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"Confound you!" he said for the third time. "You're just like your mother. Pig-headed as a mule, but " "Are mules pig-headed?" said Dick flippantly. The squire shook him. "Be quiet, you prig! I won't be dictated to by you. Look here, Dick!" His voice changed abruptly. "I'm not ordering. I'm asking. That boy is a mill-stone round your neck. Let him go! He'll be happy enough. I'll see to that.
At all times she liked good-looking and agreeable gentlemen, and lately she had been suffering from a dearth of them. She had been suffering also from her brother's pig-headed refusal to reconsider his decision not to buy a car; and finally from the lack of some one to sympathise with her in this matter. In the opulent-looking and sportingly attired Mr.
It failed because the judge turns out to be a pig-headed and obstinate man, who doesn't know what's good for him. I told him distinctly that if he came to Doyle's hotel he'd get typhoid fever and die. O'Donoghue backed me up. But we didn't produce the slightest effect on the judge.
On Thursday, I paid another visit to the sculpture-gallery of the Capitol, where I was particularly struck with a bust of Cato the Censor, who must have been the most disagreeable, stubborn, ugly-tempered, pig-headed, narrow-minded, strong-willed old Roman that ever lived.
'Four greys, and no white. 'Three, Nikolai Eremyitch. 'Three and a half, and not a farthing less. 'Three, Nikolai Eremyitch. 'You're not talking sense, Gavrila Antonitch. 'My, what a pig-headed fellow! muttered the merchant. 'Then I'd better arrange it with the lady herself. 'That's as you like, answered the fat man; 'far better, I should say.
Legs first was the wrong way, but the youth feared the unknown fate of Tommy, and being pig-headed, would go that way or not at all.
"We've done our best to warn him," Helen reminded her friend. "The man is simply pig-headed." "I can't help feeling that he's right," Philippa declared, "when he argues that they couldn't really prove anything against him." "Does that matter," Helen asked anxiously, "so long as he is an enemy, living under a false name here?" "You don't think they'd they'd " "Shoot him?"
"Ibrahim tells me that there are no people more pig-headed than these Arabs, and if they once make up their mind to a thing nothing will turn them. That is all the better, as far as the risk of Edgar falling into the hands of the Mahdi is concerned, only it makes it all the more difficult to find him.
He had heard peasant proprietors described as a pig-headed lot; had heard young Mont call his father a pigheaded Morning Poster disrespectful young devil. Well, there were worse things than being pig-headed or reading the Morning Post. There was Profond and his tribe, and all these Labour chaps, and loud-mouthed politicians and 'wild, wild women'! A lot of worse things!
Lizzie, in defending herself to herself, felt that, though cruel magistrates and hard-hearted lawyers and pig-headed jurymen might call her little fault by the name of perjury, it could not be real, wicked perjury, because the diamonds had been her own. She had defrauded nobody, had wished to defraud nobody, if only the people would have left her alone.
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