"Contritely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have caught my raised eyebrows, for he added contritely, "It was odd for Mantovani to give away a Giorgione. You're quite right. I was ridiculously young." "You may imagine," he pursued, "that the flight of the Giorgione to the Pyrenees only embittered my curiosity. For years I might have ...
— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather
... lamented, "and such a celebration of it; isn't it perfectly awful? Just as if Captain Monroe and the storm had not brought us distress enough! Of course," she added, contritely, "it's unfeeling of me to take that view of it, and I don't expect you to sympathize with me." There was a pause in which she felt herself condemned. "And the house all lit up as for a party; oh, dear; it will all be solemn as a grave now in spite of the lights, and our pretty ...
— The Bondwoman • Marah Ellis Ryan
... said the old man, contritely, "I meant noting bersonal. I ton't tink we are all cuilty or gorrubt, and efen among the rich there are goodt men. But gabidal"—his passion rose again" where you find gabidal, millions of money that a man hass cot togeder in fife, ten, twenty ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... me! I might have known," she said contritely. "So many things have gone down there in their day. Once a silver hair-brush that I was fond of; and I sometimes look there when bangles or hat-pins are missing," and letting her eyes dance at Maurice, she threw back her ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... detested Lordy," said Patty contritely. "Isn't it dreadful? You simply can't keep enemies. Just as you think people are perfectly horrid, and begin to enjoy hating them, they all of a sudden ...
— Just Patty • Jean Webster
... with his hand on the door knob. "I was the jay that started it," he admitted contritely. "But, honest, I never had a hunch she was plumb locoed; I thought she was just simply foolish. ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... said I, contritely. "But," I added, after a pause, "I shouldn't be any the better for ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... a fool and a blunderer," he said contritely, "is that the blunderer is always sorry for his mistakes. I will go. None has a right to refuse another his ...
— The City of Delight - A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem • Elizabeth Miller
... particular chums liked her better than any other girl she knew at home or in college. The two young women were deep in conversation when a rap sounded at the door. Mabel opened it, looked inquiringly at the girl who stood outside and exclaimed contritely: "Oh, Helen, I'm so sorry I forgot all about you. I'll get ready this minute. Come in. Miss Harlowe, this is Miss Burton. Grace, I wonder if you will mind making a call to-night. I promised Helen I'd take her down to Wellington House and introduce her to ...
— Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... to where she could lay her hand contritely upon the girl's shoulder. "I'm awfully sorry," she drawled with perfect sincerity. "I didn't mean to rattle you; but you know you never in the world could throw the stirrup over free, the way you had hold ...
— Jean of the Lazy A • B. M. Bower
... exclaimed contritely, slipping her hand into mine. "I should have guided you. Does ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers
... make me ashamed!" said Polly contritely. "I ought to have been here before, and 'specially when I was the one to blame for all ...
— Half a Dozen Girls • Anna Chapin Ray
... and laid his head upon the pony's mane, accidentally brushing with his moustache the warm little hand upon the reins. Its owner drew it away, while an expression of absolute pain crossed her face. "I don't know what you can think of me," she said contritely. "I lost one of my gloves in reaching for a branch above my head, and its no use wearing the other and trying to be half respectable." She was miserably conscious that she was not even that, as she tried to fasten up her loosely waving locks, and thought of the awful rent in her ...
— An Algonquin Maiden - A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada • G. Mercer Adam
... Graham," she said contritely; "you must think I have taken leave of my senses. But I have ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... a pig, considering he's our guest," Norah said, a little contritely. "If it were you or Wally, now—but he's really got an awful seat, Jim, and Murty says he's a hand like a ham on a horse's mouth! I didn't feel I could let ...
— Mates at Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce
... I know!" cried I, contritely; "I am a blind, doting fool. In this Prince's court I thought no more of such dangers than when I had you safe and innocent, my Playmate of the Red Tower. But what did ...
— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... to go that way again," said Patty contritely. "We haven't had any real dinner; I've spent my five cents, and you've ...
— Little Maid Marian • Amy E. Blanchard |
