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Updated: June 27, 2025
"It would be, indeed, a lucky event for both of us, Guy, were you safely in the arms of your mother; though I have not delayed in this affair with any such hope. God knows I should be glad, on almost any terms, to be fairly free from your eternal croakings never at rest, never satisfied, unless at some new deviltry and ill deed.
Though he gave no outward sign and went on stubbornly, the undertaking under such conditions even to Bruce looked foolhardy, while the croakings of the "Old Timers" rose to a wail of lamentation. The last nail was driven and the last piece loaded and Bruce and his boatmen stood on the banks at dusk looking at the four barges, securely tied with bow and stern lines riding on the rising flood.
The effect was electric, and no one can realize the feeling unless, like us, he has been for months cut off from all communication with friends, and compelled to listen to the croakings and prognostications of open enemies.
But I really see no reason to despair, despite your womanish croakings. All seems to be going nicely and just as I had anticipated." "I am glad that you are satisfied," Diana returned, with scornful emphasis. "But understand me, sir; this is none of my affair in any way except that I shall surely expose you if a hair of the girl's head is injured. You must not come here again.
He was the smallest of the Frogs, and his friends and relatives warned him not to go, saying that he would come to no good end. "But he wouldn't listen to their dismal croakings and hurried after the Toads. Being able to make longer jumps than they could, he soon caught up with them, and they all journeyed on together.
The sickness was not dangerous. There had been no deaths. A little energy and all would be well again. Pedro de Valdez despatched a courier to Philip to entreat him not to listen to the Duke's croakings. Philip returned a speedy answer telling the Duke not to be frightened at shadows. There was nothing, in fact, really to be alarmed at. Fresh water took away the dysentery.
Do you think I will listen to your croakings, you poor, wet-faced thing!" "You child!" said Tommy. "Do you think me a child because I blow kisses to her?" "Do you like me to think you one?" he replied. "I like you to call me child," she said, "but not to think me one." "Then I shall think you one," said he, triumphantly.
Spenser, stooped and shaking, rose abruptly, thrust Susan aside with a sweep of the arm that made her reel, bolted into the street. She recovered her balance and amid hoarse croakings of "That's right, honey! Don't give him up!" followed the shambling, swaying figure. He was too utterly drunk to go far; soon down he sank, a heap of rags and filth, against a stoop.
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