Had I gone forth on an innocent errand, I had met a dozen stout priests or a score of pursy money-lenders.
I bear no love for that pursy Steward, but I thought that we had engaged to fight with one another and that it must be done.
I can remember your letters in their fatpursy envelopes.
Take a good look at Mrs. Mawhood, while with pursy greetings she makes Fancy Vernon welcome.
There was frank wonder and admiration in the pursy gentleman's eyes.
If he was aware of this scrutiny on the part of the pursy gentleman, he gave not the least sign.
But among this crowd of cold-blooded critics, it was pleasant to hear of one or two pursy old fellows who railed at me for winning the affections of a sweet Italian girl, and then leaving her to pine in discontent!
The big pursy abdomen and smaller antennae, that now turned forward in position, proved this a female.
Its big, pursybody was covered with long, furry scales of the purest white imaginable.
She was three and one-half inches LONG, with a big pursy abdomen, and wings the size of my thumbnail.
A traitor to his country, too," said a pursy little man opposite, snapping his jaws shut like a turtle.
Bishop Cravanette," Dunstan's mouth modeled on Miss Aurelia's pursy one, too full of its white teeth.
Not so the doctor, a pursy little man with a terrific frown, who hated boys, especially little ones, with a very powerful hatred.
It climbed up the wood, its stout legs dragging a big pursy body, while it wildly flapped tiny wings the size of a man's thumb-nail.
Big pursy caterpillars could not be picked from their favourite bushes, when there were no bushes.
Even the veechy, and this pursy old podestà , confirm the account; for they have seen Ghita in Porto Ferrajo, and begin to think the Frenchman came in there solely on her account.
The archdeacon is engaged against two prebendaries, a pursy full-blown rector assisting him, in all the perils and all the enjoyments of short whist.
I stopt for her, till her pursy sides were waddled up to me; and she held by my arm, half out of breath: So I was forced to pass by the dear place, without daring to look at it.
