"Humph" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Johanna tittered. "Humph! you know mawnstus well he ain't gone. Miss Barb, dass de onyess maan I even see wear a baang. Wha' fuh ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable
... "complete mail" of a clean and decent dress. I recollect on one occasion hearing my mother tell our family physician that a woman in the neighborhood, not remarkable for her tidiness, had become a church-member. "Humph!" said the doctor, in his quick, sarcastic way, "What of that? Don't you know that no unclean thing can enter the ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... "Humph!" said Hilary, receiving it, "knives by the great gross. He must have used this trying to cut the lasso; the one he had back yonder flew into the pond." He reined in: "Here's where they—Why, Fred—why, I'll swear! They've ...
— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable
... "Humph!" returned Mrs. Pennypoker uncompromisingly. "It's my belief that they'd much better go to hear good old Dr. Hornblower, and let this flummery alone. Your Nelson man is no better than a papist, with his colored ...
— In Blue Creek Canon • Anna Chapin Ray
... "Humph!" said the Parson drily. "Well, I think you may take away now. It will be dark soon, and I'll just stroll out ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various
... do, all round? Bless your little hearts, how do you all do? Did they tell ye Santa wasn't a-comin', my dears? Did your grandpas and grandmas say, 'Humph! there isn't any such a person.' My love to the good old people. I know they mean all right; but tell them they'll have ...
— Little Prudy's Sister Susy • Sophie May
... another "Humph!" Wigs and brocades; passion-flowers and camellias. All this in a town that had just seen the completion of the eighteenth chapter of Regeneration. Well, regeneration ...
— Under the Skylights • Henry Blake Fuller
... "Humph! No!" he said musingly. "Wouldn't do. The boy's such an utter idiot, he'd never learn ...
— Sylvie and Bruno • Lewis Carroll
... "Humph! that aint so wonderful," came from someone at Sam's elbow, and turning the youngest Rover found himself close to Billy Tubbs, a short, stocky youth who had entered Putnam Hall at the opening of the ...
— The Rover Boys In The Mountains • Arthur M. Winfield
... "Humph!" responded the professor, shaking his head but smiling good-humouredly; "that is a mere superstition I'm afraid. It is simply an optical effect, a variety of the phenomenon called 'anthelia,' like Ulloa's Circle and the ...
— A Trip to Venus • John Munro
... seems to graze his funnybone, and he has a struggle to keep a grin out of his mouth corners. "Humph!" says he. "I—I'd like to have seen her then. So you went on to describe the general state of my health, ...
— Torchy • Sewell Ford
... "Humph! I didn't know as how a boarding school was such a jolly place," grumbled old Tom Barnstable. "They'll cane ye well if ye ...
— The Wizard of the Sea - A Trip Under the Ocean • Roy Rockwood
... "Humph!" said Reuben, with a composure that was feigned, "she's too much of a Puritan for me, Phil: or rather, I'm too little ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various
... Senior Officer. "See the Medical Officer, you young Hun. Go and see a doctor. Vocal diarrhoea, that's your complaint, and a very nasty one too. Bad form, bad for discipline, and a nuisance in the Mess. What's your Regiment? Special Reserve, you say? Humph! Sounds like ...
— The Aeroplane Speaks - Fifth Edition • H. Barber
... "Humph!" said the Count to himself as he finished reading this singular epistle. "I thought I was rid of that scoundrel forever, but it seems that the galleys at Toulon cannot hold him. Well, I suppose I must meet him; otherwise he may take a notion to come here, which would be both ...
— Edmond Dantes • Edmund Flagg
... "Humph!" says I, coming back to the stove; "you ain't the only one that's heard from the Prince ...
— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln
... imitator," said Boswell, "but I must imitate you to the extent of saying humph! I quote you, and, doing so, I honor you. But really, I never thought you could be sick of home, as you put it—you who are so happy at home and who so wildly hate ...
— The Enchanted Typewriter • John Kendrick Bangs
... faith. Undoubtedly there is some secret agent, some underwork, perhaps restraint, of which I am ignorant. I strongly suspect that she has done violence to her feelings. Shall I or shall I not investigate this point? Humph! heighho! ...
— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis
... "Humph!" said Bracciolini. He for a while was silent. Demetrios sat adjusting the strings of the ...
— Domnei • James Branch Cabell et al
... "Humph! In my day, girls as pretty as you got married; but now the rich ones are those who get husbands, and those who are poor have to tend ...
— The Law-Breakers and Other Stories • Robert Grant
... "Humph!" growled the man, as the boy gave him the message. "It's a nice thing that I should have to fetch and carry all your fooling playthings for you; it's a pity you young gen'lemen can't do something for yourselves, ...
— The Triple Alliance • Harold Avery
... "Cannot! Humph! Cannot! You are like all the little upstart reformers, filled with conceit of course. You think there is no one can do the work but yourself! I will pay some one to do what you are doing! ...
— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill
... "Humph!" grunted the old singer, with a shrug, and a sound that was half a sneer and half a chuckle. "I suppose he don't above half like the price he has to pay for his plaything! But that don't make it wise in Bianca to drive him to the wall more than need be. Limed ...
— A Siren • Thomas Adolphus Trollope
... "Humph!" grunted the visitor, turning restlessly again in his chair. Then he said: "I agree as the necessity of that last statement; but I can only hope that these ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Locomotive - or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails • Victor Appleton
... GEOFFREY Humph! That incidentally it would undermine the whole institution of marriage, let loose the flood-gates that at present hold immorality in check, doesn't appear to trouble you. That the law must be altered to press less heavily ...
— The Master of Mrs. Chilvers • Jerome K. Jerome
... "Humph. Let her wait. I ain't got no time to hear any one now. Get yourselves in line, you all who are on to that first chorus, while I ...
— The Sport of the Gods • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... 'Humph!' muttered Ralph, drawing his hand across his mouth with a connoisseur-like air, and surveying the house from top to bottom; 'these people look pretty well. They can't last long; but if I know of their going in good time, I am safe, and a fair profit too. ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... "Humph!" said she, after a minute's thought, "so you want thirty-three shillings to buy clothes—to go to church in. Your mother dresses your sister in spotted muslin, and leaves you in rags; suppose you wait till ...
— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat
... lieutenants, captains, all had torn all the fine lace off their clothing. I noticed that at the time and was surprised and hurt. I asked several of them why they had torn off the insignia of their rank, and they always answered, "Humph, you think that I was going to be a target for the Yankees to shoot at?" You see, this was our first battle, and the officers had not found out that minnie as well as cannon balls were blind; that they had no eyes and could not see. They thought that the balls ...
— "Co. Aytch" - Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment - or, A Side Show of the Big Show • Sam R. Watkins
... "Humph!" said Eric, laughing; "I shall bring out a new Duncan-dictionary, in which. [Greek: chezchochezons chos] very ...
— Eric • Frederic William Farrar
... "Humph," exclaimed Miss Butterworth, dropping down upon the edge of a large chair, whose back felt no pressure from her own during the interview. The expression of Mr. Belcher's happiness in seeing her, and his kind ...
— Sevenoaks • J. G. Holland
... "Humph! Harry and I were just regretting that we hadn't worn our top coats today. We came to Gridley to cool off, and this old town seems like a heaven of coolness after the baked-brown alkali deserts ...
— Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point - Standing Firm for Flag and Honor • H. Irving Hancock
... "Humph!" he muttered to himself. "A bad attack of calf love all round. Well," as he looked at the manly figures of his sons, and thought of the qualities they had shown, "I should not be surprised if the boys stick ...
— In Times of Peril • G. A. Henty
... it for them, and looked and sighed their holy horror that their minister should have shown so little discretion in choosing a wife. Just to think of her leading the female prayer-meeting and being president of the Missionary society, humph! ...
— Divers Women • Pansy and Mrs. C.M. Livingston
... 'Humph,' responded Hiram. The last recommendation did not seem specially to take with him. Still his eyes glistened at the recital. He could not resist asking several questions about the young lady, but Mr. Bennett was firm, and would not communicate ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. IV. October, 1863, No. IV. - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various
... "Humph! Well, if he does feel bad I don't think that's a very nice way to show it. Not think of him, indeed! Well, I guess he'll find SOME one has got to think of him now. But there! that's what you might expect of Daniel Burton, I s'pose, moonin' all day over those silly pictures ...
— Dawn • Eleanor H. Porter
... "Humph!" exclaimed Haward. "So you have stolen before to-night? The marks are old. When were you branded, ...
— Audrey • Mary Johnston
... "Humph!" snorted the disgusted Dinah, as one of her feet came down on the floor with a bang, "I's got my 'pinion of sich ...
— The Great Cattle Trail • Edward S. Ellis
... "Humph! Call up the house and see if they've gone back for any reason. Bonnie told me she'd call for me with the ...
— Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts • Roy Rutherford Bailey
... 'Humph,' George said. 'Let us hope there is no lurking Jesuitry in him. The worse for him if there is, for the Queen is employing every means to run the poor wretches to earth. The prisons are chock full of them, and ...
— Penshurst Castle - In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney • Emma Marshall
... "'Humph!—and then to London to make a lawyer of him. Leave him to me, Dinah, I will make a solicitor of him in earnest. I have taught many a bold heart and reckless hand to solicit the ...
— The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I • Susanna Moodie
... "Humph! He is closely spied upon, then?" commented Cleek. "The trouble arises from some one or something in his ...
— Cleek, the Master Detective • Thomas W. Hanshew
... "Humph! Then things are serious, Lewie, and I, as your elder, should give advice; but confound it, my dear, I cannot think what it should be. Life has been too easy for you, a great deal too easy. You want a little of the salt and ...
— The Half-Hearted • John Buchan
... Howling Desert because he did not want to work; and besides, he was a Howler himself. So he ate sticks and thorns and tamarisks and milkweed and prickles, most 'scruciating idle; and when anybody spoke to him he said 'Humph!' Just 'Humph!' ...
— Just So Stories • Rudyard Kipling
... "Humph!" grunted Harry. "We all forgot to keep the Klaxon going while we listened to that fairy tale about the Spanish Treasure Chest. Maybe they forgot to blow their fog horn also, and there you are. Natural ...
— Boy Scouts in Southern Waters • G. Harvey Ralphson
... extraordinary animation; "Well, Fanny, I have had a very agreeable surprise this morning. I must just speak of it once, I told Sir Thomas I must once, and then I shall have done. I give you joy, my dear niece." And looking at her complacently, she added, "Humph, we certainly ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... 'Humph!' ejaculated the Professor, turning on his heel. The Bishop turned away also, saying that he had an engagement, and the Democrat followed him, talking very fast and bringing forward arguments. When ...
— 'That Very Mab' • May Kendall and Andrew Lang
... "Humph!" exclaimed Sharon. He seemed about to ask another question, but the postal official anticipated him. "Explain what happened after you left ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... Peg said "Humph! You mean a proper old glory-row like they have in novelettes, eh? Don't mean to make it up till the last chapter, if ...
— The Beggar Man • Ruby Mildred Ayres
... "Humph! So THAT'S the feller! Tut, tut, tut! Well, if you'd only said you meant him 'twould have been all right. I forgot there was a Hall livin' in the Parker place. If you'd said you meant 'Old ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln
... "Humph," grunted Joe. "It was lucky for Cassey that we all happened to be in a bunch," he said. "He couldn't have gotten rid of us so quickly ...
— The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice - or, Solving a Wireless Mystery • Allen Chapman
... 'Humph!' replied he, and having honoured me with a broad stare— which, contrary to his expectations, I sustained without flinching- -he turned away with an air of supreme contempt, and stalked into the house. Tom next went to tell ...
— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte
... "Humph! Have you forgotten I telegraphed you I'd found some money I didn't know about? All I've done is paid for, and plenty more to settle for all I ...
— A Girl Of The Limberlost • Gene Stratton Porter
... is that! The gods be thank'd for luck so good!' And ready at the door he stood, When soothingly the mother said, 'Now cry no more, my little dear; That naughty wolf, if he comes here, Your dear papa shall kill him dead.' 'Humph!' cried the veteran mutton-eater. 'Now this, now that! Now hot, now cool! Is this the way they change their metre? And do they take me for a fool? Some day, a nutting in the wood, That young one yet shall be my food.' But little time ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine
... easy to talk of the patience of Job. Humph! Job had nothin' to try him; Ef he'd been married to 'Bijah Brown, folks wouldn't have dared come nigh him. Trials, indeed! Now I'll tell you what—ef you want to be sick of your life, Jest come and change places with me a spell, for I'm ...
— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn
... "Humph! humph!" grumbled Porthos, which D'Artagnan pretended not to hear; and, changing the conversation, he said, "You seem to be living in a very solitary place here, my ...
— Louise de la Valliere • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... Moulton hesitated. "Humph!" sneered his majesty. "You have put me to all this trouble for nothing." And he began to gather up the guineas that Moulton had placed on the table. This was more than the victim of his wiles could stand. He swallowed a mouthful of rum, ...
— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner
... "Humph!" said Pinckney. A short time after, as they were driving on the road to the Fort, he saw her again; she was riding alone, across country, through the rocky knolls and marshy pools that form the southern part of Rhode Island. She had no groom lagging behind, but it was not so necessary ...
— Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 • Various
... "'Humph!' she whispered, 'chickens often sit on what they don't lay, and if some malicious neighbour slips into ...
— Balthasar - And Other Works - 1909 • Anatole France
... "Humph!" laughed Dan. "I think I can see Greg Holmes turning his back upon Dick Prescott. Why, Greg wouldn't do that even if he had to get out of the ...
— Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock
... Humph! I don't seem to recollect any Mr. Z. Snow around nowadays. There used to be a Ziba Snow, but he's dead. 'Twan't ...
— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... "Humph!" he said when Desmond was presented to him. "You're him, are you? Well, let me tell you this, my lad: the ship's boy on board this 'ere ship have got to do what he's bid, and no mistake about it. If he don't, I'll make him. Now, you go for'ard ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang
... "Humph, it makes you feeble to carry round. I don't know what would happen to you if you had a chance to set down once to a square meal of vittles. ...
— Drusilla with a Million • Elizabeth Cooper
... 'Humph! If he—I mean, of course, my dear, the party who is coming to court me when the time comes—should be THAT sort of man, he may spare himself the trouble. HE wouldn't do to be trotted about and made useful. He'd take fire and blow up while ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... a good grace the custom of a plurality of wives; in Tibet men accept with good grace a plurality of husbands. In the western world .. . . Humph! ...
— Hints for Lovers • Arnold Haultain
... "Humph! tell your Aunt Agatha, Harry, not to bother me any more with her charity appeals. I am sick of them. Why, the good woman thinks that I have nothing to do but to write cheques ...
— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde
... "Humph!" said Curtiss. "You'd take it if you'd been in my boots. I used to do business for old Waterman's Southern railroads, and I've had occasion to take messages to Harmon once or twice. New York is the place where you find ...
— The Moneychangers • Upton Sinclair
... 'Dress! humph! When I was a girl, young men were satisfied with dressing once in a day. Why should you dress to go and take a cup of tea ...
— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... "Humph! You please to forget that it's easier to wait for some things than for others. Six months of my kind of waiting, I take it, require more patience than forty years of his—or any other man's," he ...
— A Summer Evening's Dream - 1898 • Edward Bellamy
... "Humph! is that all?" growled Mr. Spink. "I imagine you are only making up this tale to get my son into difficulties,—-just because you know I will not permit you to come here to swim. Now clear out, and be quick about it,—-and ...
— Young Hunters of the Lake • Ralph Bonehill
... "Humph!" said Tony; "easy enough. I hadn't nuthin to row with but a bit o' pole, and I got a sorter cross a-gettin' along so slow, and so I stood up and gin a big push, and one foot ...
— What Might Have Been Expected • Frank R. Stockton
... "Humph! I'll take my chances on that. You are smart, Dashaway, but you can't scare me and you can't get the ...
— Dave Dashaway and his Hydroplane • Roy Rockwood
... "Humph!" grunted Knowles. "A fine might get you off for deer. Shooting stock, though, is a penitentiary offense—when the criminal is lucky enough ...
— Out of the Depths - A Romance of Reclamation • Robert Ames Bennet
... "Humph!" he answered, smiling incredulously, "I may reign, but it shall be a reign of love over this little domestic world of mine. I want my mother and my sweetheart, and want no more. Let them arrive safely this ...
— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
... come and spend Christmas—" I suppose I must—"and see your little brother, who longs to see sister Freda again—" Humph! but who cut her out of Glanyravon Park and all thereto belonging, though he certainly is a dear little man. "Her ladyship quite well, and desires her love." I suppose I ought to be glad and try to return the love. "Mrs Gwynne Vaughan and her children were here ...
— Gladys, the Reaper • Anne Beale
... "Duty! Humph! There's nothing the matter with you! It would be criminal for me, though, to go out a night like this, feeling as I do. Mother would never forgive me. But you had better hurry, or ...
— The Dozen from Lakerim • Rupert Hughes
... "Humph!—she jabbered something about your being 'strong' and knowing just how to handle her. Well, it can't be helped now. I think I came in time for the worst of it and have drawn their fire. Don't do it again. The next time a woman with ...
— Under the Redwoods • Bret Harte
... "Humph!" muttered Hen to himself. "Just as well his watch did get the run-off. Now Dick Prescott won't be hauling his old timepiece out every two minutes in school to see what ...
— The Grammar School Boys Snowbound - or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports • H. Irving Hancock
... "Humph! Not one of the last sort, I hope. You know my kind, and 'tain't any use talking up about any others. Any old woman can make gruel, and feed a baby with catnip tea. Don't offer me any more such work as that! If it's work that ...
— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... descended the stairs,—"Humph! there goes another note of a thousand livres! but I must get through as well as I can; my friend Manicamp does ...
— Ten Years Later • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... "Humph!" grunted Ezekiel. "He looks as if he wouldn't mind hanging you to the nearest tree if he did. I heard tell once that there was a cold hell as well as a hot one. Think says I, when the governor was looking me over the other day, 'You've set sail for ...
— Jewel - A Chapter In Her Life • Clara Louise Burnham
... reflected, that it was his first night, and I remembered my own similar experience not many years ago, so I simply submitted the sheet to Mr. Antwerp without comment. He wiped his glasses, carefully adjusted them on his aristocratic nose, and after glancing at the sheet for a few moments, said, "Ah! humph! Well! Well! Well! Not a very auspicious start, to be sure; but the boy will pick up. Just jack him up in pretty good shape, Bates; it will do him good." I jacked him up all right to the queen's taste but it was like pouring water ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... "Humph, service! And that's just it, my mannie. The ill-faured tykes hae rampaigned through the house and taen awa' my bonnie silver tea service that I hae scoured every Monday morning for thirty-seven years come Michelmas, forby the fine Holland linen that my father, guid carefu' ...
— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine
... 'em stand there a minute or so without sayin' a word, and then he turns and looks 'em over deliberate. "Humph!" he ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford
... great surprise. Yes, it was really true. The bed was gone; there it went, tramping down the middle of the street. Its pillow had fallen a little to one side, which gave it a jaunty and rakish air. 'Humph!' said Willy. 'Well, I'm glad the ugly old thing is gone. Now I shall not have to go ...
— Five Mice in a Mouse-trap - by the Man in the Moon. • Laura E. Richards
... "Humph!" said Stangrave with a smile. "Who so cruel at times as your too benevolent philanthropist? Did you ever count the meaning of those words? Disruption of the Union, an invasion of the South by the North; and an internecine ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley
... in the same condition spiritually that Lazarus was in physically. We are tied up tight, hands and feet and face. Some sin, some compromise, some hushing of that inner voice, something wrong. Some little thing, you may say. Humph! as though anything could be little that is wrong! Sin is ...
— Quiet Talks on Power • S.D. Gordon
... "Humph!" remarked Robert her nephew; "do you s'pose folks could go to Iowa or Missouri as quick as this! Cars'd have to put on ...
— Old Caravan Days • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... replied by a "humph!" and next day I discovered my tree had been sawed into pieces and planted in the swamp. Words would not restore it, and I wasted none; but next morning rose early, and, hatchet in hand, went to the parent tree, climbed on a fence and cut off a limb, which I dragged home, feeling ...
— Half a Century • Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
... "Humph! boys are a trial!" remarked Mrs. Tucker, whose experience with Zeke had doubtless convinced her of ...
— The Young Musician - or, Fighting His Way • Horatio Alger
... not wishing to detain such a rabble for the mere amusement of his wife, chose ten only of the best of the city who appeared to him most capable and eloquent. These were Bushy-haired Zeza, Bandy-legged Cecca, Wen-necked Meneca, Long-nosed Tolla, Humph-backed Popa, Bearded Antonella, Dumpy Ciulla, Blear-eyed Paola, Bald-headed Civonmetella, and Square-shouldered Jacova. Their names he wrote down on a sheet of paper; and then, dismissing the others, he arose ...
— Stories from Pentamerone • Giambattista Basile
... "Humph! Well, what can you expect? Those fellows have been getting the best half of a bottle of Claret every night since they've been here, and now it's cut off. Damed if I wouldn't like ...
— Bab: A Sub-Deb • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... "Humph!" grunted Sproule. "There you are again, putting on airs. Just wait until you've been here two or three months; I guess I won't hear so much about ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour
... upon a waistcoat o' mine. The coat, too, was insupportably tight below the arms; and, as I turned half round before the glass, I saw that it hung loose between the shouthers! 'As sure as a gun,' says I, 'the stupid soul o' a tailor has sent me hame the coat o' a humph-back in a mistak'!' My hat was fitted on in every possible manner, ower the brow and aff the brow, now straight, now cocked to the right side and again to the left, but to no purpose; I couldna place it to look like mysel', or as I wished. But half-past eight ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII • various
... "Humph! Funny surveyor's stake, isn't it?" grunted the Canadian officer, "Methinks we shan't go much farther to prove this fellow a fabricator of fairy tales. So that's the international boundary line, is it?" he asked, eyeing ...
— The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands • J. W. Duffield
... burneth with fire and brimstone;" and, by mistake, I said, "All lawyers shall have their part"—Second Lawyer (interrupting him). "What did you do with that? Did you correct it?" Lee. "Oh, no, indeed! It was so nearly true, I didn't think it worth while to correct it." "Humph!" said one of them, with a hasty and impatient glance at the other; "I don't know whether you are the more knave or fool!" "Neither," he quietly replied, turning at the same time his mischievous eyes from one to the other; "I believe I ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various
... "But pictures! Humph, what good are they?" returned Ward Porton, in disgust. "I'd rather have my fortune in something ...
— Dave Porter and His Double - The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune • Edward Stratemeyer
... "Humph," responded Mr. Mencke, bluntly; "it must be either one thing or the other. Which shall it be, Violet—Europe or Canada? We can't leave you here while ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... "Humph! Maybe. Bill, oh, Bill! Here, you go and get the big glass mug, and a bunch of mint. Come out here, Eddring. Sit down on the board-pile in the shade—I've been going to build a roof on my doghouse with these boards as long ...
— The Law of the Land • Emerson Hough
... "Humph!—I suppose I must beg pardon again. I shall never get out what I wanted to say—which is, that you must be quiet, my good dame, and you must keep Mrs. Rothesay quiet. She is a delicate young creature, you know, and must have every possible comfort ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... "Humph!" growled Thurnall to himself. "I'd sooner have lost a dozen of these herring-hogs, whom nobody misses, and who are well out of their life-scrape: but the parson, just as ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume II. • Charles Kingsley
... "Humph!" the grunt of Maestro Diego was not polite. Even the desert might not be a safe place to bring youth if damsels of this like grew in the sage clumps. "It is said to be a good luck sign when a man comes first over the threshold on a New Year's day and on a Monday,—it starts the year ...
— The Flute of the Gods • Marah Ellis Ryan
... "Humph!" and the invalid gave her head a toss. "If she had to put up with what I have to she would not feel ...
— Rod of the Lone Patrol • H. A. Cody
... "Humph! I thought it was time you came to your senses. Now, here's the keys, d'ye see? And the house was old Judge Allerton's; it's too large for his daughter, and, now that you'll marry the girl I've got for you, ...
— Pirate Gold • Frederic Jesup Stimson
... "Humph!" grunted Mr. Rowe. "There's more to that business than you folks think. Olive didn't notice Bill Edwards till Sol went off to sea and stayed two years and over. How do you know she shook Sol? You might just as well say he shook her. He always was stubborn ...
— The Depot Master • Joseph C. Lincoln
... in silence. Then she handed it to Jerry. The latter read it and said "Humph!" in ...
— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester
... it and frowned. "Humph! I'll show them yet that my application of the gyroscope is patentable. Delanne will put me into 'interference' in the patent office, as the lawyers call it, will he? Well, I filed a 'caveat' over a year and a half ago. If I'm wrong, he's wrong, ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... "Humph! Such talk is all well enough, but how is it going to help when we reach our last dollar? Did you ever think, Amy, seriously think how we are going to live? Just where our actual bread and butter ...
— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond
... her searchingly. "Humph! you don't look it," she said candidly. "But let us see what a drive in our splendid air will do for you. It will not take more than a few minutes to collect my ...
— East of the Shadows • Mrs. Hubert Barclay
... "Humph!" said her father teasingly, "how do I know you're not going to tumble overboard! You know you have a way of mixing up picnics and water, Mary Jane, so I don't think I'll take any chances." But when Mary Jane promised that she would sit very still and not walk around a step ...
— Mary Jane's City Home • Clara Ingram Judson
... "Humph!" Henley sniffed, "I reckon it was some lie or other that Dick Wrinkle told him when they was out West together. You know Dick hated me like a snake. That ain't nothing, don't ...
— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben
... The old carpet-weaver snorted. "Humph," she said, "when you git dry behind the ears you won't be so peart." Then she waved her hand to me. "Light off," she said, "an' rest your critters, an' git a tin ...
— Dwellers in the Hills • Melville Davisson Post
... the show-woman removes this objection: 'O dear, no, Sir—if you mean wiping. The wet style of grief is quite gone out—quite! The dry cry is decidedly the genteel thing.' No wonder that the Squire, as he left the establishment with his 'better half,' was fain to exclaim: 'Humph! And so that's a Mason de Dool! Well! if it's all the same to you, Ma'am, I'd rather die in the country, and be universally lamented after the old fashion; for, as to London, what with the new French modes of mourning, ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 - Volume 23, Number 4 • Various
... "Humph!" said I, by way of criticism, when these verses were shown to me. "Where be the mackerel lines, Captain Jo? There's too much love-talk aboard ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... "Humph! Well, that's comprehensible. And so far you're excusable. But how came it you didn't see to ...
— The Free Lances - A Romance of the Mexican Valley • Mayne Reid
... "Humph! Salome, now that I look at you well, I do not believe you care a penny for the flower-show. Come, tell me the truth, girl. Do you care one penny to go to the flower-show?" he inquired, looking keenly into ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... "Humph!" whispered my inner consciousness to itself. "He is the coolest thing I've seen since last Christmas left town. I wonder what he is up to? There's nothing in my apartment worth stealing, now that my wife and children are away, unless it be my Jap valet, Nogi, who might ...
— R. Holmes & Co. • John Kendrick Bangs
... "Humph," he muttered. "Talk is cheap." But he became silent and devoted himself to the breakfast, which Mrs. Rushton, with Martha's help, had made unusually tempting in order to coax ...
— The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall - Or, Great Days in School and Out • Spencer Davenport
... "Humph! faery-tales! Is that not very foolish? Don't you think, Miss Margaret, it would be more suitable to their condition in life if you should select—hmm—something like Pilgrim's Progress or Lives of the ...
— The Primrose Ring • Ruth Sawyer
... "Humph! that's all in my eye. He'd be a long time coming to see her if you weren't there, if she was twice as great a friend. What sort of an old party is she? Must have ...
— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin
... "Humph!" was the contemptuous ejaculation. "The dean made it hot for the girls just the same. I guess she didn't object much to hearing ...
— Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... "Humph!" said his wife, disappointed. "They give ye two dollars a day"—she hazarded the shot—"just for settin' round and talkin', don't they? Walkin's considerable more of an effort for ...
— The Calico Cat • Charles Miner Thompson
... "Humph! a second case of that kind to-day! Well, madam, I will join you at two o'clock," said the doctor, as he trotted off ...
— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... "Humph!" he said moodily, "I am afraid you over-estimate your intellectual capacities. Carry this letter to your uncle ...
— The Silver Lining - A Guernsey Story • John Roussel
... "Humph!" It was a royal and explosive note. It represented scorn for which Mrs. Blair could find no adequate utterance. She selected the straightest chair in the room, ostentatiously turned its back to her enemy, and seated herself. Then, taking out ...
— Meadow Grass - Tales of New England Life • Alice Brown
... you the proper course.' 'Well, but what is your opinion?' 'Madam, I certainly have a strong opinion on the subject, but I think there cannot be a shadow of doubt of what your Majesty ought to do, and there can be no doubt your Majesty's admirable sense will suggest to you what that opinion is.' 'Humph,' said she, and flung from him; turning to Denman, 'And Mr. Solicitor, what is your opinion?' 'Madam, I concur entirely in that which has been expressed by the Attorney-General;' and so they all repeated. She was furious, and being left to herself she resolved not to agree. ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III • Charles C. F. Greville
... Miss Loach to herself. "Humph! Plain-looking, sallow skin, rather fine eyes and a slack mouth. Not badly dressed for a servant, and displays some taste. She might turn my old dresses at a pinch. Sad expression, as though she had something on her mind. Honest-looking, ...
— The Secret Passage • Fergus Hume
... right! The idea of stickin' that blessed child 'way off up here in this hot little room—with no fire in the winter, too, and all this big house ter pick and choose from! Unnecessary children, indeed! Humph!" snapped Nancy, wringing her rag so hard her fingers ached from the strain; "I guess it ain't CHILDREN what is MOST ...
— Pollyanna • Eleanor H. Porter
... "Humph! Do you think I don't know those wild mountaineers? They are perfectly chivalrous, and I could feel a great deal safer in leaving my wife in care of that desperado than with one of your ...
— A Woman Tenderfoot • Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
... of losing this dear old soul gave a serious tone to his voice. He kissed her on the cheek and went out into the hall. Jove came waltzing after him. "Humph! What do you want, sir? Want to go out with me, eh? Very well; but you must promise to behave yourself. I'll have you talking to no poor-dog trash, mind." Jove promised unutterable things. ...
— Half a Rogue • Harold MacGrath
... responsibilities of age; humph! They are nothing compared to the responsibilities of ...
— The Calling Of Dan Matthews • Harold Bell Wright
... "Humph, he's a regular infant, to be away from civilization," mused Tom, when he had showed the clergyman to the proper stateroom. "He'll get into trouble, he's so innocent." If he could have seen that same "clergyman" double up with mirth when he had closed his stateroom door after him, Tom would not ...
— Tom Swift in Captivity • Victor Appleton
... "Humph, Mr. Fieldsend," Marlborough began, when he had glanced over the contents of the short epistle. "You are a lucky young fellow to have got Sir George's good word. But where is the lad he ...
— With Marlborough to Malplaquet • Herbert Strang and Richard Stead
... "Humph, they've pushed the firing line ahead further than I thought," remarked Luke, after half a mile had been covered. "Here's a small river. Do ye reckon as how ...
— The Campaign of the Jungle - or, Under Lawton through Luzon • Edward Stratemeyer
... she did sing operettas! Offenbach, you know;" and the General tried to hum a bar or two of the 'Dites lui', with ludicrous effect. "Charming! To leave her, ah! I found that very hard. I remained five days: that wasn't much, eh, Zilah? five days? But the devil! There was a Grand Duke—well—humph! younger than I, of course—and—and—the Grand Duke was jealous. Oh! there was at that time a conspiracy at Odessa! I was accused of spending my time at the theatre, instead of watching the conspirators. They even said I was in the conspiracy! Oh, ...
— Prince Zilah, Complete • Jules Claretie
... "Humph! I don't think much is to be learned from detective stories. You will understand, of course, that you are not to let anyone know you are ...
— Luke Walton • Horatio Alger
... "Humph! Then they must have had some sort of a row," put in Tom. "Well, it does beat the nation how the Baxters do it. Don't you remember how Arnold Baxter escaped from the ...
— The Rover Boys in the Jungle • Arthur M. Winfield
... "Humph!" replied Grundy; "you look chuffish this morning, Master Robin: have you got any thing ready for ...
— The Buccaneer - A Tale • Mrs. S. C. Hall
... "Humph!" she said. "Take him to the pavilion and cover him decently. You'll find a yard or two of clean awning in the left-hand corner of the scoring-box." She eyed Mr. Goodfellow for a couple of seconds and swung round upon Mr. Rogers. "Is ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... "Humph! I suspected that, for I saw something that was very like him there. . . . And do you still think that they have gone to tell the Mounted Police only in order that ...
— Murder Point - A Tale of Keewatin • Coningsby Dawson
... and, just as they stood beside the wild duck, who should come along but Grandfather Goosey-Gander. He asked the two Wibblewobble children what they were going to do, and when Jimmie said they were going to learn to become flying machines, the old duck said, "Humph!" just as ...
— Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble • Howard R. Garis
... have it;' and gathering pens, ink and paper, he was soon seated at the table, while JONES, creeping on tiptoe across the room, stood peeping over his shoulder. The lawyer commenced: 'My oppinion in the case——' 'Humph!' said the lunatic, suddenly seizing his hat, and turning on his heel, 'I wouldn't give a d—n for your opinion with two p's!' . . . MANY of our public as well as private correspondents seem to have been not a little interested ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 - Volume 23, Number 2 • Various
... 'Humph!' The Chaplain drew his hard road-worn feet under his robe. 'Let us hear the tale that it is permitted thee to tell,' he said, and the ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling
... of the surveyor disappeared in the direction of the Oocopah camp the Seer smiled to himself. "Been pumping him for a month," he repeated. "That means that he saw almost before I did that the other proposition was no good. Humph!" ...
— The Winning of Barbara Worth • Harold B Wright
... "Humph! I suppose some of them are. In fact, David, if I didn't believe that there was something more in you than texts and litanies and the Athanasian creed, I'll be hanged if I'd ever have let you look twice at Edith. That girl has got blood in her veins, David; she's not to ...
— David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales • Julian Hawthorne
... fell into the hands of this altogether too well-informed young person rose to a degree which almost induced him to cry out, "Really, you rapacious young creature, Arnold's is all any girl need ask, ample, well-invested, solid...." But instead he said, "Humph! Rather a derogatory ...
— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield
... grievance, and work it. And at no serious expense, for he was really very partial to his daughter, and meant, au fond de soi, to enjoy her visit. Nevertheless, discipline had to be maintained, if only for purposes of self-deception, and the Professor really believed in his own "Humph! I supposed it would be that," when Laetitia's knock came ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... "Humph!" snorted Curry. "Should think he would have. That boy fetched him a pretty solid lick. Glad he didn't hurt him any worse—for ...
— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
... think I begin to understand you, comride: especially that bit abaht . . . [his eyes stray upwards] . . . the 'ammerins' an' the—the harches—an' . . . Humph! I'm only an ...
— The Servant in the House • Charles Rann Kennedy
... seemed to wink one of her stony eyes, as much as to say, "Humph! Somebody else has been getting into trouble. There's more kinds of forbidden fruit than ...
— The Gate of the Giant Scissors • Annie Fellows Johnston
... seemed very angry at first; then suddenly he looked sharply into my face. Next, if you'll believe it, he laughed—the queer little chuckle under his breath that I've heard him give two or three times when there was something he thought was funny. "Humph!" he grunted. Then he gave me another sharp look out of his eyes, and said: "I don't think you meant that to be quite so impertinent as it sounded, Mary, so we'll let it pass—this time. I'll put my question this way: Don't you ever knit ...
— Mary Marie • Eleanor H. Porter
... motion or muttered command to summon me, as always before, into his hot little cubby-hole. Never was boy more taken aback! "Who dah knockin' at mah door?" he said again, standing within two feet of my elbow, looking past me not two inches from my nose. "Humph! Somebody knockin' at mah door better look at what dey doin' or dey gwine git into a peck ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes
... and weak of will, They marry early, have little skill; They herd together, all sexes and ages, And take too tamely starvation wages; And if they will do so, much to their shame, How can the Capitalist be to blame? Remedies? Humph! We really regret We don't see our way to them. People must sweat, Must stitch and starve till they almost drop; But let it be done in a lime-washed shop! To drudge in these dens is their destined fate, But keep the dens in a decent ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890 • Various
... "Humph!" said he, and turned to talk with the Irishmen. I kept a sharp look out on the square below, hoping for a glimpse of Margaret, paying no heed to the earnest conversation buzzing in my ear. Princes and dominions, and marches and battles, were nothing to me as ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... "Humph! I see you are making them with an upholsterer's needle!" said Aggie, and marched down the ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... "Humph—mighty little attention they'd git. No, I go over 'em all myself, with Dr. Eaton. You didn't know he was my private advisor, did you? He's a fine young man and he's got a head on his shoulders; and him and me ...
— Drusilla with a Million • Elizabeth Cooper
... Skinner Adams?' sez me bould lad, kind av contempshus-like, 'Humph! at shtringin' out four I have Skinner Adams thrimmed tu a peak.' We was dhrivin' from th' station tu th' detachmint—same like tu we're doin' now. Whin we gits in I unhitches an' puts up th' team. 'Give us a hand tu shling th' harniss off!' sez I tu ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall
... "Humph!" said the squire, shrugging his shoulders; "you look upon the matter from a sentimental point of view. That is unwise. It is simply a matter of business. You speak of the house as yours. In reality, it is more mine than yours, for I have a ...
— The Store Boy • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... "Humph! I wouldn't believe those boys under oath, and you'll make a huge mistake if you do, Mr. Farnum," continued Josh ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham
... "Humph!" was his mental exclamation. "From one of the jumping hoff places." Then his mind reverted to the several detective tales that made up his knowledge of the far West. "'Ope she doesn't carry a gun 'idden ...
— The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware • Annie Fellows Johnston
... "Humph," said Harold. "If I could manage the works now! They say the shares are to be had for an ...
— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "Humph!" grunted Captain Roby; and Dickenson, who was full now of his adventure in what seemed to have been near the ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... "Humph!" grunted the general. And after a moment's thought he added, "Couldn't you get up some mixed ...
— General Bramble • Andre Maurois
... honey, 'f you warn't heah dat same Mista Gregor 'd be in Centaville ev'y Sunday, a raisin' Cain. Humph—I knows 'im." ...
— At Fault • Kate Chopin
... "Humph! I shall be obliged if some of you boys will remove that impression from his mind so that I may go ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska - The Gold Diggers of Taku Pass • Frank Gee Patchin
... "Humph!" he chuckled. "Fancy putting a man in a bloomin' jail made of deer skin. Much 'ead as the bloomin' 'eathen 'ave. Let's 'ave a ...
— Lost In The Air • Roy J. Snell |
