"Testily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of yours, Bud," he said testily. "They've got a way of boring through a man until he feels like they were scorching the furniture behind him. Well, I'll tell you. While Judith is away I am running this outfit. And if the men think ...
— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory
... it cheap!' retorted Ralph, testily; 'yes, and he did it well, and carries it off with a hypocritical face and a sanctified air, but you! Risk! What do you mean by risk? The certificates are all genuine, Snawley HAD another son, he HAS been married twice, his first wife IS dead, ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... testily. He wanted Jan to marry him before he went back to India in October, and if he got the billet he hoped for, to follow him, taking the two ...
— Jan and Her Job • L. Allen Harker
... me," said Peter testily to her mother. "The child's a good child enough. But when you force her to stretch her heart over three hundred vicious little imps, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25. • Various
... Bishop, testily. "I have lived so long in the world, and had to do with so many crazy fools, that human vagaries no longer have power to surprise me. And, by our Lady, Sir Knight, I care not where you are, so that you have left safe and well, her peace of mind undisturbed, the woman whom I—acting as mouthpiece ...
— The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century • Florence L. Barclay
... to flatter you, my dear!" said the old man, testily, "but I thought it was pathetic—the way in which Ashe enjoyed your conversation. It showed he didn't get much of it ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... soul!" exclaimed the judge testily. "What is the world coming to? I suppose Tom will be writing me next that he intends to keep a stall in market. Well, you know best, of course. You may do as you please; but may I ask if you are going to bargain in Latin and multiply by criminal law ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... advice, is it?" said the landlord testily. "Well then we shall soon know who is the fool, you or me, for I have spoken to her as it happens; and what is more, she has said Ay, and she is polishing the flagons at ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... Chris testily. "These New York hall-porters are recruited entirely from homes for the feeble-minded. I suppose he was a new man. Well, Pilkington, my boy, I shall expect you at seven o'clock. Goodbye till ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse
... callin' of me Guts," responded Tom, more testily than I had ever heard him speak to Harry, whose every whim and frolic he seemed religiously to venerate and humor; "a fellow doesn't want to have it 'Guts' here, and 'Guts' there, over half a county. Why, ...
— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)
... Whistler's portrait. Looking back at it all, too, I seem to feel, though with no definite reason for it, that she was perturbed and excited about something known only to herself, for she was strangely irritable on our walk, contradicted me fiercely, inquired testily who Nelson might be, then chid me for a dry old schoolmaster, when I told her, and such like flighty vagaries, inseparable, I believed, from her sex in general and her temperament in particular. If I have never taken the trouble to defend myself ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... Alicia," said the King testily, "that you would not call me 'Jack'; at least, not after—not where any of the servants may come in and overhear us. It ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... a little testily, "what did you say was the name of this place, and where away does it lay from 'Frisco?" In very choice Castilian, as Lanky declared, the priest rejoined that he did not understand the language in which Booden was speaking. "Then bring on somebody that does," rejoined ...
— Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) • Constance Fenimore Woolson
... his own wife ought to know where he is," said the postmaster testily. "Didn't he get the telegram? If there is any mistake it is for ...
— Hound of the Baskervilles • Authur Conan Doyle
... almost testily, shaking his sleeve with impatience. "I'll have no putting off for trifles in the court where I sit. There's a capital case to come on this morning. When a man's neck's at stake—when a matter of life and death's at issue—I don't like to keep any one longer ...
— What's Bred In the Bone • Grant Allen
... stomach to the gods," Horace had retorted, "if you will turn over to them your worry about Rome, and pluck the blossom of the hour with me. Augustus is safe in Spain, you cannot be summoned to the Palatine, and to-morrow is early enough for the noise of the Forum. By the way," he added somewhat testily and unexpectedly, "I wish I could ever get to your house without being held up for 'news.' A perfect stranger—he pretended to know me—stopped me to-night and asked me if I thought there was anything in the rumour that ...
— Roads from Rome • Anne C. E. Allinson
... brought her week's account to him. He turned from it testily, but she insisted on his going over it. There was not the mistake of a halfpenny. He went to town with a smile in his heart, and that night brought her home a cheque for ...
— Stephen Archer and Other Tales • George MacDonald
... "Because," he answered testily, "you believe in nothing but what consists with your own prejudices and illusions. I remember when I was like you, but I ...
— Carmilla • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... The old man testily orders a halt. The footman opens the door, and the lady springs lightly out, followed by her maid. Neglecting all other objects in sight, she gazes long and eagerly at the city seated on the hill. The interest she shows is no longer merely ...
— The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters • Sue Petigru Bowen
... the only one, so Barbara had to sit there. "I simply cannot hold on to this sky-scraper!" complained she testily. ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... I not been telling you so for the last half-hour?" said Mr. Dwerrihouse, testily. "That money has to be paid over at half-past eight o'clock this evening, at the office of Sir Thomas's solicitors, on completion of ...
— Stories by English Authors: England • Various
... exclaimed the Chef, testily. "What do you mean by 'certain limitations?' Here is the man whom you accuse, and here is the photograph. Are you, I repeat, prepared to make your deposition before Monsieur le Prefet that they are one and ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
... me," said his chief testily, "that you are not so very healthy-looking yourself. What's the matter with YOUR getting inside as a dope fiend ...
— The Lost House • Richard Harding Davis
... kept him out of the way. I tell you," puts in the captain, testily, "Colonel Raymond would have 'broken' him if he had not been taken at Ball's Bluff. Putnam didn't like to overthrow Raymond's appointee without his full knowledge and consent, and so he hung on till after ...
— A War-Time Wooing - A Story • Charles King
... way to Shaws-Castle," asked Mowbray, rather testily, "to instruct me in the mystery ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott
... you settle for yourself?" cried the doctor, testily. "That is the way you women flatter the pride of ...
— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... said Father Knickerbocker, a little testily I thought, "I'm as democratic and as plain and simple as any man in this city. But when it comes to carrying a handbag in full sight of all this crowd, why, as I said to Peter Stuyvesant about—about"—here ...
— Frenzied Fiction • Stephen Leacock
... Cappy informed his son-in-law testily, "I'll have you know I was managing the Blue Star Navigation Company quite some years before you quit wearing pinafores; so I guess, while you and Skinner are away from the office, we can manage to stagger ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... testily; "what do you take me for? I hope I shan't behave like a cad in my own house! But that is just the nuisance of it: they'll be visitors without being visitors, and they'll be here such an awful time. Thank goodness, there will be term time to look ...
— Queensland Cousins • Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
... Jove, and well I may," said Mr. Folair testily "isn't it enough to make a man crusty, to see the little sprawler put up in the best business every night, and actually keeping money out of the house by being forced down the people's throats while other people are passed over? Why, I know of fifteen-and-sixpence ...
— Ten Girls from Dickens • Kate Dickinson Sweetser
... on that point is more valuable than mine," replied Tom, testily. "It may have been suicide. Men often get sick of life—especially if they are bored," he ...
— The Big Bow Mystery • I. Zangwill
... way, fellows," he cried testily. Next instant he slipped to the ground and disappeared in the darkness, crying "'Ware highwaymen!" In the shine of the coach lamps he had seen Creagh's mask and pistol. The valet Watkins, sitting on the ...
— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine
... the don objected testily, "with what status, pray? Has your country a representative here? You must obtain a letter from your ambassador, ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... and his manner showed that he strongly deprecated all female interest in racing; and when Sarah and Grover came running down the passage and overwhelmed him with questions, crowding around him, asking both together if Silver Braid had won his trial, he testily pushed them aside, declaring that if he had a race-horse he would not have a woman-servant in the place.... "A positive curse, this chatter, chatter. Won his trial, indeed! What business had a lot of female ...
— Esther Waters • George Moore
... not enough strychnine. It would take a great deal of strychnine to poison three elephants effectually," answered the old gentleman testily. ...
— Maiwa's Revenge - The War of the Little Hand • H. Rider Haggard
... "Toison d'Or," councillor and king-at-arms of the Order, said that the President had been seeing visions and talking with Saint Andrew in a dream. Marquis Berghen asked for the source whence he had derived such intimate acquaintance with the ideas of the Saint. The President took these remarks rather testily, and, from trifling, the company became soon earnestly engaged in a warm discussion of the agitating topics of the day. It soon became evident to Viglius that De Hammer and others of his comrades had been dealing with dangerous ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... of common-sense," asked the old gentleman rather testily, "what can be better for a man than ...
— The House of the Seven Gables • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... I do! It's enough to break the horses' necks, and knock one up for the whole day besides," he added testily; then twisted his head to look at the buggy that came on behind. "I thought Waldo was such a mad driver; they are taking it easily enough today," said Gregory. "One would think the black ...
— The Story of an African Farm • (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner
... Bone, that's enough," said old Scofield testily, looking through the stall-window at the horse, with a face anxious enough to show that the dangers of foundering for Coly and for the Union were of about equal importance ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various
... at the Junction if we fool away much more time," he said testily. "I wonder—Why look here! No wonder you can't use ...
— Betty Gordon at Boarding School - The Treasure of Indian Chasm • Alice Emerson
... the anxiety that consumed him being visible to those loving eyes. She knew upon what errand he was going, but not the dangers of it. But he spoke cheerfully to Trevethick, who stood beneath the porch with moody brow, and testily found fault with ...
— Bred in the Bone • James Payn
... offended, and I ain't pleased," answered Matthew, testily; "all I can say is, as I don't like so much cross-questioning. There's a sort of a lawyer chap has come down to-day with my lady, I hear, though I ain't set eyes on him yet; and I suppose he'll find out ...
— Run to Earth - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... you keep company with that man," replied Mrs Potter, testily; "he's for ever quarrelling ...
— The Story of the Rock • R.M. Ballantyne
... I'll warrant," I said to myself testily. "I shall be driven out to sea again, or perhaps, after all, ...
— Hurricane Hurry • W.H.G. Kingston
... testily; "much you know about it. In half an hour you'll wish we had camped on the top of ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens
... anyway. But if the Boss isn't nursing a cracked wrist, it isn't my fault. I don't know what Jeems did to Red, but he, too, departed in a damaged condition. Do you have to do that?" Val demanded testily, squirming as Rupert ran his hands lightly over the boy's shoulders and down his ribs, touching every ...
— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton
... CRAVEN (testily interrupting him). I object to the existence of the place on principle; but what's the use of that? Here it is in spite of my objection, and I may as well have the benefit of any good that may ...
— The Philanderer • George Bernard Shaw
... he replied testily. Then, clasping his jaw in both hands, he began to walk the floor again, groaning dismally. Miss Roberts's tears were flowing. She felt sure that Mr. Baxter's hours were' numbered, and that she would soon be forced to look on at his funeral. ...
— Half a Dozen Girls • Anna Chapin Ray
... dream," said the King testily, "some one must fetch me the Princess Mary Radiant, for if she once smiles on my back-yard it will be turned into a garden with real grass and real flowers—Canterbury bells and sunflowers—that's what I have set ...
— More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme • Ada M. Marzials
... millet, reared without the hot guano of the lash, and who will not accept the reduction of a bale of cotton or a tierce of sugar, though Church and State be disinfected of slavery?[E] It is a drop of planter's gall which the sham-hater shakes testily from his corroded pen. How far the effluvia of the slave-ship will be wafted, into what strange latitudes of temperance and sturdy independence, even to the privacy of solemn and high-minded thought! A nation can pass through epochs of the black-death, and recover and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 65, March, 1863 • Various
... her senses when she finds herself so situated, perhaps," he retorted testily; "and if she does not, it will just ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... an army with banners,'" supplied his host—rather testily, for he was writing a letter. It began "My dear Father. By the time you receive this I shall ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm
... went off and succeeded in gaining an audience with Major Bach, who was found in his office conferring with his juniors. Directly he espied our interpreters he yelled testily: ...
— Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons - Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben • Henry Charles Mahoney
... nonchalantly asked. "Just as you please. We may meet your saint with the insipid eyes in the park." "Good heavens!" he testily answered, "why do you forever drag in that girl's name? She's nothing to me." Mrs. Holda went to the window and he lazily noticed her perfect figure, her raven hair and black eyes. She was a stunner after all, and didn't look a day over twenty-eight. How did she manage to preserve ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... Patricia said testily, "You don't understand, Don. Even if we were so thoroughly in disagreement that we would act unilaterally, we couldn't. You see, this is a three-way discovery. No one of us ...
— The Common Man • Guy McCord (AKA Dallas McCord Reynolds)
... house, and swindle some one else?" he replied, testily; "there's plenty of rooms ...
— Little Classics, Volume 8 (of 18) - Mystery • Various
... his hold on the chair without waiting to shove it up to the table, and precipitately retired to his own place. "That dog's a nuisance!" he said, testily, and was answered with a glare from ...
— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill
... the refrain had become so familiar to Alec, that he unconsciously murmured the last, changed as it was from the preceding form, aloud. Mr Cupples looked up from Gurnall uneasily, fidgeted in his chair, and said testily: ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald
... yourself; Phibbs knows my ways, and does all that is required," said the invalid, rather testily. "Run away, now, Louise. The housekeeper will show you to your room. It's opposite Elizabeth's, and you will do well to make her acquaintance at once. I shall expect you both to dine with ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces • Edith Van Dyne
... old man grew fidgety, moved the slice of bread backwards and forwards as if the fire were at fault, and when, at length, the English lady had fairly conquered the ground, and was started on a long sentence, he could bear the eclipse of his idol no longer, but, coming to the sofa where we sat, he testily said, 'Mrs. Somerville would rather talk on ...
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell
... said the Colonel testily, and when the boys had gone he read the Bazar-Sergeant's son a lecture on the sin of unprofitable meddling, and gave orders that the Bandmaster should keep the ...
— Soldier Stories • Rudyard Kipling
... personality of the commander counted for so much, after the battle joined. In a letter of July 26 to Chauncey, he had written: "The men that came by Mr. Champlin are a motley set, blacks, soldiers, and boys. I cannot think you saw them after they were selected."[75] Chauncey replied, somewhat testily, "I regret you are not pleased with the men sent you; for, to my knowledge, a part of them are not surpassed by any seamen we have in the fleet; and I have yet to learn that the color of the skin, or the cut ...
— Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 2 • Alfred Thayer Mahan
... appear pleased at seeing her. He grunted testily, and, saying "Where is your aunt? Tell her I want to speak to her," led Westray into one of the rooms opening out of ...
— The Nebuly Coat • John Meade Falkner
... Mrs. Gibson, a little testily. 'Only I had expected sympathy from you at such an ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... testily, to draw him out. "Precious little of it you've had! Two years at a school! You're more foreign than you are New ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... to the verandah, and through it came His Excellency the Administrator, Sir Theophilus Shepstone, a stout man of medium height with a very clever, thoughtful face, as I have always thought, one of the greatest of African statesmen. He did not see us, but he caught sight of you and said testily— ...
— Finished • H. Rider Haggard
... mitred,' said Dr Alder, testily; 'a crozier and a mitre are the symbols of their high office. But the Romish abbots of Beorhmynster were not bishops although they ...
— The Bishop's Secret • Fergus Hume
... is my prospective father-in-law?" Richard demanded, almost testily. "There's an atmosphere about that house and the servants I ...
— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... it doesn't," said the SQUIRE, testily; "there are a pair of feet left out. But you know, TOBY, how they run. The last line should be, 'Is to steal a few hours from the night, my Love.' Now, theoretically, and in accordance with order, all our observations are directed personally to the SPEAKER. Imagine ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 8, 1891 • Various
... have somebody?" he asked, testily. "Somebody besides ME, I mean! Why hasn't somebody asked her to go? She ought to be THAT popular, anyhow, I ...
— Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington
... a lady a chair?" he said testily. Leveson offered his chair, upon the extreme edge of which Mrs. Panel deprecatingly seated herself. Uncle Jap eyed her with ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... He answered promptly and testily, "Sick? No, nor never was in my life. Nothin' but blind an' that's a trifle compared to sickness. What you askin' for? Didn't I eat my breakfast ...
— A Sunny Little Lass • Evelyn Raymond
... Rosa, testily. "There is not one syllable of truth in it from Alpha to Omega! I know he is your nephew, and that it is one af the Medo-Persian laws of Ridgeley that the king can do no wrong; but I would sooner believe that Winston ...
— At Last • Marion Harland
... again!" said Rebecca, testily. "Why, ef it comes to talk of simpletons and the like, I guess the pot ...
— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye
... place, Mary, I wouldn't be too smart,' said he testily, and then rested again upon the shovel handle. His face was flushed and heated. He breathed hard. Dead silence ...
— The Trail of a Sourdough - Life in Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan
... the logic of that, Lord Westerham," replied Mr Parmenter a little testily. "If we can put this business through, the dollars couldn't be much better used, and if we can't they won't be much use to me or anyone else. It's worth doing, anyhow, if it's only to show what new-world enterprise helped with old-world brains can do in bringing off a really big ...
— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith
... you won a suit against the Northeastern, and nearly killed a man out West, Tom seems to think you can do anything. He wouldn't, give me any peace until I let him send for you," Mr. Gaylord remarked testily. "Now you're down here, what have you ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... champion," said De Roberval testily. "I have done no wrong. Your friend, whom I trusted, whom I took into my house, whom I saw nursed back to life in this very room, proved a faithless ingrate, and betrayed the trust ...
— Marguerite De Roberval - A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier • T. G. Marquis
... conversation, my man," broke in young Miller, testily. "Lay right alongside, and help get ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham
... you would let my things alone," said Olive testily, throwing down her mittens and veil, and diving into the closet; the general closet, as it was called, where everything, from the kitchen stove-hook to the girls best Sunday-go-to-meeting bonnets, were apt to find a lodging at odd times. "I never can be ...
— Six Girls - A Home Story • Fannie Belle Irving
... said Sandy, testily. "You haven't got to pay for these cards. I'll manage it somehow. Don't you worry yourself ...
— The Boy Settlers - A Story of Early Times in Kansas • Noah Brooks
... ran in first, but after a time, finding the bride did not follow, he put his nose out again, saying testily, 'Well, madam, why don't you follow? Don't you know it's rude ...
— Tales Of The Punjab • Flora Annie Steel
... to Stonor. "Will you question her?" he asked testily. "You are better informed as to ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
... interruption to conversation. It is the interruption of the wandering eye which tells that one's words have not been heard. "The person next to you must be bored by my conversation, for it is going into one of your ears and out of the other," said a talker rather testily to his inattentive dinner-companion whose absent-minded and tardy replies had been snapping the thread of the thought until it grew intolerable. She was perhaps only a little less irritating than the man ...
— Conversation - What to Say and How to Say it • Mary Greer Conklin
... evidently of that truculent disposition which merely growls at blandishments. He snorted and replied testily, "That is all very well, sir, but I don't believe ...
— The Lunatic at Large • J. Storer Clouston
... got any complaints to make about me, Elmer, you'd better make 'em to the town board and not to Alf Reesling and Newt Spratt," interrupted Marshal Crow testily. "Besides I do paste 'em up when I ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... do you suppose?" snapped his stepfather testily. "Come, rout out there, or I'll unhitch a strap somewhere and ...
— The Boys of Bellwood School • Frank V. Webster
... my dear fellow," put in Lord Garrow, testily, "you retired from political life because your theories could find no ...
— Robert Orange - Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange • John Oliver Hobbes
... witness-box had been rattling on in the most voluble manner, until it was impossible to make head or tail of her evidence. Mr. Justice Hawkins, thinking he would try his hand, began with a soothing question, but the old woman would not have it at any price. She replied testily, "It's no use you bothering me. I have told you all I know."—"That may be," replied his lordship, "but the question rather is, do you know all you ...
— Law and Laughter • George Alexander Morton
... typhoids in tomatoes fresh from the vine," Elizabeth replied testily, and Mrs. Hunter dropped ...
— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger
... bowing low, "a great number of ladies from the Faubourg St. Germain are in the small reception-room. They wish to testily their ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach
... know about mercy," said Mr. Vincy, testily. "I know I am worried more than I like with my family. I was a good brother to you, Harriet, before you married Bulstrode, and I must say he doesn't always show that friendly spirit towards your family that might have been expected ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... humor, and avail themselves of it. He was one day disturbed by a pertinacious rattling and shaking at one of the doors, and bawled out in an angry tone to know the cause of the disturbance. "Sir," said the footman, testily, "it's this confounded French lock!" "Ah!" said the old gentleman, pacified by this hit at the nation, "I thought there was something French at the bottom ...
— The Crayon Papers • Washington Irving
... the Lord testily, and somewhat sourly; "thou hast the choice. Have I not told thee that thou art free?" Then Ralph knelt before him, and said: "Lord, I thank thee from a full heart, in that thou wilt suffer me to depart on mine errand, for it is a great one." The scowl deepened ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris
... 'Consequently,' said he testily, 'you sing it when you are seven fathom deep in Hell! It's an insult to the intelligence of the Deity to pretend we're anything ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling
... in the house?" he exclaimed, testily. "I wish you'd light up, evenin's, an' not set here ...
— Meadow Grass - Tales of New England Life • Alice Brown
... silly idea they all have," said the Tortoise testily. "When Blunderbus put this enchantment on me, do you suppose he got a blackboard and a piece of chalk and gave me a lecture on the diet and habits of the common tortoise, before showing me out of the front gate? ...
— Happy Days • Alan Alexander Milne
... testily interposed Lord Hartledon. "I am at dinner, and can't see any stranger now. What are ...
— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood
... oratorio on the subject. His old age and infirmities made him averse to the work. He was greatly annoyed by the text, and still more so by its compiler, who insisted upon changes in the music which Haydn testily declined to make. He was frequently irritated over the many imitative passages, and it was to relieve his own feelings and vary the monotony of the sentiment that he introduced the rollicking bacchanal chorus in the third part. He expressed his ...
— The Standard Oratorios - Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers • George P. Upton
... in the face of that fact—well, of all things, girls do beat me! Thank heaven, I have none of my own!" he added testily. ...
— The Fatal Glove • Clara Augusta Jones Trask
... Alexander never ceased to reproach Henry for not having himself married Margaret, and united Isabel to his brother. Henry, while he testily maintained to Alexander that he had done all he promised, and no further claim could be established against him, yet, as history shows, never to the last hour pardoned Hubert de Burgh for his marriage with the Scottish Princess, and most ...
— Earl Hubert's Daughter - The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century • Emily Sarah Holt
... Lingard, testily, "we know that, and you did your best to cram your boot down his throat. No man likes ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... became curiously condensed. "That is a mistake—it must have been some one else," he said slowly and testily, for he perceived that Venn's ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy
... the Doctor said testily. "The moment the tiger sprang, the woman threw herself down at full length right on the top of my second rifle, and when I went to push her off I think she fancied the tiger had got hold of her, for she gave a yell that fairly made me jump. I had to push her off ...
— Rujub, the Juggler • G. A. Henty
... "Bedside?" said Barbox Brothers testily. "Sings them at the bedside? Why at the bedside, unless he goes to bed drunk? Does, I shouldn't wonder. But it's no business of mine. Let me see. Mugby Junction, Mugby Junction. Where shall I go next? As it came into my head last ...
— Mugby Junction • Charles Dickens
... sirrah!" cried Sir John, testily; and continued, in a virtuous manner: "Was not the apostle reproved for that same sin? Thou art a Didymus, Bardolph;—an incredulous paynim, a most unspeculative rogue! Have I carracks trading in the Indies? Have I robbed the exchequer of late? Have I the ...
— The Line of Love - Dizain des Mariages • James Branch Cabell
... swift, low rustle and the sound of hard breathing, that it had been pounced upon and seized. He scrambled out from beneath the table, snicked on the light, whirled open the door, and was in time to hear the irritable voice of Sir Horace say, testily: "Don't make an ass of yourself by your over-zealousness. I've only come down to have a word with Mr. Narkom," and to see him standing on the threshold, grotesque in a baggy suit of striped pyjamas, with one wrist enclosed as in a steel band by the ...
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew
... squire, rather testily, "that he's a decent man except for his revolutionary notions. He wants to say 'amen' every time Patrick Henry opens his mouth. That, I have no patience with. England has helped us fight our foes. This hullabaloo about ...
— Rodney, the Ranger - With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield • John V. Lane
... me," Mandleco said testily, "that the killer was someone Carmack trusted enough to have in his home. Then you bludgeon Losch with the idea it was a person Carmack had reason to fear! It would seem to ...
— We're Friends, Now • Henry Hasse
... captain testily. "Our watch-dogs are far too wide awake to be caught napping like that. You have been deceived by one of the rumours that are filling the air just now. You can go to your berth and sleep in peace, and to-morrow you shall be half-way ...
— The Angel of the Revolution - A Tale of the Coming Terror • George Griffith
... so," said the old man, not unnaturally starting back. "And if you were going to ask me such an unnecessary question at all," he added, testily, "you needn't have roared it out at me. I could have heard that without my trumpet. Yes, I've lived here forty years, and so has black Maria, who opened the door for you; and I say again that I have accomplished what I have by uninterrupted study. I haven't gone about, bowing ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 • Various
... interrupted PETER F., testily. "You should see the English Education Bill I've had for my boy's ...
— Punch, Or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, Feb. 13, 1892 • Various
... was I to know? I heard Judy Stearns say she stole it," retorted Marian testily. "The whole thing sounded suspicious enough to hang our losses on. Just the same I shall keep on saying now that I believe she stole our stuff. Mrs. Weatherbee needn't think she can make me keep quiet. I have a perfect right to my own belief and ...
— Jane Allen: Right Guard • Edith Bancroft
... as it makes any differ," retorted her uncle, testily. "Marryin' Huldy Spiller ain't no hangin' matter—but hit'll cost that boy his life ef you fuss with him and git him excited ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan
... from the Pan Handle are always hollerin' Texas. I never seen thet Texans had any one else beat—say from Missouri," returned Al, testily. ...
— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey
... doctor testily; "let it go at that! There's treachery, eh? You suspect it? You're sure of it—as reasonably sure as a gentleman can be of something he is not fashioned to understand? That's it, is it? All right, sir—all right! Very well—ver-y well. Now, sir, look at me! Business symptoms admitted, ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers
... friend," said Sam, testily, "how can you, an officer's son, ask me, an officer's son, such a question? The King's (I beg pardon, the ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley
... "mania for business" he was neglecting her and his family in general. She could never get him to sit down and talk sensibly of the birthday and debut party that was now so near. He would always say, testily, "Manage ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe
... "All right, Sim," testily rejoined the aggrieved fat one, "I notice at that, though, that I am a regular scout while you are ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson
... Mister Solomon, do you smoke?" inquired March testily, thinking that this question would reduce his companion ...
— The Wild Man of the West - A Tale of the Rocky Mountains • R.M. Ballantyne
... cried Jem, rather testily, and mending his pace, "or we'st be too late fo' t' round. Whoy yo'n scratted yourself," he added, noticing the ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... Captain Pharo, making an unsuccessful attempt to light his pipe, and kicking out his left leg testily. ...
— Vesty of the Basins • Sarah P. McLean Greene
... must all be asleep!" exclaimed Martin testily. "Sails, where is that lantern you ...
— Fire Mountain - A Thrilling Sea Story • Norman Springer
... your dreaming and go to bed," exclaimed Charley, testily, "instead of carrying back a few thousand dollars' worth of plumes with us, we will all have to hunt for a job, when we get ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... on, or none," said Dirk, testily; "don't go to speak against her pace till you have seen ...
— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley
... good man who had small sense of humor, and he remarked testily "The barkin' disturbs my customers so they canna read." The place was a resort for student laddies who had to be ...
— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson
... then, and the Mayor stepped forward as spokesman, "Name your two conditions," said he rather testily. "You own, tacitly, that you are the cause ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various
... Eri" protested Captain Perez testily. "'Twan't my fault. I didn't see her comin' or I'd have got out of sight. She was cruisin' 'round the way she always does with a cargo of gabble, and, she put in here to unload. Talk! I never heard a woman talk the way she can! She'd be a good one to have on board ...
— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... "Nay," quoth Little John testily, at the same time rising carefully, as though his bones had been made of glass, "I can help myself, good fellow, without thy aid; and let me tell thee, had it not been for that vile cowskin cap of thine, it would have been ill ...
— The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood • Howard Pyle
... upon his physical limitations, however remote or indirect, aroused Jerry's instant ire. "At it again, ain't you?" he cried, testily. "I s'pose you'll forget about that whisky in four or five years. I ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach
... said the other testily; "I know. They were quoted at a shilling last week; they are up to two shillings and threepence. I've got five hundred thousand of them; to be exact," he corrected himself, "I've got a million of them, though half of them are not my property. ...
— The Man Who Knew • Edgar Wallace
... the professor testily, "if there's been any damage done you can tell your superiors to send me a bill and I'll take the matter up in Washington. In the meantime, we will stay here, and if I like it here, I will stay a ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... troubled until he discovered who was the stranger standing in such obvious emotion by the side of an old grave. "Well, you must come back with me to the surgery, for I want you to run an errand for me," he said testily, hoping to pump the boy by the way, but Tommy dived beneath his stick and escaped. This rasped the doctor's temper, which was unfortunate for Grizel, whom he caught presently peeping in at his surgery window. A dozen times of late ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... waste in idle disputation," said the sheriff testily; but he sat down, nevertheless, at his prisoner's bidding, as meekly as if the ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine
... undisturbed. But several shareholders now rose, and the same speaker said testily: "We might as well go home. If the chairman's got no voice, can't somebody read ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... any statesman save Walpole; but Burnet, who did not love him, owns that he was never bitter or angry in speaking of his assailants. Even the wit with which he crushed them was commonly good-humoured. "When will you have done preaching?" a bishop murmured testily, as he was speaking in the House of Peers. "When I am a bishop, my Lord!" was the ...
— History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) - Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 • John Richard Green
... I denied testily. "Because a man reaches the age of thirty without making maudlin love ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... testily intimated, as before, that to be a Carey at all was enough for him. It was his excuse for these confidences, of which he ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... Nat said, testily; "there has been a deal too much fighting already. I understand holding out till the last, when there's a hope of somebody coming to relieve you; but what's the use of fighting, and getting a lot of your men killed, and raising the ...
— With Wolfe in Canada - The Winning of a Continent • G. A. Henty
... testily, "I am not going to do anything of the kind. I and mine have suffered enough at the hands of this family. I rented the house at an exorbitant figure and I have moved out here for the summer. My city home is dismantled and in the hands of decorators. I have ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... do with prejudice," says the colonel testily. "Just facts. The crew of Gilgamesh were all men. Can't risk one solitary woman being found on board. Besides—spacesuits, personal background sets—all designed ...
— The Lost Kafoozalum • Pauline Ashwell
... you boys rush in, in this manner?" demanded old Mr. King testily. "And, Polly, child, what is ...
— Five Little Peppers at School • Margaret Sidney
... rather testily, as they arranged themselves in the car, bound for a dance at the Greenwich Country Club, "you're angry, and I'll be, too, in a minute. Let's kiss and ...
— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... age of twenty-three, after having been four years in the family of Washington as his adviser rather than subordinate, Hamilton, doubtless ambitious, and perhaps elated by a sense of his own importance, testily took offence at a hasty rebuke on the part of the General and resigned his situation. Loath was Washington to part with such a man from his household. But Hamilton was determined, and tardily he obtained a battalion, with the brevet rank of general, ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI • John Lord
... Well, child, that's not much to grieve over, when the Lord has spared his life," said her mother, somewhat testily. ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... as I said before," said Judge Hollenback testily. "It can only be released by an act of yours. That is ...
— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon
... Sousa, appears to be nettled at the prosperous issue of the voyage; for he testily remarks, that "the admiral entered Lisbon with a vainglorious exultation, in order to make Portugal feel, by displaying the tokens of his discovery, how much she had erred in not acceding to his propositions." Europa Portuguesa, ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott
... silence ensued, whereupon the king said testily, "Now, Dandie, you never remember you're the eldern ...
— Penelope's Progress - Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
... sleep!" retorted the colonel testily. "You'll go to your quarters and get into your uniform without a moment's delay. You'll be back here in fifteen minutes, or I'll order you in arrest. And you'll finish out your tour of guard duty. You'll be on duty and awake, sir, ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants - or, Handling Their First Real Commands • H. Irving Hancock
... she replied, testily. 'Tell me how far he's off, instead of giving me your gibberish. Is he a two days' journey away? or ...
— Cousin Phillis • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... your youth," cried Adrian, testily. "However, since there 's no quieting you otherwise, I suppose, for the sake of peace, I 'd best tell you, and have done with it. Well, then,"—he stood off, to watch the effect of his announcement,—"Craford's Folly ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... giving him due notice, which he always imperatively required to be done. When I went off to his house at Palace Gate, presenting myself about five o'clock, he was delighted to see me, as he always was, but I saw he was very uncomfortable and distressed. "Why didn't you tell me," he said testily, "a day or two ago would have done. But now, my dear fellow, the table's full—it's impossible." "What?" I asked, yet not without a suspicion of the truth—for I knew him. "Why, I have a dinner party to-day! De Mussy, the ...
— John Forster • Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
... as she heard these tales. The landlord, like a true story-teller, doubled the dose when he saw how it operated. He was just proceeding to relate the misfortunes of a great English lord and his family, when the Englishman, tired of his volubility, testily interrupted him, and pronounced these accounts mere traveller's tales, or the exaggerations of peasants and innkeepers. The landlord was indignant at the doubt levelled at his stories, and the innuendo levelled at his cloth; he cited half a dozen stories still more ...
— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving
... said his lordship rather testily. "It's perfectly simple: those people down there, whoever they are, have got some way of demagnetising us, or else they've got the R. Force too, and they're applying it against us to stop us going down. Apparently they don't want us. No, that's just to show us that they can stop us if ...
— A Honeymoon in Space • George Griffith
... to prove his wishes?" said Mrs. Petherick, quite testily. "It'll be wish my foot, ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... know very well it's unpleasant," testily answered Mason, "but you might have spared yourself all the suffering you have been undergoing for the past three days had you done as I asked. You know me, Dalton. I've started a desperate game to get your money, ...
— The Bradys Beyond Their Depth - The Great Swamp Mystery • Anonymous
... he snapped, testily. "Ain't I this minute told you? This Ed Farmer had cleared out and run off and he'd took with him every cent of Hall and Company's money that he could rake and scrape. He'd been stealin' and speculatin' for years, it turned out. 'Twas him, the dum thief, him and his stealin's ...
— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln
... from David, faintly and rather testily, as he had groped through his old coat, and had successively dropped the knife and fork, reeking with gravy, into the ...
— In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I - Christmas Tales from 'Round the World • Various
... landlady. The landlord, a somewhat sullen individual, who appeared to be greatly vexed and disconcerted by these events, was already being questioned by the chief as to what he knew of the young man whose body they had just seen, and he was replying somewhat testily. ...
— The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation • J. S. Fletcher
... the child, nor whether there is a child,' Sir George answered testily. 'My uncle may be dead, unmarried, or alive and married—what ...
— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman
... own way,' said Mr. Humpage, testily. 'May I trouble you, Mr. Lightowler, to kindly hand me over that bird—when you have quite finished with ...
— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey
... Mr. Chiverton testily interrupted the young man's words of wisdom: "The fact is, Jack wants to be master himself. Strikes in the manufacturing towns are not unnatural—we know how those mercantile people grind their hands—but since it has come to strikes amongst ...
— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr
... testily. "But I don't care a damn about Schopenhauer and socialism, and I'm sure Mr. Hamilton doesn't. Let's get to the wages paid ...
— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan
... to see him," replied Abner, testily; for, in Joe's absence, his work had to be done by the other ostlers, who did not feel very ...
— Try Again - or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks • Oliver Optic |
