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Everyone had come to a halt, and, while the bark torch burned dimly his three companions gazed blankly at Tom. "What's that you said?" asked Jack, as if he had not comprehended. "We're lost!" repeated Tom. "Come again!" invited Bert. "You're jollying us!" "Indeed I'm not!" exclaimed Tom indignantly. "You can see for yourself that we've passed this place before.
He's great when it comes to jollying a fellow over the bumps. He'll help." "It's little enough, after all you've done for him! He told me." "Just like him. But let's not get sidetracked. What I wanted to make clear is that I'm not so everlastingly strong as you seem to think." "Tom, you'll not give way! You'll fight!" "Yes, I'll fight," he responded soberly. "And you'll win!" "I hope so, girlie.
One could almost see the simple mental operations. Sam got along with her by jollying her. Very well, he would do the same. "I ain't such a bad sort when I'm took right," he began, with a ghastly attempt to be facetious. "No?" "I like my joke as well as another." "Yes?" "You're a deep one!" he said with a leer, "but you can't fool me." "Eat your breakfast," said Bela.
Edward Saltonstall was a nice, steady young fellow; that is, he neither gamed, nor drank, nor went roystering round in the taverns jollying with the sailors, as some of the sons of really good families did. He would not have all his fortune to make, and his father's business was well established. The sons would take it. The two daughters were well married. What more could he ask for Cynthia?
Tooting, with a vexed laugh, "why are you always jollying me? You ain't any older than I am." "I'm not as old, Ham. I don't begin to have your knowledge of the world." "Come off," said Mr. Tooting, who didn't know exactly how to take this compliment. "I came in here to have a serious talk. I've been thinking it over, and I don't know but what you did right."
"Oh, yes, I know him; I should say so! So he's a Captain?" "Yes, suh," said Bob, not quite sure whether he was lying or not. Grafton spoke to an officer, and was allowed to take Bob for his own servant, though the officer said he did not remember any captain of that name in the th. To the newspaper man, Bob was a godsend; for humour was scarce on board, and "jollying" Bob was a welcome diversion.
The spaces that have been so quiet of late were full of feathers as they had been in June. Here were robins innumerable, flitting jerkily about and crying "tut, tut" in a subdued and genial way that was positively ladylike. Partridge woodpeckers flocked in, drolly jollying each other and making much talk, sotto voce.
Michelson dropped a lump of butter into the fluffy heart of a biscuit and clapped the halves together. "Some biscuits!" "Bad boy, stop jollying." "Say, if I'd tell you the truth about what I think of these biscuits, you'd say I was writing a streetcar advertisement for baking-powder. Say, this is some cup custard!" "More?" "Full to my eyebrows." "Just a little bittsie?" "Nope."
Camp was years the older of the two, a pudgy man with a florid complexion and nasal twang, and kept the junior member busy answering his questions. Uncle Lance enjoyed the situation, jollying his sister about the elder contractor and quietly inquiring of the red-haired foreman how and where Dupree had picked him up.
His promise, in a letter of March 1, 1802, that if he should write a second 'Maid of Orleans', Goeschen should publish it, is only an author's playful 'jollying' of a friendly publisher. The Bride of Messina Das Leben ist der Gueter hoechstes nicht, Der Uebel groesztes aber ist die Schuld. 'The Bride of Messina'.
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