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'Now, "Obin and Ichard," my darling, continued she, addressing herself coaxingly to Gustavus James. 'No, not "Obin and Ichard," replied the child peevishly. 'Yes, my darling, do, that's a treasure. 'Oh dear. Jog, you and your tea! you're always wanting tea, replied Mrs. Jogglebury snappishly. 'Well, but it'll not take you long to get there, replied Mrs. Jogglebury; 'will it, Mr.
One question still is unresolved, Why do frogs stay and be tickled? They snap snappishly at the titillating straw; they snatch at it with their weird little hands; they parry it skilfully. They hardly can enjoy being tickled, and yet they endure, paying a dear price for the society of their betters. Frogs the frisky, frogs the spotted, were our comedy that day.
The soldier had been well taught, and knew all his "responses" by rote, far better than Buxton, for that matter, as the latter was anything but an exemplar of perfection in tactics or sentry duty; but this did not prevent Buxton's snappishly telling him he was wrong in several points and contemptuously inquiring where he had learned such trash.
"Well," said Walter, somewhat snappishly, "they are gone now, and what have we to do to heed such toys, we with all this grief and strife on our hands? Now would I be alone to turn the matter of thine errand over in my mind.
Purton has had twins dear little fellows they are, fat as butter! she has named one of them Polson, after you. The greedy one." "Any deaths?" inquired the captain snappishly, as he eyed the innocent lady suspiciously. "Poor old Jasper Wheeler has gone," said his sister; "he was very resigned.
When she got back to the kitchen again Miss Hender had emptied the tub she had been washing at, and was preparing to dry her wrinkled, water-soaked fingers. "I've finished the white clothes, so now I'll see about giving you children something to eat, before I take the coloured things out of the copper," she said, speaking less snappishly than before.
"No, she thinks it 's awful. When she gets pale and dragged out she will probably change her mind." "I doubt it," said Tom. "Polly says it is n't proper to talk secrets before people who ain't in 'em," observed Maud, with dignity. "Do, for mercy sake, stop talking about Polly, I 'm sick to death of it," cried Fanny, snappishly. "Hullo!" and Tom sat up to take a survey.
If Susan's brother should happen to take up her book, she would immediately scream out in a sharp tone, "let my book alone." If her brother should attempt to reply, she would snappishly retort, "I don't care, you shall not meddle with it."
"Woman," repeated the mate, snappishly; "you've heard of a woman afore, haven't you? Well, there's a certain young woman I'm walking out with I " "Walking out?" gasped the skipper. "Why, I never 'eard o' such a thing." "You would ha' done if you'd been better looking, p'raps," retorted the other. "Well, I've offered this young woman to come for a trip with us."
Boyce can allow her to mix herself with such things as this murder to live in that cottage, as I hear she has been doing, passes my comprehension." "You mean," said Lady Winterbourne, dreamily, "that if one had been very fond of one's maid, and she died, one wouldn't put on mourning for her. Marcella would." "I dare say," said Miss Raeburn, snappishly.
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