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"Now, that is odd," said he. "Why, I am compilin' a vocabulary myself. I call 't th' ass-ass-ins' dickshinary; showing how, by the use of mealy-mouthed and d'exotic phrases, knaves can lead fools by th' ear a vilent dith.
He ne'er showed himsel' abroad for a day or two. He had that grace. And then, where think ye that he went? Why, to Hamper's. Damn him! He went wi' his mealy-mouthed face, that turns me sick to look at, a-asking for work, though he knowed well enough the new rule, o' pledging themselves to give nought to th' Unions; nought to help the starving turn-out!
Her quick rejoinder overlapped his sentence. "Then you love her!" "Is that an alternative?" "With you yes." "Faith, my lady, you're frank!" "I'm not mealy-mouthed. You don't think yourself scrupulous, do you?" "I'm afraid I am not." "I don't mind so much your being in love with HER, though it's not flattering to my vanity, but " She stopped, letting him make the inference.
"Well, I'm not the kind to talk behind a fellow's back. But I'm not mealy-mouthed, either, and and " He did not complete the sentence and his meaning was enigmatic. Altogether Moore seemed not like himself. The fact disturbed Columbine. Always she had confided in him.
I don't know why we should be more mealy-mouthed than they are at the settlement. They don't hesitate to call Bassett a dead-beat, whatever Captain Jim says to the contrary." The unfortunate Captain Jim had halted irresolutely before the gloomy faces in the shelter. Whether he felt instinctively some forewarning of what was coming I cannot say.
The ground is bein' mapped off in great shape. He's had grass sowed all over it and laid out avenues and sidewalks, and thar's some talk of a fountain. "That Dixie Hart's a corker. She's not mealy-mouthed about anything. The day before the funeral Hettie was talkin' to her at the cow-lot, and axed Dixie if she was goin' to take it in.
These two men he accused of deliberately organizing a conspiracy against him; he spoke bluntly of Medina's 'hatred', 'rage', 'trickery', and 'lying'; he was not mealy-mouthed in describing Castro's 'malice', 'deceit', 'calumnies', and 'perjury'. Luis de Leon dealt no less faithfully with some members of his own order who were spiteful or cowardly or both.
I. The Huzza Porpoise. II. The Algerine Porpoise. III. The Mealy-mouthed Porpoise. To those who have not chanced specially to study the subject, it may possibly seem strange, that fishes not commonly exceeding four or five feet should be marshalled among WHALES a word, which, in the popular sense, always conveys an idea of hugeness.
It was Auntie's fault, not mine. I told her I was afraid of him." "Your aunt had been that gait with him herself, in her time?" "Oh, I don't know." "Yes, I twigged that and then the mealy-mouthed, filthy hag came over me. I on'y guessed, but you knew. Answer me;" and his grip tightened on her throat, and he shook her. "Answer." "Oh, I suppose so."
The marriage of one such "compelled bridegroom" is related with a force and minuteness of detail throughout which not a word is thrown away: There is no "mealy-mouthed philanthropy" here. No one can doubt the earnestness and truth of the poet's mingled anger and sorrow. The misery of irregular unions had never been "bitten in" with more convincing force.
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