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He took a place beside me, spread out his rations, drank to me derisively from his measure of prison beer, and began. What he said it would be impossible to print; but his admirers, who believed their wit to have surpassed himself, actually rolled among the gravel. For my part, I thought at first I should have died.
Perhaps, if Corporal Dudley had not laughed derisively Virgie might have stayed hidden in the protection of the trees, but this outrageous insult combined with the terrible sight of poor Susan Jemima impaled on a Yankee sword was too much for her bursting heart. With blazing eyes she broke away from her father and dashed back to the group at the spring. "Here, you!
He laughed derisively. "I even married " "Married?" "Yes. A girl of nineteen the ward of a great statesman. It was a brilliant marriage politically as well as socially. But it didn't work. I was born without the capacity for love. First the social life palled on me; then my work grew irksome. There was only one factor to make life endurable morphia.
"Stop that or I'll knock your head off," roared Sam, in a rage. "Come on and do it, I give you leave," answered Ben, sparring away derisively as the other tottered on his perch and was forced to hold tight lest he should tumble off.
Whenever King and Bosher greeted the appearance of the Parrett's boat with a friendly cheer they hooted; and no sooner did Telson sing out to welcome the crew of his house, but they caterwauled derisively in the same direction. "Jolly lot they know about rowing!" yelled Cusack. "Why don't you give them some lessons?" retorted Telson, hotly. "Boo hoo! Who got kicked out his boat!
One by one he overtook those who were galloping in front of him, and as often as he left one of them behind he gave him a crack with his whip, crying derisively, "Wire away, little brother!" By the time three quarters of the course was traversed he had plainly left them all behind, or rather all but one the stranger-youth. Martin hastened after him likewise.
'Leave off beating him, said Martin, 'and sell him to me instead. 'If you choose to buy him, answered the butchers derisively; 'but for such a treasure we won't take a penny less than a hundred florins. 'A hundred! exclaimed Martin. 'Well, so be it, if you will not take less; and, taking the money out of his pocket, he handed it over in exchange for the dog, whose name was Schurka.
"And old Wiggett?" persisted Mrs. Tidger. "Smoke his pipe," was the reply. "Why, what's the matter, Polly?" Mrs. Tidger sniffed derisively. "You men are all alike," she snapped. "What do you think Ann wears that pink bodice for?" "I never noticed she 'ad a pink bodice, Polly," said the carpenter. "No? That's what I say. You men never notice anything," said his wife.
Tommy saw a tiny figure in khaki Evelyn! Then there was a sudden uproar from an encampment of the Ragged Men. His eyes flicked there, and he saw the Ragged Men running into and out of the tall wall of Death Mist. And they laughed uproariously and ran into and out of the Mist again. His pilot dived down. The Ragged Men yelled and capered and howled derisively at him.
Occasionally a cottontail leaped from his path and paused to stare, big ears alert and nose twitching sensitively; or a red squirrel, that saucy mischief-maker of the woods, chattered derisively at him from the safe side of a spruce trunk. But the moose paid no more heed to them than to the lofty trees which arched above his path.
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