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Updated: June 5, 2025
And as I sat binding my toes, two of the elders in black, with umbrellas under their arms, approached from the direction of the village. They made me so furious, I had to hasten to fasten my boot, to hurry on again, before they should come near me. I could not bear the way they walked and talked, so crambling and material and mealy-mouthed. Then it did actually begin to rain.
'I thank yo kindly, Davy, said Reuben cautiously, 'we're meeterly weel sarved; bit yo conno look for mich fro teawn folk. 'What are yo allus so mealy-mouthed for? said his wife indignantly.
Philip, I observe regretfully, is profane. I am not mealy-mouthed myself. There are moments of high emotional tension when silence is the worst form of blasphemy. But Philip is profane without discrimination. His supply of unobjectionable adjectives would be insufficient to meet the needs of the ordinary kindergarten conversation.
"I shall get rid of the Simons," he said; "there's something in that woman's face which I don't trust. They shall go within the next few hours, or as soon as I can lay my hands upon a better patriot than that mealy-mouthed cobbler. And it will be better not to have a woman about the place. Let me see to-day is Thursday, or else Friday morning. By Sunday I'll get those Simons out of the place.
"And E. Eliot locked up with them for two days!" He shivered, partly at the memory of his own mealy-mouthed protest. "Well," he said, and there was an air of finality in his tone, "I'm glad I stopped the whole infamous business." Mentally he decided to get Noonan on the telephone the first thing in the morning and make certain that the plan was abandoned. He continued his chat with Evans.
"I'm not mealy-mouthed myself. However, I've taught him that he must not do it." "Have you, indeed? And don't you think that example will prove stronger than precept, or even than thrashing?" said Janetta. "If you want to teach him not to use bad words, you had better not use them yourself, Mr. Brand." "Mr. Brand?" said Wyvis; "I thought it was to be Cousin Wyvis.
Well, the blisters I have put on their vanity stung 'em so, they jumped high enough to see the right road, and the way they travel ahead now is a caution to snails. Now, if it was you who had done your country this sarvice, you would have spoke as mealy-mouthed of it as if butter wouldn't melt in it. "I flatter myself," you would have said, "I had some little small share in it."
So don't be so infarnal mealy-mouthed, with your mock modesty face, a turnin' up of the whites of your eyes as if you was a chokin', and savin' 'No Bun-kum, Mr. Slick. Cuss that word Bunkum! I am sorry I ever told you that are story, you will be for everlastinly a throwin' up of that are, to me now.
"You must ask him yourself," I replied, losing patience, whereon she called me a "mealy-mouthed little fool" and laughed. Then of a sudden she said, "Kneel, both of you," and, strange as it may seem, we obeyed her, for we, and especially Ralph, were afraid of the old lady. Yes, there we knelt on the stoep before her, while a Kaffir girl stood outside and stared with her mouth open.
Do you suppose that innocent, big-eyed, mealy-mouthed brat of Pennington Lawton's suspects us? "'Hold your tongue, for God's sake! old Mr. Mallowe growled at him. 'I've got one of them in there, a filing clerk." "'Then you'd better get rid of her before she tries any tricks, Mr. Carlis said. 'I believe that girl is deeper than she looks, for all her trusting way.
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