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Updated: May 13, 2025
If they had not mentioned the fish, fowls, and jellies, the prisoners might not have taken much notice of it, but the facts being as follows, it must be confessed that they had some grounds for making uncomplimentary remarks.
"Very well, meet me on the terrace tomorrow morning; the peacocks will make the meeting natural enough. I usually loiter away an hour or two there, in the sunny part of the day." "But the girl?" "I'll send her away." "You speak as if it would be an easy thing to do." "It will, both easy and pleasant." "Now you are mysterious or uncomplimentary.
Flanders had attempted to debauch me, he foamed with rage, and loaded the reverend libertine with epithets which were decidedly uncomplimentary.
"That there window was locked when I went to bed," Grimes stated with slow distinctness. "And I was the last person in this house to go to my room." McIntyre started to speak when Ferguson stopped him. "Just let me handle this case," he said persuasively. "You have called in the police," and as McIntyre commenced some uncomplimentary remark, he added with sternness. "Don't interfere, sir.
I assured him that he was an "old rabbit" and that his father and his grandfather and his great-grandfather were rabbits. To tell a man that he is even remotely connected with a rabbit is decidedly uncomplimentary in China. But when it was all said I had accomplished nothing. The man looked at me in blank amazement as though I had suddenly lost my mind.
In the German colonies I have often overheard complaints about Russian tyranny and uncomplimentary remarks about the Russian national character. The Mennonites consider themselves specially aggrieved by the so-called reforms.
No my ticket tung sung lung, ya hip kee ping!" he cries; and all this time the assistants are industriously ironing and spouting mist, and leisurely making remarks in their sing-song unintelligibility which you feel have uncomplimentary reference to yourself. Suddenly a light breaks upon you. This is not Hip Tee's cellar, this is not Hip Tee. It is the establishment of Hi Sing.
The absurdities of the style were patent, and did not escape uncomplimentary notice from the writers of the day, for both Cervantes and Lope de Vega, in spite of their own excursions into this kind, pilloried the fashion in their more serious and enduring works. In France the interest of pastoralism, from our present point of view, is summed up in the work of one man Clément Marot.
People said: Trust the fellow to spy out a rich man's only daughter. People said: The Hampdens have made a dead set on Campbell, always asking him to luncheon, etc. People said: He is fooling her. In fact people gave expression to every uncomplimentary sentiment which the circumstances could possibly suggest, and it was only then that I turned my attention to the matter at all.
She had heard a great many uncomplimentary words applied to husbands, most of which she had been unable to comprehend; and she speculated blankly on them in her mother's connection.
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