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Updated: May 6, 2025
Physicians by the thousand, of course frightfully clumsy brutes for the most part, and following one another like sheep but doctors of the mind, except a few empirical flounderers there were none." He concentrated his mind on the jelly. "But were people so sane ?" began Mwres. The hypnotist shook his head. "It didn't matter then if they were a bit silly or faddy. Life was so easy-going then.
They expect a lot of grammar and parsing, and dates in history and solid facts in geography and all that. Mother approves; she thinks the English system much less faddy than at home. We have Bible instruction in regular lessons. I'll admit that these English girls know more than I do about things in books, but they haven't any idea what's going on in the present world.
Baa!" . . . Some lines of an old quotation, picked up he knew not where, wandered into his mind Comedy, Tragedy, Laughter and Tears! Thou'rt rolled as one in the Dust of Years! With a sigh he turned to his own cot and began to unpack and arrange his kit; in regulation fashion, and with such small faddy fixings customary to men inured to barrack life. Thus engaged the time passed rapidly.
"Oh yes, you did, I remember" and an argument was beginning, which Agatha cut short by saying, "Any way, it is bad taste." "Nag has been so much among the real M.A. that she is tender about their title." "She wants to be one herself," said Vera; "and so she will if she goes on getting learned and faddy." "In both senses?" said Paula.
She tried to believe that this was the reason for her discontent, this separation from her husband; but she knew that when she had been perfectly free, she had not shared largely in his activity.... "You must tell me all about the St. Mary's girls," Alice said. "Have you seen Aline?" "Yes, she has grown very faddy, I should think, arts and crafts and all that. Isn't it queer?
At Helston, in Cornwall, May-day seems to have been known by the name of Furry Day. Perhaps a corruption of "Flora's Day." People wore hawthorn in their hats, and danced hand-in-hand through the town to the sound of a fiddle. This particular performance was known as a "faddy."
Faddy, an old gentleman of some weight, at least of purse, who has recently moved into the neighbourhood. He is a worthy and substantial manufacturer, who, having accumulated a large fortune by dint of steam-engines and spinning-jennies, has retired from business, and set up for a country gentleman.
Of course, it's only an idea of his, but men are such faddy creatures, don't you think?" "They wouldn't be men if they weren't " Mrs. Carmichael had begun, when she broke off, and the scissors that had been snipping their way steadily through the rough linen jagged and dropped on the table. She picked them up immediately and went on with an impatient exclamation at her own carelessness.
This was clearly the life she was intended by nature to live, and might actually have been living she, the granddaughter of so grand a man as the late Dean of Dunwich had it not been for poor Mamma's ridiculous fancies. Mamma was so faddy!
"If he is too faddy for the society that I can put up with, though it be that of chimney-sweeps," said Deb, "he is too faddy for me, father." "Now, my dear, don't talk so," the old man pleaded with her, quite agitated by her mood. "We all have our little weaknesses we have to make allowances for temperament and for bringing up.
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