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Curling hair artificially, I know, simply makes it cranky." "Yes, spoils its temper and breaks its character. Just like twisting a tender vine and forcing it to turn away from its chosen paths. How are you getting on with your cramming? Can I help you?" asked Sally, diverging suddenly. "Hopeless," replied the other. "I don't believe I'll wait to face the music."
Their arrival and the manner of their speech riled Cranky Joe, who turned around and loosed one more remark; and he never knew how near to death he was at that moment. "You fellers must own the earth, the way you act," he said to Red and his three companions. "We ain't fencing it in to prove it," rejoined Hopalong, his hand on Red's arm. Cranky Joe wheeled to rejoin his friends.
"Yes, you can call again," she added, mentally, as she watched the deacon making his way slowly down the garden walk, stopping the while to inspect every plant that looked promising. "You can call again, but you will not see him, if you come every day. It does beat all, the way folks can't let that boy alone. Talk about his being cranky!
He sure gets 'Charley-on-his-back' sometimes. Used to hit the booze pretty hard one time, they say. Tried the 'gold-cure' then broke out again" he lowered his voice at the huge, bear-like back of the sergeant "all same him. I don't know somehow it always seems to leave em' cranky an' queer that. Neither of 'em married either 'baching it, living alone, year after year, and all that, too."
Baynes, too, shrewdly recognized that behind the uncompromising frankness of June's manner there was much of the Forsyte. If the girl had been merely frank and courageous, Mrs. Baynes would have thought her 'cranky, and despised her; if she had been merely a Forsyte, like Francie let us say she would have patronized her from sheer weight of metal; but June, small though she was Mrs.
Matthews, who was past seventy, was nervous, excitable, and, well, just a wee bit cranky; and when the play was about half over, he came "off," angrily talking to himself, and ran against Mr. Lewis and me, as we were just about "going on."
"I saw him sneaking off with Wilkins," said Bates. "Where did they go?" "To the Village, I guess." "They seemed to be in a hurry," said Jim, with a sneer. "They wanted to get out of your way that is, the new boy did," suggested Bates. Jim nodded. "Likely he did," he answered. "So he went to the village, did he?" "Yes; I saw him." "Well, he's put it off a little. That boy's cranky.
We had scarcely got to sea a day, when we found that it was a difficult matter to determine which was the more cranky, the vessel or the captain. She took in water in large quantities he grog; she would not go steady neither would he; she rolled and pitched so did he; she shook her head so did he; she was often sea-sick so was he: in fact, they were a cranky pair.
"The light got clear; and there, to our horror, just where we wanted the dear old brig to go and she wouldn't go, like a sensible creature, although we cursed her for not obeying the helm was an enormous iceberg rising out of the depths of the ocean, and towering above the masts of the poor Jane, which I feel loth to call `cranky' any longer as high almost as the eyes could see, like the cliffs at Dover, only a hundred yards higher, without exaggeration!
Don's cranky and I'm rather at a loose end, hunting things to do." Puzzled, Garry went. "I can't make out what's wrong," he wrote to Sid, "Kenny's rational enough, but Brian's strung to the breaking point. I suspect it's just as it always has been they're miserable apart and hopeless together. But the year has been a sobering one, and what used to flash, they bottle up.
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