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Harbison came down after a while, and said that the rash was there, right enough, and that Jim absolutely refused to be quarantined; that he insisted that he always got a rash from early strawberries and that if he DID have anything, since they were so touchy he hoped they would all get it. If they locked him in he would kick the door down.
"What does he say?" asked Ryan. "He is quite willing, but he says his men are really tired now, and want a good long spell. They are not used to such work, and he does not want to give them cause for grumbling. They are very touchy sometimes. However, after the next downpour clears off, they will tow you another two or three miles."
"Stand still, stand still! let me have a good look at you," he continued, turning them around. "How long your gaberdines are! What gaberdines! There never were such gaberdines in the world before. Just run, one of you! I want to see whether you will not get entangled in the skirts, and fall down." "Don't laugh, don't laugh, father!" said the eldest lad at length. "How touchy we are!
You're gettin' as touchy as the little touch-me-nots we get on the hill; they all snap shut when you touch 'em only you snap open." Phœbe laughed. "I guess I am excited," she admitted. "I'm sewing too much for summer days and it makes me irritable. I think I'll let the butterflies wait and I'll go outdoors. Shall I weed the garden?" "Weed the garden? Now you're talkin' dumb!
If you deem his life a precious thing, cherish it. When did you learn a taste for insolence, Étienne? Time was when you were touchy on that score." "Time never was when I did not love courage." "Oh, it is courage!" With a sneer he turned away. "Gervais," said Yeux-gris, "have the kindness to unlock the door." Gervais wheeled around, his face an angry question.
To be his friend is the task of all tasks: for he is so touchy, you need only cough, or eat with your knife, or not sip your drink as delicately as a cow, or even pick your teeth, to offend him mortally." "Was he never in love?" askt his country friend. "Whom should he love? whom could he love?" answered Roderick.
How it writhes and twists at the least touch of unfavorable criticism! It is always on the defensive. The cheek colors at the suggestion of its being wrong, or having blundered, or of being peculiar. How quickly it explains and defends and brings evidence of its being in the right. It is extremely sensitive. "It is that touchy thing in you."
He made up his mind that Bosinney was maligned. There must be some other reason for his defection. June had flown out at him, or something; she was as touchy as she could be! He would, however, let Timothy have a bit of his mind, and see if he would go on dropping hints!
And Morris not having said so, mildly replied that he did "not so charge" all of which little bit of by-play hugely pleased the touchy Mr. Cox, and his clansmen.
'We'll walk on in front, if they are SO touchy, said Ursula, angry. And in this wise they arrived at Willey Water. The lake was blue and fair, the meadows sloped down in sunshine on one side, the thick dark woods dropped steeply on the other. The little pleasure-launch was fussing out from the shore, twanging its music, crowded with people, flapping its paddles.
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