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He's bald, has a bit of a belly and seems to be in high dudgeon for much of the day.
Lest this seem like the predictable rhetoric of those in high dudgeon, consider the undertones.
In high dudgeon I proudly stalked away to my dressing room near the boiler room in the cellar.
I wonder if the same parties will summon up an equal amount of dudgeon now.
But amid the high dudgeon, it's easy to miss that essentially what he was making is an affirmative-action argument.
On the night I visited the Goldminer's Inn the bloggers were in high dudgeon.
Lin totally misunderstood that comment, and got up into a high dudgeon over what he felt was a slight to his courage.
They exude the sweet, slightly rotten smell of hypocrisy as everyone takes a position of high dudgeon and righteousness.
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?
Meeting People Is Easy featured the Oxford quintet touring the globe in high dudgeon.
Britain would be in high dudgeon if its party leaders all came from Eton and Harrow.
And while wearing a niqab may send some observers into a high dudgeon, it impairs neither their civil interests nor their religious ones.
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.
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.
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.
At the same time, he is in high dudgeon these days over the trial.
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.
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.
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.
The value of moral harrumphing is rather minimal, and though, as an ex-fundamentalist, I can sermonize with the best of them, I will spare you my tiny outburst of dudgeon.
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Whereupon Lord banstead called her a little devil and went off in dudgeon to London and took golden-haired ladies out to supper.
Meanwhile, the housekeeper, on leaving the library, had gone to her own room in dudgeon.
John dudgeon was there, and Mrs. John, and several offshoots of the dudgeon tree.
Suddenly our fraternising was observed by some officers who came hurrying up in high dudgeon.
I thought this roughness would have sent her off in dudgeon, as indeed it closed her mouth for the time.
Southey supplies us with an illustration of the moon in a fit of dudgeon.
The name of the little hucksters across the way was dudgeon.
He retired at length in dudgeon, and Stephen called on Paul for a song.
A violent quarrel arose between him and Lisa, and he left the boat in high dudgeon.
This so intensifies his dudgeon that for five minutes he is in an ill humour.
The posts left vacant by Bagration, who had been killed, and by Barclay, who had gone away in dudgeon, had to be filled.
And he went off in dudgeon, leaving me very lonely and miserable.
And slamming the door in Meg's face, Aunt March drove off in high dudgeon.
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