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Updated: June 2, 2025
"But you laughed at it you think it's so you " She was trembling in a sudden resentment at once inexplicable and amusing to the other two. "Highty-tighty! you little spitfire!" cried her father, laughing. "I see your finish, my boy!" "Good gracious, Lydia, how you do fly at a man! I take it back. I take it back."
She did not hear the subsequent conversation in the servants' hall, and it was well she did not, for, though the insolence that vaunts itself covertly is hard to bear, it is not so hard as that which visibly hurts the eye and offends the ear. "Thank goodness!" said Jasper, "I've saved a bit o' brass, and miss may be as highty-tighty as she likes.
"I'm not accountable to you, anyway," replied Marjory, her temper rising. "Highty-tighty! so we're going to ride the high horse, eh? Well, I consider it my duty to take you home and report upon your unlawful doings." And, still holding Marjory's arm, he began to walk towards the house. Silky, hearing the strange footsteps and voices, barked angrily; and Dr.
At sight of the woman her courage had revived, her feeling of extreme loneliness had vanished, and a good deal of the insolence which often marked her bearing had in consequence returned to her. "I won't go in," she said. "It looks dirty in there and I hate dirt. No, I won't go in! Bring me some food out here, please. Of course I'll pay you." "Highty-tighty!" said the woman.
"We put those notches there in the early days," returned John, "when every cowman carried the law on his hip. It's different now. You're altogether too highty-tighty, Jude, for a girl. You keep away from Scott Parsons, or I'll make you regret it." Judith made no reply. Scott's trial took place in April.
With the left hand they greet the iconoclasts and hand them royalties. With the right hand they pass further laws for the iconoclasts to denounce. A phenomenon results. With the thought of the masses becoming more and more neutral in the highty-tighty war between Good and Evil, the laws created by these same masses grow more and more rabid.
"Lor', Miss Jemimy, don't you know better than to ask questions when I'm counting? Now I've got to go and begin all over again." "Highty-tighty, Miss! You're a weak sister, ef ye can't ceount an' chat, tew.
Then she looked up into the wizened, discontented face of the old man opposite to her. "Play," said the squire. "Why don't you begin?" "Only that I'm thinking," said the spoiled child, tapping her foot petulantly. "Squire, I can't help saying it I don't think you are quite fair to Frances." "Eh, what?" said Squire Kane, in a voice of astonishment. "Highty-tighty, what next!
"Well, chillen, in my young days dat waz pretty much of a sum sho's yo' born it waz." "Things are different now; and besides, Maum' Hepsey, you don't know how a dressed-up lady ought to look." "Highty-tighty!" said maum', while her eyes sparkled alarmingly. "As if I ain't seen mo' finery in a month dan you has in every blessed year of your life!
"Father has over and over told me that the moor belongs to the Queen, so this little bit couldn't have been given to your husband, Micah Jones, and we are just as free to walk here as you are. Come on, Maggie, we'll be late for our business if we idle any longer." But the woman with a loud and angry word detained her. "Highty-tighty!" she said.
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