"Tartly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tea?" he asked tartly. "With six major operations this morning and a probable meningitis diagnosis ahead of me this afternoon I think I might be spared the babblings of an hysterical nurse!" Casually over his shoulder he nodded at the girl. "You're a fool!" he said, and ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... her just then, for she had been made very happy by the invitation she had received that morning,—so happy that she had said to her elder sister, Martha Jocelyn, "To think of Marian Selwyn's inviting me. Isn't it beautiful of her?" and Martha had answered back rather tartly, "I don't see why you should put such an emphasis on 'me,' as if you were so inferior. You're ...
— A Flock of Girls and Boys • Nora Perry
... do anything at all for me," returned Janice, rather tartly. "If your own conscience doesn't tell you what course to pursue, pray remain neutral—as you are. But I am ...
— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long
... very annoying," said the colonel, turning to the man tartly. "Stop it now, before I call ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... commonplaces?" cried Paul a little tartly. "Of course most people must do so if they talk at all, and they are usually the people who talk all the time. But I have known people whose ordinary conversation was extraordinary, and worth putting down in a book—every word ...
— The Spinner's Book of Fiction • Various
... your salary for its solution," Mr. Minturn said tartly. "Work on the theory I outlined; if it fails after a fair test, we'll try another. Those boys have got to be saved. They are handsome little chaps with fine bodies and good ancestry. ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... more tartly. "For you to come here in this way to care for my character, when you yourself are the talk of ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... honour to Madame, and carried on his suit in the most open and flagrant manner. The King took this for his theme, and very stiffly reproached Monsieur for the conduct of his son. Monsieur, who needed little to exasperate him, tartly replied, that fathers who had led certain lives had little authority over their children, and little right to blame them. The King, who felt the point of the answer, fell back on the patience of his daughter, and said that at least she ought not to be allowed to see the truth so clearly. ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... Mrs. Morton tartly. "I don't give a red cent for all your forests, and your pesky rangering. I've got no use for them. If Charley Morton would quit you and tend to his cattle, I'd be pleased. I didn't fight fire to help you, ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White
... remember," she said tartly, "I'm not accustomed to taking morphine. Anyway, that's ...
— The Winning Clue • James Hay, Jr.
... "It's me," responded Betty tartly, in reply to the first question, while she dismissed the second with an equally curt ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
... the kind, James," said the pleasant lady tartly; "I'm not ashamed of our humble beginnings, but I am ...
— Son Philip • George Manville Fenn
... the bold-eyed young man with disfavour. "Well, you're not expecting her to come out to you, are you?" she retorted tartly. ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... know it as well as we do," interpolated Lady Arabella tartly, but smiling pridefully in spite ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler
... who was doing up a glove which possessed more buttons than his own waistcoat, looked up and eyed him calmly. "New clothes—and not before they wanted'em," she replied, tartly. ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... trifle tartly, "of course there is a next—several of them, indeed. But it is useless to speak of them until this, perhaps the most important of them all, is settled. Upon what grounds do you assert that my first ...
— The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer • Harry Collingwood
... the wisdom to marry her," she responds, tartly, loath even now to hear her praised. "It gives him as much interest in the business as—well, more than ...
— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... one!" retorted the mayor, tartly. "I have dropped down here merely in a business way to find out what's wanted of me as the ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... I could only say "Noblesse oblige," meaning to convey that whatever the North Americans did, the next Earl of Brinstead must not meet persons one doesn't know, whereat he rejoined tartly that I was "to stow ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... for this, Gloriana," said Ajax, tartly. "As a member of the family you have not treated my brother and myself fairly. This mysterious work of yours is not only wearing you to skin and bone, it ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... little later, when both girls were in bed, and Ruth answered her a trifle tartly that it was very nearly to-morrow, and that she wanted to go to sleep some time before morning, if Amy didn't. Then for a matter of thirty minutes silence reigned. The hour was late and the girls were tired. In spite of her gloomy prophecy, ...
— Peggy Raymond's Vacation - or Friendly Terrace Transplanted • Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith
... brother-in-law's conduct, which he did not himself vindicate; and Mr. B. was pleased to say, that my lord was always very candid to him, and kind in his allowances for the sallies of ungovernable youth. Upon which my lady said, a little tartly, "Yes, and for a very good reason, I doubt not; for who cares ...
— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson
... say I, tartly, "that you have still your old trick of asking questions. I wish that you would try to get the better of it; it is very disadvantageous to you, and ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... 'dragging' that I am aware of; and I don't know why you should be sorry for Barrett," I returned rather tartly. ...
— Branded • Francis Lynde
... think you'd rather have Eleanor come home by herself than bringing a strange woman and a hired girl," Albertina contributed a trifle tartly. The distinction of a hired girl in the family was one which she had long craved on her ...
— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley
... nothing to do with slavery in the States; it had only to refrain from giving direct sanction to the system. Others opposed this whole argument, declaring, with Langdon of New Hampshire, that Congress ought to have this power, since, as Dickinson tartly remarked, "The true question was, whether the national happiness would be promoted or impeded by the importation; and this question ought to be left to the national government, not to ...
— The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America - 1638-1870 • W. E. B. Du Bois
... my business, an' I can keep it to myself," said Ellen tartly. "But I'll tell you this much—I'm goin' to get ...
— The Wall Between • Sara Ware Bassett
... your Mr. Marrier! I understood from you he was a clerk!" said Nellie, tartly, suddenly retransformed into the shrewd matron, as soon as Mr. Marrier had profusely gone. She had conceived Marrier as a sort of Penkethman! Edward Henry had hoped ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... herself sufficiently; and harassed with this idea, she pursued the courtier from the Court hall into the illuminated gardens, and there told him, and in language that admitted of no doubt, that she wished to marry him. The courtier was indignant, and answered her so tartly that Kate, even in reading it over a second time, could not ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore
... sort," I answered, tartly. "I simply undertook to see her safely through the first ...
— Stories By English Authors: Italy • Various
... Sister Angelique," interrupted the Superieure, tartly. "Sister Agnes has nothing to do with ...
— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray
... dishes. Ah, 'a smooth wind makes an easy rudder.' Not a thing vexed me from morning till night. Every week the father would take out the stocking and drop in the money and laugh and kiss me as we tied it up together. Up with you, Hans! There you sit gaping, and the day a-wasting!" added Dame Brinker tartly, blushing to find that she had been speaking too freely to her boy. "It's high time you were on ...
— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge
... urged Rupert tartly, leaving his seat. "I'll do it. I know I'm a liar, I guess, but that ...
— From the Car Behind • Eleanor M. Ingram
... there! What are you up to, man?" shouted Silas, tartly, trying to make a stand against the staggering blow dealt amid ...
— The Knights of the White Shield - Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play • Edward A. Rand
... over," I replied, somewhat tartly. "You'd have seen that every one of your suppositions was wrong. He's not at a smart hotel. He's living in one tiny room in the most squalid way. If he's left his home, it's not to live a gay life. He's ...
— The Moon and Sixpence • W. Somerset Maugham
... which Mrs. Ballinger, with a perfunctory hand, rearranged the skilfully grouped literature at which her distinguished guest had not so much as glanced; then Miss Van Vluyck tartly pronounced: "Well, I can't say that I consider Osric Dane's ...
— Xingu - 1916 • Edith Wharton
... what more you want," replied Mrs. Lightfoot, tartly. "If he ever gets clean again after a whole night in a common gaol, I must say I don't see how he'll manage it. But if you aren't satisfied I can only tell you that the affair was all about some bar-room wench, and that the papers will be full of it. Not that the boy was ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... insulted when she called me "little friend," and now, feeling sure of it, I tartly replied that "if I couldn't she perhaps might lend me paper and pencil, with which ...
— Homestead on the Hillside • Mary Jane Holmes
... feeling nor imagination enough to care for anything not transmutable into dollars, perhaps it has," I rejoined, somewhat tartly. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... me it'd be cheaper in the long run to work a hired girl to death rather than a wife," said Anderson tartly. ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... Yes!" returned Morrison, tartly. "What other kind of gossip would I be interested in, ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... day Janet had actually arrived. She looked thin and sharp, her keen black eyes roamed about uneasily, and some indescribable change had passed over her. Her brothers told her study had not agreed with her, and she did not, as of old, answer tartly, but gave a stiff, mechanical smile, and all the evening talked in a woman-of-the-world manner, cleverly, agreeably, not putting out her prickles, but like a stranger, and as ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... instant attack of hysterics, and I did wonder," rejoined Gerald, tartly. "But as I told you, women are always fools, and nervous women the worst ones, I haven't any patience with them. I was vexed enough with her for keeping me from Phebe. I don't believe she was ever hurried so out ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... that day came, it rained; steadily, gloomily, fiercely rained. Solomon was not allowed to wear his best clothes. When, peering out of the window, he hopefully said he "guessed mebbe 't was goin' to clear," his wife invited him tartly ...
— The Calico Cat • Charles Miner Thompson
... looked at the pass again—"It's got "Wimeroo," here, and not what you said," he answered suspiciously. "Some people pronounce it 'Vimerer,' nevertheless," I could not refrain from replying, rather tartly. ...
— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp
... of his commission; from a ready knack which he hath acquired, by means of some magical art in his foresaid laboratory, of deciphering the same; thus adopting in a most extraordinary manner, the very line of conduct himself which he so tartly ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... so," said the woman, tartly. "Them Days never did have right good sense—yer uncle an' aunt, I mean. When I was a gal we wouldn't have been allowed to have so much freedom where the young ...
— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long
... know," Sarah rejoined, a bit tartly. Truth to tell, the secretary was haunted by a grim suspicion that she herself was not quite the lady of her dreams, and never would be able to acquire the graces of the Vere De Vere. For Sarah, while a ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... portrait if an original didn't exist?" demanded the young man tartly. "Since you want to know so much, you may as well come to the gypsy encampment on the verge of the wood and satisfy yourself." He threw on a Panama hat, with a cross look. "Since when have you come to the conclusion that I need a ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... answered her brother tartly. 'I have told you more than once or twice about that new boy at Torrington's, and now you ask me what I ...
— That Scholarship Boy • Emma Leslie
... said the Colonel tartly, "are not going to be asked what they'd like any more than I've been. I want you each to go down quietly and have a look over at the new ground, tell the company commanders what the job is, and have a talk with me after as to what you think ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
... housekeeper, drew a long breath. "I might have expected it," she said tartly. "It's past time. He's pretty nigh a ...
— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... heart and convince yourself," suggested Clymer tartly, and the deputy marshal, dropping on one knee, did so. Detecting no heart-beat, the officer passed his hand over the dead man's unshaven chin and across his forehead, brushing back the unkempt hair. Under his none too gentle touch the wig slipped back, revealing to his astonished ...
— The Red Seal • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... either," tartly. "Hold your palm steady so that I can see more clearly. It's a scar, ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... end, not without laughter on the part of the ladies, of the story of Fra Puccio, the queen with a commanding air bade Elisa follow on. She, rather tartly than otherwise, not out of malice, but of old habit, began to speak thus, "Many folk, knowing much, imagine that others know nothing, and so ofttimes, what while they think to overreach others, find, after the event, that they themselves have ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio
... mistress," said Mr. Caryll, a thought tartly, for if his speech was tainted with a French accent it was in so slight a degree as surely to be imperceptible ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... and even morose as she sometimes was, I could wait on her and sit beside her with that calm which always blesses us when we are sensible that our manners, presence, contact, please and soothe the persons we serve. Even when she scolded me—which she did, now and then, very tartly—it was in such a way as did not humiliate, and left no sting; it was rather like an irascible mother rating her daughter, than a harsh mistress lecturing a dependant: lecture, indeed, she could not, though she could occasionally storm. Moreover, a vein of reason ever ran through her passion: she ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte
... case,'" said Miss Ethel, tartly, pressing her hand to her forehead. "And I'm going to see if the men really ...
— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose
... you never were coming," began their mother tartly. "'Milyer, you're the worst of the lot when you get your nose buried in a newspaper. Boys, do keep still, though I suppose you're half starved," with a reproachful look at those who had delayed ...
— A Little Girl in Old New York • Amanda Millie Douglas
... would not let my dear friend's sanguine expectations blind all my judgment is no reason why you should seek this interview, Lycon," he rejoined tartly. "If this is the object of your summons, I'm better back in my ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... remark disappointed Mrs. Joyce, and she replied a little tartly: "A great run you may call it, for begorrah our hearts is broke huntin' after the crathurs, and they strayin' off wid themselves over the width of the bog there, till you've as much chance of catchin' them as the sparks ...
— Strangers at Lisconnel • Barlow Jane
... that kind," answered Pinky, a little tartly; "and if there's any way to keep Flanagan from murdering another child, I'm going to find ...
— Cast Adrift • T. S. Arthur
... in bed," Littimer said, tartly. "My dear young lady, if you and I are to remain friends I must ask you to mind your own business. It is a dreadfully difficult thing for a woman to do, but ...
— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White
... Miss Quincey relied tartly that no, she had not got a headache. The Mad Hatter appeared to be absorbed in tracing rude verses on her rough ...
— Superseded • May Sinclair
... tartly. "We can't go about the grounds in a cab, and I'm not going to slop about in the wet to please anybody. We must go another time. It's hard luck, but there's worse ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... you, mademoiselle," Mme. de Mayenne answered her, tartly. "I consider my salon no place for intrigues with horse-boys. If you must hold colloquy with this fellow, take him whither ...
— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle
... I know? How does anybody know?" snapped Susan tartly. "Look a-here, Mis' McGuire, you must excuse me from discoursin' particulars. We don't talk 'em ...
— Dawn • Eleanor H. Porter
... good come of settin' down an' wishin' for rights," remarked his wife tartly. "It's a sight better to ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... Queen Elizabeth of England had ceased to take much interest in the conflict since the king had gone over to the Catholics. When Calais was besieged by the foe, before its surrender she offered to send her fleet for its protection if Henry would give the city to her. Henry tartly replied, "I had rather be plundered by my enemies ...
— Henry IV, Makers of History • John S. C. Abbott
... Yellow Peril, instead of one of your much-vaunted steeds," I remarked tartly, "I could go at him with a wrench and have him in working order again in five minutes; as it is—" I felt that the ...
— The Range Dwellers • B. M. Bower
... of, the lady again sat down upon her stool, and ordered her slave to open the gate. Upon her husband's entering the room he was surprised at beholding things set out for an entertainment, and inquired who had been with her; when she replied tartly, "A lover." "And where is he now?" angrily replied the officer. "In yonder chamber, and if you please you may sacrifice him to your fury, and myself afterwards." The officer demanded the key, which she gave him; but while this was passing, ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments vol. 4 • Anon.
... yet!" interrupted the Tocsin tartly. "I ain't heard youse askin' me nothin'! I ain't on me uppers like Larry, an' mabbe de price don't cut so ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... replied tartly, and Doggie felt snubbed. "But I'm sure he agrees with everything I say." She paused and, in a different tone, went on: "Don't you think it's rather rotten to have this piffling argument when I've come all this long ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke
... whose tempers—and manners—are so unstable. I'm sorry I forced my presence upon you, and I promise you it won't occur again." She hesitated, and then fired a parting shot which certainly was spiteful in the extreme. "There's one good thing about it," she smiled, tartly, "I shall have something interesting to write ...
— Chip, of the Flying U • B. M. Bower
... tartly. "I'm not to blame for that. I'm not responsible for your failure. Why take it ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... returned the woman tartly, "a big expense and a sight of work for nothing. And now permit ...
— Romance Island • Zona Gale
... won't find it in a hurry," she answered tartly. "Now hustle outdoors, the whole of you, and don't show your heads in here ...
— Polly of the Hospital Staff • Emma C. Dowd
... "force of habit" as he led the way down towards the door, and I responded tartly enough about the unpleasantness of his begging customs. "If it were not for your sort and your customs, the Priests' Clan would not be facing this ...
— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
... said M. Vulfran, tartly. "I may as well tell you that for a long time I have wanted someone intelligent to be near me, one who is discreet and whom I can trust. This young girl seems to have these qualities. I am sure that she is intelligent, and I have already had the proof ...
— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot
... expected," answered Mrs. Swinton, tartly. "It is about money-matters I have come to you, Mr. Jevons. I want to know if it is possible by any means to raise the sum ...
— The Scarlet Feather • Houghton Townley
... keep your warnings for mediums, clairvoyants, and the like," said the other tartly. He was half amazed, half alarmed even while he said it. It was the personal application that annoyed him. "They are rather apt to go off their ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood
... hearing when people are talking at the top of their voices," she said tartly. "Come on, for dear sake, and have your ...
— The Foolish Lovers • St. John G. Ervine
... steering any too well as it is," remarked Sylvia tartly. "Thomas! What are you thinking of? Don't you touch me!—There, now ...
— The Old Gray Homestead • Frances Parkinson Keyes
... girl in your position afford preferences?" he inquired, tartly. Thus far the banker had fully lived ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... Turbot, tartly, "I have lived in the country, and, until a few minutes ago, I was ignorant of the extent to which ...
— The Tithe-Proctor - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton
... messmates, arnt you satisfied so long as the articles you signed are kept by captain and crew?" asked Bill Marline, somewhat tartly. ...
— The Sea-Witch - or, The African Quadroon A Story of the Slave Coast • Maturin Murray
... and again the porter called attention to the budding great man. After persistent efforts to rouse his interest, the tourist, much nettled, said tartly: ...
— The War After the War • Isaac Frederick Marcosson
... Ibrahim was inconsolable, and he kept lamenting his loss daily in such lugubrious tones that the people, instead of sympathizing, laughed at him. I asked him why he purchased such a slave, and, while he was with him, why he did not feed him? Replied he, tartly, "Was he not my slave? Was not the cloth with which I bought him mine? If the cloth was my own, could I not purchase what I liked? Why ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley
... imposed on," I said tartly. "I must be getting along, Godfrey. I haven't anything to ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... intermeddling in matters military, and was wholly unimpressible. When Senator Wade said that an unsuccessful battle was preferable to delay, for that a defeat would easily be repaired by swarming recruits, the general tartly replied that he preferred a few recruits before a victory to a great many after a defeat. But, however cleverly and fairly the military man might counter upon the politician, there was no doubt that discontent ...
— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I. • John T. Morse
... be as white as yours," rejoined Mrs. McLane tartly. "But I remain a woman, and for that reason attract men to ...
— Sleeping Fires • Gertrude Atherton
... approach to merriment which he was ever known to exhibit. The servant, who was really disappointed, having hoped for holiday times, feasting and debauchery with impunity during the rejoicings which would have accompanied a christening, turned tartly upon the little valet, telling him that he should let Sir Robert know how he had received the tidings which should have filled any faithful servant with sorrow; and having once broken the ice, he was proceeding with increasing fluency, when his harangue ...
— The Purcell Papers - Volume I. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
... heaping coals of fire on your head, young man," said Madge, tartly, as she passed the pan to ...
— Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp • Alice Emerson
... your methods before now, Mr. Holmes," said he, tartly. "You are ready enough to use all the information that the police can lay at your disposal, and then you try to finish the case yourself ...
— Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... Mrs. Douglass, "I know all about it. Now do you s'pose you're agoing to be any happier among all those great folks than you would be if you staid among little folks?" she added tartly; while Catherine looked with a kind of incredulous admiration at the ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... "Phelps!" Annette interrupted tartly, "you needn't go into details. I don't imagine Captain and Mrs. Dott will be greatly interested. What a charming old room this is, isn't it? SO quaint! Everything looks as if it had ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... burst of eloquence on the part of her usually restrained daughter, asked, tartly, "How in the world do you know what Porter wants ...
— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey
... in the show business thirty years, you needn't feel called on to post me on fakes," said Hiram, tartly. "But the bigger the fake is the better it catches the crowd. If she'd simply been an old scandal-monger at a quiltin'-bee and started a story about us, we could run down the story and run old scandal-grabber up a tree. But when a woman goes into a trance and ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... afraid," she replied, tartly, "of nothing that man can devise. Be so good as to lend me your arm, ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various
... it appeared plainly he did not care whether it was done or no, and particularly as if he had a mind the captain should see it and take notice of it. Which the captain did, for perceiving how awkwardly he went about it, he spoke a little tartly to him, and asked him what was the reason he did not stir a little and furl the sail. Peterson, as if he had waited for the question, answered in a surly tone, and with a kind of disdain, So as we ...
— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward
... all this, and how Sidonia danced up and down on the plank, while the water splashed over her robe, she called to her—"Dear Lady Sidonia, come hither: I have somewhat to tell thee." But she answered tartly—"Dear Lady Clara, keep it then: I am too young to be told everything." And she danced up and down on the plank ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V1 • William Mienhold
... authority," tartly interposed Professor Brierly, "but I am not certain it is competent medical authority. I have seen too many careless autopsies made and read too many loosely written reports to have abiding faith ...
— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew
... Mrs. Douglass; "I know all about it. Now, do you s'pose you're agoing to be any happier among all those great folks than you would be if you staid among little folks?" she added, tartly; while Catherine looked with a kind of incredulous admiration at the future ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell
... that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON. 'I have looked into it.' 'What (said Elphinston,) have you not read it through?' Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, 'No, Sir, do you read ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... composition her garment was made. She smiled, and asked me if mine was not the same under my jacket "No, lady," says I, "I have nothing but my skin under my clothes."—"Why, what do you mean?" replies she, somewhat tartly; "but indeed I was afraid that something was the matter by that nasty covering you wear, that you might not be seen. Are you not a glumm?"*—"Yes,"says I, "fair creature." (Here, though you may conceive she spoke part English, part her own tongue, and I the same, as we ...
— Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) • Robert Paltock
... in a free and easy attitude as though perfectly at home, to say, 'Well, mon cher collegue' (here Blake would visibly writhe, to the equally apparent delight of the intruder), 'I have called for you to come for a walk with me.' 'My good sir,' Blake would tartly reply, 'I have work here that will keep me for the next two hours.' 'But it will be dark then,' objected the caller. 'Well, my good {106} sir,' was the retort, 'we can walk in the dark, I suppose'—which Blake would naturally much prefer. Edward Blake's ...
— The Day of Sir John Macdonald - A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion • Joseph Pope
... as well I never saw ye, then," said his wife tartly. "And to imagine that a lady like Miss Plinlimmon would concern herself with your deboshes! But you'd lower the King ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... good laying condition, and there are the cherries on the tree," said Miss Fleming tartly. She did not like Jane nor any other woman, but she usually fought for her sex against men in a mannish way—for the pleasure of fighting for the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various
... tartly retorted, that during the last week she had spent even more time upon Father's wardrobe than she had upon her own; while Abe inwardly rejoiced to think that for seven days to come—seven whole days—he and Angy would be free from ...
— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund
... said Miss Sally Ruth tartly, "that it's my last chance to make a born fool of myself. Why, you old gasbag, if I had to stay in the same house with you I'd be tempted to stick a darning needle in you to hear you explode! Appleby, I'm like that woman that had a chimney that smoked, ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... you say so at once?" he continued tartly, "and not shuffle and shirk. It was a foolish, monkeyish trick, but I suppose no great harm's done. What did ...
— Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore • George Manville Fenn
... he observed tartly. "I'M not a fool, if he is. I'm going out to the porch where I ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter |
