"Response" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Hoskins did not move or speak. Paresi put his hand on the man's shoulder again, but now there was no response. He cursed suddenly, bent and brought up his hand with a violent smash and sent board ...
— Breaking Point • James E. Gunn
... at him in wild despair, and seeing that he made no sign of response to her passionate appeal, she raised her hands to heaven, and kneeling by ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... grumbling response, and the descent continued once more, till, as he swung to and fro, the lad gave his feet a thrust against the wall, turned right round, and then ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn
... behind my back, Yea, her I long had learned to lack, And I said: "I am sure you are standing behind me, Though how do you get into this old track?" And there was no sound but the fall of a leaf As a sad response; and to keep down grief I would not turn my head to discover That there was ...
— Moments of Vision • Thomas Hardy
... Marquis, gaily, "that the box has arrived, and we will very soon examine its contents. Breakfast claims precedence." During the meal Alain was in gay spirits, and did not at first notice the gloomy countenance and abstracted mood of his guest. At length, surprised at the dull response to his lively sallies on the part of a man generally so pleasant in the frankness of his speech, and the cordial ring of his sympathetic laugh, it occurred to him that the change in Graham must be ascribed to something ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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