"Come and hear me say my prayers!" Monona entered this request with precision on Ina's nastiest moments, but she always rose, unabashed, and went, motherly and dutiful, to hear devotions, as if that function and the process of living ran their two divided channels.

" The information that his low manoeuvres had been rendered null and void and that the thing was on the strength after all, must have been the nastiest of jars, but there was no play of expression on his finely chiselled to indicate it.

It's always a nasty jar to wait for the laugh and find that the gag hasn't got across.

Bertie Wooster" I don't know when I've had a nastier shock.

I found myself wobbling badly, and all the stories I had ever heard of nasty bicycle accidents came back to me with a rush, headed by Jeeves's Uncle Cyril's cheery little anecdote about Nicholls and Jackson.

"That's about the nastiest job I ever had to do," was his casual remark as he washed himself in the cool clear water of the Washington hills.

The man who understands how to pat his fellows best, though they be the nastiest brutes,that's the man who has many friends.

What makes a merchant that hath no need, satis superque domi, to range all over the world, through all those intemperate Zones of heat and cold; voluntarily to venture his life, and be content with such miserable famine, nasty usage, in a stinking ship; if there were not a pleasure and hope to get money, which doth season the rest, and mitigate his indefatigable pains?

There were some nasty drop jumps, and deep, hidden ditches, and accidents were frequent.

He was beginning to get on my nerves, and the 'feel' of the room was bad enough, without making it any nastier.

The clay, rock and peculiar dust which lies all around this territory becomes, on the slightest provocation, the nastiest kind of quicksand.

It is quite the nastiest thing you can takeI have had three days of it now, so I know.

She seems to have a good appetite and to choose the things that sound nastiest when one is seedy.

There is generally something rather nasty about a woman who declares she can't get on with other women and whom other women don't like.

Then they were for it; up they went Paraded by the Prince's tent, While he, to meet the crime, Recalled the nastiest words he knew, And learned the worst that he could do From "K.R." of the time.

Chewing is the most constant, as it is the nastiest habit.

Dow is the white man's medicine, that cures all evils; the nastier it tastes, the better it is.

I must confess, however, that I can imagine nothing nastier than to lose one's angles.

We think it would be narrower, nastier, less sane, less capable of liberty and of laughter, than any of the worst parts of the European past.

They will exterminate your tribe with machine-guns, gin, small-pox, and still nastier things, but they are fearfully shocked at a bit of killing on the part of others.

When flea can't get rat he eats manturns to nastier food.

in a nastier fix.

This storm prevented the French from pressing with due force upon their retiring foes; but that would have been but a small evil, if the storm had not settled into a steady and heavy rain, which converted the fat Flemish soil into a mud that would have done discredit even to the "sacred soil" of Virginia, and the latter has the discredit of being the nastiest earth in America.

"I'm sorry to have to leave her; but this sea is getting up nastier every minute, and there's no way of getting a line to her without running more risk than I want to take.

"And then there's your horses' tails," said she; "anything nastier couldn't be fancied.