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Huskily  adv.  In a husky manner; dryly.






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"Huskily" Quotes from Famous Books



... staggered to his feet despite Nott's restraining hand. "To leave Mademoiselle and leave the ship?" he said huskily, "is ...
— By Shore and Sedge • Bret Harte

... Arthur Inglewood, rather huskily, "you mustn't be so bitter about it. Everyone has to take the world as he finds it; of course one often finds it a ...
— Manalive • G. K. Chesterton

... the trees crack and the doors in the house bang.... They turned away and went to their beds, worn out, sad and sick at heart. The cocks crowed huskily. The first light of dawn crept through the wet windows, a wretched, pale dawn, drowned ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland

... operator to a chair, and O'Neill ran to the inner room. The moment his eye covered the order book he saw what had happened. "Extra 81 is against a passenger special," exclaimed O'Neill, huskily, seizing the key. "There's the order—Extra 81 from Cambridge to meet Number 50 at Sumter and Special 833 has orders to Cambridge, and nothing against Extra 81. If I can't catch the freight at Red Desert we're in for it—wake up Morris Blood, quick, ...
— The Daughter of a Magnate • Frank H. Spearman

... long young arm about her. "I'll take care of it for you," he said huskily. "Judith don't know it but she's got somebody besides old Peter ridin' herd on her now. And you know I'm some little old ...
— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie

... a fine view," he said huskily; "you ought to be able to see the prison and the cemetery, and, with luck, the lunatic asylum as well. It's over amongst the trees to the east of Chatford. You can't miss it if the sun's shining on the roof. There's been a-many folks ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil

... and huskily, for, like all brave persons, she only recoiled from pain for the moment. Her heart always rose to meet its ...
— Mabel's Mistake • Ann S. Stephens

... Dalhousie's eyelid; but he said huskily, after a pause: "Promise? What's your promise worth? You've promised me before. You ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... huskily. "Prepare your Gens, each of you, for such battle as even our histories never have recorded! For we go against foemen whose strength we do not know, whose manner of life we do not know, and we must not fail! Make haste with your preparations! Your time is short! ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 • Various

... where to put it. Nellie, understanding, took it from his fingers and pushed him gently by the arm towards his wife. He knelt down by the weeping woman's side and put his hands on the head that was bent to the ground. "Sue," he said, huskily, not knowing what to say. "Don't take on so! It's ...
— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller

... the mysterious wagons; I know we played around her, proud of our right to be there, but I do not recall it, I only speak from hearsay. Her ticket was taken, she had bidden us goodbye with that fighting face which I cannot see, and then my father came out of the telegraph-office and said huskily, 'He's gone!' Then we turned very quietly and went home again up the little brae. But I speak from hearsay no longer; I knew my ...
— Margaret Ogilvy • James M. Barrie

... of anything you desire to do, Izzy," said Henchard huskily. "If I did not approve it would be no matter! I wish to go away. My presence might make things awkward in the future, and, in short, it ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy

... it about ten times, I shouldn't wonder,' huskily murmured Chippy, 'an' I've got it all wrong if 'e don't say as to run straight an' play fair is just about ...
— The Wolf Patrol - A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts • John Finnemore

... Lord Maxwell," he said at last, huskily, turning his head away from her to the fire. "I've just had a long walk with him. Then he left me; he had no idea I came on here. But something drove me; I felt I must come, I must tell. Will you promise not to be angry with me—to believe that ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... trouble about the mount. Why, man," he said huskily, "you're in trouble enough, as it is! And if our lines are as close as you say ...
— The Littlest Rebel • Edward Peple

... night-shirt and his nightcap tipped over one ear, he was an enthralling figure. As he strode toward me his slippers flapped weirdly upon the brick walk. "There's somebody in the garden, sir," he whispered huskily. "The troops has it surrounded." No general in all history, reporting in some critical hour the disposition of his army, ...
— Lady Larkspur • Meredith Nicholson

... returned the wife, huskily,—"this is not a time for words of ceremony: let us speak only the truth to each other. After my death, you will certainly be promoted to a higher place; and I now assure you again that I wish you to become the wife of our lord—yes, I wish this, ...
— In Ghostly Japan • Lafcadio Hearn

... sister as if she were afraid of her. When she was recovered sufficiently to speak, she turned her eyes on the clergyman, and said huskily, ...
— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells

... Bowdoin's office, at an hour when he knew he should find him alone. For the old gentleman called early at the little counting-room, as in the days when he might hope to find some ship of his own, fresh from the Orient, warping into the dock. Jamie's lips were dry, and his voice came huskily. He gave up the effort to speak of St. Clair's death, but asked briefly that Mr. Bowdoin would get ...
— Pirate Gold • Frederic Jesup Stimson

... to her sides, and then he squeezed her to him, so tightly that the breath almost left her body, and kissed her three or four times full on the lips. Then, still holding her, and looking in her eyes with an expression that filled her with horror, he said huskily: ...
— The Range Boss • Charles Alden Seltzer

... said Ned huskily. "I can see plain enough, but it isn't natural. It's all alive, and the roots are twisting and twining about as if the tree ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn

... could ever tempt me from my faith to you, Wallace," she huskily murmured. "Oh!" she cried, with a sudden start, as a warning whistle blew, "does that mean that you ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... last by the Count Muffat and the deputy, came up in a fury. Drops of perspiration stood on his forehead, and he grumbled huskily: ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola

... to the port rail to show them where the green head of Cape Henlopen stood, abeam. There was moisture in the corners of his eyes as he pointed to it. "Thank God, Bob, my lad, you're here to see the Delaware again!" he said huskily. ...
— The Black Buccaneer • Stephen W. Meader

... man," he began, rather huskily—"in there, you know." He indicated the direction of the consulting-room as he spoke. "We don't ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan

... huskily, her heart beating quick with vague fright. Mrs. Gregory was in her deep armchair, she looked old and broken to-night, far older than she would look a few days later when she lay in her coffin. Rachael had brought her a cup of hot bouillon, and had knelt, ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris

... old man!" he said, huskily. "Thank God that you are alive! I saw them drag you in, ...
— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

... crawling over rocks. Half-way up the hill they had a narrow escape from stumbling on a Boer picket. The sentry heard if he did not see the line of crouching figures that passed him like ghosts in the darkness with stealthy steps that must have sounded weird across the night stillness. In a voice huskily vibrant, he challenged, "Wie kom dar?" Getting no reply, he called again twice in louder tones, and then fired his rifle at nothing in particular. Then, the whole picket waking, or beginning to realise that danger was near, let off a volley, and voices ...
— Four Months Besieged - The Story of Ladysmith • H. H. S. Pearse

... understand that you have left Mr Englefield wounded?" I asked; it never struck me, in my consternation, that I had worded the question harshly, till I saw Mr Popham's look of deep distress. There was not the least anger in the crimson glow that suffused his face, nor in his voice as he huskily answered: "I deserve this for my cruel ingratitude towards him at Ragusa, but, on my honour, Mrs Englefield, I am not to blame for leaving him now, nor shall I know rest till I ...
— The Grateful Indian - And other Stories • W.H.G. Kingston

... you were going, too," said Edwin, huskily. "I believe I will," said Alfred, swallowing hard. And ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 6 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists • Elbert Hubbard

... know how I ever got away," said the hunchback, huskily. "I do know that monster was chasin' me right through the woods, tryin' to ram his spear inter my back as if I was a flounder an' he was arter lobster bait. I managed to hold onter my old gun, though at the time I didn't know I was ...
— Frank Merriwell's Cruise • Burt L. Standish

... mean?' said Laura, speaking huskily, with her head bent over the bronze insect. 'What can it mean?' she asked again, and looked up ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... her heart to leave us," returned his father huskily. "Dear heart, how she prayed that we might be spared that parting; but the ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... huskily, "I'm afraid I can't. Be quick and get your suppers, for it's awful late, an' that little 'un ought ...
— Willie the Waif • Minie Herbert

... there with the boost," commented Mr. Bates, and then, not being quite satisfied with that form of speech, he huskily corrected it to: "Burnit's always handing out those pleasant words." This form of expression seeming also to be somewhat lacking in polish, he relapsed into more redness, and wiped the strangely moist palms of his hands upon ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester

... countenance, and in the unconscious appeal with which his blue eyes surveyed Madge and me in turn. But in a few moments he collected himself, as if for the necessary dealing with some unexpected castastrophe, and asked me, a little huskily still: ...
— Philip Winwood • Robert Neilson Stephens

... by the feeble clearness of a night-light, rose a vast bed. A heap of clothes lay on the floor; beside them two slippers dozed, with noses each to each, two yards apart. Somewhere a little clock ticked huskily. There was a rather close smell of lavender and eau de Cologne, mingled with the fragrance of ancient sachets, soap, and drugs. Yet it was a scent even more peculiarly commingled ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors

... stared round the carriage. In his eyes you could read the question, "What in the devil's name does the child mean?" The robust woman read it there, and answered him huskily...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... cradle lightly stepped, Where Lilian, the baby, slept; Her damp curls lay, like gold alight, A glory 'gainst the pillow white; Softly her father stooped to lay His rough hand down in loving way, When dream or whisper made her stir, And huskily he said, "Not her." We stooped beside the trundle-bed, And one long ray of lamp-light shed Athwart the boyish faces there, In sleep so pitiful and fair. I saw on Jamie's rough red cheek A tear undried; ere ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various

... small and dark. It had a single desk in it, and three chairs, and a hatrack. There wasn't any coat or hat on the hatrack, and there was nobody in the chairs. In a fourth chair, behind the desk, sat a huskily built man. He had steel-gray hair, a hard jaw and, Malone noticed with surprise, a faint twinkle in ...
— The Impossibles • Gordon Randall Garrett

... it to feel her cheek soft against his, her head trustfully on his shoulder. He said huskily, "All right, Meta?" ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley

... he did not know her, then: "God's glory!" he said huskily, getting to his feet—"is it the sweet face o' Miss Greensleeve or the angel in her come back f'r to bless ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers

... face grew rigid, the lips of her pretty mouth twitched. "Look here, Tobe," she said, huskily. "You've hurt my feelings. I love you and Annie and Robby, and it is wrong for you to talk this way when I'm so worried about the baby. You are not a cold-blooded murderer, are you? Well, you will make yourself ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben

... a chair after the outburst, his big chest surging, his throat tumultuous with gutteral incoherences. "Now then," he said, huskily, when the anguish had somewhat abated, "what do you want ...
— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington

... clapped his hands and shouted to the white chak to clean up the broken glass on the floor. He said huskily, "You are not ...
— The Door Through Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley

... slow one sang huskily as he stumbled along with difficulty 'but there's never any hurry. I'll fill their journeys with desire and make adventure call to them ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood

... said, huskily. "When I bound myself I did so without realizing what I did. I was but a boy, knowing not the future. I did it out of mere good-will to you, little dreaming of the fetters you were forging. Since you will not release me and treat me as a man I shall keep the oath. ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe

... said Bellew, a trifle huskily, perhaps, "why, Shipmate!" and he held out his hands. Then Small Porges uttered a cry, and came running, and next moment Big Porges had him in ...
— The Money Moon - A Romance • Jeffery Farnol

... said cautiously: "If we are only wise, and careful, and look well ahead, perhaps we may be sitting in our own room by next spring, Silla. But so many things may happen in between," he added huskily, with a ...
— One of Life's Slaves • Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie

... her hand impulsively. It did not tremble. She looked at him with radiant, steady eyes. He raised the slim, gloved fingers to his lips. "Whether to leave you, or to try to—Oh, I would give my life to know how best to serve you," he said huskily. He turned away, the sound of his steps ringing loud in the ...
— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield

... boyish face and his possession of this divine melody. Shortly afterward, he had gone to town on the Fourth of July, been drunk for several days, lost his money at a faro table, ridden a saddled Texas steer on a bet, and disappeared with a fractured collar-bone. All this my aunt told me huskily, wanderingly, as though she were talking in the weak ...
— Youth and the Bright Medusa • Willa Cather

... steps from the clergyman's door, a pale-faced, fat man huskily enveloped him with a raised, red fist and the voice of a bell buoy, demanding payment ...
— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry

... he answered huskily, "who am accustomed to such denials. Then I demand this, for know that if once you pass your word I may trust it: that you will not marry the ...
— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard

... moved so as to get between me and the light from the door, as he said huskily, "He came very nigh to it, ma'am. I never did set eyes on such a decent patient chap as that man was. I did the very wust thing I could a' done, the town doctors told me, for I brought him into the hut, instead o' keeping him outdoors and rubbing his poor ...
— Station Amusements • Lady Barker

... regret anything. I always said you had good blood in you, don't you know," Hugh continued, with a boyish laugh, then added, a little huskily, "I'll say this much, and I mean it. I would rather give up what I supposed was mine to you than to anybody else ...
— That Mainwaring Affair • Maynard Barbour

... one boot, and holding the other in my hand, I stepped out in the yard, with my hat and coat off—both being left in the room. A Yankee captain stepped up to me and said, "Are you No. 200?" I answered very huskily, "No, sir, I am not." He then went on in the house, and on looking at the fence, I saw there was at least two hundred Yankee cavalry right at me. I did not know what to do. My hat, coat, gun, cartridge-box, and knapsack were all in the room. I was afraid ...
— "Co. Aytch" - Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment - or, A Side Show of the Big Show • Sam R. Watkins

... have held it back another hour. I should have gone mad if I had tried to keep it up any longer." He waited breathlessly for her to speak. She sat silent and rigid, looking straight before her. "Is it hopeless?" he went on at last, huskily. "Must I ask your forgiveness for my presumption and ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon

... We've got you at last!" growled a stern voice almost in his ear, it seemed; and poor Billiard's hands shot high into the air, he shut his eyes, held his breath and waited for the end. But to his utter amazement, a second voice huskily replied, after an instant, "Yes, you've got me, boys. I knew it was no use to run away, but—I—couldn't bear—to stay—and know that everyone looked at me as a thief. ...
— Tabitha's Vacation • Ruth Alberta Brown

... turned toward her unfortunate husband. He rose to his feet, reeling from the effects of the sudden shock, and the dreary hopelessness of his face touched every heart. "My friends," he said, huskily, "there is little to be said. This sudden revelation has crushed me, till my soul grows faint with the bitterness of a terrible woe. Believe me, I have had no part in this wicked deception, but only considered that I ...
— Clemence - The Schoolmistress of Waveland • Retta Babcock

... from you, whom I know to be intelligent and honest, whether you believe I am going to another existence,—and if so, what sort of a one you think is in prospect for such a man as I am? Now don't pity me, my dear Bonpre,- -don't pity me!—" and he laughed a little huskily as the Cardinal took his hand and pressed it with a silent sympathy more eloquent than words, "We must all die,—and if I am to go somewhat sooner than I expected, that is nothing to compassionate me for. But there is just a little uncertainty in my mind,—I am not at all sure that ...
— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli

... exhausted, and went forward slowly. I reached the red blanket, and looked down. Yes, all was well. A hunting knife lay in an open bundle. I stooped and seized it, and hurled it far into the water, and then I asked, rather huskily, a question that had not been in my ...
— Montlivet • Alice Prescott Smith

... makes it hard to turn you out," she went on huskily, "is the fact that you're a white man's dog. Yes, sir! a white man's dog. And that means an awful lot; means you'd stick till death to any white person who'd feed you and call you friend. Mr. Jack London has written a ...
— The Blue Envelope • Roy J. Snell

... said, huskily, trying to steady his voice. "There! Madame the countess is waiting. All will be well now." He turned, smiling, toward the young countess, and lifted his hat, then stepped back and fixed me with a blank look of dismay, which said ...
— The Maids of Paradise • Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

... huskily, "I have in some degree complied with evil. But it is so with all; the very saints, in the mere exercise of living, grow less dainty, and take on ...
— Stories By English Authors: Germany • Various

... to time he rallied sufficiently to comb his own hair before Barbara was let in with her snowdrops, and that he could give orders to Partridge in a loud, firm tone; but he was too ill to do more than whisper huskily to Barbara and Fanny. ...
— Mr. Waddington of Wyck • May Sinclair

... believe you," he admitted huskily. "Yet how came you to be so unjustly convicted by a tribunal ...
— The Wings of the Morning • Louis Tracy

... in his mind, in her own absorption in their boy she had attributed it to that. But early one evening he came in with a sheaf of roses in his arms, and when she had exclaimed at them and breathed deep of their dewy fragrance, Joe bent over and kissed her, and said a little huskily: ...
— His Second Wife • Ernest Poole

... that," I answered huskily, as I wondered what she might know or dream of that which lay beyond the ken of the gross materialism of her race. "Immortality is a very beautiful idea," I went on, "and science has destroyed much that is beautiful. But it is a pity that Col. Hellar had ...
— City of Endless Night • Milo Hastings

... plenty more, so it's just as broad as it's long. Anyhow, the Sisters will know what to do with the wad. Say! I wish it had been bigger. They took me into the room where the youngsters stay," he said huskily, rubbing his head harder than ever. "They said—them real ladies said—that they would raise up the children to love me, and pray for me. When I come away they cried—them real ladies—about me, old Tommy Dye, that ain't even ...
— Round Anvil Rock - A Romance • Nancy Huston Banks

... s'loon," said the cabby, promptly and huskily. "I know a place I could take money in with both hands. It's a four-story brick on a corner. I've got it figured out. Second story—Chinks and chop suey; third floor—manicures and foreign missions; fourth floor—poolroom. If you was thinking of ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry

... of the little room enveloped him. Audrey's low huskily sweet voice, her quick smile, her new and unaccustomed humility, and the odd sense of her understanding, comforted him. She made her indefinite appeal to the best ...
— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... shell-back, coming up river on a Gravesend shrimper, listened in blank astonishment for a minute, and then confided huskily to his mate that he ...
— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various

... a little frightened, tried to grin: "A good law is, kill all generals," he said huskily. "Afterward we shall ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers

... eyes lifted and fell again. "There was the attic," she whispered a bit huskily. "You wouldn't rent ...
— Little Eve Edgarton • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... nor men, nor women," he said huskily and clutched her hands in his. "If life cheats and injures you, you have a right to snatch what joy you can. It's not only what you do to love, but what you do to yourself, that counts. For real ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock

... alternative for me but to say "Yes, sir." The answer came huskily. I was annoyed that ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond

... wrote to her at once," said Staniford, huskily, "and explained the matter as well as I could without making an ado about it. But now you stop, Dunham. If you excite yourself, there'll be the deuce ...
— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells

... silent crowd, was hers, Her light snickering laugh, as she stood there Pausing, scanning the sawdust at her feet. Then she switcht round and faced the positive man Whose strong 'She cannot do it!' all still felt Huskily shouting in ...
— Georgian Poetry 1918-19 • Various

... as I stood on the little rocky platform outside the door through which I had burned my way, and looked down into the glimmering chasm beneath, and heard the fresh voice of the sea huskily rumbling and reverberating about hidden grottoes and channels, all that Calypso was to me came back with the keenness of a sword through my heart. Ah! there was my treasure—as I had known when my eyes first beheld her—compared with which that ...
— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne

... mood that came upon us with his gentle words that none of us well could answer him; and this he understood as in turn we took his hand and strove to utter that which was in our hearts, and only could say huskily a word or two, of which the meaning was conveyed for the most part by the sorrow and the longing that were in our tones. Young's natural instincts were wholly opposed to any display of the softer emotions, and for shame of the weakness that in this case he could not help but show, ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier

... huskily. "Of course we are friends; the best friends. We shall always be friends. I have never let anyone say a word against you, and I never will. I am proud to think that you are known by my name. I only wish that I could ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand

... to my perch, and the horses (a bay And a brown) trotted off with a clatter; The driver look'd round in his humorous way, And said huskily, "Who is your hatter?" ...
— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll • Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

... said the skipper huskily, "that is just about the sum and substance of it. But don't you trouble about us, or about your sister and the rest of them either for that matter. We shall be all right, never fear. The island yonder, though it is but a small strip of a place, ...
— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood

... down on the edge of the bed and rubbed the old man's head with a tenderness of which I could not have believed the newsboy capable. Evans's eyes were open; he watched the other, and at last he said huskily: ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... aye," stammered Bill Brennen, huskily. The others breathed heavily, shuffled their feet, gripped the money in their pockets and glared at the yellow pieces still glowing ...
— The Harbor Master • Theodore Goodridge Roberts

... four, five, six," began the patient. When the young doctor, with a start, opened his eyes, he was counting huskily: "Tin hundred an' sixty-nine, tin hundred an' sivinty, ...
— Best Short Stories • Various

... all about that," said the diver huskily, "and so I meant to be; but when you're shut-up in one o' them soots and are down in three or four fathom o' water, and thinking your life-line's fast, you don't seem as if you could be ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn

... huskily. "I said I had paper and I have paper handy, but I've got to have McGuire's paper too. I ain't got money and spotless rep'tation like Mike McGuire but I don't want paper like that floatin' roun' universh with my name ...
— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs

... to say anything to help you just now," he answered huskily, "for after this I don't dare, ...
— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp

... chandelier—which they now saw for the first time without its fly-specked cover—that they gave way to most exuberant folly and indulged in the coarsest enjoyment. Their voices rose in the warm atmosphere more huskily and eulogistically at each successive dish till they could scarcely invent fresh compliments. However, one of them, an old retired master-tanner, hit upon this fine phrase—that the dinner was a "perfect feast worthy ...
— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola

... chair. "No one ever had a truer friend than I have in you," he said, huskily. "But it seems to me that Alice may have changed with the lapse of years; she may have become easier to satisfy, better ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... feeling fine, Mawruss," he replied huskily. "I could blow myself to a bottle tchampanyer wine yet, I feel so good. I am enjoying myself, Mawruss, on account Moe Griesman from Sarahcuse was just in here, which he tells me his nephew, Mozart Rabiner, ...
— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass

... accomplished, but it was immediately made plain to him that the invisible bonds which linked her to Clarke were being drawn upon with merciless power, for with the first motion of the vehicle she fixed a look of terror and entreaty upon her mother, exclaiming, huskily: "They are calling me! They ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland

... sit down," he said huskily. "Something else has gone wrong at the store, I suppose. Well, let it go; it can wait ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon

... huskily, as though the dust and dryness of the innumerable years had got into his very voice. "There, now, don't ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England

... old documents and Cabinet Letters of his; [Forster, i. 374, 379, &c.] which awaken a strange feeling in the attentive reader; and show us the ruggedest of human creatures melted into blubbering tenderness, and growling huskily something which we perceive is real prayer. Here has a business fallen out, ...
— History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 7 • Thomas Carlyle

... does it matter to you now whether I am saved or lost?" the man huskily demanded, and in a tone of intense bitterness, for her solemn words had pierced his ...
— The Masked Bridal • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... but made no answer, and his eyes had a strained and exultant expression. After a long silence, he cried huskily: ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... dragons myself. Scorched my tongue on one once," said the Cowardly Lion huskily. "But I'll fight with you, brother Hokus. Stand back, ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum

... to let this young mucker make a fool of me?" demanded the Melville youth, huskily. "I've just got to ...
— The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip - "Making Good" as Young Experts • Victor G. Durham

... murmured huskily, "I done you an injury. It's me what's the fool. I was carried away by B. Sheitlis' making his ...
— Potash & Perlmutter - Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures • Montague Glass

... horrible affair!" he said huskily; "horrible! Would you mind, Doctor Thorndyke, telling us just how the matter stands in your opinion—what the probabilities ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman

... it," he said, huskily; and, turning on his face, he kissed the grass, earth's "perfumed garment," ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

... you to know," he went on, huskily, "that I appreciate your standing by me, and if we get out of this alive, you and I, with our discharge papers, I promise I'll be your partner in this new enterprise—the quest for treasure; that is, if you'll take ...
— Lost In The Air • Roy J. Snell

... you'll believe it, old Streeter was so plum befuzzled he sent the man an' the axe away—an' that tree's a-livin' ter-day—'t is!" he finished; then, with a sudden gloom on his face, Larson added, huskily: "An' I only hope I'll be sayin' the same thing of that boy—come next month ...
— Just David • Eleanor H. Porter

... used to it, my boy,' said the Doctor huskily, stroking the great firm fingers that were lying lovingly on his knee, 'and if it always ends in this way, it ought to do us more ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge

... agony of suspense, passed in the same fashion; then a shadowy form grew, phantomesque, out of the gloom; a moment more, and I distinctly heard the heavy breathing of a man nearly spent, and saw my friend scrambling up toward the black embrasure in the tower. His voice came huskily, pantingly: ...
— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

... a large mushroom, and now there was a quiver in his voice. 'Smee,' he said huskily, 'that crocodile would have had me before this, but by a lucky chance it swallowed a clock which goes tick tick inside it, and so before it can reach me I hear the tick and bolt.' He laughed, but in ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie

... Myles, brusquely. Nevertheless his throat was tight and dry, and the word came huskily ...
— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle

... silence: all in the room knew that the ship was lost, but it was terrible to hear it again. The lad's face broke into lines of grief, and he spoke huskily. ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson

... huskily interrupted, "is there a place that you know of anywhere in which Miss Roussillon could ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson

... College boys' joke on me, or a floating mad-house?" huskily roared down the freighter's captain ...
— The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless - The Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise • H. Irving Hancock

... strained; and under the doorway the tall grass by the steps thrust ripening straw, all alive with little brown grasshoppers. The clock, in its wooden case, made a whirring noise, as though it were some consumptive trying to clear his throat, and then huskily struck half-past six. ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola

... Flint," cried Brent, at length, huskily, as he seized a pen and dipped in into the ink, "the time has come for me to do what I have long intended. I am going to do now what I should have ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey

... still held the mallet at the end of the blow. The carpenter's mouth was open in amazement. Neddie Benson, the first to move or break the silence, had spread his hands as if he were about to clutch at a butterfly or a beetle; dropping them to his side, he gasped huskily, "She said there'd be a light man and a ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes

... I said huskily; for it was now plain enough; and my heart seemed to stand still, and my breath to come in gasps, as my imagination conjured up horror after horror that must have befallen the free, generous hearted man who had ever given me so warm a welcome to ...
— The Golden Magnet • George Manville Fenn

... "Ma'amselle," he said huskily, "nowhere in the wide world is there another woman so deep of heart, so strong in tenderness. Never before have I seen that side of the trapping. To a man that is shut. It needs the soul of a woman to see behind those things. And, oh, Ma'amselle!" his voice fell low ...
— The Maid of the Whispering Hills • Vingie E. Roe

... wall at the side of the narrow lounge, to the emptiness where her pillow should be. "Good-night, Mother," he muttered huskily. Mother did not answer for the first time in nights beyond the counting. Mother would not be there to answer for at least six nights to come. A week, thought this old man, as the other old man had reflected a few hours before, is a long time when ...
— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund

... Tyrer huskily, but triumphantly, "thou'rt theer, art thou, owd brid? I'm fain th' lads gave thee a cheer to keep thy sperrits up—we'se drink thy health jest now. I've cotched thee at last thou sees! This here's ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)

... that was a chief," he said huskily. "It hurts me here—in my neck." He rubbed the contracted muscles of his throat. "I'd feel like that, girl, ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart

... Mo turned from the window, and said, somewhat huskily:—"I wish some of these here poor people, as they call themselves, would either go away to Aymericay, or keep their premises a bit cleaner; nobody wants 'em here that ever I've ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

... back—cursed him and promised him profanely that he would not let him die. Steve's face was gray, sweat was pouring from Fat Joe's scarlet face when the life-tide ebbed lowest and there came a sudden cessation in that stream of babbled madness, Garry Devereau lay so quiet that an oath jerked huskily from Fat Joe's lips; but when he had listened at the motionless chest he lifted his head and ...
— Then I'll Come Back to You • Larry Evans

... huskily. Then he grinned. His Rosa would soon get married now, would soon have children, many little grandchildren-girls as small as this one, and he gazed once more at the floor. There she was, the little girl who could not reach up to the table. He had long ago chosen a fine, ...
— Absolution • Clara Viebig

... replied Thayor huskily; "I've been happy for a whole day, that is all. Happy for a whole day. ...
— The Lady of Big Shanty • Frank Berkeley Smith

... can whisper you what you want," said Oliver, huskily, "it's at your service! There ...
— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... she come here for? Do you mean to tell me she thinks I took the money?" he said, huskily, after a ...
— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs

... my fight," she said to herself, "and have failed on the very threshold of victory, still, I know how to bear defeat. What do you propose to do?" she said, huskily. "If there is any way I can buy your silence, name your price, keeping back the truth will avail me little now. I love Rex, and no power on earth shall prevent me from becoming ...
— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey

... tongue—hit's my pants!" he said huskily. "Hit's the seat of my pants. Hit's—hit's thar!" He nodded toward the strip of jeans left on the ...
— Heart of the Blue Ridge • Waldron Baily

... you," he said huskily, as he put her from him gently. "I don't think I should have the courage to let you go if I did. I didn't mean ...
— The Sheik - A Novel • E. M. Hull

... boy," he said, huskily, calling him by that title for the first time, "I'm but a poor wreck at best. I can teach you no good, and God knows I wouldn't be the means of putting a shadow of evil in your heart. Your father says, 'Make him such ...
— Culm Rock - The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught • Glance Gaylord

... it," said little Sampson huskily. Raphael gave him his hand, and little Sampson swung it up and down ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... for your grief, child, at being obliged to leave your father," Frederick said huskily. "But are you going to take off the 'Armor of God' and forget all that He ...
— Tess of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White

... again,—a little huskily this time, for there was a sudden unaccountable and unwished-for lump in his throat, and a moisture in his eyes which he had not bargained for. Philip looked up,—and silently held out his hand, which Lorimer as silently clasped. There was a moment's ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli

... you had better be bad—I give you fair warning," said Brandon huskily. He felt her eyes upon him all the time, and his strength and good resolves were oozing out like wine from an ill-coppered cask. After a short silence Mary continued, regardless ...
— When Knighthood Was in Flower • Charles Major

... on our account, please," said the Millstones huskily. "So long as you supply the power we'll supply ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling

... a moment as though dazed; then he rose impulsively and seized Thorndyke's hands. "I don't know what to say to you," he exclaimed huskily, "except that you have saved my brother's life, and for ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman

... and instinctively clenched his fist, but Ernestine already had moved on and was huskily chaffing the young man with the budding beard. Julot sat with sombre face and angry eyes, only replying in curt monosyllables to the occasional remarks of his next neighbour, Billy Tom. Marie, the waitress, was passing near him and he ...
— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre

... on Fletcher's beard, and as he wiped it away he spoke huskily. "It's a clear case of assault and I'll have the law on him," he said. "Sam Murray, you saw him hit me square ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow

... to be manager, at a fixed salary?" said James hurriedly and huskily, his fine fingers slowly rubbing ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence

... playing one Saturday evening in the interval before dinner, when she became aware that somebody was listening, and turning her head, she saw through the Irish mist a man's figure standing in the conservatory. The figure was vanishing when she cried out a whit huskily, "Oh, pray, don't ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill

... door, Henry stepped forward and huskily asked if he might take her home. Bowing to him with a gracious smile of declination, she said, "Thanks," and, taking Cordis's arm, ...
— Dr. Heidenhoff's Process • Edward Bellamy

... back!" cried Ringrope, huskily, leaning far over the corpse, and, needle in hand, menacing his companion with his aguish fist. "Take that back, or I'll throttle your lean bag of wind ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville

... ASHER (huskily, trying, to carry it off, and almost overcome by emotion at the reconciliation). I'm from Missouri, ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill



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