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Updated: July 2, 2025
It was easy to see where the power of his brush lay. No timid, uncertain, niggling stroke ever came from that torso or forearm or thigh. He hewed with a broad axe, not with a chisel, and he hewed true that was the joy of it. The men of Meissonier's time, like the old Dutchmen, worked from their knuckle joints.
Have you tried, my dear sir you who set up to be a connoisseur? Have you tried? I have and many a day. And the end of the day's labor? O dismal conclusion! Is this puerile niggling, this feeble scrawl, this impotent rubbish, all you can produce you, who but now found Rubens commonplace and vulgar, and were pointing out the tricks of his mystery? Pardon, O great chief, magnificent master and poet!
The remainder of this article insists on the impartiality of law and the equal admission of all citizens to office. The Declaration of 1793 is more emphatic about equality, and more rhetorical. Article III reads, "All men are equal by nature and before the law." It is easy to subject these articles to a niggling form of criticism in which their spirit is altogether missed.
At any rate he twice went to Germany without being at any pains to meet him, and once, if not twice, refused Bach's invitation. ii Rockstro says that Handel keeps much more closely to the old Palestrina rules of counterpoint than Bach does, and that when Handel takes a licence it is a good bold one taken rarely, whereas Bach is niggling away with small licences from first to last.
"But he'll strike a blind bargain in there. Ha! There goes another 'niggling' match!" A frippery flame, indeed, its reflection flickered a moment, a gold tooth in the fissure's grinning mouth darkness followed!
She knew why he had come back so suddenly. He felt immensely happy. And when she said, "I think we'll have some of the roses," he gaily replied, "Yes, rather. These roses!" Fine! How easy to be on jolly terms! And immediately it proved not so easy. He had got over the rocks of "niggling"; he found himself in the shoals of exasperation. She cut the first rose and held it to her lips, smelling it.
It would be pretty good fun, trying to show a few people young unspoiled people what music really is. Dynamite some of their sentimental ideas about it; shake them loose from some of the schoolmasters' niggling rules about it; make them write it themselves; show 'em the big shapes of it; make a piano keyboard something they knew their way about in. That wouldn't be a contemptible job for anybody.
He guessed that Pinecoffin would want some broad, free-hand work after his niggling, stippling, decimal details. Pinecoffin handled the latest development of the case in masterly style, and proved that no "popular ebullition of excitement was to be apprehended."
And then this infernal business about the letter. That word "funny." She must have used it a hundred times. Still.... The niggling had been carried off, they had gone into the garden together; and this infernal letter business at least he had come away without boiling over about it. Much better to have come away as he did.... Still.... A gong boomed enormously through the house.
And then whenever Sister Bert sits down she always pulls her skirt right up to her knees, so as people can see her stockings. I mean there's always SOMETHING amusing happening. Of course I have a good deal of work to do, and all the washing up, but my sisters are so big and strong that one can't expect them to bother themselves with niggling little things like that.
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