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Abbott actually shook her fist, in her impatience to be enlightened, nothing could induce the child to speak, until he had recovered his wind. "I believe he does it on purpose," said the provoked maid. "It's just like him!" cried the mistress; "the very best news-carrier in the village is actually spoilt because he is thick-winded."
I'm thick-winded, and twenty pounds over-weight and you talk calmly about my settling down to office work!" His semi-indignation, curiously enough, affected Hazel as being altogether humorous. She had a smile-compelling vision of that straight, lean-limbed, powerful body developing a protuberant waistline and a double chin. That was really funny, so far-fetched did it seem. And she laughed.
Or Wordsworth with his eternal Here we go up, and up, and up, and here we go down, down, and here we go roundabout, roundabout! Look at the nerveless laxity of his Excursion! What interminable prosing! The language is out of condition: fat and fozy, thick-winded, purfled and plethoric. Can he be compared with Pope? Fie on't! no, no, no! Pugh, pugh! Tickler. Southey Coleridge Moore? North.
Crowdey, with a yawn after another pause, and beating the devil's tattoo upon the table to keep himself awake. 'Very, replied Mr. Sponge, wondering how such a thick-winded chap as Jog managed to partake of it. 'It is, replied Mr. Sponge. Presently Jog began to snore, and as the increasing melody of his nose gave little hopes of returning animation, Mr.
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