"Seriously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... She had thought seriously of surprising and delighting everyone by appearing in a costume which should do justice to the loveliness which was so modest that it was apt to forget itself in admiring others what girls call a "ravishing" dress, such ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... devoted an appreciable part of their busy hours to modifying Aunt Julia's antique prejudices, developing in her the latent aesthetic sense that their Wednesday art class taught them existed in every one, cajoling her into a tolerance of certain phases of modern literature considered seriously and weekly by the Monday Afternoon Club, and incidentally utilizing her as a chaperon and housekeeper ...
— Julia The Apostate • Josephine Daskam
... doubt, by Greek and Latin scholars who have never as yet devoted themselves seriously to a study of Comparative Philology, what is to be gained after all the trouble of learning Sanskrit, and after mastering the works of Bopp, and Benfey, and Curtius? Would a man be a better Greek and Latin scholar for knowing Sanskrit? Would he write better Latin and Greek verse? ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... having sunk into poverty through the insufficiency of the money allowed him by this actress, he seriously compromised his brother-in-law, a highly respected printer of Angouleme, by giving forged bills, for which David Sechard was arrested, during a short visit paid to Angouleme by Lucien. In consequence ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
... shoulders haughtily. It was apparent that she took this curious idea more seriously than the ...
— The Ghost Breaker - A Novel Based Upon the Play • Charles Goddard
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