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Laura was miffed at having to play Audrey, but we didn't know that she could come until the last moment, and we were going to leave that part out. 'I don't believe you appreciate my generosity in taking this thankless part, she said to Bell, when we were rehearsing. 'Nobody would ever catch you playing second fiddle, my dear.
"We were talking," said Miss Blake, "about dogs and how to raise 'em. And then he up and said goodbye. Oh, Sheila, it's all right. He'll be back when he's got over being miffed. Why, he expected you to come tumblin' down the ladder head over heels to see him a handsome fellow like that! Shucks! Haven't you ever dealt with the vanity of a young male before? It's as jumpy as a rabbit. Get to work."
Perhaps men do not grow actually jealous any more easily than women, but they grow "miffed" and "hurt" a thousand times easier let the fact be recorded. There is one instance on legendary record, of a woman who divided her husband with another, at the time of the chivalrous adventures of the Crusaders; but the instance has not yet come to light of the man who so divided his wife.
Gard met no success in stemming the tide, miffed as he was about this social seclusion of the daughter. He soon saw his mistake in feeling personally hurt, as if insulted. It was but the custom. Could it be indeed a fact that German youths were such moral reprobates that girls could not be trusted to their unguarded companionship? The question had no meaning to his hosts.
And as they walked, Varney's tongue unloosed, and he spoke his still incredible happiness aloud: only, because he was not Latin and exuberant, he spoke it according to the indirect uses of his race. "That man we passed standing in the hall the one with the face of incredulity and chagrin was old Callery horribly miffed because you and I failed to lock in mortal combat.
You've been sticking too close to the farm, and it would do you good to run into town for a week. Please tell them at the residence that I'll dine at seven." "Very good, sir," he said in his pompous Tyringham manner, but I saw that he was miffed by my indifference. Flynn, having disposed of the car, came to ask if there was anything he could do for me.
I've tried all my own, and they won't let me have one bit of my own way. Out at Edward's he's a lawyer at Regina I tried to get them all to go to bed at half-past ten late enough, too, for decent people and didn't Edward's wife get real miffed over it?
I doubt if I can ever be educated up to that point. I like to be comfortable myself, and to have every one else so. Imagine Mabel getting miffed at me, or I at her, over some little two-penny affair of unadvised expressions!
The three detectives stared at him fixedly for a moment, as if surprised at the interruption. But if they were miffed they were too dignified to do more than hint it. Barnstable continued: "There is no such thing as magic." "There is not," said Ward. "The fourth dimension does not exist," said Bard. "Therefore Logan Black's exit," said Barnstable, "was in accordance with well-known physical laws.
Isn't the typewriter in working order this morning?" he asked, eyeing her machine innocently. She miffed and started to reply, but thought better of it. Then she began pounding the keys briskly. "It works like a charm," she shot back, genially. The letter that caused Bobby such perturbation came in the morning mail.
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