Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 1, 2025
The rope, however, was flouncing about in the wind, and the bell itself was still thundering alarums over the town. Tug's first thought at this discovery was spooks! As is usual with people who do not believe in ghosts, they were the first things he thought of as an explanation of a mysterious performance. His second thought was the right one.
I'll come out in a minute. I'm sorry I am so cross, Honour. After all it isn't your fault that you are not Charley." "Of course not," said Honour indignantly, and there was more than a suggestion of what was known, in those days of distended skirts, as "flouncing" in the quick rustle with which she left the room.
"Naughty-naughty!" said Miss Pelz, with a flash of eyes to their corners, a flouncing of tulle, and then landing ever so lightly on her father's knee and at the immediate business of jerking open his tie. "Bad, bad dad! Didn't let Sato dress him to-night." "You little red head, you!" "Stop it! Hold up your chin." "Honey, we're all starvationed." "Lester'll be here any minute now."
"Old woman!" said Dorothy, who, having her fish hooked, chose to let him play a little. "I am not so old," said she, flouncing out of the room, "as to bide in the place till a man rises from his naked bed " And presently she was heard at a distance in the parlour beneath, melodiously singing to the scrubbing of her own broom. "Dorothy screech owl devil say but my daughter is well!"
The silence of the night had not yet been broken by the voice of man; and I wandered about the vast park unannoyed, except by the dew from the grass that wet my slippers. Not far from the house I came abruptly upon a beautiful little pond of water, where the gold fish were flouncing about, and the gentle ripples glittering in the sunshine looked like so many silver minnows playing on the surface.
He at length came to the Side of a great River, and being a good Fisherman himself stood upon the Banks of it some time to look upon an Angler that had taken a great many Shapes of Fishes, which lay flouncing up and down by him. I should have told my Reader, that this Indian had been formerly married to one of the greatest Beauties of his Country, by whom he had several Children.
Mr Sparkler was so discomposed by the energy of this exclamation, accompanied with a flouncing up from the sofa and a flouncing down again, that a minute or two elapsed before he felt himself equal to saying in explanation: 'I mean, my dear, that everybody knows you are calculated to shine in society. 'Calculated to shine in society, retorted Fanny with great irritability; 'yes, indeed!
It's a cruel thing, and I don't care if I do say it." The woman was flouncing along the street beside the boy, and she spoke in a loud, shrill voice. "It's a cruel thing," she repeated. "If I couldn't pay for my wedding fix I'd never get married, before I'd go and cheat a poor dress-maker. She'd ought to be ashamed of herself, and so had all your folks. I don't care if I do say it.
"I think," she said, "a woman's behavior at sales is a test, don't you?" I said I thought her behavior as regarded swing-doors was a surer one. She said she hadn't thought of that. "But I know what you mean; I do dislike the flouncing, pushing woman. I think every one should be taught to be courteous and gentle, don't you?" She added, "I hate being pushed."
She was not willing to be shaken and roused; she had been saying very unkind, rude things to Abbie, and now, instead of flouncing off in an uncontrollable fit of indignation, which course Ester could but think would be the most comfortable thing which could happen next, so far as she was concerned, Abbie sat still, with that look of meek inquiry on her face, humbly awaiting her verdict.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking