"Right-down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Paul; "Louis XIV. was, at most, a costume; and a right-down handsome costume, too. I wish we fellows ...
— Patty in Paris • Carolyn Wells
... exuberant grip. "Don't mind his little ways, Brother Ware," he urged in a loud, unctuous whisper, with a grinning backward nod: "he's a trifle skittish sometimes when you don't give him free rein; but he's all wool an' a yard wide when it comes to right-down hard-pan religion. My love to Sister Ware;" and he followed the senior trustee ...
— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic
... to suffer, and I hope it may make him better, for I am right-down sorry for him; it must be so dreadful to lose one we love; but it was too base in him to let his father try to compel her to have him. Suppose, now, Herbert Greyson was to take a fancy to another girl, would I let uncle go to him and put a pistol to his head and say, 'Cap is fond ...
— Capitola the Madcap • Emma D. E. N. Southworth
... come back no more," she said sombrely, and then she felt both glad and angry at the extraordinary change which came over her husband's face. Yet, perversely, that look of relief, of right-down joy, chiefly angered her, and tempted her to add, "That's to say, I don't suppose ...
— The Lodger • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... Etheldreda the Ready set about her work as sub- editor threatened to ruin the magazine before its birth, for intending contributors grew so tired of daily and sometimes hourly reminders that by the end of a week weariness had developed into right-down crossness and irritation. "For goodness' sake leave me alone. I'm sick of the name of the old magazine! If you worry me once more I won't do a thing—so there!" Such answers were more than a little disconcerting ...
— Etheldreda the Ready - A School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey |
