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"Shameless, cold-hearted, stuck-up, nasty thing!" said 'Manda Grier, varying her denunciation in the repetition, and apparently getting fresh satisfaction out of it in that way. "Don't? St'ira Dudley, if you was a woman if you was half a woman you'd never speak to that little corpse-on-ice again." "O 'Manda, don't call him names-! I can't bear to have you!" "Names?
Eight out in the street you go! The nerve! The dirty, lousy, low-down crook! A Bootleg gettin' stuck-up over money! The world is crazy, that's all there is to it! Crazy, I tell you! All turned upside-down! Listen. It's fifteen years I know this Bill. Them good old days, most every afternoon On the way home from the lumber yards I'd drop in And get a beer, and gas around a while.
"Except among the stuck-up cads, your place is to be welcome to all the privileges of any well-behaved student, and I'll see to it that you get them, too." "Hi, Jordan; on the domestic list?" broke in Banbury just then. He had regained the baseball and with his companion stood staring at Frank and Ned. "Hum! I should say so," sniggered Durkin with a chuckle. "Pah!
It was pink, I remember, which was supposed to be the rosy color of success in our school; and I says: 'Pa! There's my report! And Pa, I says, as bold and stuck-up as a brass weathercock on a new church, 'Pa! Teacher says that one of your boys has got to go to college! And I was grinning all the while, I remember, worse than any Chessy cat.
"I didn't like you the first time we met." "And I didn't like you," said Aleck, laughing. "I thought you were stuck-up and consequential. I say, I wish Tom Bodger were here!" "What, that wooden-legged rase sailor?" "Yes." "What good could he do a cripple like that?" "Cripple! Oh, I never thought of him as a cripple. He's as clever as clever. There isn't anything he won't try to do.
I've often tried, but I haven't yet found out what makes the morning so different." "Come!" thought the clergyman; "here's something I haven't met with too much of!" Richard remarked to himself that, whoever the gentleman was, he was certainly not stuck-up. They might have parted late the night before, instead of meeting now for the first time! "Are you a married man?" asked Wingfold.
Elisha Wright said she understood that Redmond girls, especially those who belonged to Kingsport, were 'dreadful dressy and stuck-up, and she guessed I wouldn't feel much at home among them; and I saw myself, a snubbed, dowdy, humiliated country girl, shuffling through Redmond's classic halls in coppertoned boots." Anne ended with a laugh and a sigh commingled.
"Yes, she does look almost as old as that, and she acts quite as old. Reginald is a nice boy." "Yes, but he's pompous and stuck-up. He always did put on grand airs. Aunt Isabel does, too, but she's so kind-hearted and generous nobody can help liking her." "Well, have a party for her if you want to, chicken. But don't take the responsibility of it entirely on yourself.
Paul yawned loudly and shrugged his shoulders. "Funny he should have come just when we were talking about him, wasn't it?" Neil pursued. "What do you think of him?" "Well, if you ask me," Paul answered, "I think he's a conceited, stuck-up prig!" Neil's and Paul's college life began early the next morning when, sitting side by side in the dim, hushed chapel, they heard white-haired Dr.
Stuck-up old dame, I called her. But Nellie was all to the good." Jimmy suddenly developed a mad desire to get away from there. He got as far as the corner and was tempted to turn into an alleyway and do a brief but sprightly dance on his own; but decided that he would lose no time in finding the telegraph office. "Got her! Got her at last!" he jubilated mentally.
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