"Shakily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me in the train. It's been from Mr. Mellowes all along—the money I've had every week—my clothes—this coat ... he's been paying for my food, and for me to live here...." She raised her eyes to June's face. "Did you know?" she asked shakily. "He said ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... first came up for air. She wriggled loose from one of his arms, felt of her hair and gazed unseeingly into her mirror. "That was wonderful, sweetheart," she said then, shakily. "And I can never thank you enough, Teddy. But we can't do this very often ... can we?" The addendum fairly begged ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith
... Mrs. Westlake in Uncle Whittier's store, and before that alert stare forgot her determination to be rude, and was shakily cordial. ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... said David. He smiled to himself, a little shakily, and re-entered the thicket. When he had disentangled the bird, the two of them sat down on the grass and looked at each other. They hesitated, not quite sure how ...
— David and the Phoenix • Edward Ormondroyd
... it is time to start," said Stephen, rather shakily, for the situation seemed to have got a hold of him at last, and nodding towards old Babemba, who stood there with a cheerful smile looking as though he were going to conduct us ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard
... a new work only yesterday,' said Lord Francis shakily. He had followed me. 'She has wisely decided to take a long ...
— Sacred And Profane Love • E. Arnold Bennett
... in a Los Angeles convent. The mother wore rich but dowdy black and an impossible headgear, a rather hawklike affair which appeared to have alighted by mistake on the piles of dusky hair where it was shakily balancing itself, but Mariquita's narrow blue serge was entirely modish, and her tan pumps, and sheer amber silk hose, and her impudent hat. The Senor spent a large portion of his time in the smoker and the Senora bent ...
— Play the Game! • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... remark broke the spell. The grown-ups laughed, rather shakily, and the Story Girl—our own dear Story Girl once more, ...
— The Story Girl • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... said. "Dine lavishly and luxuriously. You've certainly earned..." Her voice faltered for a moment. She held out her hand. "Ginger," she said shakily, "I... Ginger, you're ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse
... of it, the haggard gray eyes, the firm young mouth and the droop of the broad shoulders were too much for the singer girl and she smiled shakily as she held out ...
— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess
... strength. For a few moments she lay where she was, unable to control the trembling of her limbs, her aching eyes staring fixedly down at the still, prone figure on the ledge below. But the paralysing terror passed, and, at length, though still rather shakily, she dragged herself to her feet. She must go to him—somehow she must get down to ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... a minute longer," she said shakily. "Just an inch more, Phyllis," she whispered to me; and, though I was almost strained to death, I stretched another inch. Then I heard her give a sob and I knew she had ...
— Phyllis • Maria Thompson Daviess
... Prime Minister is seen within, a thin, erect, up-nosed figure, with a flush of excitement on his usually pale face. The vehicle reached the doorway to the Guildhall and halts with a jolt. PITT gets out shakily, and amid ...
— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy
... He rose shakily to his feet. As he moved a swift, numbing pain shot from his right side, through his shoulder to his brain, where, apparently, it centered in a burning core of suffering. He choked unexpectedly on a warm, thick, salty tide ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... the leaf, pushed shakily at the balcony door, and stepped back through the black-light screen into the reassuring murmur of human voices ...
— Legacy • James H Schmitz
... The girls laughed shakily and Mrs. Wescott said, with a gay little laugh, "Here, this will never do. Now that that question is settled forever and ever, I want to hear what you girls have been doing all this time, and what you expect to do this summer. ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... tell you—" Roger stood up, fear suddenly growing in his mind. He lit a cigarette, took two nervous puffs, and set it down, forgotten, on the ash-tray. "I have a wife," he said shakily. "I married her in New York City. We had a son, born in a hospital in New York City. He went to school there. Surely there must be ...
— Infinite Intruder • Alan Edward Nourse
... what have I done? What have I done?" He clutched his throbbing brow with both hands, as he rose and shakily ...
— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton |
