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I'll be here by then, young gentlemen, and show you about a bit." "It's roughish quarters for you," added the bargemaster, looking round; "but you'll find rougher quarters at sea, Master Charles." Mr. Howe's moralizings nettled me, and they did no good, for my whole thoughts were now bent on evading his guardianship and getting to sea, but poor Fred was quite overpowered.
Uncle John had the paper at breakfast on Monday, and he gave an amused laugh as his eye caught the report of the Sizer party. "This is a good one on you, Louise," he exclaimed. "You say that Miss Molly, 'looking more lovely than ever in her handsome new gown, greeted her guests with a roughish smile." "A what?" demanded Louise, horrified. "A 'roughish' smile."
"Just to get a breath of your moorland air." "Well, you'll have a roughish walk over there tonight, gentlemen," said the landlord. "There's going to be a storm. And it's a stiffish way to make out at this time o'night." "Oh, we'll manage," said Breton, nonchalantly. "I know the way, and we're not afraid of a wet skin."
But I was positive you did not make those tears in your first letter with your hair-brush." He laughed like a happy school-boy, while she protested with a roughish expression that made her look like a very young girl. "It need not prevent our immediate marriage," he said. "What do you say to the last of this month?" "I could get ready.
He, too, was a strong character, though lacking apparently in some of General von Schweinitz's more kindly qualities. He was big, roughish, and at times so brusque that he might almost be called brutal. When bullying was needed it was generally understood that he could do it con amore. A story was told of him which, whether exact or not, seemed to fit his character well.
"I was a boy at Eton, Sir," he said, "when my father's losses ruined him. I had to leave school, and get my own living; and I have got it, in a roughish way, from that time to this. In plain English, I have followed the sea in the merchant-service."
By boiling, even for a little time, their fine flavour is destroyed. A wine is also made of the flowers, which is given as an opiate. PRUNELLA vulgaris. SELFHEAL. The Leaves. It has an herbaceous roughish taste, and hence stands recommended in haemorrhages and alvine fluxes.
"I brought you out on a roughish day, Nat," he continued, "so as to give you a good lesson. Look here, Nat, if an unskilful rider mounted a spirited horse he would most likely be thrown; and if a person who does not know how to manage a sailing-boat goes out in one on a windy day, the chances are that the boat is capsized, fills, and goes to the bottom.
He could not help drawing his own hands out of his pocket and looking at them at the hard palms and the broken finger-nails. "I'm a roughish fellow, altogether; I don't know, now I come to think on't, what there is much for a woman to like about me; and yet I might ha' got another wife easy enough, if I hadn't set my heart on her.
When he had seated her comfortably, she gave him a roughish glance, and remarked, playfully: "I suppose it is polite for people to return calls, isn't it, Mr. Richardson?" He laughed out heartily, and thought her the most bewitching little piece of humanity he had ever seen.
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