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We only know that the sultan was going to marry your mother to one of his grooms, a humpback fellow; but a genie lay with her. This is hard upon you, but ought to teach you to treat your schoolfellows with less haughtiness." Agib being nettled at this, ran hastily out of the school. He went directly sobbing to his mother's chamber, who being alarmed to see him thus grieved, asked the reason.
But Dumas was not to be mollified. He launched forth upon a new arraignment of the Americans; dishonesty was bred in their bones! and they were robbers by instinct. All of this distinctly nettled Bok's Americanism.
"You're foolish," returned Gresham, holding his temper through the superiority which had always nettled Collaton. "You like money and I'm showing you a way to get it from Johnny Gamble." The waiter brought the drinks. Collaton paid for them, tossed off his own and rose. "I've had all of that money I want," he declared.
"You would surely win it," retorted the girl, a little nettled. "I'll wager you a box of candy then, or anything you please." "Let it be anything I please," she agreed, laughing. "Mr. Morton, you are not going to let me get out alone?" "Oh, no," and I sprang out to assist her down. "She wants you to be on hand in case the ferocious beast switches its tail," cried Adah.
And as for Sunday lessons on a day when all outdoors was beckoning He stole a glance at the open window of the living-room. His mother had gone about her housework, and he could hear her singing softly, as befitted the still, warm day: "O for a heart to praise my God!" and it nettled him curiously.
"I mean," the coroner exclaimed, evidently nettled that the young man had been able to draw such a conclusion from his words, "that you were the last one to see him previous to his assassination by some unknown individual?"
"Men who work for me must give better heed to their business," said he. "If they care more for a noise in the street than for their work, it is time they left." "I am ready to leave any time you please," retorted Benjamin, who was considerably nettled by such treatment. "I am not dependent on you for a living, and I shall not be treated in this way long, I assure you."
But why in the world did you do it, when you want every stitch of it out to catch what wind there is? However, I am in no hurry," said Reyburn laughing. "Do as you please, skipper: you're sailing the ship." "I am sailing her, sir," said the captain, a little nettled, "and sailing her on the edge of a hurricane. You had better take the lady below, sir: when it comes it will come with a crack."
I was thinking aloud." "Do go on thinking aloud a little," I said; "it is most interesting!" "Ah," he said, "with the flatterers were busy mockers! You enjoy staring and looking upon me." "No, no," I said, rather nettled. "Father Payne, don't you understand? I want to hear more about you. I want to know how you came to be what you are: it interests me more than I can say.
"When an archaeologist says something's in good shape, he doesn't necessarily mean it'll start as soon as you shove a switch in." "You didn't notice that it happened when the power was on, did you," one of the engineers asked, nettled at Lattimer's tone. "Well, it was. Everything's burned out or shorted or fused together; I saw one busbar eight inches across melted clean in two.
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