"Huskily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... naturally a woman who has once been convicted, by whatever unfair means, of the same offence, is liable to be looked on with suspicion. And I shouldn't like"—for a second Sir Richard, who loved Chloe Carstairs as though she had been his daughter, faltered, and cleared his throat rather huskily—"I shouldn't like that poor, pretty creature over yonder to suffer any ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... said huskily. "I'm Scarlett Trent—we went up to Bekwando together, you know. I thought you were dead, Monty, or I wouldn't ...
— A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... escape from stumbling on a Boer picket. The sentry heard if he did not see the line of crouching figures that passed him like ghosts in the darkness with stealthy steps that must have sounded weird across the night stillness. In a voice huskily vibrant, he challenged, "Wie kom dar?" Getting no reply, he called again twice in louder tones, and then fired his rifle at nothing in particular. Then, the whole picket waking, or beginning to realise that danger was near, let ...
— Four Months Besieged - The Story of Ladysmith • H. H. S. Pearse
... West's voice at last, but not as she had ever heard it. It came from him hoarse and desperate, as though wrung by the extreme of torture. He had sunk to his knees by the bed. His face was nearer to hers than it had ever been before. "Don't cry!" he begged her huskily. "Don't cry! Why do you tell me this if it hurts you ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... one objection to it," the merchant said huskily, and with a forced laugh; "I have not got a good balance at ...
— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... turned his pockets out one by one, then looked into the Wolf's yellow eyes with a gaze pleading yet sullen. "They are gone," he said huskily. ...
— The Boy Scouts on a Submarine • Captain John Blaine
... huskily. "You'll feel repaid I'll be bound. Bowerman always gives the public their money's worth. The performance begins at eight o'clock and won't be ...
— The Errand Boy • Horatio Alger
... when the mist cleared, Mr. Curtis led both boys to the port rail to show them where the green head of Cape Henlopen stood, abeam. There was moisture in the corners of his eyes as he pointed to it. "Thank God, Bob, my lad, you're here to see the Delaware again!" he said huskily. ...
— The Black Buccaneer • Stephen W. Meader
... glanced about the room, at the far, closed doors where it was not inconceivable that old Miriam was lurking, and strode over to her and began talking very jerkily and huskily, over her bent head. ...
— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley
... father?" at last asked the man huskily. He almost dreaded to find another father owning a noble boy like this—and such a father as he would be if it were true that he ...
— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill
... man cried huskily. He was mopping at his face with his handkerchief. "I thought I was case-hardened, I ought to be—but I guess I'm not. But I've got to do my duty. You're only making it worse for Sammy ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... Cora, huskily. "Oh, has anything happened? Have you heard any news? Tell me! Oh!" and she clutched at her ...
— The Motor Girls on Waters Blue - Or The Strange Cruise of The Tartar • Margaret Penrose
... been inventing things," he said a little huskily. "I did it when I was a child. I always seemed to see there might be a way of doing a thing better—getting more power. When other boys were playing games I was sitting in corners trying to build models out of wire and ...
— The Dawn of a To-morrow • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... either, father," said Ned huskily, as he went and stood behind his father with his hands ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn
... bit, your highness!' he muttered huskily. 'I won't forget it!' That same day, Ivan Matveitch sent for him, and, I was told, shook his cane at him, the very cane which he had once exchanged with the Due de la Rochefoucauld, and cried, 'You be a scoundrel and extortioner! I put you outside!' Ivan ...
— The Jew And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... you wonder if I could ever be jealous!" His tone, which had risen almost to violence, fell suddenly. He went back to his desk and began to straighten the papers there, not seeing what he did. "I never can say anything more to you, Sidney, I've said too much now," he said a little huskily; "but I'm glad to have ...
— The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne • Kathleen Norris
... importance. We are then asked to follow him from one room into another, until we reach the one adjoining the private office of the Boss. A knock or two are executed on the door of Greatness with a nauseous sense of awe, and 'Come in,' Greatness within huskily replies. The square-faced clerk enters, shuts the door after him, returns in a trice, and conducts us into the awful Presence. Ye gods of Baalbek, the like of this I never saw before. Here is a room sumptuously furnished with sofas and ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani
... the distracted President and wild-eyed Gail pushed through the knot of children huddled about the fallen heroine, and demanded huskily, "How is she? Not dead? ...
— Heart of Gold • Ruth Alberta Brown
... "No'm," he said huskily. "He was used up pretty bad, but he weren't dead. He was comin' to hisself when I"—he stopped and looked at the detective. "I didn't steal it, Mr. Winters," he whined. "I found it in the road, ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... dinner, when she became aware that somebody was listening, and turning her head, she saw through the Irish mist a man's figure standing in the conservatory. The figure was vanishing when she cried out a whit huskily, "Oh, pray, don't ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill
... her cheeks had heightened. Her voice came huskily. Old Mis' Meade glanced at her, a sharp and quick survey. Elihu indulgently unrolled his paper and spread ...
— Country Neighbors • Alice Brown
... should have gone mad if I had tried to keep it up any longer." He waited breathlessly for her to speak. She sat silent and rigid, looking straight before her. "Is it hopeless?" he went on at last, huskily. "Must I ask your forgiveness for my presumption and —and go ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon
... the hull world fer you," he said, huskily, and then he kissed her wet cheek again and again, and repeated his ability to thrash all comers in her cause, and stated his desire to undertake exactly that task for the term of her natural life. "If you ...
— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland
... see, Tresler," he said huskily, for his voice was tired with sustained effort. "You're the remarkablest smart 'tenderfoot' that ever I see. Say, you're a right smart daddy—an' I ain't given to latherin' soap-suds neither. But ther's suthin's I calc'late ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... outside. As he came almost abreast, the ship heaved and the two men fell against each other, while a great splash of sea-water drenched them. Again a roll and jump, and Goles would have fallen had not Jan held him upright. Goles gave him no thanks, but he said huskily: "I heard one of the sailors say she's a goner." With Jan holding on to Goles, the two men were swaying and stumbling to the boat's heavy rolling ...
— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly
... distress you," he said huskily. "If I were to tell you why it is best for us to go on as we are, you would lose what little faith you may still have in me. I have not always been able to conceal my feelings. You do not care as I do,—and I have been pretty much of a ...
— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon
... fly off the handle," said the screw, twirling huskily at the end of the screw-shaft. "If I had, you'd have been scrap-iron by this time. The sea dropped away from under me, and I had nothing to catch ...
— Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II • Rudyard Kipling
... to let this young mucker make a fool of me?" demanded the Melville youth, huskily. "I've just got to settle ...
— The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip - "Making Good" as Young Experts • Victor G. Durham
... some new excitement in his mind, in her own absorption in their boy she had attributed it to that. But early one evening he came in with a sheaf of roses in his arms, and when she had exclaimed at them and breathed deep of their dewy fragrance, Joe bent over and kissed her, and said a little huskily: ...
— His Second Wife • Ernest Poole
... about that," said the diver huskily, "and so I meant to be; but when you're shut-up in one o' them soots and are down in three or four fathom o' water, and thinking your life-line's fast, you don't seem as if ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn
... never thought," said the old gentleman, looking lakeward through the smoky twilight with a kind of vague wistfulnes, "but that all my girls would marry Americans." He spoke slowly, musingly, in his huskily sibilant tones. ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller
... in my daddy's barn," the youth explained huskily through a choking sob, "I'd go into the ...
— Jokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers • Anonymous
... she come here for? Do you mean to tell me she thinks I took the money?" he said, huskily, ...
— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs
... answering look from the pale, worn queen, who, it was very evident, was making every particle of her strength work, to carry her through her part. Roger noticed, with an excitement almost equal to Olive's, that as she advanced to unite the lovers' hands, that she cleared her throat huskily and grew even yet paler in the tent-lights, and that twice she opened her lips before any sound crossed them. The next moment Olive had sprung to her feet, ...
— Six Girls - A Home Story • Fannie Belle Irving
... huskily, his voice sounding as if it came from the next room,—"Maria, I s'pose you ...
— The Life of Nancy • Sarah Orne Jewett
... awkwardness," he said huskily; then, handing her the cup, he added, "I shall have to go now. I will see you at breakfast-time. Good morning." With the other cup still in his hand, he made his ...
— In a Steamer Chair And Other Stories • Robert Barr
... chill down his spine, He found himself before her house, the threshold of the shrine. His courage flickered to a spark, then glowed with sudden flame— He knocked; he heard a welcome word; she came—his goddess came. Oh, she was fair as any flower, and huskily he spoke: "I'm all the way from Klondike, with a mighty heavy poke. I'm looking for a lassie, one whose Christian name is Peg, Who sought a Klondike miner, and who wrote it on ...
— Ballads of a Cheechako • Robert W. Service
... gallant Ulysses, the first man in America to roll the lapels of his coat, were much more vivid. After Henrietta Lebrune Patch had "joined another choir," as her widower huskily remarked from time to time, father and son lived up at grampa's in Tarrytown, and Ulysses came daily to Anthony's nursery and expelled pleasant, thick-smelling words for sometimes as much as an hour. He was continually promising Anthony hunting trips ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... get this?" he demanded huskily, in such a queer, breathless way that Richard thought his day of reckoning had come. His sin had found him out. ...
— Georgina of the Rainbows • Annie Fellows Johnston
... could see what was done, but he had to lead on and wait. He counted the dusk figures as they approached him, one, two, three, four, five, and perhaps no man ever felt greater relief. He advanced toward them and said huskily: ...
— The Scouts of the Valley • Joseph A. Altsheler
... easier!—thanks, nurse," he said mechanically. "Tears?... What about tears? Ah, Mrs. Meredith's tears. She cried almost as much as the rain, poor kid! and we were nearly washed out—like 'Alice,'" and he laughed huskily, forgetful that he was again in possession of Honor's hand which he held in a vice. "I am a damned fool to have tried it on with her. Beastly low-down trick," he muttered almost inaudibly. "'You unspeakable cad!' she said, and, by God! I deserved it. I should have ...
— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
... Yangee kirls no more;" and how at last Uncle Andrew walked home with her, I have not time to tell. When the Philosopher bade her adieu, he called her names which she did not understand. But she turned back to him, and after a minute's hesitation, spoke huskily. "Uncle Andrew if he—if he should get ...
— The End Of The World - A Love Story • Edward Eggleston
... said huskily. "Fifteen years you and me's been together, and if we haven't hit it as we might, well, it was only natural, me being an Englishman and you almost a black; but it's this as brings us all together, natives and furreners, and all. He ...
— The Dark House - A Knot Unravelled • George Manville Fenn
... the old gentleman called early at the little counting-room, as in the days when he might hope to find some ship of his own, fresh from the Orient, warping into the dock. Jamie's lips were dry, and his voice came huskily. He gave up the effort to speak of St. Clair's death, but asked briefly that Mr. Bowdoin would ...
— Pirate Gold • Frederic Jesup Stimson
... the Red Beadle huskily. "Much the English Jews care about ideas! Did they even acknowledge your book in their journals? But probably they couldn't read it," he added with a laugh. "A fat lot of Hebrew little Sampson knows! You know little Sampson—he ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... could ever tempt me from my faith to you, Wallace," she huskily murmured. "Oh!" she cried, with a sudden start, as a warning whistle blew, "does that mean ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... and answered huskily, laying one hand upon his chest, and with the other gesturing up by the Winslow elm to ...
— Bylow Hill • George Washington Cable
... right, my lad," he said, huskily. "I'd forgotten about our arrangement. Did I say ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... huskily. "I ken. Ye wouldna gie her a common or a public spot in which to wait for ye. An' ye'll be shuttin' down the mill an' loggin'-camps an' layin' off the hands in her honour for ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... know what to think about her," said he huskily. "I can hardly believe she was in the conspiracy to ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce
... on. Herman Vielhaber, melding eighty kings, said it was a good rich-man's country, but also a good poor-man's country, because where could you find one half as good—not in all Europe—and he now laid down forty jacks, which he huskily called "yacks." ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... a shaking hand. "You know now why I want it," he resumed, speaking huskily and with restrained emotion. "'Tis life! Life, girl! In that"—he fought with himself before he could bring out the word—"in that phial is my life! Is life for whoever takes it! It is the remedium, it is strength, ...
— The Long Night • Stanley Weyman
... out," said Elizabeth huskily, "because this room is meant for—but let's go back. Do you remember that day twenty-four years ago when we took Jack ...
— Black Jack • Max Brand
... "Yes," he said huskily, in a low tone, "Northrop and I were to follow the directions after we had plotted them out and were to share it together on the next expedition, which I could direct as a Mexican without so much suspicion. I should still have shared it with his widow if this unfortunate ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve
... know how I ever got away," said the hunchback, huskily. "I do know that monster was chasin' me right through the woods, tryin' to ram his spear inter my back as if I was a flounder an' he was arter lobster bait. I managed to hold onter my old gun, though at the time I didn't ...
— Frank Merriwell's Cruise • Burt L. Standish
... to his feet despite Nott's restraining hand. "To leave Mademoiselle and leave the ship?" he said huskily, ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... likely to be," observed the guide huskily. "I can go after them, but I can't stop them. ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills - The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains • Janet Aldridge
... with a look as of pallor under a tawny tan, walked the deck in a fever of excitement, sometimes shouting in a cracked voice, sometimes laughing huskily, and at last breaking down in a ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine
... put it. Nellie, understanding, took it from his fingers and pushed him gently by the arm towards his wife. He knelt down by the weeping woman's side and put his hands on the head that was bent to the ground. "Sue," he said, huskily, not knowing what to say. "Don't take on so! It's ...
— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller
... dry woodwork of the gallery creaked and strained; and under the doorway the tall grass by the steps thrust ripening straw, all alive with little brown grasshoppers. The clock, in its wooden case, made a whirring noise, as though it were some consumptive trying to clear his throat, and then huskily struck half-past six. ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola
... of nervousness, was laboring hard to get to the end of it, but long after the bridal party was in position the faint, jerky sounds still wavered on, now vanishing altogether in a dumb show, now, just as the people were hopefully thinking the ordeal over, becoming huskily audible. There seemed enough of the thing, Mrs. Long said afterward, to give Arabella time to walk over to the next ...
— Treasure Valley • Marian Keith
... his chair. "No one ever had a truer friend than I have in you," he said, huskily. "But it seems to me that Alice may have changed with the lapse of years; she may have become easier to satisfy, better ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... eyes looking the darker for his flushed face. "Gentlemen," he said huskily, "thar's only one thing to be done. A lot of us have got to ride over to Sawyer's Dam tomorrow morning and pick up as many square men as we can muster; there's a big camp meeting goin' on there, and there won't be no difficulty in that. When we've got a big enough crowd to show we mean business, ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... plucky youngster," he said huskily. "No matter how silly and childish your accident was you certainly have shown yourself a man since. Look! Here comes Mr. Croyden to see you. He has brought you a fine four-pounder, the ...
— The Story of Porcelain • Sara Ware Bassett
... I'm not going away," said Jack crossly, huskily, too much hurt to study his tone. "If I can't always see things ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas
... silence: all in the room knew that the ship was lost, but it was terrible to hear it again. The lad's face broke into lines of grief, and he spoke huskily. ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson
... bygones alone," he answered, a little huskily. "I never minded your tandrums, knowing there was a good heart at the bottom. I only wished I was not such a dry old fellow, and that you could have been fonder of me. Perhaps you will understand me better some day, and——" Here he stopped and cleared his throat, ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. • Various
... air a trustin' ye, child," he assured her huskily, "or I wouldn't be lettin' ye run 'round wild on the rocks like ye're doin'.... Ye won't be gone ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... Anderson paused huskily and swallowed hard while he looked away across the fields. Lenore felt herself drawn by an irresistible power. The west wind rustled through the waving wheat. She heard the whir of the threshers. Yet ...
— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey
... wish, madame?" the Secretary inquired a trifle huskily; his throat was becoming somewhat parched by the anxiety ...
— The Cab of the Sleeping Horse • John Reed Scott
... what to say. Come here." Dick coughed huskily, wondering, indeed, what he should say, and how ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... Alf huskily. "You did not understand. English people speak words that they do not mean to hurt. It is I who should ask forgiveness for what I said about ...
— The Fiery Totem - A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian North-West • Argyll Saxby
... the fog that hung about old Sol seemed to have got into his throat; for he spoke huskily. His hand shook too, as he clinked his glass against his nephew's. But having once got the wine to his lips, he tossed it off like a man, ...
— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens
... ending of poor Prescott's romance—I never knew him, but shall always think of him as a swift and vehement spirit—was told very huskily by Jaffery beneath the wistaria arbour. Tears rolled down Barbara's and Doria's cheeks. My wife's sympathetic little hand slid into Liosha's. With her other hand Liosha fondled it. I am sure it was rather gratitude for this little ...
— Jaffery • William J. Locke
... around her, pinning her own to her sides, and then he squeezed her to him, so tightly that the breath almost left her body, and kissed her three or four times full on the lips. Then, still holding her, and looking in her eyes with an expression that filled her with horror, he said huskily: ...
— The Range Boss • Charles Alden Seltzer
... victim of some practical joke, and if there were not a crowd of listeners hidden somewhere, who, after enjoying his discomfiture, would suddenly make their appearance, holding their sides. This fear restored his presence of mind. "Well, then," he replied, huskily, "this is my reason. I know nothing respecting my parents. This morning, a man with whom you are well acquainted, assured me that I was—your son. I was completely stunned at first, but after a while I recovered sufficiently to call here, and found that you ...
— Baron Trigault's Vengeance - Volume 2 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau
... blue eyes softened, then filled. "Maybe I've missed it and maybe I ain't," she said, huskily. "Maybe this life is only a discipline to fit us for somethin' better that's comin'. Anyway, if we keep on goin' and doin' the best we can as we go, I believe God will make it right for ...
— Master of the Vineyard • Myrtle Reed
... said huskily. "The moon will be up by ten o'clock and I can make better time traveling by moonlight than I can ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne
... man, huskily. "No, no, Mary! It can't be! It must not be! Richard Peveril is dead, and the contract is void. He has no claim on the Copper Princess. It is all mine. Mine and yours. But don't let him know. Keep the secret for one week longer—only ...
— The Copper Princess - A Story of Lake Superior Mines • Kirk Munroe
... into mine and a voice sounded huskily close to my ear. It was the little old Jewish travelling man who was disliked in the smoke room because he used to speak too certainly of things about which he was uncertain. His slightly Teutonic dialect had made him as popular as the smallpox ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons
... the General, laughing huskily till he coughed and choked. They both sat smiling grimly with no more sound till it seemed to the boy he must be in a dream, looking at the creations of his brain. The step of a fly could have been heard in the room almost, so sunk ...
— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro
... know life, nor men, nor women," he said huskily and clutched her hands in his. "If life cheats and injures you, you have a right to snatch what joy you can. It's not only what you do to love, but what you do to yourself, that counts. For real ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock
... that?" he asked huskily. "You know what the matter is. You don't love me. You never have ... Have you?" He suddenly ended, turning ...
— The Captives • Hugh Walpole
... on to you," said the doctor huskily; "I wish I could lead you by loving force into the paths of pleasantness and peace. But what I can't do, God can. Good-by, and ...
— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe
... huskily, calling him by that title for the first time, "I'm but a poor wreck at best. I can teach you no good, and God knows I wouldn't be the means of putting a shadow of evil in your heart. Your father says, 'Make him such a man, before God, as you know I would have him.' He asked too much, ...
— Culm Rock - The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught • Glance Gaylord
... Jim, hez got to happen," he said, huskily. "Either that there rock hez got to get off the road, or I have. I've seed ...
— A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready • Bret Harte
... continued Ralph, huskily. "You little wild bird, you've been in a cage all your life. I'm going to open the ...
— A Spinner in the Sun • Myrtle Reed
... happened, a little company of rustics, who had just issued from the low hatch-door of the village inn, stood for a moment under the sign of the Crown and Mitre, which swung huskily creaking from the bough of an ancient thorn tree, then passed on to the road, and took their ...
— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald
... there with the boost," commented Mr. Bates, and then, not being quite satisfied with that form of speech, he huskily corrected it to: "Burnit's always handing out those pleasant words." This form of expression seeming also to be somewhat lacking in polish, he relapsed into more redness, and wiped the strangely moist palms of his hands upon the ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester
... "Thanks," he blurted out huskily at last. "My reputation in the department is at stake, my promotion, my position itself, my - my family - er - ...
— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve
... and huskily and passionately and timidly and hopefully and despairingly, "Mary Virginia, are you going ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... on hands and knees, and Mahon was searching for a depression to lead off back of the shack, when Murphy whispered huskily: ...
— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan
... said huskily, as though the speaking of the words caused him a great effort. "I understand now. My name is John Howland. And my father's name was John ...
— The Danger Trail • James Oliver Curwood
... he answered, huskily; "she is a saint with the angels. Had she lived, I should never have been a mariner, and—and—" laying his hand on his throat, as if to keep down the sense of suffocation, he smiled, and added, laughingly,—"ay, and the good Winkelried would ...
— The Headsman - The Abbaye des Vignerons • James Fenimore Cooper
... not been cleaned, but when she felt the handle of her fork sticky in her clasp her patience gave out, she could not eat with dirty messy things, and she would not. With a face like a thunder-cloud she laid down both again, "I don't think I will have any, thank you," she said huskily. "I—I——" She was so thoroughly put out she could scarcely speak, for she really was very hungry and she really ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... is too ill to get up," said Ann huskily; "and I beg of you to go away and leave them with us. You don't care for them—you ...
— From the Valley of the Missing • Grace Miller White
... gets a trifle flat, Which is not to be wondered at, And critical observers note A huskiness about the throat. (Huskily) ...
— First Plays • A. A. Milne
... "Ophelia!" he cried huskily. "Oh, Ophelia!" and the minister's three small sons, pausing in their play in the grassless yard at the side of the house, while they watched the beautiful car standing in front of the parsonage gate, saw the owner of the Quarter Circle KT, in broad daylight, on the principal ...
— The Ramblin' Kid • Earl Wayland Bowman
... have seen it. It is the warning of death. There is no future and no escape for me. The retribution is at hand,"—and stooping swiftly down, he lifted the tiny cup brimming to his lips. "Go you," he said, huskily, "to the sea-shore. I have ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XI., February, 1863, No. LXIV. • Various
... said huskily. "Here comes a lad now that was born on the Bowery and knows every inch of it. If he's ever been above Bleecker street he's kept ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry
... said huskily. "Maybe we'll meet someday again. I'll have my wife call—write to you so you can visit us before we have to come into ...
— Cerebrum • Albert Teichner
... believe, if he could sleep," he said huskily. "The doctor is with him now—scarcely left him the last four days. We have nobody to help us. Mrs. Margery broke down. The woman you saw is incapable. Harry has been delirious—and asking for you—half ...
— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss
... it, then, Jo," said Hiram huskily. "I never dreamed I'd ever have such a chance. And I'll work, too—I'll study night and day. But why—why are you doin' ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
... she whispered huskily, terror and shame warring in her face, "tell him that I do love him. Tell him I said for God's sake ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan
... said Jim, huskily, determined to break in somewhere on a long chance that the letter would blow out to sea or the ...
— Cupid's Middleman • Edward B. Lent
... "Stop, stop—please!" he cried huskily, passing his hand across his face. "Then don't forget, if—if you can't; but I'd hate to think of the Colonel, and ...
— Where the Souls of Men are Calling • Credo Harris
... HANS the Butcher [huskily] Come, come! Do not be chiding. Suppose they came and could not see their way. Suppose—O wife!—I thought they'd ...
— The Piper • Josephine Preston Peabody
... to know," he went on, huskily, "that I appreciate your standing by me, and if we get out of this alive, you and I, with our discharge papers, I promise I'll be your partner in this new enterprise—the quest for treasure; that is, if ...
— Lost In The Air • Roy J. Snell
... huskily, and Noel, out of pity for her, got up and walked to the other end of the little room. When he got back she had recovered, and said ...
— A Beautiful Alien • Julia Magruder
... feeling fine, Mawruss," he replied huskily. "I could blow myself to a bottle tchampanyer wine yet, I feel so good. I am enjoying myself, Mawruss, on account Moe Griesman from Sarahcuse was just in here, which he tells me his nephew, Mozart Rabiner, goes to work for Klinger & Klein as a drummer and ...
— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass
... all the same," said Field, and he re-swung the chain, like a hammock, from the parted wings of his vest, and dropped the huskily ticking guardian of the minutes back to its place in ...
— Bruvver Jim's Baby • Philip Verrill Mighels
... the crush of the traffic at the town gate or at the gate of the Mellah, and while he stood aside to allow a line of pack-mules to pass he would hear a voice from behind him crying huskily, "Accursed old Israel! Get on home to your mother!" Then, turning quickly round, he would find that close at his heels a negro of most innocent countenance was cudgelling ...
— The Scapegoat • Hall Caine
... grew still, for a sun-browned, bearded man had crossed the threshold, and thrown a paper into her lap, saying huskily:— ...
— A Princess in Calico • Edith Ferguson Black
... broke toward the old priest's room. I jumped up, put on one boot, and holding the other in my hand, I stepped out in the yard, with my hat and coat off—both being left in the room. A Yankee captain stepped up to me and said, "Are you No. 200?" I answered very huskily, "No, sir, I am not." He then went on in the house, and on looking at the fence, I saw there was at least two hundred Yankee cavalry right at me. I did not know what to do. My hat, coat, gun, cartridge-box, and knapsack were all in the room. ...
— "Co. Aytch" - Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment - or, A Side Show of the Big Show • Sam R. Watkins
... rigid, almost choking. The next minute a shapeless figure almost collided with Nelly. It eagerly caught the bridle-rein and called out huskily: ...
— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott
... "Darling," said Micky huskily. "And perhaps—some day—do you ... do you ... think ... you could ever care for me more than ... than you cared for ... that other fellow, confound him!" he ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... old man!" he said, huskily. "Thank God that you are alive! I saw them drag you in, and ...
— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... MR. BUMSTEAD, huskily; himself taking a seat upon a coal-scuttle near at hand, with considerable violence. "I'm glad you aroused me from a dreadful dream of reptiles. I sh'pose you want me to ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 • Various
... it. If Fillmore had taken the trouble to come in a taxi-cab, obviously to call upon her, why had he abandoned the idea at her very threshold? She was still speculating on this mystery when the telephone-bell rang, and her brother's voice spoke huskily ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse
... until they vanished within the darkness. Leaning far over to listen, the young miner heard the bucket touch bottom, and then, with a quick word of warning to the man grasping the handle, he swung himself out on the taut rope, and went swiftly down, hand over hand. Mike, still grumbling huskily to himself, waited until the windlass ceased vibrating, securely anchored the handle with a strip of raw-hide, and composedly sat down, his teeth set firmly on the pipe-stem, his eyes already half closed. It was an obstinate, mulish old face, seamed and creased, the bright sunlight rendering ...
— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish
... earnestly, as if from the depths of a personal experience. Her eyes glowed with the light of excitement and her face was radiant. Max turned to her and saw all this beauty. Then he gently took her hand and said huskily:— ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... had stopped on the other side of the bridge—it could not drive amongst the rubbish pebbles and spars of my island. As I staggered along with my bag a figure had risen, as it seemed to me, out of the ground and asked huskily whether he could help me. I had only a few steps to go, but he seized my burden and went in front of me. I submitted. I told him my door and he entered the dark passage, climbed the rickety stairs and entered ...
— The Secret City • Hugh Walpole
... what to do," he said, huskily. "I'm all up in the air. I'd like to be a man like what you told about and like these people that have been good to me lately. I'd do it even if I wouldn't like some of the things I'd have to ...
— The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters - The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow • Charles Henry Lerrigo
... the more icily calm she sat, till the silence between them began to grow oppressive. She waited, determined that he should be the first to speak. Recognising the helplessness of silence, he began huskily: ...
— The Man • Bram Stoker
... farewells were hurried; Alan seemed voiceless, only nodding in reply to Mary's vociferous messages to Harry, and huskily whispering to Ethel, ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... felt gropingly for a red-figured bandanna, found it and wiped his face and his eyes dejectedly. "I beg your pardon for seeming a coward," he apologized huskily. "I got to thinking about ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower
... your sermon," he said huskily; "I hope to get some help from that. But you!—you are making things harder for me every word you utter. You don't understand and I ...
— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen
... voice, yet a huskily tuneful one, was lifted quaveringly on the air from the roadside, where an old man and a yellow dog sat in the dust together, the latter reprieved at the last moment, his surprised head rakishly garnished with a hasty ...
— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington
... good deal I've wanted to say to ye fer a long time, but I hev kept a-puttin' hit off until I'm afeard maybe hit air too late. But I'm a-goin' to say hit now, and I want ye to listen." He cleared his throat huskily. " Do ye know, Easter, what folks ...
— A Mountain Europa • John Fox Jr.
... read my mind," replied Smith, huskily. "I'm afraid. I'm almost sorry you came. Yet, right now I feel more of a ...
— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey
... woe! where was Sarah Maud! and was it Fate that Mrs. Bird should say, at once, "Did you lay your hats in the hall?" Peter felt himself elected by circumstance the head of the family, and, casting one imploring look at tongue-tied Susan, standing next him, said huskily, "It was so very pleasant—that—that"——"That we hadn't good hats enough to go 'round," put in little Susan, bravely, to help him out, and then froze with horror that the ill-fated words had ...
— The Bird's Christmas Carol • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... tried to speak. I do not know what he meant to say. But what he did was to repeat—as though he had not heard her words—the question which he had flung at her in the beginning. He said huskily: "Where is the boy?" ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various
... you were!" said Derrick, huskily, and feeling, with amazement, and an Englishman's annoyance, that his own ...
— The Woman's Way • Charles Garvice
... our account, please," said the Millstones huskily. "So long as you supply the power we'll supply ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... sit out here," and they took the arm-chairs that stood on the porch, and swung to and fro in silence for a little while. The sea came and went among the rocks below, marking its course in the deepening twilight with a white rope of foam, and raving huskily to itself, with now and then the long plunge of some heavier surge against the bowlders, and a hoarse shout. The Portland boat swam by in the offing, a glitter of irregular lights, and the lamps on the different points of the Cape blinked as they revolved in their towers. "This is ...
— The Story of a Play - A Novel • W. D. Howells
... Hammond," he said, huskily. "You could fall into worse company than mine—though I reckon you sure think not. I'm pretty drunk, but I'm—all ...
— The Light of Western Stars • Zane Grey
... with the weapon in question gripped in his fist, turned round and stared at him in petrified amazement, "If I wasn't the cap'n o' this ship, George," he said huskily, "an' bound to set a good example to the men, I'd whop you ...
— Sea Urchins • W. W. Jacobs
... said McGuire huskily. "But the size, man—the size! And its shape is not right; it isn't streamlined correctly; the air—" He stopped his half-unconscious analysis abruptly. "The air!" What had this craft to do with the air? A thin layer of gas that hung ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various
... 'I used to dream,' he said huskily, 'of a time when failure should have come, when she would want some one to step in and shield her. Sometimes I thought of her protected in my arms against ...
— Miss Bretherton • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... dance about the drawing-room to show the invigorating effects of his own medicine, as to believe that a soldier, when asked for his authority, would point to a lot of shining weapons and declare symbolically that might was right. Of course, a real soldier would go rather red in the face and huskily repeat the proper formula, whatever it was, as that he came ...
— All Things Considered • G. K. Chesterton
... the night, Jinny," he said huskily, and added almost sternly, "you must bear up, so much depends on you. Remember, it is your first serious illness, but it may not be your last. You've got to take the pang of motherhood along with the ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... be manager, at a fixed salary?" said James hurriedly and huskily, his fine fingers slowly rubbing each ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence
... said huskily; for it was now plain enough; and my heart seemed to stand still, and my breath to come in gasps, as my imagination conjured up horror after horror that must have befallen the free, generous hearted man who had ever given me so warm ...
— The Golden Magnet • George Manville Fenn
... rang in his ears as the door put a period to the interview. He stopped and took up the battered suitcase and rusty overcoat which he had left outside the junior partner's office, then went on, shaking his head. "Much obliged," he said huskily to himself. "But what's the good of that. There's no room anywhere for a professional failure. And that's what I am; just a ne'er-do-well. I never realised what that meant, really, before, and it's certainly taken ...
— The Fortune Hunter • Louis Joseph Vance |
