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Dunstan," answered Geoffrey coldly, "but I am not in the habit of accepting such presents from my acquaintances. Will you have a glass of sherry? no. Then shall we join Lady Honoria?" This speech quite crushed the vulgar but not ill-meaning Saint, and Geoffrey was sorry for it a moment after he had made it. But he was weary and out of temper. Why did his wife bring such people to the house?
He 'd be off, that you might swear to. Oh, such a whimsical! not ill-meaning quite the contrary. Study his whims, and you'll never want. There's Mrs. Sockley she 's took ill. He won't go there that 's how I've caught him, my dear but he pays her medicine, and she looks to him the same. He hate a sick house: but he pity a sick woman.
"Dear me, it is really very terrible," says Meekin, who was not ill-meaning, but only self-complacent "very terrible indeed." "But unhappily true," said Mr. Pounce. "An olive? Thanks." "Upon me soul!" burst out honest McNab, "the hail seestem seems to be maist ill-calculated tae advance the wark o' reeformation." "Mr.
Be of good heart, friend: if thee will keep the ill-meaning Injun-men out of my way, I will adventure to lead thee anywhere thee will, within twenty miles of this place, on the darkest night, and that through the thickest cane, or deepest swamp, thee can lay eyes on, that is, if I have but little dog Peter to help me.
There was some ill-meaning in this journey of his father's. He thought of his brooding of yesterday, his scowling face, his bitter threats. Yes, there was some mischief underlying it. But perhaps he might even now be in time to prevent it. There was no use calling Laura. She could be no help in the matter.
I know not what he was: he was an ill-looking fellow, but not therefore of necessity an ill-meaning fellow; or, if he were, I suppose he thought that no person sleeping out-of-doors in winter could be worth robbing. In which conclusion, however, as it regarded myself, I beg to assure him, if he should be among my readers, that he was mistaken.
It was an isolated abbey, and little calculated by its position to dissipate the fears that the king entertained; for it was situated between two ruined churches and two cemeteries: the only house, which was distant about a shot from a cross-bow, belonged to the Hamiltons, and as they were Darnley's mortal enemies the neighbourhood was none the more reassuring: further, towards the north, rose some wretched huts, called the "Thieves' cross-roads". In going round his new residence, Darnley noticed that three holes, each large enough for a man to get through, had been made in the walls; he asked that these holes, through which ill-meaning persons could get in, should be stopped up: it was promised that masons should be sent; but nothing was done, and the holes remained open.
'I didn't mean to take them; but papa told me there were quantities up here, and I wished to see the eggs. Heathcliff glanced at me with an ill-meaning smile, expressing his acquaintance with the party, and, consequently, his malevolence towards it, and demanded who 'papa' was? 'Mr. Linton of Thrushcross Grange, she replied.
And the lady must simper and smirk and tap Pierre Radisson with her fan, with a glimmer of ill-meaning through her winks and nods that might have brought the blush to a woman's cheeks in Commonwealth days. "Madame," cried Pierre Radisson with his eyes ablaze, "that sweet child came to no harm or wrong among our wilderness of savages!
'Of course, as you know, the other side have an argument which I find rather hard to meet ... 'I can sympathize with patriotism, and even with jingoism, in certain moods, but I always come back to this difficulty. 'Our opponents are not ill-meaning so much as ill-judging, these were the sort of sentences he kept throwing in.
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