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Updated: June 2, 2025
A violent-tempered child may be such because he is outraged by wrong; if so, teach him control but do not tell him in modern wishy-washy fashion that "one must never get angry." Control it, intellectualize it, do not permit it to destroy effectiveness, as it is prone to do; but it cannot be eliminated without endangering personality.
"What are you doing to her?" she cried in anguish. "Look only look! You've let her drink too much! Oh ...!" "Well, what of it?" said the captain with a thick tongue, taken aback by the sudden onslaught. Little Beate stopped dancing, frightened, and looked at them with strange, doubtful eyes. "Oh, you finicky creatures! What wishy-washy stuff! Women are fools!
And yet, boys and girls, I run across some young people even here in America that think if they let Christ into their hearts it will make them sort of "wishy-washy" and "goody-goody," and not strong and rugged people.
Not the adulterated, wishy-washy maple syrup that is sold, as a rule, even in the best grocery stores of the cities, but the real, luscious maple syrup that is taken from the running sap in the first warm days of February, and refined in great kettles, right under the trees that yielded the sap. And then, when it was time to turn in, how they did sleep!
He has box-pleated teeth which seem quite unnecessary when dentists are so good now. No one would have missed at least four of them if they had been pulled out when he was a boy. His eyes are wishy-washy in spite of being brown, and he looks as if he did not have enough sleep. They were all three self-conscious and conscious of other people.
That didn't happen often, but whenever we had a Circassian Beauty among the freaks Merritt's poetry got so sentimental that no one but a bride and groom could stand for it and it had to be early in the honeymoon at that. He would ring in turtle doves and azure skies and all the wishy-washy things in natural history and mythology and it was positively sickening.
Let us have a cup of tea and a herring for it is little good I had of Griselda's wishy-washy brew and then I'll tell you the news of the wedding, the beginning and the end of it." In the morning it was still more evident that Andrew had thrown himself on God, and unperplext seeking, had found him.
But a good-tempered, generous-hearted young man who farms his own land, has three or four good horses in his stable, a decent cellar of honest port and sherry "none of your wishy-washy sour stuff in the way of hock or claret," cried Tom Halliday and a very comfortable balance at his banker's, finds it no easy matter to shake off friends of the jolly-good-fellow fraternity. In London Mr.
"As for me," said Master Prout, after raising the tankard to his lips, and taking a draught, long and deep, "I'm a genuine Englishman in my taste. Give me, say I, your humming beer, with a body to it, in place of all the wishy-washy wines of the Frenchman or the Spaniard. They only pucker one's mouth, and heat one's blood; but there is neither bread nor cheese in them, as in good John Barleycorn."
With all due respect to your feelings that affair with Kilbourne is ended and you're not the wishy-washy heartbreak kind of a girl." "You can never tell what a woman will do," she said, somewhat coldly. "Certainly not. That's why I refuse to take no. Carley, be reasonable. You like me respect me, do you not?" "Why, of course I do!"
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