"Huffy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said Patty, frankly; "but he's queer. You never know what mood he's going to be in. Sometimes he's awfully friendly, and then again he gets huffy over nothing." ...
— Patty's Social Season • Carolyn Wells
... must see you. I've been going through hell and I can't hold out. I understand myself very well; I know what I need, but I can't do it. I've got to have someone to make me do things. And if you make me do things I'll get huffy with you and try to deceive you. It's pretty hopeless, isn't it? That pock-marked devil has been trying to get me. That's why I've been taking to cover all this time, partly. Come up on the fo'c'sle to-night at seven. I'll be ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... the way I should ha' expected to hear you speak of British sailors, major,' ses the skipper rather huffy. ...
— Sea Urchins • W. W. Jacobs
... "Don't get huffy," she said. "The kid's sick—that's on the level, is it? You didn't come 'round to see me?" The insinuation was in her voice as well as in her words. He did not resent it, but felt an odd thrill of ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... slowly went quickly enough now. Jan had much to arrange and no word came from Hugo. She succeeded in getting the monthly bills from the cook, and paid them, and very timidly she asked Peter if she might pay the wages for the time his servants had waited upon them; but Peter was so huffy and cross she never dared ...
— Jan and Her Job • L. Allen Harker
... right." She wanted to row; but she wanted even more to get Maurice good-natured again. "He's huffy," she told herself; "he's mad at Eleanor, and so am I; but it's no sense to take my head off!" She hated to change seats—they drew in to shore to do it, a concession to safety on Maurice's part—for she didn't like to turn her back on the red-cheeked lady with the two gentlemen ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
... the view of which I described the 27th, and went to Colonel Huffy's monument, from whence the scene is different from the rest; the foreground is a gentle hill, intersected by hedges, forming several small lawns. There are some scattered trees and houses, with Mucruss Abbey half obscured by wood, the whole cheerful and backed by Turk. ...
— A Tour in Ireland - 1776-1779 • Arthur Young
... with a slightly huffy air, which was not entirely due to baffled curiosity, for she admired Daphne enough to resent being quietly ...
— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey
... car's there," was Jervaise's huffy evasion, and he took Ronnie by the arm and led him ...
— The Jervaise Comedy • J. D. Beresford
... join in the chorus. And if you say to such people: "Here we are again, Mr. Merryman," or "Bring on another horse," or "What will the little lady have now? the banners, my lord?" they look at you so funny. They don't know what you mean, and they don't know whether to get huffy or not. Well, I suppose it had to be that the Funny Old Clown with all his songs, and quips, and conundrums, and comical remarks should disappear. Perhaps he ...
— Back Home • Eugene Wood
... "Don't get huffy, Stuyve," said a large, placid, fat novelist, whose financial success with mediocre fiction had made him no ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers
... see Mrs. McNeil till a few days ago, for I was huffy at Hugh and would not be friendly with his wife; but when I did call I got such a surprise that for a few minutes I stood still in astonishment, for, if you will believe me, Dexie, they have got the house fixed up just as it used to look when you ...
— Miss Dexie - A Romance of the Provinces • Stanford Eveleth
... occasion like this, I felt that a modest dress—simple black alpaca, for instance, with a pink bow at the neck—would be about the thing; but Cousin E. E. got almost huffy ...
— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens
... before the prisoner's discharge she burst in again, huffy head, furs and gesticulation as before. "I come from Paris this morning, I bring you money." I was not present, but I had previously warned my assistant not to receive any money. The gay Parisian was informed that no money could be received, ...
— London's Underworld • Thomas Holmes
... the feller loox at me for a momint with his cheex blown out like a bladder, and then busts out in a reglar guffau! the porter jined in it, the impident old raskle: and Thomas says, slapping his and on his thy, without the least respect—I say, Huffy, old boy! ISN'T this a ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... to save her earnings and buy a bit of land that turned into a gold nugget? Well, a millionaire who made his money here, fell in love with her. She accepted him, but he made a slight mistake. He failed to keep an engagement with her one night and sent a waiter with a note. She got huffy and went off and married ...
— The Way of the Wind • Zoe Anderson Norris
... the door, through the wide hall to the outer entrance, so rapidly that Farnham could hardly keep pace with her. As he opened the door she barely acknowledged his parting salutation, and swept like a huffy goddess down the steps. Farnham gazed after her a moment, admiring the undulating line from the small hat to the long and narrow train which dragged on the smooth stones of the walk. He then returned to the library. Budsey was mending ...
— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay
... pair of scissors," says I, as I sheds my overcoat and produced from under one arm, where it had been buttoned up snug and tight, about the worst-lookin' doll you ever saw. I hadn't figured on Mrs. Murtha goin' huffy ...
— Torchy, Private Sec. • Sewell Ford
... returned. He was huffy in a moment; I never knew a man so touchy about an aunt. "Why shouldn't I send a cushion to ...
— Three Men on the Bummel • Jerome K. Jerome |
