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"No, there's no news to tell, I believe," said Goodwin, with a mischievous look in his eye, "except that old Geddie is getting grumpier and crosser every day. If something doesn't happen to relieve his mind I'll have to quit smoking on his back porch and there's no other place available that is cool enough." "He isn't grumpy," said Paula Brannigan, impulsively, "when he "
Will you take this reservoir to be your husband, and will you promise to be unto him a fetcher of slippers, a dotter of I’s and crosser of T’s and a copier and condenser of manuscripts; until death doth you part? I will. They spend their honeymoon in Rome, and on page 211 of Vol.
But it had gone out of her possession and was hers no longer. "I can't think what has happened to Ruth, she is not at all like her usual self," remarked Ernest that evening. He had been playfully teasing his cousin about her studies, when she suddenly answered him sharply, burst into a violent flood of tears, and ran away to her own room. "She is crosser than ever," said Julia.
A seven was the highest card in his hand. Everyone turns to him, surprised. He laughs A difficult man to deal with, that, in other matters besides cards. A man whose thoughts lie a good deal below his skin. Opposite, a cross-looking old woman clamours for sausages, gets them, and seems crosser than ever. She scowls round on everyone, with a malignant expression that is quite terrifying.
We go gadding about till two o'clock in the afternoon. We go into such disreputable houses that we don't even dare to tell what we've done. And then we tell lies, we deceive everybody. 'But nobody, gently interrupted Abbe Mouret, who was forcing himself to eat a little more, so as to prevent La Teuse from getting crosser than ever, 'nobody asked me if I had been to the Paradou.
A crosser old woman than Mrs. Deborah Thornby was certainly not to be found in the whole village of Hilton. Deborah continued in this life. Her crossness was so far innocent that it hurt nobody except herself. But she was also cross-grained, and that evil quality is unluckily apt to injure other people; and did so very materially in the present instance. Mrs.
Two females of the lower rank cast their eyes on the sleeper. "Holy Maria!" said one, "if he does not put me in mind of the Eastern tale, how the Genie brought a gallant young prince from his nuptial chamber in Egypt, and left him sleeping at the gate of Damascus. I will awake the poor lamb, lest he catch harm from the night dew." "Harm?" answered the older and crosser looking woman.
Rising hungry, our hunger seemed to increase in arithmetical ratio with every quarter of an hour. These times afforded an illustration of the thorough subjection of man to the tyrant Stomach. A more irritable lot of individuals could scarcely be found outside of a menagerie than these men during the hours waiting for rations. "Crosser than, two sticks" utterly failed as a comparison.
So lucky she has no offspring! I tremble to think of what maternal example might do in such a talkative family! "Stoke Revel is as it was and ever will be, world without end; only Aunt de Tracy is crosser than when you are here and life is not as gay, although Carnaby does his dear, cubbish best.
So, from the narrow sidewalk beyond the door, the child listened to the talk within, not much of it being loud enough for her to hear, and fancied, from grandpa's short, sharp replies to his guest's questions, that he was crosser, therefore, more ill, than ever. Bo'sn, too, sat on his haunches beside her, closely attentive and, at times, uttering a low, protesting growl.
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