"Crossly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Granville, or perhaps the Princess, (who, I firmly believe, by all her quiet sense, will turn out a Caroline,) have at last got rid of Lady Archibald,(1058) who was strongly attached to the coalition. They have civilly asked her, and Crossly forced her to ask civilly to go away, which she has done, with a pension of twelve hundred a-year. Lady Middlesex,(1059) is mistress of the robes: she lives with them perpetually, and sits up till five in the morning at their suppers. Don't mistake!-not ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole
... end of this escapade!" said Max Graub, a trifle crossly. "It would have been much ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli
... thankful. Didn't I tell you so before?" said she, somewhat crossly. "But it's a sad life, this living alone. I declares I envy Hannah, 'cause she's got Jemima to sit in the kitchen with her. I want her to sit with ...
— Framley Parsonage • Anthony Trollope
... this is provoking perseverance!' cried Paula, laughing half crossly. 'I expected that after expressing my decision so plainly the first time I should not have been further urged upon the subject.' Saying which she ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... ready, for all you look so stupid," Elsie said, crossly. "When did they go away, I'd like to know? Can you remember? I can't; an' I can call to mind as long ago as when Robbie was the baby, ...
— Little Folks - A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) • Various
... a busy night. Marie was called upon to pack a few things for a hurried journey. The telephone rang, and the sleepy night-operator answered crossly. But Elizabeth found out all she wanted to know about the early Chicago trains, and then ...
— The Girl from Montana • Grace Livingston Hill
... is no idea of our going away together," said Madame Wolsky, rather crossly. "I only wish there were! You are going on to Switzerland to join your friends, and as for me, in spite of Madame Cagliostra's mysterious predictions, I shall, of course, go to some place—I think it will be Dieppe (I like the Dieppe Casino the ...
— The Chink in the Armour • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... along the rivers? why the butterflies zigzagged capriciously along the fields? To all these questions Peter only answered with a burst of stupid laughter; while the surly Paul shrugged his shoulders, and crossly bade the little Thumbling hold his tongue, telling him he was an ...
— Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 - An Illustrated Magazine • Various
... as they know how to be," answered Belle crossly. "Boys are nothing but rough, rude miseries; and the next time Tony Luttrell tells me to 'bubble along' as he did Mamie Sue and me, when Mamie Sue only wanted to stop him to give him a piece of fudge, I am going to tell him what I ...
— Phyllis • Maria Thompson Daviess
... far enough to get one look at his face, and asking him rather crossly 'if there were any more fools where he came from,' went on bandaging ...
— The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems • Frances Fuller Victor
... with you, 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 ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart
... call that dry wine," he crossly said, and took another sip. "My God," without a pause he continued, ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson
... began a rather noisy debate on the impropriety of their master's behavior; and little Alfred, finding his brother was not speaking, ventured to remind him of his promise. Contrary to his usual habit, Hamilton turned quite crossly to him: ...
— Louis' School Days - A Story for Boys • E. J. May
... chap 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
... of course," said the King crossly; "the other is merely his attendant. Hi, you, what's ...
— The Sunny Side • A. A. Milne
... Lil," her husband said, not crossly, but mechanically, as if it were a phrase he often used. But Dicky laughed down at her, although I knew by the look in his eyes ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... "Oh!" said Rouletabille crossly, "then you want to let everybody into Mademoiselle Stangerson's secrets?—Come, let us go to dinner; it is time. This evening we dine in Frederic Larsan's room,—at least, if he is not on the heels of Darzac. He sticks to him like a leech. ...
— The Mystery of the Yellow Room • Gaston Leroux
... day I asked her "where is my friend living now?" to which she answered. "Hanhof." (N.B. A name under which she includes the entire district). "What is the colour of the woods now?" And she answered. "Green." Then "Why are you looking at me so crossly?" "We." "In your head?" "Yes." "What has given you a ...
— Lola - The Thought and Speech of Animals • Henny Kindermann
... me now, child," said Mrs. Carroll, not crossly, but with a distracted air, pushing aside Angela's clinging, eager arms. "I've got more than enough to think of as it is. Of course ...
— The Carroll Girls • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... longer is," answered the other, crossly; then to me, "Send down my goods by some of those black fellows, ...
— The Heart's Highway - A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeeth Century • Mary E. Wilkins
... ill-bred lot of girls I have ever seen," returned Eleanor crossly, "and I think you are making a great deal of unnecessary fuss over a small matter. Why didn't your prize orphan get out of the way with the rest of you? Besides, you have no right to block a public highway, as you did. I am very sorry I ...
— Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School - Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities • Jessie Graham Flower
... "Yes, stupid," said Elsie, crossly; "I always said mother favoured Robbie, and so she does. Why he has new things much oftener than you, and you're older too. Do you and me have boots and stockings for week-a-days? then why should Robbie? Don't you wonder why mother ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... man's face scowled and grew dark, for he was a Lutheran pastor from Bavaria. "Who taught you such trash?" he said crossly. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 • Various
... annoyed than anything else," said Jim crossly to Elsie, when the final arrangements were being made in the ...
— A Child of the Glens - or, Elsie's Fortune • Edward Newenham Hoare
... those clippers!" Jimmie bore down upon him crossly. "I told you to leave 'em alone. Now see what you've done! Look here, Sunny, can't you keep out of trouble long enough for me to ...
— Sunny Boy in the Country • Ramy Allison White
... 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. ...
— A Great Man - A Frolic • Arnold Bennett
... be told crossly to sit down was bewildering, when in answer to c, a, t, one said "Pussy." And yet there was Pussy washing her face, on the chart, and Miss Clara's pointer pointing ...
— Emmy Lou - Her Book and Heart • George Madden Martin
... takin' anything'll do!" grumbled Jane. Then, plucking crossly at a muslin sleeve, "Well, what do you want? Your French doll? ...
— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates
... "No go!" he exclaimed crossly. "Not clear enough! But on a fine day ye can see Axe and Axe Edge.... Finest view in the ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... in better time for the twelve train," he said crossly. "I'm not a-going to do this sort o' work for you nor no chap, if you can't ...
— Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth
... the thinnest of sleeping-suits, played whist crossly, with wranglings as to leads and returns. It was not the best kind of whist, but they had taken some trouble to arrive at it. Mottram of the Indian Survey had ridden thirty and railed one hundred miles from his lonely post in the desert ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling
... Prince Eugen crossly. 'Why this sudden seriousness? Don't forget that I have an appointment with Mr Sampson Levi, and must not keep him waiting. Someone said that punctuality is ...
— The Grand Babylon Hotel • Arnold Bennett
... in!" she snapped crossly. "Why, you must wait until some of them have gone out, then you can go to one of the bedrooms, unless you'd like to wash at the tap, out there," pointing to the scullery; "there's a dipper there you ...
— The Story of Jessie • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... sensible person," Madam said crossly. "It's where you belong, instead of attempting all ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... apt to do when reproved. The children clamoured to know what had kept her, and she spoke pettishly and crossly; so that they too became cross, and presently went away into the outer kitchen to play by themselves. The children were apt to creep away when Toinette came. It made her angry and unhappy at times that they should ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various
... said rather crossly. "Because I must see what sort of scenario Mr. Hammond finds—if he finds ...
— Ruth Fielding Down East - Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point • Alice B. Emerson
... believe his eyes when he saw that Darry had come off victor, and that the idle men who gaped at the encounter were giving Jim the laugh as he crossly ...
— Darry the Life Saver - The Heroes of the Coast • Frank V. Webster
... bet Ruth wants to go coasting," said Nelson crossly. "I never wanted to do anything in my life, Ruth didn't want to, too. I think girls ...
— Sunny Boy and His Playmates • Ramy Allison White
... too much occupied with his book to take any heed of me. All at once I felt a pair of little arms about my neck, and Davie was trying to climb upon my knees. Instead of being comforted, however, I spoke very crossly, and sent him back to his bed whimpering. You see I was only miserable; I was not repentant. I was eating the husks with the swine, and did not relish them; but I had not said, "I will arise and go ...
— Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood • George MacDonald
... don't want to see," I objected, crossly, for I felt I could not solemnly and adequately thank the young man before my listening relatives, for popping out of the sea in his microscopic costume, and coming to the rescue of me in mine. I had squeaked and curled up my toes, and been altogether ridiculous; and I knew we should ...
— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson
... 'Yes,' she said, 'another poem.' 'That's good,' I said; 'it looks as if you were getting quite like yourself again. We shan't want the doctor any more to-day.' She made no answer to this, except an impatient sign with her hand. I didn't understand the sign. Upon that she spoke again, and crossly enough, too—'I want to be alone; ...
— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins
... slim figure in gypsy dress ran down the steps. "I've been watching for you," called Mignon, as Mary stepped from the runabout. "The musicians are here and so are most of the girls. I can't imagine why the boys don't come. Only six have appeared, so far. We've had one dance," she went on crossly. "Some of the girls had to dance together. Wasn't that horrid? Take off your cloak and let me see your costume. ...
— Marjorie Dean - High School Sophomore • Pauline Lester
... the carriage then, and Lily was readjusting the pillows and things. "Get that nice embroidered pillow I threw over the bushes," she ordered, crossly. Johnny obeyed. When she had finished putting the baby-carriage to rights she turned upon poor little Johnny Trumbull, and her face wore the expression of a queen of tragedy. "Well," said Lily Jennings, "I suppose I shall have ...
— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... insomnious night there, I went prowling all about the house in search of the bathroom. Finally, I was routed back to my room by a newly-wakened maid (in curl-pins), who told me rather crossly that I could not have a 'bawth' unless I ordered it 'before'and.' She did not say how long beforehand. But I was in a hurry to get out of doors, so I did without my bath, and promised myself I would see to ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... know," crossly. "Hang it! can't I punch it into your head that I am taking all this trouble on your account? If it were not for you, do you suppose I'd wait? The Prince shall never marry the Princess. Will that satisfy you? Now, look pleasant, as the photographer ...
— Arms and the Woman • Harold MacGrath
... 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
... into trouble," Will said, rather crossly, as he stood looking down. "They have a way of running into most of their dangers at night, too. It was the same up on Lake Superior; the same in the snake-haunted Everglades of Florida; the same on the Rocky Mountains, and the same ...
— The Call of the Beaver Patrol - or, A Break in the Glacier • V. T. Sherman
... saw all who had gathered under the Lone Pine, and how they all looked crossly at him, Mr. Rabbit was so frightened that his heart went pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, and he wanted more than ever to run away. But he didn't dare to. No, Sir, he didn't dare to. And then he was so curious to know what it all meant that he wouldn't ...
— Mother West Wind's Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... "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 fellow ...
— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... we're always talking about," replied Alice, rather crossly. "About Captain Bertram. Good gracious, Matty, it isn't at all becoming to you to flame up in that sudden way. Lor' ma, look at her, she's ...
— The Honorable Miss - A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town • L. T. Meade
... money to lend," said the beggar crossly. "Methinks you are as young a man as I, and as well able to earn a supper. So go your way, and I'll go mine. If you fast till you get aught out of me, you'll go hungry ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
... don't need mentioning," the Virginian again protested, almost crossly. "The little things looked kind o' fresh, and I just picked them." His eye now fell upon me, where I lay upon the counter. "I reckon breakfast will ...
— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister
... say that," 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 information, that ...
— A Woodland Queen, Complete • Andre Theuriet
... a little hard. People sometimes speak crossly when they are frightened, and just then Jan felt the cold, skinny hands of some unnameable terror clutching her heart. Why did Fay always exclude ...
— Jan and Her Job • L. Allen Harker
... Blake interrupted crossly; "and the way Benson grins at your thread-bare jokes would worry me if I were well! Do you suppose I'm a fool and don't know what you think?" He raised himself on his elbow, speaking angrily. "Try to understand that this is merely common ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss
... his face. The laird sat stolidly looking on, saying never a word; and as he seemed to be nearing the confines of the hole, the poor digger redoubled his exertions. When at length it became plain that there was no fox there, he wiped his streaming brow, and rather crossly exclaimed, 'I'm afraid ...
— Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier - Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter • James Inglis
... crossly, almost angrily. Cosmo seemed to himself to understand her entirely. Had she looked well-to-do, he would have taken the loaf, promising to send the money; but he could not bring himself to trouble the thoughts of a ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald
... but that through his own efforts he was just trying to add to the blessings which he did have, and he explained why he wanted to learn to jump. Old Mother Nature heard him through. 'Let me see you jump over that bush,' she snapped crossly, pointing to a bush almost as high as ...
— Mother West Wind "How" Stories • Thornton W. Burgess
... get to, man?" said the skipper, somewhat crossly. "We've been hunting all over the ship ...
— The Ghost Ship - A Mystery of the Sea • John C. Hutcheson
... I know what happens?" she answered crossly. "About sunset Bull-Head brought home his new wife, a white chieftainess, for whom we built the hut yonder; but the fashions of marriage among these white people must be strange indeed, for this ...
— Swallow • H. Rider Haggard
... Ann Betty, vexed at once at having been frightened for nothing, shook him none too gently. "Here, Lutey, get up to once, do you hear!" she cried crossly. "Why ever didn't 'ee come in to supper,—such a beautiful bit of roast as I'd got, too! Where've 'ee been? What 'ave 'ee been doing? What 'ave 'ee ...
— Cornwall's Wonderland • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... morning Kryukov walked aimlessly about the house, looking out of window, or turning over the leaves of albums, though he was sick of the sight of them already. When he came across his wife or children, he began grumbling crossly. It seemed to him, for some reason that day, that his children's manners were revolting, that his wife did not know how to look after the servants, that their expenditure was quite disproportionate to their income. All this meant that "the ...
— The Duel and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... for he had been in trouble many times through carelessness. "Well, what of it?" he demanded a wee bit crossly. ...
— Old Granny Fox • Thornton W. Burgess
... you think we shift the scenes?" cried the wee yellow man rather crossly. Then he suddenly became very busy about nothing, as he whispered, "Look out! Here's the head ...
— A Book for Kids • C. J. (Clarence Michael James) Dennis
... come afore?" replied Mrs. Vint, crossly. "Here's Farrier Carrick stepped in, and curing him out of hand,—the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various
... it?" he asked crossly. Then, as he recognized his visitor, he grunted: "Ugh! it's you, hey. Well, ...
— The Woman-Haters • Joseph C. Lincoln
... with you, my dear?" she said crossly to the maid who kept her waiting some minutes. "Don't you wish to serve me? Then ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... want fifty," she replied, pettishly, crossly, "only two. A separate compartment for myself and maid; the child ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths
... you danged fool!" Skinny said crossly. "Can't you ever get over your dog-goned craziness? They was just tired and went to bed. Give me that package, it's mine and private!" reaching for ...
— The Ramblin' Kid • Earl Wayland Bowman
... 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
... said Froissart crossly. "This is simple police work, which I have done a thousand times. I could do ...
— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone
... I don't know what you'll be like soon, if you aren't stopped! Upon my word, I think you must be ill, you're getting so tiresome!" And Lasse went on crossly for a little while, but then stopped and ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... will be worth all our trouble," said Ned a bit crossly. "Perhaps we won't even be able to ...
— Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope • Victor Appleton
... 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 ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... in the chair she had taken, and pretended to slap his hand crossly. "Isn't that exactly what I said you couldn't think one single think about till you ...
— Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington
... crossly to herself, as the train bearing the Brabazons Londonwards steamed out of the station. She brushed her hand across her eyes as she hopped briskly into the car which had brought them to the station, giving the chauffeur the order "Home!" in a sharper voice ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... that Maurice had taken this means of making the rehearsal go more quickly. Genevieve, who was also excluded, kept the Count company, and tried to distract him; but he was in a very despondent humour. When he saw the Duke arrive so late, he said, somewhat crossly, ...
— The Idol of Paris • Sarah Bernhardt
... "quite all right"—short of that glorious competence and pride of life, one might surely be an average man, who could walk from San Pietro to Florence without tumbling on the road at dawn. Peter sighed over it, rather crossly. The marvellous morning was insulted by his collapse; it became a remote thing, in which he might have no share. As always, the inexorable "Not for you" rose like a barred gate between him and the lucid country ...
— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay
... his professional pride, as the leader and practical man of the party, had been hurt by the escape of her laugh; and he spoke so crossly that they all turned around and began to try to make conversation to cover their embarrassment. But they didn't succeed very well; and presently the Baby spoke the thought that was uppermost in ...
— The Garden of the Plynck • Karle Wilson Baker
... Helen rather crossly "I think you must be mistaken, but all the same if you wont stay ...
— Daisy Ashford: Her Book • Daisy Ashford
... tut," snapped Mrs. Tallcat crossly. "Directly my boy begins to talk nonsense I send him straight ...
— The Tale of Lal - A Fantasy • Raymond Paton
... really wasn't very tall, not taller than Sunny Boy's own mother. She came out so unexpectedly and stared down at the children so crossly that she seemed taller than she was. She had near-sighted eyes, and wore big, thick-rimmed glasses, and these, too, ...
— Sunny Boy in the Big City • Ramy Allison White
... 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 woods ...
— Glengarry Schooldays • Ralph Connor
... master," she said crossly. "You had no right to ... hem ... with your face in that condition.... And you have not ...
— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy
... alone!" commanded the artist, crossly. "I've said all I wanted to. I've no interest at all in what you and your ...
— Whistler Stories • Don C. Seitz
... he, as was his duty and business of course, went to the door to see who it was, that officious Dymock shut him out again, and actually when he whined and scratched in the politest manner to be let in Grandmamma spoke crossly to him. ...
— "Us" - An Old Fashioned Story • Mary Louisa S. Molesworth
... that Patty spoke crossly to any one, and still more rarely that she flung out such a bitter speech as that; but she was getting tired of combating the prevalent attitude of the young people toward Mona, and though she had determined to overcome it, ...
— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells
... looked to Eva like a battered bisque doll—no wonder she couldn't place me!" she muttered crossly. ...
— The Rose Garden Husband • Margaret Widdemer
... bees!" exclaimed Mrs Greenways crossly. But on Molly the news had a different effect. It was counted lucky to be present at the housing of a new swarm. She at once left her occupation, seized a saucepan and an iron spoon, and regardless of her mistress rushed out into the garden, making a hideous ...
— White Lilac; or the Queen of the May • Amy Walton
... the night, but when Demetrius found himself alone he walked up and down the room, shaking his head doubtfully. Presently, when his body-slave came in to pack for him, he called out crossly: ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... 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
... 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 ...
— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett
... left hand, gave it a single shake, dropped it, and stalked across the drawing-room head in air. "Don't call me brother," he said crossly. ...
— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... laughed aloud and declared that he would do no such thing. But his daughter was as obstinate as he was; and finding that he could not get his own way unless he yielded to her, he said crossly: ...
— Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit • S. M. Mitra and Nancy Bell
... making for. Then I bore down to the road, and was in the scrub about ten yards off it, when the clatter of horses pulled me up again. Peeping out I saw that it was my friend and his Kaffir follower, who were riding at a very good pace for the plains. Toilfully and crossly I returned on my tracks to my long-delayed dinner. Whatever the purport of their talk, Japp and the Portuguese had not ...
— Prester John • John Buchan
... a fuss you make over a few minutes," he said crossly; "I have to go at four o'clock to ring the bell. I think I ought to take a little from the ...
— Veronica And Other Friends - Two Stories For Children • Johanna (Heusser) Spyri
... 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 ...
— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge
... call it pitching hay or shoeing a hoss that I'm doing, I guess," said the old fellow crossly. "I'm fussing at building a barn, but a fine chance I got. I get all my ...
— Bull Hunter • Max Brand
... might be prevented," he said, not crossly but in the sort of forbearing expostulatory tone which a woman dislikes more than anything, specially if she happens to ...
— We Two • Edna Lyall
... we look 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
... really 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!" "For heaven's sake, son," said the mother, "let us leave ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments vol. 3 • Anon.
... would give you a gown for your friend if I had it," she said good-humouredly; "but I have just sent the only one I can spare to my mother. I wonder who there is, now—Are you afraid of folks that speak crossly?" ...
— One Snowy Night - Long ago at Oxford • Emily Sarah Holt
... wound up, by the sound of you," she said to him, as if crossly. But she could never be cross ...
— Wintry Peacock - From "The New Decameron", Volume III. • D. H. Lawrence
... off near Seventieth Street for some time if you keep a-traveling away from it," retorted the conductor crossly. "You've got on a downtown 'L' 'stead of an up. Better change at the next station. You'll find an uptown train across the street," the man ended more kindly, seeing the look of consternation ...
— Madge Morton's Victory • Amy D.V. Chalmers
... crossly, "you've been lickin' batter! It's on the end of your nose. Why didn't you ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche
... don't answer so crossly, but come and sit down here by me;' and, to make room for her, Mrs. Barton moved nearer to Alice. 'So my beautiful Olive doesn't care for a pack of women,' said Mrs. Barton—'Olive does not like a pack of women; she would prefer a handsome ...
— Muslin • George Moore
... he speak crossly to the monkey, and that was when he put him into the cage preparatory to commencing his morning's work. Then ...
— Toby Tyler • James Otis
... "War!—gammon!" said Gunson, crossly. "Lie down, you two fellows, and go to sleep. He was dreaming, Gordon. Don't listen ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... not 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
... somebody or other, that there may be somebody always to pray for you, that the giver of all good things may grant unto you a blessed, long, and prosperous life; fearing, if fortune should deal crossly with you, that it might be his chance to come short of being paid by you, he will always speak good of you in every company, ever and anon purchase new creditors unto you; to the end, that through their means you may make a shift by borrowing ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... dark and her door evidently locked, for it would not yield when Betty, anxious at getting no answer to her knocks, tried to open it. But when she called softly, "Eleanor, are you there? Can I do anything?" Eleanor answered crossly, "Please go away. I'm better, but I want to ...
— Betty Wales Freshman • Edith K. Dunton
... behind her drooping mask, "we have had three golden months, but I think they are now over." "What do you mean?" he asked crossly. ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... she shouted crossly, and let her shoulders sink once more under the comforting water. It was the first warm water she had encountered since that night when Mademoiselle had carried the jugs upstairs. Her soap, so characterless in the chilly morning basin lathered ...
— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson |
