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Out with them. 'Tis no matter for Sir John. He's a curmudgeon who signifies not a finger's snap. But you, 'tis different. You are her brother. Out with your plaints, then. Let us be frank and friendly." "Friendly?" The other sneered again. "Our fathers set us an example in that." "Does it matter what our fathers did? More shame to them if, being neighbours, they could not be friends.
Not so bold, however, as the badger and not so much of a curmudgeon. This short-legged meat-eater loves half lights and lowering days, has no friends, no enemies, and disowns his offspring. Very likely if he knew how hawk and crow dog him for dinners, he would resent it. But the badger is not very well contrived for looking up or far to either side.
There must be some reason for it; and that would explain a social phenomenon, why there are so many unattractive people, and why the attractive readers of these essays could not get on without them. The writer of this once traveled for days with an intelligent curmudgeon, who made himself at all points as prickly as the porcupine. There was no getting on with him.
This was to receive the avails of contributions made in the church; and there were likewise boxes, stuck on the ends of long poles, wherewith the deacons could go round among the worshippers, conveniently extending the begging-box to the remotest curmudgeon among them all.
George, whom he entertains at his sumptuous pavilion at Hampstead, and likewise in disguise at the shop in Cheapside. His uncle, the owner of the shop, a surly curmudgeon with very little taste for the True and Beautiful, has retired from business to the pastoral village in Cambridgeshire from which the noble Barnwells came.
I don't wish to say aught against the dead, sir," said Ham, "but if ever there was a cantankerous old curmudgeon on the face of this footstool, it was Simon Darringford! That was your grandfather." "I know," said I, nodding. "He did not like my father." "He hated him.
In addition to all this, the House of Lords has made provision for the appearance of lovely woman, which contrasts most favourably with the curmudgeon and churlish arrangements of the House of Commons.
"Young P. I was thinking unkindly of you; do you know now that you must repay me for this delay, or I must be coaxed into good humor? "Lady T. Nay, in faith you should pity me this old curmudgeon of late is growing so jealous, that I dare scarce go out, till I know he is secure for some time.
This was a cross-grained curmudgeon of a negro, named Pluto, who was a kind of enigma in Communipaw. Where he came from, nobody knew. He was found one morning, after a storm, cast like a sea-monster on the strand, in front of the Wild Goose, and lay there, more dead than alive.
Faversham found himself speculating with amusement on the old curmudgeon behind the wall; always with the vision, drawn by recollection on the leafy background, of a girl's charming face clear pale skin, beautiful eyes, more blue surely than gray the whitest neck, with coils of brown hair upon it the mouth with its laughing freedom yet reticent no mere silly sweetness!
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