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The kettles would boil over most obstreperously, the mutton refused to cook with the meek alacrity to be expected from the nature of a sheep, the stove, with unnecessary warmth of temper, would glow like a fiery furnace, the irons would scorch, the linens would dry, and spirits would fail, though patience never.
The kettles would boil over most obstreperously, the mutton refused to cook with the meek alacrity to be expected from the nature of a sheep, the stove, with unnecessary warmth of temper, would glow like a fiery furnace, the irons would scorch, the linens would dry, and spirits would fail, though patience never.
"Didn't I say I'd pay you for spilling the cold water on me?" cried Sneak, in a convulsion of laughter. "Why didn't you tell me, you rascal?" cried Joe, flushed in the face, and forgetting the Indians in his increasing anger. "Oh, I'll laugh myself sore ha! ha! ha!" continued Sneak, sitting down on the snow, and laughing obstreperously. "You long, lopsided scoundrel, you.
I heard you out in the square. She was moving past the table, but Daniel, suddenly backing his chair, intercepted her. The girl gave him her hand, and, by way of being jocose, he squeezed it so vehemently that she uttered a shrill 'Oh! 'Leave go, Mr. Dabbs! Leave go, I tell you! How dare you? I'll hit you as hard as I can! Daniel laughed obstreperously. 'Do! do! he cried.
"If I possessed a child that acted at once so obstreperously and in so cowardly a manner as you did last night, I should cut a stick from the forest here, and thrash him with such severity that he would never forget it. As I have not done this to you, I deny that I treat you like children. The truth is that, although the youngest, I am your commander.
Yesterday, at eleven, I walked towards Westminster Abbey, and as I drew near the Abbey bells were clamorous for joy, chiming merrily, musically, and, obstreperously, the most rejoicing sound that can be conceived; and we ought to have a chime of bells in every American town and village, were it only to keep alive the celebration of the Fourth of July.
During dinner, she kept up her assumed air of indifference, and tried to seem in high spirits, laughing and talking more than usual. In reality, she felt as if she had defied a wild beast within the four walls of his den, and he was crouching backward in preparation for his deadly spring. Dempster affected to take no notice of her, talked obstreperously, and drank steadily.
The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously. I observed, however, that one of them held somewhat aloof, and though he seemed desirous not to spoil the hilarity of his shipmates by his own sober face, yet upon the whole he refrained from making as much noise as the rest.
But she is in very bad condition, full of water, and, doubtless, as leaky as a sieve. On coming from supper, I found that little Puss had established herself in the study, probably with intent to pass the night here. She now lies on the footstool between my feet, purring most obstreperously.
The same hosts of beggars also besiege both places, of all ranks and pretensions, from those who stand silent in a white sheet for drapery, to those who obstreperously exhibit their want of any drapery at all.
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