"Sarcastically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is most just and reasonable in his demands," returned the lady, sarcastically; "but hath he no threats in reserve, no terrors wherewith to ...
— The Rivals of Acadia - An Old Story of the New World • Harriet Vaughan Cheney
... to himself, sarcastically). What is heavier than lead, and what is the name thereof, ...
— Judith • Arnold Bennett
... said Captain Jarvis, sarcastically; "Colonel Egerton and myself got as far as the village, to pay our respects to him, when we heard he had ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper
... a few yards of the water's edge on the Peninsula. Matthews smiled sarcastically at the War Office idea that no Turks can exist South of Achi Baba! At Sedd-el-Bahr, the first houses are empty, being open to the fire of the Fleet, but the best part of the other houses are defiladed by the ground and a month ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
... more sparring between Montezuma and Costa Barros: the former resuming the subject of the challenge; Barros bowing, and assuring him he did not refuse it: on which a member on the same side observed sarcastically, only half rising as he spoke, that those who meant really to fight would hardly speak it aloud in the General Assembly. This ended the dispute; and the vote of thanks was carried with only the voices of Montezuma and Franca against it; and so ...
— Journal of a Voyage to Brazil - And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 • Maria Graham
... which she had bought on purpose for him." We don't blame Dr. BARNARDO—much; but we do blame these weak-knee'd parents and guardians, who apparently don't know their own minds. In the recent case which was sarcastically treated by the Judge, Dr. B. found that he could ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, August 9, 1890. • Various
... sarcastically, feeling that now he was leader in the race for love against this Mississippi representative, who was, he knew, a subservient tool and a taker of bribes. "You surely do intrude, Norton. Wouldn't any ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise
... her beyond what these Lines convey, and she speaks of them somewhat sarcastically and ironically. This "young man", she thinks, will ...
— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson
... you informed yourself about the country you are trying to annex to the Blithers estate," she said sarcastically. "I can assist you to some extent if you will be good enough to listen. In the first place, the royal castle at Edelweiss is one of the most substantial in the world. It has not been allowed to fall into decay. In fact, it is inhabitated ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... eyes must have entranced you, your description is so lucid," she replied sarcastically. Then she added: "How long did Bert stay there after you ...
— Uncle Terry - A Story of the Maine Coast • Charles Clark Munn
... is very sweet. Dick's face beamed as he answered, "Yes, Nell; the governor has given his consent. It was not so very difficult to obtain after all" (a trifle sarcastically), "therefore I'm off ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... you were attempting to dupe and swindle some one else," sarcastically retorted the diamond dealer. "The stones are a remarkably fine imitation, I am free to confess, and would easily deceive a casual observer; but if you have ever tried and succeeded in this clever game before, you ...
— Mona • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... the same authority which his father had,—except a gaoler. No master has it over his servants: it is diminished in our colleges; nay, in our grammar-schools.' BOSWELL. 'What is the cause of this, Sir?' JOHNSON. 'Why the coming in of the Scotch,' (laughing sarcastically). BOSWELL. 'That is to say, things have been turned topsy turvey.—But your serious cause.' JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, there are many causes, the chief of which is, I think, the great increase of money. No man now depends ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... Sir Robert?" inquired the old man sarcastically, "because, if you are, I swear you're achieving wonders, considering the slight materials you have ...
— Willy Reilly - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... seduced by this entertainment into approval of the firemen's idleness and inquired sarcastically why they had left their cots behind or if they thought they were still on WPA? The men remained impervious until the chief jumped out of his red roadster and surveyed the scene napoleonically. "Thought somebody was pulling a rib," he explained to no one in ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore
... said Tam sarcastically, "they've nawthin' to do but be oot or in—A've no patience wi' the stars—puir silly bodies winkin' an' blinkin' an' doin' nae guid to mon or beastie—chuck me ma breeches an' let the warm watter ...
— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace
... just wonderful weather?" said Mollie sarcastically, gazing out at the leaden landscape. "Just the kind of a day to ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point - Or a Wreck and a Rescue • Laura Lee Hope
... the Mitre, Johnson said sarcastically to me, 'It seems, Sir, you have kept very good company abroad— Rousseau and Wilkes!' I answered with a smile, 'My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company: do you r(@ally think him a f bad man?' Johnson. ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... the care of a meal bag, in which were fastened a cock and four hens. We should see, she said when she let them out, whether we were to keep hens or not. Was Veronica to go without new-laid eggs? Had he sold the cat, she sarcastically inquired of father. ...
— The Morgesons • Elizabeth Stoddard
... inquiringly to the speaker's face, but seeing that this was not meant sarcastically, he said drily,—"No; I shall arrange to be as far away from the sultan's elephant ...
— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn
... anxious curiosity regarding the increase of railway fares, but when invited to "name the day" Mr. BONAR LAW remained coy. Suggestions for postponements in the interests of this or that class of holiday-maker finally goaded him into asking sarcastically, "Why not until after Christmas?" Whereupon the House ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 28th, 1920 • Various
... warrant back to the sheriff. He had recovered his self-possession. He was again their Duke of Fort Canibas, who could retire with dignity even from such a position as this. "Go ahead and train with your crowd, Sheriff Niles," he drawled, sarcastically—"Tom Willy, and whoever they are behind him that are too ashamed ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day
... "You speak sarcastically, and I hope unfairly. To my mind, the most important facts are these—that poor Carroway was shot from behind, and that the smugglers had no fire-arms, ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore
... pity to have disappointed you in your fun," remarked Nat sarcastically after a particularly gleeful yelp from Ned. "What you would have missed had ...
— Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays • Margaret Penrose
... There is nothing," said Keith. "I am going to turn my attention now to—getting an establishment." He spoke half sarcastically, but Mrs. ...
— Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page
... the United States lead the world in beautiful paper-money; and when I exchanged my crisp, handsome greenbacks for the dirty, flimsy, ill-executed notes of the Dominion, at a dead loss of value, I could not be reconciled to the transaction. I sarcastically called the stuff I received "Confederate money;" but probably no one was wounded by the severity; for perhaps no one knew what a resemblance in badness there is between the "Confederate" notes of our civil war and the notes of the Dominion; and, besides, the Confederacy was too popular in the Provinces ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... from both! May I ask to what fortunate circumstance I am indebted for the honor of this visit?" said Jaspar, sarcastically mimicking the ...
— Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue • Warren T. Ashton
... basins and ribs, of boulders and saddles and moraine-hopping. They become rampant at the thought of the stout, unworthy people who are now dragged to the tops by the help of rope-chains and railings. They sarcastically remark that they may have to abandon certain over-exploited peaks through the danger of falling sardine-tins. They issue directions for climbing calculated to chase away the poet from the snow-fields, as when Sir Martin Conway says that a certain glacier ...
— Mountain Meditations - and some subjects of the day and the war • L. Lind-af-Hageby
... the Exposition is Duality of Key-relationship. Between these two main themes there is always a modulatory connection or Bridge Passage which, in the time of Haydn, was generally of a very perfunctory, stereotyped character. Wagner once sarcastically remarked that Haydn's transitions reminded him of the clatter of dishes between courses at a royal feast. In Mozart we find the bridge-passage more deftly planned, more organically connected with what precedes and follows; but it was Beethoven ...
— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding
... anyways," O'Brien returned coldly. "I've seen him right here. After that he rode east. One of the boys see him pick up Sergeant McBain an' two troopers. Will that do you?" he inquired sarcastically. ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum
... kind of you, fresh from the Juniors, to come and give us Seniors a lesson in managing our affairs! Perhaps you'd like to be President? Would that content you?" enquired Hilda Browne sarcastically. ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil
... sarcastically replied the bachelor to a comment of mine; "of course, all magnanimous, generous, and noble-souled people delight in seeing other people made happy, and are quite content to accept this vicarious felicity. But I, you see, ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various
... warm south has got into your blood, Mr. Glover," she said sarcastically. "A course at the Riviera would make you ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... pseudonyms, were filled with this truculent bombast; and like sentiments were thundered from the pulpit by men who had quite forgotten for the moment their duty of preaching reconciliation and forgiveness of injuries. Why should not these wretches, it was sarcastically asked, be driven at once from the country? Of course they could not desire to live under a free government which they had been at such pains to destroy. Let them go forthwith to his majesty's dominions, and live under the government they preferred. It would never ...
— The Critical Period of American History • John Fiske
... gambled for money yet?" observed Madame Wachner. "In England they are too good to gamble!" She spoke sarcastically, but Sylvia did ...
— The Chink in the Armour • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... of importance, took his leave; de la Vrilliere then presented the , accompanying it with some remarks of his own upon the talents of the minister, and his regret at being selected for so unpleasant an office. "A truce to your feigned regrets, my lord duke," replied the disgraced minister, sarcastically, "I am well assured my dismissal could not have been brought me by hands more ready to discharge the trust than yours." Saying this, M. de Choiseul placed his credentials in the hands of the duke, and slightly ...
— "Written by Herself" • Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
... clean-shaven, rosy-complexioned, grey-haired, with something of the air and carriage of a country squire; a pleasant-tempered man too, although he appeared to be in a pet of some sort, and fairly fired up when the first lieutenant (a little sarcastically, I thought) ventured to hope that he ...
— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... of a fellow?" She laughed sarcastically. "To be quite truthful, Maurice, the best fiddler the Con. ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... had undoubtedly watched the whole proceeding nodded to him and remarked sarcastically, ...
— The Tale of Lal - A Fantasy • Raymond Paton
... coffee-house, intent upon the game, and sinking, as a matter of course, under the adverse fortune which I braved with obstinacy. I never won, and I had not the moral strength to stop till all my means were gone. The only comfort I had, and a sorry one truly, was to hear the banker himself call me—perhaps sarcastically—a fine player, every time I lost a large stake. My misery was at its height, when new life was infused in me by the booming of the guns fired in honour of the arrival of the bailo. He was on board the Europa, a frigate of seventy-two guns, and he had taken only eight days to ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... sarcastically as he started for the door, "that your credit is gone. But if you don't dig up that forty thousand, you'll be as sorry you ever borrowed it as I ...
— The Desert Fiddler • William H. Hamby
... almost all kisses: hardly any words, just blots and kisses. Ogilvie did not press his lips to the kisses this time. He read the letter quickly, thrust it into his pocket, and once more turned his attention to what his wife had said. He smiled sarcastically as he read. The evening before he had written Lord Grayleigh accepting the proffered engagement. ...
— Daddy's Girl • L. T. Meade
... waving his navy straw hat and giving it two or three vicious sweeps at the flies. "Just the very gent as I wanted to see. How are yer, Mr Burnett, sir? Warm, aren't it? Don't you wish you was a chips, sir?" he added sarcastically, as Fitz gave him a ...
— Fitz the Filibuster • George Manville Fenn
... differences, and high words had passed between them, during which the chief had threatened to send a fleet of his war-canoes, with a thousand men, to break up and burn the schooner; whereupon the captain smiled sarcastically, and, going up to the chief, gazed sternly in his face, while he said, "I have only to raise my little finger just now, and my big gun will blow your whole village to atoms in five minutes!" Although the chief was a bold man, he quailed before the pirate's glance and threat, ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne
... Mr. Adams, sarcastically, "that when color comes into the question, there may be other considerations. It is possible that this house, which seems to consider it so great a crime to attempt to offer a petition from slaves, may, for ...
— Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the Unied States • William H. Seward
... old man sarcastically, "Matilda will never marry again, I'm sure; she loves her old dad too much and feels far too happy ...
— The Poor Plutocrats • Maurus Jokai
... not call this weather spring," put in Van, sarcastically, pointing to the snow-buried ...
— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett
... His Excellency spared me no details," said Mr. Fenshawe, smiling sarcastically. "If I were a few years younger, and we had no women on board, I would not allow any threats of that sort to hinder me, and I am much mistaken in my officers and men if they refused to back me up. But, as it is, we can do nothing. That is what ...
— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy
... correspondence school. At least, with you standing tied and blinded that way, a good professional one would have tried for your gold tooth—or, anyway, your collar button. I see your secret though," I go on as sarcastically as possible: "You got the lad's address and you're going to have him here Saturday night to glide among the throng and ply his evil trade. Am I right ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... mean by sitting down?" he demanded sarcastically. "Don't you know that now you are in charge you ought ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... fun. Hilda and Janet apparently hesitated about going, but Mr. Orgreave, pointing out that there could not under the most favourable circumstance be another Centenary of Sunday Schools for at least a hundred years, sarcastically urged them to set forth. The fact was, as Janet teasingly told him while she hung on his neck, that he wished to accentuate as much as possible his own martyrdom to industry. Were not all the shops ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett
... the cruel yellow bird that turned out to be only a harmless little chicken," said Master Raymond sarcastically. "Enough of this folly. Will you marry us now—or not? If you will, you shall be put ashore unharmed. If you will not, you shall go along with us. Make up your mind at once, for we shall soon be out ...
— Dulcibel - A Tale of Old Salem • Henry Peterson
... the others, and smiled as sarcastically as was possible considering the mood he was in. "It sure does amuse me," he observed, "to see growed men cryin' before they're hurt! By gracious, I expect t' make a stake out uh that fall! I can get long odds from them Diamond Gs, and from anybody they get a chance to talk to. I'm kinda planning," ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... to seek a new camping-ground, did not smile at the procession, or find it worthy of ridicule or lament. Nor did Abraham, once settled, and reposing in the cool of the evening at the door of his tent, gaze sarcastically upon the moving of any of his ...
— Suburban Sketches • W.D. Howells
... nerve for ten big Dogs to face one little Coyote," remarked the father, sarcastically. "Wait till ...
— Animal Heroes • Ernest Thompson Seton
... out, haven't you?" Joe was asking sarcastically. The sarcasm was as hollow as an ...
— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper
... find it so when we are all on that iron grid which I noticed is wide enough for three," I remarked sarcastically. "Now be quiet, I want to ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard
... doubt your word in the least, Mrs. Sprowl,"—Ropes smiled sarcastically. "But of course you can't object to our searching the premises, for we're in the performance of a solemn dooty. Any whiskey in ...
— Cudjo's Cave • J. T. Trowbridge
... in wine-shops," observed Democrates, sarcastically. "Enough that a second papyrus with Glaucon's seal has been found ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... order to win himself a hold in the chaos of things, was forced himself to become a Stoic and to flee to the inaccessible stillness of the self-thinking activity and the self-moving will. Stoics and Epicureans had both what we call an ideal. The Stoics used the expression "kingdom"; as Horace says, sarcastically, "Sapiens ...
— Pedagogics as a System • Karl Rosenkranz
... before us,' Sir Henry asked, 'are we justified in maintaining what has been sarcastically, though perhaps unfairly, called Sir John Lawrence's policy of "masterly inaction"? Are we justified in allowing Russia to work her way to Kabul unopposed, and there to establish herself as a friendly power prepared to protect ...
— Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief • Frederick Sleigh Roberts
... it, does it?" enquired the young man in the water rather sarcastically. "Here, give this thing a hoist, will you, Rod? I can't understand how such an idiotic thing happened? Miss Graham and I were paddling along as steadily ...
— The End of the Rainbow • Marian Keith
... was, he was going to enter the governor's office as a mere petitioner, not sure of his reception—for Perry Haughton had beaten Falkner, and owed Lawler nothing. Indeed, after his election, Haughton had referred sarcastically to Lawler. ...
— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer
... infatuation at Aix, ten years before. He disliked her especially because she had for the moment, in posing as Madame de Balzac, made Madame Hanska believe he was married. He enjoyed telling her of Madame Hanska's admiration for and devotion to him, and sarcastically remarked to her that she was such a "true friend" she would be happy to learn of his financial success. Thus, during a period of several years, while speaking of her as his enemy, the novelist continued to dine with ...
— Women in the Life of Balzac • Juanita Helm Floyd
... "Funny, isn't it? I feel"—sarcastically—"like going into fits myself when I think of it, it is so screamingly absurd. And how it happened I can't tell you, unless it is that we are fallen into our dotage. I suppose it must ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... insult. He had learned something that he much wanted to know, and returned to his hills to be sarcastically complimented by the Mullah, whose tongue raging round the camp-fires was deadlier flame than ever ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling
... the present hour, he made an attack upon his friend's favourite, Boo-ree-a, in which he was not only unsuccessful, but was punished for his breach of friendship, as above related, by Cole-be, who sarcastically asked him, 'if he meant that kind of conduct to be a specimen ...
— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 • David Collins
... at that price. This ain't Boston, you understand, and wages is low in Riverview. I'm not askin' anybody to come here. If Abner goes there'll be jest a dozen arter his job in an hour," replied the grocer, sarcastically. ...
— Dick the Bank Boy - Or, A Missing Fortune • Frank V. Webster
... "Ah!" exclaimed the emperor, sarcastically, "you call me Austria, and your love is bestowed upon my station and my armies! It is not I whom you love, but that Emperor of Austria in whose hand lies the power that may rescue ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... fault,' I said, a little sarcastically; 'if you should treat him as Cragin and David do, you might have nothing ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... awake no enthusiasm in that unresponsive mind, he turned to another subject and asked with a change of tone: "And what are you doing for the memory of your mother and your brother? Is it enough that you come here every year, to weep like a woman over a grave?" And he smiled sarcastically. ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal
... find it frequently in this particular part of Martin Chuzzlewit. Martin himself is constantly breaking out into a controversial lucidity, which is elsewhere not at all a part of his character. When they talk to him about the institutions of America he asks sarcastically whether bowie knives and swordsticks and revolvers are the institutions of America. All this (if I may summarise) is expressive of one main fact. Being a satirist means being a philosopher. Dickens was not always very philosophical; but he had this permanent quality of the philosopher ...
— Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens • G. K. Chesterton
... won't be necessary for me to give his love to you, will it?" he said sarcastically. "You seem to ...
— The Foolish Lovers • St. John G. Ervine
... naturally right and proper," remarked the Retainer at these words, smiling sarcastically, "but at the present stage of the world, such things cannot be done. Haven't you heard the saying of a man of old to the effect that great men take action suitable to the times. 'He who presses,' he adds, 'towards what is auspicious and avoids what is inauspicious is a perfect man.' From ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... report of the Budget resolutions there was, of course, the usual attempt to get rid of the tea-duty. As Colonel WARD sarcastically pointed out, opposition to this particular impost has been for years the "by-election stunt" of every party in turn. To-day the rejection was moved by the Labour Party, and when the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER asked if in exchange they were prepared to extend ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 5, 1920 • Various
... the other, "so that is it! And pray what put the idea into your head so suddenly?" She paused a moment, and then, as the girl did not raise her head, she went on, sarcastically, "I fancy I know pretty well where you got all of these wonderful new ideas; you have not been talking with Mr. Howard ...
— King Midas • Upton Sinclair
... good news," said the doctor, sarcastically, "for during some time there hath been trouble, not there ...
— Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt
... hides!" laughed Mount, sarcastically. "Come, my friend, we're your customers. Down with your bales ...
— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers
... shall be apt to forget it in a hurry while I have such a gentle reminder at hand," he replied sarcastically. ...
— Sowing and Reaping • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
... the doctor sarcastically. "That makes three. What about the scores of others dotted about the earth in the hottest countries? Your theory will not hold water, my lad. But what's that man going aloft for? We can't ...
— Steve Young • George Manville Fenn
... doubt your sincerity, Bill," he said sarcastically, "but I think things would be a bit easier if you'd just write it out. Let him ...
— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper
... and as a result, very late when I rose, and equally late when I got to the office. My father was unnecessarily worked up about it, but he exaggerated when he said I'd never been on time. He forgets the occasions when he's awakened me and dragged me down with him. Nor was it necessary to refer so sarcastically to my missing the Baikal; I reminded him of the wrecking of the liner, and he responded very heartlessly that if I'd been aboard, the rocket would have been late, and so would have missed colliding with the British fruitship. ...
— The Worlds of If • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
... roundsman repeated, "Oh, not a bit, not a bit. He enjoyed it. It gave him so much credit," the man added sarcastically, "especially after he fell down in getting the evidence against that other ...
— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve
... Laughing sarcastically, Kumar repeated my remark to our guru, who had just entered the room. Fully expecting to be scolded, I retired ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... be, sir?" he replied sarcastically. "Have you made some discovery that has escaped me? Has the sea yielded up some novel ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
... gentleman is very kind to amuse himself at the expense of a little country bumpkin, but he would do well to ascertain if his flattery would go down before administering it next time," I said sarcastically, and I heard him calling to me as I abruptly went off to ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin
... debutantes to look even younger than their years. Equally elegant and more miscellaneous and large-hearted in social outlook was Last-Trick's show the year previous, the popular Cannibal Crush Lunch, at which the confections handed round were sarcastically moulded in the forms of human arms and legs, and during which more than one of our gayest mental gymnasts was heard offering to eat his partner. The witticism which will inspire this evening is as yet in Mr ...
— The Wisdom of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... Grafton sarcastically. "Well, I wouldn't try very hard to claim relationship if I were you. I guess if the honest truth were known there aren't very many fellows who would want to be in John Garwood's shoes, ...
— The New Boy at Hilltop • Ralph Henry Barbour
... "slipped," but this time, though it was within easier reach, and for a first-rate fielder was even a possible catch, Riddell missed it, and two runs were made. "Look out there!" cried Bloomfield severely. "Well tried, sir!" cried some one, sarcastically. "Well missed, sir!" cried some one else, with painful truthfulness. Riddell saw the crisis. Another miss like that, a few more taunts like those, and he might as ...
— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed
... Mexican; with some of the gutturalness of the Indian. "No got a right to sleep?" he asked, half sarcastically, as he recovered his gun from where it ...
— The Boy Ranchers - or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X • Willard F. Baker
... spirit had seized him by the throat and shaken him violently, meaning at all costs to enter his mouth, and that it was to escape serious injury that he had fled!" When I told him that it was I who had touched him with the end of my stick, he sarcastically smiled, as if he ...
— Corea or Cho-sen • A (Arnold) Henry Savage-Landor
... sarcastically, yet hating herself for feeling a little pang of displeasure. "May I ...
— Septimus • William J. Locke
... ain't exactly usual (there may be exceptions, but it ain't exactly usual) to come to a gentleman's funeral, and especially not all the way from New York, without some sort of an idea that he's dead. Some sort of a general idea, anyhow," he added still more sarcastically; for his admiration for the twins had given way to doubt and discomfort, and a suspicion was growing on him that with incredible and horrible levity, seeing what the moment was and what the occasion, they were filling up the time ...
— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
... a pocketbook in an inner pocket of the chauffeur's closely buttoned jacket—"M. Anatole Labergerie, care of Morris Siegelman, saloon-keeper, East Broadway, N. Y.," he said. "You know someone named Anatole, anyhow, so we are warm, as the kids say," he went on sarcastically. ...
— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy
... sarcastically, "Count Marescotti is not to be trusted. He is a genius—he may be back on his way ...
— The Italians • Frances Elliot
... It has been sarcastically asserted, that few persons exist who can afford to be natural; and it is probable that if the human race were to allow their manners to be perfectly natural; that is, were they to allow all the passions ...
— The Elements of Character • Mary G. Chandler
... exclaimed sarcastically; "he imagines the whole police force is on his track, just because he happens to have ...
— The Fat and the Thin • Emile Zola
... circular dated November 4, confirmed his previous mandate of October 18, and censured the action of the parish priests, who "in improper language and from the pulpit," had incited the native headmen to set aside his authority. The author of the circular sarcastically added the pregnant remark, that he was penetrated with the conviction that the Archbishop's sense of patriotism and rectitude would deter him from subverting the law. This incident seriously aroused the jealousy of the friars holding vicarages, and did not improve the relations ...
— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman
... "I was speaking sarcastically, of course, Mr. Ambassador. Didn't you notice the kind of shocked little gasp I gave ...
— The Yillian Way • John Keith Laumer
... tent is wrecked. That's all," sarcastically answered Patricia Scott, who was standing near to Jane. "However, don't let a little thing like that ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas • Janet Aldridge
... her cold and fearless voice rang out: "Put your revolver away. I am not afraid to tell you, and that thing might go off. Is it possible," she continued sarcastically, "you have ...
— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer
... Doc told him sarcastically. It was meant as a joke, though a highly bitter one. Jake nodded ...
— Badge of Infamy • Lester del Rey
... if my husband's not at home you can't stay here," she said sarcastically. "I can imagine how miserable you would be if you were in love with me! Wait a bit: one day I shall throw myself on your neck. . . . I shall see with what horror you will run away from ...
— The Party and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... movement as Clowes stooped and kissed the girl's hand, almost as if intending to strike the baron; but checking himself; he sarcastically remarked, with a frowning face: "If you enjoy the favour of his Lordship, Miss Meredith, you need not look further for help. We fellows who fight for our country barely get enough to keep life in us, but the commissariat knows not short commons. Mr. Commissary-General, you have an opportunity ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... been solely indebted toward the last of his time of trial for what human companionship had come to him. His friends, how easily they had given him up! He thought of poor old Rip Van Winkle's plaint, "How soon we are forgotten when we are gone!" and sarcastically amended it to "How soon we are forgotten when we are here!" A few invitations declined, the ordinary social calls left for some other time, and he was apparently forgotten. He could not much blame himself that he had voluntarily severed the ties. A man cannot dine in comfort ...
— The Wolf's Long Howl • Stanley Waterloo
... sarcastically as he contrasted Paul's high spirits with the state of depression in which he had left him not ...
— Caught In The Net • Emile Gaboriau
... of his flock, a respectable farmer in the neighbourhood, those personal attractions and amiable dispositions which awakened his manly sympathies; and, too high-minded to stoop to mercenary considerations, he married a second time, without hunting for a tocher, as is sometimes imputed sarcastically to the Scottish clergy. Isobel Wilson ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI • Various
... to wear our white cravats, and our varnished boots, and dine in ceremony. What is the use of a man being a widower, if he can't dine in his shooting-jacket? Poor Mill! He has the slavery now without the wife. [He speaks sarcastically to the picture.] Well, well! Mrs. Milliken! YOU, at any rate, are gone; and with the utmost respect for you, I like your picture even better than the original. ...
— The Wolves and the Lamb • William Makepeace Thackeray
... they be, six, or sixteen, or sixty-six!" remarked McWha, sarcastically, stepping to the door. "I don't want none of 'em! Ye kin look out for ...
— The Backwoodsmen • Charles G. D. Roberts
... elegance; there is a fantastical assemblage of turrets, attics, and chimneys, and a poverty or disproportion, especially in "the temple-like forms" which complete the ends towards the park. The dome, too, has been sarcastically compared with a "Brobdignagian egg." It strictly belongs to the back part of the palace, and had it been screened from the front, its form might ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, - Issue 278, Supplementary Number (1828) • Various
... taking a bird's-eye-view of the mental qualities of America; then, raising his right hand, which held a scroll, he extended it to the Chair as Mr. O'Sullivan demanded—'Hats off!' The silence of a minute was then broken by Monsieur Souley, who, having regained his courage, interposed sarcastically,—'a messenger from the King of the Dutch?' The official gave a glance in return, and bowed. A seat was now provided for the stranger, who, as he was about to sit down, intimated that in the event of the terms of his Majesty's proclamation not being complied with, painful as it would be to his ...
— The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth • Timothy Templeton
... shameful. This comes out very clearly in both instances above—quoted from the Bible. For in Exodus xxxii. 25 it is said that "Aaron had made them (the dancers) naked UNTO THEIR SHAME among their enemies (READ opponents)," and in 2 Sam. vi. 20 we are told that Michal came out and sarcastically rebuked the "glorious king of Israel" for "shamelessly uncovering himself, like a vain fellow" (for which rebuke, I am sorry to say, David took a mean revenge on Michal). In both cases evidently custom had so far changed that ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter
... moment the repulsive person before her overcame the remembrance of the lost "C," and Nattie replied, sarcastically, ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer
... dictionary. In a dissertation upon any subject he seems called upon to begin from the very beginning of things, desde la creacion del mundo—"from the beginning of the world," as the Spanish-American himself sarcastically says at times. Perhaps this is a habit acquired from the early Spanish chroniclers, who often began their literary works with an account of the Creation! The love of linking together the material and the poetic is, of course, at the basis of this striving after effect, and no philosophical ...
— Mexico • Charles Reginald Enock
... Superstition"—a crude rechauffe of the usual sceptical arguments which have been propounded a thousand times before and infinitely better expressed. The Bishop has not found it difficult to reply, but at best this contest between two dignitaries is an unseemly spectacle. Meanwhile the newspapers sarcastically ask how it is that the judges, who are said to be so overworked, have time for such amusements. Religious feeling runs high in Melbourne. The Presbyterian assembly has recently deposed Mr. Strong, the minister of the Scotch church, on account ...
— Six Letters From the Colonies • Robert Seaton
... expedition, but it only enacted the old story of "The mountain in labour." The point against which this force was directed was the sterile rock of Bellisle, which, at the expense of two thousand lives, was captured. Thus disappointed, the people complained of the obstinacy of Pitt, and asked, sarcastically, what could be done with it? Nevertheless, if it was no use to England, it was a place of importance to France, as commanding a large extent of coast, and affording a convenient receptacle to privateers, whence it was insisted on as a valuable article of exchange, when peace was concluded ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... did," retorted Bill sarcastically. And he watched his man hurry out into the sunlight with eyes that ...
— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum
... sarcastically. "I should say the throuble was plain enough. If the gintleman has any difficulty seein' it now, he won't long. It'll take the farm av snakes, sor, an' little rid divils wid long ...
— Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York • Lemuel Ely Quigg
... his mother, in persuading her she was forty miles off, on Crackskull Common, though she had been trundled about on her own grounds. "What's that? what's that!" cried Goldsmith to the manager, in great agitation. "Pshaw! doctor," replied Colman, sarcastically, "don't be frightened at a squib, when we've been sitting these two hours on a barrel of gunpowder!" Though of a most forgiving nature Goldsmith did not easily forget this ungracious and ...
— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving
... but once. At that time I knew they were coming and we did it partly for a lark and partly because I wanted so terribly to see Athol." A little catch came into her voice just there. Miss Woodhull wholly misinterpreted the reason for it and murmured sarcastically: ...
— A Dixie School Girl • Gabrielle E. Jackson |
