"You said it" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "I'm afraid you said it then, Thompson! American bottoms seem to be turned into barnacle-gardens," declared the man who had questioned ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... wholly confess. Believe me, I did what I could. . . . And that is all I can say. Oh, I know what it costs you to be mixed up in such contemptible complications. I, for my part, can scarcely bear to have you know so much about me—and what I am come to. That is my real punishment, Phil—not what you said it was. ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... young man—you. Do you remember Spain, the picture gallery! You said it and now you deny it, mocking my clumsy old ...
— The Crushed Flower and Other Stories • Leonid Andreyev
... just a little forward and locking her hands more deeply in my arm, "don't you know you were telling me one time about the little brooch you were going to bring me—an Indian thing—you said it should be my—my wedding present? Don't you remember ...
— 54-40 or Fight • Emerson Hough
... did not, and you were not. I am very glad you said it, and glad you like me," said Kate; and just then the party called the girl, and she hurried away, and I joined Kate. "Then you heard it all. That was worth having!" said she. "She was such an honest little soul, and I mean to look for her when ...
— Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett
... he replied indignantly to Bobbie's scandalised remarks; "nobody in their senses would talk secrets on the stairs. And Mother can't have secrets to talk with Dr. Forrest's stable-man—and you said it was him." ...
— The Railway Children • E. Nesbit
... choose a man to live. I'm not really the sort of man you take me for in the least. At dinner, this evening, you called me a gentleman. I'm not even the sort of gentleman as you understand him; though I've been trying to live up to my idea of the genus, ever since you said it. My dear Sally"—he took her hand—she let him hold it—"you don't know anything about the world, and I don't want to teach you the lesson that I suppose some man or circumstances will bring you to learn one day. Take my advice and ...
— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston
... have some hopes of you," cried she, "for I see, for a Doctor, you have really a very pretty notion of a compliment: only you have one great fault still; you look the whole time as if you said it for ...
— Cecilia vol. 3 - Memoirs of an Heiress • Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)
... MacNish looked thoroughly puzzled—"you told me just what you were going to say to her. You said it was all predestined." ...
— The Spread Eagle and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris
... am not generous to her this minute! I couldn't help, when you said it, being satisfied—that you should see. I don't know whether it is mean or true in me, that I always do want ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... "Why? Because you said it? Didn't know you had such a reputation." Sissy was recovering. "Never mind, Split," she added, heavily sarcastic and assuming a comforting air that maddened Irene, who desired nothing more than to impress her new suitor with the elegant ...
— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson
... You said it, I didn't. Besides takin' her home with us today don't mean nothin', does it? A visit won't hurt us. Visits don't bind anybody to anything. Jumpin' Judas! I guess we've got room enough in the house to have one young-one come visitin' for—for a couple of days, if we want to. What are you makin' ...
— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln
... "'You said it was an empty sleeve?' he said. 'Certainly,' I said. At staring and saying nothing a barefaced man, unspectacled, starts scratch. Then very quietly he pulled his sleeve out of his pocket again, and raised his ...
— The Invisible Man • H. G. Wells
... aware I had ever requested any help from Mr. Winston," she returned clearly, her slight form held erect. "Your following after Albrecht was entirely voluntary, but I naturally presumed the money you brought back belonged to me. You said it did, and hence I supposed it could be disposed of at my ...
— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish
... occupied the time by reading Marryat's "Newton Forster" (one of Hewson's gifts) and I find that when I read I can't write, so that must be my excuse for the shortness of my notes. My head is full of ships, sea fights, and love making to the exclusion of everything else. I heard you—you said it was a good job, as it prevented me writing ...
— Three Months of My Life • J. F. Foster
... meet Mary now, you see, and if you were to say to her, come—come and we'll jump down Etna together, and you said it in the proper voice and with the proper force, she'd do it, Stratton. You know that. Any man knows a thing like that. And she wouldn't want ...
— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells
... you at the gate. You said, 'I had rather have one of those dumb brutes for company than thee, Walter Evesham.' You said it in the fiercest little voice. Even the 'thee' sounded as if you ...
— In Exile and Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
... cried Robert,—it was so new to her, the dear voice with this accent in it of yearning depression! 'I want more of the spirit of the mountains, their serenity, their strength. Say me that Duddon sonnet you used to say to me there, as you said it to me that last Sunday before our wedding, when we walked up the Shanmoor road to say good-bye to that blessed spot. Oh! how I sit and think of it sometimes, when life seems to be going crookedly, that rock on the fell-side where I found you, and caught you, and ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... that you thought there was no danger?" I bleated. "You know Egypt and I don't. I didn't want them to go in for this thing, but when you said it would be all right, I yielded. I ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
... for sending you this fable; one is, that in a letter you wrote me you said something about my being "clever"; and the other is that, when you wrote again you said it again! And each time I thought, "Really, I must write and ask her not to say such things; it is not wholesome ...
— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll • Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
... was about to speak; but she held up her hand beseechingly, and said, "Let me go on—let me go on. You said it costs me little to act as I proposed to act. Think, Sherbrooke, think what it does really cost me. Even were I all selfishness, how bitter is the part that I have assigned myself to play! To pass my time in solitude, without the pleasures of youth and gaiety; debarring myself from ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... families are long-lived. Do you remember, when we got engaged, how you said it was so awfully serious, because all the women in your family lived to be ...
— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan
... how often I have heard you say that whenever you feel a particular friendship for any one. I recollect perfectly that after we had known each other a little while, you said it seemed to you as if we had been ...
— Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country • Johanna Spyri
... is it not true that, upon a wet fur coat being shown you as your wife's, you said it could not be hers, as she had taken ...
— The Case of Jennie Brice • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... mate; but it's all in yer day's work, yer know. I thought you said it was only one ...
— Fire Island - Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track • G. Manville Fenn
... "But you said it could not fail," breaks in the girl, her countenance again clouding over. "Is there a ...
— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid
... and I suppose it was nothing, after all. What was it all about? Or do you know—eh? Fifteen years ago you came to see my father, and now you have come to see me—all in the light o' the moon, as it were; like a villain in a play. Ah, yes, you said it was to make an experiment—yet you didn't know what oxygen was! It's foolish making experiments, unless you know what you are playing with, Soolsby. See, here are two glasses." He held them up. ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... face. "Ah, have you forgotten what you said the first night I met you? You said it doesn't matter what a man is, even if he's a thief, as long as ...
— The Coast of Chance • Esther Chamberlain
... course, you didn't say it with your mouth," admitted Flame. "But you said it with your skin and bones!—I ...
— Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... walk close to the edge," he said with the quiet of restrained passion. "You trust me, you say, and even before you said it I read it in your eyes. I want that same trust to be in them to-morrow.... I don't know how you feel, but I'm like the reforming drunkard—tortured by his thirst." He paused, then added, "I think it's just as well to walk off ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck
... Nurse, they told me that you said it would be so, yonder amid the ashes of Cranwell Towers. Surely you ...
— The Lady Of Blossholme • H. Rider Haggard
... Jeth," she said. "It wasn't what you said so much as it was how you said it. Now will you tell me why you're so dreadfully anxious to know how I got that five thousand dollars I deposited ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln
... "You said it," agreed Frank heartily. "He's been through some of the heaviest fighting, and to hear him tell some of his experiences is better than a dozen lectures. I wish we could have brought him along so you girls could have ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Army Service - Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys • Laura Lee Hope
... were. I knew you had been really kind and gentle, and I knew you had dug out something that I did not know was there—that no one else had found. And I remembered how you called me Sister. I mean the way you said it. And I wanted to hear it again. I wanted ...
— The Red Cross Girl • Richard Harding Davis
... 'a greatcoat is a good thing, to be sure; and then, after the greatcoat, as you said it would only cost half as much as the uniform, there would be some money to spare, ...
— Forgotten Tales of Long Ago • E. V. Lucas
... asked directly. "I hope you're not trying to make yourself think I was only—You know what I meant, don't you? And you said yes. You said it with your lips, and with your eyes. Did you want more words? Tell me what ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower
... Nightingale, that convinces me that the name Algernon was produced by your way of saying it. It was hypnotic suggestion! I assure you that, however strange you may think it, every time you repeat the name Gerry, it seems more familiar to me. If you said it often enough, I have no doubt I should soon be believing in the diminutive as devoutly as I believe in the name itself. Because I am quite convinced of Algernon Fenwick. Continually signing per-pro's has driven it home." He didn't seem quite in earnest ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... he again faced the range. Overland heard and smiled. "You said it all," he muttered. "You ...
— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... speaking of my wife," said the Rector, hastily, "don't you think you had better put down your hat? I think you said it was on Friday it occurred. It will be necessary to take down the facts in a business-like way," said Mr Morgan, drawing his chair towards the table and taking up his pen. This was how the Rector was occupied when Thomas announced the most unexpected of all possible visitors, Mr Proctor, ...
— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
... "You said it!" cried Laura, making a rush for lower floor with Billie and Violet not very far behind her. "And it isn't going to be more than about two minutes before I taste that same bacon ...
— Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance - The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners • Janet D. Wheeler
... "Gardening, you said it!" exclaimed Kitty in pardonable slang. "That's what I have to do when 'her nibs' is in town. But thank goodness she's out for the day, and may have to run up to the city" (this in a mocking tone). "I hope she does, and I hope ...
— The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest - The Wig Wag Rescue • Lillian Garis
... the great Nothing he'd helped to fashion from the empty universe. I wouldn't assert you were the man, unless I believed it so firmly I could take my oath on it. Once I asked you whether you knew who I was, and you said it didn't interest you. In return I offered you my friendship, but you refused it rudely. However, I'm not sensitive or resentful, so I'll give you good advice on your ...
— The Road to Damascus - A Trilogy • August Strindberg
... "You said it! The biggest duck in this puddle, in more ways than one. And I want to get into the uniform he is wearing. Understand, Buzz? Oh, I'm proud enough of the one I'm wearing, but when he started the national anthem, and they all came in on that chorus, 'Oh, ...
— Aces Up • Covington Clarke
... made you forget your engagement," Miss Westlake gaily boasted, "for you said it was to be at ten, and now ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester
... "You said it," Jack agreed, stretching his lazy length on the grass at her feet. "The hill has formed a sort of shallow precipice and the lake sure does look great ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... told you the reason Harry gave for not choosing to speak when he was asked, and you said it was a good one; and you like him for his courage, don't you?" ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... strode forward and stood before the painting with legs apart, in a properly critical manner. "What? Why, you said it ...
— The Third Violet • Stephen Crane
... that the hands of the clock had moved! You said it had stopped, and I looked up. Then the next time I looked, the hands had moved around—two ...
— The Boy Scouts on the Trail • George Durston
... it too bad that you can't, too! But you said it and now you've got to do it. Like you did about me, you know. Where's ...
— Little Citizens • Myra Kelly
... you sell? You said it wan't a question of price at all. You made your brags that it wan't! To me, over and over, you made 'em. And then you sneak ...
— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Harriet,' said Mrs. Gibson, a little puzzled as to the exact meaning of the words that were trembling on her tongue, 'I am sure you thought that you meant what you said, when you said it.' 'No, I didn't,' put in ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... "You said it once, that's enough. Come, lady, let's have happiness while we may. Seal the bargain and ...
— Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer - A Romance of the Spanish Main • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... "You said it," exclaimed Roy. "But the colonel won't have to make it on foot this winter—not with the old Gitchie Manitou, and this ice road to ...
— On the Edge of the Arctic - An Aeroplane in Snowland • Harry Lincoln Sayler
... did said it!" cried the wailing Ikey, pointing at his adversary a forefinger wrapped in a handkerchief. "You did! You did! I heard you said it!" ...
— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... crown grant in British Columbia in which you induced me to invest four hundred thousand dollars. You will remember that you purchased that timber for me from the Caribou Timber Company, Limited. You said it was an unparalleled investment. Quite recently I learned—no matter how—that you were the principal owner of the Caribou Timber Company, Limited! Smart as you are, somebody swindled you with that red cedar. It was a wonderful stand of ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... if you love me, and cruel to me. Don't you remember that night—before I spoke—you were talking of that book; and you said it was foolish and wicked to do as that girl did. Why is it different with you, except that you give me nothing, and can never give me anything when you take yourself away? If it were anybody else, I am sure you ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... "I thought you said it was twenty shillings," she remarked, quietly, seeing that the druggist was looking at her ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... said the money was in the soil, not on top of it. I remember you looked like a prophet when you said it," Cyrus Bennington declared. "But I was wild to get rich quick and let my soil go. I never look at Aydelot's spreading acres of wheat increasing in area every year without wondering why the Lord let me ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter
... luck; but what did you say when I fetched in the snake-skin that I found on the top of the ridge day before yesterday? You said it was the worst bad luck in the world to touch a snake-skin with my hands. Well, here's your bad luck! We've raked in all this truck and eight dollars besides. I wish we could have some bad luck like ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... sound odd!" she cried. "I shall never call myself that—why, people might know I must be something connected with this castle, and they would be questioning, and I couldn't have a scrap of fun! You have got another name—you said it just now, 'Michael Howard Arranstoun'—that will do. I shall be Mrs. Howard! It is quite ordinary—and shall I be a widow? I've never thought of all this yet. ...
— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn
... him. Three more counsel are to be heard, and next week the cause will be determined. I send you the Informations, or Cases, on each side, which I hope you will read. You said to me when we were under Sir Allan's hospitable roof, "I will help him with my pen." You said it with a generous glow; and though his Grace of Argyle did afterwards mount you upon an excellent horse, upon which "you looked like a Bishop[296]," you must not swerve from your purpose at Inchkenneth. ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... afternoon,—Hilliard was reading aloud,—when there came a sudden peal of thunder, and presently a flash of lightning. "Oh, we're going to have a storm!" I exclaimed. "I am so glad! now I can see the ocean in a storm,—you said it was magnificent then. Why, what ...
— We Ten - Or, The Story of the Roses • Lyda Farrington Kraus
... with an uneasy note in his voice. "You said it would be worth a thousand and maybe more to me. Well, I'm square with Dick. He divides with me. I want to let him in on anything ...
— The Rose in the Ring • George Barr McCutcheon
... me. She has said things so nasty that I cannot repeat them, even to you. She has accused me to my face—of flirting. I won't bear it from her. If you said it, it would kill me; but of course you can say what you please. But she shall not scold me, and tell me that I am this and that because I am not as solemn as she is, George. Do you believe that I have ...
— Is He Popenjoy? • Anthony Trollope
... Marvin led the way to the float and they all plunged in. Tom, shaking the water from his head, faced Steve accusingly when he had regained his breath. "Thought you said it wasn't cold!" ...
— Left End Edwards • Ralph Henry Barbour
... answered your letter?" repeated Jasmine. "Well now, do you know, to be quite frank and open, your letter was a little bit of a lecture. You did give it to darling old Primrose, and somehow or other you made Daisy cry. You spoke about a plan, and you said it was a delightful plan, but—but before we read that part of your letter Primrose thought of another plan of her own, and it was so exquisite, so perfect, that we tore up your plan for fear we should be tempted by it. We don't know your plan, Mrs. Ellsworthy, and we don't want it, ...
— The Palace Beautiful - A Story for Girls • L. T. Meade
... Say it again!" she cried wildly, "Marguerite! Say it again! Sweet—sweet and tenderly as you said it then! Poor Marguerite! Your pale ugly face seemed the face of a god to her once, because she thought you loved her—we all find men so beautiful when we think they love us! Yes—your cold eyes and cruel lips and ...
— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli
... flung at him. "The church-bells were tolling for him when I rode away. I could not stay to hear them. It killed me—I loved him. You were right when you said it. I loved him, though he never knew. I shall always love him—though he never knew. He knows now. Those who died cannot go away when THAT is holding them. They must stay. Because I loved him, he may be in this place. I call ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... right well and forcibly you said it. I'm grateful to you. I make no mistake, I think, if your statement wasn't in reply to some idle tale told your good wife and repeated by her to you—in confidence, of course, as ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... that you saw in the cedar tree, where you said it was 'sitting about doing nothing,'" continued ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
... not falling away swiftly as the air does. It is following the projectile! It is not gathering any air about it as you said it would. It does not quite keep up with us; but considering our speed, it is ...
— Pharaoh's Broker - Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner • Ellsworth Douglass
... wouldn't even apologize for what I called your neglect. I said I should never go with you. You said it wasn't neglect, and that I should go. And go I did, finally, as meekly as possible, and I wore the pink organdie and had a ...
— Glory of Youth • Temple Bailey
... Spider, squaring his big jaw, "get onto this: here's where I chip in with ye; from now on we're in this game together, an' I ain't a guy as'll lay down his hand till I'm called—an' called good, see? You said it was goin' t' be a man's work—by Jiminy Christmas, it looks like you're right; anyway, I stand in with you, that's sure—put it ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... supposed to purify it. Laying aside the drum, he held his hands in the smoke, and rubbed his arms and body with it. Then, picking up the drum, he began to tap it rapidly, and prayed, saying: 'Listen, my dream. This you told me should be done. This you said should be the way. You said it would cure the sick. Help me now. Do not lie to me. Help me, Sun person. Help me ...
— Blackfoot Lodge Tales • George Bird Grinnell
... make your name infamous. I will waste everything that you have. There is nothing so bad I will not do to punish you. Yes; you may look at me, but I will. Do you think that you are to trample me under foot, and that I will not have my revenge? You said it was a foolish business that I did. I will make it worse than foolish." He stood with his hands in the pockets of his broad flaps, looking at her, not knowing how to answer her. He was no coward,—not such a coward as to be intimidated at the moment ...
— Linda Tressel • Anthony Trollope
... the last time you were brought before me, you said it was after a gentleman's nose—now it appears you were attracted by a lady's ears; and pray, sir, what induced you to run out ...
— Japhet, In Search Of A Father • Frederick Marryat
... this to show you I'm on the job and that if you've got an eye to business you'd better consider my proposition. I'll make it worth your while. You can help all right. You did me a good turn that night. I'll give you yours if you'll stand in proper and make McG. do what's right. It ain't what you said it was—it's justice all around. That's all ...
— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs
... about them. It is a growing torture to you. Even in the generous flush of mercy you thought of it; you said you would never go back to that hotel. I knew why you said it. I knew what, even then, you suffered—what of fear and shame and outraged modesty. I know what you stood for, there in the street with a half-senseless crook hanging to your arm—tugging for a weapon which would have sent two more ...
— The Gay Rebellion • Robert W. Chambers
... to accuse you. You said it out of kindness, and that was partly true which you said. You meant that the body was naked ...
— Murder Point - A Tale of Keewatin • Coningsby Dawson
... of these hyenas?" asked Miriam, innocently. "I thought you said it was a solitary beast that took ...
— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard
... You said it was final; and so it was, in a very different sense. I knew it had not been there the day before. I pay a good deal of attention to matters of detail, as you may have observed, and I had examined the hall and ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle
... "You said it!" shouted Slim Degnan, and Babe added his voice to the din, the while starting one of the verses of ...
— The Boy Ranchers - or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X • Willard F. Baker
... ISABEL. But you said it was the shape that made things be crystals; therefore, oughtn't their shape to be their ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin
... "I do not think you said it in a fretful or impatient spirit; but I thought that this story of Samuel would help to keep you ...
— Caleb in the Country • Jacob Abbott
... court, you said it was to be a French story," said the public prosecutor, disposed to play the critic toward the orator who had reduced ...
— Gerfaut, Complete • Charles de Bernard
... found it; but you comes along and gets aboard of us eight hunderd mile away, and—says you—'we'll sight Saint Paul as we runs down our eastin''; and, although we've been headin' all round the compass since then, there's the hiland, right enough, and just where you said it would be, ay, ...
— Overdue - The Story of a Missing Ship • Harry Collingwood
... it; and no one ever knew it but you. You said it was our deeds that judged us. Didn't Ben go away when he realized his feeling ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... promoting that end. I have been foolish, mad; I now see the consequences of it all. Ellen, speak to me often as you did just now; it soothes, it calms me. I see things in a different way from what I did a moment ago. O, dearest, best beloved! say to me sometimes, dear Henry, as you said it just now, and I will try to be to you, and for you, all that you can wish and desire. Open your heart to me without reserve, Ellen; if new difficulties present themselves to you, perhaps I may be able to serve ...
— Ellen Middleton—A Tale • Georgiana Fullerton
... said. "I like 'cheri' ever so much better. I like it better than 'mon cousin' or any name, because, do you know," he added, dropping his voice a little, "I remember now, though I had forgotten till you said it—that was the name mamma ...
— The Tapestry Room - A Child's Romance • Mrs. Molesworth
... you said it was perfectly agreeable to you to have me charter the Tillicum to them!" Matt roared, angry, hurt ...
— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne
... You could not possibly have said a thing which could have given me more pleasure than that. It is splendid! It justifies me in aspiring to you. It satisfies my conscience over everything which I have done. It must be right if that is the effect. I have felt so happy and light-hearted ever since you said it. It is rather absurd to think that I should improve you, but if you in your sweet frankness say that it is so, why, I can only ...
— A Duet • A. Conan Doyle
... beg your pardon—I do not ask this question out of mere curiosity—I have seen this glass before; it once belonged to a very dear friend of mine. Can you give me any further information? You said it was given ...
— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat
... I didn't forget. But when you had told the whole story, you said it was a joke and there was nothing in it. And I was fool enough to believe you. No, this is the work ...
— Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works • Kaalidaasa
... day on our honeymoon, going up Ben Lawers? You were lying on your face in the heather; you said it was like kissing a loved woman. There was a lark singing—you said that was the voice of one's worship. The hills were very blue; that's why we had blue here, because it was the best dress of our country. ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... determination again," Page exclaimed. "Your eyes just flashed when you said it. I believe if you once made up your mind to do a thing, you would do it, no matter how hard it ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris
... my Christian name yesterday you said it wouldn't do at all, and I was never to mention it again. In the absence of definite instructions about my surname I thought I had better pursue a cautious policy of waiting. I've told the chauffeur that he will know my name in due course and that ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett
... "I had rather you said it, sir, than I; it is not for me to use such an expression towards one so learned as you are. I think, sir, that I am too young to marry; and that perhaps you are—too old. I think, sir, that you are too clever—and that I am very ignorant; that it would not ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat
... "You said it!" replied Dave. "That's why he's took this scarlet rash of socialism and holy rolling that's going the rounds. Of course there are plenty that are holy rollers through and through, but not this boy. It's only a skin disease with ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... said it to me," and Philip laughed at the recollection, "and I can tell you, Patty, it had the real society ring! You said it ...
— Patty's Social Season • Carolyn Wells
... After taking the x-rays, the doctors asked me, "What do you think you have?" I said, "The same as you think." They said, "What do we think?" "Cancer!" I said. "No," they said. I said, "Why do you lie, you said it was cancer and a bad one." They said, "Do you understand Latin?" I said, "I understand that much." In the evening the doctor called my son Clarence and said to him, "Shall I tell your dad what the matter is with him, or will you?" He answered, ...
— Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag • S. O. Susag
... "You said it!" agreed Tom. "That sort are so busy riding hobbies over here that they have no interest in what is going on in Europe unless it may be in Russia. Well, thank heaven, there are comparatively few nuts compared ...
— Ruth Fielding Down East - Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point • Alice B. Emerson
... world, Sir Henry, not for the world; only for us; not before the boys! You said it was the best joke ...
— The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) • Henry Hawkins Brampton
... an explosive laugh: but seeing that Deronda looked gravely offended, he checked himself to say, "Excuse my laughing, Deronda. You never gave me an advantage over you before. If it had been about anything but my own pictures, I should have swallowed every word because you said it. And so you actually believe that I should get my five pictures hung on the line in a conspicuous position, and carefully studied by the public? Zounds, man! cider-cup and conceit never gave me half such a beautiful ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... motives of delicacy I did not see the urine voided—still I believe that she did pass the urine, as I did not think it necessary to insult the patient), and you demonstrated to me beautiful specimens of Gemiasma rubra. You said it was not common to find the full development in the urine of such cases, but only in the urine of the old severe cases. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 • Various
... Mozart's comforting answer. "This was the only way that your sacred smelling-stuff would do us any good. The air was like an oven here, and all your fanning made it no cooler. But presently the carriage was comfortable—you said it was because I poured a couple of drops on my jabot—and we could talk and enjoy our journey instead of hanging our heads like sheep in a butcher's cart. It will last all the rest of the way. Come now, let us stick our two Vienna noses into this ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various
... to stare at them, blinked, and finally said, "Okay, Mac. You said it." He started with a terrific grinding of gears, drove out of the Penn Station arch ...
— The Impossibles • Gordon Randall Garrett
... "You said it right that time. I'll be doggoned if I ever saw such a thing as a fellow lettin' another guy walk off with his wife—when he ain't been married hardly two hours yet. Say, what's the matter with you anyhow? Why didn't you take a fall ...
— The Fighting Edge • William MacLeod Raine
... said cheerfully. "It's no light thing to sit through a bad play. But how is that, Jasper? You said it ...
— Adrien Leroy • Charles Garvice
... that true! How well you said it. (with a glare for this appreciation, HARRY opens the door. It blows away from him) ...
— Plays • Susan Glaspell
... rather you said it than pretend to be enjoying everything and being at home, when you despise us all in your heart. You showed it this afternoon, and I know what you think of my father and mother and uncle, and all of us, although you are too much of a lady to say so. Oh yes; I can see your mouth ...
— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin
... arm and pointed to the place. "You said it couldn't travel very fast," he reminded her. "Look down there where you sat fooling with ...
— The Lookout Man • B. M. Bower
... you only to do what you have done, to give five minutes in the day to him. You said it was enough. Only five minutes. It ...
— The Flaw in the Crystal • May Sinclair
... and there was no wand, and no embroidered cloth, and there was no red bag, nor any little chick, and there was no full-grown fowl, and there was no chair that you put on the table! There was nothing, absolutely nothing, but you and that table! Even the table was not what you said it was. It was not an unpainted pine table with four straight legs. It was a table of dark polished wood, and it stood on a single post with feet. There was nothing there that you said was there. Everything was a sham and a delusion; every word you spoke was untrue. And yet everybody ...
— The Magic Egg and Other Stories • Frank Stockton
... letter as she likes, and I will hunt up a gal. You said it: you'd agree to hire help if one can be found!" quickly ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... time she said: "Why did you make me marry you, Monsieur John? Oh, I have racked my brain so for the answer to that question. I know you said it was to save my honor. But surely we have paid a heavier penalty than any that could have been laid upon me had you ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde
... then. A minute ago you said it was going to snow. It's my private opinion that you don't know what you think. Ned doesn't know any more. The professor is the only one in the outfit who has a sense of humor. He knows when it's time to laugh. ...
— The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers • Frank Gee Patchin
... around to stare at them, blinked, and finally said: "O.K., Mac. You said it." He started with a terrific grinding of gears, drove out of the Penn Station ...
— Out Like a Light • Gordon Randall Garrett
... pleaded. "I couldn't, dear. The way you said it just made my arm close up tight. I'm glad you didn't like it. I can love only one at a time, and I'm loving you, and I'm going on ...
— The River's End • James Oliver Curwood
... Sylvia," I answered, "you said it was time you grew up. For the present I will tell you this: Several months before I met you, I made a speech in which I named some of the organised forces of evil in the city. One was Tammany Hall, and another was the Traction Trust, ...
— Sylvia's Marriage • Upton Sinclair
... Dmitri Fyodorovitch. You said it before Andrey. Andrey himself is still here. Send for him. And in the hall, when you were treating the chorus, you shouted straight out that you would leave your sixth thousand here—that is with what you spent before, we must ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... remember that day—the morning when we began lessons together? You explained the alphabet to me, and when we came to W— you said it was a ship—a ship of stars. There was a story about it, you said, and promised to ...
— The Ship of Stars • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... little poem about the Greek mountains that you told me the other day?" asked Rose, as they drove along,—"the one you have copied in your commonplace book. You said it was a translation from some modern Greek poet, ...
— Hildegarde's Holiday - a story for girls • Laura E. Richards
... will. I knowed it afore you said it. I've hunted gold fifteen to twenty years without findin' a speck, an' so it stands to reason that when I do find it I'll find a mountain ...
— The Great Sioux Trail - A Story of Mountain and Plain • Joseph Altsheler
... here, dear Susy, if it makes you cry," said the elder of two little girls; "I thought you said it would make you happy to come out and look at the New Year's presents, though ...
— Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends • Fanny Fern
... And you said it was a place most joyous, All our poor imaginings above, With the winged cherubim for playmates, And the good God ...
— Poems • Victor Hugo
... "You said it. I'm afraid of that man. I shall not have a moment's peace until you have handed the Hercules Three-Oughts-One over to Mr. Bartholomew and ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Locomotive - or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails • Victor Appleton
... answered the Girl emphatically. "I gave you a perfectly lovely one yesterday, and you said it was not right. I am going to try just once more, and if you say again that it won't do, I'm going back to Chicago or to my dear Uncle ...
— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter
... a little peevish with you-I told you on Thursday night that I had a mind to go to Strawberry on Friday without staying for the Qualification bill. You said it did not signify—No! What if you intended to speak on it? Am I indifferent to hearing you? More-Am I indifferent about acting with you? Would not I follow you in any thing in the world?—This is saying no profligate thing. Is there any thing ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... Mr. Toombs: "You said it. I have it before me in your printed speech. I heard it delivered, and you ...
— Robert Toombs - Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage • Pleasant A. Stovall
... way. No! I couldn't feel anything but the misery and the mortification of it. You're a plain girl; you have got a crooked shoulder; you're only a housemaid—what do you mean by attempting to speak to Me?" You never uttered a word of that, Mr. Franklin; but you said it all to me, nevertheless! Is such madness as this to be accounted for? No. There is nothing to be done but to confess it, ...
— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins
... going to hang that here, are you? It's so old-fashioned. You said it was old-fashioned yourself. I did want that thing that came this morning to be put somewhere here. Why can't you stick this in the spare room?... Unless, of course, you prefer...." She was being deferential to the art-expert in him, as ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... he laughed. "Whatever it was, you said it, all right. Mrs. Marteen slept like a child, and there's color in her face to-day. See if you can do as well again. I'll give you ...
— Out of the Ashes • Ethel Watts Mumford
... "You said it all," muttered Pete, turning swiftly and trudging down the road. He would have liked to howl himself. Montoya's kindliness at parting—and his gift—had touched Pete deeply, but he had fought his emotion then, too proud ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... [Lat.], &c adv.; unanimous; agreed on all hands, carried by acclamation. affirmative &c 535. Adv. yes, yea, ay, aye, true; good; well; very well, very true; well and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure, 'thou hast said', you said it, you said a mouthful; truly, exactly, precisely, that's just it, indeed, certainly, you bet, certes [Lat.], ex concesso [Lat.]; of course, unquestionably, assuredly, no doubt, doubtless; naturally, natch. be it so; so ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... have her here," was the mother's reply. "Poor dear, I know just how lonely she feels. Of course you said it would be all right." ...
— On the Trail of Pontiac • Edward Stratemeyer
... beginning. You said it to me more with your looks than with your words; for I saw that, somehow, you were in the secret, and had yourself what you offered to me. That I could not forget. I had never ...
— Nobody • Susan Warner
... hardest guy I ever saw," Stoner declared, admiringly. Mallow spoke last, but he spoke with conviction. "You said it, Brick. I had his number from the start. He's a master crook, and—it'll pay us all to string ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... were self-possessed enough when you said it! What did you mean by saying it was "the judgment of heaven"?—I am asking you ...
— Three Dramas - The Editor—The Bankrupt—The King • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson |
