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He had spent the whole morning at the Vatican, and the manner of his reception there had been so curiously divided between flattery and reproach that he had not known what to make of it. The Pope had been tetchy and querulous, precisely in such a humour as one naturally expects so aged a man to be when contradicted on any matter, whether trivial or important.
But still the Arno is a mountain stream, and liable to be tetchy and turbulent like all its kindred, and no doubt it often finds its borders of hewn stone not too far apart for its convenience.
Tetchy and quarrelsome, staccato in action, the warriors of a colony bury their forceps in the skin and stand upon their heads to give all their weight to the attack; but each individual retains its grip until squashed and crumpled up, and the human being who has suffered the assault comments on it in language corresponding with the sensitiveness or otherwise of his skin.
"Them red-haired chaps is like to be tetchy and to kinder see blood through their eyelashes," had been suggested by an observing customer. In short, little as we knew of the youngest Miss Piper, he was the last man we should have suspected her to select as an admirer. What we did know of their public relations, purely commercial ones, implied the reverse of any cordial understanding.
But still the Arno is a mountain stream, and liable to be tetchy and turbulent like all its kindred, and no doubt it often finds its borders of hewn stone not too far apart for its convenience.
I was in truth in the very article of peril; I was blown; my breath was near gone, when at the critical moment up comes a gallant youth subvenisti homini jam perdito and with dexterous hand stays the enemy in his course." "But what was it all about? Do you know the man?" "Ods my life! 'twas a complete stranger, a man, I should guess, of hasty passions and tetchy temper.
A European may shoot over any country he pleases, with the exception of the Shah's private preserves around Teherán. His Imperial Majesty is very tetchy on this point. We galloped nearly the whole of the short stage from Géz to Ispahán. A couple of miles out of the city we overtook a donkey ridden by two peasants, heavy men, who challenged us to a trial of speed.
Personally, I believe, Henderson was as moderate and tolerant a man as any British ecclesiastic of his time. In no Church where he bore rule could there, by possibility, have been any approach to the tetchy repressiveness, or the callous indifference to suffering for the sake of conscience, that characterized the English Church-rule of Laud.
She says folks in the settlemints is awful tetchy 'bout killin' folks." "We'll pass the feud. Tell me how you happened to come here?" "A circuit rider come through our parts one day, 'n' tol' us 'bout yo' school. That war in the winter. Ruth war so set on me ter come, 'n' me the same, I couldn't sleep.
These are thy tears, Anselmo? Thou a priest, yet a man? Still with me? Yet thou wilt have to bear with wayward moods, scorn now, quiet then. I am a tetchy man; I am an old man, too, though but just past thirty. So! I thank God for thee, dear friend! Anselmo, look out on this scene below us here, as we sit on our lofty battlement.
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