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  • Mrs. Dudgeon unbars the door and opens it, letting into the stuffy kitchen a little of the freshness and a great deal of the chill of the dawn, also her second son Christy, a fattish, stupid, fair-haired, round-faced man of about 22, muffled in a plaid shawl and grey overcoat. The Devil's Disciple
  • Dudgeon made himself look like a schoolboy as he woefully mistimed a header on the half-way line.
  • He's bald, has a bit of a belly and seems to be in high dudgeon for much of the day.
  • They exude the sweet, slightly rotten smell of hypocrisy as everyone takes a position of high dudgeon and righteousness.
  • Do you think I would be dressed like a boy? cried Nora, in dudgeon. Melbourne House
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  • The man walked off in dudgeon, and Mr. Westwyn, losing his anger in his astonishment at this effrontery, said, 'And pray, Mr. Lynmere, what do you pretend to know of Stilton cheese? do they make it at Leipsic? did you ever so much as taste it in your life?' Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • But, finding himself passed over, when others were promoted, he had gone off homeward in dudgeon. This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
  • Dudgeon's sphygmograph was used for the pulse tracings.
  • The Narcheska seemed in high dudgeon, walking stiff-backed as a soldier. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • `I don't want any impertinence out of you, young man,' she'd snapped and marched off in high dudgeon. JUST BETWEEN US
  • The whole thing had me in high dudgeon.
  • He at first refused, displaying the sort of high dudgeon I imagine Picasso would show if asked to complete a paint-by-numbers. Cold Fusion
  • But Dudgeon's career at Oakwell was blighted by a bout of post-viral syndrome which prevented him from making a League appearance for the Tykes.
  • In high dudgeon I proudly stalked away to my dressing room near the boiler room in the cellar.
  • Taken to task by his wife for a prolonged visit at the village inn, the clerk threatened in dudgeon to return to his potations, and did indeed set out again with this in mind.
  • So the carpet-woman went off in dudgeon, for she was sure there would not be time enough to do anything. The Peterkin Papers
  • I would never be making a humdudgeon about a scart on the pow; but we’ll be in Scotland in five minutes now, and ye maun gang up to Charlie’s Hope wi’ me, that’s a clear case.’ Guy Mannering
  • Lest this seem like the predictable rhetoric of those in high dudgeon, consider the undertones.
  • By February, I was in a state of high dudgeon.
  • I promptly took myself off in high dudgeon to the nearest Little Chef and had an all-day breakfast for somewhat less than the price I would have been charged.
  • But I took little heed of her, being in a kind of dudgeon, and oppressed with evil luck; believing too that all she wanted was to have some little grumble about some petty grievance. Lorna Doone
  • I am getting around to saying that as easygoing and nonconfrontational as San Diego is, the community this week has been in what, for it, represents a high dudgeon.
  • But it wasn't just that inconsistency which distressed me: it was the feeling that he was on the verge of extreme dudgeon before I could press the matter one inch further.
  • Which caused MSNBC's Keith Olbermann to go into an eleven-minute, high dudgeon rant addressed directly to Cheney, with a lot of "You sirs" and squinty, glinty eyeballing. Kate Clinton: Shut Up Cheney
  • Although they were eventually put back on the rails, the bad odour lingered, and was not dispelled when a non-executive director quit in high dudgeon.
  • At the same time, he is in high dudgeon these days over the trial.
  • Only 400m hurdler Sinead Dudgeon, assuming she maintains her 1999 form, can be regarded as a probable to make the journey.
  • And so we get ourselves in high dudgeon at injustices that may never have happened, because they are the kind of thing we would hate if they had happened.
  • Alan in high good humour at the furthering of his schemes, and I in bitter dudgeon at being called a Jacobite and treated like a child. Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
  • Where in thunder is she?" growled Tom, walking off in high dudgeon. An Old-Fashioned Girl
  • It would all have been so different if Dudgeon's side-on volley on the stroke of half-time from a Dunning corner had gone an inch lower instead of thundering into the crossbar.
  • Of course, I don't know what the relevant understandings were on the Judiciary committee, but I have a hard time working myself into a high moral dudgeon over it.
  • He glides and goes; and still the dudgeon sticks from his left lapelle. The French Revolution
  • I wonder if the same parties will summon up an equal amount of dudgeon now.
  • Does this mean that all the moral high dudgeon from the media last year was crocodile tears and that they never really cared about children?
  • Fine, so Rose had stormed off in high dudgeon over Hugh's affairs. JUST BETWEEN US
  • Tarja wondered for a moment what Loclon had asked of Mahina that had her in such high dudgeon. MEDALON
  • But instead what happens is that legitimate concerns get pushed aside by florid rhetoric and high dudgeon, debate gets polarised, until eventually everyone gets bored and blogging continues pretty much as it did before.
  • We waited by the hedge-side for several minutes – Mr. Charles ceased his urging, half in dudgeon, save that he was too pleasant a man really to take offence at anything. John Halifax, Gentleman
  • Lin totally misunderstood that comment, and got up into a high dudgeon over what he felt was a slight to his courage.
  • But amid the high dudgeon, it's easy to miss that essentially what he was making is an affirmative-action argument.
  • Burnside retained the title, clocking a time of 7.50s with Dudgeon two metres down in 2nd place in 7.63s - bettering her own six-year-old best.
  • Trusting soul that she is, Fanny related our conversation to the hotel manager the next day and came back in high dudgeon.
  • ‘Hout tout, man—I would never be making a humdudgeon about a scart on the pow—but we’ll be in Scotland in five minutes now, and ye maun gang up to Charlies-hope wi’ me, that’s a clear case. Chapter XXIII
  • More bloviation and high dudgeon from the White House on the reporting of the bank records data mining: Speaking at a fund-raising event in St. Louis for Senator Jim Talent, Mr. Bush made the news reports his central theme. June 2006
  • The animal was restive, took the stone very much in dudgeon, ran, and carrying his rider under a tree, Mr. Randolph's forehead was struck by a low-lying limb, and he was thrown off. Melbourne House
  • I take my leave in what you call the dudgeon - and word flies from mouth to mouth that Blowitz is beaten, that he sulks like a spoiled child, my rivals rejoice at my failure - and breathe sighs of relief ... and all the time the treaty is here - "he tapped his breast, chortling" - and tomorrow it will appear in The Times and in no other paper in the world! Watershed
  • On the night I visited the Goldminer's Inn the bloggers were in high dudgeon.
  • In high dudgeon he interjected, ‘You obviously don't watch the show.‘
  • I would never be making a humdudgeon about a scart on the pow; but we'll be in Scotland in five minutes now, and ye maun gang up to Charlie's Hope wi 'me, that's a clear case.' Guy Mannering — Complete
  • He turns on his heel and is about to go in extreme dudgeon.

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