"Discontentedly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Percy, who stood leaning with his back against a tree, rather discontentedly kicking the toe of his shoe into the ground, he saw that the boy was vexed about something, and paused to ...
— Bessie Bradford's Prize • Joanna H. Mathews
... you'd make me understand you," said Madge discontentedly. "If there is any meaning to your words, ...
— Nobody • Susan Warner
... knew him too well to take his interjection otherwise than most kindly. And indeed though he whirled round and eat his toast at the fire discontentedly, his look came back to her after a little with even more than its usual ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... The Descent of the Great Bear, or the Mussulmans in a Quandary. In a third (also without date), called The Nest in Danger, we see Turkey sitting on a nest marked "Greece" disturbed by Russia, whilst the British lion stands looking on at no great distance, discontentedly gnawing a bone labelled "Navarino." By the time peace was concluded between the belligerents in 1829, England would seem to have realized the fact that she had been made the tool of Russia, and this ...
— English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. - How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. • Graham Everitt
... me," said Patsy, discontentedly, "that the plot thickens, as they say in novels. If we interview many more people we shall ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville • Edith Van Dyne
... her on the piazza she passed in and disappeared. He at last discovered Mr. Arnault, who was smoking and making some memoranda, and, turning on his heel, he strode away. "She might have said good-night, at least," he thought, discontentedly, "and that fellow Arnault did not look like a man who ...
— A Young Girl's Wooing • E. P. Roe
... was not addressed to Antoine, so also he did not hear it. He was discontentedly watching the body of the Viscount, whom he consented to help, but with ...
— Frances Kane's Fortune • L. T. Meade
... Pondering discontentedly over the perplexities of life, a habit she had allowed herself to indulge in quite frequently of late, one day not long after the final exit of the once interesting but now obnoxious "C," Nattie suddenly became aware of a pair of merry brown eyes, belonging to a fine-looking young gentleman, ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer
... get very crushed," she muttered discontentedly. "But then—— Oh, well, I might as well put it in," and in it went. Mrs. Britton hovered anxiously about her, and ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... of the range of Randalin's vision, and her eyes wandered away discontentedly. If there was nothing more to look at, she might as well go to sleep. The fire was dying down so that the overhanging shadow was drooping lower, like a canopy that would fall and smother them when the spears of light that upheld it should sink at last in the ashes. The doors of darkness ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz |
