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Sir Walter Raleigh, too, who had been "falsely and pestilently" represented to the Earl as an enemy, rather than what he really was, a most ardent favourer of the Netherland cause, wrote at once to congratulate him on the change in her Majesty's demeanour. "The Queen is in very good terms with you now," he said, "and, thanks be to God, well pacified, and you are again her 'sweet Robin."
"What a pestilently early hour you breakfast at, Ned! I was not in bed till three o'clock, and I scarcely seemed to have been asleep an hour when I was obliged to get up to be in time to catch you before you were off." "That is hard on you indeed, doctor," Ned said, smiling; "but why this haste? Have you got some patient for whom you want my help?
Sir Walter Raleigh, too, who had been "falsely and pestilently" represented to the Earl as an enemy, rather than what he really was, a most ardent favourer of the Netherland cause, wrote at once to congratulate him on the change in her Majesty's demeanour. "The Queen is in very good terms with you now," he said, "and, thanks be to God, well pacified, and you are again her 'sweet Robin."
And as for the pretence of making people sagacious, and pestilently witty; I shall only desire that the nature of that kind of Wit may be considered! which will be found to depend upon some such fooleries as these As, first of all, the lucky ambiguity of some word or sentence.
Sir Walter Raleigh, too, who had been "falsely and pestilently" represented to the Earl as an enemy, rather than what he really was, a most ardent favourer of the Netherland cause, wrote at once to congratulate him on the change in her Majesty's demeanour. "The Queen is in very good terms with you now," he said, "and, thanks be to God, well pacified, and you are again her 'sweet Robin."
And I think the same situation would be involved if the critic were concerned to point out that Pindar was scandalously immoral, pestilently cynical, or low and beastly in his views of life.
He is one of those pestilently persistent fellows who won't take a hint and sheer off; he is as full of obstinacy as was the mammoth that chased me over yonder," with a jerk of his thumb toward the north "on our first trip, and must be treated as we treated that mammoth. For if we don't kill him, he will kill us if he can. You see? Here comes another shot!"
"My dear mademoiselle," he said, wishing the while he had had a friseur at the making of his toilet that morning, as he ran his fingers over his beard and the thick brown hair that slightly curled above his brow, "my dear mademoiselle, I feel pestilently like a fool and a knave to have placed myself in this position in any way to your annoyance.
"Ay! but he did, most pestilently," interposed Catiline, almost fiercely; "but come, come, why don’t they carry him away? we are losing all the morning." "I thought he was a friend of yours, Sergius," said another of the bystanders, apparently vexed at the heartlessness of his manner. "Why, ay! so he was," replied the conspirator; "but he is nothing now: nor can my friendship aught avail him.
She brewed drinks, in some mysterious Asiatic equivalent to the still-room drenches that smelt pestilently and tasted worse. She stood over Kim till they went down, and inquired exhaustively after they had come up. She laid a taboo upon the forecourt, and enforced it by means of an armed man.
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