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Scott turned on him a little bit pugnaciously, the more so by reason of his own doubts of an hour before. "Like what?" he queried curtly. However, Opdyke had no idea of being betrayed into any indiscretion. "Like her," he made tranquil answer, and then he bent above his glass of beer and blew aside the froth. "She is sure to arrive," he went on, after a minute.
"Son" raised his fists pugnaciously, for he didn't care much for the role he was playing, anyhow. Milton did the same. There was every element of a gaudy mix-up, when the outer door of the office suddenly swung open and Elaine Dodge entered. Gallantry was Milton's middle name and he sprang forward to hold the door, and then opened Bennett's door, as he ushered in Elaine.
'If you were with me, dear, you would have none of these annoyances, she said, pleading forlornly. Diana smiled to herself. 'No! I should relapse into softness. This life exactly suits my present temper. My landlady is respectful and attentive; the little housemaid is a willing slave; Danvers does not despise them pugnaciously; they make a home for me, and I am learning daily.
Ethel saw by the change of colour in her father's neck that the susceptibilities of his patriotism had been assailed. 'What do you mean? Stanway asked pugnaciously. 'I mean that you are falling behind here, said Twemlow with cold, nonchalant firmness. 'Every one knows that. You're getting left. Look how you're being cut out in cheap toilet stuff.
It would be unfair to Doloria's future if I pugnaciously held to the advantage these few days had brought; for it is one thing to start in an open race with men, and run and burst your heart to be first across the goal which means a woman's arms, but quite another to take her unawares in a wilderness and, upon the spot, claim her before she knows what the surrender may involve.
In the end he was made to agree not to tell her. "We aren't going to let you and your idealism spoil our only chance to save the race!" Sorplee told him pugnaciously; and Somat gave his word.
They are still pugnaciously national, but they have unlearned so much of the feudal preconceptions as to leave them in a defensive attitude, under the watch-word: Peace with honour.
Come on, Mary V; 'hop in, and we'll take a spin, and all the rest of it. Venus'll have nothing on you. Here's my goggles; put 'em on. I'm going to borrow Bland's." It had occurred to Johnny that Mary V would probably shrink from wearing anything belonging to Bland Halliday; girls were queer that way. Bland stepped pugnaciously forward; his pale eyes were unpleasantly filmed with anger.
Without anything positively salient, or actively offensive, or, indeed, unjustly formidable to her neighbors, she has the effect of a seventy-four gun-ship in time of peace; for, while you assure yourself that there is no real danger, you cannot help thinking how tremendous would be her onset, if pugnaciously inclined, and how futile the effort to inflict any counter-injury.
It's attacking men when their blood is up that brings these awful hings about." "Wal, I don't see that," said Mrs. Jellison, pugnaciously; "he wor paid to do 't an' he had the law on his side. 'Ow 's she?" she said, lowering her voice and jerking her thumb in the direction of the Hurds' cottage. "She's very ill," replied Marcella, with a contraction of the brow. "Dr.
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