Then came a silence in the room, and the fussy little alarm clock had matters all to itself.
The fussy little alarm clock, on the table piled high with books, was ticking away, as if eager to call attention to itself.
The fussy little alarm clock ticked monotonously on, as if anxious to get its work done.
There was nothing rapid or fussy about Sunny River.
She could not help despising all that crowd of self-important and fussy males to whom the idea had not occurred that even balloonists must eat.
This was something utterly unaccountable both to me and to the whole fussy culture in which she lived.
The poor old dear has been so fussyand nervous about it all.
They learn to be at home with the other sex, not to be fussyand foolish, and not to trade upon their sex.
Nor need we dilate upon the development of the quality of this diary from the rather fussy egotism of the earlier half.
My fussy friend with the big head must therefore be either a prince or a grand duke!
In consequence I went into a minute description of the fussy old Greek, to which Rayne listened most interestedly.
The party went in the tug Pinafore, which led a restless, fussy life, puffing about among these islands, making the circuit of Appledore at fixed hours, and acting commonly as a ferry.
I don't know whether these reformers who carry the world on their shoulders in such serious fashion, especially the little fussy fellows, who are themselves the standard of the regeneration they seek, are more ludicrous than pathetic.
The primitive man suffers by them much as the contemplative philosopher does, when one happens to arrive in this busy, fussy world.
I asked the little fussyold guide of an English party who had joined us, how much he believed of the story.
I was a little fussy myself about what people might think of my judgment.
So the boys give Herman a fussy two-year-old, and Herman got away with it not so bad.
Fussy people might criticize it here and there, but they could never say it hadn't really been cut.
A large fussyhen with a litter of chickens--or however a hen designates her assemblage of little ones--clucked her way to our feet.
I should never have thought, dear boy of mine, that you were so dainty and fussy about your food.
You see," observed Geppetto, "that I was right when I told you that one must not be too fussy and too dainty about food.
Presently the pair came sauntering up and sat down; and after some artificial humming and hawing the newcomer began to talk, in a loud and fussy manner, about certain acquaintances of hers called Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
What do you suppose he had in that suitcase he was so fussy about?
If anybody outside wanted to get an absolutely exact location of the submerged end of this mine, why that buoy would do the trick for ’em; but what the blazes could anybody want of it, and why so fussy to be within inches?
Fussy little brown beetles, as big as two lady-birds, keep flying into my eyes, and the musquitoes are rejoicing loudly in the prospect of a feast.
The letter in question was in the handwriting of a fussy officious "bumble" friend of the wealthy man, who dwelt in the town of Covelly.
I'm going to pay particular attention to the little fussy things.
Every morning, long before we were up, he would stride past our windows piping the same tune, and at the sound of it every goose in the village would waddle out from her night quarters and join the cackling fussy crowd at his heels.
Some old ladies would be made quite uncomfortable by such fussy attentions.
You may walk day by day in Germany through such a paradise as this, and meet no one but a couple of children gathering wild strawberries, or an old peasant carrying faggots, or the goose-girl herding her fussy flock.
Wherever you go in Germany you hear stories of police interference and petty tyranny, and it is mere luck if you do not innocently transgress some of their fussy pedantic regulations.
It was not as florid and fussy as our expensive restaurants.
She could not understand Miss Janet's fussy solicitude for her health.
A nice mess he's got us into with his fussy interference!
She was as fussy as if some one had given her a lovely new pair of boots.
She was really fussy and pleased with herself: and quite decided she'd take it all on.
If it had been the Fussy Curls who wanted to go to Triton Lake, it would have been another matter.
Why, the principal clubs of Briarwood are the Upedes and the Fussy Curls," said their new friend.
I don't know much about the Fussy Curls," Mary said, with the same tone and air that she used in addressing the little French teacher.
Just the same, I am glad we didn't go with those pokyFussy Curls to their meeting.
I couldn't tell you much about the Fussy Curls," said Mary, carelessly.
But Mary Cox paid her respects to the first speaker only, by saying: "If you want to get ahead of the Upedes, Madge Steele, you Fussy Curls had better set your alarm clocks a little earlier.
It struck her as absurd that a fussyfool like this Canterton woman should be able to cause so much charitable inconvenience.
Could anything be altered, or was life just a huge, fateful phenomenon that went its inevitable way, despite all the talk and the fussy little human figures?
Neither ridicule nor fussy attempts at intimidation had any effect.
Her dress hinted at a certain fussy earnestness, an impatience of patience before mirrors, or perhaps an unconscious contempt for such reflectors of trifles.
All thisfussy altruism, this tumult of affairs, gave her the opportunity of full self-expression.
Art had not resolved itself into the possession of a class of idlers and dilettantes who hired long-haired men and fussy girls in Greek gowns to make pretty things for them.
The noisy denizens of Grub Street, drinking perdition to that which they can not comprehend, always getting ready to do great things, seem like fussy pigmies beside a giant like Handel.
Then we find his brothers, Carl and Johann, appearing on the scene, with a fussy yet earnest intent to take care of the business affairs of their eccentric and absent-minded brother.
The gentleman slightly colored, who represents a fussy beadle, makes a flourish with his great staff.
He is fussy enough, and stupid enough, for a Paddington beadle.
Indeed, he himself once saw her bounce out of the shop as he entered, exclaiming audibly, "Here's that fussy old man again.
The man was a fussydisagreeable fool, and nothing more.
He got up disposed to smile at the poor man's ignorance and fussy restlessness of mind.
For Edith the memory of Ann, met only three or four times, hung suspended in the past like an antique picture: something by Fragonard, say, in a frame of fussy gilt.
He was like those fussy people who drive every one else crazy and waste a lot of time by always being half an hour early, and then annoy you by boasting that they have never missed a train in their lives.
He was so nervous and so fussy that they thought it great fun to play tricks on him and pretend to go off and leave him behind.
Old Pezulu was the only one who knew what was meant, and being a terribly fussy nervous old gentleman, came tearing out of the bush making a lot of noise, and scrambled hastily on to the waggon.
