"Sourly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sourly. "Then maybe I'm doin' you an injustice. I thought you might be pushin' your way in here to suggest our doin' something for the poor chap." Before Cai had well recovered from this, 'Bias went on, "And if so, I'd have answered you that I didn' intend ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... are talking about," Tish said sourly. "Mr. Ellis controls the betting so that it may be done in an orderly manner. I am sure I have nothing ...
— Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... at the sound; and Elinor, with her feet stretched out before her, lapped the carpet restlessly with her heels, and watched her cousin sourly as Douglas entered. He was in ...
— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw
... thy sensual fault I bring in sense,— Thy adverse party is thy advocate,— And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence: Such civil war is in my love and hate, That I an accessary needs must be, To that sweet thief which sourly robs ...
— Shakespeare's Sonnets • William Shakespeare
... quiet that morning. Mrs. Atkins and Miss de Lisle having quarrelled over the question of dinner, had retreated, the one to the housekeeper's room, the other to the kitchen. Sarah went about her duties sourly. Allenby was Sarah's uncle, and, as such, felt some duty to her, which he considered he had discharged in getting her a good place; beyond that, Sarah frankly bored him, and he saw no reason to let her regard him as anything else than a butler. ...
— Captain Jim • Mary Grant Bruce
... him sourly. "I've got some soapsuds here, Clayton, and one of these days I'm gonna put some in your beer if you keep pulling ...
— The Man Who Hated Mars • Gordon Randall Garrett
... the lamps burning on palely into the dim day she breakfasted. Together with several of the men she ate in the kitchen where a fire roared in an old stove, and where a table was placed conveniently. Ma Drury was about, sniffling with her cold, but cooking and serving her guests sourly, slamming down the enamelled ware in front of them and challenging them with a look to find fault anywhere. She reported that in some mysterious way, for which God be thanked, there were no dead men in her house this morning. Bert Stone was alive and showed signs ...
— Six Feet Four • Jackson Gregory
... moment Miss Maria looked sourly uncertain as to the usefulness of scruples that came so long after the fact. Then she said abruptly to Mr. Goodlow, "Was it you or Mr. Baldwin, ...
— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells
... doesn't it?" said Kent, smiling sourly. "If not, I can set it out for you in words. The Western Pacific is the best-hated corporation this side of the Mississippi, and I am its ...
— The Grafters • Francis Lynde
... George would say "Damn!" and take himself and his evening paper to the armchair in the front window. When Emeline would go in, after a cursory disposition of the dishes, she would find Julia curled in his arms, and George sourly staring ...
— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris
... curtsy she ended, there was plenty of applause from all save the two monks. They eyed her with a displeasure they took no trouble to conceal; and when she tripped lightly over to them and extended her tambourine for an offering they drew back sourly. ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... and the morning face she lifted might have won a smile from a stone image. Kano turned sourly. "Why," he thought, "in Shaka's name, could n't she ...
— The Dragon Painter • Mary McNeil Fenollosa
... ails the fellow?" said Lamotte, sourly, tossing his hat and himself down upon the office divan. "Prating like a school-boy about a summons from ...
— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch
... was Master Jem's reply; and with his little straw hat well on the back of his head, he waddled bravely up to the cow, flourishing his stick. The process interested me, and I dried my tears and encouraged my brother; but Dolly looked sourly at him, and began to lower ...
— We and the World, Part I - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... a wondrous lot mixed up with the fortunes of that particular ship," said the Cornal sourly. ...
— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro
... elbow of his dream, caught himself sourly smiling. He shook himself free, however, and was surprised to see how that ice of cynicism gave way before a little heat of hope. It was as if his nature were coming out of winter into ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis
... and kissed his cheek. He caught her roughly round the waist and, leaning back in his chair, looked up at her sourly. ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke
... here, and it's time I was," he cried, sourly. "Do you think your father and me grafted them peach trees, and coaxed 'em on into bearing, for you to feed ...
— Mass' George - A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah • George Manville Fenn
... ride around with yuh an' see what's goin' on," declared Butch Siegrist sourly. "If they're wimmin, yuh can't even give a cuss without lookin' first to see if they're near ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... she had no concerns of her own, or at least none whose vitality would gain attention. And suddenly her friendly sense of being a part of this flowing life dissolved sourly into mockery. She was in it and not of it—again the hostile critic. And then it occurred to her that perhaps momentarily she was a little lonely. And her utter impotence in this huge careless city heightened this feeling. ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble
... which are the warp and woof of greatness.... Thus was formed a romantic character, absolutely without any vulgar trait; living to ideal ends, without any mixture of self-indulgence or compromise, such as lowers the value of benevolent and thoughtful men we know; abstemious, refusing luxuries, not sourly and reproachfully, but simply as unfit for his habit; quiet and gentle as a child, in the house. And as happens usually to men of romantic character, ...
— The Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement • George S. Merriam
... Randolph. The cry struck rather sourly at the end of that "this is war" sentence from the newscast, he thought, but then that dramatic ...
— Prologue to an Analogue • Leigh Richmond
... said Archie, sourly turning to her; 'but as for that Peter body, the Lord keep me tongue fra' swearin', an' my hand from itching to gie him ain on the lug, ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume
... the folly of boys like you meddling with what you don't understand," said he, sourly, and in a more crabbed tone than he had ever before ...
— Desk and Debit - or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk • Oliver Optic
... dog that de Barral—he grumbled. He could not or would not take the trouble to characterise for me the appearance of that man now officially a criminal (we had gone across the road for a drink) but told me with a sourly, derisive snigger that, after the sentence had been pronounced the fellow clung to the dock long enough to make a sort of protest. 'You haven't given me time. If I had been given time I would have ended by being made ...
— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad
... Nazarenes are quite as little to my taste as the dry and joyless Hebrews. May our dear Lady of Sidon, holy Astarte, forgive me, that I kneel before the many sorrowed Mother of the Crucified and pray. Only my knee and my tongue worship death—my heart remains true to life. But do not look so sourly," continued the Spaniard, as he saw what little gratification his words seemed to give the Rabbi. "Do not look at me with disdain. My nose is not a renegade. When once by chance I came into this street at dinner time, and the well-known savory odors of the Jewish kitchen rose to ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI. • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke
... schools, not only in youth but in age. There young and old best learn cheerfulness, patience, self-control, and the spirit of service and of duty. Izaak Walton, speaking of George Herbert's mother, says she governed her family with judicious care, not rigidly nor sourly, "but with such a sweetness and compliance with the recreations and pleasures of youth, as did incline them to spend much of their time in her company, which was ...
— Character • Samuel Smiles
... heavy glass down upon the grimy counter in the dusty far corner of the little store and stared sourly at Pete Hamilton, who was apathetically opening hatboxes for the inspection of an Indian in a ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower
... Hitty acknowledged sourly, "and your breakfast will be on the table in half an hour ...
— Outside Inn • Ethel M. Kelley
... as he expressed a hankerin' for my 'taty-patch," answered Nicky Nan sourly. "The way I look at it is, he leaves me alone in quiet, an' you don't. A pack o' sojers messin' about a spot like this!" he added with scorn. "It affronts a decent man's understandin'. But 'tis always the same wi' sojers. In the Navy, when I belonged it, we had a sayin'—'A messmate afore ...
— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... alive so that I can bail thee out of prison," his father informed him, sourly. "Go on, thou fool; learn thy lesson! The world is all right as it is; it will cuff the ears of meddlers. But ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day
... down," said the book-keeper, sourly. "You've been gone long enough. How many did you drop on ...
— Fame and Fortune - or, The Progress of Richard Hunter • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... stairs, telling him this, turning round to him, who was on the steps above. He looked down on her, calculating. Then he smiled sourly. ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence
... stouter; her eyelids look tired and red, and she buries herself in silences. We are no longer quite in accord in details of our life. She who once always said "Yes," is now primarily disposed to say "No." If I insist she defends her opinion, obstinately, sourly; and sometimes dishonestly. For example, in the matter of pulling down the partition downstairs, if people had heard our high voices they would have thought there was a quarrel. Following some of our discussions, she ...
— Light • Henri Barbusse
... five hours ago, and during all these long hours he had sat staring sourly into the fire, seeing goodness knows what burnt-up visions therein, waiting to hear a footfall, and an entreating voice at the key-hole; apologies and tears perhaps, and promises of amendment. Now it was ...
— Here are Ladies • James Stephens
... at last, by way of acknowledging our existence, after he had stared at the presents for about two minutes sourly; and I took that for permission to say my ...
— The Lion of Petra • Talbot Mundy
... I've got this week," said Hardy, sourly, "but I got the fifty from that masher that I was telling you about! You remember, the swell ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... sourly. He was dyspeptic, and suffered from gnawing hunger in the morning. The second smiled broadly, a smile that made two vertical folds on his shaven cheeks. And I smiled, too, but I was not exactly amused. ...
— A Personal Record • Joseph Conrad
... "Poor tack! poor tack!" sourly quoth Master Silas. "If your wise doctor could say nothing more about the fool, who died like a rotten sheep among the darnels, his Latin might have held out for the father, and might have told people he was as cool as a cucumber at home, and as hot as pepper in battle. ...
— Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare • Walter Savage Landor
... contact hourly With heroes simple-souled, He looks no longer sourly On men of normal mould, But, purged of mental vanity And erudite inanity, The clay of his humanity Is ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 • Various
... dictatorial young person with no conversation. I spoke of her father's celebrated sapphires. "My sapphires," she amended sourly; "though I am legally debarred from making any profitable use of them." She furthermore informed me that she viewed them as useless gauds, which ought to be disposed of for the benefit of the heathen. I gave the subject up, and while she discoursed ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery - Riddle Stories • Various
... has got his own way," he said sourly. "But while you drink with Hal Stern you drink with your chin up, bud. And don't forget it. And them that tries to run over you got to ...
— Gunman's Reckoning • Max Brand
... said Mr. Hume, sourly, "they contrived the whole thing as a gladiatorial spectacle for their amusement. I don't think I was ever so near death;" and he shook hands gravely. "If you had not fired when you did, ...
— In Search of the Okapi - A Story of Adventure in Central Africa • Ernest Glanville
... a book, leant back in her chair, and so declined further conversation. I watched her for nearly half-an-hour: during all that time she never turned a page, and her face grew momently darker, more dissatisfied, and more sourly expressive of disappointment. She had obviously not heard anything to her advantage: and it seemed to me, from her prolonged fit of gloom and taciturnity, that she herself, notwithstanding her professed indifference, attached undue importance to whatever revelations ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte
... captain, he continued: "Many a convict or fugitive has come to the straightabout out here, but hang me if I like his looks or his manner. However, Mr. Meredith knows the pot-luck of redemptioners as well as I, and he can say nay if he chooses." He stopped and eyed the group of emigrants sourly, saying, "I'll let Gorman hear what I think of his shipment. He knows I don't want ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... us the way an unusually hungry tiger might look at a lamb that was being taken away to get a little riper. "I cannot object to a reasonable continuance," he said sourly. "And I don't deny that you will need all the defense you can get. The case is an atrocious one, and I propose to do my small part toward putting down arson and riot in this unhappy town. You will appear two weeks ...
— At Good Old Siwash • George Fitch
... coulee to git to where we're headed for; we got a right to, and we're going to do it." The herder paused and glanced up at Andy sourly. "We knowed you was a mean outfit; the boss told us so. And he told us you was blank ca'tridges and we needn't back up just 'cause you raised up on your hind legs and howled a little. I've had truck with you cowmen before. I've herded sheep in Wyoming." He ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower
... zealous, and such is the nature of an infection that scarcely anybody was able to resist it. Mrs. Anderson, true to her excitable temper, became fanatic—dreaming dreams, seeing visions, hearing voices, praying twenty times a day[2], wearing a sourly pious face, and making all around her more unhappy than ever. Jonas declared that ef the noo airth and the noo heaven was to be chockful of sech as she, 'most any other place in the univarse would be better, akordin' to his way of thinkin'. He said she repented more of ...
— The End Of The World - A Love Story • Edward Eggleston
... he looked sourly at the bench on which seven mechanicians were working. The ninth successive experiment on the release of atomic energy had failed. The tenth was in process of construction. A heavy pure tungsten dome, three feet in diameter, three inches thick, was being lowered over a clear insulum dome, ...
— The Ultimate Weapon • John Wood Campbell
... silver rod to clear dogs and crocodiles and Israelites out of the way. Then the litter—and a flash between curtains blown aside for an instant—and Hook Nose gazing and gazing—all the fine fighting curses of David on the infidel, that he had muttered sourly under breath all day, blowing away from him like sand from the face of ...
— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet
... in her voice! If he had been in doubt he would have known then. No matter what she said, she loved Riley Sinclair. He smiled sourly down on her. ...
— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand
... still declining to see any humor whatsoever in the situation, sourly ran back to the platform. Jumping from his seat he opened the door of the tonneau, and waited with entirely artificial deference for Mr. Turner of New York to alight. Mr. Turner, however, did nothing of the sort. He merely stood up in the ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester
... had gone to him, hat in hand, a month ago, he'd have done you any favor," said his helpmate sourly. "But it is different now. He's over his fancy; and ...
— Audrey • Mary Johnston
... to hand it to you," reported Brophy, sourly. "She wanted to see you last time you were down, but it slipped my ...
— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day
... new angle to the case," he mused sourly. "I'm up a tree for sure. Why the devil should Miss Crown be meeting him out there in this old deserted house. My word, it begins to look a trifle spicy. It also begins to look like a case that ought to be dropped before it gets too hot. I guess it's up to me to ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... would regret to be understood as speaking sourly or querulously of the slight mark made by his earlier literary efforts on the public at large. It is so far the contrary, that he has been moved to write this preface, chiefly as affording him an opportunity ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various
... the bottle and made pretense of swallowing some of the lukewarm liquor. The outlaw laughed sourly, snatched it from him, and ...
— When the West Was Young • Frederick R. Bechdolt
... at self-control went to pieces. He guffawed. Najib eyed him sourly; then said in ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various
... again," said the Virginian, sourly. "Yu' might suppose he didn't have a wife and twins, to see the way he ...
— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister
... get a telephone in here," he might return sourly. "Then you could deal with some decent place! I hate the way women pinch and squeeze to save five cents; ...
— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris
... had thus early learned the lesson of self-control; for his mother tells us that having smallpox at this age he bore his disease bravely, "like a man and indeed like a Christian, without any complaint, though he seemed angry at the smallpox when they were sore, as we guessed by his looking sourly ...
— Beneath the Banner • F. J. Cross
... Princess. "Dishonor? Do not make such a fuss about the journey of an empty carriage, children, and leave me alone with Antoinette. All three of you come and dine with me. I will undertake to arrange matters suitably. You men understand nothing; you are beginning to talk sourly already, and I have no wish to see a quarrel between you and my dear child. Do me ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac
... the image glowed on the grids before us. He stood smiling sourly before us as he repeated ...
— Brigands of the Moon • Ray Cummings
... no business to pay Jasper Parloe money for keeping still about it," said the miller, sourly. "Being bled by a blackmailer is never the action of a wise man. When he threatened me I went to your father at once and got ahead of Parloe. We agreed to say nothing about it— that's about all we did agree on, however," added Mr. Potter, ...
— Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill • Alice B. Emerson
... Mrs. Hableton sourly, "but 'is 'abits weren't as good as 'is face—'andsom is as 'andsom does, is ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume
... order any room," replied the host sourly and with an obvious desire to show his indifference and contempt even. "You wired to know if ...
— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser
... to the ticket desk. He gave his name. On request, he produced identification. Then he said sourly: ...
— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... be here in a minute and chase ye off the place—ef ye don't scat at once," said the woman, sourly. "He wouldn't hold back this dog, now, ...
— Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies - The Missing Pearl Necklace • Alice B. Emerson
... As a special precaution against failure, I had left the back gate unbolted and refrained from locking the outside cellar door; with the sole result that I was roused up at one in the morning by a meddlesome constable and rebuked sourly for my carelessness. Otherwise, not a soul came to enliven my solitude. The second night passed in the same dull fashion, leaving me restless and disappointed; and when the third slipped by without the sign of a ...
— The Uttermost Farthing - A Savant's Vendetta • R. Austin Freeman
... satisfaction. She came forward to where the first boat was getting ready to shove off. The men in her were sullen and ugly, for they had not had their breakfast, and the row would be a long one. The old sailor, Jenks, with his pop eyes, and face like the slack of a bellows, scowled sourly. At this moment our third officer came on deck and to the lady's side. I was just about to ask her to wait and go in my boat when I heard the shrill tones of our ...
— Mr. Trunnell • T. Jenkins Hains
... have been more funny," Badger replied sourly, "if we'd gone straight to a place where they happened ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman
... lawyer twisted themselves sourly into an ironical smile. He was quite as fond of his money as Sir Joseph. He ought to have felt for his client; but rich men have no sympathy with one another. Mr. Dicas openly ...
— Miss or Mrs.? • Wilkie Collins
... a still Christmas," answered Cicely, promptly; "and he watched me as sourly as though he knew that we ...
— In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I - Christmas Tales from 'Round the World • Various
... grand butler man met me at the hall door, and looked sourly at me as I leaned my bicycle against one of the pillars and made up to him. He was sourer still when I asked to see his master, and he shook his head at me, looking me up and down as if I ...
— Dead Men's Money • J. S. Fletcher
... beautiful heiress," she said sourly. "Well, if you are going to put that wet cloak on your shoulders, I wish you joy of the first kiss O'Toole gives you when ...
— Clementina • A.E.W. Mason
... again," the first mate grumbled sourly, when she stepped off the gangplank, and the captain shrugged ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... and called for a bottle of wine. The room was empty save for a lanky fellow, very plainly dressed, who sat at the table reading a book. He was drinking nothing, and when—my wine having been brought—I called in courtesy for a second glass and invited him to join me, he shook his head sourly. Yet presently he closed his book, which I now perceived to be a Bible, and fixed an earnest gaze on me. He was a strange-looking fellow; his face was very thin and long, and his hair (for he wore his own and no wig) hung straight from the crown of his head in stiff wisps. ...
— Simon Dale • Anthony Hope
... herself the happiest woman in the world, but my discontent leavened the household. If three people elect to live together, the success of the scheme demands that one of the three should not smile sourly on all occasions. ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. • Various
... sourly enough to myself, and feeling utterly dispirited. There had been moments when life had appeared to me to be of a very dusky gray, but never before had I seen it all black, with no single tinge of lighter colour. I looked back over my vagabond existence, and ...
— The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
... He stirred. The American colonel said sourly: "You're not harmed. Nobody was. But Major Pangalos ...
— The Invaders • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... doth set but sourly on thy stomach, Richard Wood," said Walter Skinner, stubbornly. "It is an honor to serve the king. Ay, even though he be a bad one like this. And, I say, if one is not to speak of honors, ...
— A Boy's Ride • Gulielma Zollinger
... a good memory," I commented drily, as I essayed a moment to drape my shoulders with the new sable cloak ere I tossed it to Pons to put aside. He shook his head sourly. ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London
... pains which, nevertheless, could not prevent him from occasionally losing the place in the bewilderment of so many similar figures, he managed to discover that he had omitted three and miscopied two. He corrected these mistakes with ink and returned the list to Harvey. Harvey looked sourly at the ink marks, and gave the boy another list ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White
... the other of us with a steely glitter in her eye, which was a great change from the professional hospitality of her manner when she had let the rooms. "People aren't always as sick as they make folks believe," she said, sourly. ...
— The Campfire Girls Go Motoring • Hildegard G. Frey
... train drawing near, with flash of jewels and silk and jingle of silver bells on the trappings of the nags, he looked sourly upon them. Quoth he to himself, "Yon Bishop is overgaudy for a holy man. I do wonder whether his patron, who, methinks, was Saint Thomas, was given to wearing golden chains about his neck, silk clothing ...
— The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood • Howard Pyle
... hundred yards before he heard Buck Olney scream hysterically for help. He grinned sourly with his eyebrows pinched together and, that hard, strained look in his eyes still. "Let him holler awhile!" he gritted. "Do ...
— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower
... On the other hand, you are the curate of the district," replied Fray Damaso sourly, without taking his hand from ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... work, so simple and unpretending, so wholly without restless and fretting ambitions, and so generous in his judgment of others. He made his own dramatic experiment, he thought little enough of it; and he was wholly above the hateful vice of sourly disparaging competitors, whether dead or living. He knew that he was himself no master, but he was manly enough to admire anybody who was nearer to mastery. He was full of unaffected delight at Sedaine's busy and pleasing little comedy, The Philosopher without knowing it; it was so ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) • John Morley
... hay for a while," sourly grumbled the superintendent. "If you ain't getting what you aimed to get it's because it ain't ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... can help it," I said sourly. "I'm in no mood to get married. Mostly I want to give you some ...
— The Right Time • Walter Bupp
... "Aye!" returned Raikes sourly, "marvel, indeed; but the miracle of it is that you have it back again. Your trust in human nature would be sublime were it not so unsupported; it needs the tonic of loss. I hope this ...
— The Flaw in the Sapphire • Charles M. Snyder
... chartered smack at that—shack-fishing on shares!" Mayo was sourly resolved to paint his low estate in black colors. "And I have concluded it's about all ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... dry and brief in speech, tore her away, saying sourly, "Have done, child; you must not dare to do it!" Then they all prayed him to consent—the Duke, and the magister, and Diliana herself; and the magister said, that in a few days the sun would be in Libra, which would be ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold
... for you, Elkanah, I swear I should die of listening to nothing but frogs tuning up and swallows twittering and old fools swapping guff," he went on, sourly, and then he suddenly cocked his ear, for a new note sounded faintly ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various
... come, come forward; these Clothes become Thee, as a Saddle does a Sow; why com'st thou not? —Why—ha, ha, I hope thou hast not Hansel'd thy new Breeches, Thou look'st so filthily on't. [He advances, looking sourly. ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn
... chid me for Ingratitude to God in that I stamp'd my foot and said No! But Richard laugh'd at the idea of Jessamine wedding yon tun. Quoth Richard, "Let Jessamine be, all of ye! she is meat for his masters." Freeman smil'd sourly, & shrug'd. I love not Freeman, nor do I hate him overmuch though he ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler
... spinning merrily along the road to Brethaven, having parted with Nick at the railway-station. Violet was seated beside her, and the old servant Mitchel sat sourly behind them. He had a rooted objection to the back-seat, and held the opinion that a woman at the wheel was ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... Square was vehemently pro-Ally. In spirit we fought with valiant France and prayed for heroic Belgium. What a Godspeed we gave to the few sons of Gaul who, in those early days, left us to fight the good fight! How sourly we looked upon Plooie continuing his peaceful rounds. Whence arose the rumor, I cannot say, but it was noised about just at that time of wrath and tension that Plooie was born in Liege. Liege, that city of fire and slaughter ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... that we had in the shipwreck. Well, let it not be wasted. Give it to your friends. We must be content with thinner stuff." And taking up a jug of water that stood upon the table, he filled an empty cup with it and drank, then passed it to Peter, while the host looked at them sourly. ...
— Fair Margaret • H. Rider Haggard
... sourly. "Didn't Fran tell you that the horse got scared at her throwing rocks at my cork, and broke from the tree where I'd fastened it, and ...
— Fran • John Breckenridge Ellis
... judge sourly. "Now, let me orate on that subject for a moment and then we'll get to the real meat of this argument. James, there is no way of delivering this machine to the public without delivering it to them through the hands of a capable Government agency. If you try to release it as an individual ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith
... that Pan had not returned any answer to his message he became very angry. He tried to persuade his wife to undertake another embassy setting forth his abhorrence and defiance of the god, but the Thin Woman replied sourly that she was a respectable married woman, that having been already bereaved of her wisdom she had no desire to be further curtailed of her virtue, that a husband would go any length to asperse his wife's reputation, and that although she was married to a fool her ...
— The Crock of Gold • James Stephens
... itself, if not for some selfish purpose of his own? But she was wrong, and became vaguely alarmed—at least if he had offered his service and sympathy in exchange for her friendship, she might have understood his fantastic talk. Rentgen sourly reflected—despite epigrams, women never vary. For him her sentiment was suburban. It strangled poetry. But he said nothing, though she imagined he looked depressed; nor did he open his mouth as the carriage traversed avenues of processional poplars before arriving at her door. ...
— Visionaries • James Huneker
... thee?' said a superintendent, sourly; 'she pays for the baths, and does not waste the saffron. Such appointments are the best part of the trade. Hark! do you not hear the widow Fulvia clapping her hands? ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
... and before breakfast," muttered the old fellow sourly; but he drew a long breath as if he were trying to master his disinclination, and then turning to Lawrence with a grim smile he cried, "Now, look here, cripple against invalid, I'll race you; fair walking, and Mr Preston to ...
— Yussuf the Guide - The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor • George Manville Fenn
... Sama is in a very precarious state. He is now very weak. The worst may happen at any moment. For the Wakadono to be taking his pleasure at the Yoshiwara would arouse criticism in the ward; nay, even more than criticism. It would be held unfilial. Deign to reconsider the purpose." Kibei looked sourly at the swollen corruption which represented Kwaiba—"How does he hold on! His strength must be great." Kakusuke shrugged his shoulders—"The Go Inkyo[u] Sama will not die easily. He has much to go through ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... to his rescuer," cried Themistocles, sourly, and then he turned to Leonidas. "Well, very noble king of Sparta, you were asking to see Glaucon and judge his chances in the pentathlon. Your Laconians have just proved him; ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... the war," came and urged me to address the crowd. I was so pleased to find that my French was better understood in Italy than in any place except England, that I asked my friend if I should speak to them in French. He looked at me very sourly, for he had not quite got back his equanimity, and said curtly, "You had better not." Then I said, "I will talk to them in Italian." I shall never forget the look of dismay which passed over his countenance, but I told him it ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott
... Morely smiled sourly. Harwood would have a storage problem on his hands in a day or so. The delay in delivery could be explained and justified. Morely had seen to that. Now, all the material was ready and could be ...
— Final Weapon • Everett B. Cole
... with less sharpness of outline, his own faults. He will probably decide that the anxieties of children outweigh the joys connected with children. He will admit all the shortcomings of existence, will face them like a man, grimly, sourly, in a sturdy despair. He will mutter: 'Of course I'm angry! Who wouldn't be? Of course I'm disappointed! Did I expect this twenty years ago? Yes, we ought to save more. But we don't, so there you are! I'm bound to worry! I know I should be better if I didn't smoke so much. I know there's absolutely ...
— The Human Machine • E. Arnold Bennett
... grimaced sourly; "you wait and see. You ask Swanson some day if he ever sailed on a ship called ...
— The Pirate Shark • Elliott Whitney
... his head. "I have brought with me the three hundred pistoles that were agreed upon," he said, sourly, with an emphasis upon the closing words of his speech. ...
— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... grunted sourly, and puffed away at the black pipe for some moments. At last, he got upon his feet and held ...
— Frank Merriwell's Bravery • Burt L. Standish
... tremendous value, but early reports had warned of the danger of wildcat trading on the little, musty, jungle-like planet with its shaggy, three-eyed inhabitants—warned specifically against the confidence tactics so frequently used—but there was always somebody, Meyerhoff reflected sourly, who just didn't get ...
— Letter of the Law • Alan Edward Nourse
... me sourly enough, but said nothing. Some of the colour had come back into his cheeks, though he still looked very sick, and still continued to slip out and settle down as the ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... to the washstand, and grabbing a basin which was half-full of water, she emptied it into the waste jar. Now thoroughly angry, she went on sourly: ...
— The Easiest Way - A Story of Metropolitan Life • Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow
... Chambers sourly. "If not, you would have been the only one who hadn't heard how Ben Wrail took ...
— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak
... exclaimed the other, nettled, "sons of the Puritans forsooth! And who be Puritans, that I, an Alabamaian, must do them reverence? A set of sourly conceited old Malvolios, whom Shakespeare laughs his fill ...
— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville
... sourly enough but said nothing. Some of the colour had come back into his cheeks, though he still looked very sick and still continued to slip out and settle down as ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... keys," said old Conrad Schmick sourly. "This door has not been opened in my time. ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... sometime absent from thy heart, Thy beauty and thy years full well befits, For still temptation follows where thou art. Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won, Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assail'd; And when a woman woos, what woman's son Will sourly leave her till she have prevail'd? Ay me! but yet thou might'st my seat forbear, And chide thy beauty and thy straying youth, Who lead thee in their riot even there Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth; Hers, by thy beauty tempting her ...
— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris
... of that, Mr. Tomlinson," said Long Ned, sourly eying his comrade. "Some women may be caught by a smooth skin and a showy manner; but real masculine beauty,—eyes, colour, and hair,—Mr. Tomlinson, must ultimately make its way; so hand me the brandy, and ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... parched crops with sardonic bitterness. "Do I look like I could buy registered stock?" he asked sourly. ...
— Tangled Trails - A Western Detective Story • William MacLeod Raine
... so, indeed so many balls had gone over lately that the loss was growing serious. At one time the girls had been wont to ring Dr. Broadfield's front-door bell and beg permission to pick up their property, but they had been received so sourly by his elderly housekeeper, that they hardly dared ...
— A Popular Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... got around to me. Daisy laughed gayly at recollection of the London woman's jesting. Surely never a more innocent, less malicious laugh came from a maiden's merry lips, but it fell sourly on my ears. ...
— In the Valley • Harold Frederic
... next words rested on Mr. Neal, and in course of time Mr. Neal took it. He rose from his chair with a sullen sense of injury lowering on his heavy eyebrows, and working sourly in the lines at ...
— Armadale • Wilkie Collins
... like to do his mother muckle gude to be forced to leave her ain house, and take lodgin's in a toon. But gin he be pleased, that'll please her," said Saunners sourly. ...
— Allison Bain - By a Way she knew not • Margaret Murray Robertson
... the Puddin'-owners; but the Puddin' said sourly: "This is all very well, all this high falutin'. But what about the dreadful news of me being ...
— The Magic Pudding • Norman Lindsay
... know," said Denham sourly. "I'm only a subaltern—a bit of machinery that is wound up sometimes by my superior officers, and then I turn round till I'm stopped. Subalterns are not expected to have any brains, or to think ...
— Charge! - A Story of Briton and Boer • George Manville Fenn
... know more than anybody else I have tackled on the subject to-night," said Tolson, sourly. "He's a wonder, if he ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... could," said Ellen sourly; and explained, "When I couldn't see the works I made up a sort of story for myself, about the works being new ones, and the firm not being able to get them finished in time for Richard to start work, ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West |
