"Glumly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quirl me a brownie and git into the feathers," glumly. "I thought I'd go into town in the mornin', I want to ...
— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart
... we tried to introduce an orange squeezer designed to hang on the wall and operate somewhat on the principle of a pencil sharpener. We showed it to our houseman who regarded it glumly. "I'll try to use it if you insist," he finally said, "but I can work faster with that glass one from the ten cent store." These little playthings are all right but you can seldom get the help to use them. A kitchen should be ...
— If You're Going to Live in the Country • Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley
... entertainments. They told him about free canteens, and about other places where you could get a good meal, cheap. One of the tickets was for a dance. Tyler knew nothing of dancing. This dance was to be given at some kind of woman's club on Michigan Boulevard. Tyler read the card, glumly. A dance meant girls. He knew that. Why hadn't he learned ...
— Cheerful—By Request • Edna Ferber
... of State John Cooper sat glumly under a tree in the capital of Mastodonia and waited for the ambassador ...
— Project Mastodon • Clifford Donald Simak
... sooner or later for a fitful correspondence was maintained between brother and sister—and O'Moy dreaded the moment when this explanation must be made. Lacking invention, he applied to Tremayne for assistance, and Tremayne glumly supplied him with the necessary lie that should meet Lady O'Moy's inquiries when ...
— The Snare • Rafael Sabatini
... to talk any more politics with him. We dined together, I calm and in the best of spirits; we went to a musical farce, and he watched me glumly as I showed my lightness of heart. Then I went alone, at midnight, to the Chicago Express sleeper—to lie awake all night staring at the phantoms of ruin that moved in dire panorama before me. In every great affair there is a crisis at which one must stake all ...
— The Plum Tree • David Graham Phillips
... tall, narrow house stands looking glumly across the river. It is a suspected house, and watched; for here dwelt Stepan Lanovitch, secretary and organizer ...
— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman
... at the time was uninteresting, unjust, and stupid; he felt irritated and disturbed, but held his tongue, and, because he sat glumly silent and looked at his plate, he was nicknamed in the town "the haughty Pole," though he ...
— The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... something happened to the ambulance that was to take them to the boys, and over an hour was lost in repairs. Back at the camp the boys had given up all hope. They were to march at eight o'clock and nothing had been heard of the doughnuts. Suddenly the truck dashed into view, but the boys eyed it glumly, thinking it was likely empty after all this time. However, the chaplain held up both hands full of golden brown beauties, and with a wild shout of joy the men sprang to "attention" as the ambulance drew up, and more soldiers crowded around. The villagers rushed to their ...
— The War Romance of the Salvation Army • Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill
... ago," replied Peyton, glumly, not bringing his eyes within range of the smile. "She went that way. I trust you've ...
— The Continental Dragoon - A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 • Robert Neilson Stephens
... Houston moved hazily back, away from the flume site. Ba'tiste stood staring glumly, wondering, at the papers which had been returned to the sheriff. "But I know this, that it's a fakery—somehow—and I'll prove it. I have absolutely no memory of ever signing any such papers as that, or of even talking to ...
— The White Desert • Courtney Ryley Cooper
... they separated and went glumly to their homes. And this is gratitude! What a pity Mr. McCullum—who had been smiling over his benevolence all the evening—could not have ...
— Ester Ried Yet Speaking • Isabella Alden
... "I noted it," glumly agreed Jack. "The jolly-boat passed too far away to please me. And this landward breeze is driving ...
— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine
... glumly thinking over this letter for a long time. The disappointment of learning that he would not see her for a month was bad enough, but it was not the worst thing about this sudden development. For this made him realize what alert and active opposition he ...
— The Blood of the Conquerors • Harvey Fergusson
... glumly, looking down at the floor. His lower lip seemed to hang precariously away from ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett
... Sitting glumly in a corner of the tap-room, watching but not listening to the spouting Mr. Rushcroft, (who was regaling the cellarer and two vastly impressed countrymen with the story of his appearance before Queen ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon
... a rise from Stefan, he was only partly successful. True, her husband snorted with disgust, but, at a touch from her and a whispered "Be nice to him," restrained himself sufficiently to invite McEwan in with a frigid show of politeness. But once inside, and the candles lighted, Stefan leant glumly against the mantelpiece with his hands in his pockets, evidently determined to leave their visitor entirely ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... a finger impressively. "Happy, you drive," he said, and Happy Jack turned without a word and climbed glumly up to the seat of ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... I wasn't such a good influence around the fellows in this condition," Speed reflected glumly. "But Coach put me off the team and I'm going to stay off the team. I'll fix him—I'll leave town tonight so he can't get hold ...
— Interference and Other Football Stories • Harold M. Sherman
... my pockets after that last remark, and walked to the window glumly; but as I stood with my back to him, I could not help wondering if he was making faces at me, or up to any other undignified antics by way of relaxation. Did he ever wriggle with merriment when he was alone? I turned suddenly ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... compromise is ever totally right," said Polly. "You keep patching up things that always have flaws in them. That's how government is." She chuckled, looked up at Orne. "All right, Lewis. We accept." She glanced at Spencer, who shrugged, nodded glumly. Polly looked back at Orne. "Just answer me one question: How'd you know ...
— Operation Haystack • Frank Patrick Herbert
... hailing it with joy, as I had expected her to do, she said to me, glumly: "And how do we know that you did not ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
... the one bid, surveyed glumly the hilarious crowd flocking in to the bar to drink to their joy in his defeat, and wandered disconsolately back to the pound. He was never again seen in that locality, or by any of the citizens of Rawhide, for between dark and dawn he resumed his travels, bound for some ...
— Bar-20 Days • Clarence E. Mulford
... the enemy, came with jingling spurs up the steps of the porch, despite the angry whispers of the adjutants who tried to stop him. Kutuzov, his hands still pressed on the seat, glanced at him glumly. Denisov, having given his name, announced that he had to communicate to his Serene Highness a matter of great importance for their country's welfare. Kutuzov looked wearily at him and, lifting his hands with a gesture of annoyance, folded them across his stomach, repeating ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... moment I sat returning Blaise's gaze across the table; then noticing that the maid had left the door of our chamber slightly ajar, I arose and walked stealthily to the crack, through which I could see a part of the kitchen below. Blaise remained seated at the table, glumly watching me. ...
— An Enemy To The King • Robert Neilson Stephens
... on this, it'll just about finish me," he continued glumly. "These people are not going to allow me an inch leeway. I'll have to deliver on that contract to the last stipulated splinter before they'll pay over a dollar. If I don't have a million feet for 'em three weeks from to-day, it's all off, and maybe a suit for breach of contract besides. That's ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair |
