"Huskily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hard to turn you out," she went on huskily, "is the fact that you're a white man's dog. Yes, sir! a white man's dog. And that means an awful lot; means you'd stick till death to any white person who'd feed you and call you friend. Mr. Jack London has written a book about a white man's ...
— The Blue Envelope • Roy J. Snell
... please," said the Millstones huskily. "So long as you supply the power we'll supply ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... said Hammon, huskily. "You must do just as I say, understand? This mustn't get out, do you hear? I'm not—hurt. I'm all right, but—fetch Bob. Don't let him call a doctor, either, ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... Lake, but a little huskily, turning about and smiling at last, 'that Mark Wylder is nothing to me. We don't correspond: we have not corresponded. I know—upon my honour and soul, Sir—nothing on earth about him—what he's doing, where he is, or what's ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... with his eyes looking the darker for his flushed face. "Gentlemen," he said huskily, "thar's only one thing to be done. A lot of us have got to ride over to Sawyer's Dam tomorrow morning and pick up as many square men as we can muster; there's a big camp meeting goin' on there, and there won't be no difficulty ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... to each other on the other side of the door, and trembling with anxiousness - and very hoarse with their howls. They could hardly speak, but Cyril managed to reply huskily: ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... and answered huskily, laying one hand upon his chest, and with the other gesturing up by the Winslow elm to the grove ...
— Bylow Hill • George Washington Cable
... but we shall get an awful licking," said Tom huskily. "I can't fight a bit. It's all gammon—that poking out your left arm and fending with your right. I like to hit out ...
— Burr Junior • G. Manville Fenn
... wrought. His form stiffened to rigidity after one lightning-swift step forward, and his face grayed. The eyes glowed with the fires of a man's heart in a spasm of hate. He was the embodiment of rage, as he spoke huskily, his voice a whisper that was yet ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... speech of my children. Thus small events grow memorable by the passage of time. As to the quality of the address itself I cannot say it was very striking. Too short for eloquence and devoid of all charm of tone, it consisted precisely of the three words "Look out there!" growled out huskily above my head. ...
— A Personal Record • Joseph Conrad
... turned his pockets out one by one, then looked into the Wolf's yellow eyes with a gaze pleading yet sullen. "They are gone," he said huskily. ...
— The Boy Scouts on a Submarine • Captain John Blaine
... to leave us," returned his father huskily. "Dear heart, how she prayed that we might be spared that parting; but the Divine ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... very much as though he would like to cry too. "It's an unfortunate business," he said huskily, "but you see, none of us have ever had any eye trouble, and the other children have all such good sight . . . it never occurred to me . . . I must confess . . . of course it can be put right very easily; you're to take him to the oculist to-morrow; I've ...
— The Ffolliots of Redmarley • L. Allen Harker
... and Caroline, Miss Honey and Delia looked at each other in a daze. Tears filled Delia's eyes, but she controlled her voice, and only said huskily, "Come here, Miss Honey, and let me brush you off—you look dreadful. Let me take your handkerchief. Did it—were you—are you ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... Mr. Marrapit wildly fingered the air. Margaret, at the end of the lawn, crossed his vision. He called huskily: "Margaret!" ...
— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
... huskily, leaning over the glass bottom and staring; "for the love o' Mike, look what's goin' on ...
— Owen Clancy's Happy Trail - or, The Motor Wizard in California • Burt L. Standish
... old man, huskily. "No, no, Mary! It can't be! It must not be! Richard Peveril is dead, and the contract is void. He has no claim on the Copper Princess. It is all mine. Mine and yours. But don't let him know. Keep the secret for one ...
— The Copper Princess - A Story of Lake Superior Mines • Kirk Munroe
... a scuffle behind me, and looking back, saw Joe throwing an old shoe after me and Biddy throwing another old shoe. I stopped then, to wave my hat, and dear old Joe waved his strong right arm above his head, crying huskily "Hooroar!" and Biddy put ...
— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens
... buried in the dingy blankets. The lamplight fell soddenly on their faces, throwing them into relief against the murky gloom of the room. Nicodemus grunted, and without warning emptied the water over the black head. Myleia laughed huskily. The remedy was partially effectual. The head rose dripping from the blankets, ...
— Nicanor - Teller of Tales - A Story of Roman Britain • C. Bryson Taylor
... you for your grief, child, at being obliged to leave your father," Frederick said huskily. "But are you going to take off the 'Armor of God' and forget all that He ...
— Tess of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... two-faced fraud!" he huskily cried. "That's jusht what you are, Ditson! Somebody's been telling things to the sophs. They found out everything. It was you! And you pumped your points out of me ...
— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish
... proofs still in his hands. He was unsteady upon his feet, like a man dizzy from a heavy blow. The face which she had been accustomed to see only as full of poise and strength and dignity was now supremely haggard. When he spoke he spoke in uttermost despair—huskily, chokingly, yet ...
— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott
... slow one sang huskily as he stumbled along with difficulty 'but there's never any hurry. I'll fill their journeys with desire and make adventure call ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood
... relish dragons myself. Scorched my tongue on one once," said the Cowardly Lion huskily. "But I'll fight with you, brother Hokus. Stand back, ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... bygones alone," he answered, a little huskily. "I never minded your tandrums, knowing there was a good heart at the bottom. I only wished I was not such a dry old fellow, and that you could have been fonder of me. Perhaps you will understand me better some day, and——" Here he stopped and cleared ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. • Various
... he demanded huskily, in such a queer, breathless way that Richard thought his day of reckoning had come. His sin had found him out. He ...
— Georgina of the Rainbows • Annie Fellows Johnston
... not be over as soon as we all hope," he said, rather huskily, "I could escort you myself, in a few weeks' time, to the Cape. Or—or arrange for your going earlier if you desired, and if I could not get away. Probably you would get no further than Cape Town; but it might be easier for you waiting ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
... ordered huskily, "four of you fellows jump into each of the next door houses and run up to the roof. Four more men go through to the rear of this house. The rest stay here and await orders," he directed, detailing them off quickly, as he endeavoured to grasp the ...
— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve
... huskily, passing his hand across his face. "Then don't forget, if—if you can't; but I'd hate to think of the ...
— Where the Souls of Men are Calling • Credo Harris
... Mrs. Bird should say, at once, "Did you lay your hats in the hall?" Peter felt himself elected by circumstance the head of the family, and, casting one imploring look at tongue-tied Susan, standing next him, said huskily, "It was so very pleasant—that—that"——"That we hadn't good hats enough to go 'round," put in little Susan, bravely, to help him out, and then froze with horror that the ill-fated words ...
— The Bird's Christmas Carol • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... wrote to her at once," said Staniford, huskily, "and explained the matter as well as I could without making an ado about it. But now you stop, Dunham. If you excite yourself, there'll be the deuce ...
— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells
... to his feet despite Nott's restraining hand. "To leave Mademoiselle and leave the ship?" he said huskily, ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... hull world fer you," he said, huskily, and then he kissed her wet cheek again and again, and repeated his ability to thrash all comers in her cause, and stated his desire to undertake exactly that task for the term of her natural life. "If you was ...
— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland
... included me, I wonder if the words did as well," he said quickly, and so huskily, that Honor looked up ...
— Honor Edgeworth • Vera
... a large mushroom, and now there was a quiver in his voice. 'Smee,' he said huskily, 'that crocodile would have had me before this, but by a lucky chance it swallowed a clock which goes tick tick inside it, and so before it can reach me I hear the tick and bolt.' He laughed, but in a ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie
... he became more used to the darkness, Peter observed that the eye was open and regarding him incuriously: and he started in some confusion. "Do you feel much pain now, old chap?" he began rather huskily. ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... huskily, "Any more of those things?" The importance of the job was becoming increasingly clear to him. Nuclear explosives were not used without good reason. The fissionable material was too ...
— Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet • Harold Leland Goodwin
... all in the room knew that the ship was lost, but it was terrible to hear it again. The lad's face broke into lines of grief, and he spoke huskily. ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson
... when the mist cleared, Mr. Curtis led both boys to the port rail to show them where the green head of Cape Henlopen stood, abeam. There was moisture in the corners of his eyes as he pointed to it. "Thank God, Bob, my lad, you're here to see the Delaware again!" he said huskily. ...
— The Black Buccaneer • Stephen W. Meader
... she whispered huskily. 'Oh, but this must not be! I will go to the father; I will explain! You saved his son—he owes you ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... and something in his face turned the girl's face white. He was standing like a man hypnotized, every muscle rigid. With fallen jaw and staring eyes he looked at the weapon in his hand. At last he spoke huskily: ...
— They of the High Trails • Hamlin Garland
... suppose it would,' replied Owen huskily, as he tucked the bedclothes round the child's shoulders. 'But don't talk any more, dear; just hold my ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... stared wide with terror, his lips moved stiffly and the words rasped huskily: "Tamahnawus! She git dark. We git to camp. Mak' de big fire. Tamahnawus she no lak' de fire." And without waiting for a reply, he struck off down the lake as fast as his snowshoes would let him. And Connie followed, knowing that in ...
— Connie Morgan in the Fur Country • James B. Hendryx
... said Hiram huskily. "I never dreamed I'd ever have such a chance. And I'll work, too—I'll study night and day. But why—why are you doin' this ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
... down," he said huskily. "Something else has gone wrong at the store, I suppose. Well, let it go; it ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... to his seat with his precious sheepskin the elder Darrin, who was in the audience, took advantage of the renewed noises of applause to clear his throat huskily several times. Dave's mother honestly used her handkerchief to dry the tears of pride that were ...
— Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock
... old parson gets it, Morrison," said Atkins huskily; "he'll do more good with it than a man ...
— Tessa - 1901 • Louis Becke
... his promise—he's forgotten!" huskily whispered Ditson. "What if he should run Merriwell through ...
— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish
... did you subject us," he said, huskily, "to such an ordeal? What has made you give way—now? How can you dream of going back, after a week, to our old life?" But even as he asked the searching questions, he laid her back gently on ...
— The Uttermost Farthing • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... the table with a distracted stare. The girl did not show herself, and Jim retired early. When he rose to say good-night, Cornelius jumped up, knocking his chair over, and ducked out of sight as if to pick up something he had dropped. His good-night came huskily from under the table. Jim was amazed to see him emerge with a dropping jaw, and staring, stupidly frightened eyes. He clutched the edge of the table. "What's the matter? Are you unwell?" asked Jim. "Yes, yes, ...
— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad
... it is false," said Miller, huskily. "He is trying to put you against me. He hates me because ...
— Betty Zane • Zane Grey
... not that," said the Sergeant huskily; "but they were both amongst the missing as I tried to call ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn
... said huskily. "I guess there's nothing wrong with that boy's health. Damn! The quarantine boat will beat us to it! Matt's throwing the Jacob's ladder over the ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... turned from the window, and said, somewhat huskily:—"I wish some of these here poor people, as they call themselves, would either go away to Aymericay, or keep their premises a bit cleaner; nobody wants 'em here that ever I've ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... Tresler," he said huskily, for his voice was tired with sustained effort. "You're the remarkablest smart 'tenderfoot' that ever I see. Say, you're a right smart daddy—an' I ain't given to latherin' soap-suds neither. But ther's suthin's I calc'late that no 'tenderfoot,' smart as he may be, is goin' to locate right. ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... met all sorts of people, had all sorts to come and see you. A trained nurse who is with a sick friend of her aunt's told her she'd heard you let a—let a bad woman come in your house." Kitty's voice trailed huskily. "She said it would ruin you if things like that got out. I told her it ...
— People Like That • Kate Langley Bosher
... you, Perry," he said, a little huskily. "You look as unconcerned, as cool as—as a confounded cucumber! And now, Perry, remember to aim low, all pistols are apt to throw high—so, for heaven's ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol
... a tightening of his clasp on her hands. Then he bent his head, while his brows were knitted, anxiously. It seemed as if he could not speak. And she had opened her lips to comfort him a little when he burst forth, huskily: ...
— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter
... said MR. BUMSTEAD, huskily; himself taking a seat upon a coal-scuttle near at hand, with considerable violence. "I'm glad you aroused me from a dreadful dream of reptiles. I sh'pose you want me ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 • Various
... of the gallery creaked and strained; and under the doorway the tall grass by the steps thrust ripening straw, all alive with little brown grasshoppers. The clock, in its wooden case, made a whirring noise, as though it were some consumptive trying to clear his throat, and then huskily struck half-past six. ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola
... think much of your father, my child," he said, huskily, "if he let me whip you, even if I ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
... mind, in her own absorption in their boy she had attributed it to that. But early one evening he came in with a sheaf of roses in his arms, and when she had exclaimed at them and breathed deep of their dewy fragrance, Joe bent over and kissed her, and said a little huskily: ...
— His Second Wife • Ernest Poole
... hearing the evidence, at once entered the appointment of Mr. Crow. When the court asked in mild surprise why he did not adopt the child, Anderson and Eva looked at each other sheepishly and were silent for a full minute. Then Anderson spoke up a bit huskily: ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon
... and he looked at Henry Burns almost helplessly. He couldn't speak for a moment. Then he asked, huskily, "What was it you found? None of your pranks ...
— The Rival Campers Ashore - The Mystery of the Mill • Ruel Perley Smith
... looking after her, his eyelashes winking as had hers. "You oughtn't to have treated her that way," he said, huskily. ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington
... easier!—thanks, nurse," he said mechanically. "Tears?... What about tears? Ah, Mrs. Meredith's tears. She cried almost as much as the rain, poor kid! and we were nearly washed out—like 'Alice,'" and he laughed huskily, forgetful that he was again in possession of Honor's hand which he held in a vice. "I am a damned fool to have tried it on with her. Beastly low-down trick," he muttered almost inaudibly. "'You unspeakable cad!' she said, and, by God! I deserved it. I should have known that she was not the ...
— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
... huskily. There was no doubt that he had been deeply hurt. Lucy saw tears in his eyes, and her first impulse was to put a hand on his and tell him how sorry she was. But she desisted. She did not feel ...
— Wildfire • Zane Grey
... sermon," he said huskily; "I hope to get some help from that. But you!—you are making things harder for me every word you utter. You don't understand and I ...
— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen
... is such another world," said Polecrab huskily. "But did that vision also seem real and false ...
— A Voyage to Arcturus • David Lindsay
... he continued huskily. "But when the wife came to the head of the stairs and whispered to me: 'There it is again. What in heaven's name can it be'—I started to unbolt the door. The knocking had stopped. Everything was very still. I heard Mary—HIS ...
— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... Ernest answered huskily, folding it up and putting it away in the drawer by the window. They neither of them dared to look the other in the face, but they bad not the heart to burn it boldly. It was blood-money, to be sure; but three guineas are really ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... in the crush of the traffic at the town gate or at the gate of the Mellah, and while he stood aside to allow a line of pack-mules to pass he would hear a voice from behind him crying huskily, "Accursed old Israel! Get on home to your mother!" Then, turning quickly round, he would find that close at his heels a negro of most innocent countenance was cudgelling his donkey by ...
— The Scapegoat • Hall Caine
... kiss me, Desire?" said Perez, huskily, carried beyond himself, scarcely knowing what he said, for if he had realized ...
— The Duke of Stockbridge • Edward Bellamy
... huskily. "I've been thinking about you all this time; and this is the end of it. Well, I was a fool to come...." She sat up straight, away from the back of the settee; but she did not look at Keith. She was looking at nothing. Only in her mind was going on the tumult ...
— Nocturne • Frank Swinnerton
... plunge now. Her own colour had risen—her hand shook a little on her needles. And she had clearly roused some strong emotion in Farrell. After a few moments' silence, he fell upon her, speaking rather huskily. ...
— Missing • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... my heart until now, my clay tobacco-jar, and my old pouch. I had said good-by to these before my friends came in, and I could now speak with a comparatively firm voice. Marriot and Gilray and Scrymgeour signed to Jimmy, as if some plan of action had been arranged, and Jimmy said huskily, sitting upon the hearth-rug: ...
— My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke • J. M. Barrie
... of the Chicago Transcript (naming the leading morning paper); had he ever read it? Well, The Transcript—which, he, McClintick, hated strongly as an organ of money—nevertheless did honestly gather and publish news, as he was constrained huskily to admit. It had the Veridian story; was still running it from time to time. Therefore, if Mr. Banneker was interested, on behalf of ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... got; just a few clothes," he muttered huskily. "I crawled in here last night to sleep. I've got to see Fred before I go. I've been waiting two days for a ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... voice, when he moved his dry tongue to speak, came huskily; it was as if another person ...
— The Hammer of Thor • Charles Willard Diffin
... you chaps," he said huskily; "one of you chaps, in this bar to-day, called Macquarie a scoundrel, and a loafer, and a blackguard, and—and ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... she said huskily, "I think it was better she died before—" But she did not finish ...
— He Fell in Love with His Wife • Edward P. Roe
... the end of it, but long after the bridal party was in position the faint, jerky sounds still wavered on, now vanishing altogether in a dumb show, now, just as the people were hopefully thinking the ordeal over, becoming huskily audible. There seemed enough of the thing, Mrs. Long said afterward, to give Arabella time to walk over to the next ...
— Treasure Valley • Marian Keith
... by the Count Muffat and the deputy, came up in a fury. Drops of perspiration stood on his forehead, and he grumbled huskily: ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
... concluded, white to the lips, "as surely as if you used a stiletto! So that was what Arthur meant." For a few moments Danvers could not speak as the recollection of that look of love and trust came surging back. "No one must ever know the truth," he went on, huskily. "Let it be buried with poor Arthur. There will be more or less gossip; but we will stand by you for the judge's sake—and for Miss Blair's as well. She, of all persons, must know nothing of ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman
... Captain Blyth, alive, well, and as hearty as ever, stood once more on his own quarter-deck, shaking hands convulsively with everybody who came near him, with the unheeded tears chasing each other down his cheeks as he huskily replied to the enthusiastic greetings of those who had long ago given ...
— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood
... dear, yes," said the skipper huskily, "that is just about the sum and substance of it. But don't you trouble about us, or about your sister and the rest of them either for that matter. We shall be all right, never fear. The island yonder, though it is but a small strip ...
— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood
... Lord Maxwell," he said at last, huskily, turning his head away from her to the fire. "I've just had a long walk with him. Then he left me; he had no idea I came on here. But something drove me; I felt I must come, I must tell. Will you promise not to be angry with ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... my babykins," promised her father, huskily. "No more simple life for Genevieve Maud, you may ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan
... the sweetest little girl in the world, Billy!" he whispered, huskily. "She says she's lonely for me. She tells me to hurry— hurry down there to her. She says that if I don't come soon she'll come up to me! ...
— Isobel • James Oliver Curwood
... damned yellow mouth!" he said huskily. "I'll get out of the islands if you people keep up this any longer. I'm sick of it all. That old liar Morton has made my good name black in Tahiti. Everybody knows the Llewellyns. God damn him! I ought to have killed him when he ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien
... who sang, vamping an accompaniment upon the piano and emphasising the simple time of his carol by a dully stamped foot upon the floor. His foot—making in soft slippers a dead "dump-dump-dump"—shook the ceiling of the Mintos' flat. They could hear his dry voice huskily roaring, "There you are, there you are, there you ain't—ain't—ain't." They had heard it a thousand times, always with the familiar stamp. It was very gay. Old Perce, as he was called, was a carver in a City restaurant. It was he who received orders from the knowing; and in return for ...
— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton
... more he glowed, the more icily calm she sat, till the silence between them began to grow oppressive. She waited, determined that he should be the first to speak. Recognising the helplessness of silence, he began huskily: ...
— The Man • Bram Stoker
... Jimmy huskily. He caught her hand; he tried to hold her back, but she broke away from him, staggered a few steps, and fell before either of the men could ...
— The Second Honeymoon • Ruby M. Ayres
... red in the face, perhaps from having groped after his cigar. "I do not remember to have had the pleasure," he responded huskily. ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... dead," he answered, huskily; "she is a saint with the angels. Had she lived, I should never have been a mariner, and—and—" laying his hand on his throat, as if to keep down the sense of suffocation, he smiled, and added, laughingly,—"ay, and the good Winkelried would ...
— The Headsman - The Abbaye des Vignerons • James Fenimore Cooper
... a good deal I've wanted to say to ye fer a long time, but I hev kept a-puttin' hit off until I'm afeard maybe hit air too late. But I'm a-goin' to say hit now, and I want ye to listen." He cleared his throat huskily. " Do ye know, Easter, what folks ...
— A Mountain Europa • John Fox Jr.
... sure of that myself," he replied, huskily. "When all this trouble is behind us, surely I can help you to understand and you can help me. The fact that you are alive—that Lassiter and Jane are alive—that I shall save you all—that lifts me up. I tell you—Fay Larkin ...
— The Rainbow Trail • Zane Grey
... at Lewes yesterday," he panted huskily. "I see that tall inspector chap—him I put on ...
— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant
... out of the way, and she did not see me." The reddleman spoke huskily, and looked into ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy
... cooper, clearing his throat, and speaking a little huskily, "we love her so much that we almost forgot that she wasn't ours. We have had her since she was a baby, and it won't be easy at ...
— Jack's Ward • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... ever tempt me from my faith to you, Wallace," she huskily murmured. "Oh!" she cried, with a sudden start, as a warning whistle blew, "does that ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... Canby had worked patiently at his manuscript, rewriting, condensing, pouring over it the sincere sweat of his brow and the light of his boarding-house lamp during most of the evenings of two years, until at last he was able to tell his confidants, rather huskily, that there was "not one single superfluous word in it," not one that could possibly be cut, nor one that could be changed without "altering the significance ...
— Harlequin and Columbine • Booth Tarkington
... as though galvanized, sprang to his feet. "My God!" he cried, huskily, "Stop her, stop her!" Val Beverley, now desperately white, clutched at me with quivering fingers, her agonized glance set upon the smiling face of ...
— Bat Wing • Sax Rohmer
... operator to a chair, and O'Neill ran to the inner room. The moment his eye covered the order book he saw what had happened. "Extra 81 is against a passenger special," exclaimed O'Neill, huskily, seizing the key. "There's the order—Extra 81 from Cambridge to meet Number 50 at Sumter and Special 833 has orders to Cambridge, and nothing against Extra 81. If I can't catch the freight at Red Desert we're in for it—wake up Morris ...
— The Daughter of a Magnate • Frank H. Spearman
... said McGuire huskily. "But the size, man—the size! And its shape is not right; it isn't streamlined correctly; the air—" He stopped his half-unconscious analysis abruptly. "The air!" What had this craft to do with the air? A thin layer of gas that hung close to the earth—the skin on an ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various
... is that?" he asked huskily. "You know what the matter is. You don't love me. You never have ... Have you?" He suddenly ended, ...
— The Captives • Hugh Walpole
... his hands and shouted to the white chak to clean up the broken glass on the floor. He said huskily, "You are not ...
— The Door Through Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... boy," said Dale huskily; "but it is impossible. You could not draw me out, and I'm afraid that I could not climb back; whereas I could lower you down and pull you ...
— The Crystal Hunters - A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps • George Manville Fenn
... them as they lie Asleep." So, walking hand in hand, Dear John and I surveyed our band: First to the cradle lightly stepped, Where Lilian, the baby, slept. Softly the father stooped to lay His rough hand down in loving way, When dream or whisper made her stir, And huskily he said: ...
— De La Salle Fifth Reader • Brothers of the Christian Schools
... I'm going to let this young mucker make a fool of me?" demanded the Melville youth, huskily. "I've just got ...
— The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip - "Making Good" as Young Experts • Victor G. Durham
... happened, a little company of rustics, who had just issued from the low hatch-door of the village inn, stood for a moment under the sign of the Crown and Mitre, which swung huskily creaking from the bough of an ancient thorn tree, then passed on to the road, and took their ...
— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald
... was thrust through the inch of doorway, and Mr. Bulstrode said huskily, "That is the key of the wine-cooler. You will ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... door of her own home Billy left her, and gathered up the reins of the Pilgrim's horse. "Well, good-by. Oh, that's all right—it wasn't any trouble at all," he said huskily when she tried to thank him, and ...
— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower
... "Cora," he said huskily, "I understand you a little because you possess me. I've never—literally never—had another thought since the first time I saw you: nothing but you. I think of you—actually every moment. Drunk or sober, asleep or—awake, it's nothing but you, ...
— The Flirt • Booth Tarkington
... sit out here," and they took the arm-chairs that stood on the porch, and swung to and fro in silence for a little while. The sea came and went among the rocks below, marking its course in the deepening twilight with a white rope of foam, and raving huskily to itself, with now and then the long plunge of some heavier surge against the bowlders, and a hoarse shout. The Portland boat swam by in the offing, a glitter of irregular lights, and the lamps on the different ...
— The Story of a Play - A Novel • W. D. Howells
... came huskily, the oars dropped into the water, and to Mark there was quite a feeling of relief in the motion of the boat, and also in the knowledge that they were moving—slowly enough, but surely— toward help. Whether they would live to reach that ...
— The Black Bar • George Manville Fenn
... two things, Jim, hez got to happen," he said, huskily. "Either that there rock hez got to get off the road, or I have. I've seed HIM ...
— A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready • Bret Harte
... tried to laugh, but the laugh broke itself off gruffly. He found himself catching her hand, putting his free arm boyishly about her shoulders. "I'm not fit to speak to you, Margaret!" he said huskily. "You're—you're the best woman I ever knew! I want you to know I'm sorry—sorry for it all—everything! And as for Dad, why, he'll think what I think—that you're the only person in the world who'd do all this ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... he whispered huskily. "It's all right agen. Come on and let's get the ship, and I'll help you to hyste the tackle aboard as soon as we get ...
— The Little Skipper - A Son of a Sailor • George Manville Fenn
... evening, with a cold chill down his spine, He found himself before her house, the threshold of the shrine. His courage flickered to a spark, then glowed with sudden flame— He knocked; he heard a welcome word; she came—his goddess came. Oh, she was fair as any flower, and huskily he spoke: "I'm all the way from Klondike, with a mighty heavy poke. I'm looking for a lassie, one whose Christian name is Peg, Who sought a Klondike miner, and who wrote ...
— Ballads of a Cheechako • Robert W. Service
... for a moment as though dazed; then he rose impulsively and seized Thorndyke's hands. "I don't know what to say to you," he exclaimed huskily, "except that you have saved my brother's life, and for that ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman
... huskily. "I think I may say we've settled to go. Hamlyn has got a letter from a cousin of his, who is making a fortune; and besides, I've got tired of the old ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... horrible affair!" he said huskily; "horrible! Would you mind, Doctor Thorndyke, telling us just how the matter stands in your opinion—what the probabilities ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman
... waited till the children had filed in before she asked me, in a tone encouraging confidence, to give my version of the story. This I did, huskily but fearlessly; and the teacher, who was a woman of tact, did not smile or commit herself in any way. She was sorry that the children had been rude to me, but she thought they would not trouble me any more if I let the subject drop. She made ...
— The Promised Land • Mary Antin
... I could hold on to you," said the doctor huskily; "I wish I could lead you by loving force into the paths of pleasantness and peace. But what I can't do, God can. Good-by, and ...
— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe
... toward her unfortunate husband. He rose to his feet, reeling from the effects of the sudden shock, and the dreary hopelessness of his face touched every heart. "My friends," he said, huskily, "there is little to be said. This sudden revelation has crushed me, till my soul grows faint with the bitterness of a terrible woe. Believe me, I have had no part in this wicked deception, but only considered that I was in the pathway of stern duty, in defending ...
— Clemence - The Schoolmistress of Waveland • Retta Babcock
... he gets a trifle flat, Which is not to be wondered at, And critical observers note A huskiness about the throat. (Huskily) Cuckoo! Cuckoo!... ...
— First Plays • A. A. Milne |
