"Too bad" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dot is too bad. Two weeks behint and no home but a room! I vouldn't think dot to look ...
— Felix O'Day • F. Hopkinson Smith
... rather too bad of you to bring so far away from the earth the only good man the planet contained; but I am glad to know the golden rule, as you may well call it, has been given to men. We have had the same here, and, oh! if I could ...
— Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World • James Cowan
... after you, monseigneur; and, if your health is not too bad, to beg you to have the kindness to ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... sped into the night, which was falling fast. He held to his westward course like a veteran of the air lanes. The pilot had ceased to breathe and Karl was sorry. Game little devil, that pilot. Have to shove his body overboard. Too bad. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various
... I'm not sure you can. I'm too bad to spoil—I AM spoiled. I'm nobody, in short; I'm nothing. I've no type. You're ALL type. It has taken delicious long years of security and monotony to produce you. You fit your frame with a perfection only equalled ...
— Some Short Stories • Henry James
... was in too bad a state to leave any hopes that she could be got ready in time; her men, therefore, were distributed to assist in repairing the other ships: and all idea of refitting the Caesar was on the ...
— Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I • Sir John Ross
... King Admetus, one who had Pure taste by right divine, Decreed his singing not too bad To hear between the ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry
... some strange mission without consulting me, you have promised 1,000 pounds of my money without consulting me, and now you scold me because I have a few young people to play tennis and stop to supper. It is unchristian, it is uncharitable, it is—too bad!" and sitting down again she burst ...
— Smith and the Pharaohs, and Other Tales • Henry Rider Haggard
... May I be hanged if I leave this place before I have dragged the secret out of you! Either we are friends or we are not. What you tell no one else you ought to tell me. What! would you make use of my purse and my sword on occasion and yet have secrets from me? It's too bad: speak, or our friendship is at an end! I give you fair warning that I shall find out everything and publish it abroad to court and city: when I strike a trail there's no turning me aside. It will be best for you to whisper your secret voluntarily into my ear, where it ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... groaned to nobody in particular, "An evening and a ride gone! I tried to make Dorothy understand. It's too bad of her to be ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford
... It was really too bad it wasn't a bit better. It wasn't often that one encountered so genuine a counterfeit. The hand of an artist had painted it, but never the hand of Corot. Everything Corot was accustomed to put into his painting was there, except himself. ...
— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance
... us drink," said he. Then feeling his pockets, he said with a gleam in his eye, "That's too bad! I ought to have brought a corkscrew with me when ...
— Legends of the Rhine • Wilhelm Ruland
... sure that is on purpose to make us explain," said Clara. "It is too bad, Marian; when he came straight to you, instead of ...
— The Two Guardians • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to save herself from shrinking away altogether. Now she hastened to the little door, but alas, it was shut again. "I declare it's too bad, that it is!" she said aloud, and just as she spoke her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water. It was the pool of tears she had wept when she was ...
— The Worlds Greatest Books - Vol. II: Fiction • Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.
... the whole job. First of all, it'll be chiefly trade. I showed them the contracts for boots and hats for the army, and they were tickled to death. They'll let us have as much as we want on them. I didn't have the embalmed-beef contract with me—it smells too bad to carry round in my pocket, hee-hee!—but I explained it to them, and it's even better. They're ...
— Captain Jinks, Hero • Ernest Crosby
... mud. Dem homemade beds what us slep' on had big old high posties wid a great big knob on de top of each post. Our matt'esses was coarse home-wove cloth stuffed wid field straw. You know I laked dem matt'esses 'cause when de chinches got too bad you could shake out dat straw and burn it, den scald de tick and fill it wid fresh straw, and rest in peace again. You can't never git de chinches out of dese cotton matt'esses us has to sleep on now days. Pillows? What you talkin' 'bout? You know Niggers never had no pillows ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Georgia Narratives, Part 4 • Works Projects Administration
... "It's too bad to bring you away when the children are at home, Sara, but you know they are a great deal of care to Avrillia, and when they're at home I try to do everything I can to relieve her. Now, you see, she won't have to bother about my trousers for the ...
— The Garden of the Plynck • Karle Wilson Baker
... nodded the girl, falling back into her old listlessness. "But, poor little kid, it's too bad YOU ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... elated that Marian caught his spirit and gave every faculty to the task of aiding him. Now that he was with her, all fears and forebodings passed; the nearer roll of the thunder was unheeded except as it called out the remark, "It will be too bad if Mr. Merwyn is ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe
... herself, 'that won't begin for two or three years, and one or other will be hailed long before that—if— Oh, it is very hard to be kept out of everything by an old stick like Uncle Frank and a little wretch like Mite, who, after all, is a miserable Tyrolese, and not a Morton at all! It really is too bad!' ...
— That Stick • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "Too bad nothing! That's business; your necessity, my opportunity. Oh, you'd never make a money-getter, my boy, this side of the millennium—and you ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... and said again, that there was no hope for such as he. He admitted with bitterness his insane passion that sunny afternoon; remembered and acknowledged a wild impulse to overturn the boat, and let come what might. He paced the floor and cried out that nothing that they said of him could be too bad. And yet he hoped. He had come to the Dabney House with hope. He had given his Texas address with ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... citizens it was drama; it broke the tedious monotony of everyday life; it was more productive of interesting conversation than a case of embezzlement or the burning of the county courthouse. There were those who smiled while they said: "Too bad, too bad! ...
— The Eagle's Heart • Hamlin Garland
... too bad, Louis," said I, hurrying forward. "I forgot to send word about you. You might as well have stayed in the fort till your wounds ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... nameless, renownless^; obscure; unknown to fame; unnoticed, unnoted^, unhonored, unglorified^. shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable; despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humiliating, infra dignitatem [Lat.], dedecorous^; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious. ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, shabby base &c (dishonorable) 940. Adv. to one's ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... mother was busy with breakfast. Rupert explained, and his mother instantly became solicitous. She drew a rocking chair up to the fire and with gentle force seated the stranger, continuously asking questions and exclaiming, "Too bad, too bad." ...
— Added Upon - A Story • Nephi Anderson
... mum, but he's got the colic too bad to see you. It's heave, curse, heave, curse, till I pray for a ...
— Gone to Earth • Mary Webb
... my mother, I suppose," said Browne. "I hope she died; it would be too bad to think that she had to live all these twenty-two years imagining all sorts of things about her lost little boy. I remember her, Judy, the day I saw her last. I went out of a side street into Fleet Street, and then I grew curious and went on out through ...
— Duffels • Edward Eggleston
... at the mouth of the West Schelde to allow the smack to pass unmolested without detention. But he waited for the skipper from day to day in vain. The weather could not have been the cause of his delay; certainly it had not been too bad for a man of Brandelaar's daring. A moderate north wind had been blowing nearly the whole time, so that a clever sailor could have easily made the passage from Dover to ...
— The Coming Conquest of England • August Niemann
... to jolly Nancrede further about the senior member of the firm, the foreman smiling appreciatingly. "The way your old man talked last night," said he, "you'd think he expected to find the herd in the front yard. Too bad to disappoint him; for then he could have looked them over with a lantern from the gallery of the house. Now, if they had been Yankee clocks instead of cattle, why, he'd been right at home, and could have taken them in the house ...
— A Texas Matchmaker • Andy Adams
... "That's too bad!" remarked the lad. "I don't suppose," he added doubtfully, "that I could induce you to accept a motor-boat as a substitute for a rowing craft, could I?" and he looked quizzically ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout - or, The Speediest Car on the Road • Victor Appleton
... the man, "how can I ask him such a thing? it is too bad—it is asking a little too much; and, besides, ...
— Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm • Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
... got her a week ago last Saturday. I ASKED Casper Hoyt what under the canopy possessed him to give her a name like that. Said his father named her. Well, I thought his father must be plumb foolish, or something, but I didn't like to say so to HIM. Seems too bad to waste them gilt letters, or I'd a-had another name on her 'fore this. I wanted to use as many of them letters as I could, an' I thought of callin' her for my aunt, ...
— The Voyage of the Hoppergrass • Edmund Lester Pearson
... The state of the Roman stage in the time of Cicero vividly reminds us of the modern French theatre. As the Roman mime corresponds to the loose tableaux of the pieces of the day, nothing being too good and nothing too bad for either the one or the other, so we find in both the same traditionally classic tragedy and comedy, which the man of culture is in duty bound to admire or at least to applaud. The multitude is satisfied, when it meets its own reflection in the farce, and admires ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... plain trail found that will help us locate this man or his friends," decided Overton—"not a name we can really fasten to but the name on the envelope—Joe Hammond. It is too bad. ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan
... the only one it shook up," he admitted gloomily. "All this thing of girls going round like they do is going to stop right quick. Too bad, too, but everybody'll have to ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... "It's too bad he didn't belong to some lodge or other. I like an order funeral myself. They seem more appropriate for people of some repytation," the spare man continued, with an ingratiating concession in his ...
— Youth and the Bright Medusa • Willa Cather
... "That is too bad!" exclaimed Hugh, flinging himself down on the leads so vehemently that his sister was afraid he would roll over into the yard. "What does Jane care about Crofton and the boys to what ...
— The Crofton Boys • Harriet Martineau
... "Oh, now ain't that too bad!" said the voice. "His mother dyin'! An' to think he should remember me an' my medicine! Well, now, what ...
— The Witness • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
... you in the morning, you can take the next homeward bound ship that stops here, but don't tell your friends at the poor-house too bad a tale of us," were the parting ...
— Evenings at Donaldson Manor - Or, The Christmas Guest • Maria J. McIntosh
... "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 ...
— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill
... it only aggravates the oppression," said Sir Vavasour, shaking his head; "but cannot you advise any new step, Mr Hatton? After so many years of suspense, after so much anxiety and such a vast expenditure, it really is too bad that I and Lady Firebrace should be announced at court in the same style as our fishmonger, if he happens to be ...
— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli
... but that 's too bad!" exclaimed the landlord, and, for want of words of comfort, he hesitatingly held out his hand, but recollecting himself, he was drawing it back, when Mr. Meredith, forgetful of rank, ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... are an Indian, after all. It's rather too bad of you not to live up to any of our ideals. Your manners are as nice as John DeWitt's. I'd be quite frantic about you if you would drop them and go ...
— The Heart of the Desert - Kut-Le of the Desert • Honore Willsie Morrow
... after Harold!" indignantly exclaimed Eustace. "It is too bad! I declare I will put a stop to it! To have my sister demeaning herself to put herself in such a situation for a ...
— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge
... this is too bad," he kept repeating, as he went from man to man. It was Chief of Detectives Desmond. Turning to the policeman, ...
— Ted Strong's Motor Car • Edward C. Taylor
... last. 'I have never recommended it. The disruption is so great as to be awful. But when your father has asked what better step he could take, I have been unable to advise him.' It was as though the old man were telling the young one that he was too bad for hope, and that, therefore, he must be consigned for ever ...
— John Caldigate • Anthony Trollope
... my name here; I'm almost home." He pulled out his watch. "Too bad; I'll have to go in or my wife will kick up a row. Let's see, this is Tuesday; well, Saturday I'm off to Burgundy on my usual half-monthly trip. Meet me at the Lyons station, platform No. 2, Marseilles ...
— The Exploits of Juve - Being the Second of the Series of the "Fantmas" Detective Tales • mile Souvestre and Marcel Allain
... society, he did not wish to enjoy another after-dinner tete-a-tete with him—"It's better to get him over to Tuam," thought he, "and try and make him see rason when he's sober: nothing's too hot or too bad for him, when he's mad ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope
... fleshy to reach behind for business purposes, and he didn't look a gun-man anyway. Both of 'em carried wads of private letters. By the time Walen had translated, we knew how many children the fat one had at home and when the thin one reckoned to be married. Too bad! Ya-as. ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling
... as he drew near, "but there isn't any easy way. It's too bad to have traveled so far and miss the spring, for the whole project hinges on it; but the climb is impossible for you in ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... excitement laughed softly to herself. Dear old Robbie Belle! Quinine on this wonderful day! Listen! That was the twittering of swallows under the eaves. A squirrel peered in at her window, his bright eyes twinkling. It was too bad that he did not enjoy music. But perhaps he did after all. Hark! that was a robin. And listen! There sounded the full-throated whistle of a brown thrush. The world was ringing with music—beautiful, ...
— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz
... say, Miss Dickenson, that's too bad! I merely remark that a lady and gentleman must have had plenty of time for music, ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... right up, Mrs. McChesney," the clerk assured her. "Jo'll attend to those tables. Too bad about old Buck. ...
— Roast Beef, Medium • Edna Ferber
... 'What, really? Do you mean that someone has injured him?' 'No, sir, not violence 'ere, but, as I should judge, attacked with an attack, what you might term it, of illness. Not a strong constitootion, Mr Garrett. But as to your book, sir, perhaps you might be able to find it for yourself. It's too bad you should be disappointed this way twice over—' 'Er—well, but I'm so sorry that Mr Garrett should have been taken ill in this way while he was obliging me. I think I must leave the book, and call and inquire after him. ...
— Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - Part 2: More Ghost Stories • Montague Rhodes James
... "That is too bad, Ray, and I am extremely sorry," the royal-hearted man remarked. "I should be very sorry to have you disappointed in such a matter, but do not be discouraged; we will do our best to find the young lady, and then you shall bring her home ...
— Mona • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... too bad of Weston. I shouldn't have waited for anybody else," he said. "As it is, I suppose we'll have to give him a minute or ...
— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss
... "It's too bad of you, Henry," she expostulated. "You've been trying to talk politics with him. You know that the poor man was only longing for forty-eight hours during which he could forget that he was Prime ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... "Too bad!" said Rose in lively dissent. "It's too heavenly! I've got a whole day just to enjoy being myself;—being"—she reached across to the other bed for his hand, and getting it, stroked her cheek with it—"being my new self. You've no idea how new it is, or how exciting all the ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster
... "Too bad we don't have the tube with us," said Tom. "Now that we're alone we could vacuumize ...
— The Space Pioneers • Carey Rockwell
... Jean's mamma stroked the golden feathers. "It's too bad, Jean, that you couldn't remember to do that one small thing for Goldie when he did so much for you, with his songs ...
— The Goody-Naughty Book • Sarah Cory Rippey
... of flesh and blood, and in his own words he "shows us over their houses and seats us at their tables." All that is excellent, but it has its disadvantages. In his admiration for heroism, Macaulay makes some of his characters too good and others too bad. In his zeal for details he misses the importance of great movements, and of great leaders who are accustomed to ignore details; and in his joy of describing events he often loses sight of underlying causes. In a word, he is without historical insight, and his work, though fascinating, is seldom ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long
... defence of his beloved wife, for which cause the white man died. If an Indian should go to the white man's house and commit that crime, he would be killed; and what man is there who would say that is too bad, this Indian to be killed in that manner? But every man will say amen, only he ought to have been tortured before he was killed; and let the man who killed this bad and wicked Indian be rewarded! This is what would be the result if ...
— History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan • Andrew J. Blackbird
... be coming out now,' murmured a third, 'and they will all be eaten up by the river fish! It is really too bad!' When, suddenly, a voice was heard from behind: 'Look! look! what is that bright thing that is moving so swiftly towards us?' And the queen started up, and stood on her tail, so excited ...
— The Orange Fairy Book • Andrew Lang
... mamma would coax father not to move among strangers, especially when it is a cold country like Canada he is going to. I declare, it is too bad to leave everything we like behind, and go among those we won't care for, and who will ...
— From Wealth to Poverty • Austin Potter
... it," Malone said sympathetically. "Too bad, but it can't be helped now. You can pick up a sandwich before ...
— The Impossibles • Gordon Randall Garrett
... Miracles never cease. That is plain enough after this, and no question about it. That's an eighty-crown skin, however you came by it. But now let's go in and see Groa. As you say, I know her pretty well. She was a smart girl, you poor wretch. Too bad I was married and had to throw her ...
— Seven Icelandic Short Stories • Various
... Recording Angel stands to view The sinning world, nor thinks to move his feet Aside and look below, came flocking up Inferior angels, all aghast, and cried: "Pennoyer, Governor of Oregon, Has said, O what an awful word!—too bad To be by us repeated!" "Yes, I know," Said the superior bird—"I heard it too, And have already booked it. Pray observe." Splitting the giant tome, whose covers fell Apart, o'ershadowing to right and left ...
— Black Beetles in Amber • Ambrose Bierce
... venture," said the Colonel. "It is too bad some of our big capitalists don't take it up and do ...
— The Moneychangers • Upton Sinclair
... her coffee-cup, and strolled away, leaving Claire to reflect impatiently, "More poison! It's too bad. They ...
— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... "It's too bad!" he sighed, "to wait three long years; and all the while, dear little Lullee living in the same house with that infernal ...
— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville
... Gaudenzio. The other statues are given both by Fassola and Torrotti to D'Enrico, and the paintings to Gianoli, a wealthy Valsesian amateur who lived at Campertogno. Bordiga gives the statues to Ferro, already mentioned as a pupil of D'Enrico, but whoever did them, they are about as bad as they can be—too bad, I should say, for Giacomo Ferro, and I am not sure that they are not of wood even now. No traces of Gaudenzio's frescoes remain. The chapel seems to have been reconstructed in connection with the replica of the Scala Santa up which Christ is going to be conducted. We have seen ...
— Ex Voto • Samuel Butler
... "Too bad you don't—smoke, old man!" It was the only suggestion he had to offer in the tense silence ...
— The Man Thou Gavest • Harriet T. Comstock
... for I soon pined myself to death with the vice I just now mentioned. Minos told me I was infinitely too bad for Elysium; and as for the other place, the devil had sworn he would never entertain a poet for Orpheus's sake: so I was forced to return again to the ...
— From This World to the Next • Henry Fielding
... "'I'm rich; too bad Pedro should die; but I'm rich; no matter, I'm rich. Kings kill their millions for a little money. I only kill one man; in six months 't will be forgotten; then I'll go to the bank of earth back of the red ...
— Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad • John S. Adams
... silence: "Too bad this snow came so late," remarked Trooper Lannis. But we ought to get ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert Chambers
... bringing Mara with me. It's too bad you don't trust me, Lee, but if that's the way you want it I ...
— Warlord of Kor • Terry Gene Carr
... are too bad! You've never listened to one word I've been telling you, but keep continually staring with your eyes here and there, turning this way and looking that, and with a dull, vacant, and unmeaning smile, answering at random, in the most provoking manner. There now, pray pay attention, ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... and listened. "By Jove! That's too bad of Lydia," he said. "I suppose she won't be satisfied till she's had her turn, but I shall have to interfere if it ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... quite seriously, as if she had lost mastery over the irony of former days. "I know you're telling the truth. And it saddens me, because it really is too bad. You understand, of course, that I can't love you.... So—if you don't mind—let's talk of ...
— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... to rush into print, and I overheard them concocting a tragic Love Story in the kitchen, and they were highly indignant later on, because the Doctor-in-Law would not accept it. You can hardly wonder at it though, for it really was too bad for anything. ...
— The Wallypug in London • G. E. Farrow
... "Why, that is too bad," said Linda. "I'll have to rearrange the table if you insist, because I took him, and left you the author, and it was for love of you I did it. I truly wanted him myself, all ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter
... so, sor?" said James, in great distress. "Well now, that's too bad. We've taken off two loads ...
— Five Little Peppers and their Friends • Margaret Sidney
... too bad that the rock should be there," the neighbors would say as they occasionally stopped to look over the fence or to order their vegetables for dinner. And Denny would answer with his knowing smile, "Oh, I don't know! It would be bad, I'll own, if it should ever take to rollin' 'round ...
— The Calling Of Dan Matthews • Harold Bell Wright
... witch thought this really too bad, so she set out the three caskets, one red, one green, and one blue, and said she'd no longer any need of her services, for she wasn't worth keeping, but for wages she should have leave to choose whichever ...
— Popular Tales from the Norse • Sir George Webbe Dasent
... his distress seemed greater than the distress of either of the others. "All off alone up there by herself in some little rube town it must come to her! Maybe if she had been down here with specialists and surgeons and nurses and all she would 'a' been saved. Too bad, too bad! People got no business going away from a big town! Me, I get nervous even on a motor trip in the ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... foolish sortie this morning. Only five of us went, the others remaining in bed thinking the weather was too bad. It was. When at only 3,000 feet we hit a solid layer of clouds, and when we had passed through, we couldn't see anything but a shimmering field of white. Above were the bright sun and the blue sky, but how we were in regard to the earth no one knew. Fortunately the clouds had a big ...
— Flying for France • James R. McConnell
... A terrible impulse was upon her to tell him straight out that she did not see it; that it was too bad; that there was no reason why she should be called upon ...
— The Return of the Prodigal • May Sinclair
... be afraid of that, I am sure. But it is too bad that we should feel at this late day that we have done anything for which we ...
— The Waif of the "Cynthia" • Andre Laurie and Jules Verne
... "This is too bad; my own mother takes the part of my wife's lover against me," exclaimed Philip, incensed to such an extent that his weak organization was effected almost ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... the shaking of the paper, over which only the crest of white hair showed. Too bad of Pamela to have gone off without a word to her father! Was it sympathy with the Squire, or resentment on her own account, that made Elizabeth go up to him?—though at a ...
— Elizabeth's Campaign • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... blankets against it. "He can't make a break that way," he said to himself. As Sundown came in, the man noticed that the front door creaked shrilly when opened or closed and seemed pleased with the fact. "Too bad about Fadeaway," he said, helping himself to more coffee. "Wonder ...
— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs
... would not. Charley had interfered with their plans and ruffled her temper. It was too bad of Charley, but then Charley was not wholly to blame, for the Baby Pitcher's temper was easily ruffled. And now it was really time for Amy to go. The fifteen ...
— Baby Pitcher's Trials - Little Pitcher Stories • Mrs. May
... said the conductor, placing the lantern on the floor and taking his seat beside the engineer. "I heard about your worry to-day. It's too bad. If a man had got drunk at his post, as you and I have known 'em to do, it wouldn't have seemed so hard; but at its worst your case was only an error of judgment, and then nothing really happened. Old Eighty-six seems ...
— The Face And The Mask • Robert Barr
... hath miss'd the Princess is a thing Too bad for bad report; and he that hath her— I mean, that married her, alack, good man! And therefore banish'd—is a creature such As, to seek through the regions of the earth For one his like, there would be something failing ...
— Cymbeline • William Shakespeare [Tudor edition]
... said the king, "that few are your equals in strength and courage, but your luck is too bad for you to remain with me. You have my leave to depart in peace whithersoever you will for the winter, and then in the summer you may return to Iceland, where you are ...
— Grettir The Strong - Grettir's Saga • Unknown
... seldom troubled by fire, but they were poor inside, with low, dark rooms. We find, in consequence, that houses inhabited by the gentry in the early part of the eighteenth century were considered almost too bad for very humble {86} folk at its close, and the success of the new town was assured from the day when its first foundation-stone was laid. But if not very comfortable, life was quiet and simple. People generally dined at one or two o'clock in Edinburgh ...
— A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) • Justin McCarthy
... sorry, but Brutus sacrifices unborn children of his own as well as those of other people. "The Sorrows of Childhood," long in type, and long a mere mysterious name, must come out. The paper really is, like the celebrated ambassadorial appointment, "too bad." ...
— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 3 (of 3), 1836-1870 • Charles Dickens
... too bad if he were found out. He was one against them all, he would never be able to fight off so many enemies. More than that, he was a stranger here, he needed friends. No, he ...
— Divinity • William Morrison
... "Now that is too bad," said he. "So much for her dove-like eyes, that you admired so. Miss Innocence has ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade
... I wanted to show you—and to talk about!" said Oliver Marsham, confidentially, to Diana, in the hall after breakfast—"but this horrid shoot will take up all the day! If the weather is not too bad, I think some of the ladies meant to join us at ...
— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... comparing memories and recollections,—to find, however, that they had by no means data enough. One thing was clear to me—that nothing would be too bad for them to believe ...
— The Flight of the Shadow • George MacDonald
... girl's dark eyes flashed indignantly. "I think it's too bad of Cap'n Elkanah to turn you ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln |
