"Girl" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Do you suppose that I would eat you in the street?" And as the poor girl, who was now crying, would make him no answer, he fell into a sombre silence which continued until they ...
— Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts • Frank Richard Stockton
... A half-grown girl came up the steps with two tiny chickens about as large as pigeons, their legs tied together, their voices lifted up in ...
— American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 3, March, 1889 • Various
... pretty girl both burst out laughing, as if Robert's conduct were excusable on the grounds of eccentricity; and Dick said ...
— News from Nowhere - or An Epoch of Rest, being some chapters from A Utopian Romance • William Morris
... young nabob's household, which was completely revolutionised and changed. Ahteram-ul-Dowlah, his uncle, and the eldest existing male of the family, petitioned to become his naib, or guardian, but this office was conferred on the nabob's mother, Minnee Begum, who was originally a dancing-girl, and who had been Meer Jaffier's concubine. At the same time, Rajah Goordass, son of Nuncomar, was appointed dewan to the nabob, whose duties were strictly to be confined to the household, and who was to have nothing to do with the public business or public revenues ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... had not had so many anxieties that her youthful love of "larks" had been crushed out, she would have "adored" a flirtation with Nelson Smith. It would have been "great fun" to steal him from the pretty beanpole of a girl who would not know how to use her claws in a fight for her man; but as it was, Connie thought only of conciliating "Cousin Anne," and winning her confidence. Other women would try to take Nelson Smith from his wife, but Connie would have her hands full ...
— The Second Latchkey • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
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