"Icily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it," said Jessie, icily, though there was a twinkle in her eye. "Not having a mirror, I'm afraid I ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... won't take your car. You will need it for your business excursions!" Pat said icily. "We are very much indebted to you for letting us have the use of it here. It's been of great service, hasn't ...
— The Love Affairs of Pixie • Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
... at last make the plainest face to be beautiful. In the calm of scholarship men have given up the thought that culture consists of an exquisite refinement in manners and dress, in language and equipage. The poet laureate makes Maud the type of polished perfection. She is "icily regular, splendidly null," for culture is more of the heart than of the mind. But as eloquence means that an orator has so mastered the laws of posture, and gesture and thought and speech that they are utterly forgotten, and ...
— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis
... strapped on one's steel helmet and shortened the strap of one's gas-mask, the spirit of Ypres touched one's soul icily. ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs
... dear?" Grandmother Ridge demanded with a subtle undercut of reproof. The little old lady, all in black, with a neat bonnet edged with white, stood on the steps midway between her son and her granddaughter, and smiled icily at the girl. Milly recognized that smile. It was more deadly to her than a curse—symbol of mocking age. She tossed her head, the sole retort that youth was permitted ...
— One Woman's Life • Robert Herrick
... said icily, drawing herself back with a movement which La Mothe recognized by an unhappy experience. "You choose your ...
— The Justice of the King • Hamilton Drummond
... Lambert said, quietly: 'It is her own fault. She is being punished for her obstinacy. Father is disciplining her—he will not harm her.' In the end the power conquered, and the girl lay back in slumber so deep, so dead, that her breath seemed stilled forever—her hands icily inert, her face as white ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland
... step by step went up, though I suffered very much, my brows peering at the utter darkness, and my heart shocked at its own rashness. I got to the first landing, and as I turned to ascend the second part of the stair, my left hand touched something icily cold: I made some quick instinctive movement of terror, and, doing so, my foot struck against something, and I stumbled, half falling over what seemed a small table there. Immediately a horrible row followed, for something fell to the ground: ...
— The Purple Cloud • M.P. Shiel
... have said yourself," icily began the Countess once more, "you are my hostess. You flattered me; you made me think that you were my friend; you asked me on board your yacht, and I came, trustingly, ignorant that, under some wild mistake which even now I ...
— The Castle Of The Shadows • Alice Muriel Williamson
... could not rid himself of his wizened air. The puny little man of law, tightly buttoned into his clothes, reminded you of a torpid viper; for if hope had brought a spark of life into his magpie eyes, his face was icily rigid, and so well did he assume an air of gravity, that an ambitious public prosecutor could ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac
... pleasant confusion of mind, as though the icily cold liquid, as she slowly absorbed it through the straw, was freezing her intelligence. She could not for a few moments understand what Dale ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... "Be careful," I said icily. "You don't deserve an explanation, but you shall have one, and that is the last word I shall ever speak to you on the subject of Jack. His letter is the truth. I am his 'nearest of kin,' save the cousins ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... icily, "is not necessary. Monsieur Eloin, at my command, brought the American here. You should ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... you for good and sufficient reasons," she said icily. "That you choose to ignore these reasons does not affect the issue. Will you leave this house, or shall ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... earlier tales were not a little hard and stern and unsympathetic; and here again Maupassant was the disciple of Flaubert. His manner was not only unemotional at first, it was icily impassive. These first stories of his were cold and they were contemptuous;—at least they made the reader feel that the author heartily despised the pitiable and pitiful creatures he was depicting. They dealt mainly with the externals ...
— Inquiries and Opinions • Brander Matthews
... mother could reach her. "Don't touch me," she said icily. "Mamma, I'm going to put on my things. I want papa to walk with me. I'm ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... her husband, icily, "but you might just as well tell her, too. It'll make her afraid in ...
— The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix • Homer Eon Flint
... became absorbed between alternate hope and dread. He was alive still; slowly the death-like pallor was passing away, faint tokens of returning circulation tingled through his benumbed veins. The beating of his heart was stronger, and his hands seemed less icily cold. But so slowly, and with so many intermissions, did the change creep on, that she did not dare to assure herself that he was reviving. Now and then the scent made her feel sick with terror; for she knew that his life depended upon her ...
— Brought Home • Hesba Stretton
... strange man's hand still lingered icily about Madonna's fingers, and made her anxious, though she hardly knew why, to leave the room. She advanced hastily to Valentine, and made the sign which indicated Mrs. Blyth, by laying her hand on her heart; she ...
— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins
... I care," the other boy asked icily as he turned on his heel and walked out of the room again without taking the ...
— The Soul of a Child • Edwin Bjorkman
... stony road we walked into the dark night, the wind blowing cold and bitter, and the clouds chasing one another across the sky. In front, I could see nothing but the porter hurrying along, bent down under the weight of my bag, and the wind blew icily. I buttoned up my coat. And then I regretted the warmth of the carriage, the comfort of my corner and my rug; I wished I had peacefully continued my journey to Madrid—I was on the verge of turning back as I heard the whistling of the train. I hesitated, ...
— Orientations • William Somerset Maugham
... the only reason you can think of that I might have for wanting to prevent a massacre?" Rynason said icily. ...
— Warlord of Kor • Terry Gene Carr
... no prescriptions from you!" he said icily. He looked at Trigger as he turned to walk out of the cabin. "Or drinks from you either, Trigger Argee!" he growled. "Who in the great spiraling galaxy is there ...
— Legacy • James H Schmitz
... of human nature must be singularly slight," replied the other icily, "if you imagine that a man without sufficient courage to be fitted by a tailor would be brave ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 • Various
... laughing on my account," she said icily. "I am used to being laughed at since I left America. They laugh at all of ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... I icily agreed that it would, scenting tacit reproof in that mildly-put observation of his. But I didn't propose to be trifled with. I calmly led Mr. Peter Ketley out to where the overturned windmill tower lay like a museum skeleton along its bed of weeds and asked him just what tools he'd need. ...
— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer
... first time felt embarrassed, and this made her a little angry. "I don't think I gave your brother any right to speak for me or of me in this matter," she said icily; "and if you are quite satisfied, as you say you are, of your own affection and Frida's, I do not see why you should ...
— From Sand Hill to Pine • Bret Harte
... day, had passed them by with a shy slight nod and a glance of tender pity. Fairy and Lark, and even Connie, sailed by with high heads and scornful eyes,—haughty, proud, icily removed. But Carol, by some weird and inexplicable fancy, treated them with sweet and gracious solicitude, quite friendly. Her smile as she passed was as sweet as for her dearest friend. Her "Good morning,—isn't this glorious ...
— Prudence Says So • Ethel Hueston
... "That," she said icily, "is no one's affair but my own. I am not wholly ignorant of the ways of the world. And I ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... last year. But the plain generally was hot and sunny in summer, and very dreary in winter; for the larger trees which grew upon it were oaks, and when they were bare of foliage, and the sand-hills and the pools had a deep covering of snow, the wind swept icily cold over its wide space. In September the oaks were still in leaf, and the grass green, and, though they were but stunted in size and coarse in texture, both were pleasant to look at. The sunshine was no longer hot, but it was serenely bright, and there ...
— A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 - A Novel • Mrs. Harry Coghill
... the sort," broke in Farnum, icily. "They haven't tried to run anything. But any workman is entitled to complain when he's expected to perform ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham
... the end clutched icily at my heart, but the price of the proffered safety was too great. Since I must die, I resolved that it should ...
— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine
... saw the country through which we came, though it was George Eliot's country; and I half expected something to happen as soon as we arrived; Sir Lionel perhaps turning on me at last, and saying icily: "I know everything, but don't want a ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... anything the matter with him for yourself," George responded, icily, "I don't think pointing it out would help you. ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... to do with this discussion," returned Roger, icily. "I do not bargain—in fact, I believe that I shall keep her for a time. She has it in mind to destroy herself, if I do not allow her to be ransomed, but she will find that door closed to her until I permit ...
— Triplanetary • Edward Elmer Smith
... of the old forms were either missing or to be seen in the second Eleven's line, and the coaches hovered over the field of battle with dark, forbidding looks, and said mean things whenever the opportunity presented itself, and were icily polite to each other, as men will be when they know themselves to be in the right and every one else in the wrong. And so practice that Thursday was an unpleasant affair, and had the desired effect; for the men played the game for all that was in them and attended ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour
... and ringing, came to them on the still air. Rose's slim figure stiffened very slightly, barely perceptibly, at the sound. "Sir Eustace has forgotten his engagement," she said icily. "Yes, Captain Brent, I will ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... Dobson,—need not be lovely in themselves to serve as pegs to hang a poem on; and all the atmosphere of the eighteenth century may be wafted from a jar of potpourri. Read a lyric instead of a rose jar, and the rule holds as well. The man of feeling cannot but find all Ranelagh and Vauxhall in some icily regular effusion of the eighteenth century, and will take a deeper retrospective thrill from an old playbill than from the play itself. And since this is so,—since the interest in the overtones, the added value given by time, the value for us, is not necessarily related to the value as ...
— The Psychology of Beauty • Ethel D. Puffer
... as charming as ever?" demanded Mrs. Morrell sweetly but icily. "Go in carefully now, so dear ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White
... before, I can only draw my own conclusions," returned the mistress icily. "You will change to Number 3 ...
— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil
... Helena icily. "It would hardly be courteous to Mr. Davidson—to use his servants and his table in this ...
— The Lady and the Pirate - Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive • Emerson Hough
... by the afternoon post in camp. He sat down alone in his tent and read and re-read each line. Then he stiffened and remained icily still. ...
— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn
... this, Stella," Mrs. Ebley said icily. "You cannot deceive me. You have been led astray, girl—it is wiser to confess at once and I will try ...
— The Point of View • Elinor Glyn
... genial current of his soul? It is not unlikely. He often found himself condemned to solitary toping over a stained newspaper, one of the most ungleeful joys known to man. Sometimes he played dominoes with Felicien Garbure, now icily received by the symbolists on account of an unpaid score. Whether desperation drove him occasionally to Bubu le Vainqueur and his friends I do not know. He was not really proud of his acquaintance with Bubu. Once he whimsically remarked that as he was half way between Gaston de Nerac ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke
... much experience," remarked the canteen matron icily. She thought Miss Gibbs "bossy" and interfering, and considered that she knew her own business best, ...
— The Madcap of the School • Angela Brazil
... real girl—is inflexible when there is a wedding in the air, and your letter only proves you are a real girl—which I always thought you to be. And I'm awfully glad you are! Only think how icily unhuman you would seem if you could hold yourself superior even to a wedding, and especially to one so romantic as this of Miss Hurd's promises to be, with all the melodramatic settings of a possible elopement, a distracted mother, and the thunderously raging paternal parent of the ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble
... intention, Mr. Gratton," she told him icily, "than to marry you. Now or ever. Please let us consider the matter ...
— The Everlasting Whisper • Jackson Gregory
... "The date?" she repeated, icily. "What day was it that Mr. Barrows was found in the vat?" she inquired, turning to me with ...
— The Mill Mystery • Anna Katharine Green
... girls have come to town since time was and brought with them the level heads of icily wise women who make love a business and not a folly. Many men are keeping sober mainly nowadays because it is good business; many women pure for the ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... guess I meant shod," she said, icily. "I do sometimes mean what I say. Pretty often—as a ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner
... George," I said icily, "that I appreciate the fact of being deprived of the services of an honest woman in favor of ...
— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer
... "Mr. Macdougal," said Hawkins icily, "if one dish is broken, I'll pay for it and make you a present of the machine, if you say so. If you do not wish to make the test, doubtless there are other hotel men in New York who will appreciate ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin
... into details," broke in Helen icily. "I just think it was hateful your standing there looking on while I fell ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum
... be back for a week or ten days," she said icily. "If I'm longer than two weeks you can start Charlie ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Mary spoke in icily dignified tones. "As for me, I have my cloak." She held forth one bare arm on which swung her long, gray evening cape. "I should never forgive myself if I neglected this little tot. I'm sorry to be so rude, ...
— Marjorie Dean - High School Sophomore • Pauline Lester
... by this reminder that before the world he had been nothing to the loved one, that before the world the squire, who had been nothing to her, had been everything, Winton said icily: ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... to throw it away," she said, icily. "I didn't say I didn't want it, nor that I wouldn't wear it. I only said I ...
— Old Rose and Silver • Myrtle Reed
... nosegay he has got one to give her, gathered and arranged by himself, and greatly to my amusement, he is always cunningly provided with a duplicate, composed of exactly the same flowers, grouped in exactly the same way, to appease his icily jealous wife before she can so much as think herself aggrieved. His management of the Countess (in public) is a sight to see. He bows to her, he habitually addresses her as "my angel," he carries his canaries to ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins
... strange look came over his face as I asked him, and his lips set with a stern expression as he said stiffly, icily, "I had realized, Miss Linton, how utterly different our ways of looking at life must be; or else perhaps it is that you do not hold me to be enough of a knight to consider a woman's position before my own ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various
... she trembled behind the screen with joy. She rested but little; and when the cold night wind blew flakes of snow through the loose blinds onto her warm face, when her own breath, frozen on the pillow, touched icily throat, chin and bosom, she was happy in the thought that she was allowed to suffer something for him who had suffered all for her. In those nights sacred love conquered earthly love in her; out of the pain of sweet, disappointed desire which yearned to possess, arose his image surrounded once ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various
... of Justice. It promised to be a bad day for Signor Malipizzo. And yet people could not help admitting how clever he had been to lock up those Russians. It was the best thing he could have done under the circumstances. It proved his freedom from anti-Catholic prejudices. It made him look icily objective. ...
— South Wind • Norman Douglas
... to refer to love in any way," she said, icily. "Mamma certainly does not expect me to do such an extraordinary thing. If you will talk sensibly, Phil, we may enjoy the drive, but if you persist in talking ...
— Castle Craneycrow • George Barr McCutcheon
... question caused the instructor's lips to tighten. "You have not answered my question, Miss Harlowe," she said icily. ...
— Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... matter further,' said General Forsyth icily; 'I have told you my wishes on the subject. If I am to treat you as one of my own daughters, you will accompany them wherever they go. I am accustomed to be obeyed in my own house, and I do not think you will deliberately oppose my wishes ...
— Dwell Deep - or Hilda Thorn's Life Story • Amy Le Feuvre
... at least refuse it like a man of the world, I hope," she replied icily, and he drooped submissive once more. "You see?" she ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... the end of the dim corridor-like street. The sudden alternations of warm light and cold shade made him shiver. In front of the Palazzo di Venezia, and in front of the Gesu, it had seemed to him as if all the night of ancient times were falling icily upon his shoulders; but at each fresh square, each broadening of the new thoroughfares, there came a return to light, to the pleasant warmth and gaiety of life. The yellow sunflashes, in falling from the house fronts, sharply ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... however, as had been conclusively shown, because he was a hero himself, and so could make light of heroic deeds—with other sly hits at Mr. Sandys. But when all the others rose to drink the toast, Tommy remained seated. The Dominie coughed. "Perhaps Mr. Sandys means to reply," Grizel suggested icily. And it was at this uncomfortable moment that Christina appeared suddenly, and in a state of suppressed excitement requested her mistress to speak with her behind the door. All the knowing ones were aware that something terrible must ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... slightly opened. What could be seen of his features appeared sharper than usual, as if the inner virulence, the dark hidden passions smoldering in his breast had at length stamped their impression on the outer man. When he first spoke his tones were more irascible, less icily imperturbable, than they had been hitherto. They seemed to tell of a secret tension he had long been laboring under; but the steady cold eyes looked out from behind the ...
— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham
... carefully, so I made no attempt to enter into conversation. Just before lunch the jolting of the train deposited the major's coat at my feet. I picked it up and handed it to him. He received it with thanks and a trace of a smile. He was polite, but icily so. I was an American, he was a German officer. In his way of reasoning my country was unneutrally making ammunition to kill himself and his men. But for my country the war would have been over long ago. Therefore he hated ...
— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin
... struck her icily as she crossed the few steps of open between cabin and kitchen. Above no cloud floated, no harbinger of melting rain. The cold stars twinkled over snow-blurred forest, struck tiny gleams from stumps that were now white-capped ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... wise brook, I cannot come, alas! I am but mortal as the leaves that flicker, float, and pass. My body is not used to you; my breath is fluttering sore; You clasp me round too icily. Ah, let me go once more! Would God I were a naiad-thing whereon Pan's music blew; But woe is me! you pagan brook, I cannot ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... stormy night. The rain beat ceaselessly against the curtained windows; the wild spring wind shrieked through the city streets, icily cold; ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... what you like!" Susan said icily. But presently, in a more softened tone, she added, "I do feel badly about Thorny! I oughtn't to have left her. It was all so quick! And she DID have a date, at least I know a crowd of people were coming to their house to dinner. And ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... her trembling hands grew icily quiet. All the Past rose before her in mute, overwhelming reproach. She took up the lines which her own hand had written hardly a minute since, and looked at the ink, still wet on the letters, with a ...
— No Name • Wilkie Collins
... girl's intellect was too speedy even for Gibbon. She fenced all 'round him and over him, and he soon discovered that she was icily gracious to every one, save her father alone. For him she seemed to outpour all the lavish love of her splendid womanhood. It was unlike the usual calm affection of father and daughter. It was a great and absorbing love, of which ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14 - Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women • Elbert Hubbard
... seeking her," she returned, icily. "I have no desire to cultivate the particular ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish
... pale and cold with fury, reached the door before her and stood blocking the passageway. "Miss McGuire, I'll trouble you to be more careful in addressing my guests," he said icily. ...
— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs
... of these faults. Hasty judgments, offences against taste, inaccuracies, occasional revelations of personal pique it has; but it is not malicious. Sometimes it is even affecting in its tenderness. It breathes a spirit of paternal regard. But it is, perhaps, the dullest of books. If not "icily regular," it is "splendidly null." The style is as oppressive as a London fog. It is marked, to use the author's own words, by "elegant and drowsy stagnation." After the first few pages, it is with weariness that we follow him. We are inclined to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various
... nothing to say to him: the truth that lay so icily upon her heart was all that she could have said: "I am your guilty mother. I robbed you of your father. And your father is dead, unmourned, unloved, almost forgotten by me." For that was the poison in her misery, to know that for Paul Quentin she felt almost nothing. To hear ...
— Amabel Channice • Anne Douglas Sedgwick
... of Undine and the water-sprites. Lord Airlie felt her hand tremble as he helped her to leave the boat. He tried to make her forget the incident by talking of the ball and the pleasure it would bring. She talked gayly, but every now and then he saw that she shuddered as though icily cold. ...
— Dora Thorne • Charlotte M. Braeme
... ask or demand an interview with Miss Worthington?" icily said the old lawyer. "If you will put your wishes in writing, I will convey them to her. That is all I can say. I admit that she is my guest, and I also desire to say ...
— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage
... to our receiving the prize?" Flora queried icily. "Then, please don't give it to us. I hardly thought Miss Morton could endure to see any one but herself as the winner. An Army officer's daughter is not likely to receive a reward after she has been accused of cheating, nor will she ever ...
— Madge Morton's Secret • Amy D. V. Chalmers
... not interfere between you and your intended," she answered icily. "Neither shall I permit the circumstances which you have described ...
— The Substitute Prisoner • Max Marcin
... on her the glassy eye of one who does not suffer fools gladly. "I permit anything," he responded, icily, "that will keep that boy ... sane." He retired anew behind the ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various
... cricketer. It is the man who brings the spirit of adventure into the game that I want. Of the Quaifes and the Scottons and the Barlows I have nothing but dreary memories. They do not mean cricket to me. And even Shrewsbury and Hayward left me cold. They were too faultily faultless, too icily regular for my taste. They played cricket not as though it was a game, but as though it was a proposition in Euclid. ...
— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)
... certain they'll find it," Captain Nemo replied icily. "But be that as it may, you're already familiar with the first use I've found for this valuable force. It lights us, and with a uniformity and continuity not even possessed by sunlight. Now, look at that clock: it's electric, it runs with an accuracy ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
... T. Thayer, gents," said the president, icily, "and seein' that he is field-secretary of the enforcement league, and knows his duty when he sees it clear, he will talk to you for your own good, and if it don't do you good, I warn you that there will be something said from the pulpit to-morrow that ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... head to foot icily still, without the least feeling, or thought, or stir—staring into the looking-glass. Then an inconceivable drumming beat on his ear. A warm surge, like the onset of a wave, broke in him, flooding neck, face, forehead, even his hands with colour. He caught himself ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare
... artistic unity is as interesting as a design subsequently modified by other influences, may be an open question. There are those who think Salisbury "faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null," yet they would hardly dare to continue the quotation and say it was "dead perfection, no more." Even at a time when mediaeval art was not generally appreciated in England, this cathedral won admiration from chance visitors such as Evelyn, ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury - A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum • Gleeson White
... know he will say: 'You are lucky to have even that. There are millions in this town who, etc., etc.' And so the thing will go on until one day he asks, 'Have you no fuel at all?' when I can hear myself replying, 'Only two chairs and one wardrobe,' and he will reply icily, 'You are lucky to have that. Everybody else is dead because they had not ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 26, 1919 • Various
... door, and finding it locked, circled the rest of the way around the house. Judith was waiting for him on the front porch. "How nice of you to walk Zarathustra," she said icily. "I do hope you found the ...
— The Servant Problem • Robert F. Young
... flatter yourself, Cleo, I hope," Mrs. Delarayne retorted icily, "that I say these things to amuse you and Denis, ...
— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici
... conclusive!" said Esperance, icily, as Massetti finished reading. "It is a confession! You abducted ...
— Monte-Cristo's Daughter • Edmund Flagg
... and their officer, on being called by him "no gentleman," had struck him behind the ear with the butt of a carbine. I asked what punishment the officer received, and I noticed the plural pronoun as he icily replied, "We didn't ...
— The Cavalier • George Washington Cable
... of the dinner passed off well enough, as the subject was changed. Lord George began to talk of racing, and Hay responded. Mrs. Krill alone seemed shocked. "I don't believe in gambling," she said icily. ...
— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume
... tour through the seat of war were gone to their siesta. She was alone, with a scarlet burnous thrown about her, and upon her all the languor and idleness common to the noontide, which was still very warm, though, in the autumn, the nights were so icily cold on the exposed level of the plains. She was lost in thought, moreover. She had heard, the day before, a story that had touched her—of a soldier who had been slain crossing the plains, and had been brought, through the hurricane and the sandstorm, at every risk, by his comrade, who ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... he was, a real coward. Her voice was full of deep contempt as she said icily, "Let me go on now, ...
— Absolution • Clara Viebig
... hear that," said Mrs Patrick, rather icily, for this last observation had seemed to her a little rude. "Very," chimed in ...
— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed
... complement voyaged down over those warm tropical seas which lay between Lagos and the isle of their hopes and fears. Two of them kept together, and perfected the detail of their plans for use in every contingency; but the other kept himself icily apart, and for an occupation, when the business of the ship did not require his eye, wrapped himself up in the labor of literary production. He even refused to partake of meals at the same ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne
... cavern. Oh, how icily cold it was; but it did not last long. The Eastwind spread his wings, and they shone like the brightest flame; but what a cave it was! Large blocks of stone, from which the water dripped, hung over them in the most ...
— Stories from Hans Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen
... Minister urged how small and accidental was the omission, his Majesty remarked that it was one of many; and when he argued how any delay might have proved dangerous, the point at which delay had begun was again icily indicated. More pressingly still did he invite the King to consider in what light, if unexplained, this resignation would be popularly regarded; would it not be taken as an admission of blame by the head of the Home Department for the occurrence ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman |
