"Crossly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... She spoke crossly, almost angrily. Cosmo seemed to himself to understand her entirely. Had she looked well-to-do, he would have taken the loaf, promising to send the money; but he could not bring himself to trouble the thoughts of a poor woman, possibly with a large family, to whom the price ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald
... crossly. "What's the use of it? I can talk as well as I want to without bothering about grammar, and I don't understand it ...
— Pixie O'Shaughnessy • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... You're wound up, by the sound of you,' she said to him, as if crossly. But she could never be ...
— England, My England • D.H. Lawrence
... to be 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 ...
— Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth
... muttered crossly to herself, as the train bearing the Brabazons Londonwards steamed out of the station. She brushed her hand across her eyes as she hopped briskly into the car which had brought them to the station, giving the chauffeur the order "Home!" in a ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... wait 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
... 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
... should," said Harry rather crossly. "It's a great bore having her here at all, and if I'm barely civil to her that's all I shall manage. They won't stay more than a few days, I suppose." After a second he went on: "Her mother wouldn't know my mother, though after her death the father ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
... 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
... dwarf; at which Olive felt so provoked that she could have stamped her feet with irritation. But as thinking crossly seemed in this country to be quite as bad as speaking crossly, she had to try to swallow down her vexation as well ...
— A Christmas Posy • Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth
... through door from inner rooms partly dressed, with a towel in his hands, evidently making much preparation to clean himself). Daniel! (Loudly and crossly.) Daniel! ...
— The Drone - A Play in Three Acts • Rutherford Mayne
... not say that," returned Claudet, crossly, "but after all, you do not carry your name written on your face, and, by Jove! as guardian of the seals, I have some responsibility—I want information, ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... 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
... ever brightened and bothered a home. Merry from morning until night, with scarcely ever a pause in her constant flow of fun; thoughtless, nearly always selfish too, as the constantly thoughtless always are. Not sullenly and crossly selfish by any means, only so used to think of self, so taught to consider herself utterly useless as regarded home, and home cares and duties, that she opened her bright brown eyes in wonder whenever she was ...
— Ester Ried • Pansy (aka. Isabella M. Alden)
... the 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 ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... tell you?" said the Rat very crossly. "And, now, look here! See what you've been and done! Lost me my boat that I was so fond of, that's what you've done! And simply ruined that nice suit of clothes that I lent you! Really, Toad, of all the ...
— The Wind in the Willows • Kenneth Grahame
... this means of making the rehearsal go more quickly. Genevieve, who was also excluded, kept the Count company, and tried to distract him; but he was in a very despondent humour. When he saw the Duke arrive so late, he said, somewhat crossly, "He ...
— The Idol of Paris • Sarah Bernhardt
... Neville, on this subject as on most others. He said, crossly, "It's a beastly habit, unlegitimatised union. When I say beastly, I mean beastly; nothing derogatory, but merely like the beasts—the ...
— Dangerous Ages • Rose Macaulay
... her eyes and, seeing Jeanne, she rose to her feet suddenly. They stood face to face, so close that they touched one another. The stranger said crossly: "What! are you up? You will be ill, getting up at this time of night. Go ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... to 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; Lowndes of the Civil Service, on ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling
... with you, feller?" inquired Tubbs crossly. Though he now recollected the circumstances under which they were found, Ralston's presence robbed the situation of any seriousness for him. It did not occur to Tubbs that any one who knew him could possibly do ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart
... person," Frances broke in crossly, "always takes advantage of a little notice. Why, he looked at you as if you ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... crossly, "if hearing's not believing, perhaps seeing is! Look at these pictures; they're not particularly ...
— Max • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... could not utter a word for several minutes. He was too angry. But the Queen said, "My dear child, don't interfere," quite crossly, for she was frightened. ...
— The Book of Dragons • Edith Nesbit
... comical air of virtue. Once in a great while it would happen that on my spurring up from the rear of the column I would be mistaken for one of the pack-horses attempting illegally to get ahead. Immediately Dinkey or Buckshot would snake his head out crossly to turn me to the rear. It was really ridiculous to see the expression of apology with which they would take it all back, and the ostentatious, nose-elevated indifference in Bullet's very gait as he marched haughtily by. So rigid did ...
— The Mountains • Stewart Edward White
... commanded the artist, crossly. "I've said all I wanted to. I've no interest at all in what you and your friends have ...
— Whistler Stories • Don C. Seitz
... more annoyed than anything else," said Jim crossly to Elsie, when the final arrangements were being ...
— A Child of the Glens - or, Elsie's Fortune • Edward Newenham Hoare
... no treacle," said the old woman, crossly, whereupon there followed a sharp dialogue between the two women in their unknown tongue, and one of the small sphinxes snatched at the bread-and-bacon, and began to eat it. At this moment the tall girl, who had gone a few yards off, came back, and said something which produced a strong effect. ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... crossly, with obvious allusion to Sofya's marrying Yagitch. "Par depit is all the fashion nowadays. Defiance of all the world. She was always laughing, a desperate flirt, fond of nothing but balls and young men, and all of a sudden off ...
— The Darling and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... lit the world into a splendid joy, and was 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 ...
— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay
... as they know how to be," answered Belle crossly. "Boys are nothing but rough, rude miseries; and the next time Tony Luttrell tells me to 'bubble along' as he did Mamie Sue and me, when Mamie Sue only wanted to stop him to give him a piece of fudge, I am going to tell him what ...
— Phyllis • Maria Thompson Daviess
... coming, at any rate," said Peggy, rather crossly. "Bunty sent me to find out if everybody had really gone. Toddlekins will have to get a taxi, that's all. Whew! I'm being blown to bits! I want to get back to my pen-painting. I'm making a birthday present for my ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... not!" cry I, 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
... out her arms, from which hung graceful pendants of lace and ribbons, but the sleepy child clung to her father and whimpered crossly. ...
— By the Light of the Soul - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... 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 ...
— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett
... asked why she had not spoken the day before, she said that "Jesus Christ 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 ...
— Benign Stupors - A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type • August Hoch
... "Mais certainement," said Froissart crossly. "This is simple police work, which I have done a thousand times. I could do it on ...
— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone
... he would let her do some scrubbing for a bit of fish, because she hadn't any dinner for her children, and had been disappointed of a day's work. Mr. Cutter was in a hurry and said 'No', rather crossly, so she was going away, looking hungry and sorry, when Mr. Laurence hooked up a big fish with the crooked end of his cane and held it out to her. She was so glad and surprised she took it right into her arms, and thanked him over and over. He told her to 'go along ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... 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 the bird away and forbidden her ...
— Japanese Fairy Tales • Yei Theodora Ozaki
... Tarasconais waits a little longer, walking up and down in front of the door before entering. In the end, tired of waiting for "them" and certain that they will not show themselves, he throws a last look of defiance into the dark and mutters crossly "Nothing... nothing... always nothing" With that our hero goes in to ...
— Tartarin de Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet
... Danby passed Mrs. Grieve by, in quest of metal more attractive; Lord Driffield, the Dean, Canon Aylwin, and David stood absorbed in conversation; while Lady Driffield transferred her attentions to Mr. Shepton, and the husband of the lady by the fire walked up to her, insisting, somewhat crossly, on waking her. Lucy was ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... softened, "don't feel so" "I'll not sing a note!" "For shame, Polly, if the Little Brown House teachings are forgotten like this" Polly turned and waved her music-roll at them "I'm not going to lecture you" "Don't stop me," cried Pickering crossly "I'm going home," declared Charlotte "What do you say?" cried Polly "Oh, Polly, are you hurt?" Old Mr. King drew up his chair to oversee it all "You come along yourself, Dobbs," said Joel pleasantly "I'll help you; I'm strong," said ...
— Five Little Peppers Grown Up • Margaret Sidney
... Sam demanded crossly. Penrod's reiteration of his new-found phrase, "for the main and simple reason", had been growing more and more irksome to his friend all day, though Sam was not definitely aware that the phrase was the cause ...
— Penrod and Sam • Booth Tarkington
... you are right?" demanded the First Assistant, crossly. Her feet were stinging. "'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.'" This was a favorite quotation of hers, although not Browning. "Nurses in hospitals are there to carry out the doctor's orders. Not to think or to say what they think unless they are asked. ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... he returned crossly. "I just don't like it. I don't want to be made love to. That's one of the mistakes women are always making. They think all men want to be made love to by ...
— Ladies Must Live • Alice Duer Miller
... a screech of his own and clapped his hands over his ears. "What did you do that for?" he said crossly, "just when I was beginning to get ...
— The Swiss Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... down near her niece, "why will you worry me in this dreadful way, and make me speak so crossly to you? I cannot tell you, Helen, what a torment it is to me to see you throwing yourself away in this fashion; I implore you to stop and think before you take this step, for as sure as you are alive you will regret it all your days. Just think of it how you will feel, and ...
— King Midas • Upton Sinclair
... the matter with you?" asked Marian crossly. "You make me tired. Why did you say to that old dragon that she'd been kinder to us than we deserved? It wasn't necessary. The idea of her turning us out of Madison Hall. And we can't do anything to stop ...
— Jane Allen: Right Guard • Edith Bancroft
... Vaux, before those fetes had taken place. La Fontaine, sauntering about from one to the other, a wandering, absent, boring, unbearable shade, who kept buzzing and humming at everybody's shoulder a thousand poetic abstractions. He so often disturbed Pellisson, that the latter, raising his head, crossly said, "At least, La Fontaine, supply me with a rhyme, since you say you have the run ...
— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas
... we did," 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. ...
— The Wonderful Bed • Gertrude Knevels
... delightedly. He kicked his legs and showed all his little white teeth. Angel opened his eyes and stared at us crossly. "What a beastly row," he said. "I want ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche
... be hanged!" he said crossly. "I don't want any stuccoed, over-grown Dutch farm. I might as well be at Roehampton as in ...
— The Moon Endureth—Tales and Fancies • John Buchan
... thankful. Didn't I tell you so before?" said she, somewhat crossly. "But it's a sad life, this living alone. I declares I envy Hannah, 'cause she's got Jemima to sit in the kitchen with her. I want her to sit with me ...
— Framley Parsonage • Anthony Trollope
... door now in a zigzag course, and when they passed Honor, Jimsy stayed their progress. He held out his hand and spoke to her, but he did not meet her eyes. "Gimme ring," he said, crossly. ...
— Play the Game! • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... crossly, "you have no business in our garden. As for the hen, I shall keep it; it is always flying in here and plaguing us, and my father told me I might catch it and keep it the next time it got in, and it is in ...
— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) - Classic Tales And Old-Fashioned Stories • Various
... medical men are in any particular danger?" asked Sophia, bashfully, but with great anxiety. "I think they must be, going among so many people who are ill. If there is a whole family in the fever in a cottage at Crossly End, as Mrs Howell says there is, how very dangerous it ...
— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau
... man, and to force him to move; but the man sat as a dead weight, and only mumbled crossly, ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin
... 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 ...
— Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School - Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities • Jessie Graham Flower
... Stancy, this is provoking perseverance!' cried Paula, laughing half crossly. 'I expected that after expressing my decision so plainly the first time I should not have been further urged upon the subject.' Saying which she turned and moved ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... crossly. "Stop insulting him! Don't you suppose he has wits enough to go home without ...
— The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle • Hugh Lofting
... Prince Eugen crossly. 'Why this sudden seriousness? Don't forget that I have an appointment with Mr Sampson Levi, and must not keep him waiting. Someone said that punctuality ...
— The Grand Babylon Hotel • Arnold Bennett
... you're rather inconsiderate," she said, crossly. "You start up my curiosity and then you make fun of me. I don't think I like the way you treat me, ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... Sophy, almost crossly, and getting up from the floor quickly, as though resolved to ...
— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Gunson, crossly. "Lie down, you two fellows, and go to sleep. He was dreaming, Gordon. Don't listen to ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... money to lend," said the beggar crossly. "Methinks you are as young a man as I, and as well able to earn a supper. So go your way, and I'll go mine. If you fast till you get aught out of me, you'll go hungry for the ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
... in. Mr. Ridding didn't know them. No class, he thought, looking them over; and was seized with a feeling of sulky vexation suitable to twenty when he saw with what enthusiasm the Twinklers flew to meet them. They behaved, thought Mr. Ridding crossly, as if they were the oldest ...
— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
... in crossly, "if you think I'm too much trouble, you can just drop me down in the snow anywhere and I'll take care ...
— Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds • Archibald Lee Fletcher
... jerked her eyes open with a start. "For mercy's sake, do we have to stay out here all night?" she demanded crossly. "I can stand a picnic supper, if I have to, but it's no picnic for me to have to ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... 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 cousin ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... any more of these things," she said crossly; "I cannot help them. I have my own troubles to think of. ...
— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw
... given that wretched dog such an enormous dinner he wouldn't have had that fit," she said crossly. "I warned her—but she said she couldn't starve the poor dog—he would soon be all she had left, etc. ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... look round!' he exclaimed crossly. 'What have I done to make you behave like that? Come, Miss Garland, be fair. 'Tis no use to turn your back upon me.' As she did not turn he went on—'Well, now, this is enough to provoke a saint. Now I tell you what, ...
— The Trumpet-Major • Thomas Hardy
... thought, shutting my eyes crossly. "Why don't she let a fellow be in peace, then? It is very hard that I can't get a ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, April, 1858 • Various
... child," said Mrs. Carroll, not crossly, but with a distracted air, pushing aside Angela's clinging, eager arms. "I've got more than enough to think of as it is. Of ...
— The Carroll Girls • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... prepared for the abrupt change in both 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
... exclaimed crossly. "Not clear enough! But on a fine day ye can see Axe and Axe Edge.... Finest ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... multitude of sins," said Bell, crossly, giving a vindictive snap with her scissors, "but it won't begin to cover the enormity of Mrs. Upjohn's transgressions on this occasion. You gentlemen must be very devoted to atone to us for the button-holes. There's ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... nearly midnight; we are going. Will he come with us, or is he to stay here?" Doktorenko asked crossly of ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... coming out?" he asked, crossly, alluding to some figure descending the steps of his house—for his sight was not what it used ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 • Various
... speak any way to him," I said crossly. "I don't see that it was very kind to want to send me away from the boys. Mother told me I was to take care of them, and I'm going to do ...
— The Boys and I • Mrs. Molesworth
... feller!" The woman started inside. "Wait a minute," she said crossly, and shut the door in ...
— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen
... 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 ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... the lot of ye live, man?" asked Clowes, crossly. "Hast not had word that Jersey has enacted a general act of forfeiture and escheatage 'gainst ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... getting into trouble," Will said, rather crossly, as he stood looking down. "They have a way of running into most of their dangers at night, too. It was the same up on Lake Superior, the same in the snake-haunted Everglades of Florida; the same on the Rocky Mountains, and the same ...
— Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns • Major Archibald Lee Fletcher
... 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
... because she had become nervously aware that her husband had looked at her rather crossly a moment ago, blurted out, "There's no fear of that, miss. We sent off a lot this morning to Harwich. I expect they'll have been able to get a boat there all right——" She stopped suddenly, for her husband had just made a terrible face at her—a face full of ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... said Mr. Redmain, crossly. "What's the good of sitting there saying nothing! How am I to forget that the pain will be here again, if you don't say a word ...
— Mary Marston • George MacDonald
... a rather noisy debate on the impropriety of their master's behavior; and little Alfred, finding his brother was not speaking, ventured to remind him of his promise. Contrary to his usual habit, Hamilton turned quite crossly to him: ...
— Louis' School Days - A Story for Boys • E. J. May
... fun of me," she replied, crossly, "I happen to know her quite well by sight, and she isn't a bit like me. And it's an odd thing you should have mentioned her, for it so happens she's just come into the room. That lady in black, with the yellow plume in her hat, there ...
— The Toys of Peace • Saki
... encumbrance, and only drew attention to them when she wished to impress people with the hardships of her lot. The natural result was that the boy and girl only knew her as mother by name; they feared her, and would shrink to Emma's side when Kate began to speak crossly. ...
— Demos • George Gissing
... at anything," returned Mollie crossly, fishing in vain for the lost stitch. "If the poor soldiers depended upon the sweaters you made, Grace, I'd feel sorry for ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Army Service - Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys • Laura Lee Hope
... you like." He answered her crossly, and she heard the tone. But he was aware of it also, and felt that he was disgracing himself. There was none of the half-hour of joy which he had promised himself. He had struggled so hard to give her everything, ...
— An Old Man's Love • Anthony Trollope
... ran 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 ...
— The Louisa Alcott Reader - A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School • Louisa M. Alcott
... '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 ...
— Ruth Fielding At College - or The Missing Examination Papers • Alice B. Emerson
... she explained almost crossly, though her voice was sweet, because it was never otherwise than sweet. "Either ...
— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... on then," said Katherine crossly. Then she added, "I suppose it was kind of foolish to expect a big boat like that to stop and pick up a bunch of folks that didn't know any better than to climb into an old lighthouse and let ...
— The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle - The Trail of the Seven Cedars • Hildegard G. Frey
... she, rather crossly, "why didn't you tell me, and I'd have tidied the room. It is all hugger-mugger, ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade
... word; and as he seemed to be nearing the confines of the hole, the poor digger redoubled his exertions. When at length it became plain that there was no fox there, he wiped his streaming brow, and rather crossly exclaimed, 'I'm afraid ...
— Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier - Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter • James Inglis
... Frog crossly. "Don't you know that it is very impolite to disturb people when they are having ...
— Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories • Thornton W. Burgess
... to keep out of the way?" he demanded crossly. "Didn't I tell ye the fire department ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers
... asked her crossly what she wanted, and Costanza's head went on one side with delight at the sheer music of her voice. She said, after waiting a moment in case the music was going to continue, for she didn't wish to miss any of it, that ...
— The Enchanted April • Elizabeth von Arnim
... "Well enough," answered Mervyn crossly, as he rolled about in an arm-chair that stood away in the furthest corner. "But oh, it is silly to be sticking up here when the dinner is ready down-stairs—oh, I smell it, and it does smell nice! and I am so hungry, and it's very stupid of you to ...
— Naughty Miss Bunny - A Story for Little Children • Clara Mulholland
... "Yes, stupid," said Elsie, crossly; "I always said mother favoured Robbie, and so she does. Why he has new things much oftener than you, and you're older too. Do you and me have boots and stockings for week-a-days? then why should Robbie? Don't you wonder why ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... crossly, aggrievedly, but every trace of displeasure had fled from the little girl's face at his words. She clapped her ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... I don't mind," said Helen a little crossly. "It is that you and Meg are both so absurdly grave about it, when there's nothing to be grave ...
— Howards End • E. M. Forster |
