"Huskily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... know it!" said Jonas huskily, as he led the way to the street. There, Enoch insisted on walking the three or ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow
... said Noble huskily, "I suppose you'll go to some of your aunts or brothers or cousins ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... relish dragons myself. Scorched my tongue on one once," said the Cowardly Lion huskily. "But I'll fight with you, brother Hokus. ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... nothing so likely to save us both," he said huskily, and then could think of nothing more to say. He drew her to him as though to kiss her, but a blind movement of the old rage with him or circumstance leapt in her, and she pulled herself away. The thought of that ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... she whispered huskily. 'Oh, but this must not be! I will go to the father; I will explain! You saved his son—he ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... first to break the silence. "Damn it," he said huskily, "if Neil didn't look so exactly like a brigand chief I believe I should blubber. Eh, ...
— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges
... his eyes looking the darker for his flushed face. "Gentlemen," he said huskily, "thar's only one thing to be done. A lot of us have got to ride over to Sawyer's Dam tomorrow morning and pick up as many square men as we can muster; there's a big camp meeting goin' on there, and there won't be no difficulty in that. When ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... his ghastly face, ravaged and deformed by passion and sleeplessness, like a cane-brake in the Western Indies over which a tornado has passed. He did not appear to notice her words or her offered hand, but spoke in a strange, broken voice, after clearing his parched throat once or twice, huskily: ...
— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence
... to-day. I could not have held it back another hour. I should have gone mad if I had tried to keep it up any longer." He waited breathlessly for her to speak. She sat silent and rigid, looking straight before her. "Is it hopeless?" he went on at last, huskily. "Must I ask your forgiveness for my presumption and ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon
... the chandelier—which they now saw for the first time without its fly-specked cover—that they gave way to most exuberant folly and indulged in the coarsest enjoyment. Their voices rose in the warm atmosphere more huskily and eulogistically at each successive dish till they could scarcely invent fresh compliments. However, one of them, an old retired master-tanner, hit upon this fine phrase—that the dinner was a "perfect feast ...
— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola
... human breast, the nobility of your extraction, the honour of your hidalguidad, and that inextinguishable courage which, as by the unwearied mercy of God, distinguishes the sons of your fortunate and unhappy nation." His bass voice, deepened in solemn utterance, vibrated huskily. There was a rustic dignity in his uncouth form, in his broad face, in the gesture of the raised hand. "You shall promise to respect the dictates of our conscience, guided by the authority of our faith; to defer to our scruples, and to the procedure of our Church in matters ...
— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
... Jeffrey felt at once how sympathetic they were with her. What was the cry she gave? Was it some international password or a gipsy note of universal import? Had she called them friend in a tongue they knew? Now she began speaking, huskily at first, with tumultuous syllables and wide open vowels, and at the first pause they cheered. The inky multitude that had kept silence, by preconcerted plan, while Weedon Moore talked to them, lost control of itself and yelled. She went on speaking and they crashed ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... heightened the boyishness in Peter's tone. James Thorold wheeled around until he faced him. "Peter," he said huskily, "there's something you'll have to know before I go to Forsland—if ever I go to Forsland. You'll have to decide." The boy shrank from the ominous cadence of the words. "Why, I can't judge for you, dad," he said awkwardly. "Our children are always ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... that!" cried the vanquished horseman, huskily, when they offered him a cap. "I mean to win back ...
— A Hungarian Nabob • Maurus Jokai
... me to say anything to help you just now," he answered huskily, "for after this I don't ...
— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp
... said huskily, "and bless you, Catherine, for all your goodness to me." He took her hand in farewell, and she felt the firm, kind grasp to be that of the kinsman and friend, not ...
— Studies in love and in terror • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... use fer us to promise," Gess said huskily. "We're jest bound to holler when the fireworks begins to go off, even if we had ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various
... I've done," said Soames huskily; "I never have. It's all upside down. I was fond of her; ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... that silent crowd, was hers, Her light snickering laugh, as she stood there Pausing, scanning the sawdust at her feet. Then she switcht round and faced the positive man Whose strong 'She cannot do it!' all still felt Huskily ...
— Georgian Poetry 1918-19 • Various
... stood on the porch, and swung to and fro in silence for a little while. The sea came and went among the rocks below, marking its course in the deepening twilight with a white rope of foam, and raving huskily to itself, with now and then the long plunge of some heavier surge against the bowlders, and a hoarse shout. The Portland boat swam by in the offing, a glitter of irregular lights, and the lamps on the different points of the Cape blinked as they revolved in their ...
— The Story of a Play - A Novel • W. D. Howells
... ghastly war should not be over as soon as we all hope," he said, rather huskily, "I could escort you myself, in a few weeks' time, to the Cape. Or—or arrange for your going earlier if you desired, and if I could not get away. Probably you would get no further than Cape Town; but it might be easier for you ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
... terrible question. Bartley knew nothing about the prices that city papers paid; he feared to ask too much, but he also feared to cheapen his wares by asking too little. "Twenty-five dollars," he said, huskily. ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... chair and stood a moment, trembling not a little and his fingers twitching. "You mean—" he huskily began. ...
— An Apache Princess - A Tale of the Indian Frontier • Charles King
... on to you," said the doctor huskily; "I wish I could lead you by loving force into the paths of pleasantness and peace. But what I can't do, God can. Good-by, ...
— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe
... for a sun-browned, bearded man had crossed the threshold, and thrown a paper into her lap, saying huskily:— ...
— A Princess in Calico • Edith Ferguson Black
... see any reason for speaking. There were thirty seconds of deep silence in which he felt that all were bending to hearken to his words of counsel The professor huskily broke the stillness. Well * * * what are we ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane
... kind,' she said a little huskily; 'because no one else ever did such kind, thoughtful things, and because you never think of yourself ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... there with the boost," commented Mr. Bates, and then, not being quite satisfied with that form of speech, he huskily corrected it to: "Burnit's always handing out those pleasant words." This form of expression seeming also to be somewhat lacking in polish, he relapsed into more redness, and wiped the strangely moist palms of his hands upon the sides ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester
... coughed huskily, but not seeing any reasonable objection to the proposal, and afraid of rousing the sleeping hyaena of Lord ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 5 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... feet despite Nott's restraining hand. "To leave Mademoiselle and leave the ship?" he said huskily, "is it not?" ...
— By Shore and Sedge • Bret Harte
... portmanteau and walked out. The last I saw of them was, when I presently heard a scuffle behind me, and looking back, saw Joe throwing an old shoe after me and Biddy throwing another old shoe. I stopped then, to wave my hat, and dear old Joe waved his strong right arm above his head, crying huskily "Hooroar!" and Biddy put her apron ...
— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens
... for a moment as though dazed; then he rose impulsively and seized Thorndyke's hands. "I don't know what to say to you," he exclaimed huskily, "except that you have saved my brother's life, and for ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman
... for talk that day, but when the old creature was resting in her cast, with her nerves soothed into quietude, the next, she looked up at her daughter, who had hurried to her bedside, and asked huskily, ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... girl," he said huskily. "Maybe we'll meet someday again. I'll have my wife call—write to you so you can visit us before we have to come ...
— Cerebrum • Albert Teichner
... oh woe! where was Sarah Maud! and was it Fate that Mrs. Bird should say, at once, "Did you lay your hats in the hall?" Peter felt himself elected by circumstance the head of the family, and, casting one imploring look at tongue-tied Susan, standing next him, said huskily, "It was so very pleasant—that—that"——"That we hadn't good hats enough to go 'round," put in little Susan, bravely, to help him out, and then froze with horror that the ill-fated words ...
— The Bird's Christmas Carol • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... huskily, "whether it is really necessary for me to assure you of the tremendous burden of obligation ...
— Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock
... we do here without Wetzel?" Alex said huskily, unmindful of the tears that streamed from his eyes and ran over his brown cheeks. "Poor old Jake! Poor Mabel! Damn me! it's my fault. If I'd 'a done right an' married her as I should, as I wanted to, she wouldn't have had to suffer. ...
— The Last Trail • Zane Grey
... mount. Why, man," he said huskily, "you're in trouble enough, as it is! And if our lines are as close as you say ...
— The Littlest Rebel • Edward Peple
... Markheim said huskily, "I have in some degree complied with evil. But it is so with all: the very saints, in the mere exercise of living, grow less dainty, and take on the tone ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)
... strained; and under the doorway the tall grass by the steps thrust ripening straw, all alive with little brown grasshoppers. The clock, in its wooden case, made a whirring noise, as though it were some consumptive trying to clear his throat, and then huskily struck half-past six. ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola
... manager, at a fixed salary?" said James hurriedly and huskily, his fine fingers slowly rubbing each ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence
... "After all," he said huskily, "it don't make no difference how many crooks oder Ganevim is in a feller's family, Philip, so long as he's got a good, straight ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass
... not that!" exclaimed the matron, huskily. "It is not that! Oh! the fearful moment has come at last; and, from my inmost spirit I thank thee, my Lord and my God, that it has come free ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper
... said huskily, as he put her from him gently. "I don't think I should have the courage to let you go if I did. I ...
— The Sheik - A Novel • E. M. Hull
... then grew crimson. He essayed to look up, to meet Lawler's eyes, raising his head and then lowering it again without achieving his desire. He cleared his throat, shifted his body and scuffed his feet on the floor. At last, after clearing his throat again, he spoke, huskily: ...
— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer
... more used to the darkness, Peter observed that the eye was open and regarding him incuriously: and he started in some confusion. "Do you feel much pain now, old chap?" he began rather huskily. ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... an instant, changing colour. Then: "Are you sure you'd better have me?" he asked, a trifle huskily. ...
— Red Pepper Burns • Grace S. Richmond
... deal I've wanted to say to ye fer a long time, but I hev kept a-puttin' hit off until I'm afeard maybe hit air too late. But I'm a-goin' to say hit now, and I want ye to listen." He cleared his throat huskily. " Do ye know, Easter, what folks in the mountains ...
— A Mountain Europa • John Fox Jr.
... glowed, the more icily calm she sat, till the silence between them began to grow oppressive. She waited, determined that he should be the first to speak. Recognising the helplessness of silence, he began huskily: ...
— The Man • Bram Stoker
... that was a chief," he said huskily. "It hurts me here—in my neck." He rubbed the contracted muscles of his throat. "I'd feel like that, ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart
... her huskily, saying that I would not sit, as I could not stay. 'Simon Fleix,' I continued, finding my voice with difficulty, 'has, I am afraid, caused you some trouble by bringing you to this house instead of telling you that I had made preparation for you ...
— A Gentleman of France • Stanley Weyman
... he said huskily, nodding towards the tantalus on the side table, "and I'll tell you the whole damned yarn. My God, I'm dry as ...
— Simon • J. Storer Clouston
... Duncan. He tried to laugh, but the laugh broke itself off gruffly. He found himself catching her hand, putting his free arm boyishly about her shoulders. "I'm not fit to speak to you, Margaret!" he said huskily. "You're—you're the best woman I ever knew! I want you to know I'm sorry—sorry for it all—everything! And as for Dad, why, he'll think what I think—that you're the only person in the world who'd do all ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... murmured huskily, "I done you an injury. It's me what's the fool. I was carried away by B. Sheitlis' making his money ...
— Potash & Perlmutter - Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures • Montague Glass
... were going, too," said Edwin, huskily. "I believe I will," said Alfred, swallowing hard. And ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 6 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists • Elbert Hubbard
... its dark straw toque against the cushion, he would become suddenly alert. Kicking the Irishman slightly in the effort, he would slip his legs down, bend across to her in the darkness, and, conscious of a faint fragrance as of violets, whisper huskily: "Anything I can do for you, my dear?" When she had smiled and shaken her head, he would retreat, and after holding his breath to see if Dolly were asleep, would restore his feet, slightly kicking the Irishman. ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... packer staring at him in the gloom. "You don't think I'm sellin' myself, do you, Aldous?" he asked huskily. "That ain't why you're doin' this—for me 'n the ...
— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood
... Brokaw?" he asked huskily. "What if you had a wife, an' she told you that another man had insulted her, and was forcing his attentions on her, and she asked you to give up your job and take her away? Would you have done it, Brokaw? No, you wouldn't. You'd have hunted ...
— Back to God's Country and Other Stories • James Oliver Curwood
... huskily. "You're mad now and you want to murder me, but think it all over and you'll see I'm ...
— They of the High Trails • Hamlin Garland
... huskily, covering both her hands with one of his and crushing them. "If you left him now and came back ...
— The Letter of the Contract • Basil King
... do," he whispered, huskily, pointing at the weapons with quivering finger. "I'll shoot 'em in the legs, jest to hold 'em up. I'll git to salt water. I know skippers that will take me aboard, even if they have to stand off the whole United States. I've got friends, Louada, as soon as I git ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... can't bear it," he said, huskily; and, turning on his face, he kissed the grass, earth's "perfumed ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
... is wot I calls comfortable," said Hobbs; (he spoke huskily, through an immense mouthful of sandwich.) ...
— Freaks on the Fells - Three Months' Rustication • R.M. Ballantyne
... not that," said the Sergeant huskily; "but they were both amongst the missing as I tried ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn
... don't know what to say. Come here." Dick coughed huskily, wondering, indeed, what he should say, and how to ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... huskily, "I didn't find it on the stairs. It was given to me by Jack Bevens, on the top floor. If you don't believe it, ask him. I'll ...
— Options • O. Henry
... "Thanks," he blurted out huskily at last. "My reputation in the department is at stake, my promotion, my position itself, my - my family - ...
— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve
... thought," said the old gentleman, looking lakeward through the smoky twilight with a kind of vague wistfulnes, "but that all my girls would marry Americans." He spoke slowly, musingly, in his huskily ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller
... to see the end of winter. Caesar, when he had concluded his summer campaign, went into winter quarters. Caesar, as Colonel Kemp once huskily ...
— All In It K(1) Carries On - A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand • John Hay Beith (AKA: Ian Hay)
... he answered huskily, "who am accustomed to such denials. Then I demand this, for know that if once you pass your word I may trust it: that you will not marry the ...
— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard
... "Sir," began Dick huskily, "I regret being obliged to report that I just discovered Mr. Durville entering the sub-division ...
— Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point - Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps • H. Irving Hancock
... these calamities," huskily continued Don Benito, painfully turning in the half embrace of his servant, "I have to thank those negroes you see, who, though to your inexperienced eyes appearing unruly, have, indeed, conducted themselves with less of restlessness than even ...
— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville
... almost overcome again. "Win," he said huskily, "you're an angel! When you speak like that you cause all my sins and shortcomings to rise up before me, and I feel as if I were not worthy of your love and tenderness. Ah, little sister, it is little pure souls like yours ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... off the handle," said the screw, twirling huskily at the end of the screw-shaft. "If I had, you'd have been scrap-iron by this time. The sea dropped away from under me, and I had nothing to ...
— Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II • Rudyard Kipling
... out her hand impulsively. It did not tremble. She looked at him with radiant, steady eyes. He raised the slim, gloved fingers to his lips. "Whether to leave you, or to try to—Oh, I would give my life to know how best to serve you," he said huskily. He turned away, the sound of his steps ringing loud in the ...
— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield
... on the final notes; there was silence save for the tinkle of water and the flower bugles. Dan said, "Galatea—" and paused. The girl was again somber-eyed, tearful. He said huskily, "That's a sad song, Galatea. Why was your mother sad? You said everyone was happy ...
— Pygmalion's Spectacles • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
... "No," she answered, huskily; "I merely thought I was marrying a gentleman instead of a loafer, and I beg your pardon for the mistake!" She slammed the door on the last word, and he heard her light feet pattering swiftly down the hall, little guessing that she was ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed
... the plunge now. Her own colour had risen—her hand shook a little on her needles. And she had clearly roused some strong emotion in Farrell. After a few moments' silence, he fell upon her, speaking rather huskily. ...
— Missing • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Mitchell, huskily, patting her hand and overcoming his emotion with a strong effort. ...
— The Clicking of Cuthbert • P. G. Wodehouse
... was lifted in grateful pleasure, and she began to pin the rose to his lapel. Her hands were large and red and trembled. She dropped the flower, and, saying huskily, "I don't know as I could do it right," seized violently upon a pile of dishes and ...
— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington
... Sure an' ye'll be the clivir man some day," said the big man huskily, while his wife turned ...
— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor
... Captain Lake, but a little huskily, turning about and smiling at last, 'that Mark Wylder is nothing to me. We don't correspond: we have not corresponded. I know—upon my honour and soul, Sir—nothing on earth about him—what he's doing, where he is, or what's become of him. But I can't hear a man of business like you assert, upon ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... it, then, Jo," said Hiram huskily. "I never dreamed I'd ever have such a chance. And I'll work, too—I'll study night and day. But why—why are you doin' ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
... we will leave bygones alone," he answered, a little huskily. "I never minded your tandrums, knowing there was a good heart at the bottom. I only wished I was not such a dry old fellow, and that you could have been fonder of me. Perhaps you will understand me better some day, and——" Here he stopped and cleared his ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. • Various
... am a stranger. I have no friends—no one," he said huskily, and the tears came into ...
— Allison Bain - By a Way she knew not • Margaret Murray Robertson
... was hers;" and she hurried on huskily: "When you went away she couldna abide th' lonesomeness, an' so one day she said to her brother, 'Dave, let us go to th' new mine wheer Mester Ed'ard is;' an' him bein' allus ready fur a move, they started out together. But on th' way th' lad took sick and died ...
— "Seth" • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... Hamish, half blown of his breath with the height of the hill, Was white in the face when the ten-tined buck and the does Drew leaping to burn-ward; huskily rose His shouts, and his nether lip twitched, and his legs were o'er-weak ...
— Select Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier
... talk," he said huskily. "Over in America we have girl scouts—kind of. They call 'em Camp Fire Girls. Some people make fun of 'em, but they can climb and they don't scream when they get in a boat, and they ain't afraid of the woods, and they don't care if it rains, and they ain't a-scared of noises, ...
— Tom Slade with the Boys Over There • Percy K. Fitzhugh
... huskily, from the quivering lips of Mr. Jones. "Send for the doctor, Kitty, quick! Oh! How sick I feel! Send for the doctor, or I'll be a dead man ...
— The Lights and Shadows of Real Life • T.S. Arthur
... old friend!" he commanded, huskily. "It's all right. You'll make good. I know that. And there's a chance in a billion that you'll come back to us. I'm—I'm not deserting you. And I guess there's precious little danger that any one on The Place will ever forget you. It's—it's all right. Millions of humans are doing it. I'd give ...
— Bruce • Albert Payson Terhune
... boy," he said, huskily, calling him by that title for the first time, "I'm but a poor wreck at best. I can teach you no good, and God knows I wouldn't be the means of putting a shadow of evil in your heart. Your father says, ...
— Culm Rock - The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught • Glance Gaylord
... cheeks had heightened. Her voice came huskily. Old Mis' Meade glanced at her, a sharp and quick survey. Elihu indulgently unrolled his paper and spread it ...
— Country Neighbors • Alice Brown
... had worked patiently at his manuscript, rewriting, condensing, pouring over it the sincere sweat of his brow and the light of his boarding-house lamp during most of the evenings of two years, until at last he was able to tell his confidants, rather huskily, that there was "not one single superfluous word in it," not one that could possibly be cut, nor one that could be changed without "altering the significance ...
— Harlequin and Columbine • Booth Tarkington
... me—and maybe they will—for they say the Prophet is a fighter. If the Shawnees don't get me, I can make plenty more, so it's just as broad as it's long. Anyhow, the Sisters will know what to do with the wad. Say! I wish it had been bigger. They took me into the room where the youngsters stay," he said huskily, rubbing his head harder than ever. "They said—them real ladies said—that they would raise up the children to love me, and pray for me. When I come away they cried—them real ladies—about me, old Tommy Dye, that ain't even ...
— Round Anvil Rock - A Romance • Nancy Huston Banks
... mood that came upon us with his gentle words that none of us well could answer him; and this he understood as in turn we took his hand and strove to utter that which was in our hearts, and only could say huskily a word or two, of which the meaning was conveyed for the most part by the sorrow and the longing that were in our tones. Young's natural instincts were wholly opposed to any display of the softer emotions, and for shame of the weakness that in this case he could not help but show, his face and neck ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... with hands above his head in company with other passengers of the Sagebrush Stagecoach, while a huge, red-shirted Westerner with a fierce black mustache and a six-shooter in each hand belching bullets at Butch's dancing feet, roared out huskily: "Oh—I'm a ring-tailed roarer (bang-bang)! I'm a rip-snortin', high-falutin', loop-the-loopin' bad man (bang-bang)! I'm wild an' woolly, an' full o' fleas, an' hard to curry below the knees—I'm a roarin' wild-cat, an' it's my night to ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice
... Ike huskily, leaning over the glass bottom and staring; "for the love o' Mike, look what's goin' ...
— Owen Clancy's Happy Trail - or, The Motor Wizard in California • Burt L. Standish
... not the slightest encouragement, she brought him a favour: 'four times in succession. When the fourth came, "Look here!" said George huskily. "You going to keep this up all night? What ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... was attracted by a convulsive tugging of the tub which he supported in common with William; it seemed passionately to urge greater speed. A hissing issued from the boiler, and Genesis caught the words, huskily whispered: ...
— Seventeen - A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William • Booth Tarkington
... was," he answered huskily. "He was. But he's made his last trip. I wasn't three hundred miles off, but I never thought of Dave Weatherbee's needing help; it took Tisdale, clear off in Nome, over a thousand miles, to sense ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... head hopelessly, his eyes wet. The blow of her bereavement seemed to have destroyed her reasoning faculty. The once keen vision was dimmed. "All wrong, all wrong!" he said huskily. "Error—perversity! It drives me out of my senses. Do you care for him? Do you love him? You know you don't! It will be a fanatic prostitution—God forgive me, yes—that's what ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... near, Ned?" said Jack huskily. "What's that to you?" cried the man fiercely. "You mind your lesson. Ought to know better than that. I want to see you swim well, and you were doing beautiful before you began to talk. No, you ain't getting ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn
... cried huskily. "Oh, Ophelia!" and the minister's three small sons, pausing in their play in the grassless yard at the side of the house, while they watched the beautiful car standing in front of the parsonage gate, saw the owner of the Quarter Circle KT, in broad daylight, on the principal residence street of ...
— The Ramblin' Kid • Earl Wayland Bowman
... the blow. The carpenter's mouth was open in amazement. Neddie Benson, the first to move or break the silence, had spread his hands as if he were about to clutch at a butterfly or a beetle; dropping them to his side, he gasped huskily, "She said there'd be a light man and ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes
... latter huskily. 'When you say this morning, of course you mean this afternoon, but thanks ...
— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... huskily. He turned and walked rapidly down the hall, upon the veranda, and down the steps. His classmates were waiting for him. They rushed up to him, demanding that he ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... frightened," Saxon quavered huskily, with a half-sob of nervousness. "You frighten me. I am very foolish, and I know so little, that I ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London
... him that the invisible bonds which linked her to Clarke were being drawn upon with merciless power, for with the first motion of the vehicle she fixed a look of terror and entreaty upon her mother, exclaiming, huskily: "They are calling me! They will not let ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland
... turned from the window, and said, somewhat huskily:—"I wish some of these here poor people, as they call themselves, would either go away to Aymericay, or keep their premises a bit cleaner; nobody wants 'em here that ever I've heard ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... little flabbergasted by her easy flow of speech. "I don't want to sit down," he muttered huskily. He was staring at her ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
... got you at last!" growled a stern voice almost in his ear, it seemed; and poor Billiard's hands shot high into the air, he shut his eyes, held his breath and waited for the end. But to his utter amazement, a second voice huskily replied, after an instant, "Yes, you've got me, boys. I knew it was no use to run away, but—I—couldn't bear—to stay—and know that everyone looked at me as a thief. I never ...
— Tabitha's Vacation • Ruth Alberta Brown
... pants!" he said huskily. "Hit's the seat of my pants. Hit's—hit's thar!" He nodded toward the strip of jeans left on the ...
— Heart of the Blue Ridge • Waldron Baily
... not, my babykins," promised her father, huskily. "No more simple life for Genevieve ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan
... huskily. "Of course we are friends; the best friends. We shall always be friends. I have never let anyone say a word against you, and I never will. I am proud to think that you are known by my name. I only wish ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... the children had filed in before she asked me, in a tone encouraging confidence, to give my version of the story. This I did, huskily but fearlessly; and the teacher, who was a woman of tact, did not smile or commit herself in any way. She was sorry that the children had been rude to me, but she thought they would not trouble me any more if I let the subject drop. She made me understand, ...
— The Promised Land • Mary Antin
... looking after her, his eyelashes winking as had hers. "You oughtn't to have treated her that way," he said, huskily. ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington
... are not knaves," he growled, huskily, and, half rising from his seat with crimsoned visage, he was busying himself to say more, when Staupitz, who was as interested as the others in Master AEsop's scandalous chronicle, clapped one bear's paw on Faenza's shoulder and another bear's paw ...
— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... it was clear to the old man, he laid his hand upon the head of the young girl and whispered huskily, "I cannot thank you as I would, or tell you what's in my heart, God bless ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes |
