The truth of this statement may be relied on, because that paper is not in the habit of exaggerating French successes, or of aggravating British sufferings.
We went to the river with Wu as soon as breakfast was over and spent an aggravating hour trying by alternate threats and cajoling to persuade the remaining ferryman to cross the river to us.
It is another aggravating thing, when you wish, years afterwards, to arrange a series of letters, to find them dated "Feb.
Then I'll go to my aunt Sarah;--he shall never see me again, an aggravating creature.
To interpret Virgil differently from the modern Stagirite, was, by the aggravating art of the ridiculer, to be considered as the violation of a moral feeling.
Come," said FRED in his aggravating way, "that's no compliment to me.
We might expect to meet also there a disposition to smooth instead of aggravating the nuisances of the passport system, and, behold, we find an official with all the French bureaucratic humbug, and without a knowledge of our tongue.
There is nothing so aggravating as to be obliged to talk to a person who will persist in only answering with a negative or an affirmative.
It's so extremely aggravating to get to a place and find you've left at home what you most particularly need.
An impudent woodpecker seated on a limb above her commenced an insistent, aggravating tapping.
She is the most aggravating human being I ever saw.
She thought that she would learn the phrase, and repeat it over when she looked at herself in the glass, or when Kitty and Harry became more than usually aggravating about her personal appearance.
When I tell him that I have not the smallest scrap of influence over you, he simply does not believe me; and then he has such an aggravating way of drawing comparisons between you and that icy-mannered girl, Hester.
Bearing this in mind we can behave with serenity in the presence of our most aggravating foe; his worst manifestation of himself fails to provoke us to retort in kind.
The most aggravating thing about annoyances of this kind is that they are inflicted by the very few, and suffered by the very many.
Forbes put in a few deliberate touches, moving his head from side to side, and with aggravating slowness said, "What do you want to go to Virginia for?
A schooner could do better than a square-rigged vessel under such circumstances, but that wind was an aggravating trial to a ship-load of excited privateersmen.
A bitter, revengeful, implacable feeling was everywhere increasing, for severalaggravating causes.
How if we invented one or two cases of refusal of burial with aggravating circumstances?
The government deputies were afraid to dissatisfy their constituents by aggravatingthe burdens of the service.
Mr Lillyvick--rather sharply; for he had not known what Nicholas was, on the previous night, and it was rather an aggravating circumstance if a tax collector had been too polite to a teacher.
He felt doubly generous--in having such broad views and in not aggravating the misfortunes of the less lucky by expressing them.
It was really extraordinary that anyone so stupid as Maud should so often succeed in hitting upon just the most aggravating thing to say under the circumstances.
Nancy was really the most aggravating of creatures!
The aggravating circumstances which concur in our case are indeed many, and they are so grave that any one of them is enough reason for imposing the death penalty or for qualifying the crime.
And these murders were attended with such grave circumstances, aggravating the crime, that he would have to be punished with death even if he had not confessed the murders.
As the trial of the criminals advanced, there were many arguments made on the matter, laying stress on all the more aggravating circumstances which accompanied this horrible massacre.
But it is otherwise when, as in our case, excess and contempt of law is present and aggravating circumstances and qualities concur.
Hast thou plunged thy house in calamity, and will no worthier wish occur to thee, than to leave it to its sorrows and distress, with the aggravating pangs of causing thy afflicting, however blamable self-desertion?
It is an aggravating circumstance that while there is hardly anything in the way of change and holiday that is so splendid as a golfing holiday, there is hardly any kind that is so easily spoiled.
When she had stared at him for a little longer, in an aggravating dumbness, she dropped down on her front feet, and lumbered gently away.
And if the cub objected, a huge paw would deftly turn him over and clean the other side with aggravating thoroughness.
On the other hand, the practice of dwelling only on the aggravating circumstances of a case, will magnify into crime a trifling and otherwise easily forgotten error.
Often to all these causes of infection are added myriads of grasshoppers, which cover the ground, where they die, aggravating the mass of pestiferous vapour which fills the atmosphere.
