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Suddenly she bounced up, scattering Jessie over the floor. She promenaded to the door, opened it and yelled: "Mrs. Brigg! Mrs. Brigg!" The expostulating feet of the old person ascended wearily from the lower depths of the house. "Lord! Lord! Whatever is it now?" she wheezed. "Please bring up tea for me and this gentleman." The lady assumed the voice of a sucking dove. "Tea!
I blush inwardly to think how 1 have been deluded; I am ashamed of my frame, and can hardly forbear expostulating with my destiny: Is this thy pastime, O Nature, to put such tricks upon a silly creature, and then to take off the mask, and show him how he hath been befooled? If this is the philosophy of human nature, my soul enter thou not into her secrets.
Sophron alone, who was not to be awed by fear, observing the just apprehensions of the neighbourhood, undertook the task of expostulating with his friend, and endeavoured to prevail upon him to part with a beast so justly odious, and which might in the end prove fatal whenever his natural rage should break out into open acts of slaughter.
There isn't a keeper. Every scamp is allowed to go where he pleases, and of course there isn't a fox in the whole place. My huntsman laughs at me when I ask him to draw it." As the indignant Master of the Brake Hounds said this the very fire flashed from his eyes. "My dear," said Lady Chiltern expostulating, "Lord Silverbridge hasn't been in the house above half an hour." "What does that matter?
It was getting very late and to enter Wright Hall at an unseemly hour meant trouble. "Come on, Dunk let's light out," said Andy again, making his way to his roommate's side. "No, you don't!" "That game won't go!" "Let Dunk alone, he can look out for himself." Laughing and expostulating, the others got between Andy and his friend.
Through it, sobbing and screaming, their hats gone and their hair torn, came two women, roughly handled by gendarmes and followed by a mob escort. They were thrown weeping and expostulating into an adjoining cell. A gendarme came out with trickles of blood on his face. He mopped his brow and complained of feminine finger-nails. Close behind him followed a male friend of the imprisoned women.
Thus we find John Thornton expostulating with him in the following terms: 'The tabernacle people are in general wild and enthusiastic, and delight in anything out of the common, which is a temper of mind, though in some respect necessary, yet should never be encouraged.
The Reformation might bring what results it liked when it came, but the Reformation simply could not help coming. To all Popes and Popes' advocates, expostulating, lamenting and accusing, the answer of the world is: Once for all, your Popehood has become untrue.
A multitude of boxes were borne into the passages where, end to end, like a good's train on a main line, they stood impeding traffic. Louise, harassed and sallow, hurried from room to room, expostulating, explaining, replying in shrill tones to Madame von Marwitz's sonorous orders. Victor, led by Mrs.
The two women glanced at her wide-eyed and moved away with mutual embracings. Jean lifted her hands and looked at the soft little crest and beady eyes of the bird, to make sure that it was not disturbed by these strangers, before she gave her attention to the expostulating Mr. Burns.
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