"Crossly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... drink? (He takes up flask.) Whose wine is this that we may drink his health? LAVARCHAM. It's no one's that you've call to know. NAISI. Your own health then and length of life. (Pouring out wine for the three. They drink.) LAVARCHAM — very crossly. — You're great boys taking a welcome where it isn't given, and asking questions where you've no call to. . . . If you'd a quiet place settled up to be playing yourself, maybe, with a gentle queen, what'd you think of young men prying around and carrying ...
— Deirdre of the Sorrows • J. M. Synge
... 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, he stopped and Audrey stopped, and Aguilar absently plucked ...
— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett
... what you please," said Marjory, a little crossly, for her naturally good temper had been severely tried, "but nothing will ever make me believe it was ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25. • Various
... vastness of the mountain began to affect me. I saw 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. This ...
— A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts
... crossly. "Lie down, you two fellows, and go to sleep. He was dreaming, Gordon. Don't listen to his ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... I WON'T have roses," answered Belle, crossly. Then she glanced at Lizzie, and said more gently, "You look very cold; come and sit by the fire ...
— Marjorie's Three Gifts • Louisa May Alcott
... Catherine, crossly realizing that every girl within hearing distance was pricking up her ears. "Surely you don't imagine that I would stoop to write an ...
— Judy of York Hill • Ethel Hume Patterson Bennett
... staring into mirrors," said Dr. Dick, crossly. "I saw that I need a good wash; and you, some sal-volatile! But we shall have plenty to do for Ronnie before we can find leisure to think of ourselves. Send a couple of men here; sturdy fellows ...
— The Upas Tree - A Christmas Story for all the Year • Florence L. Barclay
... eyes crossly. "Why don't she let a fellow be in peace, then? It is very hard that I can't get a doze without being ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, April, 1858 • Various
... 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 ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
... crossly; "I've had a row with the Income Tax people. I asked for a rebate of ten pounds for necessary school books, and they wouldn't allow it, although I'm told that if a London merchant buys a London Directory he gets a ...
— A Dominie in Doubt • A. S. Neill
... not going to 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 ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony • Laura Lee Hope
... hullabaloo about?' he asked crossly; and when he had heard the story he seized Dan and shook him till ...
— Twilight Stories • Various
... "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
... alone," she said crossly. "I am hot, keep farther away. I am no longer ill, and could go indoors by myself if I wished; but grandmother will ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... 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 best)—where I can play. And the memory of you, my ...
— The Chink in the Armour • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... Mrs. Bulkham, rather crossly; but Mrs. Makely inscribed her name on her tablets with a radiant amiability, which suffered no eclipse when, within the next fifteen minutes, a dozen other ladies hurried up and bought in at ...
— A Traveler from Altruria: Romance • W. D. Howells
... hateful and secret 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 ...
— Phyllis • Maria Thompson Daviess
... he exclaimed crossly. "Not clear enough! But on a fine day ye can see Axe and Axe Edge.... Finest view ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... tell you once more," replied the Ogre, looking crossly at his wife, "and there is something here ...
— The Tales of Mother Goose - As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 • Charles Perrault
... 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. ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill
... we should all like to visit him,' said Clare crossly. 'Why shouldn't one of us go, and you stay at home? I am sure a winter here ...
— The Carved Cupboard • Amy Le Feuvre
... you pay for that cow," said the squire, crossly. "If you can't pay for't when the time comes ...
— Bound to Rise • Horatio Alger
... 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 ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various
... otherwise,' he answered, rather crossly; 'but you know very well that it is a farce to talk of her managing the house, or the estate either. It was bad enough before, but there will be no check on any ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... of bringing home a child and getting a bed for it a week afterwards," said the woman crossly; "and I should like to know who will pay for it if we must build something more for ...
— Rico And Wiseli - Rico And Stineli, And How Wiseli Was Provided For • Johanna Spyri
... 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 put up ...
— The Knave of Diamonds • Ethel May Dell
... party with the chin whiskers that's cabbaged Hinpoha?" asked the Captain of Sahwah, scowling crossly after the leading boat, which was already drawing away from the rest ...
— The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos • Hildegard G. Frey
... Alice, I know! And I am so sorry afterwards, when I should have been quiet and patient, and I have spoken crossly. People know not how hard it is, and how hard one tries: they only see when one gives way. They see not even how ashamed one ...
— All's Well - Alice's Victory • Emily Sarah Holt
... crossly; "it seems as if I were never to have an hour's quiet, just as all that roaring, greedy lot, with their Mother Morena here and Mother Morena there, and their grumbling at the olla, and their curses and their quarrels, are off, and I think I am going to have a quiet ...
— The Young Buglers • G.A. Henty
... hard on the patience of his friends, after what they had just endured, and Dr. Skihi exclaimed, rather crossly, "At the same time, your exercise is a famous thing to make one thirsty! I would give a great deal to obtain a drink of spring water; but that is impossible ...
— Funny Big Socks - Being the Fifth Book of the Series • Sarah L. Barrow
... poop: for they cannot all find seats, and those that come late have to sit among the crew. Noblemen, who have their own servants, are too fastidious to mingle with the crowd; and pay extra to the cooks,—poor, sweating fellows, toiling crossly in a tiny galley—for food which their servants bring to them on the main-deck, or even below. After the pilgrims, the captain and his council dine in state off silver dishes; and the captain's wine is tasted before he drinks it. At night all sleep below, in a cabin the dirt of ...
— The Age of Erasmus - Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London • P. S. Allen
... the metal dealer for past services and future feasting. It was with some displeasure therefore that O'Taki had her offices interrupted to respond to a loud and harsh—"Request to make!" sounded at the house entrance. Said she crossly—"Who is it?... Ah! O'Take and O'Haru San of Toemon Sama." Then in wonder—"Oya! Oya! O'Take San.... Your honoured face.... Has O'Take San gone to bed in the dark with the cat?" Answered O'Take, in no amiable mood—"It could well have been. ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... in, and 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
... must run right away from here!" cried Uncle Wiggily, coming to the door of the underground house again, and he spoke still more crossly. ...
— Sammie and Susie Littletail • Howard R. Garis
... calf-pen would have been a more appropriate locality. "I shall go to bed, then," said he, a little crossly. "Where is the landlord? out at this time of night? no matter. I know our room. Shall you be ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... back her head and laughed and laughed and laughed. It was a most irritating and provoking laugh. Finally Peter began to lose patience. "What are you laughing at?" he demanded crossly. "You know very well that Jumper the Hare is the only ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... 'tarnation let a gal like that go out in a boat alone, and without airy oar?" demanded Uncle Jabez, crossly. "Here! hold steady. I'll take that painter and 'tach it to the boat. We'll tow her in. But lemme tell ye," added Uncle Jabez, decidedly, "somebody's got ter pay me fur my time, or else they don't git the boat back. She seems to be ...
— Ruth Fielding At College - or The Missing Examination Papers • Alice B. Emerson
... my first 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 it later ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... my underdrawers!" 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
... in Heaven" had told her she should not tell anything, "till all of you had gone, then I could go home with him, because that is the way we came in and it was Jim too all the time." Finally she said crossly, "Go away now, you are all trying to keep me from ...
— Benign Stupors - A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type • August Hoch
... said Rudolf crossly. "You know what Betsy says about—'If wishes were horses, beggars could ride'—well, they aren't, so we've got to walk now. I ...
— The Wonderful Bed • Gertrude Knevels
... the farmhouse was thrown up, and a sleepy Munchkin thrust out his head. "What are you doing?" he called crossly. ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... as 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 , Volume I. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
... bellows, etc., the little maid gazed at her with such admiring observation that the scuttle she carried was titled, and the coals were strewn all over the kitchen floor. At which catastrophe Miss Leaf looked miserable. Miss Selina spoke crossly, and Ascott, who just then came in to his tea, late as usual, burst into a ...
— Mistress and Maid • Dinah Craik (aka: Miss Mulock)
... Fox, and began to cry harder. Granny Fox looked at Reddy sharply. "What have you been doing now—tearing your clothes on a barbed-wire fence or trying to crawl through a bull-briar thicket? I should think you were big enough by this time to look out for yourself!" said Granny Fox crossly, as she came over to ...
— The Adventures of Reddy Fox • Thornton W. Burgess
... 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 ...
— The Mountains • Stewart Edward White
... 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 from the others. Charteris ...
— The Philanderer • George Bernard Shaw
... crossly to a cow or call her by other than her own name, which is generally printed on a board over her stall. The cow, in fact, is the domestic pet of the Danish farm. In the winter these animals are taken for a daily walk wearing their ...
— Denmark • M. Pearson Thomson
... when a 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 ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... 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
... you were my child now, and anxious for better things than tag," said Miss Inches gravely. Johnnie had to submit, but she pouted, shrugged her shoulders, and looked crossly about her, in a way which Mamma Marion had never seen before, and which annoyed ...
— Nine Little Goslings • Susan Coolidge
... 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
... children come bothering here," said she, crossly. "I want to wring out my clothes, and hang them to dry. Be ...
— The Adventures of A Brownie - As Told to My Child by Miss Mulock • Miss Mulock
... it now?" asked the mother crossly, for, though she liked nothing better than to sit and praise Rachel by the hour, she always kept her belligerent attitude toward her family, as if afraid she might relent too much if she ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... his work as well, if not as quickly. The paper still goes to press and the public sees no change; but we, who worked beside him, see it nightly. By twelve o'clock on a busy night, nervous, drawn faces surround the central desk, and profanity is snapped crossly back and forth. There is no alleviation of cheerful inanity. Presently somebody looks up, remarking, "I wish Bobbie Barton was back." And somebody else replies with profane asperity and lax grammar, "I wish he was!" ...
— Penguin Persons & Peppermints • Walter Prichard Eaton
... don't, 'n' I don't keer to neither," Applehead retorted crossly. "Shoo 'em off, Luck, so's we kin eat. My belly's shore a floppin' agin m' backbone, ...
— The Heritage of the Sioux • B.M. Bower
... explained almost crossly, though her voice was sweet, because it was never otherwise than sweet. ...
— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... precisely, in 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 on a chair, holding a man's hat in ...
— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev
... would get down," Bridget said, almost crossly. "If you have to wait on that old woman and all the rest of us you'll wish you were in the grave. My! You look all tired out. Now, here's a nice bit of chicken that I laid aside for you. I'm not goin' to have you fed on leavings. And it wasn't ...
— A Modern Cinderella • Amanda M. Douglas
... clothes and let you run around naked. None of them were in a very good temper this morning, although the sun shone so warmly and the grass was so sweet, and as they watched the farmer and his man carry their wool up to the house in great bags, the old ram said, crossly, ...
— Mother Goose in Prose • L. Frank Baum
... the thing," 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 malaria! I've had it several times; ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss
... fifty," she replied, pettishly, crossly, "only two. A separate compartment for myself and maid; the child ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths
... off to a place near by where he had seen the berries, while Billy found a comfortable nook by the pool, and sat scowling at the water so crossly, it was a wonder any trout came to his hook. But the fat worms tempted several small ones, and he cheered up at the prospect of food. Tommy whistled while he picked, and in half an hour came back with two quarts of nice berries and an armful of dry ...
— The Louisa Alcott Reader - A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School • Louisa M. Alcott
... often bring their sharp and unexpected logic to bear on some incident illustrating the difference in this matter of behavior between what is required from them and what is shown to them: as did a little boy I knew, whose father said crossly to him one morning, as he came into the breakfast-room, "Will you ever learn to shut that door after you?" and a few seconds later, as the child was rather sulkily sitting down in his chair, "And do you mean to bid anybody 'good-morning,' or not?" "I don't think ...
— Bits About Home Matters • Helen Hunt Jackson
... crossly, making a spiteful lunge, as I speak, at a startle-de-buz, which has lumbered booming into my face. "Who on ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... said Tommy crossly, "what an endless amount of room girls seem to want for their things!" Then suddenly his expression changed and he dived under the bed and dragged ...
— The Rebellion of Margaret • Geraldine Mockler
... most 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 came back ...
— Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School - Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities • Jessie Graham Flower
... to tell them that if you had waited a minute," said Grace, rather crossly. There was quite a little jealousy between Grace and Amy over Will. Grace had declared more than once that whereas she had known her brother all her life, Amy had only known him for a couple of years—or—or more. Grace ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge - or, The Hermit of Moonlight Falls • Laura Lee Hope
... all about, anyway?' demanded Ogden crossly. 'Can't a fellow have a bit of grub in peace? You give ...
— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse
... you, I haven't the ten thousand to put in," answered Mr. Thurston crossly. "I haven't one thousand. That last deal ...
— The Camp Fire Girls at School • Hildegard G. Frey
... if you are so clever," said mother, crossly. "That is always the way; if I suggest a thing it is immediately put down, yet there is never any one to think of things but me. What would you do? I suppose you think you could make a living on ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin
... 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 ...
— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge
... master," she said crossly. "You had no right to ... hem ... with your face in that condition.... And you have not yet told ...
— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy
... be better off. She'll have you," said Granny Barnes crossly. "Well, the letter's spoilt my tea for me. Anyway, I don't want anything more. I've had ...
— The Making of Mona • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... any longer for these lazy brothers and sisters of mine to get ready," he said crossly. "Besides, if I did go in a school, I might get speared, or caught so that the rest could get away, and that would not suit me a bit. I'd rather risk ...
— How Sammy Went to Coral-Land • Emily Paret Atwater
... 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
... her speech and manner. He almost lost his balance when she suddenly gave her consent; but, regaining it quickly, he tumbled through the door, giving vent to his delight in a series of whoops that made Mammy's head ring, and brought her to the door, scolding crossly. ...
— Ole Mammy's Torment • Annie Fellows Johnston
... 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
... farm house stuff. There aren't any such trimmings to these mountains. The next farm house is down around Keddie, somewhere. Through the woods, and mountain all the way." He said it rather crossly, for his nerves were what he called edgy, and the girl still ...
— The Lookout Man • B. M. Bower
... at all," 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 ...
— Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... the glass towards Nigel, not coming quite near to him. To take the glass, it was necessary for the sick man to stretch out his arm. Nigel made a movement to do this; but his arm dropped, and he said, almost crossly: ...
— Bella Donna - A Novel • Robert Hichens
... of his own and clapped his hands over his ears. "What did you do that for?" he said crossly, "just when I was beginning ...
— The Swiss Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... said. "Please stop and be friends. And oh, please, please don't give Mary's Meadow away. You mustn't punish yourself. There's nothing to punish yourself for. I forgive you with all my heart, and I'm sorry I spoke crossly. I have been so very miserable, and I was so vexed at wasting the hose-in-hose, because Bessie's great aunt gave them to me, and I've none left. Oh, the unkindest thing you could do to me now would be ...
— Last Words - A Final Collection of Stories • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... crossly; it was a relief to speak so. Anne turned round—she was sitting at the window of the inn ...
— Agatha's Husband - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)
... She went down to the lounge, where he was waiting. Struck by her want of colour, he enquired somewhat tenderly what ailed her. She replied impatiently that she was only fatigued by the previous day's journey, and asked rather crossly why ...
— The Elephant God • Gordon Casserly
... that," said Marian, crossly. "People do fall in love, fortunately for them. It may be injudicious; and it may turn out badly; but it fills up life in a way that all the barren philosophy and cynicism on earth cannot. Do you think I would not rather have to regret a lost love than to repine because I had ...
— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw
... you go over that again? I know it!" she said, crossly. "That has nothing to do with my ...
— The Rustler of Wind River • G. W. Ogden
... here 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 be here ...
— Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth
... And to 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
... and winter flowers. Grandpa and Daddy tried to tell the children about the things they were passing, but the children were too sleepy and sickish to care. Grandma's mouth was a thin line of pain and the baby wailed until people looked around crossly, though there ...
— Across the Fruited Plain • Florence Crannell Means
... you'd never get back," complained the doctor crossly, when the three entered. They had been gone just half ...
— The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life • Homer Eon Flint
... crossly. "This is simple police work, which I have done a thousand times. I could do ...
— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone
... three feet of me, and I take care to keep more than that distance away from them. That's why I was crossing this field, where I supposed no one would be. And I should have been perfectly safe had it not been for your beastly lasso. Now, then," he added, crossly, "are you going to get ...
— American Fairy Tales • L. Frank Baum
... 12.27. We all went to meet them. Afterwards I thought that was a mistake, because their aunt was with them, and she wore black with beady things and a tight bonnet, and she said, when we took our hats off—'Who are you?' quite crossly. ...
— The Wouldbegoods • E. Nesbit
... a minute," 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 freely in the warmth and was fragrant in the steamy ...
— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson
... for a friend," said Dudley, a little crossly; "he's twice as old as you are, to begin with, and he's an awfully stupid, ...
— His Big Opportunity • Amy Le Feuvre
... 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
... approved under investigation with "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 white ...
— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay
... he had ever spoken crossly. Beverley started, and the look on her face, instead of overwhelming Roger with ...
— The Lion's Mouse • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... "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. But, anyhow, if he is not there ...
— The Mystery of the Yellow Room • Gaston Leroux
... Sister Marie-Aimee handed to me. Before she spoke, I could hear the scolding which I knew I deserved. And even when Sister Marie-Aimee said nothing at all, I could see her frown, and her eyes looked crossly at me and followed me about. I felt crushed with shame, so crushed that I could scarcely lift my feet. I tried to hide in the corners as I walked; and, in spite of it all, next time I had lost my handkerchief again. ...
— Marie Claire • Marguerite Audoux
... it out, 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 that he ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... sound asleep. 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 been sleeping ...
— Cornwall's Wonderland • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... up tonight I shall make a row about it" replied Helen crossly "I cant bear keeping ...
— Daisy Ashford: Her Book • Daisy Ashford
... have any now, but that doesn't prove they never will," said a Robin crossly. He had just flown against a window, not understanding about the glass, and had ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
... couldn't be in half a dozen places at once," answered her cousin, rather crossly. "I've been badgered within an inch of my life by confounded women in shabby dresses and poky bonnets all day. Out of two or three bushels of chaff I only found one grain ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... a bit of a brat like her," she snarled crossly, and the man answered this statement with eagerness, because the rising inflection in his wife's voice made it ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White
... 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 ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments vol. 3 • Anon.
... "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 squeaking. It is ...
— Rollo in Society - A Guide for Youth • George S. Chappell
... do!" grumbled Jane. Then, plucking crossly at a muslin sleeve, "Well, what do you want? Your ...
— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates
... 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
... Christ is opening his ear to discipline, and speaking to him that his heart may receive instruction; many times that poor man is, as if the devil had found him, and not God. How frenzily he imagines? how crossly he thinks? How ungainly he carries it under convictions, counsels, and his present apprehension of things? I know some are more powerfully dealt withal, and more strongly bound at first by the world; but others more in an ordinary manner, that the flesh, and reason may be seen, ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... up?" he said crossly, as a low, indistinct murmuring reached him. He strained his ears intently, but could not catch anything, and losing all patience, was just about to push the door open and peep in when he heard a roar of laughter. Peal upon peal ...
— The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant • W. W. Jacobs
... 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 ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... 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 ...
— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins
... lift the man, and to force him to move; but the man sat as a dead weight, and only mumbled crossly, and held back. ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin
... crossly, running over to him. "John will maybe get over here, we've made so much noise. Hurry up, Joe, we must ...
— Five Little Peppers at School • Margaret Sidney
... reason, among others, perhaps fatal to his country; measures, the effects of which, I am afraid, are for ever incurable. He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; 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, ...
— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke
... want to talk to me I won't try to make him," she thought crossly. No man had ever ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... 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 since the night before; ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling
... 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, ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
... swung his chair around and showed him the broad of his indignant back. When he had filled out certain forms at his desk he shoved a pen into the silent consumptive's fingers and showed him crossly where to make his mark. At a signal from his bent forefinger a negro trusty came forward and took the pardoned man away and helped him put his shrunken limbs into a suit of the prison-made slops, of cheap, black shoddy, with the taint of a jail thick and heavy on it. A deputy ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb
... crossly. "I could understand better what you are talking about if I knew just what ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... few wild parents less given to spoiling their young than a pair of grumbling old woodchucks. The father, who spent most of his time sleeping, rolled up in a ball at the bottom of the burrow, paid them no attention except to nip at them crossly when they tumbled over him. They were always relieved when he went off, three or four times a day, down into the neighboring clover field to make his meals. The little ones did not see what he was good for, anyhow, till one morning, ...
— Children of the Wild • Charles G. D. Roberts
... 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
... 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
... a muff,' said Justin crossly, 'a muff and a turncoat. You were hotter upon ferreting than ...
— Miss Mouse and Her Boys • Mrs. Molesworth
... the plate-basket. "I suppose I ought to polish each fork and spoon as I lay it," she thought, ruefully, "it all looks smeary; but, I can't bother. I am too tired to-day. The things shouldn't be put away smeary," she added crossly, "it is only leaving the work for someone ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... does!" again interrupted the old man, as crossly as before. "Of course it does! That's because you won't listen to ...
— Davy and The Goblin - What Followed Reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' • Charles E. Carryl
... cannot stay indoors always, like a rat in a drain," said Peter crossly, "so what is to be done? Appeal to ...
— Fair Margaret • H. Rider Haggard
... 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, she began to think ...
— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells
... father of hers,' she would say to herself crossly. 'By what Robert tells me of him he must have been one of the people who get ill in their minds for want of a good mouth-filling laugh now and then. The man who can't amuse himself a bit out of the world is sure to get his ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... 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 ...
— White Lilac; or the Queen of the May • Amy Walton
... she wrote once—'as though our favourite castle in the air were built. "Not really, mother? you don't think this beautiful house and garden belong to us really?" asks Mollie, in her stupid way. You know what a literal little soul she is. "Oh, go away, Mollie!" I exclaim quite crossly. "How can I help it if you have no imagination?" For all I know, the place is ours: no one interferes with us; we come and go as we like; the birds sing to us; the flowers bloom for our pleasure. Sometimes we sit by the lake, or Mollie paddles me to Deep-water ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... 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, they really ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland
... I daresay I spoke rather crossly, 'you're really silly. It's just as unlikely as it can be that it's mums' thing, and you'd much better put out of your head that it could be. You'll get yourself into a fidget, and then mums will think there's something ...
— The Girls and I - A Veracious History • Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth
... 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 young ...
— Muslin • George Moore
... 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 recovering the basket, hit Betty over the head ...
— The Camp Fire Girls at School • Hildegard G. Frey
... I said crossly, for the subject always irritates me. "Haven't I been laying myself out all winter to catch him? That is the bold, naked truth, and ugly enough it is. My dearly beloved sister, I mean to accept Mr. Sinclair, without any hesitation, ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... she 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 authority) that you're ...
— A Reversion To Type • Josephine Daskam
... crossly, "this is no night for a poor Special to go out in. Can't I send a medical ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916 • Various
... have gone out walking," she said crossly. "That man's been here again?" referring to the ...
— The Secret City • Hugh Walpole
... point I was 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
... crossly, then sloshed across the swamp toward Black Eyes. The creature waited on its stump until she came quite close, and then, with a playful little bound, it hopped onto her shoulder, still squatting on its haunches. Lindy squealed excitedly and began ...
— Black Eyes and the Daily Grind • Milton Lesser
... at last her aunt gave way. "Well," she said at last, rather crossly, "be quick if you are coming. I don't want to be ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... of you," I added crossly, "I am going to give you this," and I handed her her weekly cheque, plus a draft for a hundred pounds. "Take it, and get off to those benighted natives, ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... define grew within me—something like a physical bruise. Harold was evidently feeling it too, for after repeating "She's going to-day!" in a tone more befitting the Litany, he looked hard in my face for direction as to how the situation was to be taken. But I crossly bade him look sharp and say his prayers and not bother me. What could this gloom portend, that on a day of days like the present seemed to hang my heavens ...
— The Golden Age • Kenneth Grahame
... herself at Otter, when he entered and proceeded in his cool, rather lazy fashion to tap her under the chin, to inquire if she had been counting the rain drops, to bid her try his cigar, she felt something swelling in her throat, and answered him shortly and crossly; but when she found that he treated her offended air as the whim of a spoilt child, and was rather the more amused by it, she determined that he should not be entertained by her humours. Perilous entertainment as it was, Leslie could ...
— Girlhood and Womanhood - The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes • Sarah Tytler
... there stuffing up my view?" she demanded crossly. "If you want something to do, go and get me some flowers. Everyone has flowers but ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... 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
... last, when the old man gave her no peace, but asked her again and again, insisting that she must know what had happened to his pet, she confessed all. She told him crossly how the sparrow had eaten the rice-paste she had specially made for starching her clothes, and how when the sparrow had confessed to what she had done, in great anger she had taken her scissors and cut out her tongue, and how finally she had driven ...
— Japanese Fairy Tales • Yei Theodora Ozaki |
