You're worth a brigade of Darrinsconfound the greasing meddler!"

But rates are not always low, and if I'm not embarrassed by rash meddlers, my persuasion is, I can keep the fleet running until better times arrive.

" XII "A PASSEL OF MEDDLERS" Angy's secret hope that Abe would change his mind and abandon the projected trip to the Beach remained unfulfilled, in spite of the fact that cold weather suddenly descended on the South Side, and the bay became first "scummed" over with ice, and then frozen so solid that all its usual craft disappeared, and the "scooters" took possession of the field.

Then with a somewhat ungracious "good-night" to the company in general, he trudged across the hall and up the stairs, muttering something to himself about a "passel of meddlers.

What could he know, this airy, unfeeling meddler, so free with his advice and innuendo?

"Ol' Dan called me a meddler onc'tin publican' I'm bound t' git even with him.

"Yes, I am called conspirator, meddler, intrigant.

He perceived that this was no meddler, but a man speaking of something very near his heart; no presuming and interfering outsider who deserved a snub, but a man suffering from some deep and hidden cause.

Let us go; I shall know how to protect our property, our authority, and honor, from the assault of adventurers and meddlers.

Roaring with rage (now that his blood was up, his heart in the chase) Dupont turned upon the meddler.

But say, watch out for the doc on dutyhe's a meddler.

When the meddler's secret work in tampering with their plane before they went up on the night raid was mentioned, the flight lieutenant's eyes flashed with indignation.

"Listen, you meddler," he addressed Placido, "I wasn't questioning you, but since you think you can save others, let's see if you can save yourself, salva te ipsum, and decide this question.

Ergo, a glass mirror is a metallic mirror; ergo, the terms of the distinction are confused; ergo, the classification is imperfecthow do you explain that, meddler?" He emphasized the ergos and the familiar "you's" with indescribable relish, at the same time winking, as though to say, "You're done for.

"It means that you haven't learned the lesson, you petty meddler, you don't understand it yourself, and yet you prompt your neighbor!"

housewife, busy bee; new brooms; sharp fellow, sharp blade; devotee, enthusiast, zealot, meddler, intermeddler, intriguer, busybody, pickthank^; hummer, hustler, live man [U.S.], rustler [U.S.].

Should she ever be able to explain to him why she had sent for him, and that her intentions had been the opposite of those of the moralizing meddler he would take her for?

Between two persons like her father and Paula a meddler could make such an incalculable amount of mischief.

You have sent him to his deathyou meddler, you simpleton!

" "That is very true, sire," said De Frontenac, with an angry flush upon his swarthy cheek; "but as long as your Majesty did me the honour to intrust those affairs no my own guidance, I would brook no interference in the performance of my duties, whether the meddler were clad in coat or cassock.

Hapley, who was always quarrelsome, replied by a stinging impeachment of the entire classification of Pawkins.[A] Pawkins in his "Rejoinder"[B] suggested that Hapley's microscope was as defective as his power of observation, and called him an "irresponsible meddler" Hapley was not a professor at that time.

I hope you won't think I'm a meddler, but I'm an older woman and....

Permit me to introduce him.' 'Then take that for a meddler and a coxcomb, Sir George Soane!'

'You are mistaken, my dear father,' said the king; 'leave it to me only; I see quite well that you do not know my mother; she is the greatest meddler in all the world.'"

If after a night here you still honestly think I'm a fool and a meddler, I won't say another word" "A night here!