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"Grandpa won't play cat's-cradle," said Posy, as Mrs Arabin entered the room. "No, darling, not this morning," said the old man. He himself well knew that he would never play cat's-cradle again. Even that was over for him now. "She teases you, papa," said Mrs Arabin. "No, indeed," said he.
It is by means of these also that it teases us in the heat of summer, when it alights on the hand or face to sip the perspiration as it exudes from, and is condensed upon, the skin." Every one notices that house flies are most abundant around barns in August and September, and it is in the ordure of stables that the early stages of this insect are passed.
Christie laughed. "Yes," she said, "my father often teases my mother now about how very native she was when he married her; then, how could she have been otherwise? She did not know a word of English, and there was not another English-speaking person besides my father and his two companions within sixty miles."
As the clock on the mantelpiece struck eleven Sir Percival knocked at the door and came in. There was suppressed anxiety and agitation in every line of his face. The dry, sharp cough, which teases him at most times, seemed to be troubling him more incessantly than ever. He sat down opposite to us at the table, and Laura remained by me.
It's time she was going into some good girls' school, I think." "And papa gets in such a rage. I have to laugh. She teases him about it the little imp. She offered to teach him to dance to-night. If he didn't love her so he'd box her ears." "I can see that," said Lester, smiling. "Him dancing! That's pretty good!" "She's not the least bit disturbed by his storming, either."
When I'm very desperate, I may just fling a drop of ink on the paper to relieve my feelings, and that will mean the same thing. The Blot puts on an air of the most exaggerated respect for Sir Lionel. You'd fancy he was talking to a centenarian. Horrid, pert little pig! Do you remember the pig-baby in "Alice's Adventures"? He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases.
But how can I help it, when he teases me so that I detest him?" said Octavia, petulantly. "How tease, my love?" "Why, he follows me about like a dog, puts on a sentimental look when I appear; blushes, and beams, and bows at everything I say, if I am polite; frowns and sighs if I'm not; and glowers tragically at every man I speak to, even poor Maurice. Oh, Mamma, what foolish creatures men are!"
But in graceful hands it is unobtrusive, a mere bit of decoration that teases and fascinates the beholder's eye. With all his poise and equanimity I was distinctly conscious that Montani's dark eyes were intent upon the idly swaying fan.
Presently I saw a dark form dart behind a bush. I went over and told Wetzel, and he said there were Indians on the island." "This is most d n strange," said Col. Zane, frowning heavily. "Wetzel's suspicions, Miller turns up, teases Betty attempting that foolhardy trick, and then Indians! It may be a coincidence, but it looks bad." "Col.
Besides, mother says they can't possibly do without me." "Neither can we. Can't you tease your mother, and make up your mind to stay?" began Fan. "Polly never teases. She says it 's selfish; and I don't do it now much," put in Maud, with a virtuous air. "Don't you bother Polly. She 'd rather go, and I don't wonder.
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