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Updated: May 27, 2025
I suppose there are some frills I'm not onto, but I'm quick at catchin' on, and I'll get there, Eli!" Norah returned then, and the subject was not continued. Coffee was served in the library and the small cups excited Azalea's scorn. "Skimpy, I call it!" she cried. "And where's the milk?" "You may have cream if you wish it, Azalea," said Patty, a little tired of smiling. "Norah will bring some."
I think it is awfully mean to do a fault and wait till somebody comes and asks you about it; it is skimpy of telling the truth. And if you do bad things your fathers don't always claps you in their arms and say they'd rather you'd do a hundred bad things than tell a lie; sometimes they punish you, all the same, and you don't always get out of it that way.
The whole thing struck Francie herself as infinitely less lurid than Mme. de Brecourt's account of it, and the part about her own situation and her beautiful picture seemed to make even less of the subject than it easily might have done. It was scanty, it was "skimpy," and if Mr. Waterlow was offended it wouldn't be because they had published too much about him.
"I will give it to Louisa," cried Miss Quincey with a touch of passion. "Tchee tchee!" At that idea the Old Lady chuckled in supreme derision. "Capers and nonsense! Louisa indeed! Much good it'll do Louisa when you've been and nipped all the shape out of it to suit yourself. However you came to be so skimpy and flat-chested is a mystery to me.
I'm about the only homesteader in this valley that ain't got one right now. Some has sever'l." "I can make the coffee, I'm sure," she said, still endeavoring to be of use. But she was skimpy in her measurement, and he reproached her. "That won't make it strong enough. Don't you like it right strong?" "Well, Annie and I," said she honestly, "couldn't afford to make it very strong.
I could hear the roosters in the barnyard, the turkey gobbler, and the old ganders screamed once in a while, and sometimes a bird sang a skimpy little fall song; nothing like spring, except the killdeers and larks; they were always good to hear and then the dinner bell rang.
Of course Ben had bought a box, that being the only place, he says, that a gentleman can set, owing to the skimpy notions of theatre-seat builders. And we was all prepared for a merry evening at this entertainment which the wise New Yorker would be sure to know was a good one. But that curtain hadn't been up three minutes before I get my next shock of disbelief about this well-known club man.
He had struck no roots; and it would mean as little to his half-dozen acquaintances on Ballarat when he silently vanished from their midst, as it would to him if he never saw one of them again. Or the country either and he let his eye roam unlovingly over the wild, sad-coloured landscape, with its skimpy, sad-coloured trees.
Webster had once had a baby of her own; it had died. She felt, she knew, all that Mrs. Mitchell was feeling now. The bits of black on which the mother was at work were poor and skimpy, but they betokened a real sorrow. And though Mrs.
It was decidedly on the short side and as "skimpy" as the notable wincey Anne had worn upon the occasion of her debut at Green Gables; but at least it would not be materially injured by down and feathers.
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