"Movingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had told him the story of Dowie and it had extraordinarily touched him though he had said but little. And now it repeated itself. He had never seen anything so movingly lovely in his life as ...
— Robin • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... curious sight. Everyone knows that, so long as the occasion lasts, there is no stronger bond of sympathy and good feeling among men than getting tipsy together. And how earnestly, nay, movingly, a brace of worthies, thus employed, will endeavour to shed light upon, ...
— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville
... look for the Low among the Rest of the Servants, less lovely tho' they are, than a Pamela, there is something however, so glowingly painted, in the Lines whereby the Author has mark'd their Distinctions——Something, so movingly forceful, in the Grief at their Parting, and Joy at the happy Return,—-Something so finely, at once, and so strongly and feelingly, varied, even in the smallest and least promising, little Family Incidents! that I need only appeal from the Heads, to the Hearts ...
— Samuel Richardson's Introduction to Pamela • Samuel Richardson
... done for if he had not still kept the hat. As soon as he could get his hands free he pulled it twice forward on his head; and then the cannon began to thunder and beat all down, till at last the king's daughter had to come and to beg pardon. And as she so movingly prayed and promised to behave better, he raised her up and made peace with her. Then she grew very kind to him, and seemed to love him very much, and he grew so deluded, that one day he confided to her that even if he were deprived of his knapsack ...
— Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm • Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm |
