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He has no wish to be, like Othello, the possessor of a gone occupation; and by way of marking this distaste, he is apt on occasion to be uppish with the chance foreigner. By force of circumstances, Haigh and I were in the way of finding ourselves in no slight difficulties.
"What is the consequence?" demanded the farmer, relaxing his gaze. "She looks in the glass and sees herself, and then she gets miserable and uppish because there ain't nobody in these parts good enough for her to marry." "It's a extraordinary thing to me where she gets them good looks from," said the miller, deliberately. "Ah!" said Mr.
And Billy Louise, after a perceptible hesitation, obeyed him without looking at him or speaking a word. If Ward resented her manner, which was unreasonably uppish, he could not have chosen a more effective revenge. He talked with Mrs. MacDonald all through supper and paid no attention to Billy Louise. After supper he spied a fairly fresh Boise paper, and underneath that lay the Butte Miner.
Some o' these hyar native trash go'n walk off wid you, bag an' baggage, if you don' watch out, man." "Why do you suppose Mr. Peth wanted to move out of here?" "Oh, he's just kind o' techy." "How do you mean?" "Kind o' uppish. He don' git along wid nobody, nohow, Mr. Peth don't." "He's been with Captain Jarrow a long time, hasn't he?"
"Them attics have become rather too uppish for my taste," she said to Dove when she got downstairs. "I took them a letter just now, and, my word! they had not eyes nor ears for me, though I toiled up all the weary stairs, which my shortness of breath don't agree to. It wasn't even 'Thank you very much, Mrs. Dove, but all three of them, their eyes was fixed on the letter as if they'd eat it.
Like you, me an' Mac is inclined to be uppish at times, particularly in the hour of triumph, an' say an' do things we're apt to be ashamed of later." "Them's my sentiments," McGuffey chimed in. "We ain't comin' aboard to beg you for no job," Mr. Gibney warned. "Git that idea out o' your head if you got it there.
'I never loved a dear gazelle, But what it turned and stung me well." "Dry up, Bicky," came the president's rebuke, "and go and turn away those kids who are making a row with their feet in the corridor. Remain on guard out there, if you don't mind. It's behaviour like Doe's that makes these kids so uppish. Thanks, Bicky."
Upon that the disillusioned suitor would fly out upon the new order of things brought about by the inquiry into illicit fees, and curse both the tchinovniks and their uppish, insolent behaviour. "Once upon a time," would the suitor lament, "one DID know what to do. Once one had tipped the Director a bank-note, one's affair was, so to speak, in the hat.
Witherspoon replied, with stress in the movement of her head and with prejudice in the compression of her lips. "They are too too uppish, I may say." "But Miss Drury makes no literary pretensions," Henry rejoined. "I should think not," Ellen spoke up. "I didn't take her to be literary, she was so neatly dressed."
Her ankles seemed to be falling over the tops of her boots, and as she only walked from the carriage to the lunch table, I don't think her skirt need have been so short; do you, Mamma? But although she was got up like an old gipsy you could not help seeing through it all that she really is well-bred; I don't think even Agnès would dare to be uppish with her.
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