"Icily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... remind Cyril, please, that there are other people besides himself concerned in this wedding," observed Kate, icily. ...
— Miss Billy's Decision • Eleanor H. Porter
... saw her approach; for now he ventured to peep no more. She touched him lightly upon the mouth with her fingers and laughed a little low, rippling laugh, the sound of which seemed to trickle along his sensory nerves, icily. She bent over him—lower—lower—and lower yet; until, above the nauseating odor of the place he could smell the musk perfume of her hair. Yet lower she bent; with every nerve in his body he could feel ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer
... position. What for? What did he propose to offer in compensation? His protection? His devotion? His love? Then the sacrifice might be worth while. She bowed her head and smiled icily. She adored this young man. This was the last weapon she believed she could still wield against him. She was aware, perhaps, that the Inner Light was all nonsense. The fact that he said it was made it abundantly probable to her. But was it possible that the Inner Light might ...
— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici
... said Annouchka icily. "And if you have a brother whom you love, Onoto, think how much more amusing it must be to have him shot ...
— The Secret of the Night • Gaston Leroux
... Miss Barnicroft's clear cold tones, fell icily on Ambrose's ear, and seemed to turn him to stone. He and David were thieves! It was no antique vessel they had discovered, but a common honey-pot; no Roman coins, but Miss Barnicroft's money. If only he had done as David wished, and told his ...
— Penelope and the Others - Story of Five Country Children • Amy Walton
... the desk was slightly opened. What could be seen of his features appeared sharper than usual, as if the inner virulence, the dark hidden passions smoldering in his breast had at length stamped their impression on the outer man. When he first spoke his tones were more irascible, less icily imperturbable, than they had been hitherto. They seemed to tell of a secret tension he had long been laboring under; but the steady cold eyes looked out from behind the wood ...
— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham
... more of it," said Lady Gertrude icily. She had not failed to notice earlier that Nan was wearing the abbreviated skirt of the moment—though in no way an exaggerated form of it—revealing delectable shoes and cobwebby stockings which seemed to cry out a gay defiance to the plain and serviceable ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... from my intention, Mr. Gratton," she told him icily, "than to marry you. Now or ever. Please let us consider the matter closed ...
— The Everlasting Whisper • Jackson Gregory
... apartments. Ever since their strange marriage the man and the woman had lived thus apart; the man, on his part, always courteous, always deferential, always tender, always ready to be respectfully affectionate, and the woman, on her part, icily reserved, wrapped around in the blackness of her widowhood, inexorably deaf to all wooing, immovably ...
— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... uttered in a tone of the most bitter reproach, the young man made no reply, but clasped his icily cold hands against his forehead, ...
— Caught In The Net • Emile Gaboriau
... nothing Brown could do. He retreated into icily correct, outraged dignity. And the others hauled in and unloaded rockets as they arrived. They came up fast. The processes of making them had been improved. They could be made faster, heated to sintering temperature faster, and the hulls cooled to usefulness in a quarter of the former ...
— Space Tug • Murray Leinster
... so soon softened, nor are natural antipathies so readily eradicated. Mrs. Reed took her hand away, and, turning her face rather from me, she remarked that the night was warm. Again she regarded me so icily, I felt at once that her opinion of me—her feeling towards me—was unchanged and unchangeable. I knew by her stony eye—opaque to tenderness, indissoluble to tears—that she was resolved to consider me bad to the last; because to believe me good would give ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte
... the girl's intellect was too speedy even for Gibbon. She fenced all 'round him and over him, and he soon discovered that she was icily gracious to every one, save her father alone. For him she seemed to outpour all the lavish love of her splendid womanhood. It was unlike the usual calm affection of father and daughter. It was a great and absorbing love, of which even ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14 - Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women • Elbert Hubbard
... of the lives in peril, and what might have been their fate Had I sprung to the points that evening a tenth of a tick too late; And a cold and ghastly shiver ran icily through my frame As I fancied the public clamor, the trial, and bitter shame. I could see the bloody wreckage—I could see the mangled slain— And the picture was seared for ever, blood-red, on my heated brain. That moment my nerve was shattered, for I couldn't ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various
... explained. Shyness was rushing in waves to his head, and he could only save himself from disgrace by pretending to be more icily collected than any one in the room. "I'm f-frightfully overworked at present with rehearsals and things, so I applied for a f-fortnight's leave from my department and everybody thinks I'm f-fishing in Scotland or doing a walking tour on Dartmoor. This party ...
— The Education of Eric Lane • Stephen McKenna
... go into details," broke in Helen icily. "I just think it was hateful your standing there looking on while I ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum
... modern young ladies," he remarked icily. "I daresay they have their own way of looking at things—and of expressing themselves. I, too, have mine. Also I have my ...
— The Chestermarke Instinct • J. S. Fletcher
... this paper," he said icily, "my fellow-countrymen have decided to pay a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, and to sell you down the river. They suggest an international UN committee to receive custody of you children. That committee could ...
— Long Ago, Far Away • William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
... laughing on my account," she said icily. "I am used to being laughed at since I left America. They laugh at all of us ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... hard-finish. He had a resolute chin and a pair of hard, steel-gray eyes, which were set much too close together to leave great room for any attribution of an open-minded generosity. He and Mrs. Bates, under Marshall's promptings, bowed icily, and a cold and chilling silence ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller
... man, Mr. Graham," said the Prince icily, "and I should not judge you to be a wise one. It is not likely that you will ever be as prudent as you are daring, and I foresee a troubled career, whether it be long ...
— Graham of Claverhouse • Ian Maclaren
... the baradurree, some fifty feet over the water, we could see the sides stretching back as they descended, and losing themselves in the clear water, which looked, from the intensity of its blue, both deep and treacherous to an unlimited extent. The water, too, was so intensely, icily cold, that an attempt to swim across it would have been a dangerous undertaking, and neither F. nor I could summon courage to jump in. We, however, bathed in the stream which ran out of the inexhaustible reservoir, and its effect we found very similar to that of hot water, so that ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight
... see anything to laugh at," she observed icily. "Seems to me people being dead ought to make ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... like!" Susan said icily. But presently, in a more softened tone, she added, "I do feel badly about Thorny! I oughtn't to have left her. It was all so quick! And she DID have a date, at least I know a crowd of people were coming to their house to dinner. And I was so utterly taken aback to be asked out with ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... village girls have come to town since time was and brought with them the level heads of icily wise women who make love a business and not a folly. Many men are keeping sober mainly nowadays because it is good business; many women ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... icily. "What day was it that Mr. Barrows was found in the vat?" she inquired, turning to me with an ...
— The Mill Mystery • Anna Katharine Green
... flatter yourself, Cleo, I hope," Mrs. Delarayne retorted icily, "that I say these things to amuse you and ...
— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici
... arrived, and was shown up to the Turnours' vast Louis XVI. salon. He looked as much like an icily regular, splendidly null, bronze statue as a flesh-and-blood young man could possibly look, for that, no doubt, is his conception of the part of a well-trained "shuvver"; and he did not seem aware of my existence as he stood, cap ...
— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... we call a man a cad who persists in attempting to force his unwanted attentions on a girl," she remarked icily. "I do not know if there is a Spanish ...
— Bandit Love • Juanita Savage
... children, to speak," icily responded the lady he had sworn to love and cherish. "Hints are thrown away. I must suffer the indignity for your sakes, of saying to your father, I shall want some money for the purchases your mother wants to make for you. It is not the least use going to this Grande Occasion, ...
— The Cockaynes in Paris - 'Gone abroad' • Blanchard Jerrold
... towards her. And I suppose—no I am certain that she never had it towards me. As far as I am concerned I think it was those white shoulders that did it. I seemed to feel when I looked at them that, if ever I should press my lips upon them that they would be slightly cold—not icily, not without a touch of human heat, but, as they say of baths, with the chill off. I seemed to feel chilled at the end of my lips ...
— The Good Soldier • Ford Madox Ford
... icily, "I think she is in love with her cousin; and, beyond all doubt, her cousin is in love ...
— The Hoyden • Mrs. Hungerford
... the life-sized family group (tres distingue et tres soigne, remarks a modern critic of the work) painted about this time. His mother expostulated with him on the matter:—she must needs feel, a little icily, the emptiness of hope, and something more than the due measure of cold in things for a woman of her age, in the presence of a son who desired but to fade out of the world like a breath—and she suggested filial duty. "Good mother," ...
— Imaginary Portraits • Walter Horatio Pater
... stood head to foot icily still, without the least feeling, or thought, or stir—staring into the looking-glass. Then an inconceivable drumming beat on his ear. A warm surge, like the onset of a wave, broke in him, flooding neck, face, forehead, even his ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare
... no doubt that my father has been and is a very alert business man," retorted Miss Josephine most icily; "but after he knew that you had started out actually to purchase a tract of lumber, he would certainly consider that you had established a prior claim upon ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester
... is needless to say that I found the Petit Plateau keenly interesting. The menacing seracs leaned from the cliffs, glittering icily, and threw black shadows upon the neve beneath, but suffered us ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various
... she calmed down, for it was no use attempting to plan revenge with a brain at fever-heat. She must be calm and icily ingenious. As the cooling-process went on she began to wonder whether it was worsted alone that had prompted her friend's diabolical suggestion. It seemed more likely that another motive (one strangely Elizabethan) was the cause of it. Elizabeth might be ...
— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson
... schoolmaster, Nelly," said John so icily that Aunt looked up at him, surprised. "Come, Joy," she said, "Cousin Nelly can't be troubled with a great big girl. Why, Mr. Burke, she's cried herself ill, fairly, over those dreadful newspapers. I do so hope they'll leave her in peace now. But of course ...
— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark
... the matter with him for yourself," George responded, icily, "I don't think pointing it out would help you. You ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... scoured and combed, had carefully removed his gray hairs, but he could not rid himself of his wizened air. The puny little man of law, tightly buttoned into his clothes, reminded you of a torpid viper; for if hope had brought a spark of life into his magpie eyes, his face was icily rigid, and so well did he assume an air of gravity, that an ambitious public prosecutor could not have been ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac
... one or two books, which he had no heart to read. No one was allowed to visit the private room under heavy penalties, so that Walter had no other visitor until eight, when Somers, the monitor who had taken him to Dr Lane, looked in and icily observed, "You're to sleep in the ...
— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar
... less funny than impertinent. She would be angry. It was better. She would respond icily and ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various
... the clear eyes of Miss Faulkner slipped icily across his as she made him an old-fashioned Southern courtesy, and, taking Susy's arm, she left the room. Brant did not linger, but took leave of his host almost in the same breath. At the front door a well-appointed carriage of one of the Legations had just rolled into waiting. He looked ...
— Clarence • Bret Harte
... crimsoned the young woman's brow, but she restrained herself, and said icily: "Thaat's very ...
— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade
... fleet unit knocked out in a battle with Space Vikings was bad enough, but being rescued and brought to Marduk by another Space Viking simply didn't make sense. He then screened the Royal Palace at Malverton, on the planet; first he was icily polite to somebody several echelons below him in the peerage, and then respectfully polite to somebody he addressed as Prince Vandarvant. Finally, after some minutes' wait, a frail, white-haired man in a little black cap-of-maintenance appeared in the screen. Prince Bentrik instantly sprang to his ...
— Space Viking • Henry Beam Piper
... broke in Farnum, icily. "They haven't tried to run anything. But any workman is entitled to complain when he's expected to perform impossibilities with ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham
... poor lost lamb. She has had a strange influence over me; a puzzling, baffling attraction. A suggestion of something delicate and subtlely charming, which, when one seeks to seize and to define, retires icily behind the drawn curtain of ...
— Pharaoh's Broker - Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner • Ellsworth Douglass
... he finally asked icily, "that you ever placed any shares of stock in my hand, or even so, that they were not delivered to you again? Of course you can show my name at the bottom of a receipt ...
— The Boy Scouts of Lenox - Or The Hike Over Big Bear Mountain • Frank V. Webster
... if he had flung back her conventional sympathy in her face, and she stiffened instinctively. "I am sorry to see it," she returned icily. ...
— The Way of an Eagle • Ethel M. Dell
... sent friendly, comforting messages to her she trembled behind the screen with joy. She rested but little; and when the cold night wind blew flakes of snow through the loose blinds onto her warm face, when her own breath, frozen on the pillow, touched icily throat, chin and bosom, she was happy in the thought that she was allowed to suffer something for him who had suffered all for her. In those nights sacred love conquered earthly love in her; out ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various
... with the contented sigh of an investigator whose surmise has proved correct. Miss More's features certainly expressed an impulsive, reckless and lovable temperament as opposed to Miss Whiton's conscientious and calculating prudence. Oh, yes, there was conscience enough in the icily handsome face among the instructors. It was conscience doubtless that had driven her across the campus to speak to Miss More on Class Day morning. Bea sighed again, this time with a faint twinge of sympathy. She generally meant well herself. A conscience was a very queer thing—she thought so still ...
— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz
... now, and the next moment he too was gazing down at the fierce face, icily sealed in death, the light playing upon the huge red beard, while the eyes were ...
— To Win or to Die - A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze • George Manville Fenn
... O wise brook, I cannot come, alas! I am but mortal as the leaves that flicker, float, and pass. My body is not used to you; my breath is fluttering sore; You clasp me round too icily. Ah, let me go once more! Would God I were a naiad-thing whereon Pan's music blew; But woe is me! you pagan brook, I cannot stay ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... a caprich 305 Beyond th' infliction of a witch; So cheats to play with those still aim That do not understand the game. Love in your heart as icily burns As fire in antique Roman urns, 310 To warm the dead, and vainly light Those only that see nothing by't. Have you not power to entertain, And render love for love again; As no man can draw in his breath 315 At once, and force out air beneath? Or do ...
— Hudibras • Samuel Butler
... said Hawkins icily, "if one dish is broken, I'll pay for it and make you a present of the machine, if you say so. If you do not wish to make the test, doubtless there are other hotel men in New York ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin
... Mallow's hour came later, in the drawing-room, where he contrived to hover over Violet, and fence her round from all other admirers for the rest of the evening. They sang their favourite duets together, to the delight of everyone except Rorie, who felt curiously savage at "I would that my love," and icily disapproving at "Greeting;" but vindictive to the verge of homicidal mania at "Oh, wert thou in ...
— Vixen, Volume II. • M. E. Braddon
... the old lady stiffened on her velvet cushions. "I thought I had told you, Sally," she remarked icily, "that there is nothing that I object to so much as a boy. Dogs and cats I have tolerated in silence, but since I have been in this house no boy has ...
— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow
... her appear icily indifferent, but she did not deceive Galen, although Pertinax welcomed her calmness as excusing unenthusiasm ...
— Caesar Dies • Talbot Mundy
... An icily angry gentleman remonstrated with him for standing in the fairway and Rose suggested that they ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... "That," she said icily, "is no one's affair but my own. I am not wholly ignorant of the ways of the world. And I know whom I ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... the Prime Minister urged how small and accidental was the omission, his Majesty remarked that it was one of many; and when he argued how any delay might have proved dangerous, the point at which delay had begun was again icily indicated. More pressingly still did he invite the King to consider in what light, if unexplained, this resignation would be popularly regarded; would it not be taken as an admission of blame by the head of the Home ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... said calmly, determinedly, almost icily, looking Bernard squarely in the face: "Bernard, you know that I love you. It was I that asked you to kiss me. Always remember that. But as much as I love you I shall never ...
— Imperium in Imperio: A Study Of The Negro Race Problem - A Novel • Sutton E. Griggs
... icily, "it is none of your business. It's none of your business whether I get shot as a deserter, or ...
— The Deserter • Richard Harding Davis
... your own invention, Sergeant Fitzroy," said Ennis icily, "no one of which you'll ever prove. Have you any warrant for this ...
— Lanier of the Cavalry - or, A Week's Arrest • Charles King
... among the dead leaves of last year. But the plain generally was hot and sunny in summer, and very dreary in winter; for the larger trees which grew upon it were oaks, and when they were bare of foliage, and the sand-hills and the pools had a deep covering of snow, the wind swept icily cold over its wide space. In September the oaks were still in leaf, and the grass green, and, though they were but stunted in size and coarse in texture, both were pleasant to look at. The sunshine was no longer hot, but it was serenely bright, and there was as lovely a blue overhead as if ...
— A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 - A Novel • Mrs. Harry Coghill
... icily in my lashes, I got up and went into the house and lighted the fat pine under the logs in the hall. They had lain all ready for the torch for a whole year, just as I had lain for a lifetime until a few weeks ago. Then suddenly ...
— The Tinder-Box • Maria Thompson Daviess
... and ringing, came to them on the still air. Rose's slim figure stiffened very slightly, barely perceptibly, at the sound. "Sir Eustace has forgotten his engagement," she said icily. "Yes, Captain Brent, ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... hand on each arm of Perigal's chair, and leant over so as to look him full in the eyes, as she said icily: ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte
... carefully, so I made no attempt to enter into conversation. Just before lunch the jolting of the train deposited the major's coat at my feet. I picked it up and handed it to him. He received it with thanks and a trace of a smile. He was polite, but icily so. I was an American, he was a German officer. In his way of reasoning my country was unneutrally making ammunition to kill himself and his men. But for my country the war would have been over long ago. Therefore he hated me, but his training made him polite in his hate. That is ...
— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin
... of the plot who is addressing me?" inquired the duchess, icily. "No doubt my nephew ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson
... Tinker had just resolved to swoop from 3500 feet this time, when of a sudden she rose out of the windless area into a stiff breeze, icily chill. They learnt what had happened by the balloon bumping down on their heads with apparent intent to smother them, and in a breath the car was spinning round, and jerking furiously to and fro. The millionaire screamed and bumped about the car, and bumped and screamed. Tinker set his teeth, ...
— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson
... see any occasion to refer to love in any way," she said, icily. "Mamma certainly does not expect me to do such an extraordinary thing. If you will talk sensibly, Phil, we may enjoy the drive, but if you persist in talking ...
— Castle Craneycrow • George Barr McCutcheon
... making love to me, Mr. Harwood; there's that to console you." And she added icily, settling back in her chair as her father approached, "I hope you understand that I'm not ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson
... little older," said Mrs Bosenna icily, "you'll know that anything can be done with roses in these days—with proper precautions. Why"—she turned to Captain Cai—"I've planted out roses in July month—in pots, of course. You break the pots in the October following. But there must ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... I said icily. "You don't deserve an explanation, but you shall have one, and that is the last word I shall ever speak to you on the subject of Jack. His letter is the truth. I am his 'nearest of kin,' save the cousins in Pennsylvania of whom he speaks. He was orphaned in his babyhood and my mother's ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... patch of greenery at the end of the dim corridor-like street. The sudden alternations of warm light and cold shade made him shiver. In front of the Palazzo di Venezia, and in front of the Gesu, it had seemed to him as if all the night of ancient times were falling icily upon his shoulders; but at each fresh square, each broadening of the new thoroughfares, there came a return to light, to the pleasant warmth and gaiety of life. The yellow sunflashes, in falling from the house fronts, sharply outlined the violescent shadows. Strips of ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... gathered and arranged by himself, and greatly to my amusement, he is always cunningly provided with a duplicate, composed of exactly the same flowers, grouped in exactly the same way, to appease his icily jealous wife before she can so much as think herself aggrieved. His management of the Countess (in public) is a sight to see. He bows to her, he habitually addresses her as "my angel," he carries his canaries to pay ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins
... Timmendiquas icily, "but neither the Manitou of the Wyandots, nor the Aieroski of the Iroquois has given to me the eyes to see everything that ...
— The Scouts of the Valley • Joseph A. Altsheler
... large party in the corner, they are most of them friends and acquaintances of mine," he said, rather icily—she had annoyed him—"and they belong to the aristocracies of various nations. Does that satisfy you? I am afraid they are none of them demimondaines, so you will ...
— Beyond The Rocks - A Love Story • Elinor Glyn
... "nor'-wester," right in our teeth all the rest of our way. The poor horses bent their heads as low as possible and pulled bravely at their collars, up hill the whole time. Among the mountains the wind rushed with redoubled fury down the narrow gorges, and became icily cold as we neared the snowy ranges. It was impossible to see the hills for the thick mist, though I knew we must have a magnificent view before us. We took refuge for an hour just to rest the horses, at Windwhistle, and ...
— Station Life in New Zealand • Lady Barker
... possible," she asked icily, "that Frank's mother would actually refuse him so small a thing as a puppy, if it meant the merest ...
— Old Mr. Wiley • Fanny Greye La Spina
... not thinking of a flirtation," she said icily, "but if I were, I should as certainly be unaffected by the rank of my victim. In America we aren't quite so strong for pedigrees and families ...
— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace
... water which once had been his heart trickled vaguely and icily through the wrong veins, ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... nerves, and so appallingly did the sudden clangor beat upon them. Smith, like a man of stone, showed no sign. He was capable of so subduing his constitutionally high-strung temperament, at times, that temporarily he became immune from human dreads. On such occasions he would be icily cool amid universal panic; but, his object accomplished, I have seen him in such a state of collapse, that utter nervous exhaustion is the only term by which I can ...
— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... time felt embarrassed, and this made her a little angry. "I don't think I gave your brother any right to speak for me or of me in this matter," she said icily; "and if you are quite satisfied, as you say you are, of your own affection and Frida's, I do not see why you ...
— From Sand Hill to Pine • Bret Harte
... I icily agreed that it would, scenting tacit reproof in that mildly-put observation of his. But I didn't propose to be trifled with. I calmly led Mr. Peter Ketley out to where the overturned windmill tower lay like a museum skeleton along its bed of weeds and ...
— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer
... in her chair, frigidly, icily, disgustedly erect. Beside her Mrs. Brackett sat, scorn and mental nausea plain upon her countenance. Every one looked angry and disgusted except Mrs. Chase, who was eagerly whispering questions to her next neighbor, and Mrs. Tidditt, who ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... He was alive still; slowly the death-like pallor was passing away, faint tokens of returning circulation tingled through his benumbed veins. The beating of his heart was stronger, and his hands seemed less icily cold. But so slowly, and with so many intermissions, did the change creep on, that she did not dare to assure herself that he was reviving. Now and then the scent made her feel sick with terror; for she knew that his life depended upon her unceasing attention, and the tempter ...
— Brought Home • Hesba Stretton
... not too busy," O'Connor said in his icily polite tone, "I would like to have Miss Thompson back as soon as possible." He sounded as if Malone had ...
— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett
... icily as she crossed the few steps of open between cabin and kitchen. Above no cloud floated, no harbinger of melting rain. The cold stars twinkled over snow-blurred forest, struck tiny gleams from stumps that were now white-capped pillars. A night swell from the outside waters beat, its melancholy dirge ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... find nothing to say to him: the truth that lay so icily upon her heart was all that she could have said: "I am your guilty mother. I robbed you of your father. And your father is dead, unmourned, unloved, almost forgotten by me." For that was the poison in her misery, to know that for Paul Quentin she felt almost nothing. To hear that ...
— Amabel Channice • Anne Douglas Sedgwick
... seeing only that men are ungrateful, fickle, deceivers, greedy of gain, run-aways before peril, readier to pay back injury than kindness. "Worst of all they take middle paths." Upon these, his observations, he proceeds to tell a story of a State and he tells it icily. He lays bare the foulness of man. He doesn't lecture, he does not preach, he never laughs, never scolds, is never surprised. He shows, says Mr. Morley about "as good a heart as can be made out of brains." In my opinion, that sentence is the most terrible indictment in the book. ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... man who brings the spirit of adventure into the game that I want. Of the Quaifes and the Scottons and the Barlows I have nothing but dreary memories. They do not mean cricket to me. And even Shrewsbury and Hayward left me cold. They were too faultily faultless, too icily regular for my taste. They played cricket not as though it was a game, but as though it was a proposition in Euclid. ...
— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)
... reading, ignoring him, and he stood there not knowing how to get away. When he pulled himself together, after a few moments' silence, and was about to depart, wondering at the caprice of womankind, she looked up again, and said icily— ...
— One Day's Courtship - The Heralds Of Fame • Robert Barr
... are cosmetics that at last make the plainest face to be beautiful. In the calm of scholarship men have given up the thought that culture consists of an exquisite refinement in manners and dress, in language and equipage. The poet laureate makes Maud the type of polished perfection. She is "icily regular, splendidly null," for culture is more of the heart than of the mind. But as eloquence means that an orator has so mastered the laws of posture, and gesture and thought and speech that they are utterly forgotten, and have become second ...
— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis
... on her, and the very colour of her mind seemed to change beneath it. It was no longer torture-torn and hateful, as I had seen it when she was cursing her dead rival by the leaping flames, no longer icily terrible as in the judgment-hall, no longer rich, and sombre, and splendid, like a Tyrian cloth, as in the dwellings of the dead. No, her mood now was that of Aphrodite triumphing. Life—radiant, ecstatic, wonderful—seemed to flow from her and around her. Softly she laughed and sighed, and swift ...
— She • H. Rider Haggard
... in its violation by the subsequent seizure of Portugal, and finally in the occupation of Spain by French troops. Declaring that more had been lost than gained by the events which occurred at Bayonne, Talleyrand says that on one occasion he icily observed to Napoleon that society would pardon much to a man of the world, but cheating at cards never. If this be true, it was a stinging rebuke and one which touched the heart of ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane
... when the practice game began, many of the old forms were either missing or to be seen in the second Eleven's line, and the coaches hovered over the field of battle with dark, forbidding looks, and said mean things whenever the opportunity presented itself, and were icily polite to each other, as men will be when they know themselves to be in the right and every one else in the wrong. And so practice that Thursday was an unpleasant affair, and had the desired effect; ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour
... this, Stella," Mrs. Ebley said icily. "You cannot deceive me. You have been led astray, girl—it is wiser to confess at once and I will try ...
— The Point of View • Elinor Glyn
... correctly," replied Morgan, icily. "I have quite forgotten your date; were you a success in ...
— The Pursuit of the House-Boat • John Kendrick Bangs
... came over his face as I asked him, and his lips set with a stern expression as he said stiffly, icily, "I had realized, Miss Linton, how utterly different our ways of looking at life must be; or else perhaps it is that you do not hold me to be enough of a knight to consider a woman's position before my ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various
... kind as to leave the room, gentlemen," he invited, icily. "I'll not detain you even to have you apologize for your intrusion on my privacy or ask pardon of ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day
... to startle the strongest man, for there were about fifty yards of a rushing torrent to stem, as it swept icily cold along the river's rocky bed, and already the pressure seemed greater than he could bear, while he felt that if the water rose higher he would be perfectly helpless to sustain its force. But a sharp glance upward and downward showed ...
— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn
... courteously to me when they meet me on the prairie, doubtless wishing to see what sort of monster I am! I have met nothing but civility, both of manner and speech, except that distraught pistol shot. It looked icily beautiful, the snow so pure and the sky such a bright, sharp blue! The snow was so deep and level that after a few miles I left the track, and steering for Storm Peak, rode sixteen miles over the pathless ...
— A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains • Isabella L. Bird
... day I was in a state of gloomy despair; Edmee was icily cold; M. de la Marche did not come. I fancied I had seen the abbe going to call on him, and subsequently telling Edmee the result of their interview. However, they betrayed no signs of agitation, and I had to endure my suspense in silence. I could not get a minute with Edmee alone. In the morning ...
— Mauprat • George Sand
... a summer evening, and all the French windows reaching to the ground were open to admit the cool south wind, which had just come up, deliciously icily cold after a scorching day. In the verandah sat the Major and the Doctor over their claret (for the Major had taken to dining late again now, to his great comfort), and in the garden were Mrs. Buckley and Sam watering the flowers, attended by a ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley
... "You want it left that way, Topham?" he asked icily. "This only confirms my contention that matters in Tubacca are completely out of control, that the Rebel element has the backing of the citizens. I shall ...
— Rebel Spurs • Andre Norton
... colored, drew her arm away, froze. She detested all forms of familiarity; physical familiarity she abhorred. "You have known Grant Arkwright long?" she said, icily. ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips
... contrived to catch Farnie in the act of performing some ingenious breach of the peace, and, it being a Wednesday and a half-holiday, sent him into extra lesson. On the following morning, more by design than accident, Farnie upset an inkpot. Mr Smith observed icily that unless the stain was wiped away before the beginning of afternoon school, there would be trouble. Farnie observed (to himself) that there would be trouble in any case, for he had hit upon the central idea ...
— A Prefect's Uncle • P. G. Wodehouse
... my rock window, and the negro telling me, as he was wont to do in the ship, that my bath was ready. The bath-room lay away a few paces from my chamber; but the water that flowed from the silver taps was icily cold; and I shivered after my plunge, though the beauty and luxury of the place compelled my admiration. It was no ordinary bath-room, even in its arrangement, the great well of water being large enough to ...
— The Iron Pirate - A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea • Max Pemberton
... I care," the other boy asked icily as he turned on his heel and walked out of the room again ...
— The Soul of a Child • Edwin Bjorkman
... icily. "You're ill-advised to pass judgment on me, sir. Fate has shown you what you weren't meant to see. The attack has come. Our reply will be dreadful. ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
... mother could reach her. "Don't touch me," she said icily. "Mamma, I'm going to put on my things. I want papa to walk with me. ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... road we walked into the dark night, the wind blowing cold and bitter, and the clouds chasing one another across the sky. In front, I could see nothing but the porter hurrying along, bent down under the weight of my bag, and the wind blew icily. I buttoned up my coat. And then I regretted the warmth of the carriage, the comfort of my corner and my rug; I wished I had peacefully continued my journey to Madrid—I was on the verge of turning ...
— Orientations • William Somerset Maugham
... said Mrs. Gimpson, icily; "but I shouldn't have been alive now if it hadn't ha' been for Mr. ...
— Odd Craft, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... the dinner passed off well enough, as the subject was changed. Lord George began to talk of racing, and Hay responded. Mrs. Krill alone seemed shocked. "I don't believe in gambling," she said icily. ...
— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume
... been considered good taste, Mr. Graves," he demanded icily, "for a man to bring his mistress into ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... was just beginning under the auspices of a second milk and soda, to consider my hideous plight, when a genial fool upon the opposite side of the table asked me if I had 'witnessed the comedy at Victoria.' Icily I inquired: 'What comedy?' He explained offensively that 'some cuckoo had tried the old wheeze of stuffing pepper in his trunk to put off the Customs,' and that the intended deterrent had untimely emerged. My brothers, conceive my exhilaration. 'The old wheeze.' I could have broken ...
— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates
... said the young man icily, "is Perpendicular, and later than 1412, at all events, when a former belfry fell in, destroyed the nave, and cracked the pavement, as you see. All this is matter of record, as you may learn, sir, from the books which, I feel sure, my uncle will ...
— The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... very good," she said, icily, and drawing her slight, graceful figure haughtily erect, "but—if at any time I should find my duties heavier than I could perform faithfully, I should tell her so and seek some ...
— Mona • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... this letter by the afternoon post in camp. He sat down alone in his tent and read and re-read each line. Then he stiffened and remained icily still. ...
— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn
... were answered by a smile, a bow, and a demure "Yes" or "No" with the chill on. In vain Amy telegraphed the word 'talk', tried to draw her out, and administered covert pokes with her foot. Jo sat as if blandly unconscious of it all, with deportment like Maud's face, 'icily regular, splendidly null'. ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... the adventurer replied icily, without removing his attention from the captain. "What ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph
... marked "Private," settled at her table, Miss Ram icily opened the interview. "I have heard from Mrs. Chater. I did not expect to ...
— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
... icily, "that I appreciate the fact of being deprived of the services of an honest woman in favor of ...
— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer
... to throw it away," she said, icily. "I didn't say I didn't want it, nor that I wouldn't wear it. I only said I wanted ...
— Old Rose and Silver • Myrtle Reed
... room once more, however-every corner, under the bed, the chest of drawers and the dressing-table, before she got into bed again, her feet icily cold. And yet again before settling down she looked round, perplexed and inquiring. Placing the matches beside the candlestick, she blew out the light. Then, half-turning on her side with her face to the wall, she ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... Ainslee, that you met the handsomest and most likeable chap on earth in Yokohama—if you remember," she reminded him icily. ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds
... sniffed for the second time. "I never allow my boy to make any remarks whatever upon visitors who call," responded Mrs. Tallcat icily. ...
— The Tale of Lal - A Fantasy • Raymond Paton
... stand it no longer. "Don't trouble, Mr. Marbolt," he said icily. "It is no use your offering rewards. The man who has gone after Anton will find him. And you can rest satisfied he'll take nothing from you on that score. You may not know ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... enjoyed it," said Jessie, icily, though there was a twinkle in her eye. "Not having a mirror, I'm afraid I can't join ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... as he entered, a fire was burning in the grate and it struck him, with the inconsequent insistence of trifles in enormous issues, how chilly for the time of year the day had been and how icily cold his own house. On the left, at the far end of the room, Twyning sat at his desk. He was crouched at his desk. His head was buried in his hands. At his elbows, vivid upon the black expanse of the table, lay a torn ...
— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson
... Charlotte interposed icily, "is not necessary. Monsieur Eloin, at my command, brought the American here. You ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... knew the stars were hidden. My thoughts rushed to policemen and omnibuses, and everything that was useful and comforting. I suddenly realized what a fool I was to come to such a house alone. I was icily afraid. I thought the end of my life had come. I was an utter fool to go in for psychical research when I had not ...
— The Best Ghost Stories • Various
... sound strange to you, sir," said I pretty icily; "but I took that fancy into my head neither for your beaux yeux nor for profit. Moreover, if you don't understand without my help, I'll be shot if I can provide you with an explanation that won't strike you as wildly foolish. . . ...
— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... seeking her," she returned, icily. "I have no desire to cultivate the particular ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish
... millions in this town who, etc., etc.' And so the thing will go on until one day he asks, 'Have you no fuel at all?' when I can hear myself replying, 'Only two chairs and one wardrobe,' and he will reply icily, 'You are lucky to have that. Everybody else is dead because they had not ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 26, 1919 • Various
... you, is it ? " he remarked icily, bending upon the German the stare of a tyrant. "So you've come again, have you? " He wheeled in his chair until he could fully display a contemptuous, merciless smile. "Now, Mr. What's-your-name, you've called here to see me ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane
... decided to reserve his story for more receptive ears. He contented himself, by way of revenge, with saying "Oh?" rather icily. ...
— Crome Yellow • Aldous Huxley
... maintain that his features are 'faultily faultless,'" quoted Roger, "but we do insist that they're 'icily regular.'" ...
— Ethel Morton's Enterprise • Mabell S.C. Smith
... frozen on Lady Caroline's lips. She sat up straight, and stared at her visitor. When he had quite ended his explanation, she said, as icily as she knew ...
— A True Friend - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... as charming as ever?" demanded Mrs. Morrell sweetly but icily. "Go in carefully now, so dear little wifey ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White
... great a change came into her face that it was as if she had been transformed into another being. It was like a sudden breath of wind and a sunbeam falling on the still cold surface of a woodland pool. The eyes, icily cold a moment before, had warm sunlight in them, and the half-parted lips with a flash of white teeth between them had gotten a new beauty; and most remarkable of all was a dimple which appeared and in its ...
— A Traveller in Little Things • W. H. Hudson |
