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"I find it doesn't work well to be too tender; they need a little cuffing now and then to keep them straight." "Tidy is a good child," replied Miss Matilda. "She always does as she is told, and I have never had occasion to punish her in my life; and I can not consent to her being treated severely." "We shall see," said Mrs. Lee; "but, I tell you, I take no impudence from my hands."
The man howled and fled from the beast. Alternately prodding the bear with her club, and cracking a lumberjack head wherever possible, the forest woman fought her way ahead, backed by Tom and Hippy. Thus goaded, Henry rose on his hind legs and went through that party of rough-necks like one of his kind cuffing its way through a flock of grazing sheep.
The Armenian again renewed his proposition about Z , which I again refused, as I felt but little inclination to place myself beneath the jurisdiction of a person who was in the habit of cuffing those whom he employed, when they made mistakes.
She stopped at a house door, and hurried me in, up to the first floor, and into a dirty, slatternly parlour, smelling infamously of gin; where the first object I beheld was Jemmy Downes, sitting before the fire, three-parts drunk, with a couple of dirty, squalling children on the hearthrug, whom he was kicking and cuffing alternately.
He stood still an instant staring as Joe, going now as hard as he could, caught up with her at last. He took hold of the daughter of the highly-respected Yagorsha, and fell to shaking and cuffing her. The Boy started off full tilt to the rescue. Before he could reach them Joe had thrown her down on the ice.
They had to wait for him half-an-hour, and when he appeared there were other cases to be dealt with first. When it came to Valetta Joe's turn, he stoutly denied the charge of defrauding and ill-using the lad. "I don't know about the wages, sir," said one of the assistants, "but we caught him in the act of cuffing the boy." "What does he owe you, my lad?" asked Major Shervinton.
It seemed to the Minister as though his soul departed his body for the violent plucking at his beard; and Kamar al-Zaman ceased not kicking the Wazir and basting his breast and ribs and cuffing him with open hand on the nape of his neck till he had well-nigh beaten him to death.
Good as any in the line boarding camps. I'm going to eat here. You come in and eat too." A mumbling began among them and immediately it swelled into a jabbering chorus as the few who understood translated his words to the others. He leaped down off the muddy stoop and strode among them, cuffing this one and that of those malcontents who were noisiest.
Then she conjured him, by her life, to stand up and dance, and he arose, and capered about, and there was not a cushion in the house but she threw it at his head, and in like manner did all her women who also kept pelting him with oranges and lemons and citrons till he fell down senseless from the cuffing on the nape of the neck, the pillowing and the fruit pelting.
He was always pinching me and cuffing me, and on occasion he was not above biting me. Often my mother interfered, and the way she made his fur fly was a joy to see. But the result of all this was a beautiful and unending family quarrel, in which I was the bone of contention. No, my home-life was not happy. I smile to myself as I write the phrase. Home-life! Home!
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