I thought it all out, and reckoned I would belong to the widow's if he wanted me, though I couldn't make out how he was a-going to be any better off then than what he was before, seeing I was so ignorant, and so kind of low-down and
ornery.
Poor old Uncle Silas--why, it's pitiful, him trying to curry favor that way--so hard pushed and poor, and yet hiring that useless Jubiter Dunlap to please his
ornery brother."
Blame dat man, he worries me wid dem
ornery glasses o' his'n; I b'lieve he's a witch.
She makes me get up just at the same time every morning; she makes me wash, they comb me all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed; I got to wear them blamed clothes that just smothers me, Tom; they don't seem to any air git through 'em, somehow; and they're so rotten nice that I can't set down, nor lay down, nor roll around anywher's; I hain't slid on a cellar-door for -- well, it 'pears to be years; I got to go to church and sweat and sweat -- I hate them
ornery sermons!
"Just at bedtime a poor,
ornery sort of dog came along and asked for a night's lodging.
"If I wan't an
ornery shorthorn at the business, I'd be accumulatin' them rings on your fingers instead of being polite," he retorted.
During his first, 22-year tenure as Prime Minister, from 1981 to 2003, he turned Malaysia into one of Southeast Asia's economic tigers, but his
ornery disregard for the judiciary and the press hinted at autocratic leanings.
I think something as easy as them being clearly defined as separate would do wonders for getting
ornery, stubborn guys like me to come around to seeing how neat crossbows are in their own right.
Still, the 'surprising' cohosts offer a decidedly '
ornery' contrast that makes their TV cookfest vividly and kookily viewable.
He chewed on everything in the house, carried stray socks everywhere, ate anything he could reach, and was sooo
ornery.
Teens will relate to the frustrations of a young man trying to survive and communicate with an
ornery teacher and will be captivated by the stark black-and-white illustrations of creatures such as the qallupilluit, who live under the ice and snatch unaware children.