"Brokenly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mortals haste and hide away: creep soon Into your icy beds: the embers die; And on your frosted panes the pallid moon Is glimmering brokenly. Mutter faint prayers that spring will come e'erwhile, Scarring with thaws and dripping days and nights The shining majesty of him that smites And slays you with a smile Upon his silvery lips, of ...
— Among the Millet and Other Poems • Archibald Lampman
... buried her face in her hands and sobbed brokenly. "Oh, my love, my love—and I did not even ...
— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn
... think I'm ungrateful and horrid," she said brokenly. "But how would you like to be in my position? I haven't a shilling of my own in the world—the things I've been wearing since I came here are paid for by ... by ... oh, you know! I hate to look at that fur coat and my new frock. You talk to me about being proud and obstinate; ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... heart-break in his voice, for himself and for her, as he murmured (brokenly) words of love and of comfort in her ear, and in her voice ...
— The Dreamer - A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe • Mary Newton Stanard
... of you—all you know about yourselves," she said brokenly, dropping herself once more into the ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... lord, for you both," said the lady brokenly. "You know how all these attempts have ended, and Elizabeth hath no mercy for the ...
— In Doublet and Hose - A Story for Girls • Lucy Foster Madison
... elder-bush. But at the same moment he felt her clenched fist strike his face. She laughed crazily, but he stood fixed in the same position, as though stunned, his mouth held forward as if still awaiting a kiss. "Why do you hit me?" he asked, gazing at her brokenly. ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... in a husky undertone, and brokenly, incoherently. He made an appeal, which Lanfear seemed not to hear, where he remained immovable with his hand on ...
— Between The Dark And The Daylight • William Dean Howells
... a smile from the ruins of her life, amidst which she had heart-brokenly sat down with all her things on. "I knew you'd come back," ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... suite in a family hotel. The rooms had the comfort needed for her physical wants, but she tossed on the bed nights and slept brokenly. She ate poorly and grew very thin, very pale. She walked, days, until her body cried out for mercy. She cancelled her engagement, for she was unfitted for service, and intuitively she knew that, for her, a great change ...
— The Place Beyond the Winds • Harriet T. Comstock
... yonder to Goodloe's wire in time to catch the super's special before it passes Timanyoni"—he went on, only to drop his jaw and gasp when he held the face of his watch up to the moonlight. Then, brokenly, "My God! I couldn't begin to do it unless I had wings: he said eleven o'clock, and ...
— The Taming of Red Butte Western • Francis Lynde
... orchard on their flanks, and wild paths furrowing and wrinkling their stern faces. To your right there is a sheeted cataract falling from the basins of the town laundry, where the toil of the washers melts into music, and their chatter, like that of birds, drifts brokenly across the abyss to you. While you sit musing or murmuring in your rapture, two mandolins and a guitar smilingly intrude, and after a prelude of Italian airs swing into strains which presently, through your revery, you recognize as "In the Bowery" and "Just One Girl," and ...
— Roman Holidays and Others • W. D. Howells
... brokenly and tried to rise, but the big Irishman held him firmly. "Easy, I'm telling you!" The boy relaxed, stretching out to his lank length, one arm crooked childishly over his eyes, and Michael Daragh sat down beside him, his long legs folded under him, on the floor. "'Tis the true word, surely," he ...
— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... "Yes, Jeanie," said Alec, brokenly, "home with my Phemie: he's there. There, do not cry; the trouble is all over," said Alec, soothingly, carrying her away in his arms, and trying to stay the sobs that ...
— Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... indifference. They brought Grace out upon a boat and rowed the boat to where I could see it from my window. There the whip which had been applied to me was applied to her. I can't tell you any more about that," he said brokenly, "but I wish, you don't know how fervently, that I had broken down and given the dog the satisfaction he wanted. My God! ...
— The Clue of the Twisted Candle • Edgar Wallace
... his hands. When he took them down, his face had the aged, ravaged expression of exhaustion which had so startled her on her arrival. Now she felt none of her frightened revulsion, but only an aching pity which sent her out to him in a rush, her arms outstretched, crying to him brokenly that he still had his children who loved him more than ...
— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield
... other two had gone, Hugh captured both of Sylvie's hands in his. "You don't mean that, do you?" he asked brokenly. "You don't mean you'd go away ...
— Snow-Blind • Katharine Newlin Burt
... I don't know!" she said brokenly. "It's all wrong, somehow. You ought not to be forced into such a position, but I don't blame you, Cecil. It's the other women who deserve the blame, the women who are better off, and could have opened their ...
— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... God's will, and it is well with him, and I shall see him again," said his mother, brokenly. But when she spoke in a minute her voice was clear and firm ...
— The Inglises - How the Way Opened • Margaret Murray Robertson
... boy!" said old Mr. King brokenly, and fondling the little brown hands. "Well, we must get you home and out of these wet clothes as soon as possible. I don't know what your mother will ...
— Five Little Peppers and their Friends • Margaret Sidney
... see the good princess! When at last that much-talked-of princess came and stood by her bed, and beamed down love and tenderness, the little invalid was softened into real gratitude, which she managed brokenly to express, with tears in her eyes. Then the kind princess talked to her cheerfully and naturally of the great Shepherd of the lambs, as of some one whom she knew and who ...
— The Golden House • Mrs. Woods Baker
... from his chair, ran to the couch, buried his face in the pillow and cried heart-brokenly. Wesley hurried to the barn, and Margaret to the kitchen. When the dishes were washed Billy ...
— A Girl Of The Limberlost • Gene Stratton Porter
... house!" he murmured brokenly to the young tutor who was standing beside him. "We never shall ...
— Ted and the Telephone • Sara Ware Bassett
... through yet, but ginger," he said out loud. "I can do my best anyhow and I'll show if I'm not fit"—the energetic tone trailed off—he was only a boy of twenty—"not fit to be looked at," he finished brokenly. ...
— The Courage of the Commonplace • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
... "Don't speak," he said brokenly, springing up, and standing before her in her path. "You shall forgive me—I will compel it! See! here we are on this moonlit space of floor, alone, in the night. Very probably we shall never meet again, except as strangers. Put off convention, ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... boy; yes. It is for your own good that I tell you to do this," answered Gaunt brokenly, for he keenly felt the unspoken reproach which he saw in the child's eyes as the little fellow forlornly turned away and with a piteous sob quietly surrendered himself to the brute, who now again with ruffianly violence seized upon his ...
— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood
... 'em. There was enough moonlight to spot him by. I know the cut of him, don't I? That wuz him all right." He wiped his face on his sleeve. "Now what are we goin' to do?" he demanded brokenly. "Where do we get ...
— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers
... but a few feet off. The emergency being uncommon, it put forth all its histrionic power, and never Booth or Siddons did so well. With breast ploughing in the sand, head falling helplessly from side to side, feet kicking out spasmodically and yet feebly behind, and wings fluttering and beating brokenly on the beach, it seemed the very symbol of fear, pain, and weakness, I made a sudden spring forward,—off it went, but immediately returned when I pushed my foot again toward the grass, renewing its speaking pantomime. I could not represent suffering so well, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 • Various
... lips began to move, and in the silence of the lowering night a few words in his native tongue were faintly heard, and hot tears gushed from the eyes of his young chief, friend and brother, as, in answer to the doctor's quick, questioning glance, Harris brokenly murmured the translation: ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King
... voices babbled in the gloom— The ghosts of blasphemies long ages stilled, And shrieks of women, and men's curses. All These visible shapes, and sounds no mortal ear Had ever heard, some spiritual sense Interpreted, though brokenly; for I Was haunted by a consciousness of crime, Some giant guilt, but whose I knew not. All These things malign, by sight and sound revealed, Were sin-begotten; that I knew—no more— And that but dimly, as in dreadful dreams The sleepy senses babble to the brain Imperfect witness. As I stood a ...
— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce
... all just like brothers to me." Then there was a rush of tears to her eyes, and she said, brokenly, "The war is not over yet, and perhaps not one ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe
... abandoned himself, the poor boy, to his sorrow, and weeping, Weeping aloud on his kind mother's breast, he brokenly answered: "Truly my father's words today have wounded me sorely,— Words which I have not deserved; not today, nor at any time have I: For it was early my greatest delight to honor my parents. No ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke
... brokenly. "Wilson told me he was alive, and that it was all a mistake. If he's lying to me for the price of my old ...
— The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant • W. W. Jacobs
... but brokenly, and then overcome by this unexpected succor she sank prone upon the floor weeping passionately; the tension on her nerves had given way and her overwrought feelings had to have ...
— True Love's Reward • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... the man's eyes. His lips quivered a moment, then he said, brokenly, "Surely God must love me, or He would never have given me—a wife—who would watch and pray for ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe
... said brokenly. "Just now, with so much at stake, it—is shameful. I know you are as ignorant as I am. Make me ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... avoided it with an effort, and that it dwelt in the forefront of her mind. One evening after Betty had been playing some of the old Southern melodies, she caught Jack's hand in hers, and assured him brokenly that no people on earth were bound together as Southerners were, and that he must think of her always as his mother and come to her in the dark and dreadful hours of his life. He pressed her hand, and continued smoking his cigarette; he never had doubted ...
— Senator North • Gertrude Atherton
... New Work woman who wished to obtain a domestic employee for general housework. She went to several employment agencies and at the end of a week she had seen four applicants; three were foreigners and spoke English so brokenly that they could never have been left in charge of a telephone. Not one of the four was worth considering after investigating their references, and these were the only women she could find willing to do general housework. Upon the advice of a friend, the perplexed housewife advertised ...
— Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework • C. Helene Barker
... as there had been on the downward passage. Rawson was stretched on the floor-plates, whose touch was cool to his tortured body. Loah was seated that his head might rest in her lap on that absurd little fragment of skirt. She bent above him, whispering brokenly: "Dean-San—my dear—my own Dean-San! We live, Dean-San. I can scarcely believe it, but I know that we live, for I still ...
— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin
... its edges. Most of the villages of the Pas du Calais are composed of a single street, but such a street! It is often several kilometers long. In this one, the street divides in front of the mairie and forms two others, so that the hamlet becomes a big Y, brokenly ...
— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse
... with consciousness. There was a good-by message for Bertram, and one for Cyril. Aunt Hannah was remembered, and even little Tommy Dunn. Then, gradually, a gray shadow crept over the wasted features. The words came more brokenly. The mind, plainly, was wandering, for old Pete was young again, and around him were the lads he loved, William, Cyril, and Bertram. And then, very quietly, soon after the clock struck six, Pete fell into the beginning of his ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... or I can not bear it," declared Tom Curtis brokenly. "Oh, won't some one go for a doctor? Can't you do ...
— Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid • Amy D. V. Chalmers
... time the tears were streaming down her face, and Mrs. Murray could only say, brokenly, ...
— The Man From Glengarry - A Tale Of The Ottawa • Ralph Connor
... you some day," I said brokenly. "Now it is another's, and I can not. But it shall ...
— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott
... heart with such rapture that he embraces Kurvenal, thanking him brokenly for his lifelong devotion, and bidding him climb up into the watch-tower that he may catch the first glimpse of the coming sail. While Kurvenal is hesitating whether he shall obey this order and leave his helpless patient ...
— Stories of the Wagner Opera • H. A. Guerber
... left the two of them and the chubby kiddies in the King's office while he betook himself about his business. Hazel haled his wife and the children to her room as soon as one was assigned to her. And there, almost before she knew it, she was murmuring brokenly her story into an ear that listened with sympathy and understanding. Only a woman can grasp some of a woman's needs. Gretta Lauer patted Hazel's shoulder with a motherly hand, and bade ...
— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... he mutters Brokenly now: that was a difficult breath— Another? Wilt thou never come, O Death? Look how his temple flutters! Is his heart still? Aha! lift up his head! He ...
— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson
... him perfectly. We had seen them, in New York as in Brooklyn, careering at maniacal speed among the children at play. Bill, who loved children almost as much as flowers, had come in one day in Lexington Avenue, white and sick, and told us brokenly of something she had seen. So we nodded and he, seeing that ...
— Aliens • William McFee
... it for?" she asked him, brokenly. "How could they hurt you, dad? Oh, the land wasn't worth it! the land ...
— The Plow-Woman • Eleanor Gates
... said the man brokenly. "I have been very wicked all my life. I have wronged many, and you more than all; but if my life is spared, I'll make some ...
— Idle Hour Stories • Eugenia Dunlap Potts
... "Here is your man." It was night now, and the business men had no further reason for not lynching the supposed secretary. Everest heard their approaching foot steps in the dark. He arose drunkenly to meet them. "Tell the boys I died for my class," he whispered brokenly to the union men in the cells. These were the last words he uttered in the jail. There were sounds of a short struggle and of many blows. Then a door slammed and, in a short time the lights were switched on. The darkened city was again illuminated at the same moment. Outside ...
— The Centralia Conspiracy • Ralph Chaplin
... did not answer my note—it would have killed me," she began brokenly; and as he stretched out his arms she threw herself into them ...
— The Wheel of Life • Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
... science and doubt and faith. Very remote from them on the other hand is the backward-gazing mediaevalism of Rossetti and his circle, who revived (Rossetti from Italian sources, Morris from Norman) a Middle age which neither Scott nor Coleridge had more than partially and brokenly understood. The last school, that to which Swinburne and Meredith with all their differences unite in belonging, gave up Christianity with scarcely ...
— English Literature: Modern - Home University Library Of Modern Knowledge • G. H. Mair
... words he had been singing that evening were passing through his mind,—words of entreaty addressed to Infinite Pity. His lips moved at intervals, as parts of the hymn fell brokenly from them. ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... same time thrust savagely with his right hand as though he had a knife in it. For a minute or more he kept his position, cursing with a strong voice and thrusting all the time. Suddenly he gave a yell of pain and fell on his back again, crying brokenly: "Hell! It's you who've finished me!" And then he gave two or three short sharp gasps, and after that there was a little gurgling in his throat, and then he was still—lying there as dead as any ...
— In the Sargasso Sea - A Novel • Thomas A. Janvier
... and himself a tragic failure in life and physically unique among men, were worlds apart. It had never occurred to him before that he could find himself anywhere in France where the people were not his people. He felt heart-brokenly alien. ...
— The Mountebank • William J. Locke
... her arms around his neck, whispering the horrible truth in his ear brokenly. And as he felt her dear young fragrance of hair in his nostrils, the warm, soft litheness of her body against his, the rage and terror in him flooded his veins. Could such things be? Was it possible a man like that could live? Not if ...
— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine
... now" (with a calm glance heavenward) "I can say, 'My Father, thy will be done.' If he takes Burt, he has given us you;" and he kissed her so tenderly that she bowed her head upon his shoulder, and said, brokenly: ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... neither God nor Impostor," he said brokenly. "Ah! say not that thou canst not love me as a man. When thou didst first come to bless my life I had not yet ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... unclenches his hands nervously and furiously. He gets up slowly, walks over to the fireplace, shivers, then braces himself trying to shake off the horror of his thoughts. Then he begins to speak brokenly and tremblingly endeavoring to moisten his lips with a ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... appetite, Aurora of the good sound slumbers, picked at her food and slept brokenly for part of a week at that period, such was her impatience at the dragging length of time, the emptiness of time, undiversified and unenhanced by the presence in her house of any man devoted to her. No odor of tobacco smoke in the air, no cane in the ...
— Aurora the Magnificent • Gertrude Hall
... me in silence for a moment. Then she came toward me and held out her hand. "I shall not forget, whatever else I may do," she said, brokenly. "And I will speak if ...
— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln
... second day after our arrival on Oraluk, the rain cleared off for an hour, and I went over to the chief's house, and found Lucia conversing in Spanish with some native women who could speak it brokenly, for years before there had been a Jesuit mission on the island, but it had been abandoned, and the two priests, after a stay of five years, had gone back to Manila. Niabon was not in the house—she had gone into the forest ...
— The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton - 1902 • Louis Becke
... brokenly, with half A sob, like a belated laugh,— While cloyingly their blurred kiss closes, Sweet as the ...
— Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems • James Whitcomb Riley
... of the ship the long rows of sitting Celestials would sway forward brokenly, and her headlong dives knocked together the line of shaven polls from end to end. When the wash of water rolling on the deck died away for a moment, it seemed to Jukes, yet quivering from his exertions, that in his ...
— Typhoon • Joseph Conrad
... take it like that," he cried brokenly. "I don't know another girl who— It was—well, a hundred dollars will cover it; but he's got to ...
— The Tangled Threads • Eleanor H. Porter
... was called, Sergeant Wilson, his face drawn and wrinkled like old parchment, came forward and asked hesitatingly if there were any news from Washington. The officer shook his head. The cords in the old negro's throat worked convulsively, and he requested rather brokenly that he might be excused from this formation, and be allowed to remain in charge ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various
... being cut adrift by her more than anything," he said, brokenly. "Nine-an'-twenty years I sailed with the cap'n and served 'im faithful, and this is ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... herbs, filled his nostrils. The darkness grew, instinct with threatening forms. He gasped, struggled, and in a fervent outburst of thanksgiving regained the dank mound. Ah, there was life on that! human life. Jones slept, the stertorous sleep of delirium. He murmured brokenly. Dick was too terrified to distinguish what he said. The blaze of the pine knot flared from side to side as the sighing breeze arose from the brackish pools, protesting the vitality of even this moribund hades. Ah! if he could but lie down and bury his ...
— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan
... she said brokenly. "Please don't. I don't want any settlement as long as you care for me. What is a settlement to me if, as you say, you were to die? What good would it be to me then? Do you think I could bear ...
— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston
... my dear," she pursued brokenly, "it was too great a price. Yourself, you could not have condoned it, or done aught else but loathe ...
— The Historical Nights' Entertainment • Rafael Sabatini
... suffer a complier to break bread with Christian folk. Of all the sins of this day there is not one so God-defying, so Christ-humiliating, as damnable compliance': the boy standing before her meanwhile, and brokenly pursuing other thoughts, mainly of Haddo and Janet, and Jock Crozer stripping off his jacket. And yet, with all his distraction, it might be argued that he heard too much: his father and himself being 'compliers'—that is to say, attending the church ...
— Lay Morals • Robert Louis Stevenson
... averted, and I experienced no desire to address her with empty words. Sam filled in the loose earth, rounding it into form, and the two of us stood above the fresh mound, our bent heads bared to the sunlight, while I endeavored to repeat brokenly a few words of prayer. As I finally turned gladly away, it was to note that the girl had risen to her feet and stood motionless, with face toward us. Her attitude and expression is still in memory the one dear remembrance of the scene. My inclination was to ...
— The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War • Randall Parrish
... much for Monty. He would far rather have had her rail at him than sob so heart-brokenly. He began to sob himself in ...
— The Brass Bound Box • Evelyn Raymond
... deep breath, and a little clatter of applause ran around the room. I could hear the scratch, scratch of the reporters' pencils—here was a situation after their hearts' desire! Mr. Royce had me by the hand, and was whispering brokenly in ...
— The Holladay Case - A Tale • Burton E. Stevenson
... slowly bent her head, And murmured brokenly the words: "To serve,— O let me serve thee ...
— Parsifal - A Drama by Wagner • Retold by Oliver Huckel
... believe it herself. She kept saying continually, that she must contrive to rise before Michael came back at night. Even when she knew she was dying, she seemed to think only of him; but always in her simple, humble way. I remember how she talked, brokenly, of some draperies she had to make for his model that day—asking me to get some one else to do it, or the picture would be delayed. Once she wept, saying, 'who would take care of Michael when she was gone?' She would not ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... hand, and had the tears running down his face, and couldn't say a word, and they hustled him out, sort of holding their noses again, and sort of disinfecting the place as they went along. He said to me, brokenly, 'Hapgood, I felt I'd touched bottom. My old friend, you know.' He said he went again next morning, like a tradesman, just to beg for news. They told him, 'Papa has passed away.' He asked them, 'Did he say anything at the last? Do please tell me just that.' They said he suddenly almost ...
— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson
... which had been raised, sank brokenly. She listened, when it was silent, to the beating ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann
... little girl!" he said brokenly to Nicholson. "You have saved her life. God bless you for ...
— The Native Born - or, The Rajah's People • I. A. R. Wylie
... to give that would satisfy you, or myself," she said brokenly. "I—I don't care what you think," with a flicker of defiance. "Believe the worst and—and do ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... sob as she felt his arms and his lips. And when presently he heard her voice again murmuring brokenly to him in the way that he knew and had said over in his mind and dwelt upon through the desert stages he had ridden, he trembled, and with savage triumph drew her close, and let his doubt and the thoughts that had chilled and changed him sink deep beneath the flood of this present rapture. ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister
... recover,' and we talked over plans for the summer, and next year. I sent the servants away and her maid to bed—so little reason for disquietude did there seem. Through the night she slept heavily, and brokenly—that was the bad sign—but then she would sit up, take her medicine, say unrepeatable things to me and sleep again. At four o'clock there were symptoms that alarmed me, I called the maid and sent for the doctor. She smiled ...
— Life and Letters of Robert Browning • Mrs. Sutherland Orr
... her face. At the base of the slender throat something throbbed and throbbed. She whispered brokenly: ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... know," Johnny Everard said brokenly. "I didn't know, and oh, my God! I am not worthy of that! I am not ...
— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper
... whispered, brokenly, "Not once have you spoken my name. It was a bargain. We were to be old and intimate friends. I seem to have been calling you 'Jim' all my life! But you have not yet called me 'Myra,' Let me hear it ...
— The Mistress of Shenstone • Florence L. Barclay
... hundred-lire bills were all the money the unhappy Mellin had in the world, and until he could return to Cranston and go back to work in the real-estate office again, he had no prospect of any more. He had not even his steamer ticket. In the shock of horror and despair he whispered brokenly: ...
— His Own People • Booth Tarkington
... men and a petty officer should be sent aboard the Laughing Lass to make her fast with a cable, and remain on board over night. But when the order was given the men hung back. One of them protested brokenly that he was sick. Trendon, after examination, reported ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams
... gentlemen clinked their glasses together, and, looking each other affectionately in the eyes, might have been heard to mutter, somewhat brokenly, each the ...
— The Spread Eagle and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris
... less brokenly, and Woodville came into view. It was a wretched town in a wretched landscape, far different from the wild hills and the rich plowed grounds around Sour Creek. All that came to life in the brief spring, the long summer ...
— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand
... the hall, closed the door behind her, and leaned for a moment against the wall. Mrs. Warren's idea of perfect happiness would have received a severe shock, could she have heard Nancy murmur, brokenly: "Dear old dad! Pray Heaven you don't know that your little Nance is a miserable, ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... answered Dave, brokenly, for that was one of the native phrases he had picked up. "But I want you to quit crowding me," he added, in English, and moved his elbows to show what ...
— Dave Porter in the Far North - or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy • Edward Stratemeyer
... Tikki," she cried brokenly, "send me not away, I beseech thee. Let me go with thee, and Ali and Leota, to those new, wild lands. Oh, cast me not away from thee. Where thou goest, ...
— The Call Of The South - 1908 • Louis Becke
... the chair which Rosina has been occupying. Rosina sings, during which Bartolo goes to sleep. Under cover of the refrain the Count seizes Rosina's hand and covers it with kisses. In her emotion she sings brokenly, and finally breaks off altogether. The sudden silence awakens Bartolo. The Count starts up, and Rosina quickly ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner
... gave way to an agony of crying; Morton said brokenly, "Oh, what will we do?" and Sara, stooping mechanically to lift the unconscious little cause of all this trouble, gave a long, quivering sigh, and murmured helplessly, ...
— Sara, a Princess • Fannie E. Newberry
... own dearest mother," the girl answered brokenly; and neither could see the other through a mist ...
— Clemence - The Schoolmistress of Waveland • Retta Babcock
... go. The mystery and companionship of the sub-tropical night was upon them with its sensuous caresses. All of Payne's hard-won man-strength seemed to leave him: he felt as weak as a child; and he began to stammer brokenly. ...
— The Plunderer • Henry Oyen
... daily turning up, inscriptions, texts, which unexpectedly here supply a missing link, there confirm or demolish a conjecture, establish or correct dates which had long been puzzles or suggested on insufficient foundations. In short, details may be supplied as yet brokenly and sparingly, but the general outline of the condition of Chaldea may be made out as far back as forty ...
— Chaldea - From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria • Znade A. Ragozin
... If you wish it, it shall be done!" he murmured brokenly—"And may God in His great mercy be good to us both! But if you die, my Maryllia, I shall die too—so ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... shall we do? Poor papa!" he cried, bursting into tears; and she clung to him, weeping too, but trying to comfort him, and then brokenly he told her all that had happened. At five o'clock Mr. Rivers became suddenly worse. The doctor had stayed with him, and only sent home his carriage, and when he saw the change he sent for the boys at once. Eddie ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... "Royal," she said brokenly, but with an effort at self-control, "does this—this man mean that you are suspected of—of your uncle's murder?" And all her feelings were compressed into the emphasis of that ...
— The Paternoster Ruby • Charles Edmonds Walk
... Merritt whined, brokenly. "Just as I was properly spoofing everybody as I—I mean just as I was getting used to a better life. But you can save me, miss; you can say as you were hard up for money and that, knowing as I knew the ropes, you got me to pawn it for you. Put ...
— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White
... covered her face with her hands, while he gave his testimony: striving to hide the anguish that his presence revived. He placed his hand on her shoulder, and whispered brokenly: ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... out of your clerk. He speaks so brokenly, and I don't know a word of Italian. But perhaps I ought to first introduce myself. My name is Philip Hornby," and he handed me a card bearing the name with the addresses "Woodcroft Park, Somerset ——— Brook's." Then he added: "I am cruising on board my yacht, the Lola, and last night we unfortunately ...
— The Czar's Spy - The Mystery of a Silent Love • William Le Queux
... down steadily on her upturned face. His own spoke eloquently enough. Turning her head away, with fluttering breath, she began to speak fast and brokenly: ...
— Lady Merton, Colonist • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Angelica; and now it prompted him to do the one wise simple thing that would avail under the circumstances. He went to her, and bending over her, always delicately considerate of her inclinations even in the matter of the least caress, laid a kind hand on her shoulder, uttering at the same time brokenly the very words of her dream that morning: "If you could care for me ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... his head a little and rested it upon my knee, he spoke again, very feebly and brokenly: "On my breast is the bag of akin. In it is the Priest-Captain's token, and the paper that shows the way to where the stronghold of our race remains. Only with me abides this secret, for I am of the ancient house, as thou art also, whence sprung of old our priests and kings. Only when ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... he muttered brokenly. "The thing's left me paralyzed...." He sagged sideways a little, his hand moving behind Duomart. He pinched her then in a markedly unparalyzed and ...
— The Star Hyacinths • James H. Schmitz
... reality for these Ideas as for anything in the world revealed to our senses. 'All claims on man's behalf,' says Professor Pringle-Pattison, 'must be based on the objectivity of the values revealed in his experience, and brokenly realised there. Man does not make values any more than he makes reality.' Our contention is that the world of values, which forms the content of idealistic thought and aspiration, is the real world; and in this world we find our ...
— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge
... an awful scare," he said brokenly. "Don't ever do it again. I have little left to live for. To be sure I have some feeling for mother, Fred, and sisters. But for you I have a love second only to that I should have felt for Beulah had I been allowed to have her. The thought, ...
— Friday, the Thirteenth • Thomas W. Lawson
... he murmured brokenly, "it cannot hurt him now. He has found his 'cure.' As a candle-flame in this broad sunlight, so all those earthly longings"—The old gentleman could not finish his sentence, though a sentence was dear to him almost as the ...
— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
... of heavy dose, he took, as it were, a last look at the receipt, and murmured, "My head, how heavy it feels." But presently he roused himself, full of his penitent resolution, and murmured again brokenly, "I'll—-take it ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... her," he said half-brokenly; "I love her better than anything else in the world! But—but did you see her look at him? when she had her wedding-dress on, and he and I ...
— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... asked, brokenly. "Mrs. Carroll has told you?" He felt his other hand taken into a ...
— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton
... head. "I'm all nerved up myself," she said brokenly. "I made light of her sickness when I went there first, I'd seen her what she called dreadful low so many times; but I saw her looks this morning, an' I begun to believe her at last. Them sisters o' hers is the ...
— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett
... face upon his hand, and once more he was the miserable man who had begun brokenly to unfold the history of his shame. The unconscious animation produced by the mere unloading of his heart, the natural boyish slang with which his tale had been freely garnished, had faded from his face, had died upon his lips. ...
— Mr. Justice Raffles • E. W. Hornung
... me kind of dimly, and I'll be shot if two tears didn't well up in his eyes and run down his cheeks. "I've come to ask you," he said slowly and brokenly, "to ask you—if you won't intercede with Gorgett for me; to ask you if you won't beg him to—to grant me—an ...
— In the Arena - Stories of Political Life • Booth Tarkington
... She spoke brokenly, excitedly, she shuddered as she said the last words, and her eyes were full of tears as she bent ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... I've worked for that woman," he said, brokenly, "to think it should come to this! The deceit of the thing; the wickedness of it My heart is broken; I shall never be ...
— Light Freights • W. W. Jacobs
... "Tom," said David brokenly, and getting over to him to seize his hand, "don't you know our Mamsie would feel dreadfully to see Joel doing any such thing? Oh, she would, Tom," as Beresford continued to ...
— Five Little Peppers at School • Margaret Sidney
... line here may be just as significant as an incomplete line ending a longer speech. If a speech begins within a line and ends brokenly, of course I have not counted it when it is equivalent to ...
— Shakespearean Tragedy - Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth • A. C. Bradley
... he collapsed. "Ah, don't!" he whispered brokenly. "You break my heart! My darling ...
— The Fur Bringers - A Story of the Canadian Northwest • Hulbert Footner
... it all was the length and wryness of our deliverers' faces when they sought to buy refreshments—a tin of something—cup of anything—and the loud laugh that spake the vacant wares of the gay restaurateur as he brokenly explained the Permit Law with all its "tape" and pomps. The exodus from the mines was necessarily slow, and midnight had long passed ere the last of the refugees was restored to the ...
— The Siege of Kimberley • T. Phelan
... just beyond the stricken village, the car came to a standstill of its own accord, panting brokenly, quivering ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, March 19, 1919 • Various
... brokenly on. It was as if her own past had risen from its grave and laid cold hands upon her, just when she thought it was safely ...
— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith
... was Thy cross that I was casting off. But my life is in Thy guidance. I will take all the pain from Thy hand. Forgive me. Help me against my wicked pride. And in return for the misery I have brought, give me something good that I may do, some little favor. And yet—Thy will be done," she added brokenly, then trembled lest that Will should refuse the one request which seemed to promise any relief; trembled, but did not retract. "I will wait, I will trust," she said, and looked into the depths beyond the stars with ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 • Various
... seems true again," she said brokenly. "Ben says it is probably a lie, but I don't know, I ...
— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham
... of the President. Its origin was low, but humorous. A benevolent gentleman pierced a crowd to its center to see there, on the pavement under a lamp-post, a poor woman, curled in a heap, with a satisfied grin on her flushed face, breathing brokenly. "What's the matter?" eagerly inquired the compassionate man. A bystander removed his pipe from his mouth, and with it pointed to a flattened pocket-flask sticking out of her smashed reticule, ...
— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams
... "True, lass," whispered Jim, brokenly, holding out his arms to her. Indeed, he needed her strength as much as she needed his. The girl gave one shuddering glance at the spring, and then hid her face on ...
— The Spirit of the Border - A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley • Zane Grey
... 'Mamma,' she said brokenly, 'I didn't, oh, truly, I didn't mean it that way. I know papa isn't old enough to die; but I thought he was too big to ...
— The Rectory Children • Mrs Molesworth
... brokenly. She had not called him that for many years—not since the day he had rebelled against ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... as courageous as her word, she wept brokenly for her mother—the mother who could, at best, have given her but such ...
— The Precipice • Elia Wilkinson Peattie
... dought you'd threw it—I mean I never thought you'd do it!" cried Harry, brokenly. "I thought that hand would knock you out sure. How could you do it, Merry, old boy? It must have been awful! I saw you keel over when the line was crossed, but you never havered a ware—wavered a hair till ...
— Frank Merriwell's Races • Burt L. Standish
... you to-night, just to punish myself," she said brokenly. "You don't know how crazy I was when I was talking to Blair. I was crazy! Oh, why, when I was a child, didn't they make me control my temper? I suppose I'm like—my mother," she ended in a whisper. "And I can't change, now; I'm ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland
... Gerrard," said the girl brokenly, as she pressed his hand, and turned her face away ...
— Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke
... "Jack," I said brokenly, "there is something I want to tell you—I'm afraid you will be angry, but please don't be, ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... on the hall In massy hoariness; the ruined wall Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone; The bars survive the captive they enthrall; The day drags through though storms keep out the sun; And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on; ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 • Various
... Mrs. Morton, brokenly. "She ain't got the determination of our Sallie. She'd starve rather than give in she was beat. We was too ha'sh with her, Paw. I feel we was too ha'sh! And maybe we won't never see our little gal ...
— Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays • Annie Roe Carr
... brokenly but Rose understood and at the last word hid her face with a little moan, as if she ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... with shut eyes I lay Listening; then looked. Pale was the perfect face; The bosom with long sighs laboured; and meek Seemed the full lips, and mild the luminous eyes, And the voice trembled and the hand. She said Brokenly, that she knew it, she had failed In sweet humility; had failed in all; That all her labour was but as a block Left in the quarry; but she still were loth, She still were loth to yield herself to one That wholly scorned to help their ...
— The Princess • Alfred Lord Tennyson
... timely alarm, every one had got out of the way in good season. All fear of earthquake being removed, the crowd flocked back eagerly to stare down into the wrecked tunnel, which formed now a sort of gaping, chaotic ditch, with sides at some points precipitous and at others brokenly sloping. The throng was noisy with excited interest and with relief at having escaped so cleanly. The break had run just beneath one corner of the keepers' cottage, tearing away a portion of the foundation and wrenching the structure slightly aside without ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry
... he said brokenly. "The landscape's fair sproutin' eggs. An' the quicker I get out the better. There might come a landslide of 'em. I'll be there at two o'clock. But ...
— Smoke Bellew • Jack London
... of!" said Honora brokenly. "I'm like all the women. I'm dying of jealousy, Kate,—dying ...
— The Precipice • Elia Wilkinson Peattie |
