"Tartly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it rained; steadily, gloomily, fiercely rained. Solomon was not allowed to wear his best clothes. When, peering out of the window, he hopefully said he "guessed mebbe 't was goin' to clear," his wife invited him tartly to "wait till ...
— The Calico Cat • Charles Miner Thompson
... you may say," interrupted my Uncle MacKenzie. "And I'd thank you not to 'good-friend' me," he added tartly. ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... I don't want to hear about that rubbish," tartly rejoined Tynn. "If you take to peep through doorways, girl, you won't ...
— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood
... doesn't now!" said Miss Ames, tartly, as she came in. "You see, Mrs, Desternay, you have been instrumental in bringing our dear Eunice under a dreadful, ...
— Raspberry Jam • Carolyn Wells
... won't find it in a hurry," she answered tartly. "Now hustle outdoors, the whole of you, and don't show your heads in here again ...
— Polly of the Hospital Staff • Emma C. Dowd
... Mr. Smith," answered the lady tartly; "mine is that a quiet old maid, from somewhere far off in the country, and with an income of two or three hundred dollars a year, would not make much of a figure in our society. At all events, I shan't make a ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various
... them to," he answered, tartly. "If they asked me I'd decline. I simply don't enjoy that sort ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben
... Lady Montfort, somewhat tartly. "For a real opposition there must be a great policy. If your friend, Lord Roehampton, when he was settling the Levant, had only seized upon Egypt, we should have been somewhere. Now, we are the party who wanted to give, not even cheap ...
— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli
... it, Mr Elsworthy?" said Miss Dora, a little tartly; "you are not in any way particularly connected with my nephew." Here she gave an angry glance at Rosa, who had drawn near to listen, having always in her vain little heart a certain ...
— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
... broken if there hadn't been a school of fish in it," interrupted his aunt, tartly. "That just proves what I say; the weight of so many made the ...
— How Sammy Went to Coral-Land • Emily Paret Atwater
... tartly, "you needn't go into details. I don't imagine Captain and Mrs. Dott will be greatly interested. What a charming old room this is, isn't it? SO quaint! Everything looks as if it had been here a ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... only reaffirm my position," Dr. Hammerfield retorted tartly. "It is too long a story to ...
— The Iron Heel • Jack London
... his purpose had been due to the watchfulness of Mrs. Solomon Black. On the two occasions when he had rung Mrs. Black's front door-bell, that lady herself had appeared in response to its summons. On both occasions she had informed Mr. Dodge tartly that Miss Orr ...
— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
... to put the arch-impostor through his credentials,' he said tartly. 'Now then, Lawford!' He read out the questions, one by one, from his crafty little list, pursing his lips between each; and one by one, Lawford, seated at the dressing-table, fluently scribbled his answers. Then question and answer were rigorously compared ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare
... you," said Millard, tartly. "Mrs. Frankland is eloquent, but she has imposed on you and done you a great deal of harm. Why, Phillida, you are as much superior to that woman as the sky is—" He was about to say, "as the sky is to ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston
... tartly replies: There are two kinds of Meed; we knew it; there is reward, and there is bribery, but they are always confounded. Ah! if Reason reigned in this world instead of Meed, the golden age would return; no more wars; no more of these varieties of tribunals, where Justice herself gets confused. ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
... reddened. She did not like to own to awe of her daughter. "I VENTURE, if that is all," said she, tartly. "You don't suppose I am afraid of Diantha?—but she would not let Amelia wear one of the dresses, anyway, and I don't want the child made any ...
— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... be going if there were, do you?" she remarked in English tartly, curving her arching black brows at him; "how many are we—five? That's three too many, in my opinion. Father Rielle—I go with you in Mr. Poussette's buggy; you others there, you three messieurs—you can ...
— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison
... no especial 'dragging' that I am aware of; and I don't know why you should be sorry for Barrett," I returned rather tartly. ...
— Branded • Francis Lynde
... spare your compliments," said Mrs. Hardy, tartly. "I have no relish for them. And as for your defence of cow punchers, I prefer gentlemen. Why Irene should wish to throw herself away when there ...
— The Cow Puncher • Robert J. C. Stead
... Methodist mother in Israel, hopeful of a sympathetic response from Elsie M'Phatter (the non-churchgoing one), ventured the comment that similar events in her own brilliant maternal record had provoked no unseemly joy; to which Elsie responded tartly— ...
— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles
... my mind," said Marilla rather tartly. "I don't rush into things in your headlong way, Anne. Third cousinship is a pretty slim claim. And it will be a fearful responsibility to have two children of six years to look after . . . ...
— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... tartly, "are not going to be asked what they'd like any more than I've been. I want you each to go down quietly and have a look over at the new ground, tell the company commanders what the job is, and have a talk with me after ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
... in horrified amazement an instant, then swept the rejected blossoms out of sight beneath the basket cover, saying tartly, "You needn't be ugly about it! I can take them home again. I s'posed of course you liked them. I didn't know the garden was empty of them 'cause you wouldn't have them. I think they are the prettiest flower growing, ...
— The Lilac Lady • Ruth Alberta Brown
... so that we should bump you," said Dora, tartly. "You were afraid of being beaten. I wish we'd smashed ...
— The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna - or, The Crew That Won • Gertrude W. Morrison
... right away that I am not," Aggie said tartly. "I'm not and I don't want to be. Though I can't see how biting my tongue half through is going to help ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... the lady, tartly; "I think it is enough for you to take care of yourself. Recollect your Scripture proverb of 'the blind leading the blind.' I have no inclination to tumble into one of those pits," added she, ...
— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat
... much," thought Mr. Brookes; and had it not been for the certain knowledge that Berkins had lately increased his income by a couple of thousands a year, he would have answered him tartly enough; but as this fact admitted of no doubt he bridled his anger and said: "If you could put my boy right it would be more to the point. He has all the method of the best clerk in London; he loves the work, he would do honour to any office, but on his own hook I am afraid he will never do ...
— Spring Days • George Moore
... would have objected to the arms about your neck if they had been Patsy's, you and your 'Seniores'!" Miss Aline observed rather tartly as she was borne off. They were soon all safe in a tiny cove, their feet on the pleasant wet sand, and the dark undefined shapes of the crags overhanging them on every side. A moment more and the boat disappeared into the darkness. A lantern flashed and was answered. They ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett
... challenge your utility," replied Hermia tartly. "I merely question your point of view. You do not see couleur ...
— Madcap • George Gibbs
... to tell my story when we are beyond danger," I returned tartly, annoyed by his awkwardness. "If you utter another word before we are around yonder headland, I will have De Noyan hoist ...
— Prisoners of Chance - The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, - through His Love for a Lady of France • Randall Parrish
... wind makes an easy rudder.' Not a thing vexed me from morning till night. Every week the father would take out the stocking and drop in the money and laugh and kiss me as we tied it up together. Up with you, Hans! There you sit gaping, and the day a-wasting!" added Dame Brinker tartly, blushing to find that she had been speaking too freely to her boy. "It's high time you were ...
— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge
... modest Clara beheld all this, and how Sidonia danced up and down on the plank, while the water splashed over her robe, she called to her—"Dear Lady Sidonia, come hither: I have somewhat to tell thee." But she answered tartly—"Dear Lady Clara, keep it then: I am too young to be told everything." And she danced up and down on the plank ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V1 • William Mienhold
... His wife tartly observed that, if WORK was the cause of it, she guessed he was safe from palsy for quite a spell yet. At any rate, a marked recovery set in and he signaled no more during the meal. But when it was over, and his task as dish-wiper ...
— Cy Whittaker's Place • Joseph C. Lincoln
... take in the piano if I'm out," he said tartly. "I suppose you've seen a piano—you'll ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill
... Mr. Fyles," she said, almost tartly, "but I guess that lever needs to help them into your traps ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum
... 'chances,' she declared rather tartly that they had nothing to do with it. It was natural to Arthur Welby to ...
— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... rock, and it flitted through my brain that here at last was solved the old problem of what would happen if an irresistible force met an immoveable mass. But it was obvious that the rock was not rejoicing in the moment of victory. I was tartly asked whether I had not explained to Herr Browning that his guest did not understand English. I hastily rectified my omission, and thenceforth our host spoke in Italian. Ibsen, though he understood that language fairly well, was averse to ...
— A Christmas Garland • Max Beerbohm
... have neither feeling nor imagination enough to care for anything not transmutable into dollars, perhaps it has," I rejoined, somewhat tartly. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... rejoined, a bit tartly. Truth to tell, the secretary was haunted by a grim suspicion that she herself was not quite the lady of her dreams, and never would be able to acquire the graces of the Vere De Vere. For Sarah, ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... my clothes alone and tell me where you are going," Jeanne declared, a little tartly, "it would ...
— Jeanne of the Marshes • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... said Mrs. Ingleton tartly, "that Sylvia is a most wilful and perverse girl, and I think you are very unwise to put up with her whims. I should be ashamed to have a girl of that ...
— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell
... an ass, Skinner," Cappy interrupted tartly. "I wouldn't give two hoots in hell for a satisfied man, unless he's his own man—understand. You should have a more vital interest in the Ricks Lumber and Logging Company and the Blue Star Navigation Company. ...
— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne
... a fool, Lizzie," she said tartly. "If I had trousers on I wouldn't have to take them ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... never forgotten what happened when Sydney Smith—who, as everybody knows, was an exceedingly sensible man, and a gentleman, every inch of him—ventured to preach a sermon on the Duties of Royalty. The "Quarterly," "so savage and tartly," came down upon him in the most contemptuous style, as "a joker of jokes," a "diner-out of the first water" in one of his own phrases; sneering at him, insulting him, as nothing but a toady of a court, ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various
... tartly, "that you have still your old trick of asking questions. I wish that you would try to get the better of it; it is very disadvantageous to you, and very trying ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... lady, tartly. "That is more than the price of the whole meal if she had let us pay for it. A present of a shilling at the outside. No, a shilling ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... bold-eyed young man with disfavour. "Well, you're not expecting her to come out to you, are you?" she retorted tartly. ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... Mrs. Orton-Wells, tartly, in reply to nothing, seemingly, "that our problem is with the factory girl. She represents ...
— Emma McChesney & Co. • Edna Ferber
... well I never saw ye, then," said his wife tartly. "And to imagine that a lady like Miss Plinlimmon would concern herself with your deboshes! But you'd lower ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Sally Ruth tartly, "that it's my last chance to make a born fool of myself. Why, you old gasbag, if I had to stay in the same house with you I'd be tempted to stick a darning needle in you to hear you explode! Appleby, I'm like that woman that had a chimney that smoked, a dog that growled, a parrot ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... bear me out in the statement, sir, though I am quite willing that my word should stand by itself," retorted the commissary, tartly. "Nor am I in the habit of having it questioned by colonial striplings," ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... never come back," he said tartly. "An Indian stake and a bloody head will be the end of all ...
— Salute to Adventurers • John Buchan
... brought up to think a fire was for warmth, not for looks," said Sylvia, tartly. She had lost the odd expression which Henry had dimly perceived several days before, or she was able to successfully keep it in abeyance; still, there was no doubt that a strange and subtle change had occurred within the woman. Henry was constantly looking at her ...
— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... during which Mrs. Ballinger, with a perfunctory hand, rearranged the skilfully grouped literature at which her distinguished guest had not so much as glanced; then Miss Van Vluyck tartly pronounced: "Well, I can't say that I consider Osric Dane's ...
— Xingu - 1916 • Edith Wharton
... one!" retorted the mayor, tartly. "I have dropped down here merely in a business way to find out what's wanted of me as the executive head ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... young sir," she answered tartly, "so long as they don't mind eating after their betters. And as for your man Priske, I saw him twenty minutes ago escape towards Church Street with ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... Miss Brokaw, tartly. "And it is not the first fire since the world began. Ruth has just come from it. She will tell you what ...
— Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures - Or Helping The Dormitory Fund • Alice Emerson
... rather have Eleanor come home by herself than bringing a strange woman and a hired girl," Albertina contributed a trifle tartly. The distinction of a hired girl in the family was one which she had long craved ...
— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley
... either of you, but remember the lesson you've got,' said the doctor, tartly, and away he plunged into a sharp trot, with a cling-clang and a cloud of dust. And Puddock followed that ungracious leech, with a stare of gratitude and admiration, almost with a benediction. And his anxiety relieved, he and his principal prepared forthwith to provide real work ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... Miss Quincey relied tartly that no, she had not got a headache. The Mad Hatter appeared to be absorbed in tracing rude verses on her rough ...
— Superseded • May Sinclair
... She walked on without turning her head, and for many steps nothing further was heard from her quarter than the rustle of her dress against the heavy corn-ears. Then she resumed rather tartly— ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... she said tartly, 'I guess I kin supply 'em. I've brought our weddin' stiffykit, and our letters from the church to Neeponsit, and our fire insurance papers.' She laid a suggestive satin-gloved hand upon her bosom and tossed her head. 'I didn't count on nobody's takin' us to be anybody else when ...
— Against Odds - A Detective Story • Lawrence L. Lynch
... please," rapped the physician tartly, turning upon their following. "Will someone send for the police and ring up Scotland Yard? This is not ...
— The Sins of Severac Bablon • Sax Rohmer
... a young husband and a beautiful home," she remarked tartly, "seeking something to do! In my day, a bride was about the busiest and the happiest person in the community." Her voice took on a tone of tender reminiscence, and a little color crept into the wrinkled pallor of her cheeks, and she perked her head a bit coquettishly, ...
— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan
... own business, and make your own bargains," returned the old woman, tartly. "The devil himself could not deal with you, for I guess he would have the worst of it. What do you say, sir?" and she fixed her keen eyes upon my husband, as if she would read his thoughts. "Will you agree to ...
— Roughing it in the Bush • Susanna Moodie
... said Miss Ethel, tartly, pressing her hand to her forehead. "And I'm going to see if the men really have ...
— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose
... said Mrs. Baines tartly. "But that's no reason why you should be without a coat—and in this cold room too. ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett
... the man's heart and convince yourself," suggested Clymer tartly, and the deputy marshal, dropping on one knee, did so. Detecting no heart-beat, the officer passed his hand over the dead man's unshaven chin and across his forehead, brushing back the unkempt hair. Under his none too gentle touch the wig slipped back, revealing ...
— The Red Seal • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... on medical authority," tartly interposed Professor Brierly, "but I am not certain it is competent medical authority. I have seen too many careless autopsies made and read too many loosely written reports to have abiding ...
— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew
... up in another guess way," said Nicholas, tartly, "than wi' scraps and scrapings fro' gallipots, and remnants o' ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... heavily that it appeared plainly he did not care whether it was done or no, and particularly as if he had a mind the captain should see it and take notice of it. Which the captain did, for perceiving how awkwardly he went about it, he spoke a little tartly to him, and asked him what was the reason he did not stir a little and furl the sail. Peterson, as if he had waited for the question, answered in a surly tone, and with a kind of disdain, So as we eat, so shall we work. This he spoke aloud, so that he might ...
— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward
... this, Gloriana," said Ajax, tartly. "As a member of the family you have not treated my brother and myself fairly. This mysterious work of yours is not only wearing you to skin and bone, it is ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... Ida May tartly. "When the store closes my time's my own. I can do as I please. And I've got nobody to please but myself. Oh, you don't understand at all, ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... you can do anything for me, Mr. Mollenhauer," replied Cowperwood, a little tartly, "unless you are willing to deal quite frankly with me. I am not a beginner in politics in Philadelphia. I know something about the powers in command. I thought that you could stop any plan to prosecute me in this matter, and give me time to get on my feet again. ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser
... well by the scheme," he said tartly, "if you get the sole contract for building these premises of mine, and a fat commission ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown
... Dr. Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON. 'I have looked into it.' 'What (said Elphinston,) have you not read it through?' Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, 'No, Sir, do ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... goin'?" Aunt Mary asked tartly. "Of course if you ain't intendin' to go I'd be glad to know it; 'n while you're gone, Lucinda, I wish you'd get me the handle to the ice-cream freezer an' lay it where I can see it; it'll help me believe ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner
... Kunitz that to her extreme discomfort she had felt herself completely at home. Even the presence of the Countess Disthal had not been wanting. She therefore regarded this as not seeing England at all, and said so. Fritzing remarked tartly that it was a way of seeing it most English people would envy her; and she was so unable to believe him that she ...
— The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight • Elizabeth von Arnim
... did not himself vindicate; and Mr. B. was pleased to say, that my lord was always very candid to him, and kind in his allowances for the sallies of ungovernable youth. Upon which my lady said, a little tartly, "Yes, and for a very good reason, I doubt not; for ...
— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson
... anything in his life," said his mother tartly. "Those trunks ought to be here before I leave for ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... right," Winnie informed him, a trifle tartly, "in fact I don't see why you didn't lug up a couple of tents and turn 'em loose inside. Rosemary is going to be blown out of the window some fine night and, to my way of thinking, it's better to start sleeping on the ground than to land there sudden like, ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... somewhat insolent," she said tartly. "Better wash out your mouth before you try that on Paul Cleary. He eats wise ...
— The Trouble with Telstar • John Berryman
... alarmed," she said tartly. "I shan't bother myself about your concerns. I've no doubt you're able to look out for ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... me that, too," interjected Madelene, tartly, "but that wouldn't make him mix her name up with mine, would it, and make him get mad every time I ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... may be as white as yours," rejoined Mrs. McLane tartly. "But I remain a woman, and for that reason attract men ...
— Sleeping Fires • Gertrude Atherton
... so bitter and sarcastic upon one!" replied he, tartly; "my only desire was to secure a good fortune for you, and another for myself. I don't see, for my part, what women are made for, except to mar everything a man wants to do ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... Crowne's City Politics (1683), and many another beside. As for the cavilling crew who carped at her during her life Mrs. Behn has answered them and she was thoroughly competent so to do. Indeed, as she somewhat tartly remarked to Otway on the occasion of certain prudish dames pleasing to take offence at The Soldier's Fortune, she wondered at the impudence of any of her sex that would pretend to understand the thing called bawdy. A clique were shocked ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn
... to crave the forgiveness of the excitable Dublinites. Finally he yielded to expediency, and, coming forward to the centre of the stage, expressed his contrition. At this, a puppy in the pit cried out "Kneel, you rascal!" and Evans, now thoroughly exasperated, tartly answered: "No, you rascal! I'll kneel to none but God, and my Queen." Then the ...
— The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield • Edward Robins
... knocking you off your balance," said his brother tartly. "Do you know where your ...
— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner
... "Thanks," he said tartly. "When I marry Athalia, I intend to have an old-fashioned home and a Black Age family. I don't relish having my ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... Cheiro, either," tartly. "Hold your palm steady so that I can see more clearly. It's a ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... other, tartly. "I'm no gambler any more. I'm a respectable gentleman with a mine and a ranch," he emptied his glass and, smacking his lips, continued, "and a beautiful young girl that loves me ... loves me. Understand?" His hand came down upon the other's ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... the Governor, a trifle tartly, "of course there is a next—several of them, indeed. But it is useless to speak of them until this, perhaps the most important of them all, is settled. Upon what grounds do you assert that my first condition is impossible, senor? You have secured possession of her by craft and in a manner which, ...
— The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer • Harry Collingwood
... something about "force of habit" as he led the way down towards the door, and I responded tartly enough about the unpleasantness of his begging customs. "If it were not for your sort and your customs, the Priests' Clan would not be facing this ...
— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
... trouble. A New York lady had just taken her seat in a car on a train bound for Philadelphia, when a somewhat stout man sitting just ahead of her lighted a cigar. She coughed and moved uneasily; but the hints had no effect, so she said tartly: "You probably are a foreigner, and do not know that there is a smoking-car attached to the train. Smoking is not permitted here." The man made no reply, but threw his cigar out of the window. What ...
— The True Citizen, How To Become One • W. F. Markwick, D. D. and W. A. Smith, A. B.
... to the offices of the New Colliery Company, and sat down in the empty Board Room to read it through. He answered 'Down-by-the-starn' Hemmings so tartly when the latter, seeing his Chairman seated there, entered with the new Superintendent's first report, that the Secretary withdrew with regretful dignity; and sending for the transfer clerk, blew him up till the poor youth knew not ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... friends who might be in our house for the first time. If the conversation turned upon the Princes of the House of France, "Gentlemen, you and I will never know, will we, and don't want to, do we?" my great-aunt would say tartly to Swann, who had, perhaps, a letter from Twickenham in his pocket; she would make him play accompaniments and turn over music on evenings when my grandmother's sister sang; manipulating this creature, so rare and refined at other times and in other places, ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust
... de Barral was his cousin. He hastened to add that he had not seen his cousin for many years, while he looked upon Fyne (who received him alone) with so much distrust that Fyne felt hurt (the person actually refusing at first the chair offered to him) and retorted tartly that he, for his part, had never seen Mr de Barral, in his life, and that, since the visitor did not want to sit down, he, Fyne, begged him to state his business as shortly as possible. The man in black sat down then ...
— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad
... to send messengers to the city and ask, on the ground of a common Christianity, for the restoration of the prisoners and spoil taken from the Crusaders. The governor of the city tartly reminded the messengers that Christian conduct alone proved men to be Christians, and that the Crusaders having made the first attack, he could only ...
— Peter the Hermit - A Tale of Enthusiasm • Daniel A. Goodsell
... wear coats of a hevening nowadays?" asked Miss Sellars, tartly, of the lank young man. "New fashion just ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... unwilling to speak to her of his mother, she attributed his reserve to a certain aristocratic arrogance, even to a lack of consideration, for her, at which the pride of the freewoman and the plebeian was up in arms. She was wont to say to him tartly: ...
— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France
... a girl!' answered her brother tartly. 'I have told you more than once or twice about that new boy at Torrington's, and now you ask me what ...
— That Scholarship Boy • Emma Leslie
... mother, tartly, "take your foot away from that rug. And don't annoy me about that worn breadth; you know very well I've tried everywhere to match it. And don't imagine, either, that I'm going to bundle my wedding presents out of sight for you ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller
... your Mr. Marrier! I understood from you he was a clerk!" said Nellie, tartly, suddenly retransformed into the shrewd matron, as soon as Mr. Marrier had profusely gone. She had conceived Marrier as a sort of Penkethman! Edward Henry had hoped to ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... tea?" he asked tartly. "With six major operations this morning and a probable meningitis diagnosis ahead of me this afternoon I think I might be spared the babblings of an hysterical nurse!" Casually over his shoulder he nodded at the ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... might have helped the child down," said the voice behind her, more tartly, and Jessie guessed it was the door-opener who spoke, and who was following her. Harry Lang muttered something surlily enough, but he did pick up a lamp from somewhere, and held it out for her to see the ...
— The Story of Jessie • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... believe it," observed Georgy tartly. "She is too pale, and her eyes are too big: then she is such a solemn little thing. Don't you like ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various
... tartly. "I don't bother myself much with abstractions. I know it is you and I." And she put her things on the hall-rack, as she was going out again in the afternoon ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) • Various
... exclaimed Emlyn tartly, "we have got them safe enough after they have run some risks, as I pray that you may ...
— The Lady Of Blossholme • H. Rider Haggard
... up at her daughter as if discrediting the authorship of this remark. "I don't know what you are thinking of, child," she said tartly, "but you appear to me to be talking nonsense. Your father and I have no idea ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 8th, 1920 • Various
... both the friends. Mrs. Thrale lost a younger daughter, and Johnson had a paralytic stroke in June. Death was sending preliminary warnings. A correspondence was kept up, which implies that the old terms were not ostensibly broken. Mrs. Thrale speaks tartly more than once; and Johnson's letters go into medical details with his customary plainness of speech, and he occasionally indulges in laments over the supposed change in her feelings. The gloom is thickening, and the old playful gallantry has died out. ...
— Samuel Johnson • Leslie Stephen
... mistress," said Mr. Caryll, a thought tartly, for if his speech was tainted with a French accent it was in so slight a degree as surely to ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... hour later there was a furious dissension when Dickson attempted to pay for the night's entertainment. Mrs. Morran would have none of it. "Ye're no' awa' yet," she said tartly, and the matter was complicated by Heritage's refusal to take part in the debate. He stood aside and grinned, till Dickson in despair returned his notecase to his pocket, murmuring darkly the "he would send it ...
— Huntingtower • John Buchan
... was red-hot. Hannah had left a pan of bread to rise, Meg had worked it up early, set it on the hearth for a second rising, and forgotten it. Meg was entertaining Sallie Gardiner in the parlor, when the door flew open and a floury, crocky, flushed, and disheveled figure appeared, demanding tartly... ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... the unpleasant features of the trip, they were tartly received by the owner of the ranch when they arrived there at night worn out and hungry. The proprietor was very ill natured and did not conceal his aversion to entertaining them. Boyton made several polite attempts to engage him in conversation; but was answered with frowns ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... about it," she said, tartly. "I'm your wife, and I am going to do my share, keeping house and helping around. And you have got to do your share, and treat me fairly. I once heard that the first Mrs. Balberry didn't get all that ...
— From Farm to Fortune - or Nat Nason's Strange Experience • Horatio Alger Jr.
... were some incidents in the ensuing debates on this topic. Some members emphasized their loyalty by adverting tartly to the connections of Thomas Paine and English reformers with the French Jacobins. On 31st May the Duke of Richmond charged that writer with being an emissary from abroad, because he had advised the destruction of the British navy.[74] There is no such passage in the "Rights of Man"; ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose
... frightful, with her squinting eyes, oily black hair, crooked legs, and humped shoulder, that the persons sent by the king of the peacocks to receive her, were struck with amazement at the sight of her. Being as cross as she was ill-favoured, she asked them tartly whether they were all asleep, and why they did not bring her something to eat; and then, distributing her blows pretty freely, she threatened to have them all hung if they did not shew a little more alacrity in doing her bidding. As she passed along ...
— Bo-Peep Story Books • Anonymous
... that's why," returned Mrs. Nitschkan tartly, "and I sure am glad to see you. I been robbed, that's what. ...
— The Black Pearl • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
... the kind," said Lady Linden tartly. "I mean that Miss Meredyth has for some very considerable time been Mrs. Hugh Alston. They were married, if you want to know—and I don't see why it should any longer be kept a secret—three years ago, in June, nineteen eighteen at Marlbury, ...
— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper
... but 'suppose'," said M. Vulfran, tartly. "I may as well tell you that for a long time I have wanted someone intelligent to be near me, one who is discreet and whom I can trust. This young girl seems to have these qualities. I am sure that she is intelligent, ...
— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot
... are dim," said the voice tartly, and Bart found himself looking down, as his eyes adjusted to the new light level, at ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... reason Virginia seemed to have a vague suspicion that Hepsey was still making fun of her; and being considerably nettled, she interjected tartly: ...
— Hepsey Burke • Frank Noyes Westcott
... of the command which participated in the unfortunate engagement at Greeger Lake," responded the woman, tartly. "He would have won had he not been outnumbered, four ...
— An Undivided Union • Oliver Optic
... fiber, and classing as morbid all forms of introspection, she always so dreaded to have the conversation drift into a reflective channel that whenever she found Willie indulging in reveries she was wont to rout him out of them, tartly reproaching herself for having even indirectly been the cause of stirrin' ...
— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett
... reproved him tartly. "Please confine your testimony to facts and not to impressions, Mr. Blanton. Do you know at what time Mr. Cunningham left ...
— Tangled Trails - A Western Detective Story • William MacLeod Raine
... Mrs. Douglass; "I know all about it. Now, do you s'pose you're agoing to be any happier among all those great folks than you would be if you staid among little folks?" she added, tartly; while Catherine looked with a kind of incredulous admiration at ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell
... Swann, tartly. "I'm going to run up with them by car to Mrs Vernon's. I can slip them quietly over to Gil. They keep your hands warm better than anything. Don't I remember when I was a child! I shall leave Mrs Vernon's immediately, ...
— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett
... innocently replied the Notary. "He is the devil!" said the Seigneur tartly. "I beg your pardon, Cure; but it is Evanturel's business not to know what letters go to and fro in that office. He should be blind and dumb, so far as ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... figure that answers the treble. His wife reproaching him, he strikes her. Here we are in B flat. She laments her fate in B major. Then her husband shouts: "Be quiet, old vixen." This is given in the octaves, a genuine dialogue, the wife tartly answering: "Shan't be quiet." The gruff grumbling in the bass is heard, an imitation of the above, when suddenly the man cries out, the last eight bars of the composition: "Kitty, Kitty come—do come here, I forgive you," which is decidedly ...
— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker
... had something to say about that. It was said tartly enough, of course, and Rhoda had to take it before a good-sized party of ...
— Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch • Annie Roe Carr
... for its solution," Mr. Minturn said tartly. "Work on the theory I outlined; if it fails after a fair test, we'll try another. Those boys have got to be saved. They are handsome little chaps with fine bodies and good ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... Miss Rexhill treated us as a lady should," she said tartly. "She acted more like one than you did, if I do have to say it. She was as kind and sweet as could be. She's got a tender heart. I could see that when she up and gave me that blotter, just because I remarked that it reminded me of ...
— Hidden Gold • Wilder Anthony
... got nothing to be ashamed of, I'm sure, sir," said the little woman tartly. "What's enough for two's enough for three, and I was going to say, when you went on like that, that if Mr Gordon wouldn't mind, and not be too proud at things not being quite so plentiful, which everything should be clean as clean, it's very, ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... "Rubbish!" said Mrs. Harbolt tartly, as she came slowly and carefully down backwards. "What a dark hole this is, Jemmy. No wonder you're ill. Put ...
— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs
... this burst of eloquence on the part of her usually restrained daughter, asked, tartly, "How in the world do you know what Porter wants or ...
— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey
... ancient a term. I made a visit yesterday to the Abbess of Panthemont, General Oglethorpe's niece,(1089) and no chicken. I inquired after her mother, Madame de Meziers, and I thought I might to a spiritual votary to immortality venture to say, that her mother must be very old; she interrupted me tartly, and said, no, her mother had been married extremely young. Do but think of its seeming important to a saint to sink a wrinkle of her own through an iron grate! Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if animals have any fun in them, how we ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... to be done," said Fred tartly. "We've got to do something. You don't know where Soc and Zeke are and I don't know where String and Pete may be. We've ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... making love to me,' I said rather tartly, 'and he does not seem to me at all impertinent, and I really don't care the least whether ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... taking to Unyanyembe for trade. Ibrahim was inconsolable, and he kept lamenting his loss daily in such lugubrious tones that the people, instead of sympathizing, laughed at him. I asked him why he purchased such a slave, and, while he was with him, why he did not feed him? Replied he, tartly, "Was he not my slave? Was not the cloth with which I bought him mine? If the cloth was my own, could I not purchase what I liked? Why do you ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley
... the credit of aristocracy by smoking innumerable cigarettes, with which he appeared to be most plentifully supplied. "You found my cigarettes, I see. That is good," said Rouquin, shortly after the introductions. He spoke somewhat tartly, as if an idea had just occurred to him. He shot a furtive glance at Mr. Bingle as ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... keep your warnings for mediums, clairvoyants, and the like," said the other tartly. He was half amazed, half alarmed even while he said it. It was the personal application that annoyed him. "They are rather apt to go ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood
... apple-picker right over your head," interrupted Blossy tartly, and Abe felt himself ...
— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund
... were going to see, so that he would know some of the ground of our suspicion. Mrs. Ralston supported that; and when Mr. Portlethorpe remarked that we were going too fast, and were working up all the elements of a fine scandal, she tartly remarked that if more care had been taken at the beginning, all this would ...
— Dead Men's Money • J. S. Fletcher
... tartly in her softest tone: "Then, William, may I ask why the people all over the country are calling this year's vintage 'comet wines'? For that's the way they are marking it, and everybody is putting it to itself—as something ...
— Round Anvil Rock - A Romance • Nancy Huston Banks
... hearing when people are talking at the top of their voices," she said tartly. "Come on, for dear sake, and have your teas, ...
— The Foolish Lovers • St. John G. Ervine
... her," said Mrs. Ballinger tartly. "A more cold-blooded and unattractive man I've ...
— Sleeping Fires • Gertrude Atherton
... be delightful for you, Bessie," said Augusta, rather tartly, "but I call it disgusting. It is all very well to be tattooed upon a desert island—not that that was very nice, I can tell you; but it is quite another thing to have to show the results in a London drawing-room. Of course, Mr. Meeson will want to see this will, ...
— Mr. Meeson's Will • H. Rider Haggard
... replied tartly. "I'm not to blame for that. I'm not responsible for your failure. Why ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... Gondremark,' said Seraphina, somewhat tartly, 'you often attribute your own sagacity ...
— Prince Otto • Robert Louis Stevenson
... mostly nonsense," returned the woman tartly, "a big expense and a sight of work for nothing. And now permit me ...
— Romance Island • Zona Gale
... swill, Mr Saucypate," tartly replied Geoffery. "And so, because you have eaten and drunk with my master, it is 'old Gabergeon;' else had it been good Master Hardpiece, or 'if you will, Master Geoffery!' Out upon such carrion, say I, that think themselves live meat when they are ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... so does Dad, and so do we all, but we can't get it," replied Beatrice rather tartly. "We have to make up our minds to go without. You're no worse off than ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil
... nearly to death," said another of the ladies, tartly; and then the carriage went on and was soon lost to ...
— The Rover Boys in the Air - From College Campus to the Clouds • Edward Stratemeyer
... searched for his keys, unlocked and drew out a drawer, took from it a cheque-book, and settled himself to write with deliberation, thinking all the time. When he had done—"Have the goodness to come and fetch your money," he said tartly. ...
— There & Back • George MacDonald
... answered, "Mr. Moore, that is practically impossible; I can't do it." Then he said, "you've got to do it, I've spent too much time looking for you already, you've got to clerk for us." I am a little hot headed myself, and I answered him as tartly as he spoke to me. "Mr. Moore," says I, "I've got to do nothing of the sort." Then Mr. Moore cooled down and talked more like a business man and less like ...
— The Second William Penn - A true account of incidents that happened along the - old Santa Fe Trail • William H. Ryus
... could respect. Stern and even morose as she sometimes was, I could wait on her and sit beside her with that calm which always blesses us when we are sensible that our manners, presence, contact, please and soothe the persons we serve. Even when she scolded me—which she did, now and then, very tartly—it was in such a way as did not humiliate, and left no sting; it was rather like an irascible mother rating her daughter, than a harsh mistress lecturing a dependant: lecture, indeed, she could not, though she could occasionally storm. Moreover, a vein of reason ever ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte
... herself sufficiently; and harassed with this idea, she pursued the courtier from the Court hall into the illuminated gardens, and there told him, and in language that admitted of no doubt, that she wished to marry him. The courtier was indignant, and answered her so tartly that Kate, even in reading it over a second time, could not refrain from ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore
... heaping coals of fire on your head, young man," said Madge, tartly, as she passed the pan ...
— Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp • Alice Emerson
... Madame Loisillon in her time, when sounding the praises of her apartments at the Institute, never failed to add with emphasis, 'I have entertained there even Sovereigns.' 'Yes, in the little room,' good Adelaide would answer tartly, drawing up her long neck. It was the fact that not unfrequently, after the prolonged fatigue of a Special Session, some great lady, a Royal Highness on her travels, or a leader influential in politics, would go upstairs to pay a little particular visit to the wife of the Permanent ...
— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
... get over it; there will very likely be nothing to get over," Delaine reflected tartly, as he made his way to his room. "A new country like this can't be too particular." He was thankful, at any rate, that he would have an opportunity before long—for he was going straight home and to ...
— Lady Merton, Colonist • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... 'Yes, yes,' replied Jack tartly, 'you do,' adding, in an undertone, 'leave it to me, man, and I'll let you in for a good thing. Yes, Mr. Sponge,' continued he, addressing himself to our hero, 'Mr. Pacey fancies the chestnut ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... 'long!" said Mrs. Douglass, "I know all about it. Now do you s'pose you're agoing to be any happier among all those great folks than you would be if you staid among little folks?" she added tartly; while Catherine looked with a kind of incredulous admiration at the future lady ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... said tartly, 'we ain't tryin' to silence their guns. An' if you partickler wants to know why we ain't—well, p'raps them Glasgow townies ...
— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable
... about anything, she's worrying about you," said Sarah tartly, as she went back to the house. ...
— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward |
