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Now it was a lad of Bute that gave the first blood, and yet the Scots are free and the Norsemen are utterly defeated. Explain me this, thou harridan." "My lord," said Elspeth, rising and putting the fire between them, "listen to me. What I said at that time may indeed seem passing strange.
Raymond with a threatening look, "don't think to frighten me with your tragical airs. I must have my money, and so I'll take this harp and sell it, in spite of you!" She seized upon the instrument and was about to carry it off, when I rushed forth from my place of concealment, exclaiming "Come up out o' that! Drop that instrument, you old harridan, or I'll drop you!
I see old offenders; oh, your humble servant, Mrs. Harridan! I suppose these fellows have been taken robbing your house. Yes, yes, here's an old acquaintance of mine. You have used expedition," said he to me, "in returning from transportation; but we shall save you that trouble for the future the surgeons will fetch you from your next transportation, at their expense."
Later, Alderdene used him to get rid of an angular, old harridan who seemed to be one solid diamond-mine, and who drove him into a corner and talked indelicacies until Plank's broad face flamed like the setting sun.
'Poetry was the maiden I loved, said Howe in after years, 'but politics was the harridan I married. In the early nineteenth century aristocracy and democracy, alike in politics and in society, were fighting their battle all over Europe, and the struggle had spread to the British colonies.
"Being a woman, no. The present moment is always everything to me. When that horrid old harridan halloaed out that somebody was smoking, I thought I should have died. It was very bad just then." "Awful!" said Mrs. Boncassen, shaking her head. "I didn't seem to feel it much," said the father. "One doesn't look to have everything just what one wants always.
Then the old harridan chanted the wrongs which the Germans had wrought until, when she had worked the crowd and herself up to a heat of furious excitement, she lowered her voice, suddenly lowered her tone. In a grating whisper she narrated, in more detail than I cared to hear, the full story of how her daughter to whom she pointed had been shamefully treated by the Germans. The crowd growled.
When he first received this letter, he did not, on the first reading of it, believe a word of its contents. "Cross-grained old harridan," he said out loud to his nephew. "Look what that aunt of yours has written to me." Bernard read the letter twice, and as he did so his face became hard and angry. "You don't mean to say you believe it?" said the squire.
Don' you dar' tech 'em! I'll p'otect 'em wid my life's blood!" "Shut up, you old harridan!" returned Gilcrest. "Nobody's going to strike your mistress, or her daughter either. Take your Miss Jane to her room, and attend to her." "I doan lebe dis room tell I speaks my min' 'bout yo' ongodly carryin' on an' yo' shameful 'buse ob my sweet lamb, my own Miss Betsy."
"When I walk in this garden, am I to be troubled with this wretched bird?" The landlord almost bit the turf while the servants from the inn grovelled near him. "My lady," he cried, "the bird shall be removed at once." He ran forward. The parrot was chained by its leg to a tall perch. As the innkeeper came away with the entire business, the parrot began to shout: "Old harridan! Old harridan!
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