"Crisply" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in her husband crisply. "And I guess we can pay the inheritance tax—with a hundred thousand to pay it out of. We're going to SPEND some ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter
... immediately look up; yet, when he did, his astonishment was complete, and his ever alert mind reviewed the Eagle's recent utterances to discover if therein lay a reason for this visit. Recalling nothing of particular belligerency—at any rate, nothing against the Colonel—he said crisply: ...
— Where the Souls of Men are Calling • Credo Harris
... was a business man. "Right," I said crisply. "Let me put the question in another way. What is the least on ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914 • Various
... actor was to make his first appearance that night. My rays glided over a little window in the wall, and I saw a painted face with the forehead pressed against the panes. It was the hero of the evening. The knighly beard curled crisply about the chin; but there were tears in the man's eyes, for he had been hissed off, and indeed with reason. The poor Incapable! But Incapables cannot be admitted into the empire of Art. He had deep feeling, and loved his art enthusiastically, but the art loved not him. ...
— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen
... thought that Theodore would surely have finished his breakfast by this time. But when she came down-stairs he was at the table. Not only that, he had just begun his breakfast. An egg, all golden, and white, and crisply brown at the frilly edges, lay on his plate. Theodore always ate his egg in a mathematical sort of way. He swallowed the white hastily first, because he disliked it, and Mrs. Brandeis insisted that ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
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