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"Subhan' Allah!" an exclamation of pettishness or displeasure. The hills not abounding in camels, like the maritime regions, asses become the principal means of transport. This barbarous practice is generally carried out in cases of small- pox where contagion is feared. Fear danger; it is a word which haunts the traveller in Somali-land.
Of course, if she chose to break it off.... But he must be minutely careful to do nothing which might lead to a breach. Such was Denry's code. The walk home at midnight, amid the reverberations of the falling tempest, was marked by a slight pettishness on the part of Ruth, and by Denry's polite taciturnity.
She, at first, could not comprehend the foolish pettishness with which I received her attentions; but my heart, incapable of concealing what passed in it, did not long leave her ignorant of my suspicions; she endeavored to laugh at them, but this expedient did not succeed; transports of rage would have been the consequence, and she changed her tone.
But these paroxysms seldom occurred, and in them my big-hearted shipmate vented the bile which more calm-tempered individuals get rid of by a continual pettishness at trivial annoyances. No one ever saw Toby laugh—I mean in the hearty abandonment of broad-mouthed mirth.
There are marks of pettishness, but not of passion. Nothing deep, tender, beneficent, maternal, is there. Time has done his part, but life has left no marks. Their smiles and laughter are the merriment of children, beautiful in children, but painful here. Mother Church, you have dwarfed these women, helplessly, hopelessly. You accomplish results, but you deteriorate humanity. Down the St.
You'll be just as bad to-morrow, when you come to say good-by to your papa." "Oh! I hope not," said Katy. "Because papa would feel so badly." Lilly stared. "I shall think you real cold-hearted if you don't," she said, in an offended tone. Katy took no notice of the tone; and before long Lilly recovered from her pettishness, and began to talk about the school. Katy and Clover asked eager questions.
These might charitably be explained as mere momentary ebullitions of pettishness or spleen, and pardonable as merely faults of temper in a criticism which was in the main conscientious and fair. But the libel of which I complain most of all is one that constitutes the entire ground and framework of the article as a whole.
"How nice of you to come and see me when you have so much to think of. Flossy where is Mr. Roberts? Why don't you bring him to call on me?" "He hasn't time to call on anybody," Flossy said, with a mixture of pride, and a sort of comic pettishness. "He has so many poor families on his hands; he and I have been out all day. Marion you have no idea at all of the places where we have been!
You are very fair. Have you a lover?" The word brought the girl to earth. "I had a lover, but this night I dismissed him. He fights in your company, and I see no need for this war." Jeanne's voice was puzzled. "Can a man fight in a holier cause than to free his country?" "The country..." But Catherine faltered. Her argument with Guy now seemed only pettishness.
For me, her pettishness is one of her charms, I confess it. Ten years younger, I could not have compared them." "Whom?" "Laetitia and Clara."
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