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Updated: May 17, 2025
She had her interview with the housekeeper, and proceeded to her own place in Popinjay Parlour, a quiet place at this time of day, save for the tinkling of the fountain and the twitterings of the many little songsters in the aviary, whom the original parrot used patronisingly to address as "Pretty little birds."
Joe had been having a fine time with his engine. He was getting on terms of real familiarity with it now, having lost some of the awe with which he had regarded it yesterday. Today he called it "She" almost patronisingly and even dared lay his hand on the cylinders with a knowing cock of his head.
Mrs Jonathan stooped majestically, and imprinted her lips patronisingly on the forehead, as much as to say, 'I receive you into the family of the Payne Perrys, since you are respectably connected. Mrs Jones kissed her on the lips, and said, 'God bless you, my dear. Miss Gwynne, who hated kissing, and did not consider herself one of the family, looked on, but took no active part.
He cooled down and then patronisingly told me that when I had grown older and had gained more experience in riding, I would not be guilty of cruelty to dumb animals. Having failed in my tactics, and paid for my ride, I resigned all further activity in the proceedings, and submitted to having the speed of my mount regulated by the stick from behind. When pursued, Mrs.
"You can stroke its nose," said its owner, patronisingly. "Shall you call it Daisy?" asked Anna, reaching over the hurdles to pat the soft, velvety muzzle. "Mother says we mustn't have no more Daisies," said its mistress, shaking her little, round head gravely. "You see puppa called all the cows Daisy, after me, for ever so long.
Private Nigg perches a steel helmet on the point of a bayonet, and patronisingly bobs the same up and down above the parapet. These steel helmets have not previously been introduced to the reader's notice. They are modelled upon those worn in the French Army and bear about as much resemblance to the original pattern as a Thames barge to a racing yacht.
Her hands were not quite steady, as she went about the work Beason had patronisingly left for her to do, and out of the mists which blinded her there came a picture of her own quiet studio at home, where she had worked with her own things, things with which she was supreme.
"Go it, young 'uns!" cried their soldier escort from the box, waving his hand patronisingly. He also saluted an officer in spectacles as "Bully boy with a glass eye," and later informed another officer in a broad yellow sash that he was "the cheese."
He fell to smoothing her hair, slowly, gently, patronisingly. His face was composed and he was looking down at her trembling head and agitated shoulders with an absent-minded smile. How easily this once dreaded crisis had passed! How he had overestimated her! How he had underestimated himself!
Lowder had left her behind, and on the occasion, subsequently, of the corresponding date in her own life not the second, the sad one, with its dignity of sadness, but the first, with the meagreness of its supposed felicity she had been, in the same spirit, almost patronisingly pitied.
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