" "Your future, I suppose?" he said testily.

very good!" said the old man testily, as he took the implement.

For my part, I shall sleep in a bed; like a Christian," said the Major rather testily.

But now I bethink me, thou didst also seem minded to make a jest of the rain that threatened last night; so" "Nay, then," said Robin Hood testily, "I was mistaken.

"Now out upon it," quoth Robin Hood testily, "an ye make sport of me by pattering such gibberish, it will be ill for you all, I tell you.

"What ship?" he inquired testily.

" "Well, and you have taught him to pray and sing psalms, I suppose; and what has come of it all?" demanded Marston, testily.

he said testily.

" "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom'," said Aunt Dahlia a little testily.

"What is it?" demanded the old gentleman, a bit testily.

Hilgenfeld, in his edition of the Epistle of Barnabas, repels somewhat testily the imputation of Tischendorf, who criticises him as if he supposed that the saying in St. Matthew was not directly referred to [Endnote 73:2].

[Illustration: THE MINUET] "I tell you I am right," said one of these testily; "I would stake my sword that he is not what he seems.

" "Cut it short," replied Samarendra testily.

"Yes, by Jove, and well I may," said Mr. Folair testily "isn't it enough to make a man crusty, to see the little sprawler put up in the best business every night, and actually keeping money out of the house by being forced down the people's throats while other people are passed over?

"Mr. Carrollton passed here twenty minutes or more ago, looking mighty sober, and here you are with your face as redWhat has happened?" "Nothing," answered Maggie, a little testily, "only he's the meanest man!

"Mac," exclaimed Llewellyn, testily, as he shot him a hot glance from the melancholy eyes under his black thatch of brows, "behave yourself!

" "A very true one, please your lordship," replied the old housekeeper, testily.

"I am all right," he told them testily, and looking uneasily at Grizel.

'The child is expected, but you have not yet heard, sir, that' 'I know nothing about the child, nor whether there is a child,' Sir George answered testily.

General Conference at its session in Baltimore, in 1840, passed the "Black Gag" law, which forbade colored members of the church to give testimony in church-trials against white members, in any state where they were forbidden to testily in courts.

If the volume proffered for the visitor's examination is a genuine rarity, not in his own collection, he surlily inquires how it was come by; whilst if it is no great thing, he testily expresses his astonishment it should be thought worth keeping, and this although he has the very same edition at home.

I said testily.

" "Well, be it as you will," replied the extortioner, testily.

'It's all very well to despise such thingsbut we have to keep up the traditions,' he said to himself, testily.

So that's been the secret' 'Of what?' said Fenwick, testily; but as Watson merely replied by an interrogative and attentive silence, he threw himself into his taleheadlong.