"Teasingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... absolutely hurt, silly and childish as it was to care for so slight a thing. I suppose my tell-tale face showed it, for Mrs. Harrington said, teasingly— ...
— Mabel's Mistake • Ann S. Stephens
... Martin is going to be paid what we owe him," she answered teasingly. "Don't let the ...
— The Skylark of Space • Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby
... window. Miss Reid laughed teasingly. "I see nobody— or all the world; it's much the same," she said; "but you ...
— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark
... recover!" The rough fellow presses his cheek to his master's breast, like a woman. There is silence. Tristan stares vacantly ahead, vaguely pondering the servant's last words, of which the echo has lingered teasingly in his ear. "Do you believe so?" he says at last. "I know a different thing—but the manner of it I cannot tell you! This where I have awakened is not the place where I have been,—but where I have been—I cannot tell you! I did not see the sun, I saw no earthly scene, nor any ...
— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall
... asked him, softly yet teasingly too, in a way that suddenly made her dearer. "If you don't see no use o' my livin', ...
— Country Neighbors • Alice Brown
... adjective appears to be an afterthought," grumbled the bachelor; then, when she merely laughed teasingly after the manner ...
— The Green Mummy • Fergus Hume
... her teasingly, expecting to see her show temper again, but she did not. She only bent her head a little lower, and when she lifted it, she looked at him with ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan
... anything about your sex," he answered teasingly. "I never had time,—they're sealed books ...
— The Rapids • Alan Sullivan
... about you!" Hervey said, teasingly. "You can bet if I ever get the Gold Cross or the Eagle Badge (which I won't this trip) no ...
— Tom Slade on Mystery Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... Susie Sharp, teasingly, "you won't need to hurry home. We girls know where there are several fine fields of farm truck that can be robbed late ...
— The High School Boys' Canoe Club • H. Irving Hancock
... you've said that very same thing within the last ten minutes, Jessie," said Evelyn, teasingly. "That suit is ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... promptly gave away her identity, for no other girl in school possessed such long tresses; and Jerome was elated at having so readily discovered who his prisoner was, all the more so because this was the first time Tabitha had been caught; so he teasingly cried, "Aha, ...
— Tabitha at Ivy Hall • Ruth Alberta Brown
... recognized many well-known men; but the Berlin populace, called by Goethe insolent, is not easily impressed, and we saw constables surrounded by street boys like an owl with a train of little birds fluttering teasingly around it. Even grown persons called them nicknames and jeered at their sticks, which ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... "Bear!" she said, teasingly. "Did I rub your fur the wrong way?" Then, seeing his expression, she tactfully changed her tone. "I'll explain. It was the same thing that struck me the night of Blanche's party—when you looked at me over Leonard Kaine's head. You remember?" She glanced away from him across ...
— The Masquerader • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... sleeping Prince, and Mary Lee will be the Princess who kisses him and wakes him up," said Chuck, teasingly, at which all ...
— Hallowe'en at Merryvale • Alice Hale Burnett
... you'd rather anyhow have all your time to write poetry instead of studying." She glanced around just in time to see Lila's lips set in a grimmer line as the lead in the short pencil snapped beneath a more impatient jab of the dull knife. She laughed teasingly. ...
— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz
... Patricia," and Rupert Stillwell looked across the dinner table teasingly into Patricia's face, "your Captain Jack was rather mixed up in a ...
— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor
... been curious to see whether "Howland number four would uphold the showing of the family," as he teasingly told Polly, and Polly who was immensely proud of her pretty sister had brindled and protested that: "Gail was the very best ...
— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... when visiting me, takes a few dates in his hands, and goes to a corner of the court-yard, or upon the house-top, about the softening, musing time, when the last solar rays are lingering playfully—and to the emaciated faster, teasingly, on this Saharan world, and there he listens in silence for the first accents of the shrill voice of the Muethan, calling to prayers, from the minaret of a neighbouring mosque. This heard, he commences putting the dates, one by one, slowly into his parched mouth, repeating a short prayer with ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
... evening, won't you? He's officer of the day, according to Billy's note, and can't escape. You'll have wound up the whole family by tattoo. Quite a good day's work. Billy's opposers will do well to take warning and keep out of the way hereafter," he continues, teasingly. "Oh—ah—corporal!" he calls, "who was the young officer who just drove off in the carriage ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... answered dreamily. "And so you missed me, did you?" he added, changing his tone to one of playful enquiry. "Well, Amey, so have I missed you, at least I have often thought of you in my travels and wondered how you were getting on. I need not tell you," he continued teasingly, "how often I have been haunted by the dreadful threat you made when ...
— The Doctor's Daughter • "Vera"
... worktable and watched him. He did not touch his tools at first, but figured for a long while on a piece of paper, and measured the planks and made marks on them. While he was thus engaged, he whistled softly to himself, or teasingly pulled at his half-ear. Grandmother moved about quietly, so as not to disturb him. At last he folded his ruler and turned a ...
— My Antonia • Willa Cather
... are no longer an idle fellow," said Dolly, rather teasingly. "People used to say that you went into the navy to get rid of your lessons. That I ...
— Jacqueline, Complete • (Mme. Blanc) Th. Bentzon |
