"Unwelcome guest" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of entertainment for man and horse. Yet not all men were received by Widow Smith. To some she could be as cold and reserved as need be, deaf to all inquiries save one—where else they could find accommodation? To this question she would give a ready answer, and speed the unwelcome guest on his way. Widow Smith was guided in these matters by instinct: one glance at a man's face told her whether or not she chose to have him as an inmate of the same house as her daughters; and her promptness of decision in these matters gave her manner a kind of authority which no one liked to disobey, ...
— Curious, if True - Strange Tales • Elizabeth Gaskell
... inside of ten minutes; and the janitor was reliable and not the sort one reads about in the comic weeklies. Her confidence reenforced by the knowledge that a friend was near, she took the letter into the kitchen. Apparently her unwelcome guest had not stirred. The revolver was ...
— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath
... attribute Hugh's evident anger at the sight of her to her want of prudence, to the accident of Captain Pratt's presence. She would not admit the thought that Hugh had ceased to care for her, but it needed a good deal of forcible thrusting away. She could hear the knock of the unwelcome guest upon her door, and though always refused admittance he withdrew only to return. She had been grievously frightened, too, at having been seen in equivocal circumstances by such a man as Captain Pratt. The ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley
... Brutus quails not, though his wo-worn cheeks Blanch with emotion, and in tone full loud Thus to the ghastly apparition speaks— "Why stand before me in that gory shroud, Unwelcome guest! thy purpose unavowed; Art thou the shaping of my wildered brain?" The spectre answered, with a gesture proud, In hollow accents—"We will meet again When the best blood of Rome ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 • Various |
