"Comfortingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Brewton, handing me her purse. "Run to the hotel—" "Save your money," said the agent, springing forward with some eggs in a bowl. "Lord! you don't catch us without all the appliances handy. We'd run behind the trade in no time. There, now, there," he added, comfortingly to the mother. "Will you make her swallow it? Better let me—better let me—And here's the emetic. Lord! why, we had three swallowed rings at the Denver Olio, and I got 'em all safe back within ten minutes after time of swallowing." "You ...
— The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories • Owen Wister
... said Hazel comfortingly; for Abel's voice had trembled, and Hazel must comfort grief wherever she found it, for grief ...
— Gone to Earth • Mary Webb
... what he had seen in the cabin, she stopped eating. "So my mistress is dead," said she. "Then it will soon be over for me as well." "There will always be someone to look out for you," said the boy comfortingly. "Ah! you don't know," said the cow, "that I am already twice as old as a cow usually is before she is laid upon the slaughter-bench. But then I do not care to live any longer, since she, in there, can come no more ...
— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof
... made one of myself," said Elfrida comfortingly, "and I will again if you like. But I don't suppose it'll be any more ...
— Harding's luck • E. [Edith] Nesbit
... existence. The bourgeoisie, on the other hand, is far better off under the present arrangement than under the old slave system; it can dismiss its employees at discretion without sacrificing invested capital, and gets its work done much more cheaply than is possible with slave labour, as Adam Smith comfortingly pointed ...
— The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 - with a Preface written in 1892 • Frederick Engels
... comfortingly, "it hadn't. Why, Mrs. Wiley died long before you ever began to pray ...
— Rainbow Valley • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... me down, I say!" The O'Keefe's voice was both outraged and angry; squinting around I saw him struggling violently to get to his feet. The Akka only held him tighter, booming comfortingly, peering down into ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt
... she stared straight into a fire of great logs that crackled and burned comfortingly. The mantel over it was roughly made of wood, and its only adornment was a pipe at one side, standing up on its end in some mysterious manner, and a pile of Government reports at the other. The walls were plastered and left so. Here and there were tacked photographs and snapshots, and along ...
— I've Married Marjorie • Margaret Widdemer
... nothing to fear," he said, reassuringly, and laid a strong hand comfortingly across the neck of her horse. "The pussy-cat was as unwilling for our company as we for hers. Besides, look here!"—and he raised his hand and shot into the air. "She'll not come near ...
— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill
... "Well," said Betty comfortingly, "it will be fun after all,—sleeping in that funny wee inn, where there are only four bedrooms in the whole house. I choose the one with the pink rose peeping in the window! I saw ...
— John and Betty's History Visit • Margaret Williamson
... intolerable strain in her tensed figure. He put his hand comfortingly over hers. And, astoundingly, he ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various
... hand closed comfortingly upon hers. "You're quite safe, dearest," she said. "Don't ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... at the water in silence. Disappointment rendered them speechless for the moment. "Let us look up and down the shore," suggested Phil comfortingly. "I suppose it is just barely possible that the rope broke away from the stake, and the boat has floated ...
— Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid • Amy D. V. Chalmers
... very comfortingly, and Mrs. Bentley very sensibly aided their efforts. All three tried to make it quite plain to Dick Prescott that no amount, or consequence, of lack of understanding by his classmates could make any difference with ...
— Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point - Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps • H. Irving Hancock
... Bello," answered Seppi comfortingly. He looked straight up into the sky. Little wisps of clouds were gathering around the crest of old Pilatus now. The sun was suddenly hidden, and he felt a drop of rain. "It's going to rain here in a minute, ...
— The Swiss Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... had risen, regarding her, until forced back by the trained intelligence Of "John Berber," which had always dominated, and at last, she knew, had killed it. "We will make the flowers speak—for us." Again she tried to speak lightly, comfortingly, but something within the woman snapped shut like a door. Slowly she returned to the garden seat. For a moment she faltered, holding convulsively to it, then her eyes, ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... a grateful glance. He felt dejected and desperate, but Foster looked comfortingly resolute. At first he had welcomed him for his son's sake, but had come ...
— Carmen's Messenger • Harold Bindloss
... used to me sometime and like me," it said, comfortingly. But Rebecca Mary knew better. ...
— Rebecca Mary • Annie Hamilton Donnell
... (Eileen nods. Mrs. Turner immediately dismisses her suspicions.) Oh, pardon me. I didn't know that, you see, or I wouldn't—— (She pats Eileen on the shoulder comfortingly.) Never mind. You'll tell me all ...
— The Straw • Eugene O'Neill
... butter-fingers." The school laughed aloud, and Rosie curled up behind the pile of books and cried with vexation. Joel Davis was such a horrid, horrid, dirty, fat boy that it was just real nasty mean of Miss Hillary to let him pick up her books, so it was. Elizabeth, all sympathy, patted her comfortingly, and twisted one of Rosie's curls round her fingers ...
— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith
... said he comfortingly, "all is not yet lost. If the theatre does not give you a livelihood, we might try something else. I have my little savings. I could easily lend you enough to buy a petit commerce, a little business. You could repay me, bit by bit, at your convenience. Tiens! Didn't ...
— The Mountebank • William J. Locke
... holding her other hand, patted it comfortingly. "No one is infallible, Miss Taylor. I once felt just as you do to-night. Only I am quite sure that my fault was much graver ...
— Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... wore out, dearie," her mother said, comfortingly, and Briskow agreed. He assured her ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... bewildered and so small and so distressed that Dale laid his hand comfortingly on her shoulder. His voice rang tender like his mother's. "Don't you be a-worrying your kind little heart! And if you begin right, you'll get your House of ...
— Red-Robin • Jane Abbott |
