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Sit down and let me take your hand, dear. She wondered at his quiet tone and gentle manner. They almost frightened her, for she remembered taking care of impatient, short-tempered people who had suddenly softened like this just at the end. But there was no reason in the world why he should die now, and she dismissed the thought as she took the hand he put out and held it.
You see, it's the shape of the bay. It seems to attract the rain from all over the Pacific." "Damn the shape of the bay," said the doctor. He scratched his mosquito bites. He felt very short-tempered. When the rain stopped and the sun shone, it was like a hothouse, seething, humid, sultry, breathless, and you had a strange feeling that everything was growing with a savage violence.
And, to my pleasant surprise, I found the landlord was none other than M. Miret, the short-tempered and kind-hearted bookseller, who had so kindly found me a seat that eventful night in the park.
Few persons at Grandcourt gave the captain of Railsford's house credit for being as honest as he was short-tempered, and as jealous for the honour of his house as he was short-sighted as to the best means of securing it. And yet Ainger was all this; and when he went to bed that night Railsford himself did not look forward more anxiously to the opening term than did his first lieutenant.
With her back arched and her tail almost as big as Tommy Fox's brush, Miss Kitty Cat turned and faced her pursuer. "HURRAH!" old dog Spot barked. At least, what he said sounded a good deal like that. He had cornered Miss Kitty Cat in the barn. And there was nothing he liked more than teasing anybody that was short-tempered as she was. "Tchah!" Miss Kitty hissed.
To take offense at slight provocation was ridiculed as "short-tempered." The popular adage said: "To bear what you think you cannot bear is really to bear." The great Iyéyasu left to posterity a few maxims, among which are the following: "The life of man is like going a long distance with a heavy load upon the shoulders. Haste not.
Once, indeed, he had thought it would be fun to help with the honey-making. So he stopped one of the workers when she was on her way home with a load of nectar. "Let me help you carry that home!" Buster said. Now, the workers were all a shrewish lot. They were terribly short-tempered especially if anybody interfered with their work, which they loved better than anything else in the world.
Swear at a child, throw your boots at it, send it flying from the room with a cuff or a kick; and the experience will be as instructive to the child as a difficulty with a short-tempered dog or a bull. Francis Place tells us that his father always struck his children when he found one within his reach.
In five minutes he was giving a rapturous description of tropical scenes, laughing joyously as he addressed now one now the other of his companions. 'I hear you have a mind to see those countries, Mr. Peak, he said at length. 'If you care for a travelling companion rather short-tempered, but you'll pardon that pray give me the preference.
The short-tempered outside dog gets wild at the other dog for losing his temper, and says: "'What are you making such a fuss about? What's the matter with you, anyway? Hey? "And the inside dog says: "'Who do you think you're talking to? You ! I'll etc., etc., etc. "Then the outside dog says: "'Why, you're worse than a flaming old slut!
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