Perkins in his impetuous way attacked him
outrageously.
This highly endeared him to her, and raised in her mind two of the best affections which any lover can wish to raise in a mistress--these were, esteem and pity--for sure the most
outrageously rigid among her sex will excuse her pitying a man whom she saw miserable on her own account; nor can they blame her for esteeming one who visibly, from the most honourable motives, endeavoured to smother a flame in his own bosom, which, like the famous Spartan theft, was preying upon and consuming his very vitals.
There was an
outrageously lucky digger, another invalid, for he would drink nothing but champagne with every meal and at any minute of the day, and I have seen him pitch raw gold at the sea-birds by the hour together.
At that moment there was something so ridiculous to my mind at the idea of eating and drinking diamonds, that I began to laugh
outrageously, an example which the others followed, without knowing why.
But, for their sakes at home, I smothered my pride and suppressed my indignation, and managed to struggle on till my little tormentor was despatched to school; his father declaring that home education was 'no go; for him, it was plain; his mother spoiled him
outrageously, and his governess could make no hand of him at all.'
Crisparkle, gravely; 'therefore your admiration, if it be of that special nature which you seem to indicate, is
outrageously misplaced.
Meanwhile, Antaeus had scrambled upon his feet again, and pulled his pine tree out of the earth; and, all aflame with fury, and more
outrageously strong than ever, he ran at Hercules, and brought down another blow.
'Yea, and with most
outrageously shameless ones,' said the wife, scowling at the Amritzar girl making eyes at the young sepoy.
Dag Daughtry, who had kept always foot-loose and never married, surveyed the boat-load of his responsibilities to which he was anchored--Kwaque, the Black Papuan monstrosity whom he had saved from the bellies of his fellows; Ah Moy, the little old sea-cook whose age was problematical only by decades; the Ancient Mariner, the dignified, the beloved, and the respected; gangly Big John, the youthful Scandinavian with the inches of a giant and the mind of a child; Killeny Boy, the wonder of dogs; Scraps, the
outrageously silly and fat-rolling puppy; Cocky, the white- feathered mite of life, imperious as a steel-blade and wheedlingly seductive as a charming child; and even the forecastle cat, the lithe and tawny slayer of rats, sheltering between the legs of Ah Moy.
"I never knew Planchette to behave so
outrageously. There are disturbing influences at work.
Ensign Shafton had run away with Lady Barbara Fitzurse, the Earl of Bruin's daughter and heiress; and poor Vere Vane, a gentleman who, up to forty, had maintained a most respectable character and reared a numerous family, suddenly and
outrageously left his home, for the sake of Mrs.
Sir Percival burst out laughing, so violently, so
outrageously, that he quite startled us all--the Count more than any of us.