"Crossly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... why she should," said Harry rather crossly. "It's a great bore having her here at all, and if I'm barely civil to her that's all I shall manage. They won't stay more than a few days, I suppose." After a second he went on: "Her mother wouldn't know my mother, though after her death the ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
... and at last her aunt gave way. "Well," she said at last, rather crossly, "be quick if you are coming. I don't want to ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... captain, calling them all round him, announced that it as his right to have the donkey for the first night. His companions agreed, and then he told his wife to put a mattress in the stable. She asked if he had gone out of his mind, but he answered crossly, 'What is that to you? Do as you are bid, and to-morrow I will bring you ...
— The Pink Fairy Book • Various
... is a fool!" said the Major crossly. "I can't stand these martyrs. If she leads a dog's life it's her own fault. She's a fool to ...
— The Knave of Diamonds • Ethel May Dell
... said Mollie, rather crossly; "it's her way. She can make such a deal out of nothing, and she does n't stand at trouble when she wants to make people like her. She says any one can do it, and it is only a question of patience; but I don't believe her. See how frantic Griffith is about her. He is more desperately ...
— Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... a good actor," said he a trifle crossly. "Perhaps you will tell me if Maubranne has returned ...
— My Sword's My Fortune - A Story of Old France • Herbert Hayens
... crossly. He pulled the sheepskin coverings of his bed closer about his ears and turned ...
— The Spartan Twins • Lucy (Fitch) Perkins
... neighbor's boy came for some eggs, and she spoke rather crossly to him, as she was very busy, her husband suddenly came in and said to her in his unpleasant voice: "If that were your own child you would not treat him so." She was hurt and did not reply, and then she went back into the house, with all her grief awakened afresh; and at ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... the best of things, if you want to know what is the matter with me," he had remarked crossly to ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... will see the end of this escapade!" said Max Graub, a trifle crossly. "It would have been much better ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli
... "See?" said Kismine crossly, when he was out of hearing. "You've spoiled it all. We can never meet any more. He won't let me meet you. He'd have you poisoned if he thought we were ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... "Nay," said Naomi crossly. Surely to have sudden pains shoot through one's eyes was not to be ill. "I would see the gardens of King Herod. ...
— Christmas Light • Ethel Calvert Phillips
... Vaux, before those fetes had taken place. La Fontaine, sauntering about from one to the other, a wandering, absent, boring, unbearable shade, who kept buzzing and humming at everybody's shoulder a thousand poetic abstractions. He so often disturbed Pellisson, that the latter, raising his head, crossly said, "At least, La Fontaine, supply me with a rhyme, since you say you have the run of ...
— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas
... was returning, he met a bullock-cart laden with bags of sugar, and he asked the driver what the bags contained. The driver was put out because his bullocks would not go on quickly, and he was tired with beating and goading them, so he said crossly, "It's ashes." "Good," said Shekh Farid, "let it be ashes." When the cartman got to the bazar, and went to make over the sugar to the merchant who had sent him for it, he found all his bags full of ashes, nothing but ashes. He was in a great state of mind, for a ...
— Indian Fairy Tales • Anonymous
... Ernest!" exclaimed Mrs. Marvelle half crossly, yet with an indulgent smile,—"I wish you would not be so boisterous! You've nearly knocked ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... big, jolly teamful departed while he was rummaging through his top drawer for fresh handkerchiefs; and he was vainly trying to adjust his white tie satisfactorily, when a knock at the door informed him that he was not alone in the house after all; he said "come in" crossly, and without turning, and went on with ...
— The Old Gray Homestead • Frances Parkinson Keyes
... shocked Carmen inexpressibly by stopping in the middle of her evening prayer, declaring that she wanted to say her prayers to a white Virgin; Carmen's Senora de Guadalupe was only a negra! Then, for the first time, Carmen spoke so crossly to the child as to frighten her. But the pious woman's heart smote her the next moment for that first harsh word;—and she caressed the motherless one, consoled her, cheered her, and at last explained to her—I know not how—something ...
— Chita: A Memory of Last Island • Lafcadio Hearn
... just lay on his back and smiled crossly; but the kegs and the bags were smashed to bits. I like mules, but I wanted to kill that one. It was quiet down there in the canyon—quiet and hot. I looked at Whitney and he looked at me, and I had the ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... crossly, for I had heard of the battle of Fontenoy and his cousin Dennis before, and it was a sore point between us. Nor could I understand how a man who had the privilege of being born a British subject, though liable to the proper severities of the penal code against Papists, could traitorously desert ...
— Athelstane Ford • Allen Upward
... eyes open with a start. "For mercy's sake, do we have to stay out here all night?" she demanded crossly. "I can stand a picnic supper, if I have to, but it's no picnic for me to have to sleep out ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... Beaver!" muttered the hunter crossly. "If there was a Deer anywhere around this pond, he probably is on his way now. I'll have a look around and see if ...
— The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer • Thornton W. Burgess
... Rita, crossly. "You and I are business women, anyway, and eleven is too late for week days. I'll wait until I can see ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers
... her arms, and then sat up on the bed. He noticed her evening dress and was explaining his late arrival when she jumped up crossly from the bed and saying, "Look at your wife, is she not looking ghastly?" went out of the room. Charlie returned to his wife's side and looked closely at her. Her face seemed strangely pallid and her hands were cold. He endeavoured to wake her and was still trying to rouse her when Ethel ...
— Bengal Dacoits and Tigers • Maharanee Sunity Devee
... is not falling in love with his grandmother. I have heard of such things in my life," thought the judge crossly within himself, for the judge was growing jealous for Claudia. He had apparently forgotten the existence ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... opened her eyes and, seeing Jeanne, she rose to her feet suddenly. They stood face to face, so close that they touched one another. The stranger said crossly: "What! are you up? You will be ill, getting up at this time of night. ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... "Nonsense," he said, crossly; "do you suppose a trifle like that matters to me? Why, I am not spending half my income; if you want any more you can just let me know; but if you take my advice you will get rid of that ...
— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... of him opened, and he beard a familiar voice saying crossly, yet anxiously, "What on earth are you doing out there, Bunting? Come in—do! You'll catch your death of cold! I don't want to have you ill on my hands as well as everything else!" Mrs. Bunting rarely uttered so many words at ...
— The Lodger • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... old enough to look back upon it. It even seemed funny, a day or two afterward, to their alarmed elders. But at the time it was not amusing to anybody. David was gloomy at being obliged to marry Nannie; "I pretty near wish I'd stayed with Elizabeth," he said, crossly. Nannie was frightened, because, she declared, "Mamma'll be mad;—now I tell you, Blair, she'll be mad!" And Blair was sulky because he had no wife. Yet, in spite of these varying emotions, pushed by Blair's resolution, ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland
... right," said Ephie crossly. But as soon as she heard that Johanna had gone, she returned to the middle of the room without touching the door; and after standing undecided for a moment, as if not quite sure what was coming next, she sat down on a chair at the foot ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... medical men are in any particular danger?" asked Sophia, bashfully, but with great anxiety. "I think they must be, going among so many people who are ill. If there is a whole family in the fever in a cottage at Crossly End, as Mrs Howell says there is, how very dangerous it ...
— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau
... speaking and fluttered away crossly to the cornice-pole; for Cyril had hit out, as boys do when they are awakened suddenly, and the Phoenix was not used to boys, and his feelings, if ...
— The Phoenix and the Carpet • E. Nesbit
... opening of the bedroom door, prepared to have his say, and there was Jane with their big bouncing baby in her arms. "Here!" she said crossly, "you just get this kid off to sleep, I'm going for the supper beer. I've minded him all day, and I'm tired of him. I believe he wakes up in the ...
— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh
... to the bridge before folks are stirring." "Why do you want to go to market, Pigling?" inquired Pig-wig presently. "I don't want; I want to grow potatoes." "Have a peppermint?" said Pig-wig. Pigling Bland refused quite crossly. "Does your poor toothy hurt?" inquired Pig-wig. ...
— A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories • Beatrix Potter
... you please," said Marjory, a little crossly, for her naturally good temper had been severely tried, "but nothing will ever make me believe ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25. • Various
... commanded the artist, crossly. "I've said all I wanted to. I've no interest at all in what you and your friends have ...
— Whistler Stories • Don C. Seitz
... Bat looked at him, crossly at first; then his sharp little face seemed turning into a point of admiration. "By Jehosaphat!" he ejaculated. "Home-made goods will get the preference over British this ...
— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... "No," said Elsie crossly; "and I wish you would ring that bell; I am as cold as I can be. It was my turn, and it was selfish and mean in them not to let me ...
— The Story of the Big Front Door • Mary Finley Leonard
... play with you!" Bunny said, trying to speak crossly, but finding it hard work, for he loved Splash. "You've got to go on back home! Next time we'll take you with us, but now we're going to the farm, and there's a bad dog there that'll bite you. You've got to go ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony • Laura Lee Hope
... you do, then?" said Gypsy, a little crossly. Joy replied in the tone of a martyr, that she was sure she did not know. Gypsy coughed, and walked up and down on the garden fence in ...
— Gypsy's Cousin Joy • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... strong fellow, answered crossly, "Shut your mouth, you stupid swine! And if you dare to report me I'll break every bone ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... learn to control that imagination of yours, Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isn't," said Marilla crossly. "Yes, you did hear me say just that and no more. It isn't decided yet and perhaps we will conclude to let Mrs. Blewett take you after all. She certainly needs you much more ...
— Anne Of Green Gables • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... Sunfish," snapped Thurston crossly. Time was when Philip Thurston would not have answered any man abruptly, however great the provocation. He was only lately getting down to the real, elemental man of him; to the son of Bill Thurston, ...
— The Lure of the Dim Trails • by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower
... wish to thunder you'd show me the gold, then," Johnny retorted crossly, pulling on ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower
... service, sir," says she, "though I am but a poor country maid." So in we went, hand in hand, to the parlor. But yet her first question, "Who's there?" had left me so doubtful as to whether she might not be playing a double game, that I turned my back on her, and said crossly that I supposed she had been expecting a number of lovers, and that the thought quite spoiled my pleasure. But oh! what a darling Hana is! Coming to my side and clasping tight my hand, ...
— Japanese Literature - Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical - Poetry and Drama of Japan • Various
... quiet, father. You're wound up, by the sound of you,' she said to him, as if crossly. But she could never be ...
— England, My England • D.H. Lawrence
... Eh? (Withdraws his hand and rises rather crossly.) No, Paramore: it's not my liver now: it's private business. (A chase now begins between Julia and Charteris, all the more exciting to them because the huntress and her prey must alike conceal the real object of their movements ...
— The Philanderer • George Bernard Shaw
... about?' he asked crossly; and when he had heard the story he seized Dan and shook ...
— Twilight Stories • Various
... than Neville, on this subject as on most others. He said, crossly, "It's a beastly habit, unlegitimatised union. When I say beastly, I mean beastly; nothing derogatory, but merely like the ...
— Dangerous Ages • Rose Macaulay
... nine,' said the old man crossly; 'too late for you to be in the streets. Get to bed now, and be up to ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... Lady Berberisca," interposed the old woman, very crossly; "and I am the mistress ...
— Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know • Various
... think the old gentleman said? He said: "Down Snap, down Snap!" rather crossly and in a voice that the children knew quite well; and almost before they had time to think how funny it was that he should know their dog's name, or, indeed, to wonder about anything at all, Snap made another frantic ...
— The Gap in the Fence • Frederica J. Turle
... of wooden houses, all grimed, and adding their own grime from many a sooty chimney; flimsey wooden houses of a thousand flimsy whimsies in the fashioning, built on narrow lots and nudging one another crossly, shutting out the stingy sunlight from one another; bad neighbors who would destroy one another root and branch some night when the right wind blew. They were only waiting for that wind and a cigarette, and then they would ...
— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington
... said Birdie crossly, as she sat before her dressing-table, wearily washing off the make-up of the afternoon in order to put on the make-up of the evening. "I'm so dog tired I'd lots rather be going to bed than to that ...
— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice
... her speaking to him, and the event could by no means justify his censure. On hearing her begin to speak, Sandford had stopped; and as Rushbrook after replying, walked away, Sandford called to her crossly, "Come, come along." But at the same time he put out his elbow for her to take hold ...
— A Simple Story • Mrs. Inchbald
... for her. He heard the story of the tragedy from the surly inn-keeper, who crossly maintained that his business had been ruined. Booth was vaguely impressed, he knew not why, by Burton's description of the missing woman. "I'd say she was about the size of Mrs. Wrandall herself, and much the same figger," he said, as he had said a ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon
... with some of the members of the hunt at the Fox Hotel at Foling, a favourite meet. They were to sleep at Biston, and I saw nothing of them the next day till Eustace came home alone, only just in time for a late dinner, and growled out rather crossly that Harold had chosen to walk home, and not to be waited for. Eustace himself was out of sorts and tired, eating little and hardly vouchsafing a word, except to grumble at us and the food, and though we heard Harold come in about nine o'clock, he did not come in, ...
— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge
... you, my dear," Mr. Bushy was saying, rather crossly I am afraid, "to urge a philosophic mind, but if you had the responsibility of the family upon you—Goodness gracious! Owls and weasels! What in all the ...
— Glengarry Schooldays • Ralph Connor
... streets were well-nigh empty. The great thoroughfare, the Oude Gracht, was almost deserted, and as Koosje hurried along the Meinerbroederstraat—for she had a second commission there—she drew her great shawl more tightly round her, muttering crossly, "What weather! yesterday so warm, to-day so cold. 'Tis enough to ...
— Stories By English Authors: Germany • Various
... tree orchard is good enough for anybody," replied Rea half crossly. She was not yet quite wide awake. "There is plenty of fruit in stores, to buy. ...
— The Hunter Cats of Connorloa • Helen Jackson
... themselves anyhow. My Mary shall never work in a factory, that I'm determined on. You see Esther spent her money in dress, thinking to set off her pretty face; and got to come home so late at night, that at last I told her my mind; my missis thinks I spoke crossly, but I meant right, for I loved Esther, if it was only for Mary's sake. Says I, 'Esther, I see what you'll end at with your artificials, and your fly-away veils, and stopping out when honest women are in their ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell
... move. I began to walk home, but each time I looked behind me I saw the dark form of the modern soul prone before the hairdresser's window. Finally I ran, and rooted out the Herr Professor from his room. "Fraulein Sonia has fainted," I said crossly. ...
— In a German Pension • Katherine Mansfield
... in the subordinate places of the treasury and the admiralty boards, and the strange medley, which soon became more mixed and various, has been thus described by Burke:—"He [Lord Chatham] made an administration so chequered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers; king's friends ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... to the Wattmann," said the notices in the tramcar crossly to her in German as she slipped and slid upon its straining seats. "Don't spit, don't smoke ... don't...." But she had her revenge, for across all the notices her side of the war had written coldly: "You are begged, in the measure ...
— The Happy Foreigner • Enid Bagnold
... the sapling's sturdy stalk, Whose double twist is crossly strain'd, Such is thy fortune—sure to baulk At this extreme what ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... ahead doggedly, and Audrey crossly came after, until they arrived nearly at the end of the hedge which, separating the upper from the lower garden, hid from those immediately behind it all view of the estuary. Here, still sheltered by the hedge, ...
— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett
... she rejoined crossly, "and that is why every one agreed that James Fairbairn could ...
— The Old Man in the Corner • Baroness Orczy
... "Well," I said crossly, "you have kept me waiting already more time than I care to lose. How much longer before you will tell me what I ...
— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle
... for a friend," said Dudley, a little crossly; "he's twice as old as you are, to begin with, and he's an ...
— His Big Opportunity • Amy Le Feuvre
... sparkled. She loved making plans, and so did Vallie, who was very quick and bright about everything, while Nan was rather a sleepy little girl, though exceedingly good-natured. I don't think I ever knew her speak crossly. ...
— My New Home • Mary Louisa Molesworth
... place be hanged!" he said crossly. "I don't want any stuccoed, over-grown Dutch farm. I might as well be at Roehampton as in ...
— The Moon Endureth—Tales and Fancies • John Buchan
... multitude of sins," said Bell, crossly, giving a vindictive snap with her scissors, "but it won't begin to cover the enormity of Mrs. Upjohn's transgressions on this occasion. You gentlemen must be very devoted to atone to us for the button-holes. There's Mr. De Forest standing in the other room looking as if he wished he ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... teeth, and drop back to his own position with a comical air of virtue. Once in a great while it would happen that on my spurring up from the rear of the column I would be mistaken for one of the pack-horses attempting illegally to get ahead. Immediately Dinkey or Buckshot would snake his head out crossly to turn me to the rear. It was really ridiculous to see the expression of apology with which they would take it all back, and the ostentatious, nose-elevated indifference in Bullet's very gait as he marched haughtily by. So rigid did all the animals hold ...
— The Mountains • Stewart Edward White
... no doubt!" said she, a little crossly. She added with one of her gushes of naivete, "and I shall be unhappy too if you ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... believed that her son was cured of the disorder of his mind, which she ascribed to a dream, began to laugh with him, and ask him questions about it; when suddenly he started up, and looking crossly at his mother, said, "Old sorceress, you know not what you say. I am not your son, nor you my mother. You deceive yourself and would deceive me. I tell you I am the commander of the faithful, and you shall never persuade me to the contrary!" ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments vol. 3 • Anon.
... by now that the Wellenkuppe was a little thing. The three thousand extra feet made all the difference. This was obviously beyond me, and I could never get to the summit. It was ridiculous of the Pollingers to think I could. I told them so quite crossly as we went on. Probably they had made a mistake; they would, no doubt, find it out on the Shoulder. It seemed rather hard that I should have to get there when it was so easy to turn back at once. But I said nothing more and climbed. My heart did its work well, and my head did not ache. ...
— A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts
... canary; and he had some pigeons. They were rather a bother to him, because they had a nasty habit of flying down the parlour chimney, where sometimes they stuck for two or three days, and at last flew out all black and sooty into the room. Widow Dumpty used to be rather angry and spoke crossly when this happened, and then Little Dumpty used to get up and go out and feed his rabbits, which is what he generally did when he wasn't very happy. Well, then he had a tame hen and some silkworms. Once he had a baby chicken, but it ate some blue chalk, which Dumpty had ...
— Humpty Dumpty's Little Son • Helen Reid Cross
... then, pursuing her own thoughts, slowly put them on. She was then about to leave the room when the door burst open and Martin tumbled in. He stood at the doorway staring at her, his mouth open. "Why!" he stammered. "I thought ... I thought ... you were out—" She looked at him crossly. ...
— The Captives • Hugh Walpole
... person in him, 'you don't mean to argue that a spin of the ball is affected by the spins that have preceded it? You don't mean to argue that, because red wins four times, or forty times, running, black is any the more likely to win at the next spin?' 'You shut up!' retorted the human side of him crossly. 'I know all ...
— A Great Man - A Frolic • Arnold Bennett
... feller?" inquired Tubbs crossly. Though he now recollected the circumstances under which they were found, Ralston's presence robbed the situation of any seriousness for him. It did not occur to Tubbs that any one who knew him could possibly do ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart
... right," said Dick, crossly, producing his passport, and cards with the names of the papers for which he had engaged to correspond. "Ropes, fork ...
— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... he exclaimed. "These here ding-busted long socks o' yourn air so all-fired tight the blamed drawers hez hiked up in ridges all round! Makes me look like a bunch o' bananas in a bag!" he said, crossly. ...
— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye
... dang it, an' shut up!" muttered Applehead crossly, and turned over on his good ear so that he ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower
... smilingly declined, saying she had promised every one of the boys a dance and would not get around if she gave him any more, to which he assented politely, fuming inwardly, and wanted Gladys to himself more than ever. "Bet I don't get another dance with her to-night," he thought crossly, and this was exactly the case, for Nyoda presently suggested lemonade ...
— The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods - Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping • Hildegard G. Frey
... said crossly. "If you had knocked these papers an inch farther, I should have invited you to correct them. If you go about in that abstracted way much longer, my dear, Miss Selbourne will inform the world (on the very best ...
— A Reversion To Type • Josephine Daskam
... screech of his own and clapped his hands over his ears. "What did you do that for?" he said crossly, "just when I was beginning to ...
— The Swiss Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... rejoined the Caterpillar somewhat crossly, "but I was digesting a gooseberry leaf when you lifted me in that abrupt manner, and I did not quite follow your remarks. Did I understand you to mention my name in connection ...
— The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales • Richard Garnett
... at the tide and get home in decent time? It's no good crying over spilt milk!" grunted Merle rather crossly. ...
— Monitress Merle • Angela Brazil
... returned Claudet, crossly, "but after all, you do not carry your name written on your face, and, by Jove! as guardian of the seals, I have some responsibility—I want ...
— A Woodland Queen, Complete • Andre Theuriet
... were in Guinea," said Bess crossly. "She and her old papers are just about going to spoil our trip. They are making you as ...
— Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach - Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves • Annie Roe Carr
... any money," replied Wollaston, crossly; "all a woman thinks of is money. How'd I ...
— By the Light of the Soul - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... "No," he answered crossly. He was not used to being crossed in any desire by a lady, "I want you to talk to me. Bother the Sunday-school! Give them a vacation to-day and let them go fishing. They'll be delighted, I'm sure. You have a wonderful foot. Do you know it? You must be a ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill
... it's me; who did you think it was?" replied Johnny Chuck rather crossly, for Peter was staring at him as if he had never seen ...
— The Adventures of Johnny Chuck • Thornton W. Burgess
... mountain climbing, nor those old gentlemen who allow the hair round their lower jaw to grow so long that it resembles a dirty halo which has somehow slipped down over their noses; nor do I mean the sheepish individuals, nor those whom, in our more vulgar moments, we crossly designate as "Goats." No; the people I really mean are the people who can never utter a favourable opinion without butting a "but" into the middle of it; people who, as it were, give you a bunch of flowers with one hand and throw a bucket of cabbage-water ...
— Over the Fireside with Silent Friends • Richard King
... my tail-coat and with my hair brushed up into a tuft on my head, I entered the passage of the lodge, where the princess lived. The old servant looked crossly at me and got up unwillingly from his bench. There was a sound of merry voices in the drawing-room. I opened the door and fell back in amazement. In the middle of the room was the young princess, standing ...
— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev
... cry I, crossly, making a spiteful lunge, as I speak, at a startle-de-buz, which has lumbered booming into my face. "Who on earth supposed they ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... 'Well,' he said crossly, 'there's only one spell at that price, and that's really a tuppenny-half-penny one; but we'll say tuppence. I can make you like somebody else, ...
— Oswald Bastable and Others • Edith Nesbit
... "Par depit," Rita answered crossly, with obvious allusion to Sofya's marrying Yagitch. "Par depit is all the fashion nowadays. Defiance of all the world. She was always laughing, a desperate flirt, fond of nothing but balls and young men, and all ...
— The Darling and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... want fifty," she replied, pettishly, crossly, "only two. A separate compartment for myself and maid; the child can come ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths
... a lack of luck crossly attributed by the fishermen to the noise made by constant advice on the part of their attendant gallery. Messrs. Milholland, Bender, and the other rock throwers came up shouting, and ...
— Ramsey Milholland • Booth Tarkington
... "Jonas," said Rollo, crossly, "I wish you would not steal up behind me as you do. Since we have moved to the city and you have become my mother's social secretary, instead of the hired man, you wear shoes which do not warn me of your approach by their ...
— Rollo in Society - A Guide for Youth • George S. Chappell
... But Emma answered almost crossly: "Don't 'Great and Wonderful Mystery' me. This head is becoming a dead weight, and I'm thirsty and tired, and, ...
— Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... lift the man, and to force him to move; but the man sat as a dead weight, and only mumbled crossly, ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin
... that is all there is to it," said Migwan rather crossly. She was in a hurry to be off and get the marketing done. Betty stamped her foot, and snatching Migwan's market basket, she ran around the corner of the house with it. Migwan ran after her, and forcibly ...
— The Camp Fire Girls at School • Hildegard G. Frey
... door now in a zigzag course, and when they passed Honor, Jimsy stayed their progress. He held out his hand and spoke to her, but he did not meet her eyes. "Gimme ring," he said, crossly. ...
— Play the Game! • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... are going to say disagreeable things about the baby, I won't listen to you," said Deena, crossly, and then, ashamed of her petulance, added: "Run along to school, dear; the sooner you get some knowledge into that little red head of yours, the sooner you can have automobiles and horses of ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various |
