The arrogance, the insolence, of the Junker officer, his aristocratic pretension, his bearish manners, have made him a byword, not only in his own country but all over Europe; and his belief in sheer militarism and Jingo imperialism has made him a menace.

"Avery darling, I'm sorry I was bearish this afternoon.

His head resting upon his hand, the forehead drooping, the eyes half closed, the bosom shaken by piteous sighs, and the whole person full of languor and grief, no one would have recognized the rough, bearish Lawyer Rushton, or believed that there could be anything in common between him and the individual sitting at the table, so bowed down with sorrow.

"The fact is," said Roundjacket, as they issued forth into the street of the town, followed by Longears, "the old fellow, yonder, is getting dreadfully bearish.

I suppose that has happened; how can such a man have your faith, and love, and trust, and all thatif we must talk theology!" growled the bearish speaker.

Then in comes a rude, dirty fellow with a patch over one eye and a most peculiar bearish gait, dressed in a tarred coat, with a wool shawl about his neck, followed by a shrewd-visaged little gentleman in a plain cloth suit, but of very good substance, he looking just as trim and well-mannered as t'other was uncouth and rude.

When he errs or in any way commits himself, his temper is accused, not his character, and it is understood that but for a brutal bearish mood he is kindness itself.

It is not cheery, but dreary, to be left in pathlessness, blanketless, guideless, and with breadths of lake and mountain and Nature, shaggy and bearish, between man and man.

She looked over at his bearish figure, snuff-drabbled waistcoat, and shock of black hair.

" That Abernethy is odd all the world knows, but his oddity is far more amusing than repulsive, far more playful than bearish.

I made a funny speech and got him out of his bearish mood, and then we all proceeded to the portico to see if the new President had arrivedby which means we obtained a satisfactory view of two cows, three geese, one big boy in a white apron and one small one in a blue apron, three darkies of feminine gender and one old horse; but Harrison himself we saw not.

"You know, Markham, I don't mind your being bearish with me.

Though bearish in his manners and arrogant in dispute, especially when talking "for victory," Johnson had a large and tender heart.

Forgive me too my bearish ways, old father!

These Druce children must be excellent, according to their mother, but they are terribly brusque and bearish.

They are never in a hurry, have a strikingly measured, deliberate, bearish manner of moving the limbs and turning the head, are capable of enduring weather, thirst, hunger, and over-abundance, and are blessed with stomachs which triumph over everything the wilderness may offer.

Ralph Waring, thus deprived of his rightful partner, solaced himself with Mrs. Randal, who was always easy to please; and the major on her other side relapsed into bearish gloom.