"Pettishly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a coarse-tongued virago, but even Anna, who had shrunk from her, felt a little mollified and touched as she saw how tenderly the rough hand rested on the child's curls. But Kit pushed it pettishly away. "Don't, Ma'am, you've been and gone and spoiled Jemima's ball dress, and she is going to wear it to-night," and Kit held up a modicum of blue gauze which certainly did not bear the slightest resemblance ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... Mr. Owl! how you made me jump!' cried the magpie, rather pettishly; 'I had nearly ...
— Tales From Catland, for Little Kittens • Tabitha Grimalkin
... your good fortune, but it's not mine," the girl said, pettishly. "It will be very dull here, without you. I know what it will be. Your mother will always be full of anxiety, and will be fretting whenever we get news of any disturbances; and that is often enough, for there seem to be disturbances, continually. Your father will go ...
— For the Temple - A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem • G. A. Henty
... (half pettishly, half coaxingly).—"Why is he interesting? I scarcely ever looked at him; they say he smokes, ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... "Do talk in English," she said pettishly. "You can't think how tiresome it is to hear that rook's language going on ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... Countess Zamoiska pettishly, "I cannot understand you. Instead of rejoicing over the king's escape, here you begin to cry over the sins of his murderers. All Poland is exasperated against them, and nothing can save them. [Footnote: ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... doubt you can, Monsieur," I answered, rather pettishly; "for I suppose you asked him yourself; and, if you did so on my account, I must beg you will omit that proof of kindness in future, for I do ...
— Valerie • Frederick Marryat
... presumption of James was safe till it rubbed against the more stubborn pride of Coke. The monarch was of opinion that the constitution and the law allowed him personally to try causes between his loyal subjects. "By my soul," he said pettishly to Coke, who begged leave to differ, "I have often heard the boast that your English law was founded upon reason. If that be so, why have not I and others reason as well as you, the judges?" Coke explained why and by the manner of his explanation ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various
... static government machine. Perhaps Bernard Shaw was right when he said that "the famous Constitution survives only because whenever any corner of it gets into the way of the accumulating dollar it is pettishly knocked off and thrown away. Every social development, however beneficial and inevitable from the public point of view, is met, not by an intelligent adaptation of the social structure to its novelties but by a panic and ...
— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann
... very firmly that this was piffle of the most wretched sort. That his caller wore but the prescribed number of garments, each vogue to the last note, and that he was a person whom one must know. He responded pettishly that he vastly preferred the gentleman driver with whom he had spent the afternoon, and "Sour-dough," as he was ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... gave a final scrape with his knife, and released the foot, which Keno immediately stamped pettishly into the dust. He closed the knife, after wiping the blade upon his trousers leg, and returned it to his pocket before he so much as glanced ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower
... presence he was careful how he treated her, yet when he, walking down the road one day, alone, met her, he courted her assiduously. He had not to observe any caution in her case. She greedily absorbed all the flattery he could give, only pettishly responding after a while: "O dear! that's the way you talk to me, and that's the way you talk to Jule sometimes, I s'pose. I guess she don't mind keeping two of you as strings to ...
— The End Of The World - A Love Story • Edward Eggleston
... she murmured pettishly. "Does she think that I am to be murdered that she may fatten on sighs? Oh, come up, Madame, you must be dragged out of this!" And she started briskly towards the alders, intent on gaining company as ...
— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman
... half pettishly, as we passed a pond with a curious wire-fence all round it. "What a dainty breakfast we should make of some of the delicate young water-fowl, but for the extraordinary care which has been taken to shut us ...
— The Rambles of a Rat • A. L. O. E.
... took no notice of his sardonic harshness, and seated himself by his side, though Eric pettishly pushed ...
— Eric • Frederic William Farrar
... bounding along, followed by Ambroise, to see who could run the fastest; but Rose pettishly called them back, for she preferred to play at gathering wild flowers. The open air fairly intoxicated the youngsters; the herbage rose, here and there, to their very shoulders. But they came back and gathered flowers; and after a time they set off at a wild run once more, ...
— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola
... their steps! On the base of one which has a sculptured shaft the wall-rue fern was growing. A young starling was perched on the yew by it; he could but just fly, and fluttered across to the sill of the church window. Young birds called pettishly for food from the bushes. Upon the banks hart's-tongue was coming up fresh and green, and the early orchis was in flower. Fern and flower and fledglings had come again as they have come every year since the oldest ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies
... not a pretty thing to say," said grandpapa, pettishly and disappointed, as people are apt to be when they try to calculate on the fitful sympathies of childhood. "Come, you must go in to ...
— The Dolliver Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... told her, that her every word and action were calculated to make a deep-rooted impression upon me, she would have shrugged her shoulders pettishly, I doubt not, and declared that it was "not her fault," that "some people were enough to provoke ...
— The Doctor's Daughter • "Vera"
... natural that I should be curious,' she murmured pettishly, 'if I resemble her as much as you ...
— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy
... turn'd to silence, or did he Retain the only sap of poesie, That kept all branches living? must his fall Set an eternal period upon all? So when a spring-tide doth begin to fly From the green shoar, each neighbouring creek grows dry. But why do I so pettishly detract An age that is so perfect, so exact? In all things excellent, it is a fame Or glory to deceased Lovelace name: For he is weak in wit, who doth deprave Anothers worth to make his own seem brave; And this was not his aim: nor is it mine. I now conceive ...
— Lucasta • Richard Lovelace
... a whaling-voyage, where everything that offers is game," said Barnstable, turning himself pettishly away from the beast, as if he distrusted his own forbearance; "but stand fast! I see some one approaching behind the hedge. Look to your arms, Mr. Merry,—the first thing we hear ...
— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper
... cramped letters," she said, pettishly; "why should you write such a hand? Besides, I feel as if I were really forging, or doing something dreadful. I suppose," she added, with unconcealed bitterness of tone, "we shall have to go on as we began, and you must be Zillah ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... cool, soft thing for a throbbing brow; she knew of no spell upon it that would work destruction for her who lost it. "Let me tie it round your head," she said to Othello; "you will be well in an hour." But Othello pettishly said it was too small, and let it fall. Desdemona and he then went indoors to dinner, and Emilia picked up the handkerchief which Iago had often asked her ...
— Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare • E. Nesbit
... me, and stare at me, and stare at me," she complained, pettishly, to Dolly, "and some of them say things to me. I wish they would attend to their pictures and leave ...
— Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... envelope. "How in time do I know whether there's any answer or not?" he demanded pettishly. "I ain't read it yet, have I? Think I've got second sight? Why in the nation didn't you ring up on the telephone, instead of comin' here and routin' ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... when I can get them," said Marcia pettishly, and eyeing the fruit with ill-concealed desire; "but yours is not the hand to give me ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... domestic diet is not to be recommended. Husbands get tired of swearing allegiance over and over; and John returned to his book quietly, without reply. He did not like the suggestion; and he thought that it was in very poor taste. Lillie embroidered in silence a few minutes, and then threw down her work pettishly. ...
— Pink and White Tyranny - A Society Novel • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... cried he, pettishly, "bad enough: all along of that trumpery masquerade; wish I had not ...
— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney
... she would mind her own business, and let me manage mine," he said pettishly, thrusting the ...
— Prisoners - Fast Bound In Misery And Iron • Mary Cholmondeley
... make the old man realize his own absurdity. "Well, you needn't bite my head off," he said pettishly. "Come on, let's go out. A little ...
— The Deaves Affair • Hulbert Footner
... old raft is ever going to float any more than the mill itself," he remarked pettishly to his sister Elta one day in October, as they sat together on the Venture and watched the sluggish current of the ...
— Raftmates - A Story of the Great River • Kirk Munroe
... I wish that chap would pass us—it worries me," cried Ike pettishly. Then he went on: "Roads warn't at all safe in those days, my lad. There was footpads too—chaps as couldn't afford to have horses, and they used to hang under the hedges, just like that there dark one yonder, and run out and lay holt of the reins, and hold ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn
... so, and that is enough," said the boy pettishly; "I cannot understand that I asked anything so dreadful; but I suppose you have too many needs of your own to have any resources left ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... of dwelling upon the past?" said Godfrey, pettishly. "We were all very good little boys once. At least my father always told me so; and by the strange contradictions which abound in human nature, I suppose that that was the very reason which made me grow up ...
— Mark Hurdlestone - Or, The Two Brothers • Susanna Moodie
... pettishly, without looking at the pretended Moussul merchant; "I do not greet you; I will have neither your greeting ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous
... everybody seems hungry to-day!" returned the Rat pettishly; "however, that's easily settled-I'll fetch you Some supper in ...
— The Junior Classics, Volume 1 • Willam Patten
... may laugh, my fine fellows," said the first speaker rather pettishly, "but it wouldn't have been pleasant for me ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn
... were delayed," said Mrs. Fielding pettishly, "by those little fiends of children. I do think Mr. Green might teach them to keep to the side of the road. Pray get in, Miss Moore! Oh, do you ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... Felipe, pettishly. He was still weak enough to be childish. "I like him about me. He's worth a dozen times as much as any man we've got. But I don't suppose money could hire him to ...
— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson
... about my daughter?" she once exclaimed pettishly to Monsieur Pettigrat. "Upon my word, I really know nothing of her except one ridiculous thing. She always dreams of running water. Now, I ask you, what can you do with a daughter so absurd that she ...
— Running Water • A. E. W. Mason
... the child, pettishly; "Mr. Wood he sets me to watch the geese, and they runs in among the buckwheat and the potatoes, and I tries to drive them out, and they doesn't want to come, and," shamefacedly, "I has to switch their feet, and I hates to do it, 'cause I'm a Band ...
— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders
... into the drawing-room, pettishly refused to accept either tea or coffee, tucked his daughter under his arm, and, having said the driest of good-byes to the company at large, ...
— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... idiot," said the unsympathizing Rose. Then she sat down and proceeded to make a series of the most grotesque faces, winking her eyes and twinkling her fingers round the head of "Niobe," as she called Lilly, till the other girls were in fits of laughter, and Niobe, though she shrugged her shoulders pettishly and said, "Don't be so ridiculous, Rose Red," was forced to give way. First she smiled, then a laugh was heard; afterward she announced ...
— What Katy Did At School • Susan Coolidge
... in the Bible with your mother's milk, I suppose," said Gertrude pettishly, "and have had it knitted into you ever since by your grandmother's needles. I did not expect you to be a spoil-sport, Lettice. I thought you would be only too happy to come out of your ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... O'Sullivan Og. But presently he smiled at something the latter said, then he laughed; at last he made a joke himself. At that the girl turned on him; but he argued with her. A man held up a tub for inspection, and though she struck it pettishly with her whip, it was plain that she was shaken. O'Sullivan Og pointed to the sloop, pointed to his house, grinned. The listeners on the deck caught the word "Dues!" and the peal of laughter ...
— The Wild Geese • Stanley John Weyman
... take a jest then, and pettishly answered that "if he kept such a stupid man as Jeff, he could not ...
— Opening a Chestnut Burr • Edward Payson Roe
... just wet your throat to show there's no bad blood, and that ye belave me." He took up a pannikin from the floor beside the bunk, pulled a hot iron from the fire, and stirred the frozen drink. The invalid turned his shoulder pettishly. "I didn't mane it," Cooney repeated. He set down the pannikin, and shuffled ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... lordship, more pettishly than ever—"Holland is conservative to the backbone. We were ...
— Aunt Rachel • David Christie Murray
... not wear those wisps of pink about your head, Josephine,' said he, pettishly. 'All that women have to think about is how to dress themselves, and yet they cannot even do that with moderation or taste. If I see you again in such a thing I will thrust it in the fire as I did your shawl ...
— Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empire • Arthur Conan Doyle
... back in the chair with an air of resignation. "I'm sure I don't know why they cook the dinners up so high," she murmured, pettishly, to her husband. "Why can't they stick the kitchens underground—in the hold, I mean—instead of bothering us up here on deck ...
— Hilda Wade - A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose • Grant Allen
... hag's daughter was both wicked and avaricious, and it was not her way to make presents. She therefore made a dash at the little hand, wished the guardian of the well evil, and said pettishly— ...
— Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian • Various
... know—quite," she answered, a little pettishly. "But I used to see Madame go off in the woods, and she would sit hour by hour, and listen to the waterfall, and talk to the birds, and at herself too; and more than once I saw her shut her hands—like that! You remember what tiny hands she had?" (She ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... Tracy boldly made direct inquiry; for Julian set her on to beg for a commission, and Charles also was anxious for a year or two at college; but the general divulged not much: albeit he vouchsafed to both his sons a liberally increased allowance. It was only when his wife, piqued at such reserve, pettishly remarked, ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... that vexatious narrative again," exclaimed the lizard, pettishly; "I never had such a tail in my life! Its restless tendency to divorce upon insufficient grounds is enough to harrow the reptilian soul! Now," he continued, backing up to the fugitive part, "perhaps you will be good enough to resume your connection ...
— Cobwebs From an Empty Skull • Ambrose Bierce (AKA: Dod Grile)
... enemy. The enemy, a little pink in the cheeks, slightly tossed the delicate rings of its blonde crest, settled its skirts again at the piano, but after turning over the leaves of its music book, rose, and walked pettishly ...
— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... of a room," she repeated again, pettishly. "I don't like it, and I won't stay, unless you send me a beautiful ring. What kind of a ring will it be, if I ...
— Ruby at School • Minnie E. Paull
... the Saxons," said the maid, pettishly. She had risen to her feet, but still was troubled about her tumbled hair. "I am to be married to one, and so have run away. That is why I am wandering in ...
— Robin Hood • Paul Creswick
... of doing some good!" said Mr Gregory pettishly. "Here you, Mark Strong, this dog of yours seems as if he could do anything. Do you think if we put him in the water he'd swim toward ...
— Mother Carey's Chicken - Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle • George Manville Fenn
... my lord," said the Attorney pettishly. "I could have proved by this worshipful gentleman, Master Justice Bridgenorth, the ancient friendship betwixt this party, Sir Geoffrey Peveril, and the Countess of Derby, of whose doings and intentions ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott
... I assure you," rejoined Ireton, pettishly; "we're all on the square here. I took the money myself, ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth
... said the stranger, pettishly, "hast no more bones in thy fat carcass than a jellyfish? Lend a hand, here! Yo, heave ho!" and he dragged the Padre into an upright position." Now, then, ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... being hurried. I can't bear to be hurried," said the Squire pettishly. "These important matters require consideration, a great deal of consideration. Still," he added, observing signs of increasing irritation upon Edward Cossey's face, and not having the slightest intention of throwing ...
— Colonel Quaritch, V.C. - A Tale of Country Life • H. Rider Haggard
... The seaman had always evinced a settled pique against the red-faced warrior. On this occasion he listened with peculiar impatience. He sat with one arm a-kimbo, the other elbow on a table, the hand holding on to the small pipe he was pettishly puffing; his legs crossed, drumming with one foot on the ground and casting every now and then the side glance of a basilisk at the prosing captain. At length the latter spoke of Kidd's having ascended the Hudson with some of his crew, to land his ...
— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving
... vulgar story in billiards, but he had spoiled my game. My opponent, to whom I can give twenty, ran out when I was sixty-seven, and I put aside my cue pettishly. That in itself was bad form, but what would they have thought had they known that a waiter's impertinence caused it! I grew angrier with William as the night wore on, and next day I punished him by giving my ...
— Short Stories of Various Types • Various
... he replied. And as they made the slow ascent, pettishly he wondered why Deborah must always be so eager for queer places. Galleries, zoo schools, tenement slums—why not take a two dollar seat ...
— His Family • Ernest Poole
... know then that, whether the Queen liked him or disliked him, she ever took heed of his looks; and I started when she cried pettishly—— ...
— In Kings' Byways • Stanley J. Weyman
... kin shet up," Applehead retorted pettishly. "Ef Luck hits fer the Navvy country after them skunks, I calc'late ole Applehead'll be somers ...
— The Heritage of the Sioux • B.M. Bower
... who the drawer is. I won't pay it. I don't care even if it's Smithers & Co. I'll settle all when I'm ready. I'm not going to be bullied any longer. I've borne enough. You needn't look so very grand," he continued, pettishly; "I see through you, and you can't keep up this sort of thing ...
— Cord and Creese • James de Mille
... you to say," returned Mona, a little pettishly, "for your hair is naturally curly, and you don't ...
— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells
... see," said I, pettishly, "how I am to get this bundle into my trunk, nor where in the world this great box of sugar is to go. See! not a direction! but I suppose she ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... Ollie, it's all right," said Isom pettishly. "We're going to have these things from now on. Might as well eat 'em, and git some of the good of what we produce, as let them city people fatten ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... she said pettishly, "about a soft, plump man with ever so many rings on his hands. . . . Oh, I am glad you came. . . . Look at this child of mine!" cuddling the staring wax doll closer; "she's not undressed yet, and it's long, long after bedtime. ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... you ask such questions, sir?' replies the functionary, in an incredibly loud key, and pettishly grasping the thick stick he carries in his right hand. 'Pray do not, sir. I beg of you; pray do not, sir.' The little man looks remarkably out of his element, and the uninitiated part of the throng are in positive convulsions ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... he, pettishly, "is the best judge of his own affairs; and I don't ask the honour of ...
— Evelina • Fanny Burney
... not allow himself a moment to think of the choice he was making. He unbuckled his sword from his side and put it into Skirnir's hands; and then he turned rather pettishly away, and threw himself down on a mossy bank ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry
... give him to me," said Dwight, pettishly, "for that top; the top is worth a great ...
— Caleb in the Country • Jacob Abbott
... gone," said Louis, pettishly. "I suppose Charlie has it. He had it yesterday—he might as well ...
— Louis' School Days - A Story for Boys • E. J. May
... anything about legs, and there aren't any in the pictures." "I can't help it, Nibble!" replied Brighteyes, rather pettishly. "I can't cut off my legs, and I am going to play mermaid. I can be the queen, and queens have everything they want, I know." And she turned round, displaying to my view a superb tail of seaweed, fastened to her sash, ...
— Five Mice in a Mouse-trap - by the Man in the Moon. • Laura E. Richards
... began, frowning, "what I was going to say then—" He broke off, and, becoming conscious that he was still holding the wet napkin in his hand, threw it pettishly into a corner. "I never expected I'd have to say anything like this to anybody I MARRIED; but I was going to ask you what was the matter ...
— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington
... wishes before his colleagues, but that he could give no promise to recall the mandate of the municipality—it was more than he dare undertake to do, and so forth. The long and short of it was, he politely sent them about their business. They came away, working the fans more pettishly than ever, and liquid voices were heard to hiss scornfully that the Republic, which proclaimed respect for all religions and rights, was a lie, for its first thought was to trample on the national ...
— Romantic Spain - A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) • John Augustus O'Shea
... The Emperor pettishly replied: "I shall see: it has never been my intention, to refuse to abdicate. I was a soldier; I will become one again: but I want to be allowed, to think of it calmly, with a view to the interests of France and of my ...
— Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II • Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon
... and was silent. After a few moments' climbing she said, almost pettishly, "Where is ...
— Jeff Briggs's Love Story • Bret Harte
... she exclaimed, pettishly. "If you are in love, what does it matter? I can't think why you always pose as such ...
— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef
... stood waiting for her to speak, but she kept pettishly swinging her small feet, as one who, by the action, means ...
— Much Darker Days • Andrew Lang (AKA A. Huge Longway)
... shall learn," Ryan said pettishly. "You always get your own way, Terence. It was so at Athlone: you first of all began by asking my opinion, and then carried out things exactly as you proposed, yourself. Learning the language is a horrid nuisance, but I see that it has ...
— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty
... fault," she said, pettishly. "I live on cream, and it's no good. Of course, I know I'm an object and a scarecrow; but I'd rather people ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... phrase, as her Valkyria came abreast of her, Elfgiva spoke pettishly: "You see fit to sing a different tune from what you did when you tried to hinder me from this undertaking. I should have brighter hopes if I had not given ear to your advice to send a messenger ahead. If I could ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... forgive you," interrupted Bella pettishly. "You are a false man. Nothing should have prevented you from walking round by Simpson's, as you said ...
— Shifting Winds - A Tough Yarn • R.M. Ballantyne
... clerk obligingly sent a boy over to where Johnny kept his airplane. While she waited for his ring, Mary V went restlessly out to watch the sky toward Tucson. Half an hour slipped away. Mary V was just declaring pettishly that she could walk to Tucson and find out, while she waited for that idiotic clerk, when he called her. Mary V listened, hung up the receiver with trembling fingers, and went to find her mother in ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower
... of the enemy, and bring his shillelagh down on any head accidentally protruding, had been himself attacked. HICKS-BEACH girded at him to-night in comparatively gentle fashion. HARCOURT tossed about on bench and pettishly protested; claimed SPEAKER'S protection; SPEAKER declined to interfere. Then, digging lusty knuckles into moist eyes, he sobbed, "I—I—am not going to stay to be abused in this manner; shan't play!" and so went forth, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 15, 1890 • Various
... she mounted, switched his tail pettishly when she struck him with the quirt, reluctantly obeyed the rein, and set his feet on the first steep pitch of the Devil's Tooth trail. Old as he was, Rab had never gone down that trail and he chose his footing circumspectly. It was no place for a runaway, as Mary ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower
... be out of it, then, madam," answered Miss Gray, not pettishly nor pertly, but with the utmost simplicity.—"Mr. Hartley, will you step into that garden?—and, you, madam, may observe us from the window, if it be the fashion of the ...
— The Surgeon's Daughter • Sir Walter Scott
... come here and interfere?" she continued pettishly, looking up from Talbot to his companion. "I always have such luck, and I'm likely to lose ...
— A Girl of the Klondike • Victoria Cross
... wished himself back at the Horseshoe Bar. He turned his head to look back, blinking at the snow which beat insistently in his eyes; he could not hold them open long enough to see anything, however, so he twitched his ears pettishly and gave ...
— Rowdy of the Cross L • B.M. Sinclair, AKA B.M. Bower
... trick," cried Patience, pettishly; "I wish I had known it, I would have retaliated upon you nicely. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Major Pillichody, to lend a helping-hand ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
... Cursing pettishly, he stood up, threw off Lanyard's arms without thanks, and made a new attempt, this time shooting headlong through the alleyway, to bring up against the wing table in the third forward compartment, the kitchen ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph
... exclaimed the master pettishly, "I don't want to do it, but I shall have to give 'em a dose of grape yet. Why won't the stupid donkeys take a hint? And why, in the name of fortune, should they want to interfere with us at all? Try 'em with grape this time, ...
— The Congo Rovers - A Story of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood
... was I to know?" remarked the Doctor-in-Law pettishly. "I'd never met a single one of Henry the Eighth's wives in my life, and how ...
— The Wallypug in London • G. E. Farrow
... healed,—and the consciousness of it struck him more and more dumb, till his presence was like a damper on the festivities; so much so, that when at three in the afternoon he and Katie took their departure, the door had no more than closed on them before Elspie exclaimed pettishly: "An' indeed I wish Katie'd left Cousin Donald behind. I don't know what it is she thinks so much of him for. She's always sayin' there's none like him; an' it's lucky it's true. The great glowerin' steeple o' ...
— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson
... but she met me with the same affectionate smile that always welcomed my return. Alas! when I look back through the lapse of thirteen years, I think my heart must have been stone not to have been melted by it. She requested me to go downstairs and bring her a glass of water. I pettishly asked her why she did not call a domestic to do it. With a look of mild reproach, which I shall never forget if I live to be a hundred years old, she said, "Will not my daughter bring a glass of water for ...
— McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... them, during which the old gentleman repeatedly pressed the young man's hand, and sometimes reached up and softly patted him on the shoulder. The young man appeared to receive the words and caresses of the old gentleman with a sullen indifference. Several times he pettishly drew his hand away, and at last shook his head fiercely, folded his arms, and seemed (though the spectators could only conjecture that) to stamp the floor with his foot. At this, the old gentleman bowed his head in his hands. The young man held ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton
... can," I said pettishly, for it was bad enough to suffer from one's own feelings, without being troubled at such a time ...
— Through Forest and Stream - The Quest of the Quetzal • George Manville Fenn
... And she pettishly waved away the footman who was bringing her coffee. (All the others refused coffee too except Mavriky Nikolaevitch and me. Stepan Trofimovitch took it, but put it aside on the table. Though Marya Timofyevna was very eager to have another cup and even put out her hand to take it, on second ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... propose a balloon," she continued pettishly. "The gods don't give everything to one person: now, they give us brains, and ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various
... ever pronounced by canonical index, though of far different origin. The oracular voice of Cuvier had declared against the authenticity of all human fossils. Some of the bones brought him for examination the great anatomist had pettishly pitched out of the window, declaring them fit only for a cemetery, and that had settled the matter for a generation: the evidence gathered by lesser workers could avail nothing against the decision rendered at the Delphi of Science. But no ...
— A History of Science, Volume 3(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams
... Ministry, during the reign of one year, one month, one week, and one day; when I came to speak of this, the windows of the room in which Sir Samuel Romilly and his friends were, in the Bush Tavern, opposite where I stood, were pettishly shut down by some one. The moment that the people saw this, they exclaimed, "Look! look! they are ashamed to hear the truth, and they have shut the windows to prevent its coming amongst them." This shutting the windows the populace took as an insult offered to them, and they vociferously demanded ...
— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 2 • Henry Hunt
... thou art a most unmannerly ruffian!" he said pettishly, yet with a vacant smile,—"what question didst thou bawl unmusically in mine ear? Will I be drunk at sunrise? Aye! ... and at sunset too, Sir Malapert, if that will satisfy thee! Hast thou been grudged sufficient wine that thou dost envy me my slumber? What dost thou here? ... where ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli
... had seen a ghost. She was 'sitting with an old gentleman, who was engaged in reading the newspaper; and she saw the figure of a woman advance behind him and look over his shoulder. The narrator then called to the old gentleman to look around. He did so rather pettishly, and said, "Well, what do you want me to look round for?" The figure either vanished or went out of the room, and he resumed the reading of his newspaper. Again the narrator saw the same figure of a woman come in and look over his shoulder, bending forward her head. This ...
— Memories of Hawthorne • Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
... his Lordship, jerking his imprisoned legs pettishly, "if I didn't happen to be sitting trussed up here, and we had a couple of pair of muffles, why we might have had a friendly 'go' just to take each ...
— The Amateur Gentleman • Jeffery Farnol et al
... believe me," she said pettishly. "Go and find papa; perhaps he'll manage to understand that I am speaking ...
— The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) - Une Vie and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant 1850-1893
... Alec," said Cynthia, not unkindly, yet just a little pettishly. The great moment of her life—surely as great a moment as there had ever been in anybody's life—had hardly earned adequate recognition from Mary. As usual, her feelings and Alec's were at one. Before they passed ...
— The Secret of the Tower • Hope, Anthony
... Master Robert Fowler pause more than once in his work to heave a deep sigh, and throw down his tools almost pettishly? Why did he suddenly put his fingers in his ears as if to shut out an unwelcome sound, resuming his work thereafter with double speed? No one was speaking to him. The mid-day air was very still. The haze that often broods over the north-east coast veiled the ...
— A Book of Quaker Saints • Lucy Violet Hodgkin
... the matter with that dog?" she complained pettishly. "Surely, after howling like a starved dingo all night—be quiet, Pepper! One of you is enough." Rose's terrier was up ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... to prevaricate, all that remained for me to do was to return no reply. But there was stubbornness in my silence; I should have liked to say pettishly: "But you won't let me explain, ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond
... asperity of manner for her, for that very morning the old housekeeper at Prospect Hill had ventured to remonstrate with her for "running after the parson." "Pray, where is the wrong? What harm can come of it?" and she tossed her head pettishly. ...
— The Rector of St. Mark's • Mary J. Holmes
... was clouded instantly as by a shadow of disappointment. She turned her head as if to hide this from his eyes, answering carelessly, a little pettishly: ...
— The Duke Of Chimney Butte • G. W. Ogden
... me to meet the enemy without you in the morning;—is that your intention?" asked La Tour, pettishly. ...
— The Rivals of Acadia - An Old Story of the New World • Harriet Vaughan Cheney
... pettishly and, with sullen face, accompanied him to the camp. It was all she could do to hide her anger when, in full sight of the guides, he swept her up into his arms and kissed her several times. Possibly she would have been really angered, deeply angered, had she ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips
... "Sit there," she exclaimed pettishly, pointing to a Morris chair which stood close to the sofa. "I prefer to have the person I'm talking to face me." Without remark Foster made himself comfortable, first, however, pulling down the shade to protect his eyes from the ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... that, if any body does," said his wife, pettishly, and in a half-whimpering voice. "I think ...
— Trumps • George William Curtis
... been a troublesome office," he continued, almost pettishly. "We sent out Mr. Forbes only six months ago, on account of his health, which required a warmer climate, and now his medical man reports that his life is not worth three ...
— Mugby Junction • Charles Dickens
... the bad weather," she retorted pettishly because it was the only remark she could think ...
— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow
... Rylton pettishly. "I can't afford to think about it. I tell you he must marry her. It has come to the very last ebb with us now, and unless Maurice consents ...
— The Hoyden • Mrs. Hungerford
... for Helen Brabazon," she said pettishly. "A very little of her would bore me to death. But still, I amused myself at dinner last night thinking what I should do if I had all ...
— From Out the Vasty Deep • Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
... how often, when her mother had asked for some little help, it had been given so pettishly as to make that mother's face grow sad. She forgot how often, when Charlie had made some little request for entertainment, she had turned away, until now he never asked Belle for anything when Nannie was in the room. ...
— Nanny Merry - or, What Made the Difference • Anonymous
... him," she said. "They are to be married the —— day of April, which leaves us only five weeks more, as they will start at once for Terrace Hill. Do, Anna, look interested," she continued, rather pettishly, as Anna did not seem very attentive. "I am so bothered. I want to see you alone," and she cast a furtive glance at Adah, who left the room, while madam plunged at once into the matter ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes
... of all patience with his impertinence," said Isabella Gonzales, to herself, pettishly. "I don't know what ...
— The Heart's Secret - The Fortunes of a Soldier, A Story of Love and the Low Latitudes • Maturin Murray
... to know what it is?" said Mr. Arnold, half pettishly, and forgetting that his knowledge had not extended even to the interpretation of ...
— David Elginbrod • George MacDonald
... pettishly, "the prospect of being speedily released from our company has wrought a ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... nothing at all," she declared, nervously and pettishly. "It is all an awful mistake. I wish that dreadful man could be punished severely for what he said to me. To be outraged and insulted this ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... Marquis retorted pettishly, "but I don't. I don't see. And I beg to remind you, M. de Rosny, that this lad is my wife's second cousin through her step-father, and that I shall resent any interference with him. I have spent enough and done enough in the King's service to have my wishes respected in a small ...
— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman
... Zell pettishly, "you know well enough that by the time we were sixteen our heads were so full of beaux, parties, and dress, that French and music were a bore. We went through the fashionable mills like the rest, and if father had continued worth a million or so, no one would ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe
... that before," said Alice, pettishly. "Do not keep repeating the same thing over and over; you know it is one of your bad habits. Will you stay to lunch? Miss Carew ...
— Cashel Byron's Profession • George Bernard Shaw
... of the third song Arnold still made no response, when not the flicker of an eyelid or the faintest dawn of a smile showed either approbation or pleasure, the spoiled child threw her guitar aside, and spoke pettishly. ...
— Frances Kane's Fortune • L. T. Meade
... Mr. Shaw stroked his sulky daughter's cheek, hoping to see some sign of regret; but Fanny felt injured, and would n't show that she was sorry, so she only said, pettishly, "I suppose I can have my flowers, now the ...
— An Old-fashioned Girl • Louisa May Alcott
... was 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 do so, but she did not realize that ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various
... "Ah," she pettishly replied, "do not speak to me! If I had not bitten you, who knows what fine things you would have put into your ...
— Undine - I • Friedrich de la Motte Fouque
... pettishly. "Don't be silly. I am used to having young men not see anybody but my mother when she comes into a room, and it is quite right, too. I don't think there ever was a woman so ...
— 'Doc.' Gordon • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
... threw up her hands in horror. "You don't really mean that you want any of those hungry-looking dogs around, do you, Flossie?" she protested pettishly. "Seems as though you'd be satisfied with riding the horses tomboy style without going to ...
— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge
... Honor exclaimed in mock horror, "truly, you've quite deafened me with that terrible shout," and she frowned pettishly, putting her little gloved hands ...
— Honor Edgeworth • Vera
... well to talk," said the Mole rather pettishly, he being new to a river and riverside life and ...
— The Wind in the Willows • Kenneth Grahame
... must say I didn't expect you to ask that question," said Mr. Carrington pettishly. "What kind of terms was the late Lord Loudwater likely to be on with his heir? They ...
— The Loudwater Mystery • Edgar Jepson
... spluttered Pop, reaching reluctantly into his pocket for the money. "Jeff, he done some pullin' himself—I wish I knowed," he added pettishly, "just how big a fool ...
— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower
... went wrong'; I said 'if anything happened,'" corrected Marian pettishly. "And I don't know why you should say 'poor Charles.' He would be perfectly happy if he was here with me, and so should I. He understands things—oh, ...
— The Path to Honour • Sydney C. Grier
... would not smile at this little joke. She pulled pettishly away when good friend Anna placed her hand upon her forehead to see if ...
— Christmas Light • Ethel Calvert Phillips
... pettishly. "She's in league. You don't know. She as good as killed my mother; I know that. But it's not only her by a long chalk. She just sucks you dry. I know. And that's what she'll do for me; because I'm like her—like my mother, I mean. She simply hates to see ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors
... he said, pettishly. 'You'll make a fuss. You've made yourself quite nervous; and I'll ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... as he wasn't coming here, why did you give me such a fright?" she said pettishly. "Are you nervous because a single ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... entirely!" exclaimed Mrs Gilmour a little pettishly. "I suppose I shall never hear the last about that, nor poor Sarah either. Come on now, dearie; we must ...
— Bob Strong's Holidays - Adrift in the Channel • John Conroy Hutcheson
... found it, Mr. Firm, I suppose," I answered, rather pettishly, for I never had liked Firm's incessant bitterness about my nugget. "Perhaps if you had found it, Mr. Firm, you would have had great faith ...
— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore
... laughter cut across his words. The doctor frowned pettishly and made as though to turn away. But Peter still held his hand and would ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm - Novelised From the Play • David Belasco
... trust Rosie with Arthur and me," said Fanny, a little pettishly. "There are so many things that Graeme don't approve of. She thinks we would ...
— Janet's Love and Service • Margaret M Robertson
... riddance!" cried Aurora violently, almost pettishly. "I don't really like them, anyhow. It's too easy just to write your name on a check. At first I thought I was living in a fairy-tale; but once you've got used to it, it doesn't compare with the fun you get the old-fashioned ...
— Aurora the Magnificent • Gertrude Hall
... her own way," said Adah, pettishly. "Emily Warren, thee shouldn't pet her so if thee doesn't want to be bothered ...
— A Day Of Fate • E. P. Roe
... me uncomfortable," he exclaimed pettishly. "But you shan't. No, my dear, you shan't." He let himself sink back again and joining the tips of his fingers contemplated the ceiling. But Margaret was in the mind to try. She shot out her words at him like so ...
— Witness For The Defense • A.E.W. Mason
... clerk expected his superior to echo his own bewilderment, he was disappointed. Mr. MacGentle unclosed his eyes, looked up, and answered rather pettishly,— ...
— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne
... from the conversation of the major, who soon returned to the table, that at the moment his wife was kicking at him pettishly with her foot the ship gave a roll, and she, losing her balance, the catastrophe lately witnessed had occurred; a lesson, as he observed with a wink, by which he piously hoped she ...
— The Young Rajah • W.H.G. Kingston
... pettishly. "I simply do not require your services. You are paid up to Saturday night, and I owe you nothing. Now, ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces • Edith Van Dyne |
