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I never saw anything like it in my born days; she wont give him one moment's peace! He was doing well enough until she began jawing him." It is to be hoped that the countess did not understand the meaning of this last, not very classical expression. "Will you be silent, woman?" said she, wrathfully. Mrs.
It is the simplest of French doggerel and means, freely translated, that while the fat-headed and the weakly foolish do a great deal of jawing when mistreated by the powerful, the sensible man picks himself up and totes himself far from the neighborhood wherein he is unwelcome and never says a word. Of my twenty congressmen but one offered a translation.
Having found a mudhole, from which we could obtain water, all were soon busy in cooking their food, and for a time the camp was quite lively the men once more wore cheerful faces, and our former hard fare was forgotten. Hardly, however, had we prepared our meal, when the order was given to move, and the grub went down our throats on a double quick. There was considerable "jawing" about that time.
"Yes, yes," said Nekhludoff, not knowing what to say. "True, sir. My wife is a steady woman. I am satisfied with my wife, because she can feel for me. Is it right what I'm saying, Mavra?" "There you are, take it, I don't want any more," said the wife, returning the bottle to him. "And what are you jawing for like that?" she added. "There now!
'I shall expect you to ride up to the 'ounds, young gent, observed Watchorn, darting an angry look at the speaker. 'Won't I, old boy! exclaimed George; 'ride over you, if you don't get out of the way. ''Deed, sneered the huntsman, whisking about to leave the room; muttering, as he passed behind the large Indian screen at the door, something about 'jawing jackanapes, well called Cheek.
Then the other one went to swelling around and blowing again the first one the one they called Bob; next, the Child of Calamity chipped in again, bigger than ever; then they both got at it at the same time, swelling round and round each other and punching their fists most into each other's faces, and whooping and jawing like Injuns; then Bob called the Child names, and the Child called him names back again: next, Bob called him a heap rougher names and the Child come back at him with the very worst kind of language; next, Bob knocked the Child's hat off, and the Child picked it up and kicked Bob's ribbony hat about six foot; Bob went and got it and said never mind, this warn't going to be the last of this thing, because he was a man that never forgot and never forgive, and so the Child better look out, for there was a time a-coming, just as sure as he was a living man, that he would have to answer to him with the best blood in his body.
As he thought of the way in which, the other afternoon, before Kate, he had sat complacently "jawing," he accused himself of excess, of having overdone it, having made at least apparently more of a "set" at their entertainer than he was at all events then intending.
Bradley hastened to the boy's side and said something to him in a tone which the others could not hear, the lad coloring slightly as he listened. "He's jawing him for speaking French!" Jimmie commented. "It looks like it," Jack observed. "Oh, I reckon we've got the prince all right.
I've been listening to that woman jawing you till I felt like rising up and giving her a large and wholesome piece of my mind. I don't know how you kept your patience with her, but I can tell you I admired you for it, and I made up my mind I'd tell you so." The kindness and sympathy in her tone broke Marcella down. Tears rushed to her eyes.
Correctness is all very well: El Greco made his people eight feet high because he wanted to express something he couldn't get any other way." "Damn El Greco," said Lawson, "what's the good of jawing about a man when we haven't a chance of seeing any of his work?" Clutton shrugged his shoulders, smoked a cigarette in silence, and went away. Philip and Lawson looked at one another.
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