Accordingly she was very inattentive at her lessons, failed to listen when she should, played atrociously on the piano, could not manage her sums, and, in short, got more and more each moment into Miss Tredgold's black books.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
It was his ninth birthday; and he was keeping it in the coal cellar with a select party of two other young gentlemen, who, after participating with him in a sound thrashing, had been locked up for atrociously presuming to be hungry.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
But the place is full of old stones and skins that smell atrociously, and wretched flies and beetles with pins stuck through their bodies, and I'm sure I can't think why you want more.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn