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There was no disputing the fact of the pony's crossness. "She's sourish-like in her timper," Jimmy, Mr. Denny's head man, observed to his subordinate not long after the arrival, and the subordinate, tenderly stroking a bruised knee, replied: "Sour! I niver see the like of her! Be gannies, the divil's always busy with her!"
'I shall do no such thing, said Wilmet, with absolute crossness in her tone. Robina began to cry. 'Come here, Bobbie, said Cherry's voice in the dark end of the room; 'I'll tell you a story. 'I know all Cherry's stories, and they're rubbish, said Fulbert. 'This is quite a new one. There was once a little match-girl 'Bosh! I know that little brute, and I hate her, broke in Fulbert.
You may preach or write ever so forcibly and eloquently, and bring out the sublime truths of the Bible in great beauty; but if, in the privacy of your own home, there are little frettings, a little peevishness, a little crossness, a little levity, a little selfishness, a little distrust, your life is not as truly holy as it should be.
If you had half sense you'd take him too quick." Clara made no reply, but finishing her work in silence, hung up her apron and left the kitchen. Later, when Mrs. Wilson went into the pleasant little sitting-room, where the flowers in the window would bloom, and the pet canary would sing in spite of the habitual crossness of the mistress of the house, she found her daughter attired for the street.
Call that place Crossness in memory of me, and when you go home tell my people where I lie, in case any of them come out and are minded to see if I need anything." He bore the pulling out of the dart with great cheerfulness, and composed himself for his end. The poison worked swiftly. He was soon discoloured, and rambled much in his talk.
Imagine children with everything greedy and sensual gone, with none of the crossness or spitefulness that comes of fatigue or pressure, but with all the interesting passions of humanity, admiration, keenness, curiosity, and even jealousy, emulation, and anger, all alive and active in them. They were not angelic children at all, neither meek nor mild.
The dean, though he cordially hated his lady, was glad, for his own sake, to be relieved from her fits of crossness; and was pleased by Alfred's paying attention to her, as this was a sort of respect to himself, and what he seldom met with from those young men who had been his companions before his marriage they usually treated his lady with a neglect or ridicule which reflected certainly upon her husband.
I sit there sometimes till I am lost with thinking; and were it not for some cruel thoughts of the crossness of our fortunes that will not let me sleep there, I should forget that there were such a thing to be done as going to bed. Since I writ this my company is increased by two, my brother Harry and a fair niece, the eldest of my brother Peyton's children.
And she was not really sick, just threatened. "Mrs. Duke is over at the Main Building, but will be back very soon. Will you come in and wait?" She came in without speaking, pulled a chair from the corner of the porch, and flounced down among the cushions. David could not restrain a smile. She looked so babyishly young, and so furiously cross. To David, youth and crossness were incongruous.
I observed several times in passing by, that the same little group was collected near a barred window; they seemed very fond of each other, and their kindly feelings were never interrupted by peevishness; indeed, the temperament of a negro child is generally so sound, that he is not affected by those little morbid sensations, which are the frequent cause of crossness and ill-temper in our children.
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