I should have said something meaner still if I could have thought of it quick enough.

Isn't it awful?
Only the second day of the term to have things come to such a pass! Everything we do seems to rub the other's fur up the wrong way." "I'd ask Madam to change me to some other room," said Dorene, but Mary resented the suggestion.
"No, indeed! I'll not have it said that I was such a fuss-cat as all that.

I'll make myself get along with her." "Well, I don't envy you the task," was Cornie's rejoinder.

"I never can resist the temptation to take people down when they get high and mighty.
I heard her telling one of the girls at the breakfast table that she'd never ridden on a street-car in all her life till she came to Washington.

She made Fanchon take her across the city in one instead of calling a carriage as they always do.