"The cetaceans are on the whole the most peculiar and aberrant of mammals," he remarked peevishly. "There is no proper place for them in a scala naturae.They may be imagined as extending into a ...

I found the rest of the world’s literature so lacking in pep and incident that I pushed it all peevishly aside and started out from the Dark Wood all over again [Further Papers on Dante ...

A tour of the platforms reveals owls peevishly rain-drenched, owls clowning around, powder-puff nestlings pleading for a dangled snack, owls wincing and head-bobbing, owls as the rambunctious ...

Two and half years in the making, special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment presents a devastating case laced with telling detail More than 1,000 people charged over the US Capitol riot, millions ...

He went on state, peevishly, that “the official place name is Kaliningrad.” Furthermore, Kaliningrad also allows Russia to threaten the Suwalki Gap, a 40-mile-wide stretch of border between ...

MINOT — "So, Rob Port looks in the mirror and sees a conservative," David Charles of Belview, Minnesota, asks, peevishly, in a recent letter to the editor. "Does that magic mirror reflect a man ...

The day before he [Spencer] had peevishly pushed away the former when presented by the steward exclaiming "Cheddar, Cheddar, not Cheshire; I said Cheddar." There was a roar in which none joined ...

From new on, I want to knew, will the institution of learning in Cambridge, which once we called Harvard, be known as Hangman's House?--Heywood Brown August 6, 1927 If Heywood Broun was not ...

In sum, Fiedler produces a gallery of shrunken heads—deliberately reducing the stature of most of the American writers he discusses—and then peevishly complains that they lack size.

“It was very confusing,” Santa wrote peevishly in his letter that year, “but luckily your mummy and daddy were able to help me figure it out. Make sure you tell them thank you ...

Little has been as tense, though, as his recent Augusta history of peevishly raging against every perceived slight. Last year he seethed at being reminded that he had to pay a £100,000 fine for ...