Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 13, 2025
"Jerry!" expostulated Irma in horror. "You mustn't say such awful things." "I didn't say I hoped she'd get drowned," flung back Jerry. "I'd just like to see her get a good ducking." It was impossible not to laugh at Jerry, who, encouraged by their laughter, made various other uncomplimentary remarks about the offending junior.
Seeing it was generally uncomplimentary, most people preferred so to regard it; but my mother had never succeeded in schooling herself to indifference. "It's not a poky hole," she replied; "it's an old-fashioned house, near the river." "Plaistow marshes!" ejaculated my aunt, "calls it the river!" "So it is the river," returned my mother; "the river is the other side of the marshes."
Yet the people were far from pleased, for he had already shown a disposition to treat them harshly and they feared that a tyrant had succeeded to the throne. By his stern rule he gained several uncomplimentary titles, the English calling him Harold the Haughty, the Germans Harold the Inflexible, and the Northmen Harold the Hardruler.
What then? 'Then? Oh! I'd try to bear it, said unworldly and uncomplimentary Mysie. 'And you need not be lonely now. There's Val! The two governesses had made friends, and the embargo on intercourse with Valetta had been allowed to drop; but Fly only shook her head, and allowed that Val was better than nothing.
He did it with the vagueness of one in a dream, she thought, and she neither understood nor relished his uncomplimentary abstraction; so she straightway determined to give him some troublesome moments. "I have waited to drink my coffee with you," she said, motioning him to a seat; "and you may smoke a cigarette, if you wish." Her eyes wandered over his costume with critical satisfaction.
Others accept him as a witness entirely trustworthy, and adopt as a true description of Cardan the paragraphs made up of uncomplimentary adjectives applied by Cardan to himself which Naudé has transferred from the De Vita Propria and the Geniturarum Exempla to his Judicium de Cardano.
He stormed up and down the office, calling his cousin every uncomplimentary name that occurred to him, vowing the whole story to be a lie, and that the land should be his anyway; threatening suit and personal vengeance. His last words, as he strode to the door, were: "And and you're the fellow, the poor relation, that I gave my business to just from kindness! All right!
Roman discipline, however severe as to the acts of the legionary, put very few restrictions upon his speech; and the general, as he watched from the rampart the lines and movements of the enemy, heard many comments no less uncomplimentary than those of his master-of-the-horse, and couched in language almost as coarse as that of the Numidians themselves.
Jimmie followed to see that he did not loiter around the house listening, and came back with a mischievous grin on his face. Long before the appearance of the Chinaman the boys had planned to use such uncomplimentary language in his presence as would be likely to excite his anger, if he understood what was being said.
When he had disappeared into the first eleven room, they turned their attention in other directions. Caustic and uncomplimentary remarks began to fly to and fro between the representatives of Kay's and Blackburn's. It is not known who actually administered the first blow. But, when Fenn came out of the pavilion with Kennedy and Silver, he found a stirring battle in progress.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking