An abrupt angle of the hill hiding them from her view, she turned round with a toss of the head, and flinging herself into a chair, exclaimed, "Now I shall be bored to death by this prosing family!
If anything could have added gall to bitterness, it was the choice which Saddletree made of a subject for his prosing harangues, being the trial of Effie Deans, and the probability of her being executed.
Saddletree was somewhat moved, but apparently not so much so as to induce him to relinquish the privilege ofprosing in his turn afforded him by David's sudden silence.
Oh, I say, I do wish you wouldn't keep on prosing about what nobody wants to hear.
I wonder he didn't stop drowned if he was surrounded by people who kept onprosing like you are.
In endeavouring to supply these deficiencies, I hope my additionalprosing may not send the dog-breaker to sleep, instead of helping to make him more "wide-awake.
We have come to the concluding division (dignified by the name of Chapter) of this little Work; for I have at length nearly finished my prosing about dog-breaking.
On hearing a prosingharangue from a certain Bishop.
And to the same authority we are indebted for a judge's gentle but sarcastic reproof of a prosing counsel.
You have been prosing with that pragmatical personage at Dunkirk--nay, I beg the Lord Chancellor's pardon, Clarendon House.
Can you so lightly renounce the splendour of this house, and your sister's company, to make a prosing old father happy?
Come," said I, "we shall be late, if you stand prosing there.
And where did you ever see a stupid, prosing poet, who did feel his own inferiority?
Every morning of my life I was entertained with his lordship's prosing about Sophia.
A widower of that kind ought to perform suttee, and make an end of the business, rather than go about the world prosing to nice girls.
Your prosing may put us to sleep in spite of the angularity and intrusive impertinence of everything we try to rest ourselves upon.
Perhaps I am unjust, but I cannot think it his;[485] there are so few good things in it, and so much prosing transferred from that mine of marrowless morality called the Miller of Mansfield.
Always hurry the bottle round for five or six rounds withoutprosing yourself or permitting others to prose.
A mighty DULL ASS is old prosing Dallas, And quite as dull and prosing is his Son-- What!
Had the prosing sage not preach'd in vain, Had Youth not written his words on sand, Had he early paused, and given the rein Of his courser black to a steadier hand: Oh!
On his courser black, away Youth goes, The prosingsage may rest at home; He'll laugh and quaff, for well he knows That years must pass ere Age can come.
Next morning, and whilst I was prosing over my breakfast, in walked a midshipman, about twenty years of age, with a face which appeared to have been rolled down Deal beach a dozen times.
Arrived at Killarney, such blowing of horns, such boating, such seeing of prospects, such prosing of guides, all telling us what to admire!
Johnson, to some prosing tormentor, "I would rather a man would knock me down, than to begin to talk to me of the Punic wars.
I just put my eyes half to, because there's no shade, and you begin at me directly because once or twice I wouldn't keep awake to listen to your prosing about something or another after we had gone to bed, and I did not want to hear.
Oh, don't go on prosing about that," cried Mark angrily.
