"Incredulously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Excited, eh?" said Metcalf, incredulously; "I don't believe it. What about your going in to Warden's office, offering to give him the first shot? Were you ...
— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer
... so?" exclaimed the new hand incredulously; and then added, after a moment's thought, "But I should think they would all ...
— Under Fire - A Tale of New England Village Life • Frank A. Munsey
... of course, "pretty considerably," astonished at the quality and powers of the persons who addressed him, and, rather incredulously asked if they were quite sure that they could perform all which ...
— Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet • Captain Marryat
... Teresa whistled incredulously. "All right—then if you're not hiding, I'm going to." As he did not reply, she went on: "If I can keep out of sight for a couple of weeks, this thing will blow over here, and I can get across into Yolo. I could get a fair show there, where the boys know me. Just now ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... poet," returned the grave-faced traveler; "we have both of us been beyond the sunset to see the lovely Princess who rules that wonderful country, and we left it together on a journey to this world of yours." "Beyond the sunset!" repeated the other, incredulously. "That is the land of shadows; when the world was younger they used to say the old Gods lived there." "Maybe they live there still,' said the traveler, "for the Princess is of their kith and lineage." "A pretty fable, indeed," responded the scientific votary. "But we know now that all that kind ...
— Dreams and Dream Stories • Anna (Bonus) Kingsford
... The Pony Express got through at last!" announced Nick, incredulously; and so saying he took up the whisky bottle and glasses which lay on the teacher's desk and dashed into the saloon. He had barely left, however, than The Pony Express, muffled up to his ears and looking fit to brave the fiercest ...
— The Girl of the Golden West • David Belasco
... garment of cotton or coarse canvas; her feet and ankles are exposed, and her head is bound with a coloured handkerchief like a turban. We purchase daily of the Lechera a medio's worth of milk, but she grins incredulously, when one day we invite her to enter our studio. She is a slave belonging to the proprietor of a neighbouring farm, and what would 'mi-amo,' her master, say, or more probably 'do,' if he heard that his serf employed her time by ...
— The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba • Walter Goodman
... pause, during which the dealer seemed to weigh this statement incredulously. The ticking of many clocks among the curious lumber of the shop, and the faint rushing of the cabs in a near thoroughfare, filled ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... head and stared at him incredulously, as if he had asked her to do something wildly impossible. Understanding from his grave face that he meant what he said, a look of dismay dawned in her eyes. She shook her head almost violently and seemed to be making a passionate, instinctive ...
— Kilmeny of the Orchard • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... "Ay," said Nancy incredulously, "they do look like bank-notes, and feel like 'em; but they ain't wrote like them. Bank-notes ain't wrote black like that in the ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade
... incredulously up, then down again, in a shamefaced, uncomfortable way, then held out her hand, and kissed Christian, while two tears—only two—gathered and dropped from ...
— Christian's Mistake • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... a lodging, he proceeds to purchase some necessary articles of food, and looks incredulously at the shopkeeper when told that butter is 3s. 6d. a pound, cheese, ham, or bacon 2s. to 2s. 6d., and eggs 4s. or 5s. a dozen. He wisely dispenses with such luxuries, and contents himself with bread at 1s. 6d. the four-pound loaf, and meat at 5d. ...
— A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53. • Mrs. Charles (Ellen) Clacey
... remarked his opponent blandly. "Mine's hearts—all in a row, with the jack at the top." One by one he laid them down—a straight flush. South Bend stared incredulously ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx
... Sir John, incredulously, "why have you never told this story before? It seems incredible that you should have ...
— Coralie • Charlotte M. Braeme
... a moment in the face, incredulously. I tried to keep my countenance, and to play Indian, but it would not do. My muscles began to twitch; my feelings all at once gave way. I caught her in my arms; laughed, cried, and danced about the room, like a crazy man. From that time forward, ...
— The Crayon Papers • Washington Irving
... invitation to a very gay party which was proposed; and his great ally, Sir John Raymond, seemed rather vexed with him for not taking part in some new and expensive experiment in farming, and asked incredulously whether it were true that he wished to let a farm that he had kept for several years in his own hands. Humfrey agreed that it was so, and said something farther of wishing to come to terms quickly. She guessed that this was ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... whistled incredulously. "Wha-a-tt!" he almost shouted, "D'ye mean to tell me that bear got within twenty yards of you and couldn't catch ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall
... she repeated incredulously, as she looked to westward. The green glow of the second hour of the afternoon lay over everything. She stood mute and motionless for a long time, looking steadily at the horizon; then she started suddenly, changed her position, ...
— The Land of the Changing Sun • William N. Harben
... incredulously. The walls of the room were smooth, and hard to the touch. "They're as solid as concrete," ...
— The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds • Francis Flagg
... incredulously. But though at first I was unbelieving I had to yield to the evidence of ...
— A Journey to the Interior of the Earth • Jules Verne
... them. In fact, after offering rewards of that all-powerful incentive, tobacco, on numerous occasions, I have been unsuccessful in getting any one of them to attempt the feat, and when told that we had heard of their doing it they smiled rather incredulously. The Eskimo are clearly not successes in a cubistic or saltatorial line, as I have had ample opportunities to observe. They seem to be unable to do the simplest gymnastics, and were filled with the greatest delight and astonishment at some ...
— The First Landing on Wrangel Island - With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants • Irving C. Rosse
... voice, and now stood staring incredulously. First anger, and then a grin of triumph, showed in his face. Drink had made him not so much drunk as reckless. He had lost last night, ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... him incredulously. He was thinking of the frying-pan, coffee-pot, and lard-kettle of which his own consisted. He made no comment, however, until Wallie mentioned his portable bath-tub, which, while expensive, he declared he ...
— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart
... her head incredulously. "I have lost faith in Southern manor-houses. Ever since I came South I have sought them vainly. All the way from Atlanta I risked my life, putting my head out of the car windows, to see the plantations. At every scrubby-looking ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 • Various
... Irishman incredulously, thinking him demented. Teddy's gaping and rubbing of his eyes with his fists, and, finally, his stretching of arms and legs, reassured Tim of the ...
— The Lost Trail - I • Edward S. Ellis
... figure on the threshold. It was dimly outlined against the violet evening light. Sheila came up quite close and put her hands on the tense, hanging arms. They caught her. Then she sobbed and laughed aloud, calling out in her astonishment again and again, softly, incredulously— ...
— Hidden Creek • Katharine Newlin Burt
... know anything is wrong?" Hayes asked incredulously. He was having the same trouble facing the reality as ...
— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton
... and she leaned back against the lintel of the door, staring at him incredulously. "Charity!" ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington
... do what we could, more, it must be confessed, on the Baron's account than for the sake of old man Dumble. Accordingly, we tried to persuade the Baron that his secret at any rate was still inviolate. He listened incredulously. ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... vouldrois coupper; et si mes enfans en estoient entachez, je les vouldrois immoler." Voltaire (Hist. du parlement de Paris, i. 118), citing the substance of this atrocious sentiment from Maimbourg and Daniel, who themselves take it from Mezeray, says incredulously: "Je ne sais ou ces auteurs ont trouve que Francois premier avait prononce ce discours abominable." M. Poirson answers by giving as authority Theodore de Beze (Hist. eccles., i. 13). But on referring to the documentary records from the Hotel de Ville, among the pieces ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... him, but sat and stared incredulously, he laughed a little, frankly and boyishly. "The kris of Boonda Broke is for the hearts of every one of us," said he. "He may throw it soon— to-night—to-morrow. No man can leave here—all are needed; but a boy can ride; he is light in ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... Ainley took a quick step forward as a man emerged from the shadow of the trees into the circle of the firelight. It was the mounted policeman, Dandy Anderton, and behind him came another man at whom Helen stared for a moment incredulously, then with a great cry of joy ran ...
— A Mating in the Wilds • Ottwell Binns
... incredulously,—his face crimsoned with a sudden rush of enraged blood and then paled again, and changing his former insolent tone for one both fawning and propitiatory, ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... Hampton stared incredulously at his questioner, crushing his cigar between his teeth. Twice he started to speak, but literally choked back the bitter words burning his lips, while an uncontrollable admiration for the other's boldness began to overcome his ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish
... had suspected, Sara quickened her steps, Garth striding silently at her side. Presently the little wooden jetty came into view once more. It bore a curiously bare, deserted aspect, the waves riding and falling sluggishly on either side of its black, tarred planking, Sara stared at it incredulously, then an exclamation of sheer dismay burst from ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler
... ambitions, the dreams, the conception of self. It is easier to resist, but it may not seem so well worth while. Thus it is with me. I wonder not at the beginning or progress of my first love, but at the manner of its end, asking myself incredulously what motive or what notion had power to hold back the flood of youth, seeking almost in vain to re-discover the spring that moved me then. Yet, though I can not feel it again, I know dimly what it was, that high, strange, noble, ludicrous ideal of my office which so laid ...
— The King's Mirror • Anthony Hope
... Lilian Rosenberg said incredulously, nevertheless, turning pale. "Mr. Davenport is surely not ...
— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell
... facts in the case. I can see my readers raise their brows incredulously, for that is exactly what I would have done before this demonstration. Well, there is one way to prove it and that is to come and try it for yourselves. Moreover, I can see some sportsmen smile for another ...
— Across Mongolian Plains - A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' • Roy Chapman Andrews
... Katy laughed incredulously. "When would I get time? and what would I make it on? We don't have a fire but Sundays, and only a show of one then. And I don't want it, either: I ain't ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various
... can that sort of thing happen less than a stone's throw from the United States line?" asked Gale, incredulously. ...
— Desert Gold • Zane Grey
... Newman have had reasons for his course? we may incredulously ask. And here I revert to my particular state of mind years ago. The question for me was, holding as I did that in Jesus, God had spoken to the world, and that under God he was the Lord, and Saviour, and Judge of men, could I remain standing in such ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 • Various
... He stared incredulously until he had confirmed the substance of this impression; looked up blinking; met the confident, straightforward, and wistful regard of the girl; and blushed ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance
... you, not knowing what you may have heard. There can be no room for congratulation, as the lady has not accepted the offer I have made her." The Marchioness laughed incredulously,—with a little affected laugh in which the incredulity was sincere.—"I can only tell you that it ...
— Marion Fay • Anthony Trollope
... might perhaps answer, incredulously, "no one ever gets wiser by doing wrong? Shall I not know the world best by trying the wrong of it, and repenting? Have I not, even as it is, learned much by many of my errors?" Indeed, the effort by which partially you recovered yourself was precious: ...
— The Evolution of Expression Vol. I • Charles Wesley Emerson
... one of whom had ever seen a doll before, except what was home-made from an old dress or apron tied in several knots to make the head and body. Twice only was the silence broken. One boy quite forgot himself when given a pocket-knife. He looked at it suspiciously and incredulously, turned it over in his hand, opened it and felt the edge of the blade, and, panting with ...
— In Happy Valley • John Fox
... echoed a young fellow with a likeable face which was for the moment incredulously amused. "That goes Dick Whittington one better. You do make some rare ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck
... echoed Van incredulously, staring at the assay records which showed in merciless bluntness that six different samples of reputed ore had proved to be absolutely worthless. "The samples you assayed first showed from ten to one hundred and fifty dollars to the ...
— The Furnace of Gold • Philip Verrill Mighels
... a lumber nag whose every rib you can count through her skin is your beautiful thoroughbred?" ejaculated his friend, incredulously. "Come ...
— Boyhood in Norway • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... an officer of the detachment, together with a pile of correspondence that had accumulated during his absence. Recognising Violet's writing on the envelope he tore it open anxiously. He rapidly scanned the first page, stared at it incredulously, read it again carefully and then finished ...
— The Jungle Girl • Gordon Casserly
... bidding. They spoke by turns, and gave a clear and convincing account of their unpleasant adventure. They did not forget to describe the thrilling slaughter of the deer. This part of the narrative caused the loggers to open their eyes and stare incredulously. They slapped their horny hands ...
— The Camp in the Snow - Besiedged by Danger • William Murray Graydon
... in her favorite chair reading a magazine, looked up absently, then, staring incredulously at the newcomers, trotted across the room, both hands outstretched in welcome. "Why, Miss Harlowe and Miss Nesbit, I had given you up for to-night. Here are Miss Pierson and Miss Briggs, too. I'm so glad to see you. ...
— Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... Madge, incredulously, as she read the name, "Mr. Philip Spriggs! Are you sure he ...
— A Bookful of Girls • Anna Fuller
... as he talked to Mariel. Shandor's mind was whirling as he walked down toward the thoroughfare. Incredulously, he tried to piece the picture together. He had known Dartmouth Bearing was big—but that big? Mariel might have been talking nonsense, or he might have been reading the Gospel. Shandor hailed a cab, sat back in the ...
— Bear Trap • Alan Edward Nourse
... show you that I am stronger than you!" exclaimed Tom, and though the giants smiled incredulously so it was, for the magnet trick worked as well as before. There were murmurs of surprise from the two immense brothers, and they ...
— Tom Swift in Captivity • Victor Appleton
... eyebrows incredulously and said nothing. Yourii was silent also. For some reason or other he felt embarrassed by those clear, blue eyes, though he tried to keep looking ...
— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef
... Two or three more waiters came, and the master of the hotel. They all treated my communication in the same manner—coolly; incredulously; ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
... in your heart too the seed of suffering. Oh, I am too unworthy!" I cried out; "and when you come to discover how unworthy it will hurt you; it will sting your pride to think how kind you were to me." She smiled incredulously, in denial of my words. "No, child; ...
— Bardelys the Magnificent • Rafael Sabatini
... simplicity in believing that an actual salary was a perquisite of her adoption, and understood for the first time how small a part of the expense of their living this faithful stipend had defrayed. She looked back incredulously on that period when she had lived with them in a state of semi-starvation on the corn meal and cereals and very little else that her dollar and a half a week had purchased, and the "garden sass," that her grandfather had faithfully hoed and tended in the straggling patch ...
— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley
... looked at one another incredulously and smiled. The idea of a bottomless hole in the ...
— Canoe Boys and Campfires - Adventures on Winding Waters • William Murray Graydon
... Timar had offered the officials a larger commission than he himself usually did, and that he had thus obtained the profitable bread contract by which Brazovics usually enriched himself. But that he should have made so large a profit out of it—on that point he shook his head incredulously. Since Timar had risen in the world, and become his own master, Brazovics cultivated the friendship of his former supercargo, and invited him to his evening receptions, which Timar accepted willingly enough. ...
— Timar's Two Worlds • Mr Jkai
... half incredulously. The very last letter she had received from Sypher had been full of the lust of battle. ...
— Septimus • William J. Locke
... thought a collie had half a chance against a bull dog," Mrs. Wescott interrupted, incredulously. "And such a dog as Bull, ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... the Biblical place of torment. "What yuh quittin' for, Lone?" he added incredulously. "All you boys got a raise last ...
— The Quirt • B.M. Bower
... out of his chair, struck the hot deck with his bare feet, cursed, and hopped back into the chair again. McGuffey stared incredulously. ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... Some gentlemen, whom he frequently met in business relations, knew that he had purchased a young slave, whom he had placed with a French woman to be educated; but had he told them the true state of the case, they would have smiled incredulously. Occasionally, they uttered some joke about the fascination which made him so indifferent to cards and horses; but the reserve with which he received such jests checked conversation on the subject, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 7, May, 1858 • Various
... doorway into the sunlight. He thought he had believed that he would receive the sentence which the juryman had spoken so baldly; yet, after the words had been actually spoken, he stared blankly after Bill and the others, and incredulously at the Captain, who seated himself upon a bunk opposite to watch his prisoner, his pistol resting suggestively upon his knee. The boy lingered to shake Jack's unresponsive hand and mutter a broken sentence or two of gratitude and sympathy. But Jack scarcely ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower
... the perfume of a sweet, loving life, Jane. She brought the love of God into the world with her. Her soul was never at enmity with Him. She would look incredulously at you, if you told her so. I wish you would return her ...
— The Measure of a Man • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... to sleep," I said, speaking distinctly and authoritatively; wondering at the time how much power my will would have over her. Did I possess any of that magnetic, tranquillizing influence about which Jack Senior and I had so often laughed incredulously at Guy's? Her lips moved fast; for now my eyes had grown used to the dim light I could see her face plainly, but I could not catch a syllable of what she was whispering so ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma • Hesba Stretton
... looked at each other curiously. "Oh! Harry Pendleton," said Mr. Hoskins, incredulously ...
— A Ward of the Golden Gate • Bret Harte
... said, "and don't be alarmed, I'm not preparing to have you daggered or garroted. Entirely the reverse, Guy. I've decided to offer terms: to capitulate; to throw the whole thing over; to betray my mission and get out of the service forever. No, don't smile incredulously, I mean it." ...
— The Cab of the Sleeping Horse • John Reed Scott
... stillness of her room, the proportions of the storm grew less, and possible dimensions of a future hope greater—just as the seafarer when his ship lies in a flat calm of the oily harbour thinks half incredulously of the danger past, despises himself for the anxiety he felt, and vows that on the morrow he will face the waves again, though the winds blow ever so fiercely. In Unorna the master passion was as strong as ever. In ...
— The Witch of Prague • F. Marion Crawford
... startled for a moment; then he smiled bitterly and incredulously. It seemed too monstrous and absurd that Camilla should have betrothed herself to this forbidding, ugly, ...
— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett
... while Don Stingo and Paddy Burns cackled incredulously; but, at the same moment, Ring Finger Bill and Nimble Jack, two jet-black persons, in loose striped gingham shirts and bare feet, with an attempt at a grave expression of thick-lipped coffee-coolers, the whites of their eyes ...
— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
... incredulously, but he said nothing. Madame Christophor had found her way once more to the window. She stood there, looking down into the car. The boy was still asleep. She gripped the window-curtains with both her hands. He was so pale, so tired, and how ...
— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Mom Wallis, wonderingly. "Glory! Me!" and turned incredulously toward the glass. She looked a long tune wistfully at herself, as if she could not believe it, and pulled reproachfully at the tight hair drawn away from her weather-beaten face. "I useta have purty ...
— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill
... sat under a large silk-cotton tree silently eating supper off plates of palm leaves, the old chief suddenly threw down his meat, and, with a startled expression, said, "I hear spirits!" Never having heard such ethereal visitors myself, I smiled incredulously, whereupon the old savage glared at me, and, leaving his food upon the ground went away out of the firelight into the darkness. Afraid that he might take one of the horses and return to his people, I followed to soothe him, but his offended mood did not pass until, as ...
— Through Five Republics on Horseback • G. Whitfield Ray
... he laughed incredulously. "Don't hope it too fast. See here, Boy, are you real? Come here and let me see." ...
— The Twenty-Fourth of June • Grace S. Richmond
... this happened here?" repeated Sweetheart, incredulously, pointing up at the dark purple mountains ...
— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... and incredulously at the rancher. Dorothy had now joined the group, and was listening to what ...
— The Rising of the Red Man - A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion • John Mackie
... openly regretted; but those who repeat that the Central Committee declares having had nothing to do with it, are listened to with patience. The rumour that they were shot by soldiers gains ground, and seems less incredulously received. As to the massacres of the Rue de la Paix, we are told that this event is enveloped in mystery, that the evidence is most contradictory, etc., etc.[22] There is evidently a decided reactionary movement in favour ...
— Paris under the Commune • John Leighton
... profession when peace comes; and meanwhile I have offers from a cafe to recite warlike songs. Ah! you shake your head incredulously. The ballet-dancer recite verses? Yes! he taught me to recite his own Soyez bon pour moi. M. Savarin! do say where I ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... Brent stared at him incredulously. Haney looked solemnly at him. The Chief regarded Joe thoughtfully out of the corner of his eye. Then Mike shouted gleefully. The Chief blinked, and a moment later grunted wrathful unintelligible syllables of Mohawk, and then tried to pound Joe on the back ...
— Space Tug • Murray Leinster
... one despairing scrawl, one cherished miniature, one faded floweret, etc., etc.? I can't believe it, Cousin," and he shook his head incredulously. ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... Rowe incredulously. "You know perfectly well that all communication is strictly forbidden. Muriel, did you ask ...
— The Nicest Girl in the School - A Story of School Life • Angela Brazil
... in sight. Presently some of our crew began to whisper mysteriously together, and the word was passed from one to another, that this was no other than the ill-famed island of Angatan. I knew that an island of that name, the subject of a thousand bug-bear stories, to which I had often incredulously listened, was said to lie somewhere to the north of Hao; but I had never met with any one who could give me any definite and ...
— The Island Home • Richard Archer
... she so very fond of her father!" asked Madame Ray, incredulously. "When he was alive, they did not seem to make much of him in his own house. Maybe this retreat is a good way of getting over a little ...
— Jacqueline, Complete • (Mme. Blanc) Th. Bentzon
... Nelson rubbed his eyes incredulously, for in the heart of the shimmering circle had materialized the outline of a room with walls of ...
— Astounding Stories, March, 1931 • Various
... fifth it had quite calloused over; so that he did not mind anything so much as what always seemed to him the inadequate effect of his experience with his hearers. Some listened carelessly; some nervously; some incredulously, as if he were trying to put up a job on them; some compassionately, as if he were not quite right, and ought to be looked after. There was a consensus of opinion, among those who offered any sort of comment, that he ought to give it to the ...
— Questionable Shapes • William Dean Howells
... anything to eat?" said Fillmore incredulously. He supposed in a vague sort of way that there were eccentric people of this sort, but it was hard to realize that he had met one of ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse
... asked, incredulously, "that you think I want to marry you just so I can—can restore ...
— The Lilac Girl • Ralph Henry Barbour
... Gamble turned to the track and distinguished his long shot off in the lead. He smiled grimly at that irony, for he had seen long-shot horses raise false hopes before. Mildly interested, he watched Angora reach the quarter pole, still in the lead. Rather incredulously, he saw her still in the lead at the half. He was eager about it when she rounded the three-quarters with nothing but daylight before her; and as she came down the stretch, with Nautchautauk reaching out for her flanks, he stuck the ash-end of his cigar in his mouth and did ...
— Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress • George Randolph Chester
... was heard to say incredulously, "Not at home?" Then he retired slowly, and did not leave the neighborhood. He had called at an hour when Grace was always ...
— Put Yourself in His Place • Charles Reade
... Paris, while extremely busy reorganizing his regiment, Colonel Feraud learned that Colonel D'Hubert had been made a general. He glared at his informant incredulously, then folded his arms and turned away muttering, "Nothing surprises me on the part ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad
... tail. That expression cost him dear. Inside the gate there stood a large vulgar dog, without a tail to speak of. Its parting was crooked, its hair was in its eyes. All these personal disadvantages the Family had time to note, while the dog gazed incredulously at ...
— This Is the End • Stella Benson
... a voice incredulously. "He'll give himself to you," and Dunham dropped lightly from the rock above the absorbed girls, who sat up suddenly to find him ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham
... Coquenil incredulously. How could a man refuse a salary of a hundred thousand francs? The commissary watched his friend with admiration, Gibelin with ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett
... feeling of his neck, which still bore the marks of the lasso in the shape of a bright red streak. "If you had stayed away five minutes longer, I should have been hanged. O, it's a fact!" he added, earnestly, noticing that the doctor looked at him incredulously. "I came very near dancing on nothing, now I tell you; and if you only knew all that has happened in this house since dark, you wouldn't say that there was no one here to take care of that money. But, uncle, how ...
— Frank Among The Rancheros • Harry Castlemon
... attentively, watching him narrowly the while. But he shook his head incredulously at the idea of the Princess ever having posed as ...
— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli
... General. He had been outspoken, almost brutal, in his scornful hostility to Lincoln, and the appointment by him was as great a surprise to Stanton as his acceptance of it was to everyone. When asked, somewhat incredulously, what he would do as War Secretary Stanton replied, "I will make Abe Lincoln President of the United States." Of the character of this remarkable man, Mr. Alonzo Rothschild, in his interesting study ...
— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne
... incredulously. "Would you have me send her to the convent school, where they use the same-knife and fork all the week round, and wash them only once a week?" ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... you mean?" incredulously. "You don't like that automobile better, do you? They're so—so stubby. I must have a horse, a horse!" She smoothed and patted ...
— Jewel - A Chapter In Her Life • Clara Louise Burnham
... looked closer. Next, to make certain that he was not mistaken, he pinned the picture with a calloused forefinger. "A—a kettle?" he asked incredulously. "Scouts wear a pitcher ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... the Herald building when he came up Broadway and stopped to read the news on the Telegram bulletin board. I said to my friend, with surprise, 'There is the fellow I told you about—the one that beat me this morning in getting the position at Goldwin's.' He looked at me incredulously and said: 'Why, you told me he was a ...
— The Boy Broker - Among the Kings of Wall Street • Frank A. Munsey
... noan goin' to wed sich an owd, tough, dried-up body as yon, for sure?" cried comfortable Mrs. Orme incredulously. "Ye mun be a good ten or fifteen year ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
... cried incredulously. "You don't know what you did? You moved! How are they going to get my face if you move? Don't you know enough to hold a picture and ...
— Harlequin and Columbine • Booth Tarkington
... plant the corn and cut the wheat, too," said Kate, with the pluck of a true Canadian girl. "We'll soon learn to wield the sickle, though you seem to doubt it, Captain Villiers," she went on, looking archly at the gallant captain, who smiled rather incredulously. ...
— Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher • William Henry Withrow
... to examine the smashed fragments of chalk that lay about Andoo. For a space she stood still, looking about her and making a low continuous sound that was almost a moan. Then she went back incredulously to Andoo to make one last ...
— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells
... to St. Hennon's?" said the boy incredulously. "I'll stay to-night at Turrifs, and go on in the morning. It's four days' walk for me and the cattle to go and come, but I shall take back a man ...
— What Necessity Knows • Lily Dougall
... that same almost irresistible desire to be fighting myself that had come over me when I had seen the other battery. If I could only play my part! If I could fire even a single shot—if I, with my own hands, could do that much against those who had killed my boy! And then, incredulously, I heard the words in my ...
— A Minstrel In France • Harry Lauder
... again Carrados explained, and Mr. Carlyle sat aghast, saying incredulously: "Good God, Max, ...
— Four Max Carrados Detective Stories • Ernest Bramah
... half of the whole area of the ground included in it, there figured a lake of such portentous size and such unseemly shape, representing a gigantic slug, or, perhaps, even closer still, the ugly salamander, that everybody who looked at it incredulously laughed and shook his head. It was, indeed, phenomenon enough in these days to excite anybody's curiosity! A single sheet of sweet water, upwards of eight hundred miles long by three hundred broad, quite equal in size to, if not larger than, ...
— What Led To The Discovery of the Source Of The Nile • John Hanning Speke
... unmoved to the expressions of despair and the prayers for liberty, and laughed incredulously, when the girl ...
— Dainty's Cruel Rivals - The Fatal Birthday • Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
... Is he—is he in a large way of business?" Mona asked almost incredulously. Shiel Crozier in a large way of business, in a big business deal? It did not seem possible. His had ever been the game of ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... Susan echoed incredulously. For the "Junior Cotillion" was quite the most exclusive and desirable of the city's winter dances for ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... in the calmest voice, the two captains caught their breath and stared at each other. Captain Runacles was the first to recover. He laughed incredulously. ...
— The Blue Pavilions • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... a hand on her lips and stared with distended eyes. "RUINED?" she gasped, unable to believe him—incredulously, as if at some barbaric jest. "Ruined?" She had turned quite white. "Oh," she cried, wetting her lips, "does it mean there is nothing left? How did it happen? Oh, ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... with an exhausted mind, Bat reached his gymnasium. Danny, the red-haired office boy, was there, and looked at his employer almost incredulously. ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist • John T. McIntyre
... me that people never knew about sugar until then?" inquired Van incredulously, halting in ...
— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett
... incredulously. "Don't try to rag me, Lennie Browne, for it won't come off. As it happens, I asked Toddlekins half an hour ago, and she said there were no ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... muttered ineptly. Five hundred and thirty dollars, he repeated incredulously to himself. Five hundred.... "How long has it ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... but no praise could fill The depths of her desire to please, Though dull to others as a Will To them that have no legacies. The more I praised the more she shone, Her eyes incredulously bright, And all her happy beauty blown Beneath the beams of my delight. Sweet rivalry was thus begot; By turns, my speech, in passion's style, With flatteries the truth o'ershot, And she surpass'd them ...
— The Angel in the House • Coventry Patmore
... new seed is small," objected Don Filipo incredulously. "If all enter upon the progress we purchase so ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... Green Farm?" Mrs. Spencer stared incredulously. "Why, I knew old Gregory Gibbs well—and a fine old fellow he was too. And Fred and Roger—why, I knew 'em both. They used to come down into t' town on market days with their dad, and a pair of jolly little lads they were ...
— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes
... incredulously, "I don't see how you ever had the courage to do it. Why, that man might have ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge - or, The Hermit of Moonlight Falls • Laura Lee Hope
... a little walk, Stell'?" Percy put the question coaxingly. When Stella was pleased with him she went to walk with him, since that was the only way in which Percy could ever see her alone. When she was displeased, she said she was too tired to go out. To-night she smiled at him incredulously, and went to put on her hat and gray ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
... are nothing but rags," her mother answered incredulously. "We shall have to go to Paris in any case for your trousseau. ...
— The Heart of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford
... die Wolfgang, the boy?" The woman stared incredulously: that was impossible. But she had ...
— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig
... men began to talk to him, and he turned around in order to face them. They were urging him to confess his own guilt and tell who were the other burglars, and where they were. But Barney had nothing to tell. He could only protest again and again his innocence. The men, however, shook their heads incredulously, and after a while they left him to himself and smoked their ...
— The Young Mountaineers - Short Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock
... we remember aright, has smiled incredulously at (p. 132) the story of the fox-skin cap, the belt, and the broadsword. But of the latter appendage this is not the only record. Burns himself mentions it as a frequent accompaniment of his when he went ...
— Robert Burns • Principal Shairp
... upon the table and bowed his head between his hands in an attitude of profound fatigue. He seemed to remind himself of Lanyard's presence only at 'cost of a racking effort, lifting heavy-lidded eyes to stare almost incredulously ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph
... you do not intend to give me up?" asked the crumpled man incredulously. He raised his head ...
— Captain Pott's Minister • Francis L. Cooper
... seemed to dance with fury as he entered the orb of glow from a street-lamp. At each step he brandished his stick and brought it down with a crash. His glasses on their broad pretentious ribbon banged against his stomach. Babbitt incredulously saw that ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... that a gentleman who had a mother and sisters, should need such a lesson from a woman like Peggy," said Harriett, incredulously. ...
— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence
... Dick whistled incredulously. Here was fame, here was glory. His favourite authors were justified, and yet there was the dark side; thought of his mother ...
— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson
... his eye fell upon the figure of a woman, some distance ahead, and fairly discernible in the gathering twilight. Immediately the song ceased and he steadied himself, gazing incredulously after the form ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham
... the necessary employment it did secure. The better workmen of the party were engaged, on his arrival, in hewing columns, each of which was deemed sufficient work for a week; and David was asked, somewhat incredulously, by the foreman, "if he could hew?" "O yes, he thought he could hew." "Could he hew columns such as these!" "O yes, he thought he could hew columns such as these." A mass of stone in which a possible column lay hid, was accordingly placed before David, ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller
... she said incredulously. "You should see my brother's score-card the first time he shot at that new miniature ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... her brow and stared at me incredulously. I turned half aside and glanced around the table. Every face but three showed blank amazement. Of those three, the Princess's wore a tolerant smile; Lotzen's a frown; but Courtney's was set in almost a sneer. And, at it, I marvelled. ...
— The Colonel of the Red Huzzars • John Reed Scott
... last when I had to go off to my ordeal. I was obliged at the last moment to disclose my well-kept secret to my mother and my guardian. The former fell on my neck, the latter grunted incredulously and embarrassed me by presenting me ...
— Tom, Dick and Harry • Talbot Baines Reed
... Sylvia?" exclaimed Ferrall incredulously. "You? What's the younger set coming to?" and he motioned a servant to fill her glass. But she pushed it aside with a shiver, and gave Plank a strange look which he scarcely understood ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers
... like another Jael, she would kill my son with her own hand, and would drive a nail into his head. When I implored my son to be on his guard against her, and told him this, he laughed at my fears and shook his head incredulously. ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... said Mrs. Tubbs incredulously, 'As to that, all I've got to say is, that you'd better wish yourself back again, as I sha'n't own you as ...
— Frank's Campaign - or the Farm and the Camp • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... chink, chink, chink—twenty-five chinks—a rap on the writing-table, and a grunt from the owner of the stout legs. It dawned upon Mr. Ledbetter that this chinking was the chinking of gold. He became incredulously curious as it went on. His curiosity grew. Already, if that was the case, this extraordinary man must have counted some hundreds of pounds. At last Mr. Ledbetter could resist it no longer, and he began very cautiously to fold his arms and lower his head to the level of the floor, in the hope of ...
— Twelve Stories and a Dream • H. G. Wells
... host, "the internal principle you speak of can be arrested before the grave,—at least stilled and impeded. You will smile incredulously, perhaps (for I see you do not know who I am), when I tell you that I might once have been a monarch, and that obscurity seemed to me more enviable than empire; I resigned the occasion: the tide of fortune rolled onward, and left me safe but solitary and forsaken ...
— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... this notion incredulously; for though Kinlay knew the coast very well, yet the idea of his starting with his limited experience as an Orkney pilot was droll to one who, like my uncle, had been all his life at the work, and knew every fathom ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton
... her eyebrows incredulously. "Sit down here and play one of his compositions, if you please—here, at my piano," she ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand
... said she fiercely, "it can't be." "Why?" "You are the only man who has spent in me for years." "What," said I incredulously, "no one had you?" "No one has spent in me but you for years,—no one." I was staggered, but returned to the subject. "Nonsense Louisa,—how can you tell?" "I've told you why." "Why if you've a husband, and if ...
— My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. - 1888 Edition • Anonymous
... ejaculated Mr. Tolman incredulously. "Mercy on us! I never knew your mother to be starting out on a short trip with such an array of gowns." Then turning toward his wife, he added in bantering fashion: "Aren't you getting a little frivolous, my dear? If it ...
— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett
... with them to the river bank, pointed out my sled loaded with corn on the ice, and explained to them it had to be brought up the bank. They asked incredulously, "An' kin ye haul that thar ...
— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler
... from West Point," he repeated, incredulously, "all the way to Honduras—to join me!" He turned to the two officers. "Did he ...
— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis
... incredulously at the officer. Then Thorvald's official severity vanished in a smile ...
— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton
... you, his brother, come to me now and, knowing all, dare to hold out to me the hope of forgiveness and of peace?" and the man stared incredulously into the kind, pitying eyes bent ...
— The Alchemist's Secret • Isabel Cecilia Williams
... Dr. Hansombody, elected by the unanimous vote of his fellow-councillors, attained to one of the twin summits of his ambition and was indued as Chief Magistrate with robe and chain. Six weeks later the town heard, at first incredulously, that he and Miss Marty were betrothed. The nuptials, it was announced, would be celebrated next June, on the decent expiry of ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Mr. Leigh's letter first; he meant just to see that all was well, and then to read the other; but the news upon which his eye fell, put everything else for the moment out of his head. He glanced half incredulously over what his father said, and then tore open the newspaper to seek for its confirmation. He had not far to seek. Two columns of the thin provincial sheet were scored with black crosses, and bore the ominous ...
— A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 - A Novel • Mrs. Harry Coghill
... half-incredulously into the eyes of the young man. But behind all their shrewdness and intensity he saw a massive innocence. Mr. Bunner really believed a serious breach between husband and wife to be a minor source of trouble for a ...
— The Woman in Black • Edmund Clerihew Bentley
... say nothing, Harrigan?" she said incredulously. "Do you really refuse to speak those words to the captain after he has been generous enough to give you a last chance to make a ...
— Harrigan • Max Brand
... her?" incredulously repeated Bascomb—"Not in her? Then what a plague do the Dons mean by coming off to us at all? Surely I made it plain enough to them all that the surrender of our Captain was the very first article of our demand? ...
— Two Gallant Sons of Devon - A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood
... your eyes, and shake your little heads incredulously, but nevertheless it is a positive fact, that Venice, the fair Queen of the Adriatic, sends forth every year no less than three thousand tons of glass beads, for the adornment of your sisters big and little in all the four quarters ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... caught his eye. A bit of string. He stared at it incredulously. The end was tied into a curious and an individual knot, which looked like it might be the pastime of a sailor, and which looked like it ought to be fairly easy to tie. But it was one of those knots which wandering men sometimes tie absent mindedly in the presence of stirring events. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 • Various
... say that you give up a boot and shoe manufacturer merely because his daughter has round shoulders!" he exclaimed, incredulously. ...
— Stories By English Authors: London • Various
... sniffed incredulously. A messenger handed a couple of telegrams to the chief. He read them with knitted brows and ...
— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen
... the incredulously joyful half-whisper, and he felt the pang that comes to all fathers at such a moment. Nell was not going to be only his ever again. He had been enough for her once on a time; yet, here she was, come to womanhood, breaking her heart for ...
— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan
... coming to her out of a dream. Thrusting back the tangled hair from her eyes Maria Angelina lifted them incredulously ...
— The Innocent Adventuress • Mary Hastings Bradley
... the hardy old seaman's listeners smiled somewhat incredulously at the "two or three thousand," but nevertheless he was not only not exaggerating, but might have said five or six thousand. The Christmas Island to which he referred must not be mistaken for the island of the same name in ...
— A Memory Of The Southern Seas - 1904 • Louis Becke
... a thing be possible?" asked Mrs. McVeigh, incredulously; "in that case I shall think twice before I send my daughter here to school, as I had half intended—and you remained ...
— The Bondwoman • Marah Ellis Ryan
... his room, Lello of Aquila and the Count of Fondi slipped mysteriously to the side of his bed, and making sure that no one could hear, told him that the king in a council held that morning had decided to kill him and to imprison the other princes. Charles heard them out, but incredulously: suspecting treachery, he dryly replied that he had too much confidence in his cousin's loyalty to believe such a black calumny. Lello insisted, begging him in the name of his dearest friends to listen; but the duke was impatient, and ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... have lived under The Fell Louis, should not look deeper into the minds of men. St. John's Day is but nine days hence, yet will I wager you ten good rose nobles it brings no coronation with it. I know"—as De Lacy regarded him incredulously—"that the council has so fixed it—that the ceremonies have been arranged—that the provisions for the banquet have been ordered—and that the nobility are gathering from all England, yet none the less will ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... would be more than the whole of my income. But the riddle is easily solved: the work in the stables is done by means of machinery, so that on an average one man is enough for every fifty horses. You shake your heads incredulously! But when you have soon in how few minutes a horse can be groomed and made to look as bright as a mirror by our enormous cylindrical brushes set in rotation by mechanism; in how short a time our scouring-machines and water-service can cleanse the largest stable ...
— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka |
