"Incredulously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... carpet caught his eye. A bit of string. He stared at it incredulously. The end was tied into a curious and an individual knot, which looked like it might be the pastime of a sailor, and which looked like it ought to be fairly easy to tie. But it was one of those knots which wandering men sometimes tie absent mindedly in ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 • Various
... mass of black, shining rock in his hands—a fragment that his strength would not have moved a fraction of an inch on Earth. He steadied it above his head, preparing to crash it upon the metal door; then waited; stared incredulously at the black metal sheet; lowered the great stone silently and turned to leap mightily yet with never a sound for the shelter ...
— The Finding of Haldgren • Charles Willard Diffin
... the square, strong figure incredulously. Somehow he could not associate Crowther with any but a vigorous, ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... exclaimed Tom, half incredulously, for he was leaning forward to look at one of the aeroplane gages and did not have a clear view of what ...
— Tom Swift among the Fire Fighters - or, Battling with Flames from the Air • Victor Appleton
... incredulously. "Then how does it happen that you are here? You couldn't possibly ride to Lazette and return by ...
— The Trail to Yesterday • Charles Alden Seltzer
... Taquisara, incredulously. "And if any one has told you, why should you believe it? There are several millions on the one side, which Macomer wishes to possess, and there can be nothing on the other but the word of one of the interested persons. You have met her in the world and exchanged ...
— Taquisara • F. Marion Crawford
... Eleanor's lips formed the words incredulously. Then the mere suggestion of outwitting her grandmother and saving Papa Claude by such a master stroke of diplomacy struck her so humorously that she broke into laughter, in which ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... Green Farm?" Mrs. Spencer stared incredulously. "Why, I knew old Gregory Gibbs well—and a fine old fellow he was too. And Fred and Roger—why, I knew 'em both. They used to come down into t' town on market days with their dad, and a pair of jolly little lads they ...
— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes
... come under the sphere of their own observation? They will readily believe that their cat can open a door-latch, and their pig can be taught to play cards, and that their dog can do wonderful things, savouring of something more than instinct. But these same people will shake their heads incredulously, when I tell them that the opossum saves herself from an enemy by hanging suspended to the tree-branch by her tail, or that the big-horn will leap from a precipice lighting upon his horns, or that the red monkeys ...
— The Boy Hunters • Captain Mayne Reid
... gate there stood a large vulgar dog, without a tail to speak of. Its parting was crooked, its hair was in its eyes. All these personal disadvantages the Family had time to note, while the dog gazed incredulously at Mr. Russell's Hound. ...
— This Is the End • Stella Benson
... decidedly amazed to see him draw forth a small, pink stocking from the upper tray and a little later, a soiled woolly sheep along with his shirts. Ernest found his explanations about a baby niece received rather incredulously until a choice packet containing half a doughnut, a much-mutilated peach, two green apples, and a mud pie appeared. Jilly had evidently prepared a lunch for her uncle. They both went off into rumbles of mirth over this remarkable exhibit and began a friendship ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... Bishopsthorpe?" cry I, incredulously, thinking of the five miry miles that intervene between us ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... and equally sombre words were more than Harry could stand, and leaning his head against the giant's shoulder, he laughed incredulously. ...
— A Lover in Homespun - And Other Stories • F. Clifford Smith
... whispered. He voiced other expletives, too, even more forcefully indicative of surprise. He was not an imaginative man; it did not occur to him to doubt his sanity or to wonder if he were awake, nevertheless he opened one of the pokes and incredulously examined its contents. "I'm dam' if it ain't!" he said, finally. "I should reckon they was ready to quit. Argentine! Why, Jack'll bust the bottom out of a boat if he takes this with him. He'll drown ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... at your mother making her own butter and helping in housework! Anne says she even spins her own linen towels and knits your stockings. What under the sun would she work like that for, if she could afford to live better'n we do?" cried Eleanor, incredulously. ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... I smiled incredulously, and replied: "I am of Ryland's way of thinking, and will, if you please, repeat all his arguments; we shall see how far you will be induced by them, to change the ...
— The Last Man • Mary Shelley
... speaker, that although he was in Somerset-house, he possessed no official communication relative to the projects of his Majesty's Ministers. But his remark was evidently received incredulously; and no further conjectures being hazarded on the subject, a long pause ensued, during which the company occupied themselves in coughing and blowing their noses, until the entrance of Mrs. ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... declared my faith that the feminine side, the side of love, of beauty, of holiness, was now to have its full chance, and that, if either were better, it was better now to be a woman; for even the slightest achievement of good was furthering an especial work of our time. He smiled incredulously. 'She makes the best she can of it,' thought he. 'Let Jews believe the pride of Jewry, but I am of the better sort, ...
— Woman in the Ninteenth Century - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition - and Duties, of Woman. • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... awful waiting. Then "chug—chug—chug!" again. With fantastic rapidity the warm engines picked up to racing speed. Torrance swung his head incredulously toward Conrad. ...
— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan
... the perfect dignity of her character; and the old Duca d'Astrardente had smiled and played with the curled locks of his wonderful wig, and had told every one that his wife was the one woman in the universe who was above suspicion. People had laughed incredulously at first; but as time wore on they held their peace, tacitly acknowledging that the aged fop was right as usual, but swearing in their hearts that it was the shame of shames to see the noblest woman in ...
— Saracinesca • F. Marion Crawford
... incredulously. "You? What's the younger set coming to?" and he motioned a servant to fill her glass. But she pushed it aside with a shiver, and gave Plank a strange look which he scarcely ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers
... my host, "the internal principle you speak of can be arrested before the grave,—at least stilled and impeded. You will smile incredulously, perhaps (for I see you do not know who I am), when I tell you that I might once have been a monarch, and that obscurity seemed to me more enviable than empire; I resigned the occasion: the tide of fortune rolled onward, and left me safe but solitary and forsaken upon ...
— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... want anything to eat?" said Fillmore incredulously. He supposed in a vague sort of way that there were eccentric people of this sort, but it was hard to realize that he had met one of them. ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse
... Gavrila Ardalionovitch and Aglaya Ivanovna enjoying a rendezvous on the green bench in the park. I was astonished to see what a fool a man can look. I remarked upon the fact to Aglaya Ivanovna when he had gone. I don't think anything ever surprises you, prince!" added Hippolyte, gazing incredulously at the prince's calm demeanour. "To be astonished by nothing is a sign, they say, of a great intellect. In my opinion it would serve equally well as a sign of great foolishness. I am not hinting about you; pardon me! I am very unfortunate today in ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... with two persons, a man and woman whose name and face, however, he could not summon, and he recalled that the woman smiled incredulously when he spoke of the exquisite perfume of those folded corn-sheaves in the air. She told him he imagined it. He saw again the pretty woman's smile of incomprehension; he saw the puzzled expression in ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood
... and again moved on; but he was not yet to escape. "And, instead of your fooling her," exclaimed Holworthy incredulously, "she ...
— The Red Cross Girl • Richard Harding Davis
... mean," he asked incredulously, "that you never noticed, what every one else saw so plainly, that that poor fellow fairly worshipped the ground you trod on?" Then again a painful flush came ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... incredulously—and yet she began to feel he was telling some truth. And Pratt shook his head at the ...
— The Talleyrand Maxim • J. S. Fletcher
... repeated the savant incredulously. "The truth is that I do not like her looks or her hair, and still less the vacant expression in her beautiful eyes. She is melancholy, she talks little, she weeps—friend Don Jose, I greatly fear that the girl may be attacked by the terrible ...
— Dona Perfecta • B. Perez Galdos
... 'Impossible!' she cried incredulously. 'Why, I wouldn't ask one of my dogs to sleep there,' and she pointed to the nearest hovel, whereof the walls were tottering outwards, the thatch was falling to pieces, and the windows were mended ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... all this happened here?" repeated Sweetheart, incredulously, pointing up at the dark purple mountains of Screel and ...
— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... wheeled at the voice, and now stood staring incredulously. First anger, and then a grin of triumph, showed in his face. Drink had made him not so much drunk as reckless. He had lost last night, but to-day he ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... incredulously joyful half-whisper, and he felt the pang that comes to all fathers at such a moment. Nell was not going to be only his ever again. He had been enough for her once on a time; yet, here she was, come to womanhood, breaking her heart for ...
— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan
... stuck with a perfectly dandy prediction which has no bearing on the case. It is time enough to pull it after he has told you that he expects to plant peas, beans, beets, corn. Then you can interrupt him and say: "Corn?" incredulously. "You don't expect to get any corn in that soil do you? Don't you know that corn requires a large percentage of bi-carbonate of soda in the soil, and I don't think, from the looks, that there is an ounce of soda bi-carb. in your whole plot. Even if the corn does come up, it will be so tough you ...
— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley
... commissioners had never heard of the first profanation of the ancient reservoir; as a crime, consequently, this repetition was to them original in all its aspects, and they addressed themselves to the inquiry incredulously; but after listening to Sergius, and to the details the little Jewess was able to give them, the occurrence forced itself on their comprehension as more than a crime at law—it took on the proportions and color of a conspiracy against society and religion. Then ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace
... sat under a large silk-cotton tree silently eating supper off plates of palm leaves, the old chief suddenly threw down his meat, and, with a startled expression, said, "I hear spirits!" Never having heard such ethereal visitors myself, I smiled incredulously, whereupon the old savage glared at me, and, leaving his food upon the ground went away out of the firelight into the darkness. Afraid that he might take one of the horses and return to his people, I followed to ...
— Through Five Republics on Horseback • G. Whitfield Ray
... The major smiled incredulously; but Servadac, nothing daunted, went on to detail the results of the collision between the comet and the earth, adding that, as there was the almost immediate prospect of another concussion, it had occurred to him that it might be advisable for the whole population of Gallia ...
— Off on a Comet • Jules Verne
... him incredulously. "Then we're to vote the stock as they dictate, just on the strength of their telling us they'll pay par for it afterward. I'm afraid it'll be a long time afterward. How do you know they aren't ...
— The Short Line War • Merwin-Webster
... head, not incredulously, but defiantly at fate. "I would have accepted it," said he, "had I been sure life with her had been hard as millstones! My love is of the perverse kind, not to be transmuted by any furnace of ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... during which the dealer seemed to weigh this statement incredulously. The ticking of many clocks among the curious lumber of the shop, and the faint rushing of the cabs in a near thoroughfare, filled up the interval ...
— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)
... others, listening to Mr. Gray's explanation of his return from the river with no fish, stealthily held up one finger in his turn. Trumble replied with a wink, Tappingham nodded, but Crailey slightly shook his head. Marsh and the General started with surprise, and stared incredulously. That Crailey should shake his head! If the signal had been for a church-meeting ...
— The Two Vanrevels • Booth Tarkington
... well open your eyes, and shake your little heads incredulously, but nevertheless it is a positive fact, that Venice, the fair Queen of the Adriatic, sends forth every year no less than three thousand tons of glass beads, for the adornment of your sisters big and little in all the four quarters ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... me that people never knew about sugar until then?" inquired Van incredulously, halting in the middle ...
— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett
... the twin parasols, pink and mauve. The young ladies looked up curiously at their swaggering approach and then away. Skippy in his assiduous pursuit of fiction of the romantic tinge had often read of "velvety" eyes and pondered incredulously. For the first time in his life, suddenly, in the hazards of a crowded steamer, a young girl of irreproachable manners had looked at him and the eyes were undeniably "velvety." It troubled him. Not that he ...
— Skippy Bedelle - His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete - Man of the World • Owen Johnson
... "Not in her?" incredulously repeated Bascomb—"Not in her? Then what a plague do the Dons mean by coming off to us at all? Surely I made it plain enough to them all that the surrender of our Captain was the very first article ...
— Two Gallant Sons of Devon - A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood
... International Airways stared foolishly when they saw Carr Parker and the giant Martian enter the mysterious ship which was a trespasser on their landing stage. They gazed incredulously as the gleaming torpedo-shaped vessel arose majestically from its position. There was no evidence of motive power other than a sudden radiation from its hull plates of faintly crackling streamers of silvery light. They fell back in alarm as it pointed ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various
... Basterga spoke incredulously, but his brow was damp, his cheeks were a shade more sallow than usual; he did not deceive the other's penetration. "Impossible!" he continued, striving to rally his forces. "Why should she take it? ...
— The Long Night • Stanley Weyman
... Dave pressed forward eagerly, incredulously; the next instant he had broken cover with a shout. Alaire was at his side, clapping her ...
— Heart of the Sunset • Rex Beach
... and Carol incredulously took, a thin gray pamphlet entitled "McGinerty's Mother-in-law." It was the sort of farce which is advertised in "school ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... searchingly. "Surely you don't believe in it?" she whispered incredulously. "Of course it was a mixture of thought-reading and Bubbles' ...
— From Out the Vasty Deep • Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
... by hand," was the Vicomte's astonishing answer. And the Baron laughed incredulously. It seems that the highest aim of the high finance is to catch your neighbour telling the truth by accident. It would almost be safe to tell the truth always, ...
— Dross • Henry Seton Merriman
... from the scrap of paper and looked about her incredulously, as if she expected to find some ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch
... story," said Mrs. Preston, incredulously. "He only wants to make a favorable impression upon you—perhaps to get more out ...
— Only An Irish Boy - Andy Burke's Fortunes • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... you'd got things you haven't," retorted Joel. "I don't believe you'd light 'em all at once," he added, incredulously. ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney
... Mother smiled wistfully but incredulously. To her it all seemed as remote, as improbable as a trip to Egypt, but I continued to talk of it as settled and so did William ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... kill you!" exclaimed Ridge, incredulously. "But wait a moment. We must have a light. This ...
— "Forward, March" - A Tale of the Spanish-American War • Kirk Munroe
... it is nothing to laugh about, either," she chided, as he smiled incredulously, "I am a bad girl; I am disobedient. Otherwise I would not allow you to speak to me alone like this. You are the first gentleman I have ever been so long in the company with, ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... wreck of Harman, these husks and shreds of a man, down here for Louise to see?" Ward cried incredulously. ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington
... crystallized as he talked to Mariel. Shandor's mind was whirling as he walked down toward the thoroughfare. Incredulously, he tried to piece the picture together. He had known Dartmouth Bearing was big—but that big? Mariel might have been talking nonsense, or he might have been reading the Gospel. Shandor hailed a cab, sat back in the seat scratching his head. How big could Dartmouth Bearing be? Could ...
— Bear Trap • Alan Edward Nourse
... in your heart too the seed of suffering. Oh, I am too unworthy!" I cried out; "and when you come to discover how unworthy it will hurt you; it will sting your pride to think how kind you were to me." She smiled incredulously, in denial of my words. "No, child; ...
— Bardelys the Magnificent • Rafael Sabatini
... my room; she's writing to him at this minute——" She broke off, drawing in her breath hard. "Oh, Micky, are you quite, quite sure? I can't believe it." She stared at him for a moment, then she laughed incredulously. "Why, it's only three days ago he sent her that fur coat—and the collar for Charlie. Oh, I'm sure ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... tell. But I can tell. I can tell her husband. He's only got to ask the hotel clerk and the cashier and the bell hops, and when I've told my story as I'll tell it—he's liable to shoot you. (There is a pause during which FALLON stares at MOHUN incredulously.) Let it ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page
... "Siege?" I repeated incredulously. "Impossible. Why, only this morning I was reading about his negotiations with a foreign syndicate of bankers from southeastern Europe for a ten-million- dollar loan to relieve the money stringency there. Surely there must be some mistake ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve
... His wife gazed incredulously at him while he talked this high patriotism: and well she might, for he did not speak as one moved by such feelings. The consciousness of deceit, of concealment, and of childish rashness, rendered his ...
— Western Characters - or Types of Border Life in the Western States • J. L. McConnel
... "What shoeing?" he asked incredulously. "You ain't meanin' a big strong guy like Chris manhandlin' a pore little filly? Come awn—I can't stand to see him abusin' her ...
— Blister Jones • John Taintor Foote
... got the biggest scheme that ever came north, backed by the biggest men in Washington," continued the politician. "Look here!" He displayed a type-written sheet bearing parallel lists of names and figures. Struve gasped incredulously. ...
— The Spoilers • Rex Beach
... up at last, showed nothing unusual, unless three girls wide awake at half-past two in the morning could be included under that head. Peggy stared incredulously about the empty room, ...
— Peggy Raymond's Vacation - or Friendly Terrace Transplanted • Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith
... shoulders, and smiled incredulously. The prisoner again resumed his old attitude, and for a long ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens
... on waking was to look at his watch. He had a dull feeling that he must have slept through the whole night and even the following day. He peered at the hands incredulously and held the watch to his ear to convince himself it had not stopped. No, it was still running. Consequently, since his last waking, only six or, at the utmost, eight minutes ...
— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann
... or something unpleasant. He looked at once for the signature. There was none! Incredulously he turned the page over and examined each corner. Not being a public man, Soames had never yet had an anonymous letter, and his first impulse was to tear it up, as a dangerous thing; his second to read it, as ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... were very still, but I saw Carrington gaze at the speaker almost incredulously. Though, as one of them told me afterward, a vote had once before been asked for, it had only established their leader's authority more firmly, and I think this was the first time that any determined opposition had ...
— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss
... sensations that steeped my whole being in unutterable rapture. I was encompassed by a sea of light, through which played the pure, harmonious colors that are born of light. While endeavoring, in broken expressions, to describe my feelings to my friends, who sat looking upon me incredulously—not yet having been affected by the drug—I suddenly found myself at the foot of the great Pyramid of Cheops. The tapering courses of yellow limestone gleamed like gold in the sun, and the pile rose so high that it seemed ...
— The Lands of the Saracen - Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain • Bayard Taylor
... weren't!" Susan echoed incredulously. For the "Junior Cotillion" was quite the most exclusive and desirable of the city's winter dances for ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... plant the corn and cut the wheat, too," said Kate, with the pluck of a true Canadian girl. "We'll soon learn to wield the sickle, though you seem to doubt it, Captain Villiers," she went on, looking archly at the gallant captain, who smiled rather incredulously. ...
— Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher • William Henry Withrow
... the effects of poison?" he gasped, incredulously. "Great Heaven! how can I believe such an uncanny tale? Miss Staples has not an enemy in the whole world, I am sure. No one could have a motive in attempting to put her ...
— Pretty Madcap Dorothy - How She Won a Lover • Laura Jean Libbey
... Rackliff incredulously. "Why, you're joking! Your money, seven dollars which you gave me, is bet on Wyndham. If Oakdale wins ...
— Rival Pitchers of Oakdale • Morgan Scott
... it incredulously, when Sunnysides suddenly resolved all doubts. From behind a projecting rock the horse came out on one of the many rough ledges that had been formed by lateral cleavage of the cliff in its fall. Hesitating a moment there, he plunged down a short declivity, and landed ...
— The Heart of Thunder Mountain • Edfrid A. Bingham
... shaking my head incredulously. But though at first I was unbelieving I had to yield to the ...
— A Journey to the Interior of the Earth • Jules Verne
... be here," said Chester incredulously to himself. "This looks more like a fine private house than ...
— The Chink in the Armour • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... simple, was as well cooked and well served as though we were seated in a Paris restaurant instead of in a besieged fortress. And the first course was fresh lobster! I told General Dubois that my friends at home would raise their eyebrows incredulously when I told them this, whereupon he took a menu—for they had menus—and across it wrote his name and "Citadel de Verdun," and the date. "Perhaps that will convince them," he said, passing it to me. By this I do ...
— Italy at War and the Allies in the West • E. Alexander Powell
... the doctor said he'd have to take it easy for a year till he was accustomed to the change in gravity and air-pressure," he answered incredulously. ...
— Native Son • T. D. Hamm
... that, as a point of honour, I should refrain from ever mentioning the subject. I respected his request to the extent of not alluding indiscriminately to the noises that disturbed my nights there. But I did speak to several people about them, and they had so impatiently and incredulously heard my statements, that I at last refused to repeat them, even when pressingly requested to do so. It was, therefore, quite a surprise to find myself talking about B—— House, or rather, listening with rapt attention to another talking ...
— The Alleged Haunting of B—— House • Various
... she so very fond of her father!" asked Madame Ray, incredulously. "When he was alive, they did not seem to make much of him in his own house. Maybe this retreat is a good way of getting over a ...
— Jacqueline, Complete • (Mme. Blanc) Th. Bentzon
... Stell'?" Percy put the question coaxingly. When Stella was pleased with him she went to walk with him, since that was the only way in which Percy could ever see her alone. When she was displeased, she said she was too tired to go out. To-night she smiled at him incredulously, and went to put on her hat and ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
... plot, as you are always imagining, the dahabeah would have to be near here, too," Monny laughed incredulously. ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
... Barbara spoke stiffly, incredulously, her glance going from Worth to the well-gowned, well-groomed woman beside him. I remembered her moment of rebellion yesterday evening on the lawn, when she said so bitterly that if he asked it again, she'd do it again, as ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan
... tell now he wore the uniform of a Federal officer, but was unable to distinguish his rank. The sight of the girl, standing in the midst of all that horror, her loosened hair falling below her waist, evidently startled him. An instant he stared toward us incredulously; then ...
— Love Under Fire • Randall Parrish
... he protested, incredulously. "Are you quite sure you understand what I mean? Won't you give me a ...
— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver
... have had reasons for his course? we may incredulously ask. And here I revert to my particular state of mind years ago. The question for me was, holding as I did that in Jesus, God had spoken to the world, and that under God he was the Lord, and Saviour, and Judge of men, could I remain standing in such a position? ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 • Various
... stared incredulously at Doeninger; but his wife rose, uttering low lamentations, and dressed ...
— Andreas Hofer • Lousia Muhlbach
... before and will hear them again," said the older warriors incredulously. "Such tales are of the sort that old women tell about the fires on ...
— The Windy Hill • Cornelia Meigs
... destination you want to arrive at is three miles off! As for a pedestrian excursion round the largest island—a circuit of thirteen miles—when we talked of performing that feat in the hearing of a respectable inhabitant, he laughed at the idea as incredulously as if we had proposed a swimming match to the Cornish coast. When people will not give themselves the first great chance of breathing healthily and freely as often as they can, who can wonder that consumption should be ...
— Rambles Beyond Railways; - or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot • Wilkie Collins
... will 'let' you, certainly!" and Mr. Harland smiled incredulously,—"But I think you ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli
... state! If you refuse to love me, I'll blow my miserable brains out." The lady may, by shaking her head incredulously, express a reasonable doubt that the gentleman possesses ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... really mean that there is no charge?" demanded Madge, incredulously, with her purse in ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... back a pace and looked at Calumet incredulously, his eyes searching for signs of insincerity. He saw no such signs, for if Calumet had emotion at this minute it was too deep to be uncovered with a glance. But he knew from Taggart's perturbation that the latter knew him to be ...
— The Boss of the Lazy Y • Charles Alden Seltzer
... he repeated, incredulously, "all the way to Honduras—to join me!" He turned to the two officers. "Did he ...
— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis
... Mr. Tolman incredulously. "Mercy on us! I never knew your mother to be starting out on a short trip with such an array of gowns." Then turning toward his wife, he added in bantering fashion: "Aren't you getting a little frivolous, my dear? If it were ...
— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett
... are large enough for me," he repeated, with considerable obstinacy. I smiled incredulously; and then to settle the matter he resolved that he would try them on. Nobody had been in these rooms for the last hour, and it appeared as though they were never visited. Even the guide had not come on with us, but was employed in showing other ...
— The Relics of General Chasse • Anthony Trollope
... shrugged his shoulders incredulously. "Oh! as to its being wrong, and so forth, I don't know. They all do it, I guess, in one way or other. I don't suppose Miss Graeme would go it so strong as that little woman, but I guess ...
— Janet's Love and Service • Margaret M Robertson
... You have heard, maybe?' he asked incredulously. When I assured him that I had heard her, he pointed out her picture and told me that Vasak had broken her leg, climbing in the Austrian Alps, and would not be able to fill her engagements. He seemed delighted to find that I had heard her sing in London and ...
— My Antonia • Willa Cather
... "When?" she demanded incredulously, then turned in the saddle, repeating: "Where? Did she pass? How perfectly stupid of me! And ...
— The Tracer of Lost Persons • Robert W. Chambers
... you?" the hook-nosed man demanded of Father. But his voice sounded puzzled and he gazed incredulously at Mother as she cozily peeled potatoes, her delicate cheeks and placid eye revealed in the firelight. She was already as sturdily industrious and matter-of-fact as though she were ...
— The Innocents - A Story for Lovers • Sinclair Lewis
... thought a collie had half a chance against a bull dog," Mrs. Wescott interrupted, incredulously. "And such a dog ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... the girl exploded. "Are you just going to sit there guzzling beer while pirates take over the town?" She stared at him incredulously. ...
— This One Problem • M. C. Pease
... careful housewives, accustomed to wood fires, even now offer against its use for culinary purposes. It was dirty, nasty, inconvenient to handle, made an offensive smoke, and not a few shook their heads incredulously at the idea of making the "stone" burn at all. Wood was plentiful and cheap, and as long as that was the case they did not see the use of going long distances to procure a doubtful article of fuel, neither as clean, convenient, nor cheap as hickory or maple. ...
— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin
... the duke, smiling incredulously, "and pray what may they be? you must be as expeditious as possible, for his majesty is waiting ...
— Snarley-yow - or The Dog Fiend • Frederick Marryat
... Grisi declared that she, too, would become a great tragedienne. "How I should love to play Norma!" she exclaimed to Bellini one night behind the scenes. "Wait twenty years, and we shall see." "I will play Norma in spite of you, and in less than twenty years!" she retorted. The young man smiled incredulously, and muttered, "A poco! a poco!" But ...
— Great Singers, Second Series - Malibran To Titiens • George T. Ferris
... asked Goldberger incredulously, "that you sat for five hours and more staring at ...
— The Gloved Hand • Burton E. Stevenson
... incredulously. "Wha-a-tt!" he almost shouted, "D'ye mean to tell me that bear got within twenty yards of you and couldn't catch ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall
... upon a new basis, and that under the sole auspices and moulding hands of this man and his sons will be developed a business whose transactions will be numbered in hundreds of thousands of dollars, would you not have smiled incredulously? And I have lived to see the day when the plantation has passed into new hands, and these hands once wore the fetters of slavery. Mr. Montgomery, the present proprietor by contract of between five and six thousand acres of land, has one of the most interesting ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still
... already asked it," continued the dwarf as Paaker smiled incredulously, "and the king is not disinclined to give it. He likes making marriages—as ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers |
