"Ma" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wink of sleep, for after being so angry with him that I could have hit him, I lay crying and thinking what a wicked woman I was for half-wishing that he was dead; for he is my husband, my dear, after all, and—Morning, ma'am—I mean, good-afternoon," cried the woman respectfully. "I am so sorry to be late this week, and I hope the ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn
... book-learnin'; I like her all the better just as she is, bless her dear little heart! I'm after little Daisy Brooks," he said, bowing to the ladies who met him at the door. "I heard she was here—run away from school, you see, ma'am—but I'll forgive the little gypsy. Tell her old Uncle John is here. She'll be powerful ...
— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey
... gravely taking out his spectacles, and wiping them before he opened the roll of paper; "some boy's daubing, I suppose, whose pa and ma wish to get him into the Trustees' School, and so are beating about for a little interest.—But I am drained dry—I put three lads in last season; and if it had not been my particular interest with the secretary, who asks my ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott
... "I don't, ma'am, indeed I don't," she answered; when gentle Miss Martha observed, "I did not wish to hurt your feelings, Mrs Burton"; and Miss Anna Maria, who was fond of laughing, said something which made her laugh, and then she laughed ...
— Ben Burton - Born and Bred at Sea • W. H. G. Kingston
... snake, ma'am," he returned thickly. He slid down from his pony and staggered to the edge of the porch, leaning against one of the slender posts and hanging dizzily on. "You see, ma'am, that damned rattler got Ferguson. But Ferguson ain't reckonin' on dyin' till sundown. He couldn't ...
— The Two-Gun Man • Charles Alden Seltzer
... very excellent gentleman whom I met before I had been in the United States a week, and who asked me whether lords in England ever spoke to men who were not lords. Nor can I omit the opening address of another gentleman to my wife. "You like our institutions, ma'am?" "Yes, indeed," said my wife, not with all that eagerness of assent which the occasion perhaps required. "Ah," said he, "I never yet met the down-trodden subject of a despot who did not hug his chains." The first gentleman was certainly somewhat ignorant of our customs, ...
— Volume 1 • Anthony Trollope
... herself, as she pushed the governess' bed flat up against the wall. "Yes, Ma'am! if I see her going for to abuse Nan, I'll set to and give her a piece of my mind such as she ain't likely to have got in one while, I tell you that," and she gave the bureau a vicious tweak and pulled down the ...
— The Governess • Julie M. Lippmann
... round to the stable for Splutters and Shutters, ma'am, that's where he be. B'ys is never content without the dogs arter them. I dunno where t'other young muster is, but the ladies is on their way across in their boat,' added Binks, shading his eyes to ...
— The Captain's Bunk - A Story for Boys • M. B. Manwell
... her with a supercilious scorn and pity. He characterized her in his own mind of extreme youth and brutal truth as an ugly old woman, and yet he noted the trembling and felt like reassuring her. He took off his little cap. "No, ma'am," said he. "Amy has gone ...
— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... preghiere sarebbero grate, se tu mi prestassi quella virtu che rende efficace il pregare: ma io sono un terreno sterile, in cui non nasce spontaneamente frutto che sia buono. Tu solamente sei seme di opere caste e pie, le quali germogliano la dove tu ti spargi: e nessuna virtu vi ha che da per se possa venirti dietro, se tu stesso non le ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III • William Wordsworth
... of long sweetenin', please Ma'm," he answered to that lady's utter consternation. She laid down the tongs ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris
... that his wife is loving and discreet, he feels a much greater sense of security when he knows she is unable to do him any harm. His quaint phrase is as follows: Non perche io non conoscessi la mia amarevole e discreta, ma sempre estimai piu securo ch'ella non mi potesse nuocere che ...
— Women of the Romance Countries • John R. Effinger
... la informatione ho autta non e molto perfecta sichondo vorebe quela. Un'altra pictura de la nocte feze ditto Zorzo a uno Victorio Becharo, qual per quanto intendo e de meglior desegnio et meglio finitta che non e quella del Contarini. Ma esso Becharo, al presente non si atrova in questa terra, et sichondo m'e stato afirmatto ne l'una ne l'altra non sono da vendere per pretio nesuno; pero che li hanno fatte fare per volerle godere per loro; siche mi doglio non poter satisfar al ...
— Giorgione • Herbert Cook
... 'n' me—up Gran'ma Mullins come 'n' it turned out from her as we was all three expected to squeeze over to Meadville on Mr. Jilkins's back seat together. Mrs. Macy 'n' me was far from pleased at that prospeck, 'n' Gran'ma Mullins did n't look over rejoiced ...
— Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs • Anne Warner
... ma freen', yon's an auld, auld farrant. But ye're well kenn'd for a leal, honest man; an' sae, I'se no ...
— The Drama of the Forests - Romance and Adventure • Arthur Heming
... not "appear among the allies." She is the leading power among them; it is her war, as Mr. Tsvolski, the Russian Ambassador to Paris, very properly remarked: "C'est ma guerre." She planned it, she gave Austria-Hungary no chance to live on peaceful terms with her neighbors, she forced it upon us, she drew France into it by offering her a bait which that poor country could ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... reticent about telling their names; and when they do tell, the name given is usually the one borne in childhood; an old man will generally answer " am-a'-ma," meaning simply ...
— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks
... tranquille, Voguant soir et matin, Ma nacelle est docile Au souffle du destin. La voile s'enfie-t-elle, J'abandonne le bord. (O doux zephir, sois-moi fidele!) Eh! vogue, ma ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... officers went over to the South. Yet the enlisted man was despised even by the common loafers who would not fight if they could help it. "Why don't you come in?" asked a zealous lady at a distribution of patriotic gifts, "aren't you one of our heroes?" "No, ma'am," answered the soldier, ...
— Captains of the Civil War - A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray, Volume 31, The - Chronicles Of America Series • William Wood
... my Ma so, I just couldn't see ye cut her arm open. And Pa didn't mean to hurt yer feelin's—won't ye stay and help us? Can't ye do ...
— A Man of the People - A Drama of Abraham Lincoln • Thomas Dixon
... the girl pleaded; "won't you come and help me? Ma's sick—she fainted—and pa's gone away. I'm all alone with her. Ma's down on the floor an' don't move—I'm afraid she's dead. Oh, please do come, Miss, just ...
— Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains - or, A Christmas Success against Odds • Stella M. Francis
... Mr. Truncheon remarked. "We must knock another hoff, Ma'm." And he looked her hard in ...
— A Little Dinner at Timmins's • William Makepeace Thackeray
... be sure to do it, ma'am,' replied the gardener. 'I look we shall have a merry Christmas, and I do like to see the room well ...
— Christmas, A Happy Time - A Tale, Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons • Miss Mant
... What a jolly sell! Here am I as miserable as an owl, and everybody I meet's miserable too. Scarfe's gone to Sharpfield, and won't be back till late. Raby's so taken up with her precious telegram that she won't look at me. Ma and Mrs Scarfe, have bagged the pony trap and Appleby, and now you're looking as if ...
— A Dog with a Bad Name • Talbot Baines Reed
... or forgotten, what Comte himself labours to show, and indeed succeeds in proving, in the "Appendice General" of the "Politique Positive." "Des mon debut," he writes, "je tentai de fonder le nouveau pouvoir spirituel que j'institue aujourd'hui." "Ma politique, loin d'etre aucunement opposee a ma philosophie, en constitue tellement la suite naturelle que celle-ci fut directement instituee pour servir de base a celle-la, comme le prouve ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley
... to the lady." Pierce smiled. And to Sheila, "You shouldn't startle people like that, Ma'm. ...
— The Man Who Staked the Stars • Charles Dye
... called in the treaty now submitted the "22," which, if the President should decide to lay it before the Senate, can be corrected by that body) article of the treaty of 6th November, 1838, there is reserved from the cession contained in that instrument 10 miles square for the band of Ma-to-sin-ia, in regard of which the seventh ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Volume 3: Martin Van Buren • James D. Richardson
... dorrg, ma'am, in that ere sort o' fashun. What harm can that hanimal ha' done to you, or that whiskered cat-like thing ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie
... surveys for a line connecting the capital with the Yangtse. If these two schemes can be carried through under Chinese control, good-by to the hopes of the French. Just at the time that I was in Yunnan there was much excitement over the Pien-ma matter, a boundary question between the province and Burma. A boycott of British goods had been started which would have been more effective if there had been more goods to boycott, but it indicated the feeling of the people, and the viceroy, Li Ching ...
— A Wayfarer in China - Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia • Elizabeth Kendall
... roared the sheriff. "Can't do it, ma'am—not even for a friend. Awful sorry, Mis' Gentry, but I've just got tuh go." He jerked the whip from its ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 • Various
... just now, Ma'am," laughed Tom, cheerfully. "But really, I have not come begging either food or lodging. ...
— Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies - The Missing Pearl Necklace • Alice B. Emerson
... returning home? I waited till I was tired, and then went on all alone, and paid my respects to our venerable lady; I'm now, on my way to inquire about our lady Wang. What errand haven't you delivered as yet, ma; and ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... answered: "Dear ma-a-aster!.." and the pupil advanced, banging against the wall a sort of long fishing-rod with a packet at one end wrapped in gray paper, and oilcloth tied round it ...
— Tartarin On The Alps • Alphonse Daudet
... are," he explained to his wife. "Now, I am sure, the next communal election will go all right. I shall be re-elected." "Your ambition is perfectly insatiable, Charles," exclaimed the marquise, gaily. "But, ma chere amie," argued the husband, seriously, "it's most important that the right man should be mayor this year, because of the elections to the Chamber. If you think it ...
— Tales of Unrest • Joseph Conrad
... non m'accorsi del salire in ella; Ma d'esserv' entro mi fece assai fede La donna mia ch'io vidi far ...
— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge
... and, with his literary instinct, naturally felt impelled to be among those who wished to present the King with an address on the day of his Coronation. This took place on April 23, 1661, and on the following day Evelyn recorded in his Diary: "I presented his Ma^tie with his Panegyric in the Private Chamber, which he was pleas'd to accept most graciously: I gave copies to the Lord Chancellor and most of the noblemen who came to me for it."[2] Evelyn's Panegyric ...
— An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661) • John Evelyn
... lot better," he answered, "but it sure makes me terrible sorry, ma'am, that I got your little girl in trouble. ...
— The Seventh Man • Max Brand
... "No, indeed, ma'am," answered Mr. Fossell. "I am content if the others are willing—not that for me the pleasure of playing against you needs ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... been no ordinary love affair," said this astute Frenchman to himself. "I must decidedly cultivate this young lady's acquaintance, for I mean to pay you out well yet, ma belle Helene." ...
— Vera Nevill - Poor Wisdom's Chance • Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron
... gardeners o' th' Pickles,' said he, fingering the rent. 'Firin' to th' right flank, when he knowed I was there. If I knew who he was I'd 'a' rippen the hide offan him. Look at ma tunic!' ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling
... the common. Very ladylike in appearance and namby-pamby looking. I felt really sorry for them, but they ought never to have left their ma's apron-strings." ...
— Australia Revenged • Boomerang
... he'll dae!" cried Domsie aloud, ladling in the snuff. "George, ma mannie, tell yir father that I am comin' up to Whinnie Knowe the nicht ...
— Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush • Ian Maclaren
... right, ma'am," quoth the imperturbable Frank. "But as I was saying, this is a pitiable business, this about poor Archie; and you and I might do worse than put our heads together, like a couple of sensible people, and bring it to an end. Let me tell you, ma'am, that Archie is ...
— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson
... her cough was awful tryin' sometimes, and it 'peared as ef she warn't of much account, nohow. But de Lord's will be done; when He wanted her, she reckined He'd call. And how does you find yourself, Miss? And how does your ma git along wid de servants now? You know she always was a great hand to be pertickler, Miss; we hadn't sich another young lady in our family, to be pertickler, as your ma, Miss,—'specially 'bout de pleetin' ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 • Various
... when the creature put the same question about last week's weather to Herbert, the page-boy, as a prelude to his discovering the treasures of the mummy, as a knife and an umbrella. His view of the weather was that it was 'A fine day ma'am! ...
— The Two Sides of the Shield • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Monsieur Goupille. "Ma douce amie—she has fainted away!" And, indeed, Adele had no sooner recovered her, balance, than she resigned it once more into the arms of the startled Pole, who was ...
— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... soon after I had quitted M. le Duc d'Orleans, whilst he was walking at Montmartre ma garden with his 'roues' and his harlots, some letters had been brought to him by a post-office clerk, to whom he had spoken in private; that afterwards he, Biron, had been called by the Duke, who showed him a letter from the Marquis ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon
... omit of this charming woman, which I believe will weigh with you in her favour; her political doctrine is so exactly like yours, that it is never started but I exclaim, 'Dear ma'am, if my Daddy Crisp was here, I believe between you, you would croak me mad!' And this sympathy of horrible foresight not a little contributes to incline her to believe the other parts of speech with which I regale ...
— Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Various
... "Ma quando il sol gli aridi campi fiede Con raggi assai fervente, a in alto sorge, Ecco apparir Gerusalem si vede! Ecco additar Gerusalem si scorge! Ecco da mille voci unitamente, Gerusalemme salutar si ...
— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell
... bed last night, his ma says! Gone in the queerest way ever, and just when Riverport depended on him to win the prize to-morrow!" was what ...
— Fred Fenton on the Track - or, The Athletes of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... be acceptable, ma'am, and then I will tell you my news. You've heard nothing of the Goat-father, ...
— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry
... "No, I thank you, ma'am," replied the artist. "It is very good in you, but I scarcely feel in sufficient spirits for sherry. Just give Mr. Finsbury this note, and ask him to look round—to the door in the lane, you will please tell him; I shall be in ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... tharawawt awr country goth, And charge befare him far te com us priests end lemen hath, Far te spay awt, gif that he mea, these new-sprang arataics, Whilk de disturb aur hally Kirk, laik a sart of saysmatics. Awr gilden Gods ar brought ayen intea awr kirks ilkwhare, That unte tham awr parishioner ma offer thar gude-will. For hally mass in ilk place new thea autars de prepare, Hally water, pax, cross, banner, censer and candill, Cream, crismatory, hally bread, the rest omit ay will, Whilt hally fathers did invent fre awd antiquity, Be new received inte awr kirks with great solemnity. ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI • Robert Dodsley
... "Yes, ma'am," answered Mary, turning her head to hide her smiles; and then, seeing a flower, Mary cried, "Oh! what a beautiful flower! Tell me what it is, aunty. I think I never saw one like it before. What a heavenly blue! And how ...
— The Nursery, November 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 5 • Various
... you're too fine for the like of me, Shawn Keogh of Killakeen, and let you go off till you'd find a radiant lady with droves of bullocks on the plains of Meath, and herself bedizened in the diamond jewelleries of Pharaoh's ma. That'd be your match, Shaneen. So God save you ...
— The Playboy of the Western World • J. M. Synge
... this new-fashioned way of living that is killing little Hennery. When I lived at home before we used to have sassidge and pancakes for breakfast, roast meat for dinner and cold meat for supper, and dad was healthy as a tramp, ma could dance a highland fling, I could play all kinds of games and jump over a high board fence when anybody was chasing me. Now we have some kind of breakfast food three times a day because ma reads the advertisements, and dad is so weak he has to be helped to dress, ma goes moping around ...
— Peck's Bad Boy With the Cowboys • Hon. Geo. W. Peck
... lack words, but Lou-Jane was so voluble that he was completely silenced. At the stable, where Ma Hoomer was milking, Lou-Jane delayed for a moment to whisper: "Stay here ...
— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton
... friend— (And here she might mend) Little given to lend. "How spent you the summer?" Quoth she, looking shame At the borrowing dame. "Night and day to each comer I sang, if you please." "You sang! I'm at ease, For 'tis plain at a glance, Now, ma'am, you must dance." ...
— The Talking Beasts • Various
... to me, between his sniffs, 'this impresses me like flowers,—like marigolds. It must be,—really,—yes, the vegetable element is predominant. My instinct towards it is so strong that I cannot be mistaken. May I taste it, Ma'am?' ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 52, February, 1862 • Various
... grand gentleman Uncle Hugh, ma'am?" she asked timidly, as she clung to the good-natured ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... love children, but if Mrs. Caruthers hadn't come and got her prodigy at that critical juncture, we don't believe all Burlington could have pulled us out of the snarl. And as Clarence Alencon de Marchemont Caruthers pattered down the stairs, we heard him telling his ma about a boy who had a father named George, and he told him to cut down an apple-tree, and he said he'd rather tell a thousand lies than cut down ...
— The Canadian Elocutionist • Anna Kelsey Howard
... ma chile gotter wait a hull hour pas' her breckfus time jist kase Madam Fussa-ma-fiddle ain't choose fer ter git up? I bait yo' she git up when she ter home, and I bait yo' she ain't gitting somebody ter dress her, an' wait on her han' an' foot like Mandy done been a-doin' sense yistiddy; ner she ain' ...
— Peggy Stewart at School • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... "Pour ma part, je vous felicite bien cordialement de la victoire que vous venez de remporter, car je sais qu'avec des hommes tels que vous on peut etre assure que c'est une victoire feconde en resultats pour la civilisation ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn
... her Ma^{ties} printer, hath yeilded unto the saide disposition and purpose these ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 223, February 4, 1854 • Various
... of the pair, "I don't like the way that window's broken, for one thing, and if you look at it you'll see what I mean. The broken glass is all outside on the sill. But that's not all, ma'am; and, as you have a cab, we might do worse than drive to the station before more ...
— The Shadow of the Rope • E. W. Hornung
... she was vaguely pleased with herself after the fashion of an earnest student who suddenly finds himself actually thinking in French. Before she Went to Mme. Yarde's Finishing School for Young Ladies, she had been so accustomed to saying pa and ma that it had been very difficult to overcome the habit. Even now, once in a while, she—but, thank heaven, not once since meeting Lord Raygan; she was sure of that. He had said, "You talk quite like our girls." And all the rest of the day she ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... BOY yielding to the touch of humanity, and bursting into tears: "No, ma'am, I can't. And everybody's blamin' me, as if I done it. What's my poor mother goin' ...
— The Elevator • William D. Howells
... unhesitatingly joined the lady, thinking it a pity that HARRY, who had had 'such a good education,' should be buried in a farm-house. 'And don't you think so too, Mr. Cobbett,' said the lady, with great earnestness. 'Indeed, Ma'am,' said I, 'I should think it very great presumption in me to offer any opinion at all, and especially in opposition to the known decision of the father, who is the best judge, and the only rightful judge, in such a case.' This was a very sensible and well-behaved ...
— Advice to Young Men • William Cobbett
... of ran across her myself, as a matter of fact. I wasn't just sure who you meant at first. You mean the understudy, the one that's to play Miss Lyston's part, that Miss—Miss—" He snapped a finger and thumb to spur memory and then, as in triumphant solution of his puzzle, cried, "Ma—Malone! Miss Malone!" ...
— Harlequin and Columbine • Booth Tarkington
... Arbeau gives the vocal Pavan for four voices, 'Belle qui tiens ma vie,' which is quoted in Grove. The proper drum accompaniment, continued throughout the 32 bars (2/2) is—[Music] etc. He also gives seven more verses of words to it, and says if you do not wish to dance, you can play or ...
— Shakespeare and Music - With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries • Edward W. Naylor
... turned round, glanced at the little bewildered groom and he, too, burst out laughing, calling to his wife: "Look at Ma-Ma-Marius! Is he not comical? ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... qu'il venait de recevoir de ce frere alors a Vienne, et qui lui ecrivait en effet—'J'ai mon ophthalmie, tu dois avoir la tienne.' Quelque singulier que ceci puisse paraitre, le fait non est pas moins exact: on ne me l'a pas raconte, je l'ai vu, et j'en ai vu d'autres analogues dans ma pratique. Ces deux jumeaux etaient aussi tous deux asthmatiques, et asthmatiques a un effroyable degre. Originaires de Marseille, ils n'ont jamais pu demeurer dans cette ville, ou leurs interets les appelaient souvent, sans etre pris de leurs acces; jamais ils n'en eprouvaient a Paris. ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin
... gathering in the messroom, where a fire was going. Some one started the phonograph. Fritz Kreisler was playing the "Chansons sans Paroles." This was followed by a song, "Oh, movin' man, don't take ma baby grand." It was a strange combination, and to hear them, at that hour of the morning, before going out for a first sortie over the lines, gave me a "mixed-up" feeling, which it was ...
— High Adventure - A Narrative of Air Fighting in France • James Norman Hall
... Pandarus, 'Ma dame, god yow see, 85 With al your book and al the companye!' 'Ey, uncle myn, welcome y-wis,' quod she, And up she roos, and by the hond in hye She took him faste, and seyde, 'This night thrye, To goode mote it turne, of yow I mette!' 90 And with that word ...
— Troilus and Criseyde • Geoffrey Chaucer
... never set for hours in the wet ma'sh, never movin' a finger, waitin' for the geese?" he asked with injury in his voice. "Hain't I never sneaked up on a watchin' buck, or laid so still I've ...
— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts
... Anne; "I know what it is, and I'll see about it. She's always like this, ma'am, when a storm's coming," he went on, turning to the landlady. "No, thank you—I know how to manage her. Well send to you, if ...
— Man and Wife • Wilkie Collins
... you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing. Ma femme! For the brood beyond us and of us, For those who belong here, and those to come, I, exultant, to be ready for them, will now shake out carols stronger and haughtier than have ever yet ...
— Poems By Walt Whitman • Walt Whitman
... and nonsense, ma'am!" cried the lawyer. "The boy's too young and tough to kill. We'll take him out there and make ...
— Yussuf the Guide - The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor • George Manville Fenn
... comes within an ace of upsetting, the little dog's excited yaps sound above the uproar. Then one mighty lurch and we are up the bank. Four times more we repeat the performance, and at last we find ourselves with only a strip of meadow between us and Mai-ma-chin, the Chinese settlement where we plan to put up. Clattering along the stockaded lane we stop before great wooden gates that open to Tchagan's call, and we are invited in by the Mongol trader who, warned of our coming, stands ready to bid ...
— A Wayfarer in China - Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia • Elizabeth Kendall
... was imperative, and Mrs. Baker ran over and opened the portal. Jared, the whites of his eyes shining in the dim light, stood there. "De professah—tell him dat de wahden wishes to talk with him. It is very important, ma'am." ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various
... "Ma'am! You venture to stand there before my face and tell me composedly that you permitted Miss Black to go off alone in the face of such a storm ...
— Capitola's Peril - A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand' • Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth
... met her next, saying-"Your young gentleman is not very seriously hurt, ma'am. I think a dislocation of the shoulder is the extent of the injury. He is feeling rather faint, but you must ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... a patch of land all their own, as big as they could work for a garden; and it would mean that from this time on the women of this place would be able to have the things they should. I am telling you this, ma'am, so you can carry it to the other women; because, perhaps in the end, we may have to depend on their influence to swing the men around. And that is the message my father sends. He wants to be the friend of you all; ...
— Chums in Dixie - or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat • St. George Rathborne
... country that hires its help easy and keeps 'em long. Sure I can fancy Missis America and Missis Guatemala passin' a bit of gossip some fine, still night across the mountains. 'Oh, dear,' says Missis America, 'and it's a lot of trouble I'm havin' ag'in with the help, senora, ma'am.' 'Laws, now!' says Missis Guatemala, 'you don't say so, ma'am! Now, mine never think of leavin' ...
— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry
... her mother, "the army is certainly the place to polish a young man;" and turning to Mrs. Wilson, she abruptly added, "Your husband, I believe, was in the army, ma'am?" ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper
... comfortable," said Jamie, who was now wide-awake. "But, please ma'am, Ranald didn't ...
— Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood • George MacDonald
... accept your apology, but I don't like to have people casting slurs on my pa and ma, and beer wont appease my wrath when ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey
... ma'am. I'm not welcome and nothing you or your set could say would ever make me believe that I was welcome. All I ask is that Howard's father do his ...
— The Third Degree - A Narrative of Metropolitan Life • Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow
... Si veggon per pieta del suo Signore, E turbati mostrarsi gli elementi, Privi del sole, e d' ogni suo splendore, E farsi terremoti, e nascer venti, Par che si veda, d' estremo dolore, E il tutto esser non pinto ne in scultura, Ma dell' istesso ...
— Ex Voto • Samuel Butler
... pour le coup j'ai decouvert l'affaire, Ne vous etonnez plus qu'a nos desirs contraire, Pour ma fille Pierrot ne montre que mepris: Voila l'unique objet dont son coeur est epris. [Pointing to Agnes ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3) - Edited, With Memoir And Notes, By His Son, The Earl Of Beaconsfield • Isaac D'Israeli
... I can't hear ma drill!" yelled Hank in Jim's ear one afternoon when the din was at ...
— Still Jim • Honore Willsie Morrow
... "And you mean, ma'am, excusing my words, that a young woman would hardly go to see her young man without dressing up," said Jacob, turning his mental vision upon past experiences. ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... s'en allant au moulin, Pour y faire moudre son grain, Ell monta sur son ane, Ma p'tite mam'sell' Marianne! Ell' monta sur son ane Martin Pour aller ...
— Honey-Bee - 1911 • Anatole France
... that your son Mr. Clym is coming home at Christmas, ma'am," said Sam, the turf-cutter. "What a dog he ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy
... my dear ma'am; and look at me—sixty-two, and as brisk as a bee. I don't know the meaning of the word illness. In a good hour be it spoken,' added Miss Whichello, thinking she was tempting the gods. 'By the way, what is this ...
— The Bishop's Secret • Fergus Hume
... Fleurs & Fruitz. . . / Anno. I586./ Imprim aux Blackfriers, pour Jaques/ le Moyne, dit de Morgues Paintre/'. The book consists of fifty leaves, of which two are preliminary containing the title and on the reverse and third page a neat dedication in French ' A Ma-dame Madame/ De Sidney.'/ Signed' Voftre ...
— Thomas Hariot • Henry Stevens
... was very wake, ma'am, afther he bein' hunted," urged the tinker. "I never slep' a wink the whole night, but keepin' sups o' milk to him and all sorts. Ah, ma'am, ye wouldn't like to be lookin' ...
— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross
... the fence; the junco, with his pretty brown bantling and his charming little trilling song; the crow baby, with its funny ways and queer cry of "ma-a-a;" the ...
— Little Brothers of the Air • Olive Thorne Miller
... river to-night, Ma'am? Slow work! slow work! Not get this train over till morning. Better ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various
... after a while," began the owner of the place after a considerable silence. "Look at me, for instance. I come out here from Ioway more'n twenty-five years ago, when I was only a boy. When my pa died my ma, she moved back to Ioway. I stuck around here, like you and lots of other fellers, and done like you all, just the best I could. Some way the country sort of took a holt on me. It ...
— The Sagebrusher - A Story of the West • Emerson Hough
... "No, ma'am!" exclaimed Drusilla, with emphasis. "She ain't tol' me ter foller you in de fier an' needer in ...
— Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country • Joel Chandler Harris
... "Mrs. Talmage, ma'am, there is a crazy man in that room on the top floor," she cried. She had not seen nor heard the Doctor, and did not know that that room was his study. On these weekend days we always drove after dark. An open carriage was at the door by 8 o'clock, and ...
— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage
... fret that way, ma'm," he cried earnestly. "If those things happen you reckon are going to, I'll see that no harm, I can help, comes to him. He's just a bright little ray of light, and I guess God didn't set him on this earth to leave him helpless in such a ...
— The Heart of Unaga • Ridgwell Cullum
... blossoms sheds on violet skies Over twilight mountains where the heart-songs rise, Rise and fall and fade again from earth to air: Earth renews the music sweeter. Oh, come there. Come, ma cushla, come, as in ancient times Rings aloud and the underland with faery chimes. Down the unseen ways as strays each tinkling fleece Winding ever onward to a fold of peace, So my dreams go straying in a land more fair; Half I tread the dew-wet ...
— AE in the Irish Theosophist • George William Russell
... Zolaists have fled, screaming 'We are betrayed,' But loyal Alan Breck is shent, stabbed through the Stuart plaid; In sooth it is a grimly sight, so fast the heroes fall, Three volumes fell could scarcely tell the fortunes of them all. At length but two are left on ground, and David Grieve is one. Ma foy, what deeds of derring-do that bookseller hath done! The other, mark the giant frame, the great portentous fist! 'Tis Porthos! David Grieve may call on Kuenen an he list. The swords are crossed; Doublez, degagez, vite! great Porthos ...
— Ban and Arriere Ban • Andrew Lang
... "Why, ma, you've got ribbons enough now, I'm sure," said Katy, looking at the queer tri-color which her mother was flying in revolutionary defiance of the despotism of good taste. "I'm sure I'm glad Albert's going to be a minister. He'll look so splendid in the pulpit! What ...
— The Mystery of Metropolisville • Edward Eggleston
... fair and lovely ladies, however dark I may be. My name is Pimentello; I am well received by his Majesty, and have frequently the honour of playing with him.' This was true, and too true. This foreigner, of whom I had frequently heard, had won immense sums from the King. 'How, ventre de ma vie! I exclaimed, affecting extreme anger; 'you are then, I perceive, that great glutton of a Portuguese who daily wins the money of the King. Pardieu, you are by no means welcome here, as I neither affect nor will receive such ...
— The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Julia Pardoe
... creation or idea of Spirit has its counterfeit in some matter belief. Every material be- lief hints the existence of spiritual reality; and if mortals are instructed in spiritual things, it will be seen that ma- [30] ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy
... "Ma foi! I want it," said Madame Homais, yawning at large. "But never mind; we've had a beautiful day ...
— Madame Bovary • Gustave Flaubert
... Read General Henriot's orders of the day in these two works. Comparton, "Histoire du Tribunal Revolutionaire de Paris," a letter by Trinchard, I. 306 (which is here given in the original, on account of the ortography): "Si tu nest pas toute seulle et que le compagnion soit a travailler tu peus ma chaire amie ventir voir juger 24 mesieurs tous si devent president ou conselier au parlement de Paris et de Toulouse. Je t'ainvite a prendre quelque chose aven de venir parcheque nous naurons pas fini de 3 hurres. Je t'embrase ma chaire amie et epouge."-Ibid. II. 350, ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 3 (of 6) - The French Revolution, Volume 2 (of 3) • Hippolyte A. Taine
... the young man that I had been so sociable with, came up with some dishes in his hand, which he set down on the table, then spread his hands a little, as much as to say, politely: "Set to, ma'am, and help yourself;" which ...
— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens
... are not accustomed to such things. Say 'Thank you,' to the beautiful lady. Say 'Thank you,' Jean; you are the oldest. Say like this: 'Thank-you-Ma-dame.'" ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... solemnly. "I dinna care for creosote mysel', sir; so, wi' your kind permission, I'll hae ma time—an' I'll hae ...
— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne
... room—which was brightened by a lovely moonlight pouring straight through the window—to see if it contained any pictures or ornaments that I could at all clearly distinguish. While my eyes wandered from wall to wall, a remembrance of Le Maistre's delightful little book, "Voyage autour de ma Chambre," occurred to me. I resolved to imitate the French author, and find occupation and amusement enough to relieve the tedium of my wakefulness, by making a mental inventory of every article of furniture I could see, and by following ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery - Riddle Stories • Various
... Sagredo, who had lately arrived as ambassador extraordinary, thus describes the power of Cromwell:—"Non fa caro del nome, gli basta possedere l'autorita e la potenza, senza comparazione majore non solo di quanti re siano stati in Inghilterra, ma di quanti monarchi stringono presentamente alcun scetro nel mondo. Smentite le legge fondamentali del regno, egli e il solo legislatore: tutti i governi escono dalle sue mane, e quelli del consiglio, per entrarvi, devono ...
— The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans - to the Accession of King George the Fifth - Volume 8 • John Lingard and Hilaire Belloc
... and once in the right direction, labour and study will accomplish the better aspirations of the artist. Michael Angelo said of Raffaelle, that he possessed not his art by nature but by long study. "Che Raffaelle non ebbe quest' arte da natura, ma per longo studio." Raffaelle and Michael Angelo were rivals, but ever spoke of each other with the respect and veneration they felt, and the true meaning of the passage was to the praise of Raffaelle; those were not the days when men were ashamed of being laborious,—and Raffaelle himself "thanked ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. • Various
... you, ma," Jennie counseled, "I wouldn't leave him too much alone with Aunt Liz. You never can tell. Funny ...
— My Neighbors - Stories of the Welsh People • Caradoc Evans
... "A bit fresh, ma'am," Bill admitted; "just enough to keep us lively. All aboard, Mr Casey? Pass the word, sir, when ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... to have a little talk with you, ma'am," said the burly landlord, entering without an ...
— Robert Coverdale's Struggle - Or, On The Wave Of Success • Horatio, Jr. Alger
... sensible one that's got to be worked out, so please listen to it, ma'am. I've had it a good while, I've thought it over thoroughly, and I'm sure it's the right thing for me to do. I'm old enough to take care of myself; and if I'd been a boy, I should have been told to do it long ago. I hate to be dependent; and now there's no need of it, I can't ...
— Work: A Story of Experience • Louisa May Alcott
... "Ma? Oh! no, I rather think not. You must lie in first. After that we'll take the brat to the house. It will give her a start, and perhaps she'll ...
— Germinie Lacerteux • Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
... contadino to another. My beloved countrymen had evidently been the subject of conversation, and, as the two fellows approached my grounds, one of them pointed towards the villa and exclaimed: 'Tutti gli Inglesi sono pazzi, ma questo poi!' (All the English are mad,—but this one!) Words were too feeble to express the extent of my lunacy, and so both men shrugged their shoulders as only Italians can. Yes, Giallo, those contadini pitied your old master, and I dare ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various
... "Well, ma'am, the room over this is the drawing-room. That's let from next Monday. Then I have a nice double-room, however, I could ...
— Five Nights • Victoria Cross
... corner of the pasture proved to be a very popular nursery with the feathered world. Catbirds came about bearing food, and all sorts of catbird talk went on within hearing: the soft liquid "chuck" and "mew" (so called, though it is more like "ma-a") in all tones and inflections, complaining, admonishing, warning, and caressing. There was evidently a whole family among the bushes. A vireo baby, plainly just out of the cradle, stared at me, and addressed me with a sort of husky ...
— Upon The Tree-Tops • Olive Thorne Miller
... apartment. Books, statuary, boxing gloves, fencing swords, fowling pieces, pipes of various patterns, and a countless multitude of other articles, are scattered about the room. On the marble table at his side is a bunch of cigars, a paper of Ma'am Miller's fine-cut tobacco, a decanter of wine, and a pair of goblets, one of which is partially filled with wine. He holds in his left hand his meerschaum; his right hangs carelessly at his side, and grasps a novelette. The gentleman ...
— Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants • James H. Head
... angry feelings had been confided, lost no time in repeating to the object of her displeasure. But Lady R., so far from being affected by the indignation of Madame de N., merely replied, with a careless shrug of her handsome shoulders, "Mais, ma chere, she has really nothing to complain of; all the world knows that 'exchange is ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 • Various
... I got ma golden image when I did, dat's suah!" exclaimed Eradicate. "Ef we doan't git no mo' I'll hab one. But I'll sell it and whack up ...
— Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground • Victor Appleton
... MA'LATI (Echites Caryophyllata.)—The flower of a creeper which is commonly used in native gardens. It has a slight smell and ...
— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson
... "Yes, ma'am," said Mabel, in the meekest voice imaginable, though her eyes looked like diamonds, and her cheeks reddened to the tints of two roses, as she placed the forbidden garment over her well-turned shoulders, where she kept it ...
— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper
... she, if she don't want him?" said Sir Arthur briskly. "Rosita, I don't like to see this eagerness to get rid of your daughters. It reflects badly upon your bringing-up of them, ma'am." ...
— The Path to Honour • Sydney C. Grier
... "If you please, ma'am, I'm Widow Beckett's son," the boy answered, in evident terror of the young woman in the rustling black silk dress and smart cap; "and I've brought this letter, please; and I was only to give it to the ...
— Run to Earth - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... And I may as well say I am cook and housemaid and parlor-maid and kitchen-maid and scullery-maid all in one; and I does the laundry, too, whenever it's done at all. You may gather from my words, ma'am, that I have a deal to do, so I'll thank you to walk out of my kitchen; for if I am resting after my day of hard work, I have a right to rest, and my own candle shall light me, and my own book shall amuse me. So have ...
— Girls of the Forest • L. T. Meade
... woman chasing butterflies." It was left for me to discover that it represents Yoka, the goddess of Fun, sportively chasing the butterfly souls of men, while the urchins, the little Yokas, are crying, "Ma! you're screwed."' ...
— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton
... good friend—John, I've p'posed to Miss Mahtha-r again, an' she's rejected me, as usual. I knew you'd be glad to hear it." He smiled through his starting tears. "But she cried, John, she did!—said she'd neveh ma' anybody else!" ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable
... sittin' doon tae ma dinner on Sabbath, sir, when my front teeth met upon a small piece bone that ...
— The First Hundred Thousand • Ian Hay
... en donner connaissance, ainsi que de la prsente dpche, Lord Aberdeen, et exprimer de ma part sa Seigneurie l'espoir d'tre all de cette manire au devant des ouvertures qu'elle serait peut-tre dans le cas de me faire faire [sic] sur la dmarche propose par les cinq Reprsentans Constantinople, ...
— Correspondence Relating to Executions in Turkey for Apostacy from Islamism • Various
... the composer as a warning to the performer not to overdo any indicated effect. Thus, largo, ma non troppo means that the composition is to be taken slowly, but not too slowly. Presto (ma) non troppo, on the other hand, indicates a rapid tempo, but not too rapid. For a fuller discussion of these matters, see the author's text book ...
— Essentials in Conducting • Karl Wilson Gehrkens
... "No, ma'am, I will not take anything from you 'cept that apron! When we get to Washington, you will not want it any more, an' I'll keep it all my life to remember you, and leave it to my children! Lord! there isn't another ...
— Half a Century • Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
... Don't be afraid—I won't hurt you. I'm always agreeable to the women, bless their kind hearts! Now! slip the purse into my hand. Bravo!—the best cly-faker of 'em all couldn't have done it better. And now for the fawney—the ring I mean. I'm no great judge of these articles, Ma'am; but I trust to your honour not to palm off paste ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth
... ma'am, that it is you who are scrouging me," Ralph replied. "This rail is almost cutting into ...
— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty
... "No, ma'am," said Jerry, "but he likes to have 'em rung up same as customary. He says it makes it seem more ...
— In the Sweet Dry and Dry • Christopher Morley
... excellent ink-powder," said the shopman, "in small packages, which can be very conveniently carried about. You see, Maam, there is a compartment in the desk for such things; and the ink is very easily made at ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Elizabeth Wetherell
... him into the parlor, but he kinder shivered his shoulders, and reckoned ez how he'd go inter the kitchen. Ye see, ma'am, he was all wet, and his shiny big boots was sloppy. But he ain't one o' the stuck-up kind, and he's willin' to make hisself cowf'ble before ...
— Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... eu—a vous Monsieur! Je vous ai dit souvent en francais combien je vous respecte, combien je suis redevable a votre bonte a vos conseils. Je voudrais le dire une fois en anglais ... le souvenir de vos bontes ne s'effacera jamais de ma memoire, et tant que ce souvenir durera le respect que vous m'avez inspire durera aussi." For "je vous respecte" we are not entitled to read "je vous aime". Charlotte was so made that kindness shown her moved her to tears of gratitude. When Charlotte said "respect" she meant it. Her feeling ...
— The Three Brontes • May Sinclair
... observed, we have the name of the deity who appears as Ammi or Ammon in the kingdom of the Ammonites, and perhaps forms the second element in the name of Balaam. The same divine name enters into the composition of those of early kings of Ma'in in Southern Arabia, as well as of Babylonia in the far ...
— Patriarchal Palestine • Archibald Henry Sayce
... entertain His Majesty at the expense of an English nobleman. "Ce prince," says Dohna "prit son air severe, et, le regardant sans mot dire, lui fit rentrer les paroles dans le ventre. Le Marquis m'en fit ses plaintes quelques heures apres. 'J'ai mal pris ma bisque,' dit-il; 'j'ai cru faire l'agreable sur le chapitre de Milord.. mais j'ai trouva a qui parler, et j'ai attrape un regard du roi qui m'a fait passer l'envie de tire.'" Dohna supposed that William might be less sensitive about the character of a Frenchman, and tried ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... like the look of them much, JOHN. None of your new, cheap, thinly-veneered, blown-together rubbish, smelling of shavings and French-polish. Solid ma'ogany, every bit; the drawers run as smoothly as could be wished, and—see! if there ain't actually some sprigs of dry lavender still ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. February 21, 1891 • Various
... The Ma-Loango (for mwani, "lord" of Loango), the great despot who ruled as far as the Congo River, who used to eat in one house, drink in another, and put to death man or beast that saw him feeding, is a thing of the past. Yet five miles to the eastward (here held to be a day's ...
— Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... parley there; and presently they came out into the hall again, and went to the front door together. Ewbert's heart misgave him of something summary on her part, and he did not know what to make of the cheerful parting between them. "Well, I bid you good-evening, ma'am," he heard old Hilbrook say briskly, and his wife return sweetly, "Good-night, Mr. Hilbrook. You must ...
— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells
... 'ave sail," says he, in his broken-up Frenchy talk, "Mos' forty-two year; I 'ave go on all part of de worl' dat ees wet. I'm seeck of de boat and de water. I rader walk Wid ma Josephine in one garden; an' eef we get tire', ...
— The Poems of Henry Van Dyke • Henry Van Dyke
... your Ma, my love,' said her father, after some slight hesitation, 'I need have no delicacy in hinting before him that you may perhaps find your Ma ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... said Sam, "an' he wanted to go home, an' I promised to finish his work for him. I believe this is your job, ma'am?" said he, holding the shoe in the air ...
— All He Knew - A Story • John Habberton
... his friend with eyes that seemed fixed, and a mouth which he appeared incapable of shutting. Ivanhoe crossed himself, repeating prayers in Saxon, Latin, or Norman-French, as they occurred to his memory, while Richard alternately said, "Benedicite", and swore, "Mort de ma vie!" ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... for art ye roaring that gate? Are you fawn inna little hell, instead o' the big muckil ane? Deil be in your reistit trams! What for have ye abscondit yoursel into ma leddy's ...
— The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner • James Hogg
... circumnavigator was murdered. This took my breath, but a bright school-boy coming along relieved my embarrassment, for, like all boys, seeing that information was wanted, he volunteered to supply it. Said he: "Captain Cook wasn't murdered 'ere at all, ma'am; 'e was killed in ...
— Sailing Alone Around The World • Joshua Slocum
... instance, to help a girl regard a cap and apron with good-humoured indifference, or as on a par with a nurse's uniform, rather than as "a badge of servitude." It is kinder, too, to show her that it is not only "servants" who are expected to address their employers as "Sir" and "Ma'am," but that well-mannered young people in all conditions of life can be found who use this form of address to persons older than themselves. I do not suggest for one moment that any attempt should be made to delude a ...
— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various
... yuh any good, suh, to try to shine up to tha' young lady. She ain' the sawt, I can tell yuh that. I done see too many guhls in ma time—" ...
— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... 'ee on ma head, mother?" replied Job, slowly extricating one hand from a pocket, and feeling for the article in question; which he found on his head sure enough, and left there, to his mother's ...
— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes
... underdone gawk that helps edit the Inquirer, he was jist in, lookin' for—yes, ma'am! Beg pardon, ma'am! I'm ...
— Crowded Out o' Crofield - or, The Boy who made his Way • William O. Stoddard
... shouted at its windows, in defamation and in glorification. Ready now for their admission, she lets the eager public in; but what they were most intent to find still eludes them. In the "Histoire de ma Vie" are the records of her parentage, birth, education. Here are detailed the subtile influences that aided or hindered Nature in one of her most lavish pieces of work; here are study, religion, marriage, maternity, authorship, friendship, travel, litigation: but the passionate ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 49, November, 1861 • Various
... the dear Lord did not fail to hear Sharer alike of sorrows and of joys— When he said, "Bless papa and my mamma dear, And make me an' Gran'ma ...
— Our Boys - Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors • Various
... ma'am," he leered. "Do you want me to wash the dishes? I kin, and I will." And he actually carried his plate and cup to the sink, where he turned the water upon them ...
— Room Number 3 - and Other Detective Stories • Anna Katharine Green
... replied the Captain, with emphasis. "She were that, Pigeon Pie! You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's ...
— Captain January • Laura E. Richards
... Americans call a lovely time, enjoying North Africa, listening to the fountain, walking, as my old baby says, among passion-flowers, and playing about with that joke from the Quartier Latin, Armand Gillier. Mais, ma chere, ce n'est pas serieux! One has only to look at your interesting husband, to see him in the African milieu, to see that. And, of course, one realizes at once that you see through it all! A pretty game! If one is well off ...
— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens
... bella che di sol vestita, Coronata di stelle, al sommo Sole Piacesti si, che'n te sua luce ascose; Amor mi spinge a dir di te parole; Ma non so 'ncominciar senza tu' alta, E di Coiul che amando in ...
— Woman in the Ninteenth Century - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition - and Duties, of Woman. • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... and although he makes "passing grades" in physics, he does not believe in physics. He regards our explanations of the phenomena of lightning as a parcel of foolishness in no wise to stand the test of his own experience, and nothing can silence him. "But, ma'am," he says, when electricity is under discussion, "I am see the head of a thunder under our house." This young gentleman will graduate in a year or two, and the tourist from the States will look over the course of study of the Manila ...
— A Woman's Impression of the Philippines • Mary Helen Fee |
