"Tartly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... going if there were, do you?" she remarked in English tartly, curving her arching black brows at him; "how many are we—five? That's three too many, in my opinion. Father Rielle—I go with you in Mr. Poussette's buggy; you others there, you three messieurs—you can go ...
— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison
... Paul a little tartly. "Of course most people must do so if they talk at all, and they are usually the people who talk all the time. But I have known people whose ordinary conversation was extraordinary, and worth putting down in ...
— The Spinner's Book of Fiction • Various
... tartly, "are not going to be asked what they'd like any more than I've been. I want you each to go down quietly and have a look over at the new ground, tell the company commanders what the job is, and have a talk with me after ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
... are dim," said the voice tartly, and Bart found himself looking down, as his eyes adjusted to the new light level, ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... more tartly. "For you to come here in this way to care for my character, when you yourself are the talk of ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... entirely with Susan and the sailor, I am sure," said Mrs. Cosham, rather tartly. "My sister-in-law," she continued, "has laid her burdens upon Providence at every crisis in her life, and Providence, I must confess, has responded ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... that may be seen,' said he, patting her, and wheezed up from his chair to waddle across to the Dragon. But Aunt Lisbeth tartly turned the Dragon ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... Mrs. Douglass; "I know all about it. Now, do you s'pose you're agoing to be any happier among all those great folks than you would be if you staid among little folks?" she added, tartly; while Catherine looked with a kind of incredulous admiration at ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell
... your salary for its solution," Mr. Minturn said tartly. "Work on the theory I outlined; if it fails after a fair test, we'll try another. Those boys have got to be saved. They are handsome little chaps with fine bodies and good ancestry. What ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... Sir, either of you, but remember the lesson you've got,' said the doctor, tartly, and away he plunged into a sharp trot, with a cling-clang and a cloud of dust. And Puddock followed that ungracious leech, with a stare of gratitude and admiration, almost with a benediction. And his anxiety relieved, he and his principal prepared forthwith to provide ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... in the piano if I'm out," he said tartly. "I suppose you've seen a piano—you'll know it from ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill
... the woman, tartly. "Them Days never did have right good sense—yer uncle an' aunt, I mean. When I was a gal we wouldn't have been allowed to have so much freedom where the young ...
— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long
... Priscilla, a trifle tartly, for after the vicissitudes of her life it was but natural that she should hesitate to regard so stable an institution as the Dinwiddie Bank as something to be "stood." "Why, I thought a young man couldn't do better than get a place in the bank. ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... hey? Well," tartly, "she better mind her own affairs. I thought she rated Kenelm Parker about as high as anybody these days. He spends more time in ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln
... an ugly word," tartly cried Mrs. Goddard, who began to find the tax upon her patience almost greater than she ...
— The Masked Bridal • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... Fyles," she said, almost tartly, "but I guess that lever needs to help them into your traps to do any ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum
... Miss Sally Ruth tartly, "that it's my last chance to make a born fool of myself. Why, you old gasbag, if I had to stay in the same house with you I'd be tempted to stick a darning needle in you to hear you explode! Appleby, I'm like that woman that had a chimney that smoked, ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... excitable Dublinites. Finally he yielded to expediency, and, coming forward to the centre of the stage, expressed his contrition. At this, a puppy in the pit cried out "Kneel, you rascal!" and Evans, now thoroughly exasperated, tartly answered: "No, you rascal! I'll kneel to none but God, and my Queen." Then ...
— The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield • Edward Robins
... a portrait if an original didn't exist?" demanded the young man tartly. "Since you want to know so much, you may as well come to the gypsy encampment on the verge of the wood and satisfy yourself." He threw on a Panama hat, with a cross look. "Since when have you come to the conclusion that I ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... waiting for this, Gloriana," said Ajax, tartly. "As a member of the family you have not treated my brother and myself fairly. This mysterious work of yours is not only wearing you to skin and bone, it is consuming us ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... Margaret's cradle; for a Methodist mother in Israel, hopeful of a sympathetic response from Elsie M'Phatter (the non-churchgoing one), ventured the comment that similar events in her own brilliant maternal record had provoked no unseemly joy; to which Elsie responded tartly— ...
— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles
... is coming directly," June said tartly. "If you don't want to see him you'd better go. I ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... think you'd rather have Eleanor come home by herself than bringing a strange woman and a hired girl," Albertina contributed a trifle tartly. The distinction of a hired girl in the family was one which she had long craved on her ...
— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley
... the Phoenix, and it added tartly that story-telling was quite impossible if people would come interrupting ...
— The Phoenix and the Carpet • E. Nesbit
... bridle on. Accordingly he attempted it, and the matter ended by his getting regularly driven out ol the stable by the animal, with a tolerably severe bite in the fleshy part of his shoulder. Wilford's remark, therefore, as may be imagined, rather nettled him; and he inquired, somewhat tartly, whether Wilford believed he could put the bridle on? and, if so, whether he were willing to try? Wilford replied, in his usual cool tone, that he had an idea he could do so, but that he had no particular ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley
... not let my dear friend's sanguine expectations blind all my judgment is no reason why you should seek this interview, Lycon," he rejoined tartly. "If this is the object of your summons, I'm better back in ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... so does Dad, and so do we all, but we can't get it," replied Beatrice rather tartly. "We have to make up our minds to go without. You're no worse off than the ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil
... heard," June said rather tartly. "And I think you're a mean pig. However, go on! Have your ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... Islands or not—and whether Big Pony or Little Pony—clearing weather would disclose. Meantime, as Archie Armstrong somewhat tartly pointed out, the Spot Cash was to be looked to. She had gone aground at low tide, it seemed; and she was now floating at anchor, free of the bottom. The butt of her bowsprit had been driven into the forecastle; and the bowsprit ...
— Billy Topsail & Company - A Story for Boys • Norman Duncan
... annoying," said the colonel, turning to the man tartly. "Stop it now, before I call ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... time, when sounding the praises of her apartments at the Institute, never failed to add with emphasis, 'I have entertained there even Sovereigns.' 'Yes, in the little room,' good Adelaide would answer tartly, drawing up her long neck. It was the fact that not unfrequently, after the prolonged fatigue of a Special Session, some great lady, a Royal Highness on her travels, or a leader influential in politics, ...
— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
... put in Hannah tartly, "that last summer just about spoiled your taste for anything but the life of a pirate. If you must have somebody throwin' a bottle at your head or dumpin' ministers into the river or diggin' treasure, things have ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple
... The patient Angy somewhat tartly retorted, that during the last week she had spent even more time upon Father's wardrobe than she had upon her own; while Abe inwardly rejoiced to think that for seven days to come—seven whole days—he and Angy would be free from the surveillance ...
— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund
... plainly he did not care whether it was done or no, and particularly as if he had a mind the captain should see it and take notice of it. Which the captain did, for perceiving how awkwardly he went about it, he spoke a little tartly to him, and asked him what was the reason he did not stir a little and furl the sail. Peterson, as if he had waited for the question, answered in a surly tone, and with a kind of disdain, So as we eat, so ...
— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward
... excepting his own fundamental position concerning the sensuous origin of our ideas,—to which few, since Kant, will assent,— there is hardly a theorem, in all the writings of this school, of prime and vital significance. The school is tartly, but aptly, characterized by Professor Ferrier: "Would people inquire directly into the laws of thought and of knowledge by merely looking to knowledge or to thought itself, without attending to what is known or what is thought of? ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
... lady, tartly; "I think it is enough for you to take care of yourself. Recollect your Scripture proverb of 'the blind leading the blind.' I have no inclination to tumble into one of those pits," added ...
— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat
... you say it, Mr Elsworthy?" said Miss Dora, a little tartly; "you are not in any way particularly connected with my nephew." Here she gave an angry glance at Rosa, who had drawn near to listen, having always in her vain little heart a certain palpitation at ...
— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
... said the other, tartly. "I'm no gambler any more. I'm a respectable gentleman with a mine and a ranch," he emptied his glass and, smacking his lips, continued, "and a beautiful young girl that loves me ... loves me. Understand?" His ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... extenuate some parts of his dear brother-in-law's conduct, which he did not himself vindicate; and Mr. B. was pleased to say, that my lord was always very candid to him, and kind in his allowances for the sallies of ungovernable youth. Upon which my lady said, a little tartly, "Yes, and for a very good reason, I doubt not; for who cares to ...
— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson
... frequency and politeness. Her husband, poor as he was, sustained the credit of aristocracy by smoking innumerable cigarettes, with which he appeared to be most plentifully supplied. "You found my cigarettes, I see. That is good," said Rouquin, shortly after the introductions. He spoke somewhat tartly, as if an idea had just occurred to him. He shot a furtive glance at Mr. Bingle as he ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... rejoined, a bit tartly. Truth to tell, the secretary was haunted by a grim suspicion that she herself was not quite the lady of her dreams, and never would be able to acquire the graces of the Vere De Vere. For Sarah, while a most efficient secretary, was not in her ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... Meredith will bear me out in the statement, sir, though I am quite willing that my word should stand by itself," retorted the commissary, tartly. "Nor am I in the habit of having it questioned by colonial ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... "force of habit" as he led the way down towards the door, and I responded tartly enough about the unpleasantness of his begging customs. "If it were not for your sort and your customs, the Priests' Clan would not be facing ...
— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
... "Mr. Moore, that is practically impossible; I can't do it." Then he said, "you've got to do it, I've spent too much time looking for you already, you've got to clerk for us." I am a little hot headed myself, and I answered him as tartly as he spoke to me. "Mr. Moore," says I, "I've got to do nothing of the sort." Then Mr. Moore cooled down and talked more like a business man ...
— The Second William Penn - A true account of incidents that happened along the - old Santa Fe Trail • William H. Ryus
... spoke, Lady Trevlyn dismissed the boy with a gracious gesture and led her little daughter away. Paul stood watching her, as if forgetful of his companion, till she said, rather tartly, "Young man, you'd better have thanked my lady while she was here than stare after her now it's too late. If you want to see Parks, you'd ...
— The Mysterious Key And What It Opened • Louisa May Alcott
... circumstances," I ventured to break the silence. He retorted tartly that he didn't want to know of any. According to his ideas no circumstances could excuse a crime—and certainly not such a crime. This was the opinion generally received. The duty of a human being was to starve. ...
— Falk • Joseph Conrad
... herself sufficiently; and harassed with this idea, she pursued the courtier from the Court hall into the illuminated gardens, and there told him, and in language that admitted of no doubt, that she wished to marry him. The courtier was indignant, and answered her so tartly that Kate, even in reading it over a second time, could not refrain from ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore
... he began!" said the old lady, tartly. "He couldn't foresee that she was going to be, could he? If he had he might have asked your permission. She preferred George Jaquith, naturally. Women mostly prefer a handsome scamp. Not that Homer ever looked like anything but a sheep. Then ...
— Mrs. Tree • Laura E. Richards
... little later, when both girls were in bed, and Ruth answered her a trifle tartly that it was very nearly to-morrow, and that she wanted to go to sleep some time before morning, if Amy didn't. Then for a matter of thirty minutes silence reigned. The hour was late and the girls were tired. In spite of her gloomy prophecy, Amy was surprised and pleased ...
— Peggy Raymond's Vacation - or Friendly Terrace Transplanted • Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith
... She walked on without turning her head, and for many steps nothing further was heard from her quarter than the rustle of her dress against the heavy corn-ears. Then she resumed rather tartly— ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... Peril, instead of one of your much-vaunted steeds," I remarked tartly, "I could go at him with a wrench and have him in working order again in five minutes; as it is—" I felt that the ...
— The Range Dwellers • B. M. Bower
... good," she said, tartly. "We can't go about the grounds in a cab, and I'm not going to slop about in the wet to please anybody. We must go another time. It's hard luck, but there's worse things ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... tartly. "She says she's going to be a horse-breaker or a nurse, and all the while she kept making eyes at brother John, and he lost his poise entirely and smirked and blushed, and I shouldn't wonder a bit if he'd made up his mind to marry her, and if he ...
— Aladdin O'Brien • Gouverneur Morris
... isn't," declared Mrs. Jane tartly, getting to her feet. "And I, for one, am going back to work—in the kitchen, where I belong. And—Well, if here ain't Jim at last," she broke off, as her younger brother-in-law appeared ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter
... a number of things I'd have stayed out of the place altogether," I retorted tartly. "I wish you could help me about the fire-tongs, Sperry. I don't seem able to think of any explanation that Mrs. Johnson would ...
— Sight Unseen • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... tartly. "And I'm not unkind, I'm only truthful. And I say it was utter rot breaking the water-jug; and as for the missionary-box, I believe it's a treason-crime, and I shouldn't wonder if you could be hanged for it, if any of us ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... worry, young sir," she answered tartly, "so long as they don't mind eating after their betters. And as for your man Priske, I saw him twenty minutes ago escape towards Church ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... to send messengers to the city and ask, on the ground of a common Christianity, for the restoration of the prisoners and spoil taken from the Crusaders. The governor of the city tartly reminded the messengers that Christian conduct alone proved men to be Christians, and that the Crusaders having made the first attack, he could ...
— Peter the Hermit - A Tale of Enthusiasm • Daniel A. Goodsell
... get along well enough with them," I suggested tartly, remembering Mother Borton's ...
— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott
... you won't find it in a hurry," she answered tartly. "Now hustle outdoors, the whole of you, and don't show your heads in here ...
— Polly of the Hospital Staff • Emma C. Dowd
... that, whether deservedly or not, she bore the reputation of being an excellent scholar, for one of her age, and now she rather tartly answered, "I study geography, arithmetic, grammar, and——" history, she was going to add, but her uncle stopped her, saying, "That'll do, that'll do. You study all these? Now I don't suppose you know ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes
... the other lady, tartly. "That is more than the price of the whole meal if she had let us pay for it. A present of a shilling at the outside. No, ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... fool, Lizzie," she said tartly. "If I had trousers on I wouldn't have to take them ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... a great discovery, that the curtains were drawn back; upon which, Mother Sub-Prioress, exclaiming, tartly, that that had been long ago observed from the garden below, pushed the stool in her anger, and sent Sister ...
— The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century • Florence L. Barclay
... rudder.' Not a thing vexed me from morning till night. Every week the father would take out the stocking and drop in the money and laugh and kiss me as we tied it up together. Up with you, Hans! There you sit gaping, and the day a-wasting!" added Dame Brinker tartly, blushing to find that she had been speaking too freely to her boy. "It's high time you were on ...
— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge
... said tartly. "When I marry Athalia, I intend to have an old-fashioned home and a Black Age family. I don't relish having my ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... outdoors all right," Winnie informed him, a trifle tartly, "in fact I don't see why you didn't lug up a couple of tents and turn 'em loose inside. Rosemary is going to be blown out of the window some fine night and, to my way of thinking, it's better to start sleeping on the ground than ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... shan't," he observed tartly. "I'M not a fool, if he is. I'm going out to the porch where I can get ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter
... but 'suppose'," said M. Vulfran, tartly. "I may as well tell you that for a long time I have wanted someone intelligent to be near me, one who is discreet and whom I can trust. This young girl seems to have these qualities. I am sure ...
— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot
... asked Temple, still rather tartly, "because if it is, I beg to offer you, in the name of these ladies, the chair ...
— The Incomplete Amorist • E. Nesbit
... vicious women gathered in young boys and taught them to snuff cocaine, and had led to an anti-cocaine ordinance, which the saloon element, who instinctively resented any species of "reform" as a threat against business, opposed. Whereupon, Hal, in an editorial on the prohibition movement, had tartly pointed out that where the saloons were openly vaunting themselves disdainful of public decency, the public was in immediate process of wiping out the saloons. Which citation of fact caused a cold chill to permeate the spines of the liquor interests, ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... reddened. She did not like to own to awe of her daughter. "I VENTURE, if that is all," said she, tartly. "You don't suppose I am afraid of Diantha?—but she would not let Amelia wear one of the dresses, anyway, and I don't want the child made any ...
— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... tartly, "that whenever you begin reminding me of my 'Majesty' you have always something unpleasant to spring on me! You are treating me now just as you have been treating the Bishops; you will not listen to advice; no, you will not accept ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... to hear about it," she said, tartly. "I'm your wife, and I am going to do my share, keeping house and helping around. And you have got to do your share, and treat me fairly. I once heard that the first Mrs. Balberry didn't get all that was coming to her—that she had to wear the same dress and bonnet for years. Now, I ...
— From Farm to Fortune - or Nat Nason's Strange Experience • Horatio Alger Jr.
... and exhortations, imparted with such delicate tact, had no more effect at Madrid than the harsh severity of the ministerial reprimands. Louis XIV. then made his solemn voice heard. "Sign," said he, tartly, to his grandson, "or no aid from me. Berwick is on his march for Barcelona—I will recall him; then I will make peace privately with the Dutch and with the Emperor; I will leave Spain at war with those two powers, and I will not mix myself ...
— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies
... loss daily in such lugubrious tones that the people, instead of sympathizing, laughed at him. I asked him why he purchased such a slave, and, while he was with him, why he did not feed him? Replied he, tartly, "Was he not my slave? Was not the cloth with which I bought him mine? If the cloth was my own, could I not purchase what I liked? Why do ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley
... and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON. 'I have looked into it.' 'What (said Elphinston,) have you not read it through?' Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, 'No, Sir, do you read ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... could help it," said Gavinia, tartly, for the honour of her sex, "but she's no are o' them." To be candid, Gavinia was not one of them herself. "I'm thinking she's terrible fond o' him," she said, "and I'm nain sure that ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... ladies!" exclaimed Miss Brokaw, tartly. "And it is not the first fire since the world began. Ruth has just come from it. She will tell you ...
— Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures - Or Helping The Dormitory Fund • Alice Emerson
... too," interjected Madelene, tartly, "but that wouldn't make him mix her name up with mine, would it, and make him get mad every ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... Turbot, tartly, "I have lived in the country, and, until a few minutes ago, I was ignorant of the extent to ...
— The Tithe-Proctor - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton
... skim-milk praise on me," she said, tartly. "Huh! You, that Lorena thought was a pillar of cultured society! When, the Lord knows, you wouldn't have known how to read the addresses on your own letters ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan
... said Mr. Caryll, a thought tartly, for if his speech was tainted with a French accent it was in so slight a degree as surely to be ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... his wife," said June tartly. "And then she thinks he's all sorts of an idiot, and tells ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... just as well if they always stayed there, and did n't come down to get all crumbs and grease in the sink," returned the other tartly. ...
— The Tangled Threads • Eleanor H. Porter
... said Millard, tartly. "Mrs. Frankland is eloquent, but she has imposed on you and done you a great deal of harm. Why, Phillida, you are as much superior to that woman as the sky is—" He was about to say, "as the sky is to a mud-puddle," but nothing is so fatal to offhand vigor of denunciation ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston
... "'Play'!" she echoed tartly. "I should think you wouldn't talk much about 'playin',' the way you're teasing those poor, ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... up in another guess way," said Nicholas, tartly, "than wi' scraps and scrapings fro' gallipots, and remnants ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... at him for a moment, his eyes holding sparks of indignation. "Young man," he said tartly, "you should hear Cap'n Am'zon himself tell it. You wouldn't cast no ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper
... Saucypate," tartly replied Geoffery. "And so, because you have eaten and drunk with my master, it is 'old Gabergeon;' else had it been good Master Hardpiece, or 'if you will, Master Geoffery!' Out upon such carrion, say I, that think themselves live meat when ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... love to me,' I said rather tartly, 'and he does not seem to me at all impertinent, and I really don't care the least ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... girl!' answered her brother tartly. 'I have told you more than once or twice about that new boy at Torrington's, and now you ask me ...
— That Scholarship Boy • Emma Leslie
... Sister Angelique," interrupted the Superieure, tartly. "Sister Agnes has nothing ...
— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray
... Stern and even morose as she sometimes was, I could wait on her and sit beside her with that calm which always blesses us when we are sensible that our manners, presence, contact, please and soothe the persons we serve. Even when she scolded me—which she did, now and then, very tartly—it was in such a way as did not humiliate, and left no sting; it was rather like an irascible mother rating her daughter, than a harsh mistress lecturing a dependant: lecture, indeed, she could not, though she could occasionally storm. Moreover, a vein of reason ever ran ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte
... nothing to be ashamed of, I'm sure, sir," said the little woman tartly. "What's enough for two's enough for three, and I was going to say, when you went on like that, that if Mr Gordon wouldn't mind, and not be too proud at things not being quite so plentiful, which everything should be clean ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... you up to, man?" shouted Silas, tartly, trying to make a stand against the staggering blow dealt amid the ...
— The Knights of the White Shield - Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play • Edward A. Rand
... his Will to the offices of the New Colliery Company, and sat down in the empty Board Room to read it through. He answered 'Down-by-the-starn' Hemmings so tartly when the latter, seeing his Chairman seated there, entered with the new Superintendent's first report, that the Secretary withdrew with regretful dignity; and sending for the transfer clerk, blew him up till the poor youth knew ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... the young rascal intimating her interest in him was greater than in the others. She was about to reply tartly, but Frank awkwardly took her hand and squeezed it, then hurriedly released it again. Demonstrations of affection were not frequent between these two, yet they had a pretty good understanding. They walked on ...
— The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards • Gerald Breckenridge
... the poet's wife expressed her surprise that the man of genius had failed to dedicate any one of his volumes to the said wife. Whereupon, said wife became flustered, and declared tartly: ...
— Jokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers • Anonymous
... the scheme," he said tartly, "if you get the sole contract for building these premises of mine, and a fat commission ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown
... talk with my brother, Lowboy," said Highboy tartly. "He's always cheery. Nothing depresses me so much as people who are always cheerful. ...
— The Cat in Grandfather's House • Carl Henry Grabo
... I detected no smack of irony in the tone—did not seem to please the Queen. "The Bishop has done me a great service. He has recovered my dog," she said tartly. ...
— In Kings' Byways • Stanley J. Weyman
... you to grin,' said Solomon tartly. 'We've got to bear it. You didn't take over any of his ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... sir," said Sue, tartly, "American girls are not in the habit of accepting gifts from ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson |
