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He blew out his shining cheeks till his eyes disappeared; he looked like a swollen tree-bole with a mossy growth dependent; then he deflated them with a bang, and shouted with laughter a single expression of delight, sharply reverberant and suddenly stopped. "Poh! what a rattle you'll think me," he said. "Come and remember that you are a deaf-mute."
Didn't I hear you?" "No," said Ellis, in a heat, "you didn't! and I'd thank you not to say so neither." "Well, now," said Tip, "I'll leave it to any boy here if you didn't. When a fellow takes a thing in the Bible and twists it around, and makes believe it means some little silly thing that it don't mean at all, I call that making fun." "Poh!" said Howard, coming to the rescue of his friend.
"Poh! her feelings can't be worth much," remarked Horace; "a woman that'll go and rig herself up in that style." "She must be near-sighted," said Aunt Madge. "She certainly can't have the faintest idea how thick that paint is. She ought to let somebody else put it on." "But, auntie, isn't it wicked to wear paint on your cheeks?" "No, Dotty, only foolish.
"O, nothing, Tom, but asserting my rights! I was only saluting the bride." "Against my will, Tommy," said the poor bride, blushing like a peony, and wiping the offended cheek with her checked apron. "And I'll make you pay dear for it, if there's law in the land," said Tom. "Poh, poh! don't make a fool of yourself," said Scatterly. "I don't mean to," answered the gardener, dryly.
"Poh, poh, Joyce; this is much too sentimental for your Mohawks, and Oneidas, and Onondagas, and Tuscaroras. They will care no more for little Woods than they care for the great woods through which they journey on their infernal errands." "One cannot know, Hugh" observed the anxious mother "Our dear Robert is in their hands; and, should Mr.
So she turned wearily back to the cabin and tenderly covered that which she was leaving with a quilt from her own bed, whispering: "Gawd, nor nobody, don't seem ter heah me tonight ye poh, ole Pappy!" The only cabin where she might hope for help was three miles away; the home of a partial friend at least no enemy.
There was a review of troops, and Knox went to see it; but it was over before he reached the place, where he was presently told of a characteristic reply just made by Wolfe to some officers who had apologized for not having taught their men the new exercise. "Poh, poh! new exercise new fiddlestick. If they are otherwise well disciplined, and will fight, that's all I shall require of them."
I'm sure, I am sorry I can speak Italian, since it has led to this mistake." "Poh poh Griffin, you mustn't lay everything to heart that comes wrong end foremost. Dine with me to-day, and we'll talk the matter over at leisure." "Now in the fervid noon the smooth bright sea Heaves slowly, for the wandering winds are dead That stirred it into foam.
From the light Poh! which we toss off from our lips as we fling a nameless scribbler's impertinence into our waste-baskets, to the gravest utterances which comes from our throats in our moments of deepest need, is only a space of some three or four inches. Words, which are a set of clickings, hissings, lispings, and so on, mean very little, compared to tones and expression of the features.
"Jenny," said her young mistress hastily, "it is impossible these men's report can be true; my uncle has heard nothing of it at this instant." "Poh, you silly girl," said Edith, assuming some courage, "it is all a trick of that fellow to teaze you." This last commentary Jenny added to her tale, in resentment of her mistress's extreme and obstinate incredulity.
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