"Incredulously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Gaddon? The Blair Gaddon who went up with the experimental rocket?" Trent's voice came incredulously. ...
— The Monster • S. M. Tenneshaw
... if we remember aright, has smiled incredulously at (p. 132) the story of the fox-skin cap, the belt, and the broadsword. But of the latter appendage this is not the only record. Burns himself mentions it as a frequent accompaniment of his when he went out by ...
— Robert Burns • Principal Shairp
... you make really-truly jam?" Mollie asked incredulously— Grizzel looked so small and young to be a maker of real ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton
... got to their feet with curses. The Etheling bent forward to gaze incredulously into ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... He voiced other expletives, too, even more forcefully indicative of surprise. He was not an imaginative man; it did not occur to him to doubt his sanity or to wonder if he were awake, nevertheless he opened one of the pokes and incredulously examined its contents. "I'm dam' if it ain't!" he said, finally. "I should reckon they was ready to quit. Argentine! Why, Jack'll bust the bottom out of a boat if he takes this with him. He'll drown a lot of innocent people." Mr. ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... effect said every man there, each gently questioned by Carver, and each speaking his mind without fear or force, until at the end the governor turned to the grim old sea-dog who stood looking incredulously on, and with a cheek tinged by ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
... order to face them. They were urging him to confess his own guilt and tell who were the other burglars, and where they were. But Barney had nothing to tell. He could only protest again and again his innocence. The men, however, shook their heads incredulously, and after a while they left him to himself and smoked their pipes ...
— The Young Mountaineers - Short Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock
... incredulously, which secretly annoyed Worse; and the more earnest he became in describing his wife's merits and his own happiness, the more suspiciously did Randulf's long nose draw down towards the upturned corners of his mouth, until at last ...
— Skipper Worse • Alexander Lange Kielland
... like to hope so," he said. But he smiled incredulously. "I can only say that if you can accomplish what it is in my heart to do, I will go through fire and water at your bidding; and if you are not mocking me, I am very grateful for the offer. But if you please, signora, we will not speak ...
— A Roman Singer • F. Marion Crawford
... The Pony Express got through at last!" announced Nick, incredulously; and so saying he took up the whisky bottle and glasses which lay on the teacher's desk and dashed into the saloon. He had barely left, however, than The Pony Express, muffled up to his ears and looking fit to brave the fiercest of storms, ...
— The Girl of the Golden West • David Belasco
... that the feminine side, the side of love, of beauty, of holiness, was now to have its full chance, and that, if either were better, it was better now to be a woman; for even the slightest achievement of good was furthering an especial work of our time. He smiled incredulously. 'She makes the best she can of it,' thought he. 'Let Jews believe the pride of Jewry, but I am of the better sort, and ...
— Woman in the Ninteenth Century - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition - and Duties, of Woman. • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... asked incredulously. "Well, it takes all kinds o' folks to make a world! I've been keepin' 'em fifteen years, hopin' I'd get enough more to make a border for our parlor fireplace, and now you don't take to 'em! Back they go to the barn chamber, Maria; Mis' Carey's bossin' this job, and ...
— Mother Carey's Chickens • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... Braintop instantly retired upon an expressive bow. When he was out of the room, Mrs. Chump appealed spitefully to an audience of chairs; but when she heard the front-door shut with a report, she jumped up in terror, crying incredulously, "Is the young man pos'tively one? Oh! and me alone in a rage!—" the contemplated horrors of which position set her shouting vociferously. "Mr. Braintop!" sounded over the stairs, and "Mr. Braintop!" ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... Williams made his appearance, vaulting a fence, and was immediately followed by Maurice Levy and Georgie Bassett. They stared incredulously at ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington
... Edda looked incredulously in his face, and endeavoured to withdraw her hand; she suspected that he had by some means become acquainted with her family history, and having concocted a story, was practising on ...
— Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships - A Story of the Last Naval War • W.H.G. Kingston
... up in his chair and frowned at her incredulously. "Anybody? Tom, Dick, and Harry? You can't ...
— Jewel's Story Book • Clara Louise Burnham
... have had reasons for his course? we may incredulously ask. And here I revert to my particular state of mind years ago. The question for me was, holding as I did that in Jesus, God had spoken to the world, and that under God he was the Lord, and Saviour, and Judge of ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 • Various
... said the magnate, incredulously. "Why, my boy, that barn is the latest thing in fireproof construction! There isn't a stick of wood in that building from cellar ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble
... to which it appertains enveloped in a chapeau more or less large or small, is shocked at the first attempt to wear one of a different size; and turns from the contemplation of the image presented in the glass with any thing but self-complacency, listening incredulously to the flattering encomiums of the not disinterested marchand de modes, who avers that "Ce chapeau sied parfaitement a Madame la Comtesse, et ce bonnet ...
— The Idler in France • Marguerite Gardiner
... that?" her Ladyship said incredulously. "Think, Mr. Sandys, before you tell me anything more. Are you sure you are ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... stupid, the three of us, so dumbfounded that we could do nothing but gape incredulously at that extraordinary creature and her equally extraordinary utterance. She immediately did her best to atone for ...
— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint
... servants after the scale of Western lands, the cost would be more than the whole of my income. But the riddle is easily solved: the work in the stables is done by means of machinery, so that on an average one man is enough for every fifty horses. You shake your heads incredulously! But when you have soon in how few minutes a horse can be groomed and made to look as bright as a mirror by our enormous cylindrical brushes set in rotation by mechanism; in how short a time our scouring-machines and water-service can cleanse the largest ...
— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka
... moment there was silence. Then, "But dare he do that, reverend Father?" Lescot asked slowly and incredulously. "What? ...
— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman
... each little girl, no one of whom had ever seen a doll before, except what was home-made from an old dress or apron tied in several knots to make the head and body. Twice only was the silence broken. One boy quite forgot himself when given a pocket-knife. He looked at it suspiciously and incredulously, turned it over in his hand, opened it and felt the edge of the blade, and, panting ...
— In Happy Valley • John Fox
... incredulously to my tale of a wolf pack one look at Bob and Danny told him it was true. They had had all they wanted, and we spent an hour working over them. The wagon was a wreck; why the spliced pole had hung together ...
— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones
... may be asked incredulously, can possibly pervade all this? This, the greatest of all feelings—an utter forgetfulness of self. Throughout the whole period with which we are at present concerned, Turner appears as a man of sympathy absolutely infinite—a sympathy so all-embracing, ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin
... mother gazed incredulously on him, on the nurse, and lastly on the sleeping child. Then, without a word, she fell back, and fainted in ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... the quarries, he held, whence Solomon derived the gold for the walls of the house of his God, his drinking vessels and his lion throne, but Colonel Gordon, when afterwards told of his scheme, smiled incredulously. As the hot season necessitated a delay of six months, Burton returned to Trieste, where life seemed hum-drum enough after so many excitement, and spangled visions. He spent the time writing a book The Gold Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities, ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright
... incredulously, as her eye glanced over his rags, and then, blushing, begged his pardon ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley
... smiled incredulously when this explanation was given, and watched them for some time with obvious suspicion. But the men seemed not to be plotting together, and to be thinking only of their work. If the English were fools enough to do more than they were ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey
... using oil-lamps that some day New York would blaze with light at midnight; that men would ask for succor in mid-ocean and that their message would be understood on land, that their flight in the air would surpass that of the eagle—our good forefathers would have smiled incredulously. Their imaginations would never have been able to conceive these things. To them, modern men would have seemed almost like ...
— Spontaneous Activity in Education • Maria Montessori
... girl?" repeated the suave Whipple incredulously. "You do amaze me, Juliana! Not a girl, with those flower-like features, those starry eyes, that feminine allure? Preposterous! And yet, if he is not a girl he is, I take it, ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... life as it is lived by a few hundred million humans. Five years later word came to Green Valley that this same man was a much loved pastor somewhere in the mountains. And Green Valley, perennially young, unthinking, joyous Green Valley, laughed incredulously as a sweet-hearted but wrongly educated child always laughs at a true fairy tale or ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds
... at Husky's vitals, and he tried not to show it, Big Jack shook the cup with cool confidence and tossed the dice on the floor. Strange if he could not beat three! The little cubes rolled, staggered, and came to a stop. For a second the four stared incredulously. A pair ...
— The Huntress • Hulbert Footner
... me for a moment in the face, incredulously. I tried to keep my countenance, and to play Indian, but it would not do. My muscles began to twitch; my feelings all at once gave way. I caught her in my arms; laughed, cried, and danced about the room, like a crazy man. From that time forward, we ...
— The Crayon Papers • Washington Irving
... Aglaya Ivanovna enjoying a rendezvous on the green bench in the park. I was astonished to see what a fool a man can look. I remarked upon the fact to Aglaya Ivanovna when he had gone. I don't think anything ever surprises you, prince!" added Hippolyte, gazing incredulously at the prince's calm demeanour. "To be astonished by nothing is a sign, they say, of a great intellect. In my opinion it would serve equally well as a sign of great foolishness. I am not hinting about you; pardon me! I am very unfortunate today ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... almost irresistible desire to be fighting myself that had come over me when I had seen the other battery. If I could only play my part! If I could fire even a single shot—if I, with my own hands, could do that much against those who had killed my boy! And then, incredulously, I heard the words in my ear. It was ...
— A Minstrel In France • Harry Lauder
... answered him, but sat and stared incredulously, he laughed a little, frankly and boyishly. "The kris of Boonda Broke is for the hearts of every one of us," said he. "He may throw it soon— to-night—to-morrow. No man can leave here—all are needed; but a boy can ride; he is light in the saddle, and he may pass where ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... incredulously, for the voice rumbled heavily an octave below his own bass. Either the look of the stocky catapult, as he launched himself on the fleeing servant, or the invidious servility of the innkeeper, sobered the ...
— Pardners • Rex Beach
... so much about that," he replied, rather incredulously. "Such an action has been known before, in order to place the police upon a wrong scent. I fear I must ask you to remain here, in Stamford, until this evening, while I make some inquiry into your bona ...
— Hushed Up - A Mystery of London • William Le Queux
... "Oh." The detective smiled incredulously, and snapping open his cigar-case selected a smoke, nipped off the end, and deliberately struck a match. "You've got hold of some cock-and-bull idea. I suppose you've deceived yourself with ...
— The Grell Mystery • Frank Froest
... of his neck, which still bore the marks of the lasso in the shape of a bright red streak. "If you had stayed away five minutes longer, I should have been hanged. O, it's a fact!" he added, earnestly, noticing that the doctor looked at him incredulously. "I came very near dancing on nothing, now I tell you; and if you only knew all that has happened in this house since dark, you wouldn't say that there was no one here to take care of that money. But, uncle, how came you ...
— Frank Among The Rancheros • Harry Castlemon
... You don't mean to say you are actually cherishing the thought you may be invited yet?" his mother exclaimed incredulously. "Put it out of your head, son, like a sensible lad. There isn't a chance of it, dear. The invitations were sent out last week and had you been going to get one you would have received it days ago. There'll be no more people ...
— Carl and the Cotton Gin • Sara Ware Bassett
... me. He plainly has been little in the country before. Imagine this: I always stopped him on the Bridges to let him enjoy the great cry of green that goes up to Heaven out of the river beds, and he asked (more than once) "What noise is that?"—"The water."—"O!" almost incredulously; and then quite a long while after: "Do you know the noise of the water astonished me very much?" I was much struck by his putting the question twice; I have lost the sense of wonder of course; but there must be something to wonder at, for Henley has eyes and ears and ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... exaggeration I have a positive experience, more curious than the speculation I have just set down. It is this: I have never touched a character precisely from the life, but some counterpart of that character has incredulously asked me: "Now really, did I ever ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... wasted, although the cool and cloudy weather was perfection for a cruize. As we sat waiting for a boat, a youth rushed in breathless, reporting that he had just seen an "ole man gorilla" sitting in a tree hard by. I followed him incredulously at first, but presently the crashing of boughs and distant grunts, somewhat like huhh! huhh! huhh! caused immense excitement. After half a day's hard work, which resulted in nothing, I returned to Bwamange, and met the ...
— Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... don't know her," said the Baron, incredulously. "I know her. I know what it is. ...
— The American Baron • James De Mille
... speaker, that although he was in Somerset-house, he possessed no official communication relative to the projects of his Majesty's Ministers. But his remark was evidently received incredulously; and no further conjectures being hazarded on the subject, a long pause ensued, during which the company occupied themselves in coughing and blowing their noses, until the entrance of Mrs. Budden caused a ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... cold and cruel?' she replied incredulously. 'Do they say that?' She had no idea that success and prosperity had thus changed her; the world-hardened never know ...
— A German Pompadour - Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Graevenitz, - Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg • Marie Hay
... and stared at him incredulously, as if he had asked her to do something wildly impossible. Understanding from his grave face that he meant what he said, a look of dismay dawned in her eyes. She shook her head almost violently and seemed to be making a passionate, instinctive effort to speak. Then she caught up her ...
— Kilmeny of the Orchard • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... him incredulously. He was thinking of the frying-pan, coffee-pot, and lard-kettle of which his own consisted. He made no comment, however, until Wallie mentioned his portable bath-tub, which, while expensive, he ...
— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart
... as he talked to Mariel. Shandor's mind was whirling as he walked down toward the thoroughfare. Incredulously, he tried to piece the picture together. He had known Dartmouth Bearing was big—but that big? Mariel might have been talking nonsense, or he might have been reading the Gospel. Shandor hailed a cab, sat back in the seat ...
— Bear Trap • Alan Edward Nourse
... you mean that you do not intend to give me up?" asked the crumpled man incredulously. He raised his head and peered across ...
— Captain Pott's Minister • Francis L. Cooper
... it?" said his employer, incredulously. "Did you not tell me when you entered my employ that you were almost penniless? You have been with me three weeks only, and half your wages have been ...
— Try and Trust • Horatio Alger
... Imbrie incredulously. He stared at Clare with sharp, eager eyes that transfixed her like a spear. She turned away to escape it. Imbrie drew a long breath, the ruddy colour returned to his cheeks, the old impudent grin wreathed itself ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
... secretary tell you I was making an investigation?" Rand demanded incredulously. "She doesn't usually make mistakes ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper
... his return from the river with no fish, stealthily held up one finger in his turn. Trumble replied with a wink, Tappingham nodded, but Crailey slightly shook his head. Marsh and the General started with surprise, and stared incredulously. That Crailey should shake his head! If the signal had been for a church-meeting ...
— The Two Vanrevels • Booth Tarkington
... the voice, and now stood staring incredulously. First anger, and then a grin of triumph, showed in his face. Drink had made him not so much drunk as reckless. He had lost last night, but ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... reflected. "This meeting also will happen, as everything else has happened, and a new period will definitely have begun." And she sat and stared at the closed eyes of the desiccated Sarah Gailey, and waited for the instant of arrival apprehensively and as it were incredulously—not with fear, not with pleasure, but with the foreboding of adventure and a curious idea that the instant of ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett
... mean you lost it, or were you robbed?" inquired Barnabas the Simple. Now when he said this, the Viscount stared at him incredulously, but, meeting the clear gaze of the candid gray eyes, he smiled all at ...
— The Amateur Gentleman • Jeffery Farnol et al
... tell me that people never knew about sugar until then?" inquired Van incredulously, halting in ...
— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett
... incredulously at the slim, handsome young Earther who was approaching the steps of Rolf's tumbling-down Spacertown shack. He's got no ears, Rolf noted in unbelief. After five years in space, Rolf had come home to a strangely-altered world, and he found ...
— The Happy Unfortunate • Robert Silverberg
... at the Irishman incredulously, thinking him demented. Teddy's gaping and rubbing of his eyes with his fists, and, finally, his stretching of arms and legs, reassured Tim of the fellow's sanity, and ...
— The Lost Trail - I • Edward S. Ellis
... and Dr. Hansombody, elected by the unanimous vote of his fellow-councillors, attained to one of the twin summits of his ambition and was indued as Chief Magistrate with robe and chain. Six weeks later the town heard, at first incredulously, that he and Miss Marty were betrothed. The nuptials, it was announced, would be celebrated next June, on the decent expiry of ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Jean, incredulously. It is hard for youth to visualize the adolescence of its elders. Dr. McKenzie's daughter beheld in him none of the elements of a Lothario. He was beyond the pale of romance! He was fifty, which settled at ...
— The Tin Soldier • Temple Bailey
... sneered incredulously, and having made it plain that he refused to think—thought! He had risked so much in this enterprise, gone through so much; and to lose it all! He cursed the girl's fickleness, her coyness, her obstinacy! He hated her. And do what he might ...
— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman
... He glanced half-incredulously at it, and then laid his huge, rough hand on her thin hair in the first caress he ...
— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
... well enough that when he stared other folk would stare too. So for a full moment the situation rested—there stood Mrs. Mallett, resolute and unmoved, in the box, with every eye in the crowded court fixed full upon her, and Meeking still gazing at her intently—and, of set purpose, half-incredulously. There was something intentionally sceptical, cynical, in his tone when, at ...
— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
... matter, your highness, the Mark of Brandenburg is lost to you, if you do not seize it now with swift, determined hand. You do not believe me, sir; you shake your head incredulously and smile. Ah! I see plainly, that you have been suffered to remain in great darkness as regards the situation of affairs here, and you know very little of our sufferings and our distresses. You know not that poverty and want prevail throughout the whole land; that the peasant, the ...
— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach
... of upright living. We shall meet with this idea again in another connection. It flows from the monastic principles. Monks must have not only enough sanctity for their own needs, but to spare. Of this superfluous sanctity they may make an assignment in favor of others. Do not smile incredulously; monks actually make such assignments. Luther may not have thought of this when he entered the cloister, but he rejoiced in this scheme of substitutive sanctity later. He thought he had found in monkery a gold-mine of holiness that would be sufficient not only for himself, ...
— Luther Examined and Reexamined - A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation • W. H. T. Dau
... The boy smiled incredulously. The idea of Bax being "ignorant" was too gross and absurd to be entertained for a moment, even although stated ...
— The Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne
... Rip listened incredulously. The commanding officer didn't understand. He, Rip, held the whip hand, because the lives of the Connie prisoners were in his hands. He repeated ...
— Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet • Blake Savage
... under a large silk-cotton tree silently eating supper off plates of palm leaves, the old chief suddenly threw down his meat, and, with a startled expression, said, "I hear spirits!" Never having heard such ethereal visitors myself, I smiled incredulously, whereupon the old savage glared at me, and, leaving his food upon the ground went away out of the firelight into the darkness. Afraid that he might take one of the horses and return to his people, I followed to soothe him, but his offended mood ...
— Through Five Republics on Horseback • G. Whitfield Ray
... incredulously—knowing that he had been a distinguished soldier, and suspecting that he had suddenly developed what the soldiers describe as "a touch of ...
— Over the Fireside with Silent Friends • Richard King
... for a moment incredulously. "Dick in love—in love with Viviette?" Then he broke into a peal of laughter. "My dear Katherine! Why, it's absurd! It's preposterous! ...
— Viviette • William J. Locke
... his chair, struck the hot deck with his bare feet, cursed, and hopped back into the chair again. McGuffey stared incredulously. ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... course, "pretty considerably," astonished at the quality and powers of the persons who addressed him, and, rather incredulously asked if they were quite sure that they could perform all which ...
— Monsieur Violet • Frederick Marryat
... as Secretary of War. Stanton had been in Buchanan's cabinet as Attorney General. He had been outspoken, almost brutal, in his scornful hostility to Lincoln, and the appointment by him was as great a surprise to Stanton as his acceptance of it was to everyone. When asked, somewhat incredulously, what he would do as War Secretary Stanton replied, "I will make Abe Lincoln President of the United States." Of the character of this remarkable man, Mr. Alonzo Rothschild, in his interesting study of the relations between Lincoln and Stanton ("Lincoln, Master ...
— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne
... the amazed crowd could realize what was happening, before even Hrihor could control the surprise that raised his brows incredulously, the palm in which the blade was implanted slowly retraced its course and returned ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various
... Rowe incredulously. "You know perfectly well that all communication is strictly forbidden. Muriel, did you ask ...
— The Nicest Girl in the School - A Story of School Life • Angela Brazil
... large enough for me," he repeated, with considerable obstinacy. I smiled incredulously; and then to settle the matter he resolved that he would try them on. Nobody had been in these rooms for the last hour, and it appeared as though they were never visited. Even the guide had not come on with us, but was employed in ...
— The Relics of General Chasse • Anthony Trollope
... really die Wolfgang, the boy?" The woman stared incredulously: that was impossible. But she ...
— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig
... walked up the path to the farmhouse, with Rick and Scotty staring incredulously at the agent. How had ...
— The Flying Stingaree • Harold Leland Goodwin
... him incredulously for a moment; his eye could not keep itself steady for a longer space of time. There was something in the pilgrim's glance as it met his that greatly dissipated his unbelief, and he inquired of him how these ...
— Folk-lore and Legends: German • Anonymous
... a sweet, loving life, Jane. She brought the love of God into the world with her. Her soul was never at enmity with Him. She would look incredulously at you, if you told her so. I wish you would return ...
— The Measure of a Man • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... a moment, watching the setter, then her glance moved back incredulously to me. 'Then ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... in your right senses," said the chief agent, firmly; "anxiety and apprehension on your sister's account have shaken your mind. Try to compose yourself, and listen to me. I have something important to say—" (Trudaine looked at him incredulously.) "Important," continued Lomaque, "as affecting your sister's interests ...
— After Dark • Wilkie Collins
... Miss Gascoigne looked incredulously up, then down again, in a shamefaced, uncomfortable way, then held out her hand, and kissed Christian, while two tears—only two—gathered and ...
— Christian's Mistake • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... out," she said incredulously. "That is impossible. The tent was fastened securely over everything. ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... here?" repeated Sweetheart, incredulously, pointing up at the dark purple mountains of Screel ...
— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... the rifle into the hollow of my left arm and stared at her incredulously. It had happened before, the rebellion of white prisoners at quitting their captors. Yet the girl's ...
— A Virginia Scout • Hugh Pendexter
... looked incredulously at his pretty sister. "Are you really in earnest, Edith?" he inquired, "or are you ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... mind to it. Only Honor noted that he quietly avoided an invitation to a very gay party which was proposed; and his great ally, Sir John Raymond, seemed rather vexed with him for not taking part in some new and expensive experiment in farming, and asked incredulously whether it were true that he wished to let a farm that he had kept for several years in his own hands. Humfrey agreed that it was so, and said something farther of wishing to come to terms quickly. ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... and looked round her incredulously, as if doubting whether she had rightly heard and rightly interpreted my last words. Before I could speak again, she suddenly faced me, and struck her open hand on the table with a passionate resolution which I now saw in her ...
— The Two Destinies • Wilkie Collins
... "Indeed?" He smiled incredulously. "Your tale is quite interesting and rather romantic. I presume you yet carry the papers with you ...
— My Lady of the North • Randall Parrish
... mild resentment at being thus disturbed. Then, as he quickly, incredulously scanned the road ahead and the car whose wheel was gripped by his gloved hands, he narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself, "Wake up! For God's ...
— A World Apart • Samuel Kimball Merwin
... one cherished miniature, one faded floweret, etc., etc.? I can't believe it, Cousin," and he shook his head incredulously. ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... incredulously. She could not conceive of a gentleman's being forbidden by his scruples to use arms when the occasion demanded. How else, she asked, could he defend his honour, his loved ones, the women entrusted to ...
— Manasseh - A Romance of Transylvania • Maurus Jokai
... hand across her brow and stared at me incredulously. I turned half aside and glanced around the table. Every face but three showed blank amazement. Of those three, the Princess's wore a tolerant smile; Lotzen's a frown; but Courtney's was set in almost a sneer. And, at it, I marvelled. Later, ...
— The Colonel of the Red Huzzars • John Reed Scott
... quick step forward as a man emerged from the shadow of the trees into the circle of the firelight. It was the mounted policeman, Dandy Anderton, and behind him came another man at whom Helen stared for a moment incredulously, then with a great cry of joy ran to ...
— A Mating in the Wilds • Ottwell Binns
... Point," he repeated, incredulously, "all the way to Honduras—to join me!" He turned to the two officers. "Did he ...
— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis
... few words in her ear. Almost simultaneously she jerked her head away, and, turning a dark red, stared incredulously at him. Then she ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... incredulously. "Wha-a-tt!" he almost shouted, "D'ye mean to tell me that bear got within twenty yards of you and couldn't catch you? Why, man! ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall
... my head incredulously. But though at first I was unbelieving I had to yield to the evidence ...
— A Journey to the Interior of the Earth • Jules Verne
... have a grange here in this little New Jersey sandbank?" she exclaimed incredulously, and plied me ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873 • Various
... not a heart present that did not give credence to this account, but the polluted one of Lady Mar. Jealousy almost laid it bare. She smiled incredulously, and turning to the company, "Our noble friends will accept my apology, if in so delicate an investigation, I should beg that my family ...
— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter |
