"Icily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there," he finally asked icily, "that you ever placed any shares of stock in my hand, or even so, that they were not delivered to you again? Of course you can show my name at the bottom of a receipt if that is ...
— The Boy Scouts of Lenox - Or The Hike Over Big Bear Mountain • Frank V. Webster
... this plate, anyhow," said Oswald icily. "I'll try the other, and if she can't keep still this time she had better run away and laugh by herself at the other end of the ...
— About Peggy Saville • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... of my own volition," she said icily. "And I will not bother you if you want to go ...
— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs
... and finding it locked, circled the rest of the way around the house. Judith was waiting for him on the front porch. "How nice of you to walk Zarathustra," she said icily. "I do hope you found the ...
— The Servant Problem • Robert F. Young
... remind Cyril, please, that there are other people besides himself concerned in this wedding," observed Kate, icily. ...
— Miss Billy's Decision • Eleanor H. Porter
... naturalized?" rebuked Hans, icily. Suddenly he thawed. "Whose brother! The brother of Camilla ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge
... beaten. Beyond doubt, now, he must accept the presence of hidden enemies surrounding him, of enemies whose presence even his trained powers of perception had been unable to detect. The intensity of the note of danger which he had recognized now was fully explained. He grew icily cool, master of his every faculty. "We shall ...
— Fire-Tongue • Sax Rohmer
... to open country, softly swelling fields, willow copses, and clear running streams. In the crystal air the mountain walls seemed near at hand, above shone Orion, icily brilliant. The lawyer from a dim old house in a grove of oaks and the school-teacher from Thunder Run went on in silence for a time; then the ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston
... who brings the spirit of adventure into the game that I want. Of the Quaifes and the Scottons and the Barlows I have nothing but dreary memories. They do not mean cricket to me. And even Shrewsbury and Hayward left me cold. They were too faultily faultless, too icily regular for my taste. They played cricket not as though it was a game, but as though it was a proposition in Euclid. ...
— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)
... said, quietly: 'It is her own fault. She is being punished for her obstinacy. Father is disciplining her—he will not harm her.' In the end the power conquered, and the girl lay back in slumber so deep, so dead, that her breath seemed stilled forever—her hands icily inert, her face as white ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland
... obliged, you see, children, to speak," icily responded the lady he had sworn to love and cherish. "Hints are thrown away. I must suffer the indignity for your sakes, of saying to your father, I shall want some money for the purchases your mother wants to make for you. It is not the least use going to this ...
— The Cockaynes in Paris - 'Gone abroad' • Blanchard Jerrold
... suitable reply to your assertion, Mr. Clayton," she said icily, "and I regret that I am not a man, that I might make it." She turned quickly and entered ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... head of the plot who is addressing me?" inquired the duchess, icily. "No doubt my nephew ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson
... she repeated, icily. "What day was it that Mr. Barrows was found in the vat?" she inquired, turning to me with ...
— The Mill Mystery • Anna Katharine Green
... the instructor's lips to tighten. "You have not answered my question, Miss Harlowe," she said icily. ...
— Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... and a more searching glance. A wise critic, when this emergency comes, is something more than an expert who gives an opinion upon a professional exploit. The special piece of work may contain technical flaws, and yet there may be within it a soul worth all the "icily regular and splendidly null" achievements that ever were possible to proficient mediocrity. That soul is visible only to the observer who can look through the art into the interior spirit of the artist, and thus can estimate a piece of acting ...
— Shadows of the Stage • William Winter
... O wise brook, I cannot come, alas! I am but mortal as the leaves that flicker, float, and pass. My body is not used to you; my breath is fluttering sore; You clasp me round too icily. Ah, let me go once more! Would God I were a naiad-thing whereon Pan's music blew; But woe is me! you pagan brook, I cannot stay ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... stopped; her trembling hands grew icily quiet. All the Past rose before her in mute, overwhelming reproach. She took up the lines which her own hand had written hardly a minute since, and looked at the ink, still wet on the letters, ...
— No Name • Wilkie Collins
... fleet unit knocked out in a battle with Space Vikings was bad enough, but being rescued and brought to Marduk by another Space Viking simply didn't make sense. He then screened the Royal Palace at Malverton, on the planet; first he was icily polite to somebody several echelons below him in the peerage, and then respectfully polite to somebody he addressed as Prince Vandarvant. Finally, after some minutes' wait, a frail, white-haired man in a little black cap-of-maintenance appeared ...
— Space Viking • Henry Beam Piper
... Pilkington icily, "is a most charming, refined, cultured, and vivacious girl, if ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse
... the adventurer replied icily, without removing his attention from the captain. "What else, ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph
... feel quite afraid of this terrible young woman who stood up before her, looking so tall and formidable, and tossing her head until all the shabby black feathers shook again on her hat. "I—I won't detain you any longer," she said icily, as she rose from her seat. "You can leave your address, and if I change my mind I will let you know." She laid her hand on the bell as she spoke, but, to her amazement, the young woman suddenly flopped down on a chair, and folded her arms with ...
— Sisters Three • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... icily, "it is none of your business. It's none of your business whether I get shot as a deserter, ...
— The Lost Road • Richard Harding Davis
... said, slowly and icily, "I see. Please don't trouble yourself. I should have known. However, my allowance is my own, and I presume I am permitted to do what I ...
— Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Boxer," said Mrs. Gimpson, icily; "but I shouldn't have been alive now if it hadn't ha' been for ...
— Odd Craft, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... going to be funny over a tragedy in which one of your dearest friends is a victim," she observed, icily, "we will not discuss the matter. But I, for one, have learned a lesson: I know ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan
... reach of my voice will, I think, hear news that will hold them, as against a brass band and fireworks. If not, then they would be better off in the wake of the procession," exclaims Trueman icily. ...
— The Transgressors - Story of a Great Sin • Francis A. Adams
... has been very good," she said, icily, and drawing her slight, graceful figure haughtily erect, "but—if at any time I should find my duties heavier than I could perform faithfully, I should tell her so and seek some ...
— Mona • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... end of the dim corridor-like street. The sudden alternations of warm light and cold shade made him shiver. In front of the Palazzo di Venezia, and in front of the Gesu, it had seemed to him as if all the night of ancient times were falling icily upon his shoulders; but at each fresh square, each broadening of the new thoroughfares, there came a return to light, to the pleasant warmth and gaiety of life. The yellow sunflashes, in falling from the house fronts, sharply outlined the violescent shadows. ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... its fragments over the surface. It seemed indestructible, for vainly did the winds stretch it, pull and toss it asunder, continually tearing away dark strips, which they waved over the pale yellow sky, gradually becoming intensely and icily livid. Ever more strongly grew the wind that threw ...
— An Iceland Fisherman • Pierre Loti
... Damietta, from 1250 to 1254, he expended, in small works of piety, sympathy, protection, and care for the future of the Christian populations in Asia, his time, his strength, his pecuniary resources, and the ardor of a soul which could not remain icily abandoned to sorrowing over ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume II. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... rattled this conversation off in a loud whisper, Ida seemed turning into stone, but at its close she said icily: ...
— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe
... sigh of an investigator whose surmise has proved correct. Miss More's features certainly expressed an impulsive, reckless and lovable temperament as opposed to Miss Whiton's conscientious and calculating prudence. Oh, yes, there was conscience enough in the icily handsome face among the instructors. It was conscience doubtless that had driven her across the campus to speak to Miss More on Class Day morning. Bea sighed again, this time with a faint twinge of sympathy. She generally meant well herself. A ...
— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz
... was hot and sunny in summer, and very dreary in winter; for the larger trees which grew upon it were oaks, and when they were bare of foliage, and the sand-hills and the pools had a deep covering of snow, the wind swept icily cold over its wide space. In September the oaks were still in leaf, and the grass green, and, though they were but stunted in size and coarse in texture, both were pleasant to look at. The sunshine was no longer hot, but it was serenely bright, and there was as lovely a blue overhead as if the equinox ...
— A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 - A Novel • Mrs. Harry Coghill
... me at that 'Oliver.' True, it was the familiarity of one born to command, one who had last night icily desired my services in the morning, and, womanlike, knew that she could queen it over me as she listed, but still, and this was the main thing, it was familiar and friendly, and seemed to lift me ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... strange to you, sir," said I pretty icily; "but I took that fancy into my head neither for your beaux yeux nor for profit. Moreover, if you don't understand without my help, I'll be shot if I can provide you with an explanation that won't strike you as wildly foolish. . . . However, if you ...
— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... pleasure. But unimpressionable natures are not so soon softened, nor are natural antipathies so readily eradicated. Mrs. Reed took her hand away, and, turning her face rather from me, she remarked that the night was warm. Again she regarded me so icily, I felt at once that her opinion of me—her feeling towards me—was unchanged and unchangeable. I knew by her stony eye—opaque to tenderness, indissoluble to tears—that she was resolved to consider me bad to the last; ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte
... must be singularly slight," replied the other icily, "if you imagine that a man without sufficient courage to be fitted by a tailor would be brave enough to wear ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 • Various
... said icily, "is no one's affair but my own. I am not wholly ignorant of the ways of the world. And I know ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... carefully, so I made no attempt to enter into conversation. Just before lunch the jolting of the train deposited the major's coat at my feet. I picked it up and handed it to him. He received it with thanks and a trace of a smile. He was polite, but icily so. I was an American, he was a German officer. In his way of reasoning my country was unneutrally making ammunition to kill himself and his men. But for my country the war would have been over long ago. Therefore he hated me, but his training ...
— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin
... features appeared sharper than usual, as if the inner virulence, the dark hidden passions smoldering in his breast had at length stamped their impression on the outer man. When he first spoke his tones were more irascible, less icily imperturbable, than they had been hitherto. They seemed to tell of a secret tension he had long been laboring under; but the steady cold eyes looked out from behind the wood ...
— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham
... them opened, thank you; and if that is the spirit in which you are going to the Crescent, you deserve to fail, as you are sure to do. I am not sure whether I shall not tell your father, after all,' she said icily. ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... resolute chin and a pair of hard, steel-gray eyes, which were set much too close together to leave great room for any attribution of an open-minded generosity. He and Mrs. Bates, under Marshall's promptings, bowed icily, and a cold and chilling ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller
... irritable. Mr. HEALY fulminated at Sir E. CARSON (who was not present) in language that reminded Colonel SHARMAN-CRAWFORD of "a low police-court." Mr. DILLON'S high top note was ceaselessly employed in emitting adjectives more remarkable, as Mr. BONAR LAW icily observed, for their strength than for their novelty. At one time it looked as if there was to be a first-class Irish row. But wiser counsels ultimately prevailed. The House as a whole was in no mood for protracted discussion in which non-Irish ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Dec. 12, 1917 • Various
... Adrienne left Roussillon place to go home. The wind cut icily across the commons and moaned as it whirled around the cabins and cattle-sheds. She ran briskly, muffled in a wrap, partly through fear and partly to keep warm, and had gone two-thirds of her way when she was brought to an abrupt stop by the arms of a man. She screamed sharply, and Father Beret, ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... to say to him: the truth that lay so icily upon her heart was all that she could have said: "I am your guilty mother. I robbed you of your father. And your father is dead, unmourned, unloved, almost forgotten by me." For that was the poison in her misery, to know that for Paul Quentin she felt almost nothing. To hear ...
— Amabel Channice • Anne Douglas Sedgwick
... pleased to hear that," said Mrs Patrick, rather icily, for this last observation had seemed to her a little rude. "Very," chimed in ...
— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed
... made it clear to her that she would hear from Selden before noon; but the day passed without his writing or coming. Lily remained at home, lunching and dining alone with her aunt, who complained of flutterings of the heart, and talked icily on general topics. Mrs. Peniston went to bed early, and when she had gone Lily sat down and wrote a note to Selden. She was about to ring for a messenger to despatch it when her eye fell on a paragraph in ...
— House of Mirth • Edith Wharton
... when simple wood-cutters ventured into the great dark wood, he would tell them his story and cry out, "I am the Prince! I am the Prince!" But the wood-cutters heard only the wind stirring in the branches. Ah, how cold it was in winter when the skies were steely black and the giant stars sparkled icily! And how pleasant it was when spring returned, and the ...
— The Firelight Fairy Book • Henry Beston
... of alternate hope and fear as the moment draws near when they shall put their fortune to the test, and win or lose it all. As they furtively glance over at the girls, how formidable they look, how superior to common affections, how serenely and icily indifferent, as if the existence of youth of the other sex in their vicinity at that moment was the thought furthest from their minds! How presumptuous, how audacious, to those youth themselves now appears the design, a little while ...
— Dr. Heidenhoff's Process • Edward Bellamy
... "Oh," said Dick icily, when they came up to him. "So that's where you were. Uncle Jack"—for now he saw he had just cause for anger—"I'll thank you to let ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown
... see how you can marry a man when he makes up his mind not to have you," he declared. "That is a difficult feat, and I shall have to see it done before I can be convinced that it can be accomplished," he replied, icily, adding: "There are many women in this world who would stand back and watch such a proceeding with the wildest anxiety, I ...
— Pretty Madcap Dorothy - How She Won a Lover • Laura Jean Libbey
... correctly," replied Morgan, icily. "I have quite forgotten your date; were you a success in ...
— The Pursuit of the House-Boat • John Kendrick Bangs
... and Sir Norman looked steadfastly at the queen as she received it. One of the gauzy nymphs presented it to her, kneeling, and she took it with a look half bored, half impatient, and lightly scrawled her autograph. The long, dark lashes did not lift; no change passed over the calm, cold face, as icily placid as a frozen lake in the moonlight—evidently the life or death of the stranger was less than nothing to her. To him she, too, was as nothing, or nearly so; but yet there was a sharp jarring pain at his heart, as he ...
— The Midnight Queen • May Agnes Fleming
... equation. And all his singularities appeared to be summed up in his refusal to take his place in the life-sized family group (tres distingue et tres soigne, remarks a modern critic of the work) painted about this time. His mother expostulated with him on the matter:—she must needs feel, a little icily, the emptiness of hope, and something more than the due measure of cold in things for a woman of her age, in the presence of a son who desired but to fade out of the world like a breath—and she suggested filial duty. "Good mother," he answered, "there are duties toward ...
— Imaginary Portraits • Walter Horatio Pater
... fading. "You want it left that way, Topham?" he asked icily. "This only confirms my contention that matters in Tubacca are completely out of control, that the Rebel element has the backing of the citizens. ...
— Rebel Spurs • Andre Norton
... eyes were fix'd on the ground. Pale, dejected, And lost in profound meditation she seem'd. Softly, silently, over her droop'd shoulders stream'd The afternoon sunlight. The cry of alarm And surprise which escaped her, as now on her arm Alfred Vargrave let fall a hand icily cold And clammy as death, all too cruelly told How far he had ...
— Lucile • Owen Meredith
... with fury, reached the door before her and stood blocking the passageway. "Miss McGuire, I'll trouble you to be more careful in addressing my guests," he said icily. ...
— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs
... sort," broke in Farnum, icily. "They haven't tried to run anything. But any workman is entitled to complain when he's expected to perform ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham
... leonine its roar! But, oh, how more the lion on a height, As there he glares and listens for the night, Having devoured day's clouds from shore to shore! Now grows his mane of billows, high and hoar. What scents he? Potencies escaping sight, Till, like the cold, they icily alight Upon a land where all ...
— Freedom, Truth and Beauty • Edward Doyle
... rather a lot of hard work—they are so very thin. Her clothes are neat but shabby—that is not the last look like French women have—but as if they had been turned to "make do"—I suppose she is very poor. Her manner is icily quiet. She only speaks when she is spoken to. ...
— Man and Maid • Elinor Glyn
... anything the matter with him for yourself," George responded, icily, "I don't think pointing it out would help you. You probably ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... nothing to do with this discussion," returned Roger, icily. "I do not bargain—in fact, I believe that I shall keep her for a time. She has it in mind to destroy herself, if I do not allow her to be ransomed, but she will find that door closed to her until I ...
— Triplanetary • Edward Elmer Smith
... said icily, "that I appreciate the fact of being deprived of the services of an honest woman ...
— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer
... icily. "However, I've traveled so much I daresay many incidents slip my mind. Well, Gladys, let's go in and get good seats. I want to hear Mrs. Eustice; they say she is a direct descendant ...
— Betty Gordon at Boarding School - The Treasure of Indian Chasm • Alice Emerson
... Mr. Everard,' she said icily, 'that it is at least an unpardonable rudeness to speak that way, and to me, of the woman I love ...
— The Man • Bram Stoker
... he remarked icily, "it is none of your business. It's none of your business whether I get shot as a ...
— The Deserter • Richard Harding Davis
... your car. You will need it for your business excursions!" Pat said icily. "We are very much indebted to you for letting us have the use of it here. It's been of ...
— The Love Affairs of Pixie • Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
... any occasion to refer to love in any way," she said, icily. "Mamma certainly does not expect me to do such an extraordinary thing. If you will talk sensibly, Phil, we may enjoy the drive, but if you persist in talking ...
— Castle Craneycrow • George Barr McCutcheon
... strange look came over his face as I asked him, and his lips set with a stern expression as he said stiffly, icily, "I had realized, Miss Linton, how utterly different our ways of looking at life must be; or else perhaps it is that you do not hold me to be enough of a knight to consider a woman's position before my ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various
... sat erect in her chair, frigidly, icily, disgustedly erect. Beside her Mrs. Brackett sat, scorn and mental nausea plain upon her countenance. Every one looked angry and disgusted except Mrs. Chase, who was eagerly whispering questions to her next neighbor, and Mrs. Tidditt, who was ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... with her reading, ignoring him, and he stood there not knowing how to get away. When he pulled himself together, after a few moments' silence, and was about to depart, wondering at the caprice of womankind, she looked up again, and said icily— ...
— One Day's Courtship - The Heralds Of Fame • Robert Barr
... Mr. Brewster said "Amen," Sary carried the large soup-pot from the stove and was about to ladle the soup into the bowls when Barbara said icily: ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... thought of herself was gone now; she became absorbed between alternate hope and dread. He was alive still; slowly the death-like pallor was passing away, faint tokens of returning circulation tingled through his benumbed veins. The beating of his heart was stronger, and his hands seemed less icily cold. But so slowly, and with so many intermissions, did the change creep on, that she did not dare to assure herself that he was reviving. Now and then the scent made her feel sick with terror; for she knew that his life depended upon her unceasing attention, and the tempter ...
— Brought Home • Hesba Stretton
... she asked icily, "that Frank's mother would actually refuse him so small a thing as a puppy, if it meant the merest chance of his ...
— Old Mr. Wiley • Fanny Greye La Spina
... mechanically. Everything seemed to have become very still and cold; feeling had frozen in her limbs; terror clutched at her icily out of the gloom. There were two lighted windows in front of her, two baleful yellow gleams, like the eyes of a monster of the night. At any instant the door would open, ...
— The Heart of Thunder Mountain • Edfrid A. Bingham
... "I am," Rajcik said icily. "And if I computed my courses the way you maintain your engines, we'd be plowing through ...
— Death Wish • Robert Sheckley
... charming as ever?" demanded Mrs. Morrell sweetly but icily. "Go in carefully now, so dear little wifey ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White
... doubt that my father has been and is a very alert business man," retorted Miss Josephine most icily; "but after he knew that you had started out actually to purchase a tract of lumber, he would certainly consider that you had established a ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester
... not seeking her," she returned, icily. "I have no desire to cultivate the particular friends ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish
... was nothing Brown could do. He retreated into icily correct, outraged dignity. And the others hauled in and unloaded rockets as they arrived. They came up fast. The processes of making them had been improved. They could be made faster, heated to sintering temperature faster, and the hulls cooled to usefulness ...
— Space Tug • Murray Leinster
... things, it is needless to say that I found the Petit Plateau keenly interesting. The menacing seracs leaned from the cliffs, glittering icily, and threw black shadows upon the neve beneath, but suffered us ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various
... baradurree, some fifty feet over the water, we could see the sides stretching back as they descended, and losing themselves in the clear water, which looked, from the intensity of its blue, both deep and treacherous to an unlimited extent. The water, too, was so intensely, icily cold, that an attempt to swim across it would have been a dangerous undertaking, and neither F. nor I could summon courage to jump in. We, however, bathed in the stream which ran out of the inexhaustible ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight
... "Tristan?" she said icily, drawing herself back with a movement which La Mothe recognized by an unhappy experience. "You choose ...
— The Justice of the King • Hamilton Drummond
... generous." She was sitting primly, speaking icily. "For that reason I wish to keep him in prison, as an example to evil-doers. I've gotten religion, George, since the terrible thing that man did to me. Sometimes I used to be unkind, and I wished for worldly pleasures, for dancing and the theater. But ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... I heard Tilton give this lecture twice, and it was given from start to finish in exactly the same way. It contained much learning—had flights of eloquence, bursts of bathos, puffs of pathos, but not a smile in the whole hour and a half. It was faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection—no more. It was so perfect that some people thought it great. The man was an actor and had what is called platform presence. He would walk on the stage, carrying his big, blue cloak over his arm, his slouch-hat in his hand—for he clung to these ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators • Elbert Hubbard
... I care," the other boy asked icily as he turned on his heel and walked out of the room again without taking the ...
— The Soul of a Child • Edwin Bjorkman
... was, a real coward. Her voice was full of deep contempt as she said icily, "Let me go on ...
— Absolution • Clara Viebig
... could stand it no longer. "Don't trouble, Mr. Marbolt," he said icily. "It is no use your offering rewards. The man who has gone after Anton will find him. And you can rest satisfied he'll take nothing from you on that score. You may not know ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... on one's steel helmet and shortened the strap of one's gas-mask, the spirit of Ypres touched one's soul icily. ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs
... I said icily. "You don't deserve an explanation, but you shall have one, and that is the last word I shall ever speak to you on the subject of Jack. His letter is the truth. I am his 'nearest of kin,' save the cousins in Pennsylvania of whom he speaks. He was orphaned in his babyhood ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... haven't had much experience," remarked the canteen matron icily. She thought Miss Gibbs "bossy" and interfering, and considered that she knew her own business best, ...
— The Madcap of the School • Angela Brazil
... explained. Shyness was rushing in waves to his head, and he could only save himself from disgrace by pretending to be more icily collected than any one in the room. "I'm f-frightfully overworked at present with rehearsals and things, so I applied for a f-fortnight's leave from my department and everybody thinks I'm f-fishing in Scotland or doing a walking tour ...
— The Education of Eric Lane • Stephen McKenna
... know much about me," said Marjorie icily, "if you jump to conclusions like that about me. Whatever that Logan man knows he doesn't know from me. Have you ...
— I've Married Marjorie • Margaret Widdemer
... first time felt embarrassed, and this made her a little angry. "I don't think I gave your brother any right to speak for me or of me in this matter," she said icily; "and if you are quite satisfied, as you say you are, of your own affection and Frida's, I do not see why you ...
— From Sand Hill to Pine • Bret Harte
... which had been blowing icily since sundown, had increased in violence to a gale. But he strode out of the lobby and into the street, unaware of it. There must be a stage door somewhere, he knew, and he meant to find it. It didn't occur to him to inquire. He'd quite lost his sense of social being; of membership in a civilized ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster
... icily, "if one dish is broken, I'll pay for it and make you a present of the machine, if you say so. If you do not wish to make the test, doubtless there are other hotel men in New York who will appreciate ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin
... the afternoon post in camp. He sat down alone in his tent and read and re-read each line. Then he stiffened and remained icily still. ...
— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn
... were on their way to fight foi France and to uphold the story of their old traditions. I could see no tears then but my own, for I confess that suddenly to my eyes there came a mist of tears and I was seized with an emotion that made me shudder icily in the glare of the day. For beyond the pageantry of the cavalcade I saw the fields of war, with many of those men and horses lying mangled under the hot sun of August. I smelt the stench of blood, for I had been in the muck and misery of war before and had seen the death carts ...
— The Soul of the War • Philip Gibbs
... the drawing-room, where he contrived to hover over Violet, and fence her round from all other admirers for the rest of the evening. They sang their favourite duets together, to the delight of everyone except Rorie, who felt curiously savage at "I would that my love," and icily disapproving at "Greeting;" but vindictive to the verge of homicidal mania at "Oh, wert thou in the ...
— Vixen, Volume II. • M. E. Braddon
... one to give her, gathered and arranged by himself, and greatly to my amusement, he is always cunningly provided with a duplicate, composed of exactly the same flowers, grouped in exactly the same way, to appease his icily jealous wife before she can so much as think herself aggrieved. His management of the Countess (in public) is a sight to see. He bows to her, he habitually addresses her as "my angel," he carries his canaries ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins
... he entered, a fire was burning in the grate and it struck him, with the inconsequent insistence of trifles in enormous issues, how chilly for the time of year the day had been and how icily cold his own house. On the left, at the far end of the room, Twyning sat at his desk. He was crouched at his desk. His head was buried in his hands. At his elbows, vivid upon the black expanse of the table, lay a torn ...
— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson
... there were more of it," said Lady Gertrude icily. She had not failed to notice earlier that Nan was wearing the abbreviated skirt of the moment—though in no way an exaggerated form of it—revealing delectable shoes and cobwebby stockings which seemed to cry out a gay defiance to the plain and ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... busy," O'Connor said in his icily polite tone, "I would like to have Miss Thompson back as soon as possible." He sounded as if Malone had ...
— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett
... current of his soul? It is not unlikely. He often found himself condemned to solitary toping over a stained newspaper, one of the most ungleeful joys known to man. Sometimes he played dominoes with Felicien Garbure, now icily received by the symbolists on account of an unpaid score. Whether desperation drove him occasionally to Bubu le Vainqueur and his friends I do not know. He was not really proud of his acquaintance ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke
... passed off well enough, as the subject was changed. Lord George began to talk of racing, and Hay responded. Mrs. Krill alone seemed shocked. "I don't believe in gambling," she said icily. ...
— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume
... the second time. "I never allow my boy to make any remarks whatever upon visitors who call," responded Mrs. Tallcat icily. ...
— The Tale of Lal - A Fantasy • Raymond Paton
... back for a week or ten days," she said icily. "If I'm longer than two weeks you can start Charlie Sands ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... His correspondence with Gordon was discovered. For some days his life hung on a thread. For several months he was heavily chained and fed on a daily handful of uncooked doura, such as is given to horses and mules. Tidings of these things were carried to Gordon. 'Slatin,' he observes icily, 'is still in chains.' He never doubted the righteousness of the course he had adopted, never for an instant. But few will deny that there were strong arguments on both sides. Many will assert that they were nicely balanced. Gordon must have weighed them carefully. He never wavered. Yet he ...
— The River War • Winston S. Churchill
... water which once had been his heart trickled vaguely and icily through the wrong veins, upsetting his ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... as to leave the room, gentlemen," he invited, icily. "I'll not detain you even to have you apologize for your intrusion on my privacy or ask pardon of a guest whom ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day
... out crystalclear, more musical than the cooing of the ringdove, but they cut the silence icily. There was that in her young voice that told that she was not a one to be lightly trifled with. As for Mr Reggy with his swank and his bit of money she could just chuck him aside as if he was so much ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... Maupassant's earlier tales were not a little hard and stern and unsympathetic; and here again Maupassant was the disciple of Flaubert. His manner was not only unemotional at first, it was icily impassive. These first stories of his were cold and they were contemptuous;—at least they made the reader feel that the author heartily despised the pitiable and pitiful creatures he was depicting. They dealt mainly with the externals ...
— Inquiries and Opinions • Brander Matthews
... are cosmetics that at last make the plainest face to be beautiful. In the calm of scholarship men have given up the thought that culture consists of an exquisite refinement in manners and dress, in language and equipage. The poet laureate makes Maud the type of polished perfection. She is "icily regular, splendidly null," for culture is more of the heart than of the mind. But as eloquence means that an orator has so mastered the laws of posture, and gesture and thought and speech that they are utterly forgotten, and have become second nature, so ...
— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis
... stormy night. The rain beat ceaselessly against the curtained windows; the wild spring wind shrieked through the city streets, icily cold; ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... you Reverend T. Thayer, gents," said the president, icily, "and seein' that he is field-secretary of the enforcement league, and knows his duty when he sees it clear, he will talk to you for your own good, and if it don't do you good, I warn you that there will be something said from the pulpit to-morrow ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... my dear?" Grandmother Ridge demanded with a subtle undercut of reproof. The little old lady, all in black, with a neat bonnet edged with white, stood on the steps midway between her son and her granddaughter, and smiled icily at the girl. Milly recognized that smile. It was more deadly to her than a curse—symbol of mocking age. She tossed her head, the sole retort that youth ...
— One Woman's Life • Robert Herrick
... illuminatingly, whilst Mr. Walters gazed at him icily. "Then in comes Davies," he continued, nodding in the direction of a little round-faced man, with "chauffeur" written on every inch of him "and 'e couldn't get 'is blinkin' 'arp to 'urn neither. Then we starts a-lookin' round, when lo and be'old! what do we find? Some streamin', saturated ...
— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins
... flatter yourself, Cleo, I hope," Mrs. Delarayne retorted icily, "that I say these things to amuse you ...
— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici
... Nelly had not heard definitely the date of Captain Langrishe's departure. For six days she kept away from the Rookes' house. On that last evening he had been icily cold. The poor girl was in torture. All the week she was calling pride to her aid. The sixth day it refused to bolster her up any longer. The sixth day she met at lunch a friend of hers and Belinda Rooke's. She asked a question about ...
— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan
... the trench-broken men stumbled into the barn to sleep, and all was quiet again, and Jeanne went about her daily tasks with the familiar hand of death once more closing icily ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke
... not I,' she answered icily. 'I am not sufficiently on a level with you to be able to judge ...
— Under the Red Robe • Stanley Weyman
... you ask or demand an interview with Miss Worthington?" icily said the old lawyer. "If you will put your wishes in writing, I will convey them to her. That is all I can say. I admit that she is my guest, and I also desire to say that she ...
— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage
... passed them by with a shy slight nod and a glance of tender pity. Fairy and Lark, and even Connie, sailed by with high heads and scornful eyes,—haughty, proud, icily removed. But Carol, by some weird and inexplicable fancy, treated them with sweet and gracious solicitude, quite friendly. Her smile as she passed was as sweet as for her dearest friend. Her "Good morning,—isn't this glorious weather?" was as affably cordial as her, "Breakfast ...
— Prudence Says So • Ethel Hueston
... imagined," she answered icily. "Mr. Washer and Mr. Close and Colonel Bouncer are to arrive on the noon train. You'll excuse me, won't you, please?" And she hurried on to the house by ...
— Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress • George Randolph Chester
... admitting how clever he had been to lock up those Russians. It was the best thing he could have done under the circumstances. It proved his freedom from anti-Catholic prejudices. It made him look icily objective. ...
— South Wind • Norman Douglas
... callousness, and considerateness struck him as one of the most revealing she had made. He laughed icily. "Our laws only allow of divorce for one cause and I advise you not to seek freedom for yourself—or for me—by disgracing yourself. It's not worth it. The conventions you scorn have ...
— Tante • Anne Douglas Sedgwick
... like!" Susan said icily. But presently, in a more softened tone, she added, "I do feel badly about Thorny! I oughtn't to have left her. It was all so quick! And she DID have a date, at least I know a crowd of people were coming to their house to dinner. And I was so utterly taken aback to be asked out with that crowd! The ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... concerning her than himself; when he sent friendly, comforting messages to her she trembled behind the screen with joy. She rested but little; and when the cold night wind blew flakes of snow through the loose blinds onto her warm face, when her own breath, frozen on the pillow, touched icily throat, chin and bosom, she was happy in the thought that she was allowed to suffer something for him who had suffered all for her. In those nights sacred love conquered earthly love in her; out of the pain of sweet, disappointed desire which yearned to possess, arose his image surrounded ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various
... all, only I am returning them through your private secretary, a very estimable young man, though I fear somewhat excitable and shaky, who is on his way to you with them now. . . . WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY? You repeat that," snapped Jimmie Dale suddenly, icily, "and I'll take them from under your nose again before morning! . . . Ah! ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... "Very amusing," said Annouchka icily. "And if you have a brother whom you love, Onoto, think how much more amusing it must be to have him shot ...
— The Secret of the Night • Gaston Leroux |
