Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 16, 2025
But one of them slipped back long enough to get behind the foolish green fly and blow him right up to Grandfather Frog's big lily pad. "Chug-a-rum," said Grandfather Frog, smacking his lips. Old Mother West Wind came down from the Purple Hills in the shadowy coolness of the early morning, before even jolly, round, red Mr.
No concealment now, we're up to a thing or two, and parsons, and capitalists, and squires will have to look sharp." This oration, smacking of 'The Three Pigeons, was delivered so loud as to bring the mother on the scene. "O, Harry, Harry, you aren't never speaking like that to Mr. Bowater!" "When folks jaw me about what's nothing to them I always give them as good as they bring.
After this they got tired even of these practical jokes, and the brother-in-law, angry at having to support him always, struck him, cuffed him incessantly, laughing at his futile efforts to ward off or return the blows. Then came a new pleasure the pleasure of smacking his face.
On the other hand, the very term "civilization" sets emotions vibrating of deference and awe towards the institution it signifies. Indeed, pride in being civilized is still so nearly universal especially among Americans that many persons upon hearing the point mooted whether civilization be a disease or not, are disposed to resent the bare suggestion as smacking of whimsicality.
Hanging from the whitened ceiling were clusters of nuts, twisted hemp, strings of yellow maize, and chaplets of golden pippins tied with straw, all harmonizing in the dim light, and adding increased fulness to the picture of thrift and abundance. "It's jolly here!" said the driver, smacking his lips, "and the smell which comes from that oven makes one hungry. I wish Mamselle Reine would arrive!"
The Irish accent; the harsh avowal of purposes smacking of rebellion; the eccentricities and flowery luxuriance of an eloquence nursed in the fervid atmosphere of Ireland suddenly transplanted to the cold and commonplace one of St.
Because it does the old lady credit," Van Degen called out, smacking his lips; while the artist, dashing a nervous hand through his hair, muttered: "Hang it, Peter is NOTHING sacred to you?" It pleased Undine to feel herself capable of inspiring such emotions.
No clever transcripts of the dialogue of the day occurred; no hair-breadth 'scapes, perils by sea and land, heroisms of the hero, fine shrieks of the heroine; no set scenes of catching pathos and humour; no distinguishable points of social satire equivalent to a smacking of the public on the chaps, which excites it to grin with keen discernment of the author's intention.
His fulminations on the subject of dancing affected her not at all, and a few days after he had rebuked her with all the energy at his command he discovered her dancing on a table this time for the delectation of an enraptured butler and staff in the servants' hall. Without more ado Hugh lifted her down and carried her to his study, where he administered a sound smacking.
"Oh, no, you greedy little thing," she cried, for it was a quarter of an hour before he should have been fed again, but a wave of love passed through her and she took him to her. They were fused, they were utterly content with one another. He finished, smacking his lips like an old epicure. "Oh, my darling love!" she cried, and put him back into the cot and ran downstairs.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking