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But I should have remembered me that his name of Nevile would have procured him a taunt in the place of advancement." "Saw man ever so froward a temper?" cried Edward, not without reason. "Why, Warwick, thou art as shrewish to a jest as a woman to advice. Thy kinsman's fortunes shall be my care. Thou sayest thou hast enemies, I weet not who they be.
On a Saturday afternoon you saw more boudoir caps skimming up and down the main street in Commercial than you might see in a century of French farces. As Ben Westerveld had prospered his shrewish wife had reaped her benefits. Ben was not the selfish type of farmer who insists on twentieth-century farm implements and medieval household equipment.
Marry and who is to hinder, if you please, good Master Fuller?" asked the young woman in a somewhat shrewish voice. "I, Samuel Fuller, Licentiate of Cambridge, late practitioner of Bartlemy's Hospital, London, and your medical adviser, madam," replied the doctor with a dry smile and mocking bow.
Her voice had the shrewish tone it sometimes got. "It's not very lively, always going about with you. It's always do you love me, do you love me, till I just get about sick of it." He knew it was madness to go on asking her that, but he could not help himself. "Oh, I like you all right," she would answer. "Is that all? I love you with all my heart." "I'm not that sort, I'm not one to say much."
His wig was being curled by an apprentice at the back of the shop, and his natural scalp shone as bare as a billiard-ball; but two patches of brindled grey hair stuck out from his brow above a pair of fierce greenish eyes set about with a complexity of wrinkles. Just now, a coating of lather covered his shrewish underjaw.
She was a power to reckon with in the room in which she worked, as Faith was quick to discover. Even the forewoman, who was thin-lipped and shrewish, seemed a little afraid of her. Presently she asked another question: "What was your father?" Faith flushed sensitively. "He was a gentleman," she said proudly. Peg's blue eyes opened wide and for a moment she stopped work.
But she did not get on well with the earl, whose correspondence shows she was a little shrewish, though in most quarrels she managed to come off ahead, having by that time acquired experience.
'And so, he says to Darden, 'and so my little maid that I brought for trophy out of the Appalachian Mountains is a woman grown? Faith, I'd quite forgot the child; but Saunderson tells me that you have not forgot to draw upon my Oronoko. That's all the remembrance you were held in, Audrey." She paused to take breath, and to look with shrewish triumph at the girl who leaned against the wall.
His godfather, our uncle Birkenholt, he will assuredly provide for him, and set him forth " The door of the house was opened, and a shrewish voice cried, "Mr. Birkenholt here, husband! You are wanted. Here's little Kate crying to have yonder smooth pouch to stroke, and I cannot reach it for her." "Father set store by that otter-skin pouch, for poor Prince Arthur slew the otter," cried Stephen.
She, an old maid, as inwardly shrewish as outwardly pious, utilizes the Abbe Birotteau and another clergyman, who both lodge with her, to attract the good society folk of Tours to her evening receptions. After due experience of these gatherings, the Abbe plays truant, finding it more agreeable to spend his leisure with friends elsewhere.
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