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He was asking her whether she could manage to come out there one afternoon, explaining that his mother would give them tea, and how nice it would be. "I don't see why Ellen shouldn't let me," the girl said rebelliously. "But she's that old-fashioned and pernickety is Ellen a regular old maid! And, you see, Mr.
I 'members one face, dat ob a man dat leaned ober de railin' and looked at us bein' dribben on board, dat looked so wild and mad-like. I allus t'ink de Lord will look dat way when on de day ob judgment he says, ''Part from me, all ye onb'lievin', backslidin' workers ob pernickety: don't want to see no more ob yer. He spoke to me once on our way down de ribber.
Pratt duly took the expected "fancy" to Rachel, and pressed her to stay at "The Towers" while she was in the neighborhood, and make further acquaintance with her "young ladies." "Ada is very pernickety," she said, smiling towards that individual conversing with Dick.
Without appearing to notice the presence of the Aid, Shorty walked up to the lead-mule, gave him a tremendous kick in the ribs, and sung out in a tone loud enough to be heard across the roaring branch: "You pernickety pile o' poll-evil; you hee-hawin' graduate o' West Point; you pin-feathered, taller-faced, pop-eyed, lantern-jawed, loud-mouthed Second Lieutenant, you, won't you git up?"
I looked to see her tore limb from limb, instead of which in three minutes he was cooing to her in a rocky bass voice. His trouble was lumbago or pleurisy or some misery that kept him every minute in this pernickety state. That was all old mother Vida needed to know.
Others are new formations, coined in the ever-active mint of uneducated speech, and many of these, coming as they do full of freshness and vigour out of the vivid popular imagination words like harum-scarum, gallivant, cantankerous, and pernickety or useful monosyllables and penny pieces of popular speech like blight and nag and fun have already found their way into standard English.
'That was nice of you. Aren't you sorry? 'No, I thought it was only right. 'Were you fondest of dark women or fair? 'Oh, I don't know. I was never pernickety in MY tastes. You know those lines I read you from Henley: "Handsome, ugly all are women." That's a bachelor's sentiment.
The three were sitting chatting together, for Daisy had washed up she really was saving her stepmother a good bit of trouble and the girl was now amusing her elders by a funny account of Old Aunt's pernickety ways. "Whoever can that be?" said Bunting, looking up. "It's too early for Joe Chandler, surely." "I'll go," said his wife, hurriedly jumping up from her chair. "I'll go!
"I hate this house!" said King, unable to repress the truth any longer. "So do I!" said Kitty. "If we stay here much longer, I'll run away." This surprised the other two, for Kitty was usually mild and gentle, and rarely gave way to such speech as this. "It's Grandma Maynard that makes the trouble," said King. "She's so pernickety and fussy about us.
There's nothing like heat to drive out those pernickety colds and I wish you'd drink some hot water." "I'll see by and by." She turned her hot throbbing temple over on the pillow. If only she could shut out the sight and the smell of the clairvoyant's room, and that boy grasping for breath.
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