"Huskily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his head hopelessly, his eyes wet. The blow of her bereavement seemed to have destroyed her reasoning faculty. The once keen vision was dimmed. "All wrong, all wrong!" he said huskily. "Error—perversity! It drives me out of my senses. Do you care for him? Do you love him? You know you don't! It will be a fanatic prostitution—God forgive me, yes—that's what it ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... him until they vanished within the darkness. Leaning far over to listen, the young miner heard the bucket touch bottom, and then, with a quick word of warning to the man grasping the handle, he swung himself out on the taut rope, and went swiftly down, hand over hand. Mike, still grumbling huskily to himself, waited until the windlass ceased vibrating, securely anchored the handle with a strip of raw-hide, and composedly sat down, his teeth set firmly on the pipe-stem, his eyes already half closed. It was an obstinate, mulish old face, seamed and creased, the bright ...
— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish
... the window, and said, somewhat huskily:—"I wish some of these here poor people, as they call themselves, would either go away to Aymericay, or keep their premises a bit cleaner; nobody wants 'em here that ever I've heard ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... countenance, and in the unconscious appeal with which his blue eyes surveyed Madge and me in turn. But in a few moments he collected himself, as if for the necessary dealing with some unexpected castastrophe, and asked me, a little huskily still: ...
— Philip Winwood • Robert Neilson Stephens
... Rachael said huskily, her heart beating quick with vague fright. Mrs. Gregory was in her deep armchair, she looked old and broken to-night, far older than she would look a few days later when she lay in her coffin. Rachael had ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris
... he said, a little huskily. "You look as unconcerned, as cool as—as a confounded cucumber! And now, Perry, remember to aim low, all pistols are apt to throw high—so, for heaven's sake aim low, ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol
... with wide-open eyes. At the same instant the inner door swung noiselessly back, and Hugh Ritson stood on the threshold. Greta was about to speak, but Hugh motioned her to silence. His face was pale, his hand trembled. "Too late," he said, huskily; "he is dead!" ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine
... me, Paul," he said huskily. "I am not fitted for the work. I am broken down, a trifler, a worn out old dandy. You have got the right metal in Alexis. See to it that he does not follow my example, but keeps unstained the ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy
... dragons myself. Scorched my tongue on one once," said the Cowardly Lion huskily. "But I'll fight with you, brother Hokus. Stand back, ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... not sure of that myself," he replied, huskily. "When all this trouble is behind us, surely I can help you to understand and you can help me. The fact that you are alive—that Lassiter and Jane are alive—that I shall save you all—that lifts me up. I tell you—Fay Larkin will ...
— The Rainbow Trail • Zane Grey
... have, old man," he began, rather huskily—"in there, you know." He indicated the direction of the consulting-room as he spoke. "We don't like the ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan
... woodwork of the gallery creaked and strained; and under the doorway the tall grass by the steps thrust ripening straw, all alive with little brown grasshoppers. The clock, in its wooden case, made a whirring noise, as though it were some consumptive trying to clear his throat, and then huskily ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola
... man, huskily. "No, no, Mary! It can't be! It must not be! Richard Peveril is dead, and the contract is void. He has no claim on the Copper Princess. It is all mine. Mine and yours. But don't let him know. Keep the secret for one week longer—only one little week—then ...
— The Copper Princess - A Story of Lake Superior Mines • Kirk Munroe
... raised his eyes, and the Earl smiled grimly as he looked his victim over. "I have naught to say," said the lad, huskily. ...
— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle
... for Dakyns, and make him have this telegram sent to the post? Awfully sorry to trouble you, but I can't howl yet for myself," whispered Maitland, huskily, as he scribbled on a ...
— The Mark Of Cain • Andrew Lang
... Amen:"—so Friedrich Wilhelm phrases it, in those confused old documents and Cabinet Letters of his; [Forster, i. 374, 379, &c.] which awaken a strange feeling in the attentive reader; and show us the ruggedest of human creatures melted into blubbering tenderness, and growling huskily something which we perceive is real prayer. Here has a business fallen out, such as seldom ...
— History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 7 • Thomas Carlyle
... unbuttoned, and hat set far back from his forehead, waved a fan before his death-white, flabby face, and set down one foot after the other with the heaviness of a somnambulist. Another, as they passed him, was saying huskily to the friend at his side, "I can't stand this much longer. My hands tingle as if they had gone to sleep; my heart—" But still the multitude hurried on, passing, repassing, encountering, evading, vanishing into shop doors, and emerging from them, dispersing ...
— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... he gets a trifle flat, Which is not to be wondered at, And critical observers note A huskiness about the throat. (Huskily) Cuckoo! Cuckoo!... ...
— First Plays • A. A. Milne
... "Shake hands, John," he said huskily. "I am a brute! There must be something in this new fad of yours after all. If you had spoken to me as I did to you just now, I should have ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... what to say. Come here." Dick coughed huskily, wondering, indeed, what he should say, and how to ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... no alternative for me but to say "Yes, sir." The answer came huskily. I was annoyed ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond
... Vielhaber, melding eighty kings, said it was a good rich-man's country, but also a good poor-man's country, because where could you find one half as good—not in all Europe—and he now laid down forty jacks, which he huskily called "yacks." ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... outstretched hand still held the mallet at the end of the blow. The carpenter's mouth was open in amazement. Neddie Benson, the first to move or break the silence, had spread his hands as if he were about to clutch at a butterfly or a beetle; dropping them to his side, he gasped huskily, "She said there'd be a light man and a ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes
... was as if you poured ink into water and made it dense. Jeffrey felt at once how sympathetic they were with her. What was the cry she gave? Was it some international password or a gipsy note of universal import? Had she called them friend in a tongue they knew? Now she began speaking, huskily at first, with tumultuous syllables and wide open vowels, and at the first pause they cheered. The inky multitude that had kept silence, by preconcerted plan, while Weedon Moore talked to them, lost ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... too cwushed to wemember," he said, huskily. "But I fink Lucy was fat. It's a vewy bad fing to be fat, 'cos the cane ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche
... voice and answered huskily, laying one hand upon his chest, and with the other gesturing up by the Winslow elm to the grove ...
— Bylow Hill • George Washington Cable
... now. Her own colour had risen—her hand shook a little on her needles. And she had clearly roused some strong emotion in Farrell. After a few moments' silence, he fell upon her, speaking rather huskily. ...
— Missing • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... "Well," he said, huskily, "what I have dreaded has come. The men I have given up everything for have turned against me. No, you must not think I am sorry for what I have done, and it was right then; but they have listened to some of the crazy fools from Europe ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... farewells were hurried; Alan seemed voiceless, only nodding in reply to Mary's vociferous messages to Harry, and huskily whispering to Ethel, "Good ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... baggage I've got; just a few clothes," he muttered huskily. "I crawled in here last night to sleep. I've got to see Fred before I go. I've been waiting two days for a ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... rocks. Half-way up the hill they had a narrow escape from stumbling on a Boer picket. The sentry heard if he did not see the line of crouching figures that passed him like ghosts in the darkness with stealthy steps that must have sounded weird across the night stillness. In a voice huskily vibrant, he challenged, "Wie kom dar?" Getting no reply, he called again twice in louder tones, and then fired his rifle at nothing in particular. Then, the whole picket waking, or beginning to realise that danger was near, let off a volley, ...
— Four Months Besieged - The Story of Ladysmith • H. H. S. Pearse
... but ere he had reached it Janice had overtaken him and seized his hand in both of hers. "You deserve to love a better maid," she said huskily, "and I wish you might; but perhaps 't will be some comfort to you to know that dadda holds to his promise, and—and that I am less wilful and more obedient, I hope, than once ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... "My duty!" he exclaimed, huskily "Was it my duty? Sometimes I doubt it; sometimes I think if I had never left her, all might have been well. Was it my duty to make my life a hell on earth, to tear my heart from my bosom, as I did in the ...
— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming
... followed him to herd sheep in a better land. Death from exposure, Dingley, the vet., gave it; but as little M'Adam, his eyes dimmer than their wont, declared huskily; "We ken better, Wullie." ...
— Bob, Son of Battle • Alfred Ollivant
... voice, in that silent crowd, was hers, Her light snickering laugh, as she stood there Pausing, scanning the sawdust at her feet. Then she switcht round and faced the positive man Whose strong 'She cannot do it!' all still felt Huskily ...
— Georgian Poetry 1918-19 • Various
... nodin 'pout Yangee kirls no more;" and how at last Uncle Andrew walked home with her, I have not time to tell. When the Philosopher bade her adieu, he called her names which she did not understand. But she turned back to him, and after a minute's hesitation, spoke huskily. "Uncle Andrew if he—if ...
— The End Of The World - A Love Story • Edward Eggleston
... too,' the slow one sang huskily as he stumbled along with difficulty 'but there's never any hurry. I'll fill their journeys with desire and make adventure ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood
... said the skipper huskily, "that is just about the sum and substance of it. But don't you trouble about us, or about your sister and the rest of them either for that matter. We shall be all right, never fear. The island yonder, ...
— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood
... said huskily. "I'll be back in a moment to rebandage your feet and make you comfortable for ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert Chambers
... huskily, calling him by that title for the first time, "I'm but a poor wreck at best. I can teach you no good, and God knows I wouldn't be the means of putting a shadow of evil in your heart. Your father says, 'Make him such ...
— Culm Rock - The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught • Glance Gaylord
... know what was," remarked Robert with humor so dry that apparently it choked him; he fell to coughing huskily. ...
— Fran • John Breckenridge Ellis
... door, Henry stepped forward and huskily asked if he might take her home. Bowing to him with a gracious smile of declination, she said, "Thanks," and, taking Cordis's arm, passed out ...
— Dr. Heidenhoff's Process • Edward Bellamy
... fire, old fellow!" he said, huskily. "You're blue with cold. We used to have snows like this ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various
... the cabby, promptly and huskily. "I know a place I could take money in with both hands. It's a four-story brick on a corner. I've got it figured out. Second story—Chinks and chop suey; third floor—manicures and foreign missions; fourth floor—poolroom. If you was thinking of putting ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry
... huskily. "The Mentorian way is one way, but—I've had a taste of being one of the masters of space. It's more than most men ever have, maybe it's more than I deserve. But I can't settle for anything less. Not even if it means ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... man, Mr. Cardross," replied the Edinburg writer, huskily, as he rose from his seat, and declining another glass of the claret, of which, under some shallow pretext, he had sent a supply into the minister's empty cellar, he crossed the grass-plot, and spent the rest of the evening beside his ward ...
— A Noble Life • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... Joel spoke huskily. There was no doubt that he had been deeply hurt. Lucy saw tears in his eyes, and her first impulse was to put a hand on his and tell him how sorry she was. But she desisted. She did not feel at her ease ...
— Wildfire • Zane Grey
... right, my lad," he said, huskily. "I'd forgotten about our arrangement. Did I say ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... Dietrich to forget his awkwardness. He touched Farina on the shoulder with two fingers, and muttered huskily: 'The Club never ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... account, please," said the Millstones huskily. "So long as you supply the power we'll supply the weight ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... solemnly, "I have wondered why the Lard saw good to take my legs to Himsalf. Rack'n I knaw now." He reached out a huge hand, gripped the little rifleman and pulled him closer. "There's nawthin cut to waste in this world," he whispered huskily. "And it's my belieft He's been savin of em up this ten year past agin this day—to put the strength of em into your'n, Jack Knapp. May you make good use o both pairs—your own o the flesh, and mine o the sperrit!—that's my ...
— The Gentleman - A Romance of the Sea • Alfred Ollivant
... wrote to her at once," said Staniford, huskily, "and explained the matter as well as I could without making an ado about it. But now you stop, Dunham. If you excite yourself, there'll be the ...
— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells
... Mary," said James somewhat huskily; "I think I may say that we have settled to go. Hamlyn has got a letter from a cousin of his who went from down Plymouth way, and who is making a fortune; and besides, I have got tired of the old place somehow, ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley
... milestones had loitered past, he overtook a boy who was stooping to light a cigarette. He wore no overcoat, and looked unspeakably fragile against the snow, "Are you on the road, guv'nor?" asked the boy huskily as he passed. ...
— The Ghost Ship • Richard Middleton
... at last by the Count Muffat and the deputy, came up in a fury. Drops of perspiration stood on his forehead, and he grumbled huskily: ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
... "as surely as if you used a stiletto! So that was what Arthur meant." For a few moments Danvers could not speak as the recollection of that look of love and trust came surging back. "No one must ever know the truth," he went on, huskily. "Let it be buried with poor Arthur. There will be more or less gossip; but we will stand by you for the judge's sake—and for Miss Blair's as well. She, of all persons, must know nothing of what you have ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman
... he asked huskily. "You know what the matter is. You don't love me. You never have ... Have you?" He suddenly ended, turning ...
— The Captives • Hugh Walpole
... up the notebook, his breath cold in his constricted throat. "All right," he said, the words coming out huskily, "I'll read it. But it's not ...
— Citadel • Algirdas Jonas Budrys
... transformation was wrought. His form stiffened to rigidity after one lightning-swift step forward, and his face grayed. The eyes glowed with the fires of a man's heart in a spasm of hate. He was the embodiment of rage, as he spoke huskily, his voice a whisper that was yet louder than ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... to me, Frances," I said huskily, as the door swung wide and a shaft of light fell upon a figure moving rapidly. Mabel was going down the corridor. Beyond her, in the shadows on the staircase, a second figure ...
— The Damned • Algernon Blackwood
... all work for good, Katie, you may be sure of that," said her brother huskily, as they went up the ...
— David Fleming's Forgiveness • Margaret Murray Robertson
... you get this?" he demanded huskily, in such a queer, breathless way that Richard thought his day of reckoning had come. His sin had found him out. He looked ...
— Georgina of the Rainbows • Annie Fellows Johnston
... for talk that day, but when the old creature was resting in her cast, with her nerves soothed into quietude, the next, she looked up at her daughter, who had hurried to her bedside, and asked huskily, ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... and kissed him, and, with a quick movement, he folded her to his heart an instant, then released her, murmuring huskily— ...
— Macaria • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... done all he can here," Strawn whispered huskily. "Wants to know if you'd like to speak to him before he takes the body ...
— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin
... "The Syndicate," he said slowly, "has not asked me to pay the debt, for the simple reason that the Syndicate does not know of it—yet." His breath caught, and he added huskily, "I have wanted to tell you this for ...
— Till the Clock Stops • John Joy Bell
... into the upstairs room and made his way to the end of the bar, where he called huskily for whisky. Having gulped a couple of fiery drinks, he shivered and straightened up, his evil eyes losing their ...
— Louisiana Lou • William West Winter
... said good-by to these before my friends came in, and I could now speak with a comparatively firm voice. Marriot and Gilray and Scrymgeour signed to Jimmy, as if some plan of action had been arranged, and Jimmy said huskily, sitting upon ...
— My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke • J. M. Barrie
... I calls comfortable," said Hobbs; (he spoke huskily, through an immense mouthful of sandwich.) "Ain't ...
— Freaks on the Fells - Three Months' Rustication • R.M. Ballantyne
... he had gone to town on the Fourth of July, been drunk for several days, lost his money at a faro table, ridden a saddled Texas steer on a bet, and disappeared with a fractured collar-bone. All this my aunt told me huskily, wanderingly, as though she were talking in ...
— Youth and the Bright Medusa • Willa Cather
... huskily. "But the size, man—the size! And its shape is not right; it isn't streamlined correctly; the air—" He stopped his half-unconscious analysis abruptly. "The air!" What had this craft to do with the air? A thin layer ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various
... again. "He was," he answered huskily. "He was. But he's made his last trip. I wasn't three hundred miles off, but I never thought of Dave Weatherbee's needing help; it took Tisdale, clear off in Nome, over a thousand miles, to sense something was wrong. But he started to mush it, alone with his huskies, to the Iditarod and ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... for your grief, child, at being obliged to leave your father," Frederick said huskily. "But are you going to take off the 'Armor of God' and forget all ...
— Tess of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... "Yes," said Imogene huskily, and she let an interval that was long to them both elapse before she said anything more. "Have I always done what you ...
— Indian Summer • William D. Howells
... the coupe quickly, as if he were hiding from some pursuing danger. "Home!" said he, huskily, and in a whimpering voice. "Home! Good God! I wish I knew where ...
— Sevenoaks • J. G. Holland
... for a sun-browned, bearded man had crossed the threshold, and thrown a paper into her lap, saying huskily:— ...
— A Princess in Calico • Edith Ferguson Black
... huskily—"fellows, I mean—I've got an announcement to make, or rather two announcements. One is this: Right here before you fellows who heard most of them I want to take back all the mean things I ever said about him—about Major Stone—and I want to say I'm sorry for all the mean ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb
... keer o' yourself, Louise," he added huskily. "If anything should happen to you, what—what ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper
... on the porch, and swung to and fro in silence for a little while. The sea came and went among the rocks below, marking its course in the deepening twilight with a white rope of foam, and raving huskily to itself, with now and then the long plunge of some heavier surge against the bowlders, and a hoarse shout. The Portland boat swam by in the offing, a glitter of irregular lights, and the lamps on the different points of the Cape blinked as they revolved in their towers. "This ...
— The Story of a Play - A Novel • W. D. Howells
... said huskily. "Mr. Ruff," she added, turning to him, "you know very well that this is not the Mr. Spencer Fitzgerald whom you promised to bring here to-night—Mr. Spencer Fitzgerald to whom I ...
— Peter Ruff and the Double Four • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... my fault," admitted Hartwick, huskily. "I didn't know enough to pick out the right sort of pals. I trusted too much to ...
— Frank Merriwell's Races • Burt L. Standish
... decision, sir," announced the lieutenant huskily. "At the close of the meal I will pay thirty-three ...
— Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service - or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty • H. Irving Hancock
... flicker of light through the keyhole and crevices of my bed-room door at this crisis. Someone turned the handle cautiously and finding the bolt drawn from the inside, whispered huskily. ...
— The Doctor's Daughter • "Vera"
... he did not know her, then: "God's glory!" he said huskily, getting to his feet—"is it the sweet face o' Miss Greensleeve or the angel in her come back f'r to bless ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers
... and huskily and passionately and timidly and hopefully and despairingly, "Mary Virginia, are you going to ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... said huskily, his voice sounding as if it came from the next room,—"Maria, I s'pose you know what ...
— The Life of Nancy • Sarah Orne Jewett
... the end between us,' he said, huskily. 'You must wish that you had never seen me, but I can never lose the hope that we may some ...
— Thyrza • George Gissing
... affection of his friends. Young Canby had worked patiently at his manuscript, rewriting, condensing, pouring over it the sincere sweat of his brow and the light of his boarding-house lamp during most of the evenings of two years, until at last he was able to tell his confidants, rather huskily, that there was "not one single superfluous word in it," not one that could possibly be cut, nor one that could be changed without "altering the significance ...
— Harlequin and Columbine • Booth Tarkington
... the appointment of Mr. Crow. When the court asked in mild surprise why he did not adopt the child, Anderson and Eva looked at each other sheepishly and were silent for a full minute. Then Anderson spoke up a bit huskily: ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon
... reward," he said huskily. "Don't forget—it's the only thing in life that really counts! There's nothing ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... as he heard the news. To conceal his distress he moved toward the door. Anywhere to get away from the girl to whom he feared he would betray himself. "I'll join 'em," he huskily answered. ...
— The Round-up - A Romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama • John Murray and Marion Mills Miller
... any reason for speaking. There were thirty seconds of deep silence in which he felt that all were bending to hearken to his words of counsel The professor huskily broke the stillness. Well * * * what are we ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane
... began to chuckle, rolling upon one hip and throwing one foot over the other like a man taking an easy attitude. She now held the pencil as if it were a cigarette, laughing again with such generous tone that the other women recoiled. Then she spoke, huskily. "You know—San Remo—Sands," came ...
— The Shadow World • Hamlin Garland
... subject us," he said, huskily, "to such an ordeal? What has made you give way—now? How can you dream of going back, after a week, to our old life?" But even as he asked the searching questions, he laid her back gently ...
— The Uttermost Farthing • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... excite false hopes, Rob," he said huskily. "I am going back to the house, and I want you ...
— Brood of the Witch-Queen • Sax Rohmer
... particle of her strength work, to carry her through her part. Roger noticed, with an excitement almost equal to Olive's, that as she advanced to unite the lovers' hands, that she cleared her throat huskily and grew even yet paler in the tent-lights, and that twice she opened her lips before any sound crossed them. The next moment Olive had sprung to her feet, ...
— Six Girls - A Home Story • Fannie Belle Irving
... say, at once, "Did you lay your hats in the hall?" Peter felt himself elected by circumstance the head of the family, and, casting one imploring look at tongue-tied Susan, standing next him, said huskily, "It was so very pleasant—that—that"——"That we hadn't good hats enough to go 'round," put in little Susan, bravely, to help him out, and then froze with horror that the ill-fated words had slipped off ...
— The Bird's Christmas Carol • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... huskily, "I regret being obliged to report that I just discovered Mr. Durville entering ...
— Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point - Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps • H. Irving Hancock
... She broke off huskily, and Noel, out of pity for her, got up and walked to the other end of the little room. When he got back she had recovered, and said ...
— A Beautiful Alien • Julia Magruder
... Deaves huskily. "And only yesterday—four hundred thousand! What a fool I was to ...
— The Deaves Affair • Hulbert Footner
... not because I want to," returned Dennison, huskily. "It's because I have to. I'm not right, Scanlon; I can't stand anything out of the ordinary. Just a little extra tax ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist • John T. McIntyre
... Inglewood, rather huskily, "you mustn't be so bitter about it. Everyone has to take the world as he finds it; of course one often finds it ...
— Manalive • G. K. Chesterton
... rich—the Pennocks are," he confided still more huskily. "An' there's a girl—Gussie. She's gone on Fred. He's my brother, ye know. He's seventeen; an' Bess is mad 'cause she isn't seventeen, too, so she can go an' play tennis same as Fred does. She'll be madder 'n ever now, if Mell goes auto-riding with ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter
... round the carriage. In his eyes you could read the question, "What in the devil's name does the child mean?" The robust woman read it there, and answered him huskily— ...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... shoulder forcibly. "For God's sake, sir, get back to your barracks; if you fire, you must die for it!" exclaimed he, in a deep voice. Preston stared at him, hardly seeming to see him, and quivering with agitation. "Stand aside —I know what I'm about," he replied huskily. As the soldiers reached the sentinel's post and faced about in a semicircle, the crowd fell back, and there were voices calling "Home—home!" The soldiers began to load, pouring the powder and ball into the muzzles of their guns, ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne
... a beastly interloper," he growled huskily. "Accept my apologies, Margaret, and you, Miss Layton. I will call in the morning. Mr. Brett, if you still hold to your offer, I will await you at the lodge, or any other ...
— The Stowmarket Mystery - Or, A Legacy of Hate • Louis Tracy
... big and wild. Her physical rescue was accomplished, but it was immediately made plain to him that the invisible bonds which linked her to Clarke were being drawn upon with merciless power, for with the first motion of the vehicle she fixed a look of terror and entreaty upon her mother, exclaiming, huskily: "They are calling me! They will not let ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland
... not know life, nor men, nor women," he said huskily and clutched her hands in his. "If life cheats and injures you, you have a right to snatch what joy you can. It's not only what you do to love, but what you do to yourself, that counts. For real ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock
... he said huskily, "it don't make no difference how many crooks oder Ganevim is in a feller's family, Philip, so long as he's got a good, straight business man for ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass
... she took things into her own hands and went, without waiting for yes or no, or anything except to find a woman who'd look after father and me while she was gone. Well, she never came back. Can you guess what became of her?" he asked, huskily. ...
— The Second Latchkey • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... him that it would be only prudent to make his position clearly understood, and, carefully lowering his voice, he began a speech with that excellent intention. "Miss Parkinson," he said huskily, "there's something I have to tell you about myself, very particular. Since I last enjoyed the pleasure of meeting with you my prospects have greatly ...
— The Tinted Venus - A Farcical Romance • F. Anstey
... went on Dempsey, huskily sweet, "O'Sullivans in this district know one another. You escorted one of our lady members here, and we want a chance to make good. If you've got a family tree let's see a few historical O'Sullivan buds come out on it. Or do you want us ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry
... new excitement in his mind, in her own absorption in their boy she had attributed it to that. But early one evening he came in with a sheaf of roses in his arms, and when she had exclaimed at them and breathed deep of their dewy fragrance, Joe bent over and kissed her, and said a little huskily: ...
— His Second Wife • Ernest Poole
... to think about her," said he huskily. "I can hardly believe she was in the conspiracy to consign me ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce
... Philippa huskily. "But to any who could love me in return—" and she paused again, leaving her sentence unended as before. "No, I never ...
— The Well in the Desert - An Old Legend of the House of Arundel • Emily Sarah Holt
... children. Thus small events grow memorable by the passage of time. As to the quality of the address itself I cannot say it was very striking. Too short for eloquence and devoid of all charm of tone, it consisted precisely of the three words "Look out there!" growled out huskily ...
— A Personal Record • Joseph Conrad
... excited, Watkins; sit down," he said huskily. "Something else has gone wrong at the store, I suppose. Well, let it go; ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... sidewalk, twenty steps from the clergyman's door, a pale-faced, fat man huskily enveloped him with a raised, red fist and the voice of a bell buoy, demanding payment of ...
— The Trimmed Lamp and Others • O Henry
... God, Miles," answered my worthy guardian, still pacing the piazza, the tears running down his cheeks in streams, and speaking so huskily as barely to be intelligible; "yes, we will have the prayers of the congregation next Sunday morning; and most devout and heartfelt prayers they will be; for her own sainted mother was not more deservedly ...
— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper
... huskily. "Of course we are friends; the best friends. We shall always be friends. I have never let anyone say a word against you, and I never will. I am proud to think that you are known by my name. I only wish that I could make it worthy of you—and, perhaps, ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... he was evidently going through his remnant of life on tiptoe, for fear of waking up the hostile fates. If this strange gentleman was saying anything improper to his daughter, M. Nioche would entreat him huskily, as a particular favor, to forbear; but he would admit at the same time that he was very presumptuous to ask ...
— The American • Henry James
... quavered on the final notes; there was silence save for the tinkle of water and the flower bugles. Dan said, "Galatea—" and paused. The girl was again somber-eyed, tearful. He said huskily, "That's a sad song, Galatea. Why was your mother sad? You said everyone ...
— Pygmalion's Spectacles • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
... huskily, "there was the youngest—Agnes. Before she fell ill, you know. But she didn't like leaving her sisters. Never would." He hurried on with his odd-shaped load and left me among the ruins of my black theories. The man with that face had ...
— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling
... then, Jo," said Hiram huskily. "I never dreamed I'd ever have such a chance. And I'll work, too—I'll study night and day. But why—why are you ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
... of his clasp on her hands. Then he bent his head, while his brows were knitted, anxiously. It seemed as if he could not speak. And she had opened her lips to comfort him a little when he burst forth, huskily: ...
— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter
... I've wanted to say to ye fer a long time, but I hev kept a-puttin' hit off until I'm afeard maybe hit air too late. But I'm a-goin' to say hit now, and I want ye to listen." He cleared his throat huskily. " Do ye know, Easter, what folks in ...
— A Mountain Europa • John Fox Jr.
... to God you were!" said Derrick, huskily, and feeling, with amazement, and an Englishman's annoyance, that his own ...
— The Woman's Way • Charles Garvice
... silver gong placed on the table well within reach. The more he glowed, the more icily calm she sat, till the silence between them began to grow oppressive. She waited, determined that he should be the first to speak. Recognising the helplessness of silence, he began huskily: ...
— The Man • Bram Stoker
... Maxwell," he said at last, huskily, turning his head away from her to the fire. "I've just had a long walk with him. Then he left me; he had no idea I came on here. But something drove me; I felt I must come, I must tell. Will you promise not to be angry with me—to believe that I've thought about ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... spoke huskily, covering both her hands with one of his and crushing them. "If you left him now and ...
— The Letter of the Contract • Basil King
... he became more used to the darkness, Peter observed that the eye was open and regarding him incuriously: and he started in some confusion. "Do you feel much pain now, old chap?" he began rather huskily. ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... bygones alone," he answered, a little huskily. "I never minded your tandrums, knowing there was a good heart at the bottom. I only wished I was not such a dry old fellow, and that you could have been fonder of me. Perhaps you will understand me better ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. • Various
... his pipe. He did not recollect where to put it. Nellie, understanding, took it from his fingers and pushed him gently by the arm towards his wife. He knelt down by the weeping woman's side and put his hands on the head that was bent to the ground. "Sue," he said, huskily, not knowing what to say. "Don't take on so! It's ...
— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller
... come and sit with you as often as I may—as long as I may," said Miles huskily whereupon Cynthia smiled ...
— Betty Trevor • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... over for Clint," the voice said, huskily, "and I followed to have it out with Clint. So did Greevy, but Greevy was drunk. I saw them meet. I was hid. I saw that Clint would kill Greevy, and I fired. I was off my head—I'd never cared for any woman before, and Greevy was ...
— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker
... question. Bartley knew nothing about the prices that city papers paid; he feared to ask too much, but he also feared to cheapen his wares by asking too little. "Twenty-five dollars," he said, huskily. ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... and the two men fell against each other, while a great splash of sea-water drenched them. Again a roll and jump, and Goles would have fallen had not Jan held him upright. Goles gave him no thanks, but he said huskily: "I heard one of the sailors say she's a goner." With Jan holding on to Goles, the two men were swaying and stumbling to the boat's heavy rolling ...
— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly
... Mabel, who could speak, though her voice sounded huskily and smothered; "I have no fears, uncle, and will stay here until we know what has become of ...
— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper
... he replied, in a deep voice, which sounded huskily, but had nothing of surliness; 'I suppose you want to complain about something, and I'd rather get it ...
— The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories • George Gissing
... see, Tresler," he said huskily, for his voice was tired with sustained effort. "You're the remarkablest smart 'tenderfoot' that ever I see. Say, you're a right smart daddy—an' I ain't given to latherin' soap-suds neither. But ther's suthin's I calc'late that no 'tenderfoot,' smart as he may be, is goin' ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... am," said Jorgenson, huskily. "Die there or here—all one. But, if I die there, remember the girl ...
— The Rescue • Joseph Conrad
... I never knew either," said Paul, who spoke huskily, "and will most cheerfully accept your generous offer, if you will allow me to attach to ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper
... sweetheart," he said, huskily, trying to steady his voice. "There! Madame the countess is waiting. All will be well now." He turned, smiling, toward the young countess, and lifted his hat, then stepped back and fixed me with a blank look of dismay, which said perfectly plainly that he had unpleasant news to communicate. ...
— The Maids of Paradise • Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
... madame?" the Secretary inquired a trifle huskily; his throat was becoming somewhat parched by the anxiety ...
— The Cab of the Sleeping Horse • John Reed Scott
... he muttered huskily. 'But this King....' He paused and added swiftly: 'He is of an ill omen to ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford
... pull through the night, Jinny," he said huskily, and added almost sternly, "you must bear up, so much depends on you. Remember, it is your first serious illness, but it may not be your last. You've got to take the pang of motherhood along with ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... had to tell you to-day. I could not have held it back another hour. I should have gone mad if I had tried to keep it up any longer." He waited breathlessly for her to speak. She sat silent and rigid, looking straight before her. "Is it hopeless?" he went on at last, huskily. "Must I ask your forgiveness for my presumption and —and go ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon
... her dear father were here," she whispered huskily. "And to think that's the same little girl I used to rap on the head with my thimble for annoying the cat! Oh, if Jonas could be ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris
... huskily, leaning far over the corpse, and, needle in hand, menacing his companion with his aguish fist. "Take that back, or I'll throttle your lean bag ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... is not without his spirit of ragging, told several whoppers, which he later confessed came from the Society of Psychical Research records. And I huskily recounted Uncle Carlton's story of the neurasthenic lady patient who went into a doctor's office and there beheld a skull standing on his polished rosewood desk. Then, as she sat staring at it, this skull started to move slowly toward her. It later turned out to be only a plaster-of-Paris paper ...
— The Prairie Wife • Arthur Stringer
... his eyes looking the darker for his flushed face. "Gentlemen," he said huskily, "thar's only one thing to be done. A lot of us have got to ride over to Sawyer's Dam tomorrow morning and pick up as many square men as we can muster; there's a big camp meeting goin' on there, and there won't be no difficulty in that. When we've got a big enough crowd to show we mean business, ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... did, did he?' he said huskily, with a smile. 'Well, and what did he say in his letter ...
— A Desperate Character and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... and just collapsed down there," continued her father huskily. "Lord, I wouldn't lose that boy after this for a ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... heart to leave us," returned his father huskily. "Dear heart, how she prayed that we might be spared that parting; but the Divine Will ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... better be bad—I give you fair warning," said Brandon huskily. He felt her eyes upon him all the time, and his strength and good resolves were oozing out like wine from an ill-coppered cask. After a short silence Mary continued, ...
— When Knighthood Was in Flower • Charles Major
... heart throbbing against the other's backbone, and his brain on fire with indignation, ventured to mutter huskily, "Why?" ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy
... as I stood on the little rocky platform outside the door through which I had burned my way, and looked down into the glimmering chasm beneath, and heard the fresh voice of the sea huskily rumbling and reverberating about hidden grottoes and channels, all that Calypso was to me came back with the keenness of a sword through my heart. Ah! there was my treasure—as I had known when my eyes first beheld her—compared with which that gold and silver ...
— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne
... huskily, "I done you an injury. It's me what's the fool. I was carried away by B. Sheitlis' ...
— Potash & Perlmutter - Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures • Montague Glass
... eyes, and a strong liking for him came over me. "I probably owe you my life," I said, huskily. "I know I do. And I hate—you must consider me a ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister
... said huskily. "Over in America we have girl scouts—kind of. They call 'em Camp Fire Girls. Some people make fun of 'em, but they can climb and they don't scream when they get in a boat, and they ain't afraid of the woods, and they don't care if it rains, and they ain't a-scared ...
— Tom Slade with the Boys Over There • Percy K. Fitzhugh
... to commit himself; he halted between two opinions. But there was a murmur of astonishment as Macdonald rose and, supporting his burly form against the wall, cleared his throat, and began to speak a little huskily. ...
— The Village by the River • H. Louisa Bedford
... I said huskily, her rapt face and intent manner, her utterly lovely ivory body, glittering everywhere with the shining powder which she used, the subtle penetrative scent of her—I was hard put to concentrate ...
— Valley of the Croen • Lee Tarbell
... mistake, madam, I assure you," said Hahn huskily, as he pulled out his handkerchief, and began to whip the dust ...
— Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen |
