I froze, then spluttered; he was just joking, he said.
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"No one believes in fairies," he spluttered to me once.
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But he has started a frenzy of special pleading and spluttered threats.
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They spluttered to a halt as soon as they had begun earlier this month.
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China's services sector, now the largest part of the Chinese economy, spluttered its way through July.
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I'm sure that Mr Johnson expressed the views of a growing number of Conservatives when he spluttered "fuck business".
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IN 2016 THE Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's sole aircraft-carrier, spluttered north through the English Channel belching thick black smoke.
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She spluttered her way through a speech designed to relaunch her premiership, as the set literally fell apart behind her.
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Floating around it, bashed-up motorboats, with bows as sharp as hooks, spluttered and backfired in the coffee-coloured water.
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At first, when I asked Rita if she was going to do ketamine at the show, she spluttered and said no.
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Just when it seemed like Britain's final big pirate radio sound had spluttered its last, it came back stronger than ever before.
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"Gone are the days when children dreamed of becoming doctors and nurses—today's children want to become YouTubers and vloggers," spluttered the Daily Mail in 2017.
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She'd spluttered a little, wasn't too pleased with the new meat, but she wanted to get to Mobile something desperate, so she didn't put up too much of a fuss.
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"When I told my daughter that I was shooting the scene that day, she spluttered … I took it to be jealousy," she told the BBC's The One Show in November.
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One person who used to dine regularly with Mr Madigan recalls how he spluttered and swore at a suggestion he would step aside even to let a close relative rise to higher office.
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Though his beloved Lakers have spluttered this season to an embarrassing record of 17-65, the worst for a franchise that has won 16 NBA championships, his league farewell sparked huge interest at the box office for Wednesday's game.
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"I have a strong temperament, and it's a very good temperament and it's a very in control temperament or I wouldn't have built this unbelievable company, I wouldn't have built all of the things that I've been able to do in life!" he spluttered.
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In neighboring Chile, recruitment firm Randstad said the pressure for jobs among Argentines had been building for months as Argentina`s economy has spluttered, with their rate of applications for jobs in Chile increasing by 246 percent between May and August this year compared to last.
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In neighbouring Chile, recruitment firm Randstad said the pressure for jobs among Argentines had been building for months as Argentina`s economy has spluttered, with their rate of applications for jobs in Chile increasing by 246 percent between May and August this year compared to last.
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So there is some irony in the fact that, on November 3rd, Brexiteers spluttered with indignation when three British judges, sitting in the High Court in London, ruled that under English law the business of triggering Brexit should fall to Britain's sovereign Parliament, rather than the government alone.
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It was dusk, and you were so happy, but suddenly your leg shook and your arm flexed, and this time the seizure wouldn't stop even when you took three emergency doses of Clonazepam, and your brother-in-law had to help you to the rear seat of a taxi while the driver spluttered and protested.
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As blue-blooded toffs spluttered into their Pimms at the top-hole entertainment, the strong arm of the law closed in on the mystery fellas.
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John Cunningham by Cuthbert Orde Cunningham still flew on operations. Flying the new Beaufighter II powered by Merlin engines on an interception in July, he was hit by return fire from a He 111. The engines spluttered and one caught fire. Already far out to sea he flew back to base, extinguished the fire and made a wheels-down landing.
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When it eventually departed, it was carrying two crew and five passengers. Due to fog at Southend, it was decided to divert to Lydd Ferryfield, an airport in the county of Kent. Two attempts were made to land at Ferryfield, but a go- around was performed each time on instructions from the airport operator. On the third approach, the starboard engine spluttered and stopped, followed shortly after by the port engine.
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This great mass of shaggy hair loomed up and an out-of-breath voice requested a quick drag of my Woodbine. It was one of the first cigarettes either of us had smoked. We spluttered our way through it bravely but gleefully. After that the three of us did lots of ridiculous things together.... By the time we were ready to take the GCE exams we added John Lennon to our 'Mad Lad' gang.
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Ibsen, late in his career On 23 May 1906, Ibsen died in his home at Arbins gade 1 in Kristiania (now Oslo)since 2006 The Ibsen Museum (Oslo) after a series of strokes in March 1900. When, on 22 May, his nurse assured a visitor that he was a little better, Ibsen spluttered his last words "On the contrary" ("Tvertimod!"). He died the following day at 2:30 pm.Michael Meyer, Ibsen – A Biography, Doubleday 1971, p.
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On that famous day in Melbourne in 1956 the torch spluttered and sparked, showering Clarke with hot magnesium, burning holes in his shirt. When he dipped the torch into the cauldron it burst into flame singeing him further. In the centre of the ground, John Landy, the fastest miler in the world, took the Olympic oath and sculler Merv Wood carried the Australian flag. The Melbourne Games also saw the high point of Australian female sprinting with Betty Cuthbert winning three gold medals at the MCG.
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There was a substantial amount of fuel in the tanks when the plane was examined after the crash. De Termicourt stated that the most likely reason that the plane had stalled was that Hoenmanns had inadvertently moved the lever that controlled the flow of petrol to the engine. If the lever was moved as De Termicourt suggested, the petrol in the tanks would have been isolated from the engine. This would have resulted in the engine stopping suddenly as Hoenmanns reported The engine spluttered, then stopped, and Hoenmanns was forced to land in a nearby field at about 11:30 AM. The aircraft was severely damaged.
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He participated in the First Italian War of Independence, taking part in the Battles of Goito and Santa Lucia. He was captured by the Austrians and briefly held as a prisoner of war, before being released on 7 September 1848. In his autobiography he later took care to stress the humanity with which, as a prisoner, he was treated by the Austrian army. After the Battle of Novara (23 March 1849) the war spluttered to an end, and he was sent on indefinite leave: he returned to Saint-Nicolas where, despite his age, he resumed his habit of attending the village school as a pupil, alongside the children.
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