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There will be a number of very superior storks there with their families, and I expect you to show them that my children are the best brought up of any who may be present. You must strut about proudly it will look well and make you respected." "But may we not punish those naughty boys?" asked the young storks. "No; let them scream away as much as they like.
Paul was astonished to find a general so affable and pleasant, for he had seen some lieutenants and captains strut like turkey-cocks, because they wore straps on their shoulders. Paul saluted the General, and said, "I am ordered to report to you, sir." "O yes; you are Sergeant Parker, who made a reconnoissance last night; sit down, Sergeant, till I finish my letters."
Mann, with the latter to advise them as to elocution and stage business. But Bobby declared she had been practicing walking like a boy and had succeeded in copying Short and Long almost exactly. "Why me?" demanded Billy sharply, whose usual sweet temper seemed to have become dreadfully soured of late. "Well, why not?" demanded Bobby. "Should I copy Pretty Sweet's strut?"
For we are all at the mercy of winds and currents we cannot always see or understand, and those who strut about pretending to be in firm control, are usually in such control all the way past the maw of death, and into the belly of unmaking. 'Sylviana, he said finally. 'It may be foolish..... I would like to say a prayer first. She was surprised by the request, but in no way opposed.
When, however, I was awakened next morning by the sun shining brilliantly in at my bed-room window, my apprehensions had vanished, my enthusiasm was again at fever-heat, and I panted for the moment not to be very long deferred when I should don my uniform and strut forth to sport my glories before an admiring world.
"A word with you, Hastings," said Montagu, thoughtfully, and he drew aside his fellow courtier: "what thinkest thou of this Burgundy bastard's visit?" "That it has given a peacock's strut to the popinjay Anthony Woodville." "Would that were all!" returned Montagu.
The general stood as still on his square foot of floor as did Ranjoor Singh on his. It was the fact that he did not flinch and did not strut about, but stood in one spot with his arms behind him that confirmed Ranjoor Singh in his reading of the general's eye. "You may leave the house, then, and take your trooper. I accept your promise. Before you go, though, I'll tell you something.
So will ye cheat it, or ye will cheat it also by affecting the false virtues which it admires itself, rouge your sentiments highly, and let them strut with a buskined air; thirdly, my good young men, ye will cheat it by profuse flattery, and by calling it in especial "the mirror of chivalry." The plain, sensible, honest man, a favourable, but not elevated specimen of our race.
He was superintendent of the Sunday school. He was the storm-center of every altruistic effort in the town the greatest man there, because the most serviceable, tho he worked every day full time with his pick at his bread-and-butter job. The great people are so busy serving that they have little time to strut and pose in the show places. Few of them are "prominent clubmen."
Even hungry as I was, and as I knew all of you to be, so odd were the movements of these creatures, that I could not resist watching them a while, before I sent my unwelcome messenger into their `ballroom. Now and then an old cock would separate from the pack, and running out to some distance, would leap upon a rock that was there; then, after dropping his wings, flirting with his spread tail, erecting the ruff upon his neck, and throwing back his head, he would swell and strut upon the rock, exhibiting himself like a diminutive turkey-cock.
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