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"He is just as good as ever, I suppose?" Blair said, and watched her delicate lip droop. "Better, if anything." And in the dusk, as they sauntered over the old bridge, she flung out gibe after gibe at her lover. Her cheeks grew hotter and hotter; it was like tearing her own flesh. The shame of it! The rapture of it!
"You'll be all right," said her father. "Spades." He won for the third time that evening, and, feeling wonderfully well satisfied with the way in which he had played his cards generally, could not resist another gibe at the crestfallen mate. "You'll have to give up playing cards and all that sort o' thing when you're married, Jack," said he.
Max also indulged in a gibe or two. These the haberdasher met with a wan smile. So the dinner came to an end, and the guests of Baldpate sat about while Mr. Peters removed all traces of it from the table. Mr. Magee sought to talk to Miss Norton, but found her nervous and distrait. "Has Mr. Bland frightened you?" he asked. She shook her head. "I have other things to think of," she replied. Mr.
It was then that Berlaymont, according to the account which has been sanctioned by nearly every contemporary writer, whether Catholic or Protestant, uttered the gibe which was destined to become immortal, and to give a popular name to the confederacy. "What, Madam," he is reported to have cried in a passion, "is it possible that your Highness can entertain fears of these beggars?
She had herself no words ready to reply to the lawyer's gibe. She would neither defend herself as from a grave accusation, nor reply in the same tone. "Mr. Rushton," she said faltering, "I don't think we need argue, need we? I have put down all the particulars. You know about it as well as I do. It is not for pleasure.
'Fine to hear thee belabouring my old, good knight with doughty words. 'Gibe as thou wilt; scream as thou wilt Katharine began. Cicely Elliott tossed in on her words: 'My head ached so. I had the right of it to scream. I cannot be minded of my menfolk but my head will ache. But I love thy fine preaching. Preach on. Katharine raised herself from her chair.
As for me, my duty in these circumstances was plain and simple. The Christian religion was attempted to be brought into disrepute; the rising generation were taught to gibe at its holiest ordinances; and the kirk was more frequented as a place to while away the time on a rainy Sunday, than for any insight of the admonitions and revelations in the sacred book.
I thank you, shuddering." Although the Canon would not go to the Opera, his general faculty of enjoyment was unimpaired, and, as always, he loved a gibe at the clergy. On the 30th of November 1841, Samuel Wilberforce wrote to a friend about George Augustus Selwyn, Missionary Bishop of New Zealand: "Selwyn is just setting out.
"And the rain!" supplied Jimmy sarcastically. This gibe suddenly roused the temper of the other participant in the debate. "I tell you," he exclaimed, in a voice shrill with indignation, "that these helmets are some use!" "And I tell you," retorted James earnestly, "that these helmets are no use!"
It had pleased him frequently to mock and gibe at death, with the wheel in his hand and a song on his lips, and now wind and storm were tempting him to ride with the devil. So, dashing wildly through the whirl of dirt and wind, heavy with the odor of burnt oil, he bent to the wheel, every nerve alert and leaping.
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