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Green bow to March, and made March look sheepish. She followed this with some account of their house-hunting, amid soft murmurs of sympathy from Mrs. Green, who said that she had been through all that, and that if she could have shown her apartment to them she felt sure that she could have explained it so that they would have seen its capabilities better, Mrs. March assented to this, and Mrs.
"I had an idea I sent you for the others some time ago, Jim." Jim looked somewhat sheepish. "Yes." He admitted, laughing. "Fact is, I I got into a kerosene tin!" He glanced at his left leg expressively. "I see," said his father, with a smile. "Well, I don't know that it matters only a note has just come out from Anderson, and his chauffeur is waiting for an answer.
You'll get over it." Her brooding eyes suddenly widened. "Or perhaps you won't," she amended with deeper perceptiveness. "Have you been trying me as an anodyne?" she demanded sternly. Banneker had the grace to blush. Instantly she rippled into laughter. "I've never seen you at a loss before. You look as sheepish as a stage-door Johnnie when his inamorata gets into the other fellow's car.
She succeeded in causing him to feel extremely small and sheepish, for after all there was a world of justice and common sense in what she had to say concerning his inspired offer to engage in an enterprise that was as far from his understanding as the North Pole is from the South. "But," he managed to insert, weakly, "it's only to help Dick out, to encourage genius, to "
If the former was too furious, this was too sheepish, for his part; inasmuch that, after a short, modest walk upon the stage, he would fall at the first touch of 'Hydaspes' without grappling with him and giving him an opportunity of showing his variety of Italian trips; it is said, indeed, that he once gave him a rip in his flesh-colored doublet; but this was only to make work for himself in his private character of a tailor.
Not from his mouth or throat, but from the deepest recesses of his tummy. Graham looked at Telly, and Telly looked at Graham. "Apparently," said Graham, "the angry growling that we heard was nothing more than the sounds of an empty stomach. So you aren't slaves of the bad Witch, or sent to kill me?" The tiger looked a little sheepish, which is not easy for a tiger to do. "Of course not," he said.
This ball did not kill as it struck one, and, instead of being thrown to the man on the base, was more usually thrown at the man running between them. He who could make a good shot of that kind was much applauded, and he who was hit was laughed at and felt very sheepish. That was true sport, plenty of fun and excitement, yet not too serious and severe.
"Upon my word, Master Frank," said she, "you seem to be losing no time with the heiress. You have quite made an impression already." "I don't know much about that, aunt," said he, looking rather sheepish. "Oh, I declare you have; but, Frank, my dear boy, you should not precipitate these sort of things too much.
Two of the boys were sitting on the edge of their beds taking tacks out of their feet while another was looking for a dry night shirt in his locker. The others looked rather sheepish and no attempt was made to rush in upon Jack who said with the least suspicion of a laugh: "Better go to bed, boys. Some one might have heard the noise and be coming up to investigate."
"Yes, these attachments to steamers are really wonderful!" observed the Traveler with a dry air that sent the captain and Hope off into a peal of merriment, while the other young people looked very sheepish. But Carnegie soon rallied. "I think they are, myself!" he allowed with frankness. "And I don't propose to let the attachment die out in my case, either," he added boldly.