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He's mealy-mouthed with the woman, and mealy-mouthed with the man, and mealy-mouthed with everybody. quite too soft-hearted and too easy to get on. Here's a stranger nobody knows, just like some crow from another corn-field, that'll pick up his provisions from under his very nose, and he doing nothing to hinder until there's no use in trying.
I like her for having a spirit; but one can't be finikin and mealy-mouthed to suit her London manners. I like the truth." It would have been well if any one had been by to tell Mr. Samuel that truth of character does not consist in disagreeable and uncalled-for personalities.
When people are shy and don't invite me inside their houses I believe in making myself at home outside, while I wait for them to appear." From her doorway Mrs. Wren called to her husband, "Don't let her deceive you with her pretty talk! Remember what I told you! She's mealy-mouthed.... If you had seen her trying to reach her paw through the door you'd know how dangerous she is."
'I have little doubt myself, said the other, laughing, 'that I am more in my place; but of this I am sure, that if we were as mealy-mouthed with our Croats and Slovacks as you are with your Fenians, Austria would soon go to pieces. 'There is, however, a higher price on that man Donogan's head than Austria ever offered for a traitor, said Miller.
It may be that they affect this simplicity without having it, and when they grin at receiving a kick, they are saying inside, 'Just wait till my turn comes, and I'll give you three!" Then he suddenly seemed to repent of his suspicions. "At any rate, this Karl is a poor fellow, a mealy-mouthed simpleton who the minute I say anything opens his jaws like a fly-catcher.
It will be worthy of the highest censure, if on these points the instructor should be mealy-mouthed, or hesitate to tell the pupil in the plainest terms, of his faults, his bad habits, and the dangers that beset his onward and honourable path. But this may be best, and most beneficially done, and in a way most suitable to the exigence, and to the party to be corrected, in a few words.
We ask no quarter and we shall give none. "Secondly, we have had to encounter the dislike of mealy-mouthed Freethinkers, who want omelettes without breaking of eggs and revolutions without shedding of blood. They object to ridiculing people who say that twice two are five. They even resent a dogmatic statement that twice two are four. Perhaps they think four and a half a very fair compromise.
Not a mealy-mouthed Burgess now, whose great-grandfather sold stocking hose to my Lord Duke of Northumberland, but sets himself up for a Percy; not a supercilious Cit, whose Uncle married a cast-off waiting-woman from Arundel Castle, but vaunts himself on his alliance with the noble house of Howard; not a starveling Scrivener, whose ancestor, as the playwright has it, got his Skull cracked by John of Gaunt for crowding among the Marshalmen in the Tilt Yard, but must pertly Wink and Snigger, and say that the Dukedom of Lancaster would not be found extinct if the Right Heir chose to come Forward.
When it was all over she came down trembling. "Well! what do you think of it?" said Mr. Gresley, rising and pacing up and down the room. "You hit very hard," said Hester, after a moment's consideration. She did not say, "You strike home." "I have no opinion of being mealy-mouthed," said Mr. Gresley, who was always perfectly satisfied with a vague statement.
All through the Confession I gape about with vacant inattention at the grimy whiteness of the choir; at the back of the organist's head; at the parson, a mealy-mouthed fledgling, who, with his finger on his place in the prayer to prevent his losing it, is taking a stealthy inventory of my charms. Suddenly I hear the door, which has been for some time silent, creak again in opening.
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