"Dearie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "No, nor that either, dearie. We must not blame the poor young master beyond his deserts. He loved her true, Miss Crystal; he loved her that true that his heart was like to break; but for all that he was forced to give ...
— Wee Wifie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... give you what money you need, and if at any time you should want more than your ordinary allowance, for presents or any special purpose, just tell her about it, and she will understand. You can have anything in reason; I want you to be happy. Don't fret, dearie. I shall be with father, and the time will pass. In three years I shall be back again, and then, Peg, then, how happy we shall ...
— About Peggy Saville • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... deep wi' thee, dearie, Will I, will I, Sail the sounding sea, dearie, Will I, will I, 'Neath the starred or starless sky, Heaven is where the heart beats high, With a love that cannot die; So we wander, ...
— Soldier Songs and Love Songs • A.H. Laidlaw
... no security, and you know, dearie, what that will mean for me if papa cannot meet them. Oh, how I detest ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... "Dearie," I said, trying my level best to get a mist over my lamps so as to give her the teardrop gaze, "something keeps whispering to me, 'Sidestep that cave in the wilderness!' Something keeps telling me that a month on the farm ...
— Back to the Woods • Hugh McHugh
... you'd fix it, my dearie," she said sadly shaking her head. "I'd like nuthin' better'n to see them big trees out in Californy I've been hearin' 'bout all my life; an' summer an' winter with snow on the mountains what some of the boarders 't the inn tells 'bout; but I can't bring ...
— The Man of the Desert • Grace Livingston Hill
... flowery lea, And a' is young and sweet like thee; O wilt thou share its joys wi' me, And say thou'lt be my dearie O? ...
— English Songs and Ballads • Various
... to thank you for this opportunity—" he began, but was pushed aside by an athletic young woman who spoke from under a broad hat. "Hullo, dearie! How about ...
— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson
... thin hands in her own patient ones. "Never mind, dearie," she said, "they will grow plump and brown again, I hope." A group of school-children were passing by, shouting and frolicking. Clinton leaned forward and watched them till the last one was gone. Some of them waved their caps, ...
— Stories Worth Rereading • Various
... tired, dearie?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey, leaning forward and smoothing out her daughter's hair with her hand. "If you would like to sit with me and put your head in my lap, papa can go ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope
... dearie," said Elspeth. "That wad be six feet; and I'm not just that tall, though my father was six feet and ...
— Six to Sixteen - A Story for Girls • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... examples of the class of terms I speak of. Take the names for parents—"Daddie" and "Minnie;" names for children, "My wee bit lady" or "laddie," "My wee bit lamb;" of a general nature, "My ain kind dearie." "Dawtie," especially used to young people, described by Jamieson a darling or favourite, one who is dawted—i.e. fondled or caressed. My "joe" expresses affection with familiarity, evidently derived from joy, an easy transition—as "My joe, Janet;" "John ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... happy days I spent wi' you, my dearie; And now what lands between us lie, How can I be ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various
... "Yes, dearie," I hastened to say. "You may have a small bottle of champagne—or perhaps Apollinaris water would be better, it sparkles just the same, and if it flew in the goats' eyes it wouldn't make them smart, and the ...
— At Home with the Jardines • Lilian Bell
... back the hair from her face. Her mother noticed the movement. "Well, dearie," she said, "you have had a nice nap and I hope you ...
— A Dear Little Girl's Thanksgiving Holidays • Amy E. Blanchard
... wrong, dearie; for here I am in prime condition, and loaded down with good things. The people up at Antelope Spring have shown themselves to be mighty ...
— Dick in the Desert • James Otis
... Miss Templeton rejoined, smiling indulgently as she looked at the fair face beside her. "What was the dream, dearie?" ...
— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell
... across a hall a soft sound broke, and Anna stood in Miranda's doorway wearing her most self-contained smile: "Dearie!" she quietly said, "isn't it ...
— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable
... go a-frightin' an' a-scarin' this poor child. Go an' put your wicked 'ead under the pump this instant, you bad boy. As for you, my pore lamb, never 'eed 'im; 'e bean't so bad when 'e's sober. Come your ways along o' me, dearie." And folding me within one robust arm she brought me into that room that was half bar and ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol
... "Better now, dearie?" murmured a low anxious voice. "That's right! Don't try to get up just yet—take time! Let the strength come back to ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... thankful! It seems quite providential! O, dearie, dearie, sonny dearie! I'm so glad to see ...
— Cudjo's Cave • J. T. Trowbridge
... absolved her of all evil intent, of any desire to obtain anything under false pretenses. He even absolved the blonde person, who despite her brassy hair, her hectic face, had of a sudden become a kind, gentle, and soothing presence. "Well, dearie, you got a straight tip from that feller. All I had to do was to show that piece o' paper he give you, and this kind gent'man come right off to see you," said the blonde cheerfully. "An' now maybe he'll be wantin' to talk with you, so I'll ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
... amazed at the idea that Jo smiled in spite of her pain, and added softly, "Then you didn't, dearie? I was afraid it was so, and imagined your poor little heart full of lovelornity ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... heart out," she exclaimed. "You 'a' lost your situation. Well, you aint the first; you'll soon get another, dearie, and you'll be a rare bit of comfort to me at home for a few days. There, set down close to me, darlin', and tell me everythink. Wot's up, my pretty, ...
— Good Luck • L. T. Meade
... a bad character you'd be afther givin' your own niece," Beth blarneyed; and then she turned up her naughty eyes to the ceiling and chanted softly: "What will Jimmie-wimmie give his duckie-dearie to ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand
... sure, dearie, only 'tis new," faltered Mrs. Prettyman. "If you're spared to my age, Missie, you'll find as ...
— Robinetta • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... course. But a man wants to respect as well as like a pretty girl, and I am afraid—Uncle has noticed it!" she interrupted herself quickly, as Cherry tossed her head scornfully. "He spoke of it last night, and Alix tells me that you are calling Mr. Lloyd 'Martin!' Now, dearie, Martin Lloyd is fully ...
— Sisters • Kathleen Norris
... my dearie, good-bye till next I see you, and don't be doleful in that big house by yourself. Your uncle will soon be well, and nurse will be better able to see after you. I don't know what all those servants are after that they ...
— Probable Sons • Amy Le Feuvre
... to feel so discouraged, dearie, I know. I ought to be brave, but when I tried to think what I could get for dear father with the checks that will surely be coming in to me, within the next two or three weeks, I felt so utterly broken-hearted that I could do nothing ...
— Grandfather's Love Pie • Miriam Gaines
... with you, dearie?" ejaculated Pigott, whose watchful eye detected a change she could not define; ...
— Dawn • H. Rider Haggard
... dearie; I think not if she will be content to take me for her teacher," Violet said, with a half-suppressed sigh, for she felt that she might be pledging herself to a most trying work; Lulu would dare much more in the way of disregarding her authority than ...
— The Two Elsies - A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket, Book 10 • Martha Finley
... "No, no, dearie," said that resolute old woman, when Elspie first promulgated to her the idea of sitting up all night with Duncan, "you will do nothin' of the sort. Your sainted mother left your father an' Fergus an' yourself to my care, an' I said I would never fail you, so I can't break my promise by letting ...
— The Buffalo Runners - A Tale of the Red River Plains • R.M. Ballantyne
... mean to, but I fell off. [Unhooking LILY'S dress.] It was the front-door I 'eard a minute ago, then? It gave me sech a start. [In difficulties with the hooks.] Turn more to the light, dearie. These dressmakers do it a' purpose, I b'lieve. The 'ooks on that noo gown o' mine are a perfect myst'ry. ...
— The 'Mind the Paint' Girl - A Comedy in Four Acts • Arthur Pinero
... those that should be our protectors oot o' their manhood! See," added she, "do ye see wha yon is, skulking as far as he can get frae our door wi' the weel-filled sack upon his shouthers? It is yer ain dearie, Florence Wilson! O the betrayer o' his country!—He's a coward, Janet, like the rest o' them, and shall ne'er ca' ye his wife while I ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI • Various
... will be horribly affectionate, and give me a present to make up for it. I can never get accustomed to his calling me Ambrosine—it always jars, as if one suddenly heard a shopman taking this liberty. It is equally unpleasant as "little woman" or "dearie," both of which besprinkle all his sentences. He has not a mind that makes it possible to have any conversation with him. He told me to-day that I was the stupidest cold statue of a woman he had ever met, and then he shook me until I felt giddy, and kissed me ...
— The Reflections of Ambrosine - A Novel • Elinor Glyn
... "Hush, hush, dearie! name them not. I am coming to it all in good time. I was telling you how the poor lady failed and pined from that hour, and was like to die. My gossip Madge told me how when, next Midsummer, this unlucky babe was born they had to take him from her chamber at once because ...
— A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge
... and I ran off into the berth to write it, hoping that I should be there undisturbed. I had great difficulty in penning the letter; and while I was kneeling down at the chest, old Growles came in and mocked at me, and another fellow asked me whether I was sending a love-letter to my dearie, and a third gave me a knock on the elbow, which spattered the ink over the paper and nearly upset the ink-bottle. Still I ...
— Dick Cheveley - His Adventures and Misadventures • W. H. G. Kingston
... Auntie." "Well, we must try and think of others, dearie, and not of ourselves." "It's not of myself, Auntie." "Never fret about me, Sadie." "No, Auntie, I was not thinking of you." "Was it of any one in particular." "Of Mr. Stephens, Auntie. How gentle he was, and how brave! To think of him fixing up every little thing for us, and trying to pull ...
— A Desert Drama - Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" • A. Conan Doyle
... if she were here, would pat my check where the hollow place is, and murmur: "Never mind, Dawnie dearie, Mother thinks you are beautiful just the same." Of such blessed ...
— Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed • Edna Ferber
... The elderly woman bobbed down behind the counter and popped back up with an armload of magazines and newspapers. "Just happened to have some free time last thing yesterday. It's already charged out to you, so you just go right ahead and take it, dearie." ...
— The Sound of Silence • Barbara Constant
... dearie," said Charles-Norton, and hung up the receiver, and with a bad conscience and a soaring heart, went off to dinner. No shearing to-night—gee! He ordered a dinner which made the red-headed waitress gasp. "Must have got a raise, eh?" ...
— The Trimming of Goosie • James Hopper
... the child. "Here's Lydia, up in the tree! Watch me, dearie! See me come down. Here comes Florence ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
... Dearie," Doris's mama said, "but it's bad enough to have wasted one dollar without crying about it, too. When you and I go out, we'll try to get such good things for the next dollar, that it will make up for our mistake about this one." The next bright day they went ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) - Fun and Thought for Little Folk • Various
... Lizzie, Lizzie, bonny hizzie! Ye've turned the daylicht dreary. Ye're straucht and rare, ye're fause and fair— Hech! auld John Armstrong's dearie!" ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald
... us wander Where Raven's streams meander, And where, in simple grandeur, The daisy decks the plain. Peace and joy our hours shall measure; Come, oh! come, my soul's best treasure! Then how sweet, and then how cheerie, Raven's braes will be, my dearie. ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... from his source. On mischief bent he overflowed his bed, teasing the infant Arizona. He worried her, poor dearie—dear till she shed tears and nature adding to the gush of waters there flowed a brackish stream away; now named Saltriver and on its banks ...
— Tales of Aztlan • George Hartmann
... dearie, don't take on so,' said good-natured Mrs. Maloney. 'It's not dead she is at all. You see, the father came home, after bein' on a bit of a spree, with a touch of delirium, and raised a good deal of a fuss, and they took him away where he'll have to behave ...
— Clemence - The Schoolmistress of Waveland • Retta Babcock
... cold, honey, sitting here waiting—the surprise and all. Run, honey, and get me a drink. Crack some ice, dearie, and then run up-stairs in the third floor back and see if there's some brandy up there. Be sure to look for—the ...
— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst
... not discuss it further, dearie. It is not a matter of such importance that we should differ to the point of becoming acrimonious. Besides, it's a queer topic ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... "Of course you can, dearie!" he protested in a soothing tone. "But these shyster lawyers who hang around those places—you 'member Jim O'Leary out home to Athens? Well, they don't know a lady when they see one, and they wouldn't care if they did; and they'll try and ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train
... the eye o' my bairnie. Did ye ken the red bloom at the bend o' the crag? That's the rose in the cheek o' my bairnie. Did ye hear the gay lilt o' the lark by the burn? That's the voice of my bairnie, my dearie. Did ye smell the wild scent in the green o' the wood? That's the breath o' my ain, o' my bairnie. Sae I'll gang awa' hame, to the shine o' the fire, To the cot where I ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... told to strip and array ourselves in moderately dirty blue dressing-gowns. Away from the formality of the other room we sang little songs, and made the worst jokes in the world—being continually interrupted by an irritable sergeant, whom we called "dearie." One or two men were feverishly arguing whether certain physical deficiencies would be passed. Nobody said a word of his reason for enlisting except the sign-writer, whose wages ...
— Adventures of a Despatch Rider • W. H. L. Watson
... feel, dearie," said the old lady, softly, turning her sightless eyes toward the girl, hearing her movements ...
— Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden
... Mrs. Dawes. "Don't you know, dearie? You must be a young 'un, you must. Why, when I was a gal every one knew Wych Street. It was just down there where they built ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors
... dearie," said the old woman, looking gratefully from one bright face to the other. "I suppose you don't know how much I appreciate all you've done for me," she added, her voice breaking a little, "'cause I never could tell you if I lived for a hundred years. But you just ...
— The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House • Laura Lee Hope
... Leger staggered like one struck and he sprang to her assistance—"sit you down, mother, and let Dyer here tell us his story. I have only just heard the barest outline of it. Perhaps when we have heard it all it may not seem so bad. And don't you fear for Hubert, dearie; 'tis true that the Spaniards have got him, but they won't dare to hurt him, be you assured of that; and likely enough he will have escaped by this time. Now, Dyer, come to an anchor, man, and tell us all that befell. And while you're ...
— The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer • Harry Collingwood
... continual writing in the evenings. A nice bit of sewing would be more to my mind. You've not done more than an inch of that crochet pattern I taught you. Being monitress is all very well, I daresay, but I'm not going to let you sit up till midnight, my dearie, over your books. Not if I have to go myself to Miss Pollard, and tell ...
— Monitress Merle • Angela Brazil
... swellest chance in the world to 'make every dream cone true, dearie,'" Pink retorted. "The whole blamed coulee's full uh sheep. I woke up a while ago and thought I just imagined I heard 'en again; so I went out to take a look—or a smell, it ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower
... "He's a man, dearie, and a good one. He may be untrammeled by convention, but he is clean and brave. He has eyes that look through cowardice and treachery, fine strong eyes that are honest ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine
... "Dearie me! Beniah, there's no need to yell so loud. You know I've got back my hearing. What want ye with me? I'm sure I have no wish to pry into the secrets of this young man or yourself. ...
— The Hot Swamp • R.M. Ballantyne
... "Yes, dearie; the best Indian in all the Hudson's Bay country," echoed Mrs. MacIntyre, with something like a tear ...
— The Shagganappi • E. Pauline Johnson
... 'You mustn't cry, dearie,' Mrs. Banks said, holding Henrietta to the bosom of her greasy dress. 'It's a lucky ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... 'Dearie me! and you going down to Lowestoft with him, and all.' Mrs Pipkin could not bear to think that she should hear no more of such ...
— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope
... 'tis here," she said tenderly. "I guess you do feel it. But, dearie, there's lots of folks walkin' round doin' their work with their hearts droppin' blood all the time. Only you mustn't listen to it. You just say, 'I'll do the things I've got to do, an' I'll fix my mind on 'em. I won't cry till to-morrow.' An' when to-morrow ...
— Country Neighbors • Alice Brown
... night, and naething wad serve him but to come in and bid good-bye to his sister just as I had gotten her off into something more like a sleep. It startled her up, and she went off her head again, poor dearie, and began to talk about prison and disgrace, and what not, till she fainted again; and when she came to, I was fain to call the other lad to pacify her, for I could see the trouble in her puir een, though she could scarce win breath ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "But, dearie, that's so barbarous like!" exclaimed the dismayed Samaritan. "There ought to be some one to say some prayers an' sing ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne
... would be when I was but a schoolgirl, and soon afterwards I went abroad for a year with an aunt." She lingered a moment longer. "I am glad he told you. It was nice of him. And he tells so little. It was a great compliment. Good night, dearie. Sleep well." ...
— The Rhodesian • Gertrude Page
... "Dearie me, but, child, you do rush one about so. Where is he? There, you've left the door open; and whose is that hideous brute of a dog? Why, it looks like a timber-wolf. ...
— The Hound From The North • Ridgwell Cullum
... "My own granddarter, if such there had been, could not have done more to comfort me, nor half so much, for aught I know. There is no picking and choosing among the females, as God gives them. But he has given you for a blessing and saving to my old age, my dearie." ...
— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore
... canny hour at e'en, My arms about my dearie, O; An' warly cares, an' warly men, May a' gae ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various
... "H-sh, h-sh, dearie!" Mrs. Donovan's hand slipped over the red lips and she sent a quick glance over her shoulder. Bewildered and surprised as she was she realized that her niece's age was not to be shouted out in the vestibule of ...
— Mary Rose of Mifflin • Frances R. Sterrett
... "Now that's too bad! Dearie me! Bud oughta hev gone with you, so he ought. Bud! Oh, Bud, you 'ain't gonta sleep yet, hev you? Wake up and come down and take this horse ...
— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill
... opening from a street trap-door and giving at the other extremity on a sort of water-rat exit underneath the pier. She handed Louise down the steps and taking her things remarked in a self-satisfied tone: "Here are your lodgings, Dearie!" ...
— Orphans of the Storm • Henry MacMahon
... wi silver leet, An' th' wind wor softly sighin, Th' burds did sleep, an' th' snails did creep, An' th' buzzards wor a flying; Th' daisies donned ther neet caps on, An' th buttercups wor weary, When Jenny went to meet her John, Her Rifleman, her dearie. ...
— Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series - To which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour - from his Popular Writings • John Hartley
... you do, course you do. Well, we won't worry about that, any of it. Mr. Daniels says there's nothin' to worry about anyhow, and I'll tell him he can do what he thinks ought to be done when it's necessary. Now let's finish up that packin' of yours, dearie." ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln
... the Shakespeare boom, so strong last year, petered out. There seems no doubt that the man, in spite of a flashy start, had not the stuff. I understand that some of his things are doing fairly well on the road. Clare Kummer, whose "Dearie" I have so frequently sung in my bath, to the annoyance of all, suddenly turned right round, dropped song-writing, and ripped a couple of hot ones right over the plate. Mr. Somerset Maugham succeeded in shocking Broadway so that the sidewalks ...
— A Wodehouse Miscellany - Articles & Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... breaths, but before her aunt left the room she lay quiet, her eyes closed. The other was struck by the way her pallor brought out the thinness of her lovely face. She hovered helplessly for a moment over the bed. "Is there anything I can do for you, dearie?" she asked humbly. ...
— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield
... you're back, and that's everything! And we'll very soon get some flesh on your bones and drive the sad look out of thee eyes." In moments of emotion and excitement Jessie forgot the schooling Ida had given her, and lapsed into semi-Westmoreland. "You've missed the moorland air, dearie, and the cream and the milk—I've 'eard it's all chalk and water in London—and I suppose there wasn't room to ride in them crowded streets; and the food, too, I'm told it ain't fit for ordinary humans, leave alone a dainty maid like ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice
... added, rising to go out, 'you shall help me, dearie. We'll write this great fairy-tale of mine together, eh?' He stooped and kissed her, feeling love and tenderness ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood
... married, dearie? Now that's too bad. Ain't he any kind of relation to you? Not an uncle nor cousin ...
— The Girl from Montana • Grace Livingston Hill
... locks, Bonnie lassie! artless lassie! Will ye wi' me tent the flocks, Will ye be my dearie, O?" ...
— John Ward, Preacher • Margaret Deland
... in the gloaming, nae younkers are roaming 'Bout stacks wi' the lasses at bogle to play; But ilk ane sits drearie, lamenting her dearie— The Flowers of the Forest ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... she replied, "only she'll expect such things as 'dearest' and 'darling' at times. And occasionally 'pet' and 'sweetheart'—and 'dearie.' I can't give them all; you must extemporize a ...
— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick
... milksop! His mother gives him a ten kopeck piece for a French roll with sausage, but he's economized out of that for a wench. I had one little cadet in the last few days. So just on purpose, to spite him, I say: 'Here, my dearie, here's a little caramel for you on your way; when you're going back to your corps, you'll suck on it.' So at first he got offended, but afterwards took it. Later I looked from the stoop, on purpose; just as soon as he walked out, he looked around, and right away into his mouth ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... gray head, while the tears streamed down her wrinkled cheeks. "Yes, yes, dearie, we'll promise. It's better that they do not know until it's all over; and they need never know all." And whispering to Amy, she added, "The poor child can't ...
— That Printer of Udell's • Harold Bell Wright
... horses that fell into attitudes of rest and crunched, in deep content, the grain given them. Duncan, the brawny Scotch head-teamster, lovingly wiped the flanks of his big bays with handfuls of pawpaw leaves, as he softly whistled, "O wha will be my dearie, O!" and a cricket beneath the leaves at his feet accompanied him. The green wood fire hissed and crackled merrily. Wreathing tongues of flame wrapped around the big black kettles, and when the cook lifted the lids to plunge in his testing-fork, ...
— Freckles • Gene Stratton-Porter
... An'—an' do come an' see me again some time—do, dearie!" the old woman added over her shoulder as the conductor pulled her up the high ...
— The Torch Bearer - A Camp Fire Girls' Story • I. T. Thurston
... the happy days I spent wi' you, my dearie, And now what lands between us lie, How can ...
— A Selection From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick • Robert Herrick
... freed, I here declare my bosom's dearie; And she shall be my Queen with speed, And on her brows ...
— Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg - a ballad • Thomas J. Wise
... "Oh dearie me, oh dearie me," says she, "I've swam and I've paddled and I've danced, and if ye'll not help me I shall never find the stars in the sky ...
— More English Fairy Tales • Various
... "Oh, dearie," he protested, in a tone as a child would have done, "what does a day or two matter? Be a darling old mother and let me go. Tom has a gun for me, and Mr. Talbot is going to lend us his red setter. Tom's sister is going, too, and so are her ...
— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith
... "There—there, dearie," Mrs. Morton whispered in a soothing voice. "You need not sleep there. You can lie right here, for the rest of the night, and I will stay with you and see ...
— The Film of Fear • Arnold Fredericks
... gone on with Sister Hilda-Antony and Sister Cleophee, dearie. She is going to sleep at the Convent with them, and I was to give you her ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... "Yes, dearie," said Granny, "only five days more now," and then she sighed, but little Gretchen was so happy that she did not ...
— Christmas Stories And Legends • Various
... "Dearie me," said Mrs. Buchanan as she sailed into the room with colors flying in cheeks and eyes, "did Phoebe go on to that meeting after all? Did she promise to come back? Where's Andrew? Caroline, child, what have you and the major been doing all the afternoon? It's after ...
— Andrew the Glad • Maria Thompson Daviess
... listen, dearie, I, too, Feel that Summer again. A young mother like you, I am holding my baby all close to my breast, And with the old lullaby lull her ...
— Grandma's Memories • Mary D. Brine
... heard, they were to move, very sudden, and the garden just planted and all, and worst of all, Essie had lost her heart to a corporal and was to stay behind. At the time I blamed her sorely and wrote her a bitter letter, but, dearie me, life is life for all of us, and Miss Lisbet wasn't her treasure as she was mine. We made it up later, Essie ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... yowes tae the knowes, Ca' them where the heather grows, Ca' them where the burnie rows, My kind dearie, O! ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh
... call on you so long, dearie, you know we're neighbors, but I thought I'd wait till you got settled, you must run in and see me, how much did that ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... us. Your man will come quick enough when he gets word. And we'll take good care of you in the meantime. La, I'm all excited over it. It's the finest thing could happen for you both. Take it from me, dearie. I know. We've had our troubles, Jake and I. And, seeing I'm only six months short of being a graduate nurse, you needn't ...
— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... maybe; but dinna fear, dearie, we'll bide till the morn," said Elspie, faintly, as she tried to move away, supporting herself by the bed. Soon she sank back dizzily. "I canna walk. My sweet lassie, will ye help ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... the picture of Thomas Paine or Ingersoll, or that he knows that the idea of God is stupid. Or that the Social Democratic father can point to his little girl of six and say, "Who wrote the Capital, dearie?" "Karl Marx, pa!" Or that the Anarchistic mother can make it known that her daughter's name is Louise Michel, Sophia Perovskaya, or that she can recite the revolutionary poems of Herwegh, Freiligrath, or Shelley, and that ...
— Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 - Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature • Various
... to have her call her "dearie." Half the pleasure in her purchase would be gone if she could not see old Michael. Suddenly, she had a bright idea. She ran around the side of the house to the kitchen window and waved her ...
— Peggy in Her Blue Frock • Eliza Orne White
... dearie. You'll just need to be patient awhile, and then you'll be all right. Put your head up agin me like that, and then you'll feel bullier. It ain't easy to talk when your lips is like leather, but I guess I'd best let you know how the cards lie. What's ...
— A Study In Scarlet • Arthur Conan Doyle
... there from the sea, dearie," said old Granny Fullerton to Barbara Brighton. "It will search out ...
— The Windy Hill • Cornelia Meigs
... this grand!" she exclaimed. Then to Gwendolyn: "You don't mind, do you, dearie, if Jane has a taste of gum ...
— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates
... says. He's taken a rouble for it. "Can't sell it for less," he says. Because it's no easy matter to get 'em, you know. I paid him, dearie, out of my own money. If she takes them, thinks I, it's all right; if she don't, I can let old ...
— Redemption and Two Other Plays • Leo Tolstoy et al
... plucked from the burning," she told him, "an' by the grace of God mine's to be the hand that'll pluck 'ee. You'll be saved along of your poor old mawther, won't 'ee, dearie?" ...
— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse
... Dearie, you're running around all the time, and that makes you still hungrier. You'd better sit down. I'll kneel beside you, and you can take a piece of paper and draw ...
— Savva and The Life of Man • Leonid Andreyev
... 'Dearie me! Dearie me!' she exclaimed. 'A shower o' golochs! The very licht o' day darkened wi' the fu'some craiters. Ca' you this a land o' milk and honey? Egyptian darkness ...
— Our Home in the Silver West - A Story of Struggle and Adventure • Gordon Stables
... like that, dearie, that isn't pretty. It's parsley. Very good parsley it is, but it ...
— The Carroll Girls • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... incident of disobedience from home life will illustrate the point involved. A quinine capsule was lying on the table. A three-year-old boy reached for it. His mother called across the room, "Don't eat that, dearie, it isn't candy." But in a spirit of reckless mischief he hurried it into his mouth and quickly chewed it up! It was a very disagreeable but salutary lesson for the little fellow. It is an example of nature's ...
— Elementary Theosophy • L. W. Rogers
... score. But he began to be flirty again. He got hold of Jose's bridle, and before I could catch my breath he said I was a peach, and that he wanted to make a date with me, that his name was Chase, that he owned a gold mine in Mexico. He said a lot more I didn't gather, but when he called me 'Dearie' I—well, I lost ...
— Desert Gold • Zane Grey
... out, dearie," her mother said, comfortingly, and Briskow agreed. He assured her that ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... "By-by, dearie," he smiled, as the train-bell signaled the approaching departure. "You and I will get out of this shortly. Don't grieve. I'll be back in two or three weeks, or I'll send for you. I'd take you now, only I don't ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... his arrows sharp And came a minstrel weary, I'd never tell him by his harp Nor know him for my dearie. ...
— Helen of Troy and Other Poems • Sara Teasdale
... at one of the smaller tables and dabbled through a series of uninteresting dishes. An admiring waitress rebuked her ... "Dearie, you ...
— Erik Dorn • Ben Hecht
... tell its Norma where it came from? Who brought the dearie here and left it in the naughty room? Tell its Norma," continued Miss Bonkowski, on her knees upon the bare and dirty floor, and eyeing the dainty embroidery and examining the quality of the fine white ...
— The Angel of the Tenement • George Madden Martin
... stupid of me, I think I never heard the words except those two lines 'White wings they never grow weary—I'll think of my dearie—'" and she finished the "Fly away home," with a charming gesture of her little hands and a triumphant warbling of ...
— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke
... "Nothing, dearie, don't you mind," soothed Cleo. "We are so glad to see you safely landed we can even forgive the turtle. It was a perfectly foolish thing to do, to fall in the brook at this hour, with not even a boy scout to perform a daring, dashing rescue. Madie, I'm surprised at your lack of judgment. ...
— The Girl Scouts at Bellaire - Or Maid Mary's Awakening • Lilian C. McNamara Garis
... to you—if you know anything of the manner of my breaking off with Trevison Brandon—but he wrote me about a month ago, asking me to come out here. I didn't accept the invitation at once—because I didn't want him to be too sure, you know, dearie. Men are always presuming ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer
... "Dearie me, no," sighed the old lady; "only it do seem such a wild-goose chase. There'll be no one to take care of us, and that dreadful black, Jimmy"—nurse always said his name with a sort of disrelish—"will be hanging about here ...
— Bunyip Land - A Story of Adventure in New Guinea • George Manville Fenn
... her a little puzzled, then she understood. "Oh, I said awfully, didn't I? Thank you, dearie, for reminding me. What should you like ...
— Little Maid Marian • Amy E. Blanchard |
