"Crossly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my first insomnious night there, I went prowling all about the house in search of the bathroom. Finally, I was routed back to my room by a newly-wakened maid (in curl-pins), who told me rather crossly that I could not have a 'bawth' unless I ordered it 'before'and.' She did not say how long beforehand. But I was in a hurry to get out of doors, so I did without my bath, and promised myself I would see to it later in ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... instruments were kept; plates and napkins were upon the seat of the operating chair and upon the stand of shelves in the corner, side by side with the concertina and the volumes of "Allen's Practical Dentist." The canary woke and chittered crossly, his feathers puffed out; the husks of tamales littered the floor; the stone pug dog sitting before the little stove stared at the unusual scene, his glass eyes starting ...
— McTeague • Frank Norris
... were in Guinea," said Bess crossly. "She and her old papers are just about going to spoil our trip. They are making you ...
— Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach - Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves • Annie Roe Carr
... you'd never get back," complained the doctor crossly, when the three entered. They had been gone just half ...
— The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life • Homer Eon Flint
... I couldn't be in half a dozen places at once," answered her cousin, rather crossly. "I've been badgered within an inch of my life by confounded women in shabby dresses and poky bonnets all day. Out of two or three bushels of chaff I only found one grain ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... crossly, "if you think I'm too much trouble, you can just drop me down in the snow anywhere and I'll ...
— Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds • Archibald Lee Fletcher
... persisted, and at last her aunt gave way. "Well," she said at last, rather crossly, "be quick if you are coming. I don't want to be ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... said, "Thiostolf has been driven away from the west, and what I want thee to do is to let him stay here; but I will not take it crossly if it ...
— Njal's Saga • Unknown Icelanders
... not!" cry I, crossly, making a spiteful lunge, as I speak, at a startle-de-buz, which has lumbered booming into my face. "Who on earth ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... of an adventure," Walter said crossly, after the retainer had departed. "One can't have a bit of excitement without being sent for, and thanked, and stared at. I would rather fight the best swordsman in the city than have to go down to the mansion of Earl Talbot with my ...
— Saint George for England • G. A. Henty
... She leaned forward in the chair she had taken, and pretended to slap his hand crossly. "Isn't that exactly what I said you couldn't think one single think about till you ...
— Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington
... drop back to his own position with a comical air of virtue. Once in a great while it would happen that on my spurring up from the rear of the column I would be mistaken for one of the pack-horses attempting illegally to get ahead. Immediately Dinkey or Buckshot would snake his head out crossly to turn me to the rear. It was really ridiculous to see the expression of apology with which they would take it all back, and the ostentatious, nose-elevated indifference in Bullet's very gait as he marched haughtily by. So rigid did all the animals hold this convention that actually ...
— The Mountains • Stewart Edward White
... by the stove and get heated through while I see to supper," said Aunt Maria, crossly. "I've got a hot beef-stew with dumplings for supper, and I guess I'll make some chocolate instead of tea. That always seems to me to warm ...
— By the Light of the Soul - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... thoughtless young creature of sixteen years that ever brightened and bothered a home. Merry from morning until night, with scarcely ever a pause in her constant flow of fun; thoughtless, nearly always selfish too, as the constantly thoughtless always are. Not sullenly and crossly selfish by any means, only so used to think of self, so taught to consider herself utterly useless as regarded home, and home cares and duties, that she opened her bright brown eyes in wonder whenever she was called upon ...
— Ester Ried • Pansy (aka. Isabella M. Alden)
... they speak up?" he said crossly, as a low, indistinct murmuring reached him. He strained his ears intently, but could not catch anything, and losing all patience, was just about to push the door open and peep in when he heard a roar of laughter. Peal ...
— The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant • W. W. Jacobs
... of sins," said Bell, crossly, giving a vindictive snap with her scissors, "but it won't begin to cover the enormity of Mrs. Upjohn's transgressions on this occasion. You gentlemen must be very devoted to atone to us for the button-holes. There's Mr. De Forest standing in the other room looking as if he wished he were ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... the Sand-fairy crossly. No one could think of anything, only Anthea did manage to remember a private wish of her own and Jane's which they had never told the boys. She knew the boys would not care about it—but still it ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... crossly, "what an endless amount of room girls seem to want for their things!" Then suddenly his expression changed and he dived under the bed and dragged ...
— The Rebellion of Margaret • Geraldine Mockler
... said crossly, 'there's only one spell at that price, and that's really a tuppenny-half-penny one; but we'll say tuppence. I can make you like somebody else, and ...
— Oswald Bastable and Others • Edith Nesbit
... assumed at a moment's notice. Perhaps this gift was one of the secrets of her charm, since monotony is a thing to be avoided by women who seek to rule, even the monotony of sweetness. "It is very unkind of you," she went on, "to speak crossly to me when I am so tired with talking to that savage and we may all be dead and buried in a few hours," and she looked as though she were going ...
— The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard
... and that is all there is to it," said Migwan rather crossly. She was in a hurry to be off and get the marketing done. Betty stamped her foot, and snatching Migwan's market basket, she ran around the corner of the house with it. Migwan ran after her, and forcibly recovering ...
— The Camp Fire Girls at School • Hildegard G. Frey
... grumbled Jane. Then, plucking crossly at a muslin sleeve, "Well, what do you want? Your French ...
— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates
... see the end of this escapade!" said Max Graub, a trifle crossly. "It would have been much better to ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli
... speaking to me when there's any one about," he warned Jane, almost crossly. "Those clothes make you look like a boy, and your walk is all right, but your voice gives you away. Did you see that clerk in the store look at you when you spoke to me? I tried to warn you to ...
— The Apartment Next Door • William Andrew Johnston
... a story about old Mr. and Mrs. Davidson of Markdale," said the Story Girl. "She was always smiling and it used to aggravate her husband, so one day he said very crossly, 'Old lady, what ARE you grinning at?' 'Oh, well, Abiram, everything's so bright and pleasant, I've ...
— The Golden Road • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... is no good. There are no pearls, so there," said Cyril crossly. "You needn't go thinking you really take me ...
— An Australian Lassie • Lilian Turner
... the old gentleman said? He said: "Down Snap, down Snap!" rather crossly and in a voice that the children knew quite well; and almost before they had time to think how funny it was that he should know their dog's name, or, indeed, to wonder about anything at all, Snap made another frantic leap, and seizing hold of the old gentleman's white ...
— The Gap in the Fence • Frederica J. Turle
... "Nonsense," he said, crossly; "do you suppose a trifle like that matters to me? Why, I am not spending half my income; if you want any more you can just let me know; but if you take my advice you will get rid of that fellow as ...
— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... ahead doggedly, and Audrey crossly came after, until they arrived nearly at the end of the hedge which, separating the upper from the lower garden, hid from those immediately behind it all view of the estuary. Here, still sheltered by the hedge, he stopped and Audrey stopped, ...
— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett
... tut," snapped Mrs. Tallcat crossly. "Directly my boy begins to talk nonsense I send ...
— The Tale of Lal - A Fantasy • Raymond Paton
... were as nothing, and that the immediate need of the moment was to pet and comfort her friend. Her knowledge of Aline told her the probable tragedy was that she had lost a brooch or had been spoken to crossly by somebody; but it also told her that such tragedies bulked very large on ...
— Something New • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... in. Mr. Ridding didn't know them. No class, he thought, looking them over; and was seized with a feeling of sulky vexation suitable to twenty when he saw with what enthusiasm the Twinklers flew to meet them. They behaved, thought Mr. Ridding crossly, as if they were the ...
— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
... appetite at supper than was prudent, ate all those things that Sir George Millington, his good physician, forbade him to eat, and drank two or three glasses of wine more than his usual portion. At the time, all this seemed to do him no harm, and he spoke somewhat crossly to his own servant who reminded him of the physician's regulations. He even shook his finger playfully at Laura for her grave looks upon the occasion, and during the rest of the evening was as gay as gay could be. The consequence, ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... see why she should," said Harry rather crossly. "It's a great bore having her here at all, and if I'm barely civil to her that's all I shall manage. They won't stay more than a few days, I suppose." After a second he went on: "Her mother wouldn't know my mother, though after her death the father wanted ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
... crossly. "Stop insulting him! Don't you suppose he has wits enough to go home without your ...
— The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle • Hugh Lofting
... want with stones in your pocket?" he said rather crossly, as he rose and picked up the piece to throw it out of the window; but, as soon as he had it in his hand, its appearance took his attention. He turned it over, weighed it in his hand, and then held it more to ...
— Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore • George Manville Fenn
... him into measures that were greatly mischievous to himself, and for that reason, among others, perhaps fatal to his country,—measures, the effects of which, I am afraid, are forever incurable. He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tessellated pavement without cement,—here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, Whigs and ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... my momentary amusement that he seemed to imagine I could, should or ought, have caused Falk in some way to pronounce himself. Such a hope was incomprehensible, but funny. Then the contact with all this foolishness irritated me. I said crossly that I had seen no symptoms, but if there were any—since he, Hermann, was so sure—then it was still worse. What pleasure Falk found in humbugging people in just that way I couldn't say. It was, however, my solemn duty to warn him. It had ...
— Falk • Joseph Conrad
... The boy still spoke crossly, aggrievedly, but every trace of displeasure had fled from the little girl's face at his words. She clapped ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... "Chugarum!" replied Grandfather Frog crossly. "Go ask Mr. Buzzard," And that was all that Peter could get out of him. So, not knowing what else to do, off started Peter Rabbit to ask Ol' Mistah Buzzard where his friend Mr. Mocking-bird got such ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Mocker • Thornton W. Burgess
... and began to cry harder. Granny Fox looked at Reddy sharply. "What have you been doing now—tearing your clothes on a barbed-wire fence or trying to crawl through a bull-briar thicket? I should think you were big enough by this time to look out for yourself!" said Granny Fox crossly, as she came over to look at ...
— The Adventures of Reddy Fox • Thornton W. Burgess
... it out, Lil," her husband said, not crossly, but mechanically, as if it were a phrase he often used. But Dicky laughed down at her, although I knew by the look in his eyes that he ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... running, his handkerchief round the inside of his collar. "To see him! I have come to see the Herr Baron von Steinlach," he retorted, crossly. "And what news are you talking about now?" He continued to pant and wipe while the porter read from his copy of the Bund, the German official communique of the previous day's fighting on ...
— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon
... cross goddesses," I said rather crossly myself; for I saw that, after having trodden my romance in the dust, she was willing I should pick it up again and shake it off, and I wished to show her that I was not to be so ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... wound up, by the sound of you," she said to him, as if crossly. But she could never ...
— Wintry Peacock - From "The New Decameron", Volume III. • D. H. Lawrence
... hair round their lower jaw to grow so long that it resembles a dirty halo which has somehow slipped down over their noses; nor do I mean the sheepish individuals, nor those whom, in our more vulgar moments, we crossly designate as "Goats." No; the people I really mean are the people who can never utter a favourable opinion without butting a "but" into the middle of it; people who, as it were, give you a bunch of flowers with one hand and throw a bucket of cabbage-water ...
— Over the Fireside with Silent Friends • Richard King
... out for every road hog that comes along?" said the missus, rather crossly. "The right of way ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... what you like." He answered her crossly, and she heard the tone. But he was aware of it also, and felt that he was disgracing himself. There was none of the half-hour of joy which he had promised himself. He had struggled so hard to give her everything, and he might, at any ...
— An Old Man's Love • Anthony Trollope
... one arm raised to push away a thin green branch that crossed the path at shoulder-height; and her attitude was so charming as she paused, detained to listen by this other voice with its musical youthfulness, that for a second I thought crossly of all the ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington
... remembered for the first time what a ragged old dress she was wearing, and what an odd appearance she must present. But the Prince declared that it became her vastly, and that he thought it most picturesque. When they reached the house the old woman received them very crossly. ...
— The Green Fairy Book • Various
... house, anyhow," said George crossly. "I don't even know the people that are building it. They say a lot of riffraff come to town every year nowadays and there's other riffraff that have always lived here, and have made a little money, and act as if they owned the place. Uncle ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... somewhat indignantly, "what right has Sir Crossly Cowel, for instance, the great capitalist, to his millions that 'e don't know what to do with, when we're starvin'?" (Hear!) "He didn't earn these millions; they was left to 'im by his father, an' he didn't earn 'em, nor did his grandfather, or his great-grandfather, and so, back an' back ...
— Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished - A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure • R.M. Ballantyne
... unhappy, and not daring to take the clean handkerchief which Sister Marie-Aimee handed to me. Before she spoke, I could hear the scolding which I knew I deserved. And even when Sister Marie-Aimee said nothing at all, I could see her frown, and her eyes looked crossly at me and followed me about. I felt crushed with shame, so crushed that I could scarcely lift my feet. I tried to hide in the corners as I walked; and, in spite of it all, next time I had lost my handkerchief ...
— Marie Claire • Marguerite Audoux
... dear, I would give you a gown for your friend if I had it," she said good-humouredly; "but I have just sent the only one I can spare to my mother. I wonder who there is, now—Are you afraid of folks that speak crossly?" ...
— One Snowy Night - Long ago at Oxford • Emily Sarah Holt
... an idea! I don't know what you'll be like soon, if you aren't stopped! Upon my word, I think you must be ill, you're getting so tiresome!" And Lasse went on crossly for a little while, but then stopped and bent ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... chasing in the woods. May we drink? (He takes up flask.) Whose wine is this that we may drink his health? LAVARCHAM. It's no one's that you've call to know. NAISI. Your own health then and length of life. (Pouring out wine for the three. They drink.) LAVARCHAM — very crossly. — You're great boys taking a welcome where it isn't given, and asking questions where you've no call to. . . . If you'd a quiet place settled up to be playing yourself, maybe, with a gentle queen, what'd ...
— Deirdre of the Sorrows • J. M. Synge
... Isabelle crossly. "I, for one, don't believe in allowing servants to have such cast-iron rules. It savors ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... rid of you," I added crossly, "I am going to give you this," and I handed her her weekly cheque, plus a draft for a hundred pounds. "Take it, and get off to those benighted ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... She's coming, at any rate," said Peggy, rather crossly. "Bunty sent me to find out if everybody had really gone. Toddlekins will have to get a taxi, that's all. Whew! I'm being blown to bits! I want to get back to my pen-painting. I'm making a birthday present for my ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... he exclaimed crossly. "Not clear enough! But on a fine day ye can see Axe and Axe Edge.... Finest view in ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... and don't trouble me with your nonsense,' said the merchant quite crossly. 'How my ...
— The Grey Fairy Book • Various
... on such a pouring night, dressed up like that,' she remarked crossly, and roughly pulled off the wreath as she spoke, to place it on her own daughter. As she did so the roses became withered and brown, and the birds flew ...
— The Orange Fairy Book • Andrew Lang
... opened her eyes and, seeing Jeanne, she rose to her feet suddenly. They stood face to face, so close that they touched one another. The stranger said crossly: "What! are you up? You will be ill, getting up at this time of ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... no time for staring into mirrors," said Dr. Dick, crossly. "I saw that I need a good wash; and you, some sal-volatile! But we shall have plenty to do for Ronnie before we can find leisure to think of ourselves. Send a couple of men here; sturdy fellows whom you can trust. Order that car to the door; then bring me a pencil, a sheet ...
— The Upas Tree - A Christmas Story for all the Year • Florence L. Barclay
... any way to him," I said crossly. "I don't see that it was very kind to want to send me away from the boys. Mother told me I was to take care of them, and I'm going to do what ...
— The Boys and I • Mrs. Molesworth
... mouth kept opening and shutting, like a fish's. So she kept her face straight, and didn't say a word, and when he said something to her about the fine sunset, she took no notice. "Don't you hear what I say, Marian?" he said, speaking quite crossly, and bellowing as if it were to somebody in the next field. So aunt said she was very sorry, but her cold made her so deaf, she couldn't hear much. She noticed uncle looked quite pleased, and relieved too, and she knew he thought she hadn't heard the whistling. Suddenly uncle pretended ...
— The House of Souls • Arthur Machen
... you do, then?" said Gypsy, a little crossly. Joy replied in the tone of a martyr, that she was sure she did not know. Gypsy coughed, and walked up and down on the garden fence in ...
— Gypsy's Cousin Joy • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... stoutly refused to go. Next day Camille was summoned from a task to the Mother Superior's parlour. The other girls gazed with envy upon her as she dashed down the courtyard with impetuous movement. Camille, they decided crossly, received too much notice. It was Camille this, Camille that; she was pretty, it was to be expected. Even Father Ray lingered longer in his blessing when his hands pressed her ...
— The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories • Alice Dunbar
... heard of bringing home a child and getting a bed for it a week afterwards," said the woman crossly; "and I should like to know who will pay for it if we must build something more for her into ...
— Rico And Wiseli - Rico And Stineli, And How Wiseli Was Provided For • Johanna Spyri
... attention to them when she wished to impress people with the hardships of her lot. The natural result was that the boy and girl only knew her as mother by name; they feared her, and would shrink to Emma's side when Kate began to speak crossly. ...
— Demos • George Gissing
... fourposter, where Ann slept with Drusilla Elliott, and another bed in the same room took Bess. The sisters and their friend had been constantly praying that Bess might 'find peace', for she was still a stranger to salvation. One night, she suddenly called out, rather crossly, 'What are you two whispering about? Do go to sleep,' to which Ann replied: 'We are praying for you.' 'How do you know,' answered Bess, 'that I don't believe?' And then she told them that, that very ...
— Father and Son • Edmund Gosse
... I'm not wanted," said Alligator crossly. "Very well, I'll not go where I'm not asked. I'll ...
— The Cat in Grandfather's House • Carl Henry Grabo
... demanded Tom, crossly, feeling it impossible to elude such a pursuer, and backing up ...
— Five Little Peppers Abroad • Margaret Sidney
... making plans, and so did Vallie, who was very quick and bright about everything, while Nan was rather a sleepy little girl, though exceedingly good-natured. I don't think I ever knew her speak crossly. ...
— My New Home • Mary Louisa Molesworth
... How do I know what happens?" she answered crossly. "About sunset Bull-Head brought home his new wife, a white chieftainess, for whom we built the hut yonder; but the fashions of marriage among these white people must be strange indeed, for this one came to her husband, her feet bound, and with a face like to the ...
— Swallow • H. Rider Haggard
... is there?" Henry demanded almost crossly. He felt vaguely stirred by what was being ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine
... he answered, rather crossly; 'but you know very well that it is a farce to talk of her managing the house, or the estate either. It was bad enough before, but there will be no check ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... up suddenly. "I heard Arthur, the other day, talking very crossly about Elsie, and threatening to pay her for something; ...
— Holidays at Roselands • Martha Finley
... you make over a few minutes," he said crossly; "I have to go at four o'clock to ring the bell. I think I ought to take a little ...
— Veronica And Other Friends - Two Stories For Children • Johanna (Heusser) Spyri
... (Withdraws his hand and rises rather crossly.) No, Paramore: it's not my liver now: it's private business. (A chase now begins between Julia and Charteris, all the more exciting to them because the huntress and her prey must alike conceal the real object of their movements from the others. ...
— The Philanderer • George Bernard Shaw
... rotten afternoon, and don't feel up to your far-fetched jokes just now; so if you have nothing to report, shut up," said the Superintendent crossly. ...
— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy
... forgive you, master," she said crossly. "You had no right to ... hem ... with your face in that condition.... And you have not yet told us ...
— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy
... to tear all that way after her!" thought Ingred crossly. "Verity will be sure to tell her. They seem inseparable to-day. Besides which nobody's particularly likely to go into that other meadow. There are plenty of ...
— A Popular Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... vain discovery of our suspicion. You gods I see, that who unrighteously Holds wealth or state from others, shall be curst, In that, which meaner men are blest withall: Ages to come shall know no male of him Left to inherit, and his name shall be Blotted from earth; If he have any child, It shall be crossly matched: the gods themselves Shall sow wild strife betwixt her Lord and her, Yet, if it be your wills, forgive the sin I have committed, let it not fall Upon this understanding child of mine, She has not broke your Laws; but how can I, Look to be heard of ...
— Philaster - Love Lies a Bleeding • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
... this is not too much!" cried Nabbem, crossly; "you objects to go in a cart like the rest of your profession; and when I puts myself out of the way to obleedgie you with a shay, ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... the thing will be worth all our trouble," said Ned a bit crossly. "Perhaps we won't even be able to find ...
— Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope • Victor Appleton
... now, but that doesn't prove they never will," said a Robin crossly. He had just flown against a window, not understanding about the glass, and had ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
... something better if you are so clever," said mother, crossly. "That is always the way; if I suggest a thing it is immediately put down, yet there is never any one to think of things but me. What would you do? I suppose you think you could make a living on the ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin
... don't want to," said Nakwisi, rather crossly. We took our veils down from our eyes and looked around to see the cause of this unusual silence on Sahwah's part. Then we got the second big shock of the evening. Sahwah was not in the car! She had vanished utterly, silently, mysteriously, ...
— The Campfire Girls Go Motoring • Hildegard G. Frey
... I snapped, crossly, "I was speaking to the carnations; particularly to that elderly one at the top—the fat one who keeps bowing and ...
— Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed • Edna Ferber
... "Oh!" said Rouletabille crossly, "then you want to let everybody into Mademoiselle Stangerson's secrets?—Come, let us go to dinner; it is time. This evening we dine in Frederic Larsan's room,—at least, if he is not on the heels of Darzac. ...
— The Mystery of the Yellow Room • Gaston Leroux
... is good enough for anybody," replied Rea half crossly. She was not yet quite wide awake. "There is plenty of fruit in stores, to buy. We could buy ...
— The Hunter Cats of Connorloa • Helen Jackson
... you're rather inconsiderate," she said, crossly. "You start up my curiosity and then you make fun of me. I don't think I like the way you treat me, ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... hay or shoeing a hoss that I'm doing, I guess," said the old fellow crossly. "I'm fussing at building a barn, but a fine chance I got. I get all my timber ...
— Bull Hunter • Max Brand
... Kismine crossly, when he was out of hearing. "You've spoiled it all. We can never meet any more. He won't let me meet you. He'd have you poisoned if he thought we were ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... you, my dear?" she said crossly to the maid who kept her waiting some minutes. "Don't you wish to serve me? Then ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... well-nigh empty. The great thoroughfare, the Oude Gracht, was almost deserted, and as Koosje hurried along the Meinerbroederstraat—for she had a second commission there—she drew her great shawl more tightly round her, muttering crossly, "What weather! yesterday so warm, to-day so cold. 'Tis enough to ...
— Stories By English Authors: Germany • Various
... I know!" answered La Mothe crossly. It vexed him that Villon should speak at all of Ursula de Vesc, and still more that his answer was so lame. But recognizing the symptoms out of a wide experience, Villon only laughed softly at ...
— The Justice of the King • Hamilton Drummond
... belong to anybody, if you need them, Jamie, and you don't have to be told that," I answered crossly when I thought what a grand time I might have been having talking about real things with the Crag, instead of wrestling with Polk's romantics or Sallie's and ...
— The Tinder-Box • Maria Thompson Daviess
... her temple with vinegar, which made it smart very much (though she did not complain), told them they had been so naughty that they should not go to play any more, nor would she hear Miss Placid's justification, but crossly interrupted ...
— Forgotten Tales of Long Ago • E. V. Lucas
... asked Mr. Cutter if he would let her do some scrubbing for a bit of fish, because she hadn't any dinner for her children, and had been disappointed of a day's work. Mr. Cutter was in a hurry and said 'No', rather crossly, so she was going away, looking hungry and sorry, when Mr. Laurence hooked up a big fish with the crooked end of his cane and held it out to her. She was so glad and surprised she took it right into her arms, and thanked him over and over. He told her to 'go along and cook it', and she hurried ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... lend," said the beggar crossly. "Methinks you are as young a man as I, and as well able to earn a supper. So go your way, and I'll go mine. If you fast till you get aught out of me, you'll go hungry for the ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
... to help you pay for that cow," said the squire, crossly. "If you can't pay for't when the time comes you ...
— Bound to Rise • Horatio Alger
... of the ball is affected by the spins that have preceded it? You don't mean to argue that, because red wins four times, or forty times, running, black is any the more likely to win at the next spin?' 'You shut up!' retorted the human side of him crossly. 'I ...
— A Great Man - A Frolic • Arnold Bennett
... midnight; we are going. Will he come with us, or is he to stay here?" Doktorenko asked crossly ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... was not children that I heard quarrelling; it was only two little crabs. Children never speak so crossly to each other; but those two little crabs scolded and bit down there in the water until— But I am getting ahead of my story. I'll ...
— Harper's Young People, September 21, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... maid." So in we went, hand in hand, to the parlor. But yet her first question, "Who's there?" had left me so doubtful as to whether she might not be playing a double game, that I turned my back on her, and said crossly that I supposed she had been expecting a number of lovers, and that the thought quite spoiled my pleasure. But oh! what a darling Hana is! Coming to my side and clasping tight my hand, ...
— Japanese Literature - Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical - Poetry and Drama of Japan • Various
... shall never work in a factory, that I'm determined on. You see Esther spent her money in dress, thinking to set off her pretty face; and got to come home so late at night, that at last I told her my mind; my missis thinks I spoke crossly, but I meant right, for I loved Esther, if it was only for Mary's sake. Says I, 'Esther, I see what you'll end at with your artificials, and your fly-away veils, and stopping out when honest women are in their beds: you'll be a ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell
... wasn't very tall, not taller than Sunny Boy's own mother. She came out so unexpectedly and stared down at the children so crossly that she seemed taller than she was. She had near-sighted eyes, and wore big, thick-rimmed glasses, and these, too, ...
— Sunny Boy in the Big City • Ramy Allison White
... flag waved in her cheeks again. "I don't particularly like the idea," she said, rather crossly, still keeping her face turned away from me, "and I'm very sure he wouldn't care to have me. But dad thinks a lot of him; he might do something of the kind when he gets here. Dear, I wish ...
— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... snapped Jerry crossly. "I did it just as well as I know how. You lazy folks who just sit and take sun-naps while you pretend to keep watch had better get busy and do a little work yourselves, if you don't like ...
— The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat • Thornton W. Burgess
... her arms, and then sat up on the bed. He noticed her evening dress and was explaining his late arrival when she jumped up crossly from the bed and saying, "Look at your wife, is she not looking ghastly?" went out of the room. Charlie returned to his wife's side and looked closely at her. Her face seemed strangely pallid and her hands were cold. He endeavoured to wake her and was still trying ...
— Bengal Dacoits and Tigers • Maharanee Sunity Devee
... at her crossly through his spectacles, "I am sorry you have not been better brought up." And he walked stiffly towards the Ugly-Wugly. Two hats were raised, a few words were exchanged, and two elderly figures walked side by side down the green pine-walk, followed ...
— The Enchanted Castle • E. Nesbit
... say that," returned Claudet, crossly, "but after all, you do not carry your name written on your face, and, by Jove! as guardian of the seals, I have some responsibility—I ...
— A Woodland Queen, Complete • Andre Theuriet
... the thing," Blake interrupted crossly; "and the way Benson grins at your thread-bare jokes would worry me if I were well! Do you suppose I'm a fool and don't know what you think?" He raised himself on his elbow, speaking angrily. "Try to understand that this is merely common malaria! I've had it several times; but it doesn't ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss
... you to know you are right?" demanded the First Assistant, crossly. Her feet were stinging. "'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.'" This was a favorite quotation of hers, although not Browning. "Nurses in hospitals are there to carry out the doctor's orders. Not to think or to say what they think unless ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... door from inner rooms partly dressed, with a towel in his hands, evidently making much preparation to clean himself). Daniel! (Loudly and crossly.) Daniel! ...
— The Drone - A Play in Three Acts • Rutherford Mayne
... said, half sadly, half crossly, "what good it does people to go away. There is Maurice, who seems to have everything he can wish for, and yet, according to Mr. Leigh, he is perfectly restless and miserable, and wants ...
— A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 - A Novel • Mrs. Harry Coghill
... person," Madam said crossly. "It's where you belong, instead of attempting all this ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... Santoris would be sure to get on well together," said Catherine, rather crossly—"'Birds ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli
... the chin whiskers that's cabbaged Hinpoha?" asked the Captain of Sahwah, scowling crossly after the leading boat, which was already drawing away from the rest of ...
— The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos • Hildegard G. Frey
... never speak crossly to a cow or call her by other than her own name, which is generally printed on a board over her stall. The cow, in fact, is the domestic pet of the Danish farm. In the winter these animals are taken for a daily walk wearing their winter ...
— Denmark • M. Pearson Thomson
... come in!" she cried, crossly. "Oh! it is you, mother," she interrupted herself, with ...
— A Woman of Thirty • Honore de Balzac
... for a friend," said Dudley, a little crossly; "he's twice as old as you are, to begin with, and he's an ...
— His Big Opportunity • Amy Le Feuvre
... that wretched dog such an enormous dinner he wouldn't have had that fit," she said crossly. "I warned her—but she said she couldn't starve the poor dog—he would soon be all she had left, etc. I could have ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... brought her that Chunerbutty begged to see her urgently. She went down to the lounge, where he was waiting. Struck by her want of colour, he enquired somewhat tenderly what ailed her. She replied impatiently that she was only fatigued by the previous day's journey, and asked rather crossly why he wanted to ...
— The Elephant God • Gordon Casserly
... wait any longer for these lazy brothers and sisters of mine to get ready," he said crossly. "Besides, if I did go in a school, I might get speared, or caught so that the rest could get away, and that would not suit me a bit. I'd rather ...
— How Sammy Went to Coral-Land • Emily Paret Atwater
... announced. 'I'm all ri'!' Farrell assured her. 'You may be yet,' she answered, 'if you keep your head shut.' Farrell asked me if I considered that a ladylike expression. To this she retorted that she couldn't bear for anyone to speak crossly to her: it broke ...
— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... crossly, "if hearing's not believing, perhaps seeing is! Look at these pictures; they're not particularly ...
— Max • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... an answer ready, for all you look so stupid," Elsie said, crossly. "When did they go away, I'd like to know? Can you remember? I can't; an' I can call to mind as long ago as when Robbie was the baby, ...
— Little Folks - A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) • Various
... answered a little crossly, for I could not bear her finding fault with Carrie, who was such a paragon in my eyes. But Jessie took no notice of my manner, she was such a wise little creature; and I cannot help thinking that the ...
— Esther - A Book for Girls • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... like staying here?" said Rosy, rather crossly. "I think you should stay till mother tells is to go," for she wanted to hear what more her mother and the gentleman said to each other, the very thing that made ...
— Rosy • Mrs. Molesworth
... come together somewhat crossly, as they did on principle at the sight of the cassock. But he was far too just a man to deny the relevance of the remark. "You are right," he said. "Before we find out how he came to be killed, we may have ...
— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... busted," said John, "but I consider it most disagreeable." Without a word more he left her, set out up the hill and coasted again. He upset half-way down, rolled over, and got on again laughing. This time somehow he got over the brook and turned crossly on Leila with, "I hope now you are satisfied, ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell
... your handsome Indian head to grin at me, Nicky Stretton," said she crossly. "I'm tired of always doing the same thing. And anyhow, the stable lost money, and I ...
— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones
... I," she said crossly. "If you had knocked these papers an inch farther, I should have invited you to correct them. If you go about in that abstracted way much longer, my dear, Miss Selbourne will inform the world (on the very best authority) that ...
— A Reversion To Type • Josephine Daskam
... that the calf-pen would have been a more appropriate locality. "I shall go to bed, then," said he, a little crossly. "Where is the landlord? out at this time of night? no matter. I know our room. Shall you ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... indoors always, like a rat in a drain," said Peter crossly, "so what is to be done? Appeal ...
— Fair Margaret • H. Rider Haggard
... was dark and her door evidently locked, for it would not yield when Betty, anxious at getting no answer to her knocks, tried to open it. But when she called softly, "Eleanor, are you there? Can I do anything?" Eleanor answered crossly, "Please go away. I'm better, but I want ...
— Betty Wales Freshman • Edith K. Dunton
... said crossly. "I know some people here, rich ones, too, but father would flog me soundly if I borrowed a cent from anyone. He has 'An honest man need not borrow' written over the ...
— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge
... little boy," said Teacher crossly, for she had been frightened, as it now seemed, to no purpose. "I'll measure his finger for a new ring when ...
— Little Citizens • Myra Kelly
... to the family," said the lady; "you couldn't move in the crowd. Besides I promised to see to you. Now be quiet," she added crossly, when Hattie would have spoken. She turned away. Hattie crept ...
— The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 - December, 1906. • Various
... drawing rather too hard on the patience of his friends, after what they had just endured, and Dr. Skihi exclaimed, rather crossly, "At the same time, your exercise is a famous thing to make one thirsty! I would give a great deal to obtain a drink of spring water; but that is ...
— Funny Big Socks - Being the Fifth Book of the Series • Sarah L. Barrow
... into a splendid joy, and was approved under investigation with "quite all right"—short of that glorious competence and pride of life, one might surely be an average man, who could walk from San Pietro to Florence without tumbling on the road at dawn. Peter sighed over it, rather crossly. The marvellous morning was insulted by his collapse; it became a remote thing, in which he might have no share. As always, the inexorable "Not for you" rose like a barred gate between him and the lucid ...
— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay
... the Marshal of Tinkletown?" she broke in crossly. "What right have all you men to be going off ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... we look at the tide and get home in decent time? It's no good crying over spilt milk!" grunted Merle rather crossly. ...
— Monitress Merle • Angela Brazil
... both her speech and manner. He almost lost his balance when she suddenly gave her consent; but, regaining it quickly, he tumbled through the door, giving vent to his delight in a series of whoops that made Mammy's head ring, and brought her to the door, scolding crossly. ...
— Ole Mammy's Torment • Annie Fellows Johnston
... person," Frances broke in crossly, "always takes advantage of a little notice. Why, he looked at you as if you were friends ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... man sat outside the Cauliflower Inn, looking crossly up the road. He was fond of conversation, but the pedestrian who had stopped to drink a mug of ale beneath the shade of the doors was not happy in his choice of subjects. He would only talk of the pernicious effects of beer on the constitutions ...
— Light Freights • W. W. Jacobs
... asked Prince Eugen crossly. 'Why this sudden seriousness? Don't forget that I have an appointment with Mr Sampson Levi, and must not keep him waiting. Someone said that punctuality is the politeness ...
— The Grand Babylon Hotel • Arnold Bennett
... lot of girls I have ever seen," returned Eleanor crossly, "and I think you are making a great deal of unnecessary fuss over a small matter. Why didn't your prize orphan get out of the way with the rest of you? Besides, you have no right to block a public highway, as you did. I am very sorry I ...
— Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School - Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities • Jessie Graham Flower
... looked at him crossly, then sloshed across the swamp toward Black Eyes. The creature waited on its stump until she came quite close, and then, with a playful little bound, it hopped onto her shoulder, still squatting on its haunches. Lindy squealed excitedly and began ...
— Black Eyes and the Daily Grind • Milton Lesser
... women must have!" she said almost crossly. "Mrs. Rawdon has been talking incessantly for six hours. She has felt all she said. She has frequently risen and walked about. She has used all sorts of actions to emphasize her words, and she is as fresh as if ...
— The Man Between • Amelia E. Barr
... only fit for bed. The strong man had never suffered from nerves—didn't even know what they were—but all sorts of things happened nowadays to alarm him. Rosa was so irritable that she cried if anybody spoke crossly to her. The doctor advised them not to treat her harshly, for she cried so bitterly that she became quite hysterical. And after the attack was over she was so feeble that she could not move a limb, and looked exactly like somebody ...
— Absolution • Clara Viebig
... crossly, "thar's the beans an mug o' flip. Call it a thousand dollars, an fork over, but by gosh, I don' git caught that way again. It's downright robbery, that's wot it is. I say ain't ye got ...
— The Duke of Stockbridge • Edward Bellamy
... take her?" I demanded, crossly. "Aunt Cynthia took our consent for granted. And you know, as well as I do, we couldn't have refused. So what is ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... the sad little man, crossly. He had lived alone in the dark, silent wood for such a long time that he began to ...
— All the Way to Fairyland - Fairy Stories • Evelyn Sharp
... Rudolf crossly. "You know what Betsy says about—'If wishes were horses, beggars could ride'—well, they aren't, so we've got to walk now. ...
— The Wonderful Bed • Gertrude Knevels
... Mervyn crossly, as he rolled about in an arm-chair that stood away in the furthest corner. "But oh, it is silly to be sticking up here when the dinner is ready down-stairs—oh, I smell it, and it does smell nice! and I am so ...
— Naughty Miss Bunny - A Story for Little Children • Clara Mulholland
... the men complied, and, thrusting their legs out of their bunks, rolled on to the locker, and sat crossly waiting for information. ...
— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs
... said crossly, for I had heard of the battle of Fontenoy and his cousin Dennis before, and it was a sore point between us. Nor could I understand how a man who had the privilege of being born a British subject, though liable to the proper ...
— Athelstane Ford • Allen Upward
... commanded the artist, crossly. "I've said all I wanted to. I've no interest at all in what you and your friends ...
— Whistler Stories • Don C. Seitz
... said the doctor crossly. 'Why didn't you tell me that before? Now I shall have to write another certificate. This ...
— The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia • William Somerset Maugham
... Marie was called upon to pack a few things for a hurried journey. The telephone rang, and the sleepy night-operator answered crossly. But Elizabeth found out all she wanted to know about the early Chicago trains, and then lay ...
— The Girl from Montana • Grace Livingston Hill |
