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He would have been angry with her, for he did not like to be quizzed, had she not put her hand on his arm as she spoke, and the softness of her touch had redeemed the offence of her words. 'All that have I done, said he, 'that I may hear one word from you. 'That any word of mine should have such potency! But, let us walk on, or my father will take us for some of the standing stones of the moor.
And when little Katy could not tell whether Albert held "shcripcherral" views or not, and was thoroughly tired of being quizzed as to whether she "really thought Albert had a personal interest in religion," she made an excuse to run away into the chamber of Mrs. Morrow, Mrs. Ferret's mother, who was an invalid Mrs. Ferret said "invaleed," for the sake of emphasis.
"I am sure," said Lady Jane, for the first time breaking silence, "that mamma is infinitely flattered by the proposal that Mr. Lorrequer's company is to be conferred upon her for his sins." "I am not to be affronted, nor quizzed out of my chaperon; here, Mr.
His laughing eyes terribly blue they looked in the mahogany setting of his lean face quizzed the chief, and his clean-shaven lips twitched ever so slightly. Chief Idigi looked at him curiously. Idigi was squat and fat, but wise. None the less he gossiped, for, as they say on the river, "Even the wise oochiri is a chatterer."
To think that you could not understand that you were being quizzed. I gave you a cut from within me. Surely I must know my own satire." "Ink-pitcher!" cried the pen. "Writing-stick!" retorted the inkstand. And each of them felt satisfied that he had given a good answer.
I'm sick to death of doing all the things I've done." With little metallic snips of sound she concentrated herself and her scissors suddenly upon the mahogany-colored picture of a pianola. "Well, what do you want?" quizzed Barton. In a sullen, turgid sort of defiance the girl lifted her somber eyes to his. "I want to stay home like other people and have a house," she wailed.
Isabelle began at once the neurasthenic's involved and particularized tale of woe, breaking at the end with almost a sob: "I am so useless! I am never going to be well, what is the matter with me?" "So it's a bad world this morning, eh?" the doctor quizzed in an indulgent voice. "We'll try to make it better, shake up the combination."
"It's not such bad stuff as all that, sir," said I, glad of a chance of saying something, for I had been hurt to the quick by talk that reminded me of how I had quizzed Jack's classics in Old Comfit's entry. "To come back to the Colonel's advice," said Charles. "I've split 'em up and now I'm going to smash 'em in detail. We're not going back, sirs, if I can help it.
He was quizzed and bespattered and made a fool of, just as though, or rather worse than if, he had been a constant enemy instead of a constant friend. He had hitherto not learnt that a man who aspires to be on the staff of "The Jupiter" must surrender all individuality. But ultimately this little castigation had broken no bones between him and his friend Mr. Towers. Mr.
Any guy with a head on his shoulders knows the valet of a murdered man is going to be quizzed by the police." "Good! Come on." Carroll put a firm hand on the knob and turned it. Then he stepped into the dingy reception hall, followed by the city's chief of police. At the sound of visitors, the angular frame of the boarding-house-keeper appeared in the doorway, her eyes flashing antagonistically.
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