"Musingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hurt,' musingly repeated Leonard. 'No, she is beyond the reach of distracting temptations and sorrows; it has only made her brighter to have suffered what it breaks one's heart to think of. It ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge
... said Mrs. Schofield musingly. "Of course you and I and everybody who really knows the Bitts and Magsworth families understand the perfect absurdity of it; but I suppose there are ever so many who'll believe it, no matter what the Bittses ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington
... the last man in Paradise, always excepting Major Dabney," he said half-musingly. "Haven't you often wondered what sort of a maggot it is that gets into the human brain to give ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde
... man of me," returned the rector musingly. "I remember her such a tiny thing in a white frock and curls. Tell her what we have been talking about, and beg her to excuse me. ...
— Paul Faber, Surgeon • George MacDonald
... of her back. Her lean neck has a cracked look and is white as a bone. Musingly, my aunt takes and holds a pair of idle tongs. I take my seat. Mame does not like the silence in which I wrap myself. She lets the tongs fall with a jangling shock, and then begins vivaciously to talk to me about the people of the neighborhood. "There's everything here. No need to go to ...
— Light • Henri Barbusse
... are three principal elements,—the Hero, the Heroine, the Villain,—all three gracefully blending, in the Plot. We cannot especially congratulate our authors upon their Hero. In a favorite farce, the slightly bewildered Mr. Lullaby observes musingly, "Brown? Brown? That name sounds familiar! I must have heard that name before! I'll swear I've heard that name before!" We have a dim consciousness of having met "Mr. Linden" before, albeit under a different name. A certain Mr. Humphreys, whom we remember of old, strongly resembles ...
— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860 • Various
... the Tracer musingly, "not in the ordinary way. That is the point, you see. No, she fell in love at first sight; fell in love with a young man whom she never before had seen, never again beheld—and never forgot. Do you still follow me, ...
— The Tracer of Lost Persons • Robert W. Chambers
... in the bed and put his pipe on a chair. "It has been a long time since I went hunting," he said, musingly. "It seems a long time since I have done anything, except to brood over my failing health. But I will have no more of that. Yes, I will go hunting with you." He shoved up the sleeve of his shirt and called his wife's attention. ...
— An Arkansas Planter • Opie Percival Read
... take a good while,' said Esther musingly, 'to go through the whole Bible from one ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner
... why on earth he tries to be generous when he doesn't know how," Helen said, musingly. "I wonder if he's got bushy gray hair and whiskers, like somebody we were studying about yesterday. Who ...
— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester
... all. And sometimes I tell her stories,—stories of sailors supposed to be lost, and recovered after all hope was abandoned." Here the captain musingly went back ...
— A Message from the Sea • Charles Dickens
... makes me think she's only a governess for fun. I never knew a girl so ready to laugh—though she did cry that morning." He spoke musingly, half to himself. ...
— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson
... wondered," he went on musingly. "Think of it: somewhere back in the past you took the first step in a path which was to lead you to that late supper in the Chouteau. Somewhere in my past I took the first step in the crooked trail that ...
— The Price • Francis Lynde
... tunes," she repeated musingly. "What was the first one, I wonder? One of those that you have just ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester
... Abergenny's attentions are ever very serious," said Mrs. Nunn musingly. "He certainly could make any young lady the fashion, but he is fickle and must marry fortune. But Hunsdon—he is quite independent, and as steady as"—she glanced about in search of a simile, remembered West Indian earthquakes, and added lamely—"as ...
— The Gorgeous Isle - A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 • Gertrude Atherton
... rested on his knitted brow, for a moment, wistfully, musingly. Then she said: "I see! man's inflexible pride—no pardon there! But own, at least, that ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... Joel, shutting one eye and looking up at the ceiling, musingly, while he smacked his lips in remembrance; ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney
... gaze at the sky, the sun-bathed campanile, with a wistfulness not unfamiliar to her companion, and which she attributed to an imaginative childhood. "Perhaps the evening bells of Rome are the echoes of her voice in another world," she added, musingly. ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 • Various
... his throat again. He was a roly-poly little man; over seventy now but still healthy-looking, with an apple-cheeked, sunburned face. Over a pair of steel-rimmed glasses his faded blue eyes peered musingly at Barney. "Around thirty-five, ...
— Gone Fishing • James H. Schmitz
... absorbed in his reflections, at his small house in Charlottenburg. It was yet early, for he had risen before sunrise, and had been at work a long time, when he ceased for a moment and yielded to his meditations. Leaning back in his easy chair, he gazed musingly through the open glass-doors, now on serene sky, and again on the fragrant verdure ...
— NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER • L. Muhlbach
... went on musingly. "She knew it. I suppose she'll be friendly and curious and chummy, and hurt men without meaning to until she finds the particular sort of ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... have been a very extensive bankrupt stock you acquired," said the clergyman musingly. "And were all the ...
— Reginald Cruden - A Tale of City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... attitude, and, seeing her there, some of the doves on the roof flew down and strutted on the ground before her, coo-cooing proudly, as though desirous of attracting her attention. One of them boldly perched on the window-sill; she glanced at the bird musingly, and softly stroked its opaline wings and shining head without terrifying it. It seemed delighted to be noticed, and almost lay down under her hand in order to be more conveniently caressed. Still gently smoothing its feathers, she leaned further out among the clambering wealth of blossoms, and ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... all that, we invariably missed the sequel—which, once missed, could hardly be foregone contentedly. We recalled to mind, for example, such descriptive particulars in the original story as that, in mentioning each successive kind of eatable, Tugby did so "as if he were musingly summing up his good actions," or that, after this, rubbing his fat legs and jerking them at the knees to get the fire upon the yet unroasted parts, he laughed as if somebody had tickled him! We bore distinctly enough in remembrance, and longed then to ...
— Charles Dickens as a Reader • Charles Kent
... Mrs. Hollenbeck musingly, "that a man of such fine intellect should have such vague ...
— Richard Vandermarck • Miriam Coles Harris
... isn't so much the old expedient," said the professor musingly, "as it is that I would be afraid to leave you herewith no protection against that drinking ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane
... that has shared my meal for many a long day," he said. "Day after day, and year after year, I have broken my fast alone, but it seems pleasant, after all," he said, musingly. "Men are treacherous and deceitful, but you," he said, resting his glance on the frank, ingenuous face of his youthful guest, "you must be honest and true, or I am ...
— Try and Trust • Horatio Alger
... repeated Hay, musingly, but without change of expression; "desirable father-in-law. And ...
— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume
... When I see what it has brought me, I cannot understand how I could help wanting it... It is true that I do not always know for certain what I have at heart." His eyes came back from space to rest musingly on Elfgiva. "When I began this feasting-time, I thought I had grasped heaven with my hands, but now—" he spread out his fingers and released the little bunch of dead leaves that he had been rolling against his palm—"now I let not this go from me more easily... You see that ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... Terry musingly. "A very nice child indeed. I believe she looks very much as I used to ...
— The Christmas Angel • Abbie Farwell Brown
... the lady. Her glance warmed with memories; she hovered musingly on the verge of recital. But the cigarette was half done and at its best. I allowed her another moment, a moment in which she laughed confidentially to herself, a little dry, throaty laugh. I knew that laugh. She would be marshalling certain events in their just and diverting order. But they seemed ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... THEIR LIVING BY DYEING.—"Sweet Auburn!" exclaimed a ruddy, aureate-haired lady of uncertain age,—anything, in fact, after fifty,—"'Sweet Auburn!'" she repeated, musingly, "What does 'Sweet Auburn' come from?" "Well," replied her husband, regarding her coiffure with an air of uncertainty, "I'm not quite sure, but I think ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 • Various
... musingly, 'to be the most suited for mortals. In thy words and emblems I see nothing but sensuality of the least material order. And to all there seemeth, too, to be a time when one clasp of the hand that is loved is more than ...
— Dawn • Mrs. Harriet A. Adams
... Coelebs after another shuffling silently from the square until it echoed, deserted, to the town-house clock. The last of the gallants, gradually discovering that he was alone, would look around him musingly, and, taking in the situation, slowly wend his way home. On no other night of the week was frivolous talk about the softer sex indulged in, the Auld Lichts being creatures of habit who never thought of smiling on a Monday. ...
— Auld Licht Idylls • J. M. Barrie
... the dolorous voices were left behind, and the cheerful light of the plain reasserted itself. Norcross, looking back down upon the cedars, which at a distance resembled a tufted, bronze-green carpet, musingly asked: "What do you suppose planted ...
— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland
... Stanton said musingly, "our friend, the Nipe, has plenty of guts. And patience." He smiled a little and then amended his statement. "From our own ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett
... himself—a change which often accounts for the strange appearance of the most familiar and cherished places. We find it reflected in the face of inanimate nature, and wonder at her altered guise, unconscious of the cause. He sauntered musingly on to the State road, and over by the old grist-mill, past several houses, up to Parker's. Here, by a beautiful spring under the shade of old apple and cherry-trees, near the carriage-way, was an indolent group of afternoon idlers. Conspicuous among them ...
— Bart Ridgeley - A Story of Northern Ohio • A. G. Riddle
... scared by that girl," replied O'Reilly musingly. "My, she's a Tartar. All right, then, I'm tired and ...
— Ted Marsh on an Important Mission • Elmer Sherwood
... idolatry," he went on musingly. "I've seen things like many of these in Roman Catholic chapels. Seems to me religion is pretty much the ...
— Kokoro - Japanese Inner Life Hints • Lafcadio Hearn
... got into his head at last. The veteran man of letters had talked brilliantly more suo of many things, most of all perhaps of his dead friend, Charles Dickens. Who seemed more surely to have been writing Christmas stories for Posterity? we had asked ourselves musingly, as we discussed the change of temper since the days when Dickens or Father Christmas might have stood for the Time-Spirit. Many good things had Marindin said of Ibsen and Nietzsche and the modern apostles of self-development who sneered at the Gospel ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill
... were a lot of things combined to send me to the woods," he said, musingly. "First of all was my intense love for all the Big Outdoors. Seemed like I could never get enough of it. The more I saw of the forest, the more I felt drawn to it. I guess I had the woods hunger from boyhood. Max, here, knows what ...
— With Trapper Jim in the North Woods • Lawrence J. Leslie
... I thought. By the way, that Wegg history seems both romantic and unusual," she said, musingly. "Don't you scent some mystery in what the ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville • Edith Van Dyne
... musingly, endeavoring to draw from the child as much information as possible before allowing her to perceive that he suspected her. "And where do ...
— Jack's Ward • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... true," said Christian, musingly. She had never known Dr. Grey to speak like this. She wondered a little why he should do it now; and yet his words struck home. That great "mistake"—was it his first marriage? which, perhaps, had not been a happy one. At least, he never spoke of it, ...
— Christian's Mistake • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... opened, "We are all descended from grandfathers!" He had a powerful voice, and always just on the stroke of eight he rose and vigorously delivered this sentence. Once, after lecturing an entire season—two hundred and twenty-five nights—he went home to rest. That evening he sat, musingly drowsing by the fire, when the clock struck eight. Without a moment's thought Nasby sprang to his feet and thundered out, "We are all ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... musingly, "would I could say so! There are times, indeed, when I hope I have an interest in the precious Redeemer, and behold an infinite loveliness and beauty in Him, apart from anything I expect or hope. But ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various
... unpleasant fix," said his chum, musingly. "The only safe thing to do, I guess, is to take that convict's advice and move away at once. If we interfere with their plans or even let on that we know what they are, it will mean fight, with us outnumbered ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... a few words as we walked down towards the centre of the town. In the chill tempestuous dawn he strolled along musingly, disregarding the discomfort of the cold, the depressing influence of the hour, the desolation of the empty streets in which the dry dust rose in whirls in front of us, behind us, flew upon us from the side streets. The masks had gone home and our footsteps echoed on the ...
— The Arrow of Gold - a story between two notes • Joseph Conrad
... infection," said Pepperell, soon after to his listener. "He will be in harness before we know it." Edmonson smiled musingly. ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 • Various
... it out that way" said Bob musingly. "The only rift in the surveyor-general's lute is the fact that while he has never yet bumped up against the right man, he is due to so bump in the very near future. However, Mr. Dunstan, I do not think our present surveyor-general is doing business with the land ring. ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne
... to hear it," he said. "I never heard any thing but good of his fiancee. She is wonderfully beautiful, too, I believe, and her blood is unexceptionable. And yet," he went on musingly, "I should hardly have fancied that she would quite suit Guy. I don't know any one who would exactly. By-the-by, was there not a strong flirtation with ...
— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence
... sure," Helen answered, musingly. "I have not had a thought of anything but the garden picnic for the last two days, and I don't seem to have any idea but ...
— Stories Worth Rereading • Various
... "and do not build upon what has passed between us. Perhaps I do but play with thee. Or"—he looked away musingly—"or, if thou dost think of it with any hope, choose between the renown of a gladiator and the service of a soldier. The former may come of the favor of the emperor; there is no reward for thee in the latter. Thou art not a ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace
... is now?" said Fritz musingly. "Since our camp round Metz is broken up, the army will naturally march on farther into the interior. No matter, there's no good my worrying myself about it. They'll soon let me know where I've got to go to join them; for, the powers that be do not allow any shirking ...
— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson
... truth that they uphold,' said he musingly, 'yet I cannot see that it includes all truth. For my own share, I still hold fast to my opinions; they commend themselves to my reason as strongly as ever. I should lie, did I deny them. And yet from my very heart I agree with the Friends in prizing the spirit above the ...
— Andrew Golding - A Tale of the Great Plague • Anne E. Keeling
... it," said Tom, musingly. "Bower must have managed to open the safe while I was gone, and he must have made a hasty copy of some of the drawings of the silent motor, and passed them out of the window to this gold-tooth man, who tried to make off with them. ...
— Tom Swift and his Air Scout - or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky • Victor Appleton
... to hear the cause of that death," said Dr. Crowell, musingly. "I'm an old, experienced practitioner, and I've never seen anything so mysterious. There's absolutely no trace of any poison, and yet it ...
— Raspberry Jam • Carolyn Wells
... anybody else ever loved him, or if he ever loved anybody," said Olive, musingly. "But, mamma, if he is not handsome himself he admires beauty in others. What do you think?—he is longing to paint somebody's face, and put it in this picture; and I promised to ask. Oh, darling, do sit to him! It would not be ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... and for a little while appeared lost in thought. By-and-by she got up and went to the window, and stood looking out. "I never saw a lovelier landscape," she said, musingly. "With the grey hills, and the snow-peaks, and the brilliant sky, with the golden light and the purple shadows, and the cypresses and olives, with the river gleaming below there amongst the peach-blossoms, and—isn't that a blackcap singing in the mimosa? It only needs a pair ...
— My Friend Prospero • Henry Harland
... now, though I'm not sure that I recollect the details,' said the colonel musingly. 'Your father was John Platt, who enlisted in one of the line regiments—the 24th, wasn't it? Tell us the ...
— Teddy's Button • Amy Le Feuvre
... her clear dark eyes resting almost musingly on my face. She waited for me to speak, whereas nine women out of ...
— Dross • Henry Seton Merriman
... great jock, Little Woman;" the father went on, musingly, as he watched the horses lining up for the start. "Men think if a boy is a featherweight, and tough as a Bowery loafer, he's sure to be a success in the saddle. That's what beats me—a boy of that sort wouldn't be trusted to carry a letter with ten dollars in it, and on the ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... even fair; and had once possessed that feminine air and lightness of form, that as often belongs to the youthful American of her sex, perhaps, as to the girl of any other nation on earth. Rose continued to gaze at her companion for some time, when she walked musingly to a window that looked out ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper
... see him myself," said the superintendent musingly. "It seems funny-like a man dressed like yon and with his face wrapped up too—and a man forbye that's a stranger to us both, coming along the platform and getting into that carriage, and me not noticing him. I'm not used not ...
— Simon • J. Storer Clouston
... remarked that," he said rather musingly, "but it may be so. Does the North believe it? If we came to blows, would they try to excite servile ...
— Among the Pines - or, South in Secession Time • James R. Gilmore
... she wishes to see me for?" said her employer, musingly. "Is she desirous of upbraiding me, do ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... embroidered with gold, and then, his arms crossed behind him, commenced slowly pacing the room. Duroc dared not disturb him, and turned toward the paintings and engravings hanging on the walls. The emperor walked a long while gravely and musingly; his brow grew more clouded, and he pressed his lips more firmly together. Suddenly he paused before Duroc, and, being alone, spoke to him no longer in the tone of a master, but with ...
— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach
... he said musingly, "for all who let their old parents lie waiting and freezing in icy chilliness— pardon even to this day. But afterward ...
— The Emperor of Portugalia • Selma Lagerlof
... aware of a fly hovering on the purlieus of his web, issued from its centre, as the Parnass turned his back on the shop and gazed musingly ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... jewels. When the coruscations of this Masonic emblem caught the eye of Dr. Lord, he became uneasy, and began to finger an imaginary token of rank upon his own breast. "I ought to have a jewel to wear to-night," he said musingly, and muttered of the splendid jewel that he had forgotten to bring, given to him years before by the Grand Lodge. By this time the hour of service had come; the aproned Masons had marched to their seats ...
— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall
... bit! For it is the young Serbian who marries the Roumanian's daughter, and the young Serbian girl who marries the Roumanian's son. Thus the Serbian money, earned by the Roumanian, is still kept in the country. You know," he added musingly, "the Roumanians are a singularly handsome, a singularly engaging people. I myself ...
— Defenders of Democracy • The Militia of Mercy
... responded Sally, wiping the sweat from his forehead and looking the thankfulness he had no words for. Then, musingly, he apologized to himself. "I certainly held threes—I KNOW it—but I drew and didn't fill. That's where I'm so often weak in the game. If I had stood pat—but I didn't. I never ...
— The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories • Mark Twain
... machine-gun in that there house—you know how they sputters. It cut down us poor chaps loike a reaper. Jacob Scaplehorn wur nex' me and I 'eerd 'un say 'O Christ Jesus' as 'e went over like a rabbit and 'e never said no more. 'E wur a good man, wur Scaplehorn"—he added musingly—"and 'e did good things. And some chaps wur down and dragging their legs as if they did'n b'long to 'em. I sort o' saw all that wi'out seeing it, in a manner o' spaking; 'twere only arterwards it did come back to me. There warn't no time to think. And by the toime we got ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan
... of everything," she said musingly. "If the last day was any day but Sunday I could get arrested on landing and get bailed out and still be in London before night. But on Sunday—no—! So you ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... as I know, yes. But if something kills all the test animals, we don't ask for humans to try it out. We assume the worst and forget it." He looked musingly at the wall. "I wonder how many edible plants we've by-passed that way?" he asked ...
— Cum Grano Salis • Gordon Randall Garrett
... as Miss Lady tugged at his arm. "Who is he?" he replied, half-musingly. "Who is he? You tell me. He refused to eat in Calvin Blount's house; that's why he didn't come in, Miss Lady. He says he's the cow coroner on the railroad; but I want to tell you, he's the finest fellow and the nearest to a gentleman that ever ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various
... lonely mansion,—the hermitage of the place. The horseman was in the valley of the Vaucluse; and before his eye lay the garden and the house of PETRARCH! Carelessly, however, his eye scanned the consecrated spot; and unconsciously it rested, for a moment, upon a solitary figure seated musingly by the margin of the river. A large dog at the side of the noonday idler barked at the horseman as he rode on. "A brave animal and a deep bay!" thought the traveller; to him the dog seemed an object much more interesting than its master. And ...
— Rienzi • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... the editor musingly, "I suppose one oughtn't to throw any sort of chance away. But you're sure you don't prefer the novels? You'll excuse ...
— The Minister's Charge • William D. Howells
... know, I know nothing about it," she said musingly. "You are probably right, but it seems to me, I feel somehow, that there's something false in our resistance to evil, as though there were something concealed or unsaid. God knows, perhaps our methods of resisting evil belong to the category of prejudices which have become so deeply rooted ...
— The Duel and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... he said musingly. "You met him down there and he got interested—'interested' was the word you used, wasn't it, honey?—and then after a spell when you had left there he followed you here—or rather it jest so happened by a coincidence that he was sent here. Well, I don't know ez I blame him—for being ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... room. The inquiries he made soon elicited the fact that Platzoff's servant had been even more severely injured than his master, and was at that moment lying, more dead than alive, in a little room upstairs. Slowly and musingly, with hands in pocket, Captain Ducie then took his way towards the scene of the accident. "It may suit my book very well to make friends with this Russian," he thought as he went along. "He is no doubt very rich; and I am very poor. In ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 • Various
... Aristophanes breaks it musingly. "'Our best friend'—who has been the best friend to Athens, Euripides or I?" And he answers that it is himself, for he has done what he knew he could do, and thus has charmed "the Violet-Crowned"; while Euripides had challenged failure, and had failed. Euripides, he cries, ...
— Browning's Heroines • Ethel Colburn Mayne
... cura musingly—"I know the name, but there are many who bear it. There was a Manuel Herrera who sat in the Cortes in the days of the constitutionalists, and afterwards commanded a battalion of their rabble. You do not ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. • Various
... spoke musingly. "She bin a lot of monnaie. A whole lot." Pierre hesitated, then looked up ...
— Blue Goose • Frank Lewis Nason
... 'Perhaps,' I said musingly. The afternoon wore away, and there were no signs of our brother coming, so I began to get rather uneasy, and spoke to Donald ...
— Our Home in the Silver West - A Story of Struggle and Adventure • Gordon Stables
... routine of duties was finished she gained permission to go to the Library. As she walked slowly, musingly, down Maple Avenue, her emotions were fallow ground for every touch of Nature: the slick greensward of all the lawns, glistening under the torrid azure of the great arched sky, made walking along the shady sidewalk inexpressibly sweet; the many-hued ...
— Missy • Dana Gatlin
... musingly, "that no two lives have ever been so widely separated as yours and mine, and yet ...
— The Slave Of The Lamp • Henry Seton Merriman
... have your own way in details," said Blair, musingly. "They don't matter much. Give me the swing of the plot and let me plan the climaxes, and I care not who makes the laws for the ...
— The Come Back • Carolyn Wells
... Stony Hill Road, up which a few pilgrims toiled; and the Cross Lot Road to the beach—thither went the Barlows. Last of all, there was the Lane, and it was somewhat in the rear of the lane procession that I musingly wended my way, led by the beams of ...
— Cape Cod Folks • Sarah P. McLean Greene
... his cigar, musingly surveyed his diamond ring, and at last said: "I ain't a butter-in. But any time you get ready to holler for ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... too far," said Mrs. Bodine, musingly. "If she continues to invite such people she may find that other invitations will be declined without regrets. We haven't much left to us, but we can ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe
... if I would like him," said the Princess, musingly. "I will see him presently. Honora, bring me my best blue satin gown—the one embroidered ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) - Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales • Various
... them have a good time; but when at last the two days and two nights were over, and the Robinsons had piled into their car and started away with grudging thanks for the efforts in their behalf, Leslie sat on the terrace musingly; and at last ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... Marah, musingly; "he couldn't. And a hint would have been enough to send the cutter ...
— Jim Davis • John Masefield
... in her face," said the old lady, musingly, "which makes me think of Marie Stuart's farewell to France. I don't know why. I have odd fancies. I believe the Queen of Scots had hazel eyes, whereas this pretty Lady Mary has the bluest eyes ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
... and more uniform red brick than usual, and his shock of tow-coloured hair jutting from beneath an unnoticeable round cap, looked more than ever like thatch over his blinking blue eyes. When they had gone a few yards in silence he suddenly said musingly— ...
— Strangers at Lisconnel • Barlow Jane
... other musingly; "no, of course you wouldn't have, and, unfortunately, I cannot tell you why you should. But I'll tell you this: if you ever do find cause to suspect any of these persons, you will find that this group is not complete. It ought to contain the ...
— The Mummy and Miss Nitocris - A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension • George Griffith
... spinster aunt was not used to flatter Reuben with any such mention as this. "What can she mean," said he, musingly, "by ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various
... said Mr. Hatchard, musingly, as he peeped in at the sitting-room door. "I shouldn't be at home much. I'm a man that's fond of ...
— Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) • W.W. Jacobs
... steed critically. "He doesn't seem especially graceful!" he remarked, musingly. "but I suppose he ...
— The Marvelous Land of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... at once, but sat looking steadfastly into his nephew's face, his eyes wearing the dreamy, far-away look which lingered in them much of late, and it was not until Noll had repeated his question that he replied, musingly,— ...
— Culm Rock - The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught • Glance Gaylord
... Ozma regarded him musingly, her chin resting upon her hand; but she was not angry. On the contrary she smiled a little at her thoughts ...
— The Patchwork Girl of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... Doctor musingly, as he held out his hands to the fire. They were cold, for the February night air ...
— A Bachelor's Dream • Mrs. Hungerford
... solitude of that garden! How often did she sigh beneath the catalpa, as if anxious to trust the winds with a message of love to other lands! In her lonely walks she repeated his tender words; and often did she stop musingly at some well-remembered spot where he had blessed her with a tender word ...
— The Poor Gentleman • Hendrik Conscience
... realize what impulse brought me here to-day," the older man went on; "I was talking to my wife of this house only a day or two ago." His voice had become almost inaudible, and the three young people knew he had forgotten them. "Only a day or two ago," he repeated musingly. And then, to his son, he added wistfully, "I don't seem to get it through my head, my boy. For a while to-day, I forgot—I forgot. The heart—" he said, with his little old-world touch of dignity—"the heart does not learn things as quickly ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... musingly, "How happy we all were in the old house, when father worked in the Mill with you and Uncle Pete, and you used to come for Sunday dinner with us. Do you know, sometimes"—she hesitated as if making a confession of which she was a little ashamed—"sometimes—that is, since brother came ...
— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright
... into their hands, poor fellow, by seeming to notice their game," said Lady Esmondet, musingly, "until you see your own way clear to face them, by telling them and proving ...
— A Heart-Song of To-day • Annie Gregg Savigny
... all those things your cousin wanted, wasn't it?" the woman said, musingly. "'Seemed like kind of a sign to him, I could see—going to Harvard College and all. I ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... be a great stroke to take the capital of Mississippi," said Sherman musingly. Then he added ...
— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler
... child!" said the man, with a quiver of strong feeling in his tone. "You would like something prized by the giver, would you?" he added, musingly. "Well, ...
— Mona • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon |
