"House party" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Imogen Willard began to wonder why she had consented to be one of Flavia's house party at all. She had not felt enthusiastic about it since leaving the city, and was experiencing a prolonged ebb of purpose, a current of chilling indecision, under which she vainly sought for the motive which had induced ...
— The Troll Garden and Selected Stories • Willa Cather
... him and me, barely a fortnight afterward, to go to a big country-house party in the north. That will show you—what she's made of. Then she wrote—a hypocritical letter—putting it on him. He must not be agitated, nor feel her any burden upon him; so, for his sake, she broke it off. Of course, they were to be cousins and friends again just as before. ...
— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... beata possidens, made her artless, innocent appeal for victory. Unconsciously she tempted. The man yielded. A touch of the lips in a moment of folly, the man blazed, the woman helpless was consumed. This happened in January, just before Althea's supposed visit to Scotland. Boyce was due at a Country House party near Carlisle. In the first flush of their madness they agreed upon the wretched plan. She took rooms in the town and he visited her there. Whether he or she conceived it, I do not know. If I could judge coldly I should say that it was of feminine inspiration. A man, particularly ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke
... on the day following the destruction of Dover that the news of the actual landing of the French and German forces had really taken place at the points selected by Castellan reached Whernside. The little house party were at lunch, and the latest papers had just come over from Settle. Naturally what they contained formed ...
— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith
... middle of two consecutive nights, first to the Vanderveers, and requested to "drug" the second assistant butler, who was wildly drunk, and being a recent acquisition had been brought to officiate at the house party without due trial, "so that he wouldn't be used up the next day," and then to the Ponsonby's, where the family had evidently not yet gone to bed. Here he found that the patient, a visiting school friend of one of the daughters, from up the state, ...
— People of the Whirlpool • Mabel Osgood Wright
... having a small house party in the country over New Year's Day. This is equivalent to saying that the half dozen most fashionable people in New York ...
— Ladies Must Live • Alice Duer Miller
... all my children together again," she exclaimed, giving Anne a gentle hug; for ever since her Christmas house party she had acquired a sort of proprietary feeling toward these young people. "I only wish Tom Gray were to be with us to-day. I should like him to have a share in the surprise; for you may be sure there is to be a surprise. David would never ...
— Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School • Jessie Graham Flower
... opened for the week end in order to entertain a house party in honor of the old gentleman's sixty-seventh birthday. He was one of the first to arrive, and he put his entire place at our disposal. It was the nearest refuge, and we accepted it instantaneously. We bundled our twenty littlest tots into cars, and ran them down to the ...
— Dear Enemy • Jean Webster
... in the Copley's launch again, with Chess' sisters and the members of the house party the Copleys were entertaining at their island. This dividing of the clans made it possible for Chess after letting the others out at the Copley dock, to take Ruth to the moving picture ...
— Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence - The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands • Alice B. Emerson
... wants me to go on a week-end house party with her next Friday and I detest 'em. Bless my headache pills, but it's enough to drive a man distracted. Now, I heard you boys talking about South America as I came in and I ...
— Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope • Victor Appleton |
