I'm quite ill watching you, I assure you.

We'll all vow we saw you do it twelve times; we'll put it in the _Times_ if you like, and say the net was five feet ten; anything, as long as you don't start at it again." This appeal had the effect of reducing the volatile Horace to a state of quiescence, and inducing him to come and share the shade with his companions.
"Never saw such a lazy lot," said he, lying flat on his back and balancing his racquet on his finger; "you won't do anything yourselves and you won't let any one else do anything.

Regular dogs in the manger." "My dear fellow," said the fourth of the party in a half drawl, "we've been doing nothing but invite you in to the manger for the last hour, and you wouldn't come.

Can't you take a holiday while we've got one ?" "Bad luck to it," said Reginald; "there's only a week more." "I don't see why you need growl, old man," said the visitor who had spoken first; "you'll get into the sixth and have a study to yourself, and no mathematics unless you like." "Poor Harker," said Horace, "he's always down on mathematics.

Anyhow, I shan't be sorry to show up at Wilderham again, shall you, Bland ?" "Depends on the set we get," drawled Bland (whose full name was Blandford).