"Warningly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... agreed, "but it was reported. Mr. Bryce went down himself to tell you." And here I looked warningly at Moira. She gave no sign that she had noticed my glance, but somehow I felt that she quite understood ...
— The Lost Valley • J. M. Walsh
... teeth keep better guard over thy red rag, Zerubbabel," rebuked Joe Bagby, warningly. "We want no rattlepates to tell us—or others—what 's ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... The clerks hooked up in surprise at his haste. Keith demanded of one of them if Mr. Wickersham was in. The clerk addressed turned and looked at another man nearer the door of the private office, who shook his head warningly. No, Mr. Wickersham ...
— Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page
... evidently puzzled, for they had come to a halt and made not the slightest noise. Possibly they were listening for some sound from those they were pursuing, but if so, none came, for Luke clapped his hand warningly over Larry's mouth, and the youth understood and remained as motionless ...
— The Campaign of the Jungle - or, Under Lawton through Luzon • Edward Stratemeyer
... is the thing of the utmost importance," Herr Winckel spoke warningly. "The facts must not leak; they must not get to the United States officials. That is so important that the whole plan will have to be dropped if there is any suspicion ...
— Ted Marsh on an Important Mission • Elmer Sherwood
... papa warningly, as the two hurrying little figures reached him. "Don't hit against my ...
— Dew Drops, Vol. 37. No. 16., April 19, 1914 • Various
... up. Madge could faintly see what had happened to her friend. She ran toward Phyllis, but the latter cried out warningly: "Go back. If you try to help me, you'll only sink into this marsh ...
— Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid • Amy D. V. Chalmers
... finger warningly as a bell rang, and the well-known voice sounded outside the house, calling to some ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon
... pealed out long and loud, "Feathery" Joltram bending himself double with merriment, and slapping the sides of his huge legs in ecstasy. Miss Tranter hearing the continuous uproar, looked in warningly, but there was a ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... Brick warningly, "you're a-going to start up a fire where they ain't even been no ...
— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis
... cheek. From the pilot-house Ned, as he pulled the wheel over to chase the hardpressed Antelope westward into Bunch's Cut-off, warningly drawled that they were about to run into a shower. At his side Watson's cub was letting down the storm board. A blue-black cloud overhanging the green head of the cut-off had suddenly widened across all that quarter and turned leaden gray. A writhing wind struck ...
— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable
... she would say, warningly. "It's Dollars to Dumplings that the Girl Detective is peeking out to get a line on my Conduct. She has her Ear to the Ground about four-thirds of the Time and if any one makes a Move, then Mother is Next. If Father takes ...
— People You Know • George Ade
... her," he said warningly. "She belongs to him—Bartot. It is not safe to flirt with her ...
— The Lost Ambassador - The Search For The Missing Delora • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... the white gate a cattle-bell attached to it jangled warningly, and out into the porch Mrs. Duveen came to meet them. She was a tiny woman, having a complexion like a shrivelled pippin, and the general appearance of a Zingari, for she wore huge ear-rings and possessed shrewd eyes of Oriental shape and colour. There was a bluish tinge about her lips, and ...
— The Orchard of Tears • Sax Rohmer
... have no talk;" and when Sir Charles pulled out his cigarette-case, as he did almost automatically from time to time when in any situation of annoyance or perplexity, Baume raised his hand warningly ...
— The Rome Express • Arthur Griffiths
... dawns upon you that the society young lady is not the only person whom the master understands, and is able to manage. However, you are grateful, and even pluck up courage to salute him when next you pass him; but alas! that does not soften his heart so thoroughly that he does not warningly ejaculate, "Right foot," and then comes poor Nell's turn. She, reared in a select private school for young ladies, and having no idea of proper discipline, ventures to explain the cause of some one of her misdeeds, instead of correcting it in silence. She ...
— In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda • Theo. Stephenson Browne
... said Josephine, warningly; and I saw a shadow of solicitude cross my daughter's face, though she was plainly doing her best ...
— The Opinions of a Philosopher • Robert Grant
... he said, warningly; "and try and be back here inside of an hour. If you ain't, we'll look you up. And remember, Larry, if you should get lost don't go to wandering everlastingly about. Just stop short, make a fire, and get all the black ...
— Chums in Dixie - or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat • St. George Rathborne
... surprised if he hasn't some very clever explanation to give," said the barrister warningly. "The whole thing is evidently a well-concocted conspiracy. But when is the ...
— The Middle of Things • J. S. Fletcher
... a limping figure that leaned heavily upon a stick disclosed itself; a shaggy, red-bearded man in the garb of a peasant; and marvel of marvels!—this figure spoke her name sharply, warningly almost, before she had time ...
— The Snare • Rafael Sabatini
... said Mr. Jones warningly. "As far as I can make out the story that German hotel-keeper told you, it seems to show a certain amount of character;—and independence from common feelings which is not usual. It's very remarkable, ...
— Victory • Joseph Conrad
... motion he made the detective knew that the young man had discovered what this object was, and pressed his arm warningly. ...
— The Flaw in the Sapphire • Charles M. Snyder
... to be young and pretty, and take it hard when she is not. But possibly the secret of enduring so much state as the English have lies in knowing how and when to shirk it, to drop it. No doubt, the alien who counted upon this fact, if it is a fact, would find his knuckles warningly rapped when he reached too confidingly through air that seemed empty of etiquette. But the rapping would be very gentle, very kindly, for this is the genius of English rule where it is not concerned with criminal offence. You must keep off wellnigh all the grass ...
— London Films • W.D. Howells
... below affright him; but he summons up his courage and descends part way. Suddenly his steps are arrested by a vision of his dead mother, who appears on the opposite side of the gulch and raises her hand warningly. Caspar mutters a prayer for help to the fiend and bids Max look again. Now the figure is that of Agathe, who seems about to throw herself into the mountain torrent. The sight nerves him and he hurries down. The moon enters into an eclipse, and Caspar begins his infernal work after cautioning ...
— A Book of Operas - Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... rod of iron. To her, Georgie, as she always called him, was still a child. As far as she was concerned he had never grown up. She took his month's salary, told him when to buy new shirts, ordered his clothes herself, doled out warningly the few dollars for his necessaries, and saved, saved, continually saved. The old woman dreaded poverty with a horror not to be expressed in words. It had ruined her own life; it had crushed her son under its merciless wheels; in the words of the proverb, she was the coward who ...
— Love, The Fiddler • Lloyd Osbourne
... the sentence, for something in Jerrie's face frightened her, while her husband, who had come forward, laid his hand warningly ...
— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes
... truth—no, I am not," Herman replied, and in his tone there was the peculiar meaning which his words did not convey. "If I were not afraid of becoming ridiculous, I should say warningly, 'Children, be sure ...
— The Devil - A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience • Joseph O'Brien
... danger of the fire spreading to the woods; but if it should," Hiram said, warningly, "it might, at this time of year, do your timber a couple of ...
— Hiram The Young Farmer • Burbank L. Todd
... said, in a low tone, and glancing round warningly, evidently taken aback by her sudden vehemence. "You mistake me. I wished ...
— A Bachelor's Dream • Mrs. Hungerford
... the wood, the lightest sounds were audible from far; and Alicia, who was keen of hearing, held up her finger warningly, and stooped to listen. All followed her example; but besides the groans of the choked brook in the dingle close behind, and the barking of a fox at a distance of many miles among the forest, to Dick's acutest hearkening not a ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... withdraw my spiritual protection from you?" This he asked with a suggestive sneer of his prim mouth,—and then continued, "I must—alas, I must! My conscience will not permit me to do more than pray for you! And as is my duty, I shall, in a spirit of forbearance and charity, speak warningly to ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... there was something that suggested quiet imperiousness in her attitude and expression. This was, perhaps, not altogether unnatural, for hitherto when Ida Stirling desired anything that her father's money could obtain her wish was gratified. She laid her hand warningly on her companion's arm, and drew her back into the shadow ...
— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss
... Eyes!" cautioned Shivers, shaking his head warningly at the girl, as the child bounced up from the impact, kicking her little feet together and turning a somersault on the swaying net. "It isn't in your contract. Folks sometimes break their necks trying kinkers that's ...
— The Circus Boys In Dixie Land • Edgar B. P. Darlington
... then it was silent. But above this human breathlessness the river rushed and sang, and the wind rustled the tree-tops with an indifference that seemed obtrusive. Colonel Starbottle felt it, and in a moment of sublime preoccupation, without looking around, waved his cane behind him, warningly to ...
— Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... forcing his way into the opposite row of faces, conspicuously and repeatedly shook his head at Jim. Jim's answer was a note of two words: "My racket!" which, when the great man had perused, he shook his finger warningly and departed, I thought, ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... those who by birth were his inferiors. In Meudon he was known and esteemed of all the simple folk, and it was Rougane, the friendly mayor, who, informed on the 9th of August of the storm that was brewing for the morrow, and knowing of mademoiselle's absence in Paris, had warningly advised him to withdraw her from what in the next four-and-twenty hours might be a zone of danger for all persons of quality, particularly those suspected of ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini
... table Flora was touching John's foot warningly; Nedda attempting to touch Derek's; Felix endeavoring to catch John's eye; Alan trying to catch Sheila's; John biting his lip and looking carefully at nothing. Only Frances Freeland was smiling and gazing lovingly at dear Derek, thinking he would be so handsome ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... moon went under a cloud and the wind began to moan around the turrets. The black night hawks in the forest flapped their wings warningly, and the black bats flitted low ...
— The Legend of the Bleeding-heart • Annie Fellows Johnston
... mean Jefferson. You're quite right. You are Jefferson from this time on, only remember"—here she shook her gloved finger at him warningly—"mind you behave yourself! No more such sentimental speeches as you made ...
— The Lion and The Mouse - A Story Of American Life • Charles Klein
... Tim, you're not going to overdo it," said the former moving-picture actor, warningly. "If we are going to pull this stunt off you are going to keep perfectly sober. It's one drink and ...
— Dave Porter and His Double - The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune • Edward Stratemeyer
... the anchors break loose, that warningly held him On to the shore, and the stream tears him along in its flood,— Into infinity whirls him,—the coasts soon vanish before him, High on the mountainous waves rocks all-dismasted the bark; Under the clouds are hid the steadfast stars of the chariot, Naught ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... in any direction," said Sterry, warningly; "if you attempt to retreat, advance, or ...
— Cowmen and Rustlers • Edward S. Ellis
... Mrs. McVeigh was so very apparent, and as her hostess remembered that slavery was threatening to become an institution of uncompromising discord across the water, all reference to it was likely to be unwelcome. She pressed the fingers of the Marquise warningly, and the Marquise smiled up at her, but ...
— The Bondwoman • Marah Ellis Ryan
... warningly. Over his shoulder Bennington dimly saw a tall muscular figure, tense with the expectation of effort, lean forward to the slack of the lariat. He ...
— The Claim Jumpers • Stewart Edward White
... allowance of time," he began warningly, "is practically up. However, I suppose the definite settlement of this board question cannot be postponed further. I must not leave you under any misapprehensions. If this money came from my father, it is the first I ever had from him ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... John. 'Upon my heart and life, my dea—' he began. Here Bob's letter crackled warningly in his waistcoat pocket as he laid his hand asseveratingly upon his breast, and he became suddenly scaled up to ...
— The Trumpet-Major • Thomas Hardy
... roll, secured his property. Julius Caesar, at this time a mere boy of eighteen, was proscribed on account of his relationship to Marius; but, upon the intercession of friends, Sulla spared him: as he did so, however, he said warningly, and, as the event proved, prophetically, "There is in that boy ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers
... she said, her eyes proudly following the hat as mother laid it on the pillow of the bed. "Mustn't git it mussed up, sir! er you'll have Dave in yer wool!" she continued warningly, as our childish interest drew us to a nearer view of ...
— Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley • James Whitcomb Riley
... our cues than we had at first. On the night I speak of, some one on Salvini's side of the stage greatly disturbed him by loud whispering in the entrance. He was nervous and excitable, the annoyance (of which I was unconscious) threw him out of his stride, so to speak. He glanced off warningly and snapped his fingers. No use; on went the giggling and whispering. At last, in the very middle of a speech, wrath overcame him. He stopped dead. That sudden stop was my cue. Instantly I spoke. Good heaven! he whirled upon me like a demon. I understood that ...
— Stage Confidences • Clara Morris
... There were flowers on the table. The dinner had been ordered. Immediately the waiter brought cocktails. Graham glanced at Bobby warningly. He wouldn't, as an example Bobby appreciated, touch his own. Maria held ...
— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp
... little level, he saw two figures of men standing silent at the water's edge. His heart leaped. They were fishing. He turned and put his hand up warningly to Clara. She hesitated, buttoned her coat. The two ...
— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence
... comes. Night is not far off," she said warningly. "If we lingered here much longer, we might have to ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien
... ammunition. The envelope, addressed to Melisse, he left where Croisset or the factor would find it in the morning. His dogs were housed in a shack behind the store, and he called out their names softly and warningly as he went among them. As stealthily as their master they trailed behind him to the edge of the forest, and close under the old spruce that guarded the grave Jan stopped, and silently he stretched out his arms to the ...
— The Honor of the Big Snows • James Oliver Curwood
... languages.' 'The whirligig of time brings its revenges,' as your own illustrious Singer saith. How think you myself and my friend VASCO de GAMA here look upon the fallen state of our beloved native land? In vain he ventured for her. In vain I warningly sang:— ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 • Various
... warningly, for Kitty was apt to speak out thoughtlessly, and Mrs. Maynard was easily ...
— Marjorie's New Friend • Carolyn Wells
... fro the branches swayed above her head, beating themselves about, moaning like evil voices. The wind swept up chill and warningly. ...
— A Noble Woman • Ann S. Stephens
... in Mrs. Mabyn, warningly. "I—I will give her letters to those good people," she added hastily, to divert Garth's mind from the strangeness ...
— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner
... The hostess stood in the doorway. She was bright and smiling, in the mood apparently to give Casanova the warm welcome of a lover whose absence has been regretted and whose return has been eagerly desired. But Casanova looked warningly towards the coachman, implying that the man might be an inconvenient witness, and then told him to eat and drink to his ...
— Casanova's Homecoming • Arthur Schnitzler
... come to us then the strains of an orchestra floating in with the fragrance of gardenias from a vendor's basket, symbols of life's call to us, luring us out beneath stars of joy. But, instead, the bell of Brompton pealed out warningly over our souls, and, when its clanging died, there drifted in the sound ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... be such a world's thief, uncaught, than Governor of Virginia!" He gathered up the tools of his trade, and motioned to his torchbearer to go before. "I'll have to report you rapidly recovering," he said warningly, as he ...
— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston
... if to joint his rod. The cripple drew a sharp, hissing breath from between thick, distorted lips and waved him away. Silvey caught his chum's arm warningly. ...
— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely
... and on the edge of the broad ribbon of light that stretched in front of them she could discern a big car, drawn up to one side of the road, its headlights shut off, its side-lights glimmering warningly against its ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler
... was reaching for a bottle back of the bar, a terrific whoop came from the dance-hall, and ever-watchful lest the boys' fun should get beyond her control, she called to her factotum to quiet things down in the next room, concluding warningly: ...
— The Girl of the Golden West • David Belasco
... hand was laid warningly upon his shoulder. Dr. Kilton had turned hastily away. He could not trust his countenance, nor did he wish to hear too much. The boy which had never died in him was rebelling in ...
— A Dixie School Girl • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... Wilhelm," the young girl said, as he seemed about to go on, and her clear tones rang out warningly. "When you went out I had no thought of receiving visitors; but of that I will speak with you later. Allow me to introduce my friend, Mr. Richardson. Mr. Richardson, my brother-in-law, Mr. Mencke; my sister ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... sternly, and lifts a finger warningly. 'How many times have you promised, with tears in your eyes, and done the same again? Don't promise—but try ...
— The Song Of The Blood-Red Flower • Johannes Linnankoski
... pistol into my jacket pocket, and transferred my rifle from my left hand to my right, at the same time wheeling sharply round upon the king to see what action, if any, he intended to take. I caught him in the act of springing to his feet, and at once flung up my left hand warningly. ...
— Through Veld and Forest - An African Story • Harry Collingwood
... faces to the east and started for their camp. They soon reached an open glade, which was quite unfamiliar to them, and were about to enter it, when Johnny, who was ahead, slipped behind a tree and held up his hand warningly to Dick, who promptly got behind another. Two deer were in the opening, about a hundred yards to windward of the boys, toward whom they were slowly feeding. Dick was excited and was nervously raising ...
— Dick in the Everglades • A. W. Dimock
... you don't want to arouse the house. See, she turns and raises her forefinger warningly. Do you mean to say you don't ...
— Miss Caprice • St. George Rathborne
... warningly to him, when they were alone, "shall posterity say that you threw away your great conquest for the sake ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 • Various
... warningly. "Leave that to the future. It will adjust itself, and I think it will adjust itself in the way that we wish, but we cannot talk of it now, while Bernardo Galvez is our good friend and Spain inclines to our side. Of course Louisiana may be passed back to France, but France is a better and more powerful ...
— The Free Rangers - A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi • Joseph A. Altsheler
... her exit, he commenced again to protest. Maisie silenced his objections by leaning against him warningly. "You've talked of everything except me," she whispered; "it was about me you came to talk. ...
— The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel • Coningsby Dawson
... It was a fortune, and on that Sunday when Henrietta was to pay her first visit to Mrs. Batty, Aunt Caroline, turning the girl about to see that nothing was amiss, said warningly, 'You are walking into the lion's den, Henrietta. Don't let one of those young cubs gobble you up. I know James Batty, an attractive man, but he loves money, and he knows our affairs. He married his own wife because she ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... touched his head with her hands. Piggy was shaking his head warningly at her with much earnestness. He feared that such a feminine proceeding would anger his comrade. When Miss Morgan sat upon the ground beside Bud and took one of his hands, stroking it without the boy's resisting, Piggy Pennington was dumb with wonder. ...
— The Court of Boyville • William Allen White
... got it to-night," Burning Daylight answered with enthusiasm, and at the same time felt the Virgin press his arm warningly. She wanted him for the dancing. "I sure got my luck with me, but I'd sooner dance. I ain't hankerin' to take the ...
— Burning Daylight • Jack London
... he would protect her from the growling dogs and the fierce-eyed hunters. And the good Bishop was true to her. For he drew his beautiful velvet cloak about her tired, panting body, and laid his hand lovingly on her head. Then in the other, he held up his crook warningly to ...
— The Book of Stories for the Storyteller • Fanny E. Coe
... was a bad sign for those who knew him. "You're forgetting there's a lady present," he reminded warningly. ...
— Rowdy of the Cross L • B.M. Sinclair, AKA B.M. Bower
... a turn about the room and glanced at his wife, who was hemming a napkin very rapidly, her hands trembling a little. She looked up at him warningly, and he waited an instant before speaking. Finally he brought out with the guarded tone of one forcing himself to moderation of speech, "Well, the Colonel is an abominable old black-guard in public life, and his private reputation is ...
— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield
... held up his watch warningly. It was time to go, if they were to catch the train. Arm in arm they walked down the long avenue to the gate, after bidding me good-bye. Grandmamma watched them, waving her handkerchief from the window of her room over the porch, and at the last moment ...
— Holiday Stories for Young People • Various
... Amos," put in the Judge warningly, "that's out-lawed. Talking about being bald and the war reminds me of the night Walters and I— By the way, where is ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 • Various
... with a little chuckle, "I imagine we would rather eat our own cooking anyway, so you needn't worry. Only," she added warningly, as they sighed with relief, "there is one thing you will ...
— Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance - The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners • Janet D. Wheeler
... face against them, although my cousin is intimate with the whole race. Take my word for it, they're most uncertain friends. Two Kookooburras were shot last week, in spite of Government protection. Fact!" And as the bird spoke he nodded his head warningly towards the place where Dot ...
— Dot and the Kangaroo • Ethel C. Pedley
... salmon pink, and his wife's fingers clutched at his hand warningly. "Oh, Nita called everybody 'darling,' and didn't mean anything by it, I guess," he explained uneasily. "Just one of her cute little ways—. Well, anyway, she came up to me and straightened my necktie—another ...
— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin
... the sand-man has put dust in your eyes," are some of the sayings in use. By and by the child gets "so fast asleep that one eye does not see the other," as the Frisian proverb puts it. When, on a cold winter day, her little boy would go out without his warm mittens on, the East Frisian mother says, warningly: De Fingerbiter is buten, ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... from the shore," cried Guy. "It won't do to make too sharp a curve or we shall upset. We must strike the current fairly in the center and keep the canoe straight as an arrow. Whatever happens, don't drop the torch," he added warningly. ...
— The River of Darkness - Under Africa • William Murray Graydon
... about halfway to the bed, a figure appeared from the farther side of it, and came towards him, with a hand raised warningly. He stood still. The light was dim, and he could distinguish little more than the outline of a young girl. But though the form he saw was much taller than the princess he remembered, he never doubted it was she. For one thing, he knew that most girls would ...
— The Princess and the Curdie • George MacDonald
... warningly, "but for the fox to take with him, that my wife may know the message comes from me; and be quick about it, my good friend, for I really ...
— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry
... you may regard him," said the other, warningly. "You will be a welcome guest, Barine, but I invited you, whom I have loved from your earliest childhood, the daughter of my dearest friend, not merely to do you a service at Irenia, but to save from grief or even annoyance the person to whom—who is not aware of it—I ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... she cried warningly. "They yet tingle with the kiss of Meneptah, thy husband. I would not have the ecstasy spoiled by ...
— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller
... landlady drew away, pointing toward the back-parlor warningly. The situation was to her taste. She seemed to be a part of one of those very scenes for which her soul yearned—melodramatic scenes such as she had witnessed across footlights, with her husky-voiced favorite in ...
— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... of water was audible, likewise a scuffling as of flying feet; some one clapped hands, and a voice said, warningly, "Into your beds this instant minute or I'll come to you! Andrew Jackson, give Gusty a boost; Ann Lizy, don't you tech Wash's feet to tickle 'em. Set pretty in the tub, Victory, dear, while ...
— Work: A Story of Experience • Louisa May Alcott
... idleness on so grandiose a scale flourished in the city which to him had always been a city of hard work and limited meal-hours. He saw that he had a great deal to learn before he could hope to be as skilled in idleness as the lowest of these experts in the lounge. He tapped his foot warningly. No effect on his women. He tapped more loudly, as the hatred of being in a hurry took possession of him. Eve looked round with a delightful placatory smile which conjured an answering smile into ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett
... two ladies, travelling the road to Peronne would not be allowed to pass unchallenged. Fortunately, just before the danger point, a clump of trees and underbushes grew between our road and the river. Max, who was riding a hundred yards in advance, suddenly stopped and held up his hand warningly. We halted immediately, and Max turned back to us, guiding his horse to the roadside to avoid ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... minutes later, the minister, followed by his son, was about to enter the room he stopped, and, grasping his son's arm warningly, they both, ...
— Pearl and Periwinkle • Anna Graetz
... in the town on the sunrise slope of the mountains of Kahluelawan, until the earth began to groan warningly again. Loath were they to leave the place of the Kaka and the lake of their dead. But the rumbling grew louder and the Twain Beloved called, and all together they journeyed eastward, seeking once more the Place of the Middle. But they grumbled amongst themselves, ...
— Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest • Katharine Berry Judson
... he stood there, he was thinking to himself that he must have done with wandering; the old saw that a rolling stone gathered no moss was cropping up sharply, warningly, in his mind. He had in the three years, however—and this is rather remarkable—accumulated about three thousand dollars. Three thousand dollars! Why, in this quarter of the world, three thousand dollars should be like three thousand of ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various
... look out," he said warningly. "Old Mister Trouble's come. Don't give anything. Stand pat. A walkin' delegate from Denver's here. God ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton
... speaks to you about it," he said, warningly, "it wasn't me, but somebody like me. You might say he 'ad been mistook ...
— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs
... pack to his shoulders the following morning he stepped close to Murchison. The trading room was deserted save for those two, but the officer lowered his voice. "Wentworth ain't the only one around here that needs watchin'," he said warningly. ...
— The Challenge of the North • James Hendryx
... she, warningly, "drive slowly and avoid the ruts. Good-night, Monsieur de Buxieres, send for the doctor as soon as you get in, and all will be well. I will send to inquire ...
— A Woodland Queen, Complete • Andre Theuriet
... she whispered, warningly; "guards are all around, and listeners. Be careful! If you can think of a way of escape, ...
— The American Baron • James De Mille
... bottle, and berated his mother in emphatic terms, delivered in a deep bass voice, addressing her as "Captain." "Look out, you'll break the bottle, dumping the wheelbarrow over like that," he remarked warningly. The old mammy stooped over to readjust him in the barrow and as she did so several feet of masculine garments became visible ...
— The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos • Hildegard G. Frey
... sobered for a moment. "Where's his pardner? Ain't he got a pardner?" the irritated man demanded of them. They shook their heads. They did not understand English. They stepped into the water and splashed onward. Some one called warningly from the opposite bank, whereat they stood still and conferred together. Then they started on again. The two men taking the inventory turned to watch. The current rose nigh to their hips, but it was swift and they staggered, while now and again the cart slipped sideways with the stream. ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London
... her head warningly at her little brother, for she knew Aunt Emmeline's story, and of how her young lover was killed in battle, but Aunt Emmeline did not hesitate to answer. "Yes, he went, but he never ...
— A Dear Little Girl's Thanksgiving Holidays • Amy E. Blanchard
... and we are ingenious in finding out some soothing pretext to lull down the dreadful admonitions of history. Man, in his private capacity, consoles the instinctive apprehension of his heart with the idea that his condition is different from what warningly strikes his mind. The patriot feels well, that not only the present, but also the future of his beloved country, has a claim to his cares; but he lulls himself into carelessness by the ingenious consolation that the condition of his country is different—that ...
— Select Speeches of Kossuth • Kossuth
... with a roguish smile, and shaking her finger warningly at him, "Take care," she said, "don't let the husband be lost in the ...
— Elsie's New Relations • Martha Finley
... the vivid sunlight, our eyes on the glorious scenery about us, down, down like a swooping bird. Once we passed above some workmen, who looked up in open-mouthed amazement, and cursed us in voices which seemed far and faint and futile. A little later the superintendent of the water tank warningly shouted, "Stop that! Get Off!" but we only laughed at him and swept on, out over a high trestle, where none ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... the girl's drenched head, and shook her own warningly. Leaving Doss to look after the newcomer, she drew the young justice into ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan
... stairs he finds a corresponding door, and, next, an open room. Looking therein, he sees a gentle, matronly woman seated by a bedside, slowly fanning some recumbent invalid. She puts her fingers on her lips, warningly, as she sees the uniform at ...
— A War-Time Wooing - A Story • Charles King |
