"Apologetically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mrs. Massereene, laughing apologetically, and blushing a rare delicate pink that would not ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... Sir Priest," said the cavalier, apologetically; "but these worthy gentlemen were ancient friends of mine, and have done me many a delicate service,—much more, perchance, than these poor sables may signify," he added, with a grim gesture toward the mourning ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 72, October, 1863 • Various
... of me, I admit," he said, "but I am anxious—foolishly anxious—to return to the society of well-clothed men and pretty women. I pine for social life. It is a weakness of mine," he added apologetically. "I want to meet stockbrokers, financiers, politicians and other chevaliers d'industrie on equal terms, to wear the grande habit, to listen to soft music, to drink ...
— The Secret House • Edgar Wallace
... your office," he explained apologetically. "I gave her your message, but she said she must see you and would write you a ...
— Elusive Isabel • Jacques Futrelle
... to tell," he informed her, apologetically. "It's against the rules. Private messages ain't supposed to be ...
— The Peace of Roaring River • George van Schaick
... he wrote, partly from memory, his "Royal Commentaries," an account of the country of his Indian ancestors. Of the Inca Manco, of whom he must frequently have heard uncomplimentary reports as a child, he speaks apologetically. He says: "In the time of Manco Inca, several robberies were committed on the road by his subjects; but still they had that respect for the Spanish Merchants that they let them go free and never pillaged them of their wares and merchandise, ...
— Inca Land - Explorations in the Highlands of Peru • Hiram Bingham
... thim times," said Judy, apologetically. "For anythin' we could tell we might as well be streelin' about under the width of the sky like a string of wild duck, as stoppin' at home wid a roof over our misfort'nit heads. Ould Mrs. McClenaghan next door had a cloak ...
— Strangers at Lisconnel • Barlow Jane
... was rejected because it had come in tired that afternoon. One owner contributed his team, but apologetically exposed a bandaged ankle that prevented him from driving it. This team Smoke took, overriding the objection of the crowd ...
— Smoke Bellew • Jack London
... able to tell you a lot more," he said apologetically in conclusion. "I could if I ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... of silence, he said he thought somebody might read a prayer. "It's the custom, sir," he added apologetically. And not long after, without another word, he ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... had done while walking with her, and he confusedly apologized to it as he had to her, and by her own appellation. In this way he eventually overran his trail and found himself unexpectedly and apologetically in ...
— Cressy • Bret Harte
... said Panton apologetically, as he came again towards the tea-table. "I can't think what's the matter with the poor brute. He's almost perfect ...
— From Out the Vasty Deep • Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
... like to do so, my angel; but, to tell the truth, I am a very inexperienced oarsman, and I can not swim at all," answered the poor fellow, apologetically. ...
— Victor's Triumph - Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... see," said Sandy apologetically, "it don't come as natural to me as chewing, but, then, somebody's got to swear. The old ...
— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr
... my lords an' gents—none in th' world, s' help me true!" Having said which, he clapped fingers to mouth and whistled very shrilly. "Not by no means nowise meanin' no offence, my lords," quoth he apologetically, "but dooty is dooty—an' 'ere 'e be!" Glancing whither he pointed, I saw a man approaching, a shortish, broad-shouldered, square-faced, leisurely person in a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat and full-skirted frieze greatcoat; a man of slow gait and deliberate movement but with ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol
... he said apologetically, "and I never drank spirits without water before. I had a glass of grog-and-water on board a ship sometimes, but it has always been at least two parts of ...
— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty
... she says," he explained, apologetically. "I think she will prove to be too clever ...
— The Little White Bird - or Adventures In Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie
... Archie, apologetically, "the Emperor of the Blighters out yonder says you can have a job here as waiter, and he won't do another dashed thing ...
— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse
... remembering St. Paul's injunctions to believing wives and unbelieving husbands, neither stopped nor stayed her prayers and exhortations, until, just before the birth of a second child, she had succeeded in inducing Tom Coppinger—(just "to please her, and for the sake of a quiet life," as he wrote, apologetically, to his relations and friends, far away in Ireland) to join her Communion. She then died, and her baby followed her. Colonel Tom, a very sad and lonely man, came to England and visited St. Lawrence Anthony at the school selected for him by his mother; then ...
— Mount Music • E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross
... a matine idol with his soft blond beard and wavy yellow hair, rather apologetically defending the Soviet nakaz. Terestchenko followed, assailed from the Left by cries of "Resignation! Resignation!" He insisted that the delegates of the Government and of the Tsay-ee-kah to Paris ...
— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed
... late," he said apologetically, "but there's a bit of my message I'd like to read to you. There'll be no time in the morning if you're still bent on taking the early train to Tuscarora. I'd like your opinion whether it's what the plain ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther
... separately an extended account of Horace greatly reduced the bulk of the material intended for the Sabine Echoes, and it was with respect to this that Field apologetically and, as was ...
— Echoes from the Sabine Farm • Roswell Martin Field and Eugene Field
... flashing challenge in her eyes. She was not speaking apologetically. Her meaning ...
— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood
... come from my rounds," said Wittemore, sitting down, apologetically, on the edge of a chair. "That old lady you carried the medicine to—she's been telling me how you made tea and toast!" He paused ...
— The Witness • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
... beauties under the bottom now, sir," he said half-apologetically. "Nice morning, though, ain't it? Talking about hanging one's legs over the side, we might lay them up a bit to dry;" and he set the example of stretching his own out on the seat-like thwart, and sitting ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn
... wiped his face, was now able to display more of his embarrassment, and added, apologetically: "That is not all I had. I also bought some cake and fruit, and then my ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe
... bolted three in a most offensive manner. He ate on his right grinders only, and threw his head over his right shoulder as he snapped the meat. When he had finished, it struck him that he had been behaving strangely, for he said apologetically, 'I don't think I ever felt so hungry in my life. ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling
... facade, Gothic or Romanesque, and is an extreme example of the license which southern builders allowed themselves in their adaptation of the northern style. It is a vagary, and has appealed to some Anglo-Saxon travellers, but French authorities, almost without dissent, allude to it apologetically as "unpardonable." Its general effect is somewhat that of a porte-cochere, whose roofing, directly attached to the front wall, is gothically pointed, and supported by two immense pillars. The pillars end in cones that resemble nothing in ...
— Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 • Elise Whitlock Rose
... went on, "I did not know what life meant. And then I saw you! It was like the gate of heaven opening. You're the dearest girl I ever met, and you can bet I'll never forget...." He stopped. "I'm not trying to make it rhyme," he said apologetically. "Billie, don't think me silly ... I mean ... if you had the merest notion, dearest ... I don't know what's the matter with me ... Billie, darling, you are the only girl in the world! I have been looking for you for years and years and I have ...
— Three Men and a Maid • P. G. Wodehouse
... have been at the steamer to meet you," he exclaimed apologetically; "but she got here a day ahead of time and I was ...
— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton
... broad-minded—more like her father, but Bob takes too much after her mother to adapt herself readily to such a radical change as a ranch," continued Anne, apologetically. ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... was this confession of childishness, perhaps the unlooked-for civility, that touched her. She turned round with a subdued half frightened air, feeling that there was no telling how to take this strange creature, and said, half apologetically, "I think I should like a French—novel. They are not—so—long, you know, as the English," and sat down in the chair he rolled towards her. Jock was at the top of the ladder in a moment. She watched him, ...
— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant
... (apologetically) and—well, he was no longer there, and at that moment I felt a hand laid upon my shoulder from behind. Just fancy that if you can! Unspeakably frightened, I turned and saw a portly, ...
— Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories • Ambrose Bierce
... "After all," he said apologetically, "Christmas is for the children, and Lonzo is the Lord's child, my wife used to say, and I expect she ...
— The Wooing of Calvin Parks • Laura E. Richards
... what he is driving at." Here Tom took his hat, and started down stairs three steps at a time, nearly upsetting the Doctor in the hall in his great hurry. "Beg pardon, my dear sir, quite accidental I assure you; in haste to speak to Mr. Cotterell in the library," said Tom apologetically. ...
— Vellenaux - A Novel • Edmund William Forrest
... the man monotonously. Slowly, strangely different from his usual alert certainty, he moved across the room. "There are just a few things here I'd like to take with me," he explained apologetically. "They'd only be in your way if ...
— Where the Trail Divides • Will Lillibridge
... He spoke apologetically of his emotion when ill. 'Ye see, I had no call to be here,' said he; 'and I thought it was by with me last night. I've a good house at home, and plenty to nurse me, and I had no real call to leave them.' ...
— Essays of Travel • Robert Louis Stevenson
... could not answer otherwise, Jane; I did not love him; do not be angry with me," said Elsie, apologetically. ...
— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence
... and anxious," she said apologetically. "Moldini told me he had some scheme about getting the money. If he only could! But no such luck for ...
— The Price She Paid • David Graham Phillips
... He looked apologetically at the Seraph and the others; he felt some apology was required for having so far wandered from all the canons of his Order as to have approached "a row," and run the ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... and helpless. Jacqueline's infernal Fra Diavolo was surveying him from the closed door of the Cafe, behind which he had swept the two women. His stiff pose had relaxed, and he was even smiling. He waved his hand apologetically over his followers. "His Exceeding Christian Majesty's most valiant contra ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... his neglected shoes, the wrinkles of his inconsiderable coat and unstudied scarf. She saw that, actually, he had spoken apologetically of his possessions; and a stinging shame spread through her at the possibility that she had seemed common to an ...
— Linda Condon • Joseph Hergesheimer
... as if some one was there. Perhaps it was just that I was awed by the disconcerting loveliness of the portrait of the brunette lady that hung in a tarnished oval frame above the drawing-room mantel. I looked at her and waited. Presently I coughed apologetically. ...
— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke
... Being stone deaf, he puts in the responses anyhow, always in the wrong place, and never finds out his mistake until he sees the clergyman's lips set firm, and on his face a look of patient expectation, when he coughs apologetically, and says them ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... Lucy, I'm ready to start out with you," replied the rector apologetically, putting a box of fishing tackle he had been sorting back into the drawer of his desk. He was as fond as a child of a day's sport, and never quite so happy as when he set out with his rod and an old tomato can filled with worms, which he had dug out of the back garden, in his hands; but owing ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... Treasury!" said Steve icily. The Watch-dog stood apologetically, twisting nervous fingers together. "It strikes me, Mr. Speaker," he stammered, "that my eminent colleague might aptly have quoted from the same high authority two maxims in praise of prudence. 'Discretion is the better part of valor,' he ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... for the wedding surely!" Dinah's thoughts were instantly diverted. "Have they really? I never thought they would. Oh, that will be fun! I expect Rose is trying to pretend she isn't—" She broke off, colouring vividly. "What a pig I am!" she said apologetically to Scott. "Please ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... editions, commentaries, prolegomena, biographies'—but here he was interrupted by a sudden loud creak of the chair at the next table. Our neighbour had half risen from his place. He was leaning towards us, apologetically intrusive. ...
— Seven Men • Max Beerbohm
... only precaution was a wire gauze, preventing the intrusion of flies. Two or three had tried to come in, and been caught, so that they seemed to be clinging there with the intention of being devoured presently. Mr. Polteed, following the direction of his client's eye, rose apologetically ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... to," said Kitty, shutting the book quickly, and looking round apologetically; "but it's all about a fairy godmother, and a lovely princess lady,—oh, ...
— Marjorie at Seacote • Carolyn Wells
... orders to march again," he said apologetically, and Billy answered with a neigh of pleasure, submitting to the saddle as though he were quite ready for anything required ...
— The Man of the Desert • Grace Livingston Hill
... anticipate her slightest want; he jumped to his feet and brought her a cup of water; he shoved aside a burning branch which rolled impudently too near the divine foot; he removed the offending fish from under her nostrils hastily and half apologetically; he piled the fire high when he saw her shiver. And finally when she pushed her cup away and let her two hands drop into her lap he gathered the dishes and carried them away to the nearest pool to wash them, leaving Gloria silent and thoughtful, ...
— The Everlasting Whisper • Jackson Gregory
... up till now, been held in abeyance by Merelli, who had foreseen difficulty. And, now that it was reached, it proved a reef indeed. For, of the four singers, only the basso had any conception of time. Thus when Merelli, in despair, came apologetically to Ivan to suggest an alteration of the rhythm—which made the whole beauty of the song—Ivan rose from his place swearing, savagely, that not one other note in the score should be altered; but that ...
— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter
... Yellowstone, child. I thought, perhaps, I might pick you up and take you along, but you are so freckled that you are a sight!" Then, as though she recalled the beach supper and the children's invitation, she added, apologetically, "It is very kind, but I am a little out of the habit ...
— Keineth • Jane D. Abbott
... thought so," said the husband, apologetically, "but I said it was what the jeweller might think, and so he wouldn't be offering much money ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... "it ain't just the quietest place in the world for women-folks. Only five or six women in the place yet, outside the section boss's wife and the help at the depot hotel. Still," he added apologetically, "folks soon gets used to the noise. I don't mind it no more ...
— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough
... audience of some five thousand souls, all intent upon this opaque, mysterious Entity in the tribune, is bound to reach the very heart of it; for think what five thousand rays focussed on a sensitive plate can do." Thus our Scribe, apologetically. ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani
... strawberries, and those pastries which the Viennese used to make in such perfection. There were five of us, including the chauffeur and the orderly, and for the food which we consumed I think that the innkeeper charged the equivalent of a dollar. But, as he explained apologetically, the war had raised prices terribly. We were the first visitors, it seemed, barring Austrians and a few Italian officers, who had visited his inn in nearly five years. Both of his sons had been killed in the war, he told us, fighting bravely with their Jaeger battalion. The widow ...
— The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the AEgean • Edward Alexander Powell
... answered, apologetically. She, so self-confident and self-possessed, was charmingly shy with this great soldier who had made history in ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
... wa'nt thinkin' of that," he returned apologetically, "it just seemed to me that you'd be mo' comfortable without that sheet of ...
— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow
... Adelaide shuddered. No one ever used, except apologetically, that word, which is the desperate last ...
— The Second Generation • David Graham Phillips
... explained apologetically, "mother gets woolly when she writes and she's forgotten there's Di. She thinks Demetrius is the youngest. She's mad about writing. If she sees a blank paper anywhere, she ain't happy until she has written something on it, and the sight of a ...
— Our Next-Door Neighbors • Belle Kanaris Maniates
... silently upstairs, and found the children were then in bed and asleep. They were tired with sight-seeing, the nurse said apologetically, curtseying ...
— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood
... I in my own house," said Miss Craven; "but," apologetically, "when one is in a boarding-house, my loves, you know one cannot ...
— Uncle Rutherford's Nieces - A Story for Girls • Joanna H. Mathews
... over their trip. On the second day of their sojourn in the city he slipped away when Deborah had gone shopping with Mrs. Hiram and hurried through the streets to the Green Square Theatre with a hang-dog look. He bought a ticket apologetically and sneaked in to his seat. It was a matinee performance, and Joscelyn Morgan was starring ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... and kicked out wildly with his fat white-stockinged legs. Seen from the rear he had the appearance of a neat, if excited, package, unaccountably frilled about with embroidered flannel. Delia straightened herself, dabbed apologetically at ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... sir," she began, apologetically, "I don't know what you must have thought of me and Rapkin last night, leaving the ...
— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey
... was tempted at first to crowd my luck. I wondered if I could not discover another ampulla such as the chauffeur, McGroarty, had picked up in his car. When Werner's servant, almost apologetically, explained that the telephone message was from a near-by shop and that he would have to leave me for a matter of ten or fifteen minutes, I assured him that it was all right and that I would occupy myself with a magazine. The moment he was out the door I sprang to action ...
— The Film Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve
... "'Yes,' he replied apologetically; 'I suppose I'm a hard judge of some follies.' And, knowing what his haunted eyes were looking ...
— Novel Notes • Jerome K. Jerome
... oddly judicial air, such as men acquire who are in authority, held the balance evenly between the sisters, and smiled apologetically over his fiddle towards the victim of ...
— Barlasch of the Guard • H. S. Merriman
... give me a description of him, Mrs. Russell. I ought to remember how he looks, but I see so many, you know," the bishop added, apologetically. ...
— The Bishop's Shadow • I. T. Thurston
... of their fathers. He led the way into Sir Pitt's "Library," as it was called, the fumes of tobacco growing stronger as Pitt and Lady Jane approached that apartment, "Sir Pitt ain't very well," Horrocks remarked apologetically and hinted that his master was ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... endearment against her breast, but she put her gently down to the ground, and instantly placed a chair in the best corner of the room for Mrs. Leigh, when she told her who she was. "It's not Will as has asked me to come," said the mother, apologetically; "I'd a wish just to speak ...
— Lizzie Leigh • Elizabeth Gaskell
... supper, hein?" said the first old woman, recollecting herself and coming forward, her thin jaws yet reddened. "Der ham? Shickens? It is so long as I haf seen a little shild," apologetically. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 • Various
... them in London;" Alan apologetically explained, "unless it's in the Zoo; but I say, Jean, aren't you coming, too? You're as good as a boy any ...
— The Scotch Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... 'tis true. But loud cries avail nothing. The aid of the Buddha for the deceased is to be sought." Apologetically he showed something of his condition to the wife. At once she rose. Outergarments were removed. Muddied undergarments were renewed. Myo[u]zen went into the mortuary chamber. The little "Jewel" was laid out as in sleep. The ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... laugh of satisfaction to hear of a young lady and gentleman, and their guide, who had devoured everything eatable half a day in advance of him, all save the bread and butter, and a few scraps of meat, apologetically spread for his repast by the maid of the inn: not enough for, a bantam cock, she said, promising eggs for breakfast. He vowed with an honest heart, that it was more than enough, and he was nourished by sympathy with ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... exactly—engaged to Laura, were you, Dick?' A bold question from a father, but the circumstances were unusual. Apologetically, 'I ...
— Echoes of the War • J. M. Barrie
... about a certain machine intended to show that, however the peripheral parts of it might be agitated, its centre of gravity remained immovable. "It will wobble," he complained. "Well," said the predecessor, apologetically, "to tell the truth, whenever I used that machine I found it advisable to drive a nail through the centre of gravity." I once saw a distinguished physiologist, now dead, cheat most shamelessly at a public ...
— Memories and Studies • William James
... the sound of her distress he was so overcome, he could no longer keep his feelings under restraint. A bark broke from him, eager, coaxing, half frightened; then, repentant and ashamed, he thrust his hot nose into Huldah's hand, and licked it apologetically. ...
— Dick and Brownie • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... Boy looked for the first time at the boy in the seat ahead, who had been leaning over the back apologetically, fearful that his open window really had caused ...
— Sunny Boy in the Big City • Ramy Allison White
... supposed to be a revolutionist! What nonsense." She looked hard at the Assistant Commissioner, who murmured apologetically: ...
— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad
... Rather apologetically, I began to explain. At Oxford, I said, no doubt the Humanities still hold the first place. But at Cambridge they have long been relegated to the second or the third. There we have schools of Natural Science, of Economics, of Engineering, of Agriculture. ...
— Appearances - Being Notes of Travel • Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
... of Appeal was once seriously disturbed by Edward Bullen reading to them the following paragraph from a pleading in an action for seduction: "The defendant denies that he is the father of the said twins, or of either of them." This he apologetically explained was due to an accident in his pupil-room, but everyone recognised the style ...
— Law and Laughter • George Alexander Morton
... of the floor, shot there by the electric suddenness of the surprise. As soon as I could get my voice I said, apologetically:—'I have had no ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... "I had sooner you had cut that out." He turned to the others apologetically. "It was a dispute with a fellow on board a train who threw me down the steps. I don't want to bore you ...
— Lister's Great Adventure • Harold Bindloss
... I accept your conviction that there is no one about, but I do not trust your memory. I admire too much the artist in you for that. Ah! Do I hear someone scratching apologetically upon the window? [smiling] Really, no wonder your sense of privacy is ...
— Clair de Lune - A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes • Michael Strange
... apologetically in view of the other's enthusiasm. "That's what I came to discuss with you, Comrade. You see, I've been sitting around, ah, in the local wineshops, talking it over with the younger engineers and the ...
— Expediter • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... you were blind, sir," exclaimed Rod apologetically and instantly regretting his harshness toward one so cruelly afflicted. "I am very sorry, and if you will allow me, I will see you safely aboard ...
— Cab and Caboose - The Story of a Railroad Boy • Kirk Munroe
... apologetically, with dim, watery blue eyes. "I don't expect I remember much," he confessed. "Not of later years. I could tell you all about things when I was a boy, but I can't seem to remember much that's happened since mother died. That must have been along about twenty years ago. I'm all broken down ...
— A Village Ophelia and Other Stories • Anne Reeve Aldrich
... and as the wrestlers separated she continued, apologetically, "I clean forgot thar wusn't a sign of a towel on the roller; I wonder what you intended to wipe on; here, take this one, an' hang it up when you're through." Then she turned to Westerfelt's door and ...
— Westerfelt • Will N. Harben
... of the Doctor's scholarship," said the mother, apologetically. "And we are so anxious that Gus should do well when he goes ...
— Dr. Wortle's School • Anthony Trollope
... itself forward a bit, disclosing an apologetically smiling face, with high check bones that ...
— Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed • Edna Ferber
... night,' he explained half apologetically to Longstreet as he went. 'And haven't walked this much ...
— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory
... said the man apologetically, as Varney turned. "I—I 'll just be here, Mr. Varney, you ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... stood the farmhouse; and the Earl apologetically asked if she would dislike their proceeding thither, as he would not detain her long. She eagerly declared that Louis would be 'so glad,' and Lord Ormersfield turned his steps to the door, where he had only been once in his life, when he ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Hope said half apologetically; "and I really hadn't the heart to refuse him. Besides, I wanted to thank you again for your many kindnesses to my small boy. Mothers appreciate such things, ...
— Phebe, Her Profession - A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book • Anna Chapin Ray
... father, with rather an unwilling smile. "He is not a bad little chap; but he has lately attached himself a good deal to me, and I have to go into the stables and about the land a good deal, and I don't think it's altogether good for him. I found him"—apologetically—"using some very bad language the other day. Oh, you needn't be afraid; he won't do it again; I think I ...
— A True Friend - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... ones," she said, apologetically, "but I could only have two pairs so I got black and the ...
— Patty and Azalea • Carolyn Wells
... and wake up scared," he said to Wally, a little apologetically, before mounting guard. It ...
— Mates at Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce
... nervously. 'Miss Leyburn is too hard on a blind man,' he said, holding up his eyeglass apologetically; 'it was my eyes, not my ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... all that I can give them," said Mr. Crawley, apologetically. "A little scholarship is the only fortune that has come in my way, and I endeavour to share that ...
— Framley Parsonage • Anthony Trollope
... brilliant but wandering, his movements were abrupt or violent, heedless or feeble, as the moment decreed. He talked about the dingy, nasty fo'cas'le, the absurdity of his not being able to get around, the fine outfit of the Sea Gull, the chill of the water. He sometimes swore softly, almost apologetically, and he uttered most unchristian sentiments toward some person whom he described as wearing extremely neat and ...
— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
... stopped whistling, rang the bell apologetically, and—faced a new and vivid Sara Lee, flushed and with shining eyes, but ...
— The Amazing Interlude • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Lady Jane had occupied one, and her bosom friend, old Lady Oakley, the other. But this time there was a change, and when Lady Oakley arrived with her maid, and her poodle dog, and her ear trumpet, for she was very deaf, she was assigned a room in one of the wings, her hostess telling her apologetically that she had thought it well to put the McPhersons together as they would thus get on better, and she was so anxious for Lady Jane to like Mrs. Archie, the sweetest, most amiable of women. Lady Oakley, who knew that every apartment at Penrhyn was like a palace, cared little where she was ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes
... set upon coming," said Malcolm apologetically; "and when my lord taks a thing into his heid, he'll aye do't, ...
— A Noble Life • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... noteless, and finally, at some odd evasion of his, accomplished by a monosyllable, I laughed outright—and he did, too! He joined cachinnations with me heartily, and with a twinkling quizzicalness that somehow gave me the idea that he might be thinking (rather apologetically) to himself: "Yes, sir, that old Beasley man is certainly ...
— Beasley's Christmas Party • Booth Tarkington
... "I did my best," he stated apologetically. "I ran for the machine gun. But by that time Urga had shot aloft again. Didn't seem as though he wanted to wait. I heard his whistle shrilling in the air. ...
— Slaves of Mercury • Nat Schachner
... however, that I did so he became calm, and said apologetically, "Forgive me, Doctor. I forgot myself. You do not need any help. I am so worried in my mind that I am apt to be irritable. If you only knew the problem I have to face, and that I am working out, you would pity, and ...
— Dracula • Bram Stoker
... talked loudly and hurriedly in giving directions concerning the matter, using some profane language. It seemed suddenly to occur to him that the clergymen were present, and from the opposite side of the room he turned toward them, exclaiming apologetically, "Gentlemen, I sometimes swear, but I ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... Close had departed as softly and apologetically as he had entered, Wentworth picked up one of the specimens of spar which Kenyon had taken from the mine, and put it into his pocket. In two minutes more he was in a cab, dashing through the crowded streets towards Melville's office. ...
— A Woman Intervenes • Robert Barr
... mean-looking man, nor were his garments unclean. They were ragged. He admitted, apologetically, that he could not see to use a needle and so "had sort o' got ...
— The Girl from Sunset Ranch - Alone in a Great City • Amy Bell Marlowe
... contact. Watson led the new man back to the cash-book desk, and proceeded to give him an outline of the work. Evan's vision swayed. At first he was unable to formulate an intelligent question. When he began asking Bill said, apologetically: ...
— A Canadian Bankclerk • J. P. Buschlen
... jewels, but I'll go with them; and if that fellow crosses the threshold of Wyvern House to-night, by the Lord, I'll have him. He will have to be the devil himself to get away from me! Miss Lorne," recollecting himself and bowing apologetically, "I ask your pardon for this strong language—my temper got the better ...
— Cleek, the Master Detective • Thomas W. Hanshew
... And so on, apologetically begging (as other sons beg money) for time, to gather the material of "Modern Painters," ...
— The Life of John Ruskin • W. G. Collingwood
... wife and not a fragile ornament kept in a glass case. He would as soon think of submitting any project of his to the judgment of a doll as to mine. If he has to explain or discuss any serious matter of business with me, he does so apologetically, as if he were treating ...
— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw
... just before Christmas." Then, to Miller: "We—I had your things out of your bag," he said apologetically. "I thought I'd ...
— Left End Edwards • Ralph Henry Barbour
... that the writer of a life of Philips, which was prefixed to an edition of his poems which was published in 1762, after mentioning that smoking was common at Oxford in the days of Aldrich, says apologetically, "It is no wonder therefore that he [Philips] fell in with the general taste ... he has descended to sing its praises in more than one place." By 1762, as we shall see, smoking was quite unfashionable, and consequently it was necessary to explain how it was that a poet could ...
— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson
... that you apologetically appeal to the general depravity of the man-of-war's-man. Depravity in the oppressed is no apology for the oppressor; but rather an additional stigma to him, as being, in a large degree, the effect, and not the cause and ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... only one of the maids. She looked round the room apologetically. "I thought the master was ...
— The Beggar Man • Ruby Mildred Ayres
... gentleman. The Princess said that her errand with you was urgent, sir," he added, turning apologetically towards his master. ...
— The Great Impersonation • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... think what's got into the scoundrelly highbinders," said Corson apologetically. "It's the first time I ever knew anything of the kind to happen." And he went on to explain that while the Chinese desperado is a devil to fight among his own kind, he does not interfere with the ...
— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott
... said, half apologetically, "always come in; and I believe I heard Mollie complaining of hers ...
— Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... any temptation to reply. He grinned apologetically at the girl and shrugged his shoulders. Her face was white, but it was white from ...
— The Lost House • Richard Harding Davis
... Peggy began, then suddenly softened, and glanced apologetically into his face. "Yes, I will, because you ask me. Smuggle me up to my room, Robert, and don't, don't, if you love me, let Mellicent come near me! I couldn't stand ...
— About Peggy Saville • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... since, in the words of Rabbi Ben Ezra, "all good things are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul." The poem may also be said to represent what is, or should be, the true spirit of the man of science. In spite of what Karshish writes, apologetically, he betrays his real attitude throughout, towards the wonderful spiritual ...
— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson
... "But what I mean," she went on, "is that there is no place—no end—to reach." She looked back over her shoulder toward the west, where the trees marked the sky line, and an expression of loss and dissatisfaction came over her face. "You see," she said, apologetically, "I'm used to different things—to the mountains. I have never been where I could not see them before in ...
— A Mountain Woman and Others • (AKA Elia Wilkinson) Elia W. Peattie
... have treated you to this—scene," he said apologetically, as he joined Oswyn, who was gazing over the narrow bridge. "I felt bound to do something for the girl, after she had been wasting all that time outside my gates. Did you notice what a pretty, refined face she had? I wonder who the man can be—Crichton, Cecil Crichton, wasn't it?... ...
— A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore
... later, Grant," he used to say apologetically; "but as it's for our own convenience we ought not ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn
... ask you," he began rather apologetically; "you Southerners put quite an emphasis on family, and all that—not that it isn't quite all right, but you'll find it a little different here. I mean—you'll notice a lot of things that'll seem to you sort of vulgar display at first, Sally Carrol; but just remember that this ...
— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... goodbye, and felt agreeably fragile and soft within the embrace of his huge, rough overcoat. And she breathed winningly, delicately, apologetically ...
— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett
... he slowly brought forth a narrow buckskin pouch, tied with a thong. He opened it, and emptied a handful of coins upon a palm. "This is only a little," he said apologetically. "But it will help. And—you must ...
— The Plow-Woman • Eleanor Gates
... in the kitchen. It is mighty warm in there, though, in the summer time with fire in the stove. We thought we would do a little better by you than that," said Foresta apologetically. She sat down to keep the young woman's company while ...
— The Hindered Hand - or, The Reign of the Repressionist • Sutton E. Griggs
... you know, my dear, I like to consult him about everything," she said, apologetically. "It is a duty which one owes one's husband, you know, and a duty which, as a young woman about to marry, I cannot too much impress upon you; but in this case it is quite a matter of form: Mr. Sheldon never has objected to Charlotte's ...
— Charlotte's Inheritance • M. E. Braddon
... the victims of mercantile prowess, he apologetically declined to flirt with Dame ...
— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball |
