I tell thee, friend, one must serve a long apprenticeship ere one can learn to be even so much as a clapper- dudgeon, much less a crank or an Abraham-man.

Upright-man, Jurkman, Clapper-dudgeon, Dommerer, or Abraham-man?" At these words Robin looked from one man to the other with mouth agape.

Unfortunately she did not expire, but, having safely arrived, went to bed in high dudgeon, and led Polly and her mother a sad life of it for two weary days.

"Is this dudgeon, Jeeves?" "No, sir, I am obliged to remain on the premises.

" He went up to his room in dudgeon, and for the next few days Mr. Teak saw but little of him.

The mortified emperor quitted the place in high dudgeon, and the projected kingdom was doomed to a delay of some centuries.

He stalked off in dudgeon at the lack of sympathy displayed by his audience, and being still in need of comforting sought it amid the raspberry-canes.

He stalked off in dudgeon at the lack of sympathy displayed by his audience, and being still in need of comforting sought it amid the raspberry-canes.

The bailiff, under ordinary circumstances, would have taken in dudgeon this violation of the rules prescribed for the government of the multitude; for he was perfectly sincere in his opinions, absurd as so many of them were, and, like many other honest men who defeat the effects they would produce by forced constructions of their principles, he was a little apt to run into excesses of discipline.

Karim left in high dudgeon, inviting Chandra Babu to do his worst, and the latter forthwith concocted a scheme of vengeance with his manager.

4,000 cash to be paid forthwith; and finding that it was hopeless to expect so much, he hailed a cab, hurried Samarendra into it, and drove home in high dudgeon, followed by all his relatives and friends.

Then he strode out of the courtyard in high dudgeon.

" They cared so little for plain fact, these people, that instead of being impressed by the speaker's strong common sense, they took it in extraordinary dudgeon.

Mayhap you may take it a little in dudgeon or so; but never mind that.

" Elinor received this for a moment in dudgeon.

Mrs. S., thinking him in earnest, rose up in high dudgeon and said, "Why, we think her beautiful, Deacon Lincoln."

Then she told him all that had occurred between her and her mother since the trial,how her mother had come out to Folking and had implored her to return to Chesterton, and had then taken herself away in dudgeon because she had not prevailed.

The old man's eyes would water at sight of that stern, long-faced puritan, who never had much to say in the house, but went into high dudgeon over the slightest waste on the part of the domestics, scolding the farmhands for the merest oversight in the orchards, haggling and wrangling with the orange drummers for a centime more or less per hundredweight.

The Kentuckians were in high dudgeon, and denounced Jackson as an enemy to internal improvement, and to the western states.

The dudgeon.

The dudgeon.

" "Oh very well," said Upton, in high dudgeon, and, hoping to make Eric jealous, he went a walk with Graham, whom he had "taken up" before he knew Williams.

Then she once more departed in dudgeon.

They make a show of leaving Arcadia in high dudgeon, abandoning their families of little fauns and satyrs.

I was rather surprised and disturbed to find the Haughts in a high state of dudgeon.