be treated." "Mutiny, by God!" roared the captain. "Cock-a-hoop with your new commission, before the ink is dry."
Gods! what a bore it will be.... And Maxse and all those scaremongers cock-a-hoop and 'I told you so. Damn these Germans!" He looked despondent and worried. He followed Mr. Britling towards the dining-room with his hands deep in his pockets. "It's going to be a tremendous thing," he said, after he had greeted Mrs. Britling and Hugh and Aunt Wilshire and Teddy, and seated himself at Mr.
"He says," she said, turning to read from the page, "'As you won't give me the opportunity of speaking to you, promise me that when we meet, which will be to-morrow night Oh, Joan, can that be true? do you think he means really to-morrow?" then, running her eyes farther on, she continued: "Perhaps he does, for listen, Joan 'You mustn't split on me to Adam, who's cock-a-hoop about giving you all a surprise, and there'd be the devil to pay if he found out I'd blown the gaff."
Here bigotry, hypocritical humility, sighs and sugary, sanctimonious, unmeaning phrases; there the same odious grimaces, although its method and means are of another kind swaggering manners, bold and scornful looks 'God help the man who dares to insult me! padded shoulders, cock-a-hoop defiance.
You thought mischievous was meant in Hannah's sense, when she complains of Master Reginald being very mischie-vi-ous. Ada now succeeded in saying, 'The Carringtons' governess called me Lady Ada. 'How could she bring herself to utter so horrid a sound? said Claude. 'Ada is more cock-a-hoop than ever now, said Reginald; 'she does not think Miss Weston good enough to speak to.
One can imagine the state of mind of these wretched people when the news of our ill-fated attack on Tanga in 1914 arrived; when they heard of our Indian troops being made prisoners at Jassin, and saw from the cock-a-hoop attitude of the Hun that all was well for German arms in East Africa.
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