"Testily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... very busy on the frontier establishing the outposts for which his regiment had been brought over. When he did return to Savannah, it was only for a few hours, and he was in no frame of mind for a long argument of pros and cons. He told Boehler rather testily that they should not go to Charlestown with his consent; that if they were not willing to follow the plan for Purisburg he would have nothing more to do with them; and that if they wanted to talk further they must ...
— The Moravians in Georgia - 1735-1740 • Adelaide L. Fries
... right," Peake said testily. "At least, I hope so," and he gave a short, grim laugh. "But they're uncommon slow payers. I sent 'em in an account for coal only last week—three hundred and fifty pound. Well, auntie, who's the ...
— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett
... to face it," continued Felipe, testily. "I don't propose to have anything to do with it, from first to last. Let her go away with him, if she ...
— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson
... chap doesn't like to be changed about like that; so, without looking at Benlian, I muttered a bit testily, "Don't, Benlian!" ...
— Widdershins • Oliver Onions
... Mr. Stern declared testily. "Here's Esther saying I'll have to wear black satin knickerbockers and ...
— The Great Secret • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... testily; "what's the good of your asking ridiculous questions, Guardy Walraven? Where's your eyesight? Don't you see it's me? Will you kindly let me pass, gentlemen? or am I to stand ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... was I to know? I heard Judy Stearns say she stole it," retorted Marian testily. "The whole thing sounded suspicious enough to hang our losses on. Just the same I shall keep on saying now that I believe she stole our stuff. Mrs. Weatherbee needn't think she can make me keep quiet. I have a perfect right to my own belief and ...
— Jane Allen: Right Guard • Edith Bancroft
... at him testily. "Sit down, Joe. You're not on my staff, as yet, at least. Zen take the formality!" When Joe had accepted the chair, he growled again. "Suppose you didn't know I was ...
— Frigid Fracas • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... home, whilst sitting down to rest, a gamekeeper sort of attendant, and a character in his way, said, "I wish I was in the dining-room of Fasque." Our good cousin the Rev. Mr. Wilson, minister of Farnel, who liked well a quiet shot at the grouse, rather testily replied, "Ye'd soon be kickit out o' that;" to which the other replied, not at all daunted, "Weel, weel, then I wadna be far frae the kitchen." A quaint and characteristic reply I recollect from another farm-servant. My eldest brother ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... "Well," testily, "I suppose there is some! How is the mnage going on? How is it being managed, eh? You have a tongue, my dear—speak! I suppose you ...
— The Hoyden • Mrs. Hungerford
... Mr. Harland, almost testily—"She is a woman whose life has been immersed in study and contemplation, and because she has allowed herself to forego many of the world's pleasures she can be made happy by a mere nothing—a handful of roses—or the sound of ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli
... it," Mr. Hamlin answered testily. "Just as I said. You have gone off the handle at once. Of course your young friend may have some plausible explanation for her actions. But I will not be guilty of making any accusations against a guest in my own house under any ...
— The Automobile Girls At Washington • Laura Dent Crane
... old gentleman, testily. "I said no such thing, sir. I simply said he did not belong to this town. But you must agree with me, it's a precious strange thing that we men of this place have for years been searching the country round here for gold, and, by Jupiter! a stranger, an outsider, a mere interloper, ...
— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace
... back at it all, too, I seem to feel, though with no definite reason for it, that she was perturbed and excited about something known only to herself, for she was strangely irritable on our walk, contradicted me fiercely, inquired testily who Nelson might be, then chid me for a dry old schoolmaster, when I told her, and such like flighty vagaries, inseparable, I believed, from her sex in general and her temperament in particular. If I have ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... Aunt Hannah, testily. "As if you yourself didn't bring her here with your crazy messages ...
— Miss Billy's Decision • Eleanor H. Porter
... the only one, so Barbara had to sit there. "I simply cannot hold on to this sky-scraper!" complained she testily. ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... testily, "how can you, an officer's son, ask me, an officer's son, such a question? The King's (I beg pardon, the ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley
... child, nor whether there is a child,' Sir George answered testily. 'My uncle may be dead, unmarried, or alive and ...
— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman
... his less amiable moods, Bonaparte ever had the friendly word that feeds the well-spring of devotion. On the "Bellerophon," when they hotly differed on a trivial subject, Bertrand testily replied to his dogmatic statements: "Oh! if you reply in that manner, there is an end of all argument." Far from taking offence at this retort, Napoleon soothed him and speedily restored him to good ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose
... of things in politics," broke in the chairman, testily. "But it's only the final round-up that counts. And be prepared for sudden changes, as the almanac says! I tell you, I don't know anything about this Spinney rumor—nor I don't care. But it's probably true. Everett has got pledged delegates enough ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day
... his own wife ought to know where he is," said the postmaster testily. "Didn't he get the telegram? If there is any mistake it is for Mr. Barrymore himself ...
— The Hound of the Baskervilles • A. Conan Doyle
... which he gave a pronunciation that made them bear small resemblance to the same words as spoken by any class of people laboring under the disadvantage of having been born and bred in England, Sir Robert got impatient, and testily dismissed the subject with, "Oh, come, now! I can stand a good deal, but I can't stand being told that we don't know how to speak English in England." Something, however, must be pardoned to a foreigner. If Sir Robert ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 • Various
... child, that's not much to grieve over, when the Lord has spared his life," said her mother, somewhat testily. ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... the Lord testily, and somewhat sourly; "thou hast the choice. Have I not told thee that thou art free?" Then Ralph knelt before him, and said: "Lord, I thank thee from a full heart, in that thou wilt suffer me to depart on mine errand, for it is a great one." The scowl deepened on the Lord's face, and he turned ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris
... testily. "They got along in your Uncle Robert's days, and they can get along now. Charity, indeed! Why, the state of this house and the pinch for money altogether is enough, I should think, to take a man's mind. Don't you go talking to Mr. Harden in the way you do, Marcella. I don't ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... "Rot!" said Jim testily. "These things are bugs, not supermen. And the fact that they're now bigger than we are, and much better armed, doesn't keep them from being just bugs. There's no ...
— The Raid on the Termites • Paul Ernst
... that if you'll stop interrupting," Kung rejoined testily. "Joe says there are only two kinds of people, his own dark, straight-haired kind and the barbarians. They have curly hair, white skin and round eyes. You'd pass for a barbarian, according to Joe, only you don't have a faceful of hair. ...
— Blessed Are the Meek • G.C. Edmondson
... sir, that your opinion is not worth a cockroach," cried the captain quite testily; "the men have nothing to do with it. Look above; if you'll show me how to move this ship without a hatful of wind, I'll do it, sir," and he strutted off to breakfast, leaving us with ...
— The Iron Pirate - A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea • Max Pemberton
... "Rubbish!" testily observed Mr. Galloway. "Some one must have come in; some one with light fingers, too! the money could not go without hands. You are off to college now, ...
— The Channings • Mrs. Henry Wood
... his father testily, "as if your own selfishness in desiring to possess that girl wasn't the mainspring of all your actions!" Waving his son out of the room he added: "Now leave me alone with her for a few moments. Perhaps I can make her ...
— The Lion and The Mouse - A Story Of American Life • Charles Klein
... fell on him "What will the fellow be at?" said the voice testily. "He stands there like a sow about to litter, and stares and grunts. Good e'en to you, friend. When you are wanted you will be sent for Jesu's name, what have I done to have that ...
— The Path of the King • John Buchan
... said Dale testily; "that bit of a place is a precipice of five hundred feet. How am I to impress upon you that everything here is far bigger than you think? Look here," he continued, pointing: "do you see that cow yonder, on that bit of green slope beside those ...
— The Crystal Hunters - A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps • George Manville Fenn
... patience with the servants, father," she said, testily. "Jincy is slow enough, heaven knows, without you giving her excuses for being behind with her work. Now she will go to the kitchen and hinder the cook. If you only knew how much trouble servants are to manage you'd ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben
... sort," I denied testily. "Because a man reaches the age of thirty without making ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... silence ensued, whereupon the king said testily, "Now, Dandie, you never remember you're the eldern ...
— Penelope's Progress - Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
... of this mysterious witness?" exclaimed the banker testily. "If the police haven't been able to find her why should Howard's wife be able to do so? There was a report that she herself was——" He paused and added, "Did she ...
— The Third Degree - A Narrative of Metropolitan Life • Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow
... don't want to see him," replied Abner, testily; for, in Joe's absence, his work had to be done by the other ostlers, who did not feel very ...
— Try Again - or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks • Oliver Optic
... had had his hair very much cut, and we told him frankly that we did not think it improved him. To our great surprise he told us that we knew nothing about it, and requested us to mind our own business, adding testily, after a pause, that he did not see why on earth a set of men like us should make ourselves conspicuous by the fashion of our hair, as if ...
— The First Violin - A Novel • Jessie Fothergill
... before he could persuade Haydn to undertake the task of composing an oratorio on the subject. His old age and infirmities made him averse to the work. He was greatly annoyed by the text, and still more so by its compiler, who insisted upon changes in the music which Haydn testily declined to make. He was frequently irritated over the many imitative passages, and it was to relieve his own feelings and vary the monotony of the sentiment that he introduced the rollicking bacchanal chorus in the third part. ...
— The Standard Oratorios - Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers • George P. Upton
... Capataz," the doctor said, testily. "You are not the only one here who can look an ...
— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad
... had finished reading, the refrain had become so familiar to Alec, that he unconsciously murmured the last, changed as it was from the preceding form, aloud. Mr Cupples looked up from Gurnall uneasily, fidgeted in his chair, and said testily: ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald
... De Roberval testily. "I have done no wrong. Your friend, whom I trusted, whom I took into my house, whom I saw nursed back to life in this very room, proved a faithless ingrate, and betrayed the trust ...
— Marguerite De Roberval - A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier • T. G. Marquis
... not your own fault?' with that wiseacre look of yours," said John Skyd, testily tapping the bowl of his pipe on a stone preparatory to refilling it. "We are quite aware that we are not faultless; that we once or twice have planted things upside down, or a yard too deep, besides other little eccentricities of ignorance; ...
— The Settler and the Savage • R.M. Ballantyne
... said Uncle Chris testily. "These New York hall-porters are recruited entirely from homes for the feeble-minded. I suppose he was a new man. Well, Pilkington, my boy, I shall expect you at seven o'clock. ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse
... they are?" said Mills, testily. "I cannot see. When I go out I close them, because ...
— The Telegraph Boy • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... as he is dozing away quietly; he sees you just between his eyelids, and at once stares angrily down the path as if he were sick of waiting, and the other owl already half an hour overdue. Of course there is no owl coming, so he shakes his head testily and half shuts his eyes. If you go away then, he goes to sleep again. If you stay, he presently makes another pretence of pulling out his watch and wondering if that owl is ever coming. He has practised the transparent deception so long that he does it now mechanically, ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... Colonel testily, "and the same papers agree in pronouncing Sherman crazy. But no matter how many or how few it takes, that's none of our affair. We've got eleven hundred good men in ranks, and we're going to do all that eleven hundred good men can do. God Almighty and Abe ...
— The Red Acorn • John McElroy
... none," said Dirk, testily; "don't go to speak against her pace till you have seen it. ...
— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley
... "What stranger?" rather testily interposed Lord Hartledon. "I am at dinner, and can't see any stranger now. What are you thinking ...
— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood
... did!' spoke the Squire, testily; 'you are seven minutes behind time this morning; you would be behindhand to-morrow and next day, and so on as long as you live. Confound it, Jerry, you make me mad with your laziness and coolness. Ahead of time! why look at that watch!'—Here ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. I., No. IV., April, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... natural sequence at all!" he retorted testily. "When the wear and tear of time becomes visible in my underwear it ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... think I shall," he answered testily, as Aunt Pike went out of the room. "I hate mystery. Why can't we speak out and have it over? I am going ...
— Kitty Trenire • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... it doesn't," said the SQUIRE, testily; "there are a pair of feet left out. But you know, TOBY, how they run. The last line should be, 'Is to steal a few hours from the night, my Love.' Now, theoretically, and in accordance with order, all our observations are directed personally to the SPEAKER. Imagine what ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 8, 1891 • Various
... testily; but his eyes were not quite clear, and he laid a kindly hand on the boy's shoulder. "I want no thanks, only you must promise me, on your word as an English gentleman, never to play for money as long as ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... move him? Perhaps it did. He looked around the room and answered testily: "The law certainly does not require that I return this money to my sister, and business is business with me. But since my daughter Gladys and my sister seem to look upon the matter as a case of sentiment, why I——" He spoke slowly. It was hard work ...
— The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires - The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail • Laura Dent Crane
... all!" I said testily. I felt testy, as if from a personal injury. "Only when one has a friend, it is agreeable to believe that out of sight is not immediately out of mind. But, of course, I am a woman. Women's memories are ...
— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... until he discovered who was the stranger standing in such obvious emotion by the side of an old grave. "Well, you must come back with me to the surgery, for I want you to run an errand for me," he said testily, hoping to pump the boy by the way, but Tommy dived beneath his stick and escaped. This rasped the doctor's temper, which was unfortunate for Grizel, whom he caught presently peeping in at his surgery ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... brought her week's account to him. He turned from it testily, but she insisted on his going over it. There was not the mistake of a halfpenny. He went to town with a smile in his heart, and that night brought her home a cheque for ten ...
— Stephen Archer and Other Tales • George MacDonald
... for 'em while you 'ad the chance?" demanded Bainton testily; "It's too late now to bother your mind with what ye might ha' done if ye'd had a bit of gumption. And it's too late for me to be goin' and speakin' to Passon Walden. There's nothin' to be done now ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... would follow their own inclination, or rather their fears, without waiting for his consent; or, what was still worse, the Yankees would have time to pour in their forces and claim a share in the conquest, he testily ordered them to hand up the paper. It was accordingly hoisted to him on the end of a pole, and having scrawled his hand at the bottom of it, he anathematised them all for a set of cowardly, mutinous, degenerate poltroons—threw the capitulation at their heads, slammed down the window, and ...
— Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving
... that rubbish," Richford said testily, as the waiter passed the elaborate menu with its imposing array of dishes. "What's the good of all that foreign cat's meat to an honest Englishman? Give me a steak and plain potatoes and ...
— The Slave of Silence • Fred M. White
... general, testily. "I'm ready to overlook it—don't you understand that? All I want you to do is to confess, and to say you're sorry. Nothing's going ...
— A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire - The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods • Jane L. Stewart
... on, come on," he said, testily. "Put me somewheres and do it quick. Long's I've GOT to sleep in this house I might's well be doin' it. Where is this room you're ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln
... drive, Venus?" he nonchalantly asked. "Just as you please. We may meet your saint with the insipid eyes in the park." "Good heavens!" he testily answered, "why do you forever drag in that girl's name? She's nothing to me." Mrs. Holda went to the window and he lazily noticed her perfect figure, her raven hair and black eyes. She was a stunner after all, and ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... hear?" he exclaimed testily, "is it true that ye are in flat rebellion against the lawful authority of the king? Laddies, laddies, ye maun come in wi' me to his excellence the Chancellor and make instanter your obedience. Ye are young and ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett
... Mr. Grey, testily; "they have no judgment—dressed in a little brief authority they make the ...
— Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 • Various
... "Well, well," he answered, testily, "we understand that thoroughly. But I suppose you do not intend to cast the young lady's affections from you as if ...
— The Uninhabited House • Mrs. J. H. Riddell
... equipped with a wireless apparatus, I suppose," Jim Barlow put in, rather testily. "She has done the best she knew how, sir, and that's ...
— Dorothy's Triumph • Evelyn Raymond
... testily; "you exaggerate your danger and your own importance, and your enemies' abilities as ...
— Martin Hewitt, Investigator • Arthur Morrison
... him come!" retorted the smith, testily, jamming a shoe in the fire with unnecessary force; as a matter of fact, he was embarrassed. The loungers huddled together for moral support, as the big cow-man loomed ...
— Red Saunders • Henry Wallace Phillips
... a chair?" he said testily. Leveson offered his chair, upon the extreme edge of which Mrs. Panel deprecatingly seated herself. Uncle Jap eyed her ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... I am losing my mind," said the professor, testily. "It remains, however, that the outline of certain bodies of water and of land upon that luminous globe seem to be the exact counterpart of land-bodies and ...
— On a Torn-Away World • Roy Rockwood
... heard of any one doing so," said Cousin Bella, a little testily; "and if he did, it was ...
— Audrey Craven • May Sinclair
... matter?" retorted the master of the household testily. "Pray go yourself if you wish to." Then he stopped short, for the snoring of Platon was filling the whole room, and also—outrivalling it—that of the dog Yarb. This caused Kostanzhoglo to realise that bedtime really had arrived; wherefore, after he had shaken Platon ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... 'em, Jack," interrupted the landlord, testily. "I spoke first. Three pounds, and two ...
— Crowded Out o' Crofield - or, The Boy who made his Way • William O. Stoddard
... will be all right—so long as they don't come into our kitchen when they've no business there,' retorted my father, somewhat testily. 'I'm going to fix up this dog in the scullery, and if a burglar comes ...
— Novel Notes • Jerome K. Jerome
... your eyes?" said the professor, testily. "If you will look you will see the zone marked ...
— Off on a Comet • Jules Verne
... if—what if!" cried Joseph testily. "Gregory, what a casuist you might have been had not nature made you a villain! You are as full of "what if s" as an egg of meat. Well what if some day he should return? I fling your question ...
— The Tavern Knight • Rafael Sabatini
... exclaimed Gladwyn, rather testily, "that question is rather a severe test of one's credulity. As if it were possible for a parcel of howling redskins to conduct a siege! No one knows better than you that their only method of fighting is a surprise, a yell, a volley, and then a retreat. ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... that point is more valuable than mine," replied Tom, testily. "It may have been suicide. Men often get sick of life—especially if they are ...
— The Big Bow Mystery • I. Zangwill
... old as you seem to think," began Dr. Hornblower testily; then, bethinking himself that this was not according to his models, he made a dramatic pause, before he asked his final question, ...
— In Blue Creek Canon • Anna Chapin Ray
... permit me," said M. Courtois, testily, "that would be so in a populous town. Here, in the midst of a vast park, no. Think, doctor, of the isolation of this house. The nearest neighbor is a long way off, and between there are many large trees, intercepting the sound. Let us test it by experience. I will fire ...
— The Mystery of Orcival • Emile Gaboriau
... of that truculent disposition which merely growls at blandishments. He snorted and replied testily, "That is all very well, sir, but I don't believe a ...
— The Lunatic at Large • J. Storer Clouston
... Sousa, appears to be nettled at the prosperous issue of the voyage; for he testily remarks, that "the admiral entered Lisbon with a vainglorious exultation, in order to make Portugal feel, by displaying the tokens of his discovery, how much she had erred in not acceding to his propositions." Europa Portuguesa, tom. ii. pp. ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott
... about that," said John testily. "I have seen a few of those cheques in your Father's time. You should be able to keep fairly well supplied ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter
... the shocks that blighted the earth's surface ever ruffled its centre. It was the solitary advantage the centre (as a residence) had over the surface; but it was a substantial advantage, though rather testily appreciated. ...
— The Siege of Kimberley • T. Phelan
... the Epistle of Barnabas, repels somewhat testily the imputation of Tischendorf, who criticises him as if he supposed that the saying in St. Matthew was not directly referred to [Endnote 73:2]. This Hilgenfeld denies to be the case. In regard to ...
— The Gospels in the Second Century - An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work - Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' • William Sanday
... hot, sometimes, boy; and, besides, your judgment hasn't led you very straight so far," said the old man testily. "But don't talk of such things. I don't want to come to 'em ...
— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe
... great deal of vexation," replied Mr. Mayne very testily,—all the more that his resolution was wavering. "I do not wish to hurt your feelings, Sir Henry, but this confounded dressmaking of theirs——" But here Sir Harry stopped him by a most extraordinary ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey
... as I have been able to form a judgment." The remark is valuable, for it shows that frankness and cordiality were recognized by him as the wisest and most politic method of dealing with men. "Our friend, Sir Alexander," he says testily, "is a very great diplomatic character, and even an admiral must not know what he is negotiating about. You shall judge, viz., 'The Tunisian envoy is still here, negotiating. He is a moderate man; and, apparently, the best disposed of any I ever did business with.' Could ...
— The Life of Nelson, Vol. II. (of 2) - The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain • A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
... much laughter and ado, they broke up to seek another cafe in the heart of the town, where the absinthe was good and the billiard-table better, two of his friends supporting Ford, who was testily debating with himself why a composer should compose his own works. At the first corner, Maurice whispered a word to Dove, and, unnoticed by the rest, slipped away. For some time, he heard the sound of their ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... was you.—Why did you startle me so?' said she, somewhat testily. 'I hate anybody to ...
— The Tenant of Wildfell Hall • Anne Bronte
... shouldn't they?" said Halsey testily. "If they can do them other things they'd used to do when livin'—walkin' an' seein' ...
— Harvest • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the valley," he said, testily. "I want some one to go by the short cut over the mountains—the way I came ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... boy," said Sir Jeremy testily, "one would think that I was deaf. Better? Yes, of course. ...
— The Wooden Horse • Hugh Walpole
... to read it with your eyes," replied the Journalist, and marched testily down the path toward ...
— Told in a French Garden - August, 1914 • Mildred Aldrich
... don't want to flatter you, my dear!" said the old man, testily, "but I thought it was pathetic—the way in which Ashe enjoyed your conversation. It showed he didn't get ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... testily. "It's not a thing she's likely to do twice! I should think she'd be frightened to go anywhere near a river again just yet. Are those clothes dry? Well, never mind, pack them as they are; we can't wait for them. And the rug, too, just bundle ...
— The Princess of the School • Angela Brazil
... against Hutchinson as to rapacious office-seeking the following extract from John Adams's diary is of curious interest. After detailing certain detractions of which he had been the victim, the diarist breaks out testily: "This is the rant of Mr. Otis concerning me. * * * But be it known to Mr. Otis I have been in the public cause as long as he, though I was never in the ...
— James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist • John Clark Ridpath
... by all means," he said, testily. "When I want another game of poker, I'll let you know, but I must say I do not approve of such ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan
... the King testily, "some one must fetch me the Princess Mary Radiant, for if she once smiles on my back-yard it will be turned into a garden with real grass and real flowers—Canterbury bells and sunflowers—that's what I have set ...
— More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme • Ada M. Marzials
... Major Cowan responded, testily. "Gentlemen, this is Lieutenant McGee, of the British Royal Flying Corps, who has been assigned to ...
— Aces Up • Covington Clarke
... commodore, a trifle testily; "that's the number-one nigger, who does the talkin'. ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... testily. "Do act according to circumstances," and taking the lamp from him threw its light full on the face of the lady, and gazed upon it anxiously, when at this very moment he beheld the apparition of the same woman he had seen before in his terrible dream, ...
— Japanese Literature - Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical - Poetry and Drama of Japan • Various
... interrupted Mr. Sewell, testily. "Fell off a step-ladder and broke his dratted neck. Eleven year old, wasn't he? Always does, jest at that point. Next week Silas will begin the whole thing over again, if he can get anybody ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner
... hour later that the ambulance, with three white-uniformed attendants, pulled out, carrying all those appurtenances necessary for the care of the insane, including the strait-jacket which Balcom had so testily suggested. ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey
... if I do," I replied testily, for indeed I had no thought of what the man was driving at. But here it came out ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson
... the silver stream," broke in Mr. Hume, testily. "Fix your attention on this path. Get it into your mind. See how it drops ...
— In Search of the Okapi - A Story of Adventure in Central Africa • Ernest Glanville |
