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Updated: June 25, 2025
At seven o'clock I left the orchard and went towards the inn; I had broken my word, but I felt happy.... I should see her and, sir, nothing nothing seemed to matter beside that. Tor was in the garden snipping at his roses. He came up, and I could see that he couldn't look me in the face. 'Where's my wife? I said. He answered, 'Let's get Lucy. I ran indoors.
"Well, I notice that a man with a club is almost sure to find some use for it. If he isn't pounding the fence or throwing it at a dog, he's snipping daisies or knocking the heads off bull-thistles. He's always doing something with it just because he has it in his hand. It's the same way with a cow. If she has horns, she'll use them in some way, and they take her mind off her business.
"I did n't tell you that nephew of Old Flynn's had come back, did I?" he said, at length. "No," answered Dolly, snipping diligently. "You never mentioned him. What nephew, and where did he come from?" "A fellow of the name of Gowan, who has been travelling in the East for no particular reason for the last ten years.
Without a pause she turned to Durham and had the ugly wound on his scalp laid bare. Snipping the hair away from it, she lightly touched the bruised skin surrounding the jagged cut. "I'm afraid the skull is fractured I hope the doctor will soon be here," she whispered, as she busied herself with the cotton-wool and red-labelled bottle.
"No, precious," answered Mother, snipping around the edges of the court-plaster with the fascinating sharp shears Sunny Boy was forbidden to touch. "A drum, you know, isn't like a person's skin. It can't grow. But I think that if you remember to be careful the drum will last a long time. There you are. My goodness! it makes as much noise as ever, doesn't it?" and Mrs.
Doctor Gillespie is a Kirkman and a Moderate, but he is well, he is the Doctor, and never a word has been said against him for forty year, walk and conversation both as becometh the Gospel " "Aye, but is it the Gospel?" cried Jen, snipping out her words as with scissors; "that's the question."
Peggy would have followed, but, on her approach, the other walked quickly forward and began stooping over the flower-beds, and snipping off the withered blossoms. For some reason it was evident that she did not wish to be followed, and Peggy felt an uneasy pang at the sight of her flushed, exhausted face.
"Yes," Aunt Victoria answered decidedly. Beth stopped snipping, and looked at her as if she were looking right through her, and out into the world beyond. Then she pursed up her mouth and shook her head. "That won't hold water," she said. "If a man must live like the Lord to be a gentleman, what is Uncle James?
Thereupon he fell to work at once, snipping, shaping and sewing till he had finished twenty shirts by supper time, without stopping to taste food. The house master asked him, "How much the wage for this?"; and he answered, "Twenty dirhams."
As he stands at his door in Cook's Court in his grey shop-coat and black calico sleeves, looking up at the clouds, or stands behind a desk in his dark shop with a heavy flat ruler, snipping and slicing at sheepskin in company with his two 'prentices, he is emphatically a retiring and unassuming man.
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