" She didn't mean anything but crossness when she said thisfor which probably a severe rheumatic twinge which just then passed through her shoulder was also partly to blame.

me ye shall bring to the promontory, where I thought it good to dwell; it may be that it was a prophetic word that fell from my mouth about my abiding there for a season; there shall ye bury me, and plant a cross at my head, and another at my feet, and call the place Kross-a-Ness (Crossness) in all time coming."

In that "anyway" she found vent for all her crossness.

I missed his kindness, and I missed his crossness, and wished him to be alive again, to be quarrelling with him (for we quarreled sometimes), rather than not have him again, and was as uneasy without him, as he their poor uncle must have been when the doctor took off his limb.

" Peter repented his crossness.

Time seems to leave something better than colouring to a few Heaven-blessed women, who manage to escape wrinkles, and hardening, and crossness.

On June 13th he was driving along the Greenwich Marshes in order to track the course of the great sewer; and on August 5th he visited the Crossness Sewage Works and took great interest in the details of the treatment of the sewage.

Irascibility N. irascibility, irascibleness, temper; crossness &c adj.; susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity &c (contentiousness)

If she were eight years old, instead of eighteen, I should give her a good whipping and send her to bed!" Poor Sharley nursed her trouble and her crossness together, in her aggrieved, girlish way, till the light went out of her wistful eyes, and little sharp bones began to show at her wrists.

and I must vent my crossness on somebody, so let it be Peggy.

Things became so feverish that for the sake of rest and peace the house-party proposed to contribute to a joint purse for the return of the dog, as even, nuisance as it was, it was not so bad as having their visit spoiled by Miss Arnett's abandonment to grief and crossness.

It is also noticeable that these paroxysms of crossness on which so much stress has been laid, came upon him mostly when he was old, worn out with perpetual mental and physical fatigue, and troubled by a painful disease of the bladder.

A little of the leaven of sweetness and good temper lightens a whole lump of crossness and bad humour.

"Wilsey's not a leader at the bar," he said, with open crossness.

Nanny had for some time past been jealous of the boy for monopolizing the entire affections of her mistress; she had left her in a fit of crossness, and gone back to her mother.

"In order to make these experiments, samples of fresh raw sewage were taken at Crossness at intervals of one hour during the day.

Mr. Octavius March, electrical engineer, who has followed the process from the commencement, and who superintended the electrical details both at Crossness and Salford, will give you on the blackboard a rough sketch of the above trial plant.

Hinpoha forgave her all her crossness and tartness of manner, and thought of her only with pity.

COTTER (rushes to the rescue) O boys, for my sake, an' for the sake o' ye'r wives an' families, have no crossness but lave the house quietly.

We'll have no crossness.

We'll have no crossness.

SIR DENIS Let there be no crossness on my account, Donal.

cry I, tartly, venting the crossness born of my desolation on the only person within reach; "if they had, should I be sitting moping here with nobody but Vick to talk to?" "You forget me!

"Were you going for a walk?" I scouted the idea of crossness, and said that I had thought of taking a stroll.

And it bein' past our lunch time we went and had a good meal, and of course Josiah's crossness subsided with every mouthful he took and his liniment looked like a cosset lamb's in amiability when I proposed we should go to the Fishery Buildin', it wuzn't so very fur from there considerin', though as I have said before every place is a good ways off from anywhere else.