| 单词 | frump |
| 例句 | I laughed and they takes the rest of their clothes and frumps off down the riverbank. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She gives me a dutiful smile: Boring old frump. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z As be did this, another arrow came whirr and frump, but this one buried all except its feathers in the grass, and stayed still, as if it had never moved. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The frump and the fop, they looked, but they were something more than that. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z "Shame your daughter is such a fat frump," Grace added. Digested read: We Had It So Good by Linda Grant 2011-01-17T21:30:01Z The typecasting as wallflowers and frumps confused her. The Examined Life of Melanie Lynskey 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z It was Jacobs' strongest collection for the French luxury supernova in several seasons - much better than fall-winter 2010-2011's ladylike 1950s looks in thick tweed that made the curvy supermodels look like frumps. Gaultier's last Hermes collection ends Paris shows 2010-10-06T21:32:00Z When we first meet her, she’s a frump, virtually a nonentity, an overweight pastor’s spouse, invisible except as a “warm cloud of momminess.” Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads,’ a Mellow, ’70s-Era Heartbreaker That Starts a Trilogy 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Patrick and Esme have the power to transform an outfit from frump to fresh with a bit of judicious snipping and pinning. The great Grayson Perry frock competition 2013-07-08T04:59:02Z Even French couture can’t rescue my frump, and my notion of hunting is based on true fables about failure. Nothing like “Duck Dynasty”: My life as a female hunter 2014-01-31T00:00:00Z Mohammed is amusing as the nervous sycophant, as is Jane Stanness as a frump whose submerged libido and unsuspected spying skill are played for laughs. Can’t Match Netflix? At Least You Can Buy Some British Shows 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z With too much nerve, you are a fashion victim; without enough, you’re a frump. Haute Ticket: Jacqueline de Ribes at the Met 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The overdressed frumps still plod through the dowdy, monochrome 1950s. The big picture: Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde film Darling, 1964 2011-02-13T00:05:50Z “And she doesn’t play frumps or virgins, and she is given this script to play a frump!” ArtsBeat: Marin Mazzie to Star in ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ 2013-12-05T19:54:57Z Bean duck boots, largely vertical hair that he says “looks like rats nested on my scalp,” and thick-framed Le Corbusier glasses purchased in Paris that are somewhat at war with the home-office frump. Rod Dreher is the combative, oversharing blogger who speaks for today’s beleaguered Christians 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The 38 outfits designed for Diana by William Ivey Long dramatized how she transformed herself from kindergarten teacher to royal frump to executive princess to international fashion plate far better than the writers did. On Broadway Stages, the Beautiful Rooms Are Empty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z So it’s no shock that once he got famous, Weegee was occasionally accused of “stocking the pond,” which meant, in this case, bringing his own frump. Weegee the Famous: The Master of Down-and-Dirty Street Photography 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The rest insist I am a joyless frump. What we gain from keeping books – and why it doesn’t need to be ‘joy’ 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Subsequent books have only revealed how hard Amis seems to find writing women who aren’t vamps, frumps, or members of his own family. Can male writers avoid misogyny? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z So women who believe they should have equal rights with men are just bitter because they are ugly, dumb frumps. Phyllis Schlafly, ‘First Lady’ of a Political March to the Right, Dies at 92 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Veronica, by contrast, was a frump of “buzzing ugliness,” who lived in a dingy one-bedroom with six Siamese cats. Mary Gaitskill, Master of Desire 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z We grew up in the 1960s, and don't want to look like frumps. Why did Marks and Spencer lose its edge, and how can it get it back? 2013-04-19T17:08:41Z But be assured that this joyless frump will not be following Kondo’s advice, to essentially hold my books against my teats and left ventricle to see if they spark joy. What we gain from keeping books – and why it doesn’t need to be ‘joy’ 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z It sees you building "your own sorority house" at college, ensuring that the party keeps partying, the decorations stay glitzy and the clobber is more fashionista than frump. 40 Best Android apps this week 2012-12-21T15:11:43Z The grumpy frump on the fringe of the party, British Swimming had a poor Olympics. The story of London 2012: Guardian writers' Olympic Games review 2012-08-12T21:46:11Z Mrs. M. Did you ever see such a grim old frump, Thea? Punch, or the London Charivari, November 4th 1893 2012-04-07T02:00:30.293Z It is rather disappointing, Leon, to find that you don't like me a bit better, now that I really do dress properly, than when I was such a frump. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Do you suppose I'm going to give in to a couple of frumps like those two? What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The very sound of your name was enough to make me weep with delight, like that frump of a girl in the poem, when you gave her a smile.... The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z Not to be behindhand with you in your frumps, I give you back your purse of gold: Take you that—in imagination. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z Our good friends here are kind as kind can be, and no frumps. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z Garnier the tiresomest of all the frumps who came to call on Maman. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z As I listened to these gentle, simple souls how I wished it had been to their set I belonged instead of to the set that looked over their heads and called them frumps and dowds. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z For shoppers such as Lynn Brown, 41, who said she dreads going to the gym, not looking "like a frump" is of utmost concern. Warming up to active wear 2011-07-18T20:23:43Z “I hate to appear as such a frump!” Molly Brown's College Friends 2011-07-16T02:00:15.700Z Likewise the attractive young rake, fettered to the frump. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z Just because I’m a scientific man, is it to be assumed that I ought to be a frump? The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z I wondered what all the “frumps and dowds” were doing and their nice business-like men, and was inspired to make a remark. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z “And I did so want to wear ’em where Nalbro Hastings and those other girls could see that we weren’t frumps, even if we did come from Milton.” The Corner House Girls on Palm Island 2011-06-01T02:00:23.043Z I was a poor little frump whom not even the one man in five hundred could find attractive. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z The elder ladies were frumps, or frights, or bores. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z “I’ve got to look such a frump, Alfred,” said Regina, taking the hat off again and patting her hair into place. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z People I had never seen before arrived upon the scene and joined in the proceedings—even the frumps and dowds and the business-like men. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z A woman—young, singularly beautiful, dressed like a middle-aged frump, with the manners of a matron of fifty, staid, reserved, inattentive, uninterested! The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z "I am going to write to Mr. Haverford," she said, "and then I hope you will be satisfied, you dear old fidgety frump." Capricious Caroline He broke off, staring at the frump, who was making signs with her eyes, frowning and beckoning him with her green flower-pot. The Haunted Pajamas “I felt myself growing such a frump,” she said. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z I was informed that these were the Fort George women—“frumps and dowds of the most hopeless order.” The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z “Was she one of those old country frumps—all starch and prejudice?” The Missioner The looking-glass had bitter things to tell me, and crying makes me such a frump. A Man in the Open I saw Frances clutch the frump's arm and whisper something, and I heard the frump's reply, for her voice was loud and strongly masculine. The Haunted Pajamas English women, even the most elegant ones at home, seldom favour us, when they visit us, but with all the worst frumps and frippery they can find in their wardrobe. Rambles in Womanland It would be her fate, her discipline, her cross, to have a frump brought hideously home to her. The Spoils of Poynton I’m bound to look the veriest frump in comparison, so why worry any more? What a Man Wills But it is too bad to have her go looking like a frump, after all the trouble we’ve taken with her dancing.” Betty Wales Freshman The frump was still hanging on him in a way to make you sick, and cooing and going on in a nervous, half-hysterical way I never would have thought her able to chirp up to. The Haunted Pajamas Now, by comparison with a bright, well-dressed wife, he sees what an “old frump” his mother is. Threads of Grey and Gold Mrs. Gereth had long ago generalized the truth that the temperament of the frump is amply consistent with a certain usual prettiness. The Spoils of Poynton Yes, it was; and a precious dust they make about him still—a parcel of old frumps! The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV There is no reason why we must be frumps.” The Gorgeous Girl I think the frump—this Miss Kirkland, you know—is a fright—regular freak, dash it! The Haunted Pajamas Orson's mother was somewhat comforted when he wrote her that the young women of Carthage were noisy rowdies dressed like frumps. In a Little Town I hate pity, Mary;—pity, indeed, from a frump like that! Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney Or perhaps it’s merely because I’m an old frump from a back-township ranch! The Prairie Child When you see me with all the other lumps and frumps that are here, you will know that I am not worth considering except as a kind of human joke. Turn About Eleanor She was there in the living-room—she and the frump. The Haunted Pajamas No one ever regained my favour by making a frump of herself. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy They didn't consult me about asking the Holtons because I'm a stupid old frump, and it didn't make any difference whether I'd like it or not. Otherwise Phyllis A country that buys peace at the price of dishonor is no better than a frump who sells her soul for gewgaws and furbalows! Where the Souls of Men are Calling I wish neither to visit nor to entertain frumps. The Place of Honeymoons It was funny to think of any one calling the frump beautiful—it must seem funnier still to her, of course—to Frances, I mean. The Haunted Pajamas There was not a pretty or attractive thing about Helen’s dress; and even a very pretty girl will seem a frump in an out-of-style and unbecoming frock. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City She was treating them as though they were dingy frumps; and they revolted against all this prattle about Paris. Otherwise Phyllis Well, don't let's talk of that old frump any more. Five Little Peppers at School He always 193 has some frump to pour tea and ask fool questions.” The Place of Honeymoons The frump looked at Frances, then at Wilkes inquiringly. The Haunted Pajamas Pee-Wee, I’m sure, will never be satisfied with an empty-headed old frump for a mother, and Dinkie is already asking questions that are slightly disturbing. The Prairie Mother They belong to the "back of beyond," to the "frumps," the "washouts," and the "back numbers." Over the Fireside with Silent Friends She'll never degenerate into one of those frumps who go from city to city playing to the foolish women and tack-headed men, but she will certainly be corrupted. The Tyranny of the Dark “The frump, as you call her, is usually a countess or a duchess,” with asperity. The Place of Honeymoons And this was the frump's father, and it was for him she was scheming to make a home! The Haunted Pajamas A V.A.D. uniform is not becoming, but if a girl is striking-looking, it accentuates her good points; frumps and mediocrities it extinguishes altogether. There was a King in Egypt If she is simply an old frump with a bee in her bonnet," he said, "who wants to bore people, I'll head her off at once. Lalage's Lovers She's lots of fun, and a body'd be a great goose that tried to suit all the old frumps in town. The Governess Nobility makes a specialty of frumps; it is one of the species of the caste. The Place of Honeymoons Through the French windows from the open loggia came the eager, pitched tones of the professor and the frump—no, Elizabeth, I mean—discussing Aldeberan and Betelguese, dead suns, star clusters and the nebular hypothesis. The Haunted Pajamas And I hate village sewing meetings and the dull, ugly frumps who go to them.” The Love Affairs of Pixie I was sick of making my own clothes, and looking a frump. The Lady of the Basement Flat All of these frumps here would—— The Virgin Ah, how dolorous, how exquisite is love! A Book of Burlesques A few moments later Courtlandt saw a smile of malice part her lips, for he found himself between Celeste and the inevitable frump. The Place of Honeymoons "Oh, really, Frances?" the frump was saying, "How exceedingly nice of you, dear!" The Haunted Pajamas To-day, she looked like a frump, and talked like a fury. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes She didn't want to be stuck down among frumps and dowds, she said. The Making of a Soul That was Miss Beveridge once on a time, and you called her a frump and a fright, but the real woman was that charming Mrs Digby, and the magician’s wand has brought her to life?” Betty Trevor Frump,—the word calls up the exact picture; frump and fatuity. The Place of Honeymoons Only the arrival of the frump's father had so far saved me. The Haunted Pajamas It’s only because he called you a frump, but never mind, he has to be back to tea to look after some work for father, and then he’ll see! A College Girl “Anything going on, or just the ordinary family frumps?” The Independence of Claire They had the vicar and old frumps in to tea, and she had to listen to their piffle. The Hand in the Dark Aline tried to think that she was the weirdest frump in the world, and absolutely impossible as a fascinator; but she knew that the weirdness would be superficial to the eye of Man. The Heather-Moon For the frump was sitting there behind the steering wheel, looking down at me in a nasty, sidewise fashion. The Haunted Pajamas I suppose she saw plenty of the strong-minded, plenty of vicious old maids, and fanatics, and frumps. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) This was one of our male frumps: like an owl, with négligé eyebrows, and quite mad, round eyes behind convex glasses. The Guests Of Hercules "One bore, or one frump, can ruin a party," was a favorite saying of hers. The Way of Ambition "Who can look at her and maintain that the higher education of women is a mere factory for frumps?" The Henchman "Some specimens that Mr. Billings gathered—plants and foliage; he left them in the car," jerked the frump. The Haunted Pajamas In America the average woman is lovely enough to make each one worth looking at, while the word 'frump,' which is continually useful in England, might almost be dropped from the American language. At Home with the Jardines The criminals are flattered to meet the frumps, and the frumps find the criminals thrilling. The Guests Of Hercules Mrs. Shiffney never had an orchestra playing alone, and steadily, through an evening unless bores and frumps were present. The Way of Ambition Besides, he's stingy; if he had his way, I'd look like a frump. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) "It's the frump, you know," I said indignantly. The Haunted Pajamas "Give me those to deal with, and you entertain the twin frumps," answered Olive. Swirling Waters I know that had I been a frump, the colonel would not have snubbed me. Parrot & Co. "You could go back to Tunbridge Wells, and none of the old frumps would ever know you'd been married at all." The Land of Promise Tell him that a young girl never forgets when other girls laugh at her because she never had any money, and dresses like a frump, and wears her hair like a baby!... The Danger Mark "Have you, Frances?"—the frump faced her interestedly. The Haunted Pajamas The two Carleton-Wingate frumps called on me this afternoon for a couple of solid hours' boring, which they dignify to themselves as a duty call. Swirling Waters "Oh no; she thinks me a goody-goody old frump." Great Possessions In the arrogance of her youth and ignorance she may think them "old frumps" and devote herself to her mates in age and inexperience. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada In the country people are usually frumps when they are not bores, and bores when they are not frumps, and I am in danger of becoming both myself. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" "Worse things than a jolly fine," I said, looking at poor Billings smiling crazily over the frump. The Haunted Pajamas The adaptability of the graduation gown was wonderful and although Lydia knew that she was only a little frump compared with the other girls, Billy, who took her each time, always wore the dress suit! Lydia of the Pines But why should you be in your frumps, Pug, when I design only to oblige you? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 Sanna is in Latin, as Ainsworth elaborately explains, "a mocking by grimaces, mows, a flout, a frump, a gibe, a scoff, a banter;" and Sannio is "a fool in a play." Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 "There is not a frump or a bore among them," she said. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" I could have choked the frump for so embarrassing her! The Haunted Pajamas Among all the feminine galaxy of bores and frumps that seem to be congregated at this particular hotel—just whom would you specially recommend for me? Little Eve Edgarton Also it may be noted, that Florence McCrea herself, always went about looking a perfect frump. The Real Adventure The best scholar in her class, she was never called a grind and she was far from being a frump. A Hoosier Chronicle The people inside the shop stood up, with their mouths full of cake, and out came an old frump with a terrible hat and a fringe. Half Portions No, by Jove, we were together almost all the afternoon, though we never could get away from the frump—dash it, she just took charge of us. The Haunted Pajamas They got out before I'd finished waiting on that middle-aged frump who doesn't know what she wants any more than the policeman out there at the corner does. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage I never saw such a lot of frumps as the women who used to be my own contemporaries. The Street Called Straight At heart he did not know, when he revolved the adventure, whether he preferred his chimera, even diminished, or this Hyacinthe, who at least, in her reality, was not a disenchanting frump, wrinkled with age. Là-bas Why must I wait until I'm a dowdy old frump before I go? The Common Law I pretended to, for I knew he wanted me to think that, but I had heard the butler tell the frump that the judge was reading. The Haunted Pajamas I laugh at you for a frump behind your back, but when I am with you, I am spellbound with admiration. The Lamp in the Desert Really, Aunt Jennie, I thought at first that she was the most awful frump I had ever seen. Sweetapple Cove Never mind the fussy frumps, the old women of each sex; Better raise their ready wrath than the prudent public vex With crass rules. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 24, 1891 And here she was shut up—in a really beautiful house, of course—with nobody but an insufferable frump of an unimportant Mrs. MacGregor! The Purple Heights But the professor scarcely noticed any one but the frump. The Haunted Pajamas One of the women was very old—such a silly frump!—she was still dreadfully intoxicated I am afraid! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890 Pray leave these frumps Sir, and receive this letter. The Scornful Lady Hang me," said Edward to himself, "if she has not taken up with that confounded old military frump. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life And he contrasted his luck with the bad luck of so many men who had to "pay up" for "homely frumps, that look worse the more they spend." The Second Generation "Ha! not a gloriosa," he said animatedly, as he snooped over the little greenish thing in the frump's hand. The Haunted Pajamas Well my aunt did na frump or flite me, as I thought she would, but she held me by the hand, and looked hard in my face all the time. Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton Did she want me to dress like a little frump of a country girl? Mary Marie Why should a woman like you be sacrificed when a lot of dreary frumps have everything they want? The Custom of the Country Not that he didn't want me to, but then Sis and Gerald would have disapproved—old frumps! Midnight I had made up my mind by this time I wasn't going to marry the frump, no matter what came or what Billings wanted, and I would tell him so in the morning. The Haunted Pajamas One thing was the same every time; they were never to cross or frump her, any way, but to humour and please her in everything. Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton "Contrive to get rid so quickly of those two old frumps?" Passing of the Third Floor Back Dear old souls, I suppose, but frumps, you know. Hermione's Group of Thinkers Yes, it was; and a precious dust they make about him still - a parcel of old frumps! Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson Billings was waving the frump away with his fat hand. The Haunted Pajamas The poor girl's air of being a plain, insignificant frump, long past youth, struck an extraordinary and, for the time, unexplainable note. The Shuttle How would her career be helped by her going about looking a dowd and a frump? The Price She Paid But the “frump” will let herself and all her surroundings go to seed, not from humbleness of mind or an overwhelming sense of her own unworthiness, but in pure complacent conceit. Worldly Ways and Byways This last passed unnoticed, or was taken for granted in Paris, but in Berlin, home of the frump and the flour-sack figure, she was stared at, appreciatively. Fanny Herself "But he says he returned them," he exclaimed, cutting an odd sidewise look at the professor, who was talking to Frances and the frump. The Haunted Pajamas This gave her a sense of reflected superiority, and she did not need Mrs. Bart's comments on the family frumps and misers to foster her naturally lively taste for splendour. House of Mirth He took sinewy lumps from the shins of old frumps, And mangled the errand-boys—when he could get 'em. The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke I cannot see why schoolgirls should be a lot of frumps. Wild Kitty "Like her!" she flashed back, her anger leaping to unreasonable proportions—"that old frump!" The Gray Dawn But, by Jove, it was worth sacrificing the frump fifty times over just to see Frances' face brighten and note her faint flush and smile as she looked at me. The Haunted Pajamas The King knows father, and he will be astonished to see a pair of frumps, and he won't understand one bit about the dust, or the sun that takes the colour out. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War “She is the real thing–the real old-fashioned frump–we have lots of them at home.” An American Politician They gave him frumps to take out to supper, mothers and maiden aunts, and if the mothers were youngish, they threw off on him, and did not care for his talk. Indian Summer “We might as well be in a desert island,” continued Vera, “shut up from everything with an old frump.” Modern Broods And before I knew what I was doing or thought about the frump, I had stretched out a hand to her, looking her straight in the eye and smiling. The Haunted Pajamas Don't bother with the antique frumps, the disappointed old tabbies. Linda Condon There are sewing circles of old frumps sixty years old who have never been parted since they all went to their first ball together. An American Politician Godmamma just revels in these frumps; they make Héloise furious, and the airs of Victorine, her coyness and giggling, nearly drove me wild. The Visits of Elizabeth The idea of an old frump like that letting professional jealousy interfere with Art. The Sorrows of a Show Girl She flushed a little shyly and addressed the frump. The Haunted Pajamas A people among whom an Italian would be uncouth, and a high-caste Hindu vulgar, and Karsavina would seem clumsy, and Helen of Troy a frump. Letters from America “The frump is going at last,” said Josephine, in an undertone, as the ancient friend rose and showed signs of taking leave of Miss Schenectady. An American Politician I hated to come up looking like a frump—" "Listen to the girl! The Long Chance As he is an archaeologist, he must be snuffy, a bore, probably, and what the English call a male frump. The Heart of Rome But the first thing we saw as the cage hit the bottom was a woman—and, dash it, the frump from China! The Haunted Pajamas It was too thrilling for me to sleep: I know I look a perfect frump, this morning. The Voice on the Wire I daren't ask a modern young man to come and see two old frumps—one old frump, I mean! Watersprings "I didn't want to see that old frump anyhow," retorted Laura, who inclined to charge the inhabitants of the township with an extreme provinciality. The Getting of Wisdom "Weren't they the most terrible set of frumps at chapel this morning?" The Captives By Jove, I preferred to think of her as the frump! The Haunted Pajamas "What an old frump the mother is!" was Mrs. Glow's comment to Stanhope, when she next met him; "but she is immensely amusing." Their Pilgrimage "Because I'm an old frump and you're a beautiful young woman." The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 Such a set of confounded old frumps as eat Milliken's mutton I never saw. The Wolves and the Lamb He had been here so long, with all these awful frumps, brooding over one idea, never getting away from this Religion. The Captives And the frump, jogging along behind, looked just as funny. The Haunted Pajamas "And you'd like me to follow those skinny old frumps and leggy, limp chits, that slobber and cry over that man!" she said contemptuously. Trent's Trust, and Other Stories I thought how good and sweet she was to that irritatingly silly old frump her mother, and wondered if it really were her mother, or only hired. Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green I like good wine as well as any man on earth, and see as little of it; but not a drop of yours, sirs, after your frumps and flouts about hanging-on and trencher-scraping. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Dear me," she said mockingly, "what a lot of frumps you all are! When a Man Marries "He drove down to the village with Senator Soakem, who had to catch a train back to Albany; but I'm looking for him every—" "Be quick, then," jerked the frump. The Haunted Pajamas I prefer to be good because it is good to be good, rather than because I can’t be bad because some argus-eyed old frump won’t let me have a chance to be bad.” Adventure The frump kind of glared down the deserted vista of the fine old hall and shrugged her shoulders. The Haunted Pajamas He stole a furtive backward glance at the frump, but she was enjoying herself berating a fat girl she addressed as "Flora." The Haunted Pajamas That was all right—it was the other part of the frump's scandal that brought her up, standing, so to speak. The Haunted Pajamas The frump whispered to the man who opened the door. The Haunted Pajamas The frump now was to be worked off on me, and I was expected to stand for it. The Haunted Pajamas As for the frump, she suddenly opened the door, stepped down and then up again, but this time behind the steering wheel. The Haunted Pajamas As for the frump, she frankly and harshly laughed, and then moved up a speed, just as a south-bound express took the station. The Haunted Pajamas "Um!" grunted the frump, compressing her lips and looking at my darling. The Haunted Pajamas Billings waved his hand to the frump as he mounted the stairway inside. The Haunted Pajamas She thought so, for she opened the door herself as the frump turned, murmuring some silly thing about China and the open door to America. The Haunted Pajamas |
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