"Sourly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he expressed a hankerin' for my 'taty-patch," answered Nicky Nan sourly. "The way I look at it is, he leaves me alone in quiet, an' you don't. A pack o' sojers messin' about a spot like this!" he added with scorn. "It affronts a decent man's understandin'. But 'tis always the same wi' sojers. In the Navy, when I belonged it, we had a sayin'—'A messmate afore a ship-mate, ...
— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... to bust up the whole combination!" declared Will rather sourly. "I wish I had them ...
— The Call of the Beaver Patrol - or, A Break in the Glacier • V. T. Sherman
... his heels again and saluted with his back to the entrance, his heart beating sixteen to the dozen, one of the officers turned towards him and scowled sourly. ...
— With Haig on the Somme • D. H. Parry
... thing about what you say," replied Arkwright sourly, "is that it's the truth. I don't say the women aren't worthy of us, but I do say they're not worthy of our opinion of them.... Well, I suppose you're going to try to marry her"—this with a vicious gleam which he felt safe in indulging openly before one so self-absorbed ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips
... Thy beauty and thy years full well befits, For still temptation follows where thou art. Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won, Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assail'd; And when a woman woos, what woman's son Will sourly leave her till she have prevail'd? Ay me! but yet thou might'st my seat forbear, And chide thy beauty and thy straying youth, Who lead thee in their riot even there Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth; Hers, by thy beauty ...
— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris
... superciliousness on his nephew's part on the score of his patrician birth on his father's side. Trevlyn though he was, the lad conformed to all the ways and usages of the humbler Holts; and even Mistress Susan soon ceased to look sourly at him, for she found him as amenable to her authority as to that of Martin, and handy and helpful in a ...
— The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn - A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot • Evelyn Everett-Green
... came in among them they looked, some of them, somewhat sourly on me, and asked me some impertinent questions, to which I ...
— The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself • Thomas Ellwood
... to escape further questioning, and eager to rest his aching head. The little boys called after him a hearty good-night. But Giuseppe saw him go without a word, casting sidewise looks after the retreating figures, and grunting sourly. ...
— John of the Woods • Abbie Farwell Brown
... the lamps burning on palely into the dim day she breakfasted. Together with several of the men she ate in the kitchen where a fire roared in an old stove, and where a table was placed conveniently. Ma Drury was about, sniffling with her cold, but cooking and serving her guests sourly, slamming down the enamelled ware in front of them and challenging them with a look to find fault anywhere. She reported that in some mysterious way, for which God be thanked, there were no dead men in her house this morning. Bert ...
— Six Feet Four • Jackson Gregory
... Blaney nodded sourly. He was a man of bullying rather than of tactful propensities and he could not conceal his distaste for an interview with Jim Weeks at this particular moment. To tell the truth, he had begun to fear the results of the agreement with McNally which rested in his coat pocket. Weeks ...
— The Short Line War • Merwin-Webster
... ground with her knees drawn to her face," with all her "symptoms of hysterical derangement, leave little room, as we think of her, for other feelings than pity." Unfortunately, feelings of pity for a person so distraught, so sourly treated by fortune, do not suffice for tragedy. When we contemplate Antigone or OEdipus, it is not with a sentiment of pity ...
— Alfred Tennyson • Andrew Lang
... convinced and inclined toward resentfulness. That a "booze-fighter" like Ford Campbell should come only a day's ride from town and not be fairly well supplied with whisky was too remarkable to be altogether plausible. He eyed the two sourly while they talked, and he did not bring forth one of the fresh pies he had baked, as he had meant ...
— The Uphill Climb • B. M. Bower
... the King sourly. "We should have lost them but for the brave action of young Denis here; but look you, Master Leoni," he continued sternly, "I gave you my commands to keep watch and ward over my goods and chattels at my palace of Fontainebleau until ...
— The King's Esquires - The Jewel of France • George Manville Fenn
... day opens a little sourly. It is almost clear overhead: but the clouds thicken on the horizon; they look leaden; they threaten rain. It certainly will rain: the air feels like rain, or snow. By noon it begins to snow, and you hear the desolate cry of the phoebe- bird. It is a fine snow, gentle at first; but it ...
— Widger's Quotations of Charles D. Warner • David Widger
... glass down upon the grimy counter in the dusty far corner of the little store and stared sourly at Pete Hamilton, who was apathetically opening hatboxes for the inspection of an Indian in a red blanket and ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower
... his benefactor, sourly at first, for already he and the dog were friends, and thus Calumet's derogatory words were in the nature of a base slander. But he reasoned that all was not well between Betty and Calumet, and therefore perhaps Calumet had not meant them ...
— The Boss of the Lazy Y • Charles Alden Seltzer
... of his meaning, and his perfect readiness to stand by his meaning was so evident, that Andy concluded discretion to be the better part of valor. He turned away sourly, shooting a look at Teddy, which, if looks could kill, would have left him dead ...
— The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall - Or, Great Days in School and Out • Spencer Davenport
... guess how you manage to be always winning, unless you have made love to the Chisera, and she has persuaded the gods for you. (Slapping him on the back.) Why, this is the first time you were ever accused of love-making and looked sourly over it! ...
— The Arrow-Maker - A Drama in Three Acts • Mary Austin
... do not always stop in their beds,' retorted Biddy still more sourly; 'but for all that, she is not ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... not the smartness in your wits, Katrina, Make your food smack sourly?—Well, this time, It's serious with me. ...
— Emblems Of Love • Lascelles Abercrombie
... indeed," exclaimed the other, nettled, "sons of the Puritans forsooth! And who be Puritans, that I, an Alabamaian, must do them reverence? A set of sourly conceited old Malvolios, whom Shakespeare laughs his ...
— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville
... have trouble in that way," replied the general sourly. "Women are fools—ALL women. But the principal trouble with the second Mrs. Siddall was that she wasn't ...
— The Price She Paid • David Graham Phillips
... stern and address the man at the wheel. He gazes at me sourly, shrugs his shoulders, and bending, grasps the spokes of the wheel solidly, and brings the schooner, which had been headed off by a large wave from port, stem ...
— Facing the Flag • Jules Verne
... company," replied Roger sourly. "Say!" He snapped his fingers suddenly. "Maybe if I ...
— Danger in Deep Space • Carey Rockwell
... Atossa sourly. "I never fancy your mother's jelly—she always makes it too sweet. However, I'll try to worry some down. My appetite's been dreadful poor this spring. I'm far from well," continued Aunt Atossa solemnly, "but still I keep a-doing. People who can't work aren't wanted here. If it isn't ...
— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... "No, not more pleasure, but exceptional fastidiousness, if what people say is true." {agleukesteron}, said ap. Suid. to be a Sicilian word "more sourly." ...
— Hiero • Xenophon
... there in the stillness, sourly smiling, his face still wet from his exertions; while the Tailless Tyke at his side fronted defiantly the serried ring of onlookers, a white fence of teeth faintly visible ...
— Bob, Son of Battle • Alfred Ollivant
... heavily on, musing sourly enough to myself, and feeling utterly dispirited. There had been moments when life had appeared to me to be of a very dusky gray, but never before had I seen it all black, with no single tinge of ...
— The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
... about his work, so simple and unpretending, so wholly without restless and fretting ambitions, and so generous in his judgment of others. He made his own dramatic experiment, he thought little enough of it; and he was wholly above the hateful vice of sourly disparaging competitors, whether dead or living. He knew that he was himself no master, but he was manly enough to admire anybody who was nearer to mastery. He was full of unaffected delight at Sedaine's busy and pleasing little comedy, The Philosopher without knowing it; ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) • John Morley
... he remarked sourly. "And now you know as much as I know. It was kept a little secret by the orders of my employers, but we are so close to the spot now that I don't think it will matter if I let the cat out of ...
— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer
... had gone to him, hat in hand, a month ago, he'd have done you any favor," said his helpmate sourly. "But it is different now. He's over his fancy; and besides, he's ...
— Audrey • Mary Johnston
... Bland grinned sourly. "Us, we been gawdin' amongst the Injuns," he stated loftily. "We sure had some time. I'll say we did! Say, we're goin' to be ready to do business now pretty quick. Don't you birds want to fly? Just a little ways—to see ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower
... wasted. Give it to your friends. We must be content with thinner stuff." And taking up a jug of water that stood upon the table, he filled an empty cup with it and drank, then passed it to Peter, while the host looked at them sourly. ...
— Fair Margaret • H. Rider Haggard
... not talk," Meka commented sourly. "Children with toys make speeches like that, and then ...
— Wandl the Invader • Raymond King Cummings
... Sourly they shouldered their bed-rolls and went limping down the trail, and when their forms were only blurs beyond the shine of the headlights, the little woman churned Jawn around somehow in the sand and drove back quite as recklessly as she had come. Casey, bouncing alone in the rear seat, did a great ...
— Casey Ryan • B. M. Bower
... victories, which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said. When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are, and not turn sourly on the angel and say 'Crump is a better man with his grunting resistance to all ...
— Essays, First Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... of August. His followers became very zealous, and such is the nature of an infection that scarcely anybody was able to resist it. Mrs. Anderson, true to her excitable temper, became fanatic—dreaming dreams, seeing visions, hearing voices, praying twenty times a day[2], wearing a sourly pious face, and making all around her more unhappy than ever. Jonas declared that ef the noo airth and the noo heaven was to be chockful of sech as she, 'most any other place in the univarse would be better, akordin' to his way of thinkin'. He said she repented more of other ...
— The End Of The World - A Love Story • Edward Eggleston
... look tired and red, and she buries herself in silences. We are no longer quite in accord in details of our life. She who once always said "Yes," is now primarily disposed to say "No." If I insist she defends her opinion, obstinately, sourly; and sometimes dishonestly. For example, in the matter of pulling down the partition downstairs, if people had heard our high voices they would have thought there was a quarrel. Following some of our discussions, ...
— Light • Henri Barbusse
... Cargill had been killed a long time ago because his name never turned up in news dispatches any more?" I grinned sourly, seeing my image dissolve in blurring shadows, and feeling the long-healed scar on my mouth draw up to make the grin hideous. "I'm Cargill, all right. I've been up on Floor 38 for six years, holding down a desk any clerk ...
— The Door Through Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... inn was filled with a rude company. "Hastening," says Ellwood, "from a place where we found nothing but rudeness, the roysterers who swarmed there, besides the damning oaths they belched out against each other, looked very sourly upon us, as if they grudged us the horses which we rode and the clothes we wore." They had proceeded but a little distance, when they were overtaken by some half dozen drunken rough-riding cavaliers, of the Wildrake stamp, in full pursuit after the beautiful ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... she had no concerns of her own, or at least none whose vitality would gain attention. And suddenly her friendly sense of being a part of this flowing life dissolved sourly into mockery. She was in it and not of it—again the hostile critic. And then it occurred to her that perhaps momentarily she was a little lonely. And her utter impotence in this huge careless city heightened this feeling. ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble
... said Ingleborough sourly, as he thrust the gems back in his pocket. "So do you, and you know now what it ...
— A Dash from Diamond City • George Manville Fenn
... heard the news broadcasts the past couple of days? How the devil could you have missed them?" Hennessey was scowling sourly at him. ...
— Combat • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... a cigarette?" he said sourly. "Couldn't sleep last night. This damned responsibility. Worried all night about something we ...
— The Very Black • Dean Evans
... much use for us or it'd pay us something," Gusterson sourly asserted, staring blankly at the tankless TV and kicking it lightly as he ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... at the sound; and Elinor, with her feet stretched out before her, lapped the carpet restlessly with her heels, and watched her cousin sourly as Douglas entered. ...
— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw
... James reflected sourly that they had a nice house (rather small) in an excellent position, no children, and no money troubles. Soames was reserved about his affairs, but he must be getting a very warm man. He had a capital income from the business—for Soames, like his father, was a member of that well-known firm of ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... nourishment, and the feverish anxiety incident to betting other people's money had told on Stull. His eyes were like two smears of charcoal on his pasty face; sourly he went about the business which Brandes should have attended to, nursing resentment—although he was doing better than Brandes had hoped ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers
... anybody else I have tackled on the subject to-night," said Tolson, sourly. "He's a wonder, if he ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... you didn't order any room," replied the host sourly and with an obvious desire to show his indifference and contempt even. "You wired to know if ...
— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser
... Bradley smiled sourly at the ignorance he would have corrected in one of his pupils, and continued to look down into the water, as if the place had ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... washstand, and grabbing a basin which was half-full of water, she emptied it into the waste jar. Now thoroughly angry, she went on sourly: ...
— The Easiest Way - A Story of Metropolitan Life • Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow
... NAPOLEON (sourly, resuming his march). Hm! You will never be hanged. There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who ...
— The Man of Destiny • George Bernard Shaw
... that!" Hoddan turned upon him and he said sourly: "All right, you can. I'm not trying to stop you with ...
— The Pirates of Ersatz • Murray Leinster
... was dry and brief in speech, tore her away, saying sourly, "Have done, child; you must not dare to do it!" Then they all prayed him to consent—the Duke, and the magister, and Diliana herself; and the magister said, that in a few days the sun would be in Libra, which would be the fitting and best time; if they delayed, ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold
... youth but in age. There young and old best learn cheerfulness, patience, self-control, and the spirit of service and of duty. Izaak Walton, speaking of George Herbert's mother, says she governed her family with judicious care, not rigidly nor sourly, "but with such a sweetness and compliance with the recreations and pleasures of youth, as did incline them to spend much of their time in her company, which was to her ...
— Character • Samuel Smiles
... received them, and what he had said in defence of his iniquities; but when he found that Pan had not returned any answer to his message he became very angry. He tried to persuade his wife to undertake another embassy setting forth his abhorrence and defiance of the god, but the Thin Woman replied sourly that she was a respectable married woman, that having been already bereaved of her wisdom she had no desire to be further curtailed of her virtue, that a husband would go any length to asperse his wife's reputation, and that although she was married to a ...
— The Crock of Gold • James Stephens
... grimaced sourly; "you wait and see. You ask Swanson some day if he ever sailed on a ship called ...
— The Pirate Shark • Elliott Whitney
... a chartered smack at that—shack-fishing on shares!" Mayo was sourly resolved to paint his low estate in black colors. "And I have concluded it's about all I'm ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... dinner can come in and get it," announced Hepsey, sourly. "I've yelled and yelled till I've most bust my throat and I ain't ...
— Lavender and Old Lace • Myrtle Reed
... Socialists began to show themselves (a little sourly) in Mr. Hethcote's smile. "And how did you get on with this benevolent gentleman?" he asked. "After converting your father, did he ...
— The Fallen Leaves • Wilkie Collins
... "Yes, you laugh sourly, to look at," said she. "Mountstuart told me that the muscles of the mouth betray men sooner than the eyes, when they have cause to be uneasy in ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... the man, sourly; "you've too much tongue, and you know too much what aren't good for you. Your aunt, my old missus, says ...
— Young Robin Hood • G. Manville Fenn
... Elkanah, I swear I should die of listening to nothing but frogs tuning up and swallows twittering and old fools swapping guff," he went on, sourly, and then he suddenly cocked his ear, for a new note ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various
... forms—and when with a last low curtsy she ended, there was plenty of applause from all save the two monks. They eyed her with a displeasure they took no trouble to conceal; and when she tripped lightly over to them and extended her tambourine for an offering they drew back sourly. ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... said a superintendent, sourly; 'she pays for the baths, and does not waste the saffron. Such appointments are the best part of the trade. Hark! do you not hear the widow Fulvia clapping ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
... sourly. "I've got some soapsuds here, Clayton, and one of these days I'm gonna put some in your beer if you ...
— The Man Who Hated Mars • Gordon Randall Garrett
... sourly at him, and merely twiddles his fingers instead of answering. A school-boy of his acquaintance passes by him with his satchel on his back. Stopping him the native ponders a long time what to say ...
— Love and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... about the journey of an empty carriage, children, and leave me alone with Antoinette. All three of you come and dine with me. I will undertake to arrange matters suitably. You men understand nothing; you are beginning to talk sourly already, and I have no wish to see a quarrel between you and my dear child. Do me ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac
... about it," Jack said, sourly. "Who do you mean by 'he'? What do you know about the crew ...
— Boy Scouts in the Philippines - Or, The Key to the Treaty Box • G. Harvey Ralphson
... secure, their foes attend: For their wise gen'ral, with foreseeing care, Had charg'd them not to tempt the doubtful war, Nor, tho' provok'd, in open fields advance, But close within their lines attend their chance. Unwilling, yet they keep the strict command, And sourly wait in arms the hostile band. The fiery Turnus flew before the rest: A piebald steed of Thracian strain he press'd; His helm of massy gold, and crimson was his crest. With twenty horse to second his designs, An unexpected foe, he fac'd the lines. ...
— The Aeneid • Virgil
... a high opinion of it when you've lived as long in it as I have," retorted Miss Eliza sourly, "and you won't be so enthusiastic about improving it either. How is your mother, Diana? Dear me, but she has failed of late. She looks terrible run down. And how long is it before Marilla expects to ...
— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... Aronsen looked sourly at the lieutenant. "I know what I'm talking about. Fyfe has only to say the word and off come ...
— I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon • Richard Sabia
... growled Crispin sourly, then in a louder voice—for his quick eye had caught a glimpse of a face that watched them from the window—"I play the King of Spades!" he cried, ...
— The Tavern Knight • Rafael Sabatini
... begged, mem,' said Archie, sourly turning to her; 'but as for that Peter body, the Lord keep me tongue fra' swearin', an' my hand from itching to gie him ain on the lug, when I ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume
... before you and your dog came along and scared all the perch away," he said sourly. Then, turning suddenly on her: "Why don't you go ahead and say it? Is it 'cause you're ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde
... ordered her horses, and was about to leave Brandon next morning. But rheumatism arrested her indignant flight; and during her week's confinement to her room, her son contrived so that she consented to stay for 'the odious ceremony,' and was even sourly civil to Miss Lake, who received her advances quite as coldly as they ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... occasionally losing the place in the bewilderment of so many similar figures, he managed to discover that he had omitted three and miscopied two. He corrected these mistakes with ink and returned the list to Harvey. Harvey looked sourly at the ink marks, and gave the boy ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White
... black spitz she held in a chain had begun to growl and bark furiously at the first sight of Helbeck, to the evident anger of the old housekeeper, who looked at the dog sourly as she went forward to take some bags and rugs from her master. Helbeck, meanwhile, and the young girl helped another lady to alight. She came out slowly with the precautions of an invalid, and Helbeck ...
— Helbeck of Bannisdale, Vol. I. • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Nejoumi looked at him sourly for a moment. He turned to the men who stood ready to draw away from Feversham the angareb ...
— The Four Feathers • A. E. W. Mason
... more profit diggin' spuds fer folk than you do scratching up loam and loose rocks the way you do," Smallbones went on sourly. ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum
... no business to pay Jasper Parloe money for keeping still about it," said the miller, sourly. "Being bled by a blackmailer is never the action of a wise man. When he threatened me I went to your father at once and got ahead of Parloe. We agreed to say nothing about it— that's about all we did agree on, however," added Mr. Potter, grimly. "Now you children ...
— Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill • Alice B. Emerson
... Joe said sourly, "One fracas and you'll be over that desire to have the buffs watching you on Telly while they sit around in their front rooms sucking on tranks. And you'll probably be over the desire for the excitement, too. Of course, the share ...
— Mercenary • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... that time spinning merrily along the road to Brethaven, having parted with Nick at the railway-station. Violet was seated beside her, and the old servant Mitchel sat sourly behind them. He had a rooted objection to the back-seat, and held the opinion that a woman at the wheel was ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... spoiled our children's books, and have done their best to spoil our children, too. There is no fresh, manly life in his stories; anything of the kind is sourly frowned down. Rollo, while strolling along, picturesquely, perhaps, but stupidly, sees A Noisy Boy, and is warned by his insufferable father to keep out of that boy's way. That Noisy Boy infallibly turns out vicious. Is that sound doctrine? Will that teach a ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various
... stand here waitin' on you and dribble away the day, for I've got work to do!" said Isom sourly. ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... Grego laughed sourly. "Nick thinks you have to believe a thing to prove it. It helps but it isn't necessary. Say we're a debating team; we've been handed the negative of the question. Resolved: that Fuzzies are Sapient Beings. Personally, I think we have the ...
— Little Fuzzy • Henry Beam Piper
... a still Christmas," answered Cicely, promptly; "and he watched me as sourly as though he knew ...
— In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I - Christmas Tales from 'Round the World • Various
... O'er his withered old face: "Let us pray that the Barin For many long years May be spared to his servants!" The simpleton blubbers, The loving old servant, And raising his hand, Weak and trembling, he crosses 240 Himself without ceasing. The black-moustached footguards Look sourly upon him With secret displeasure. But how can they help it? So off come their hats And they cross themselves also. And then the old Prince And the wrinkled old dry-nurse Both sign themselves thrice, 250 And the Elder does likewise. He winks to ...
— Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia? • Nicholas Nekrassov
... Bishop Chuff sat sourly in his office and sighed for more worlds to canker. Round the room stood the tall filing cases containing card indexes of prohibited offences, and he looked gloomily over the crowded drawers in the vain hope of finding something that had been overlooked. He pulled out a drawer ...
— In the Sweet Dry and Dry • Christopher Morley
... not the keys," said old Conrad Schmick sourly. "This door has not been opened in my time. It is ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... to ride around with yuh an' see what's goin' on," declared Butch Siegrist sourly. "If they're wimmin, yuh can't even give a cuss without lookin' first to see if ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... but as you take it? Thackeray calls the world a looking-glass that gives back the reflection of one's own face. "Frown at it, and it will look sourly upon you; laugh at it, and it ...
— Cheerfulness as a Life Power • Orison Swett Marden
... where the negroes were engaged in watering a plantation of maize. The process consisted of drawing water from the well in leathern buckets and pouring it into channels by which it was conducted to the plantation. The negroes looked at him sourly as he took hold of the rope attached to the long swinging beam that acted as a lever to bring the bucket to the surface, and one of them muttered in Arabic, "Kaffir dog!" Slaves as they were they despised this ...
— The Dash for Khartoum - A Tale of Nile Expedition • George Alfred Henty
... rather sourly. "I know you've done some neat little things in Liege, but could you manage a better affair out here? I give you leave to try. As for getting us out, I don't see much prospect of that coming ...
— Two Daring Young Patriots - or, Outwitting the Huns • W. P. Shervill
... the bottle and made pretense of swallowing some of the lukewarm liquor. The outlaw laughed sourly, snatched it ...
— When the West Was Young • Frederick R. Bechdolt
... thinking you'll do something wonderful," he said sourly. "Doesn't seem to come to much, as fur ...
— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton
... room Mama Therese and Papa Dupont wrangled sourly over their food; not with impassioned rancour but in the natural order of things—as others might discuss the book of the moment or the play of the year or scandal or Charlie Chaplin or the thundering fiasco of Versailles—these two discussed each other's failings ...
— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance
... the Times," Barrow muttered sourly. "Come on; let's get away from here. I suppose he's after you for an interview. Everybody in Granville's talking about that legacy, it seems ...
— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... "Aye!" returned Raikes sourly, "marvel, indeed; but the miracle of it is that you have it back again. Your trust in human nature would be sublime were it not so unsupported; it needs the tonic of loss. I ...
— The Flaw in the Sapphire • Charles M. Snyder
... sourly, and puffed away at the black pipe for some moments. At last, he got upon his feet and held out ...
— Frank Merriwell's Bravery • Burt L. Standish
... NAPOLEON (laughing sourly). Save him yourself, since you are so clever: it was you who ruined him. (With savage intensity.) I ...
— The Man of Destiny • George Bernard Shaw
... little sourly, and there was a suggestion of acerbity in his voice as he said in a low tone, as if more to himself than as a contribution to the general conversation, 'He has cast a decided shadow over Gloria.' He did not quite like Helena's interest ...
— The Dictator • Justin McCarthy
... dozen of the men went into the jungle to hunt. The others sought firewood, inspected weapons, talked with one another and with the girls, who stared at McKay and asked who he was. A number of the warriors looked sourly at Rand, whose face still bore the Red Bone tribal streaks which now, to Mayoruna minds, was the insignia of the enemy. All knew he was the man who had been sought, all saw that he was not a Red Bone, but a white man; yet their mental reaction to the sight ...
— The Pathless Trail • Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel
... the rooms occupied by them. The Rovers had a suite of four rooms, one of which was used as a sitting room and for studying. As they walked through the upper hallway they passed Nick Carncross and Bill Glutts. Glutts looked sourly at them but did not say a word, and they refused ...
— The Rover Boys on a Hunt - or The Mysterious House in the Woods • Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
... blood ought not to run like wine under the mighty pulse of Virgil, and I sourly asked, "What's curious, madam? Old Bloggs has nothing to teach except Latin, and I happened to ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... sell me a set of Dickens at this hour of the day," said Barnes sourly. "Besides, I've finished my breakfast. Keep your seat." ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon
... in the courtyard of the prison, and were stupefied at seeing our horses saddled and bridled there, and Monsieur De Merouville and his wife already mounted. Two unarmed troopers were also there, and this gentleman, who said sourly: ...
— Saint Bartholomew's Eve - A Tale of the Huguenot WarS • G. A. Henty
... his so-called wife had nothing to do with a real marriage, but Sabina had felt the disapproving presence of the woman she had never seen, and whom she imagined to be perpetually shaking a warning finger at Malipieri and reminding him sourly that he could not call his soul his own. The letter had ...
— The Heart of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford
... new angle to the case," he mused sourly. "I'm up a tree for sure. Why the devil should Miss Crown be meeting him out there in this old deserted house. My word, it begins to look a trifle spicy. It also begins to look like a case that ought to be dropped ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... sourly. "D'you know what she said when I come rushing up and saying: 'I'm Bill Gregg!' D'you know ...
— Ronicky Doone • Max Brand
... shrink as he drew near her, so that when he stood up he was surprised to find his head above the rail. So this was Horble, this coarse, red-faced trader, with the pug nose, the fat hands, the faded blue eyes that met his own so sourly! ...
— Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas • Lloyd Osbourne
... and I began to catch words and meanings. Oftenest they were old Lucius Oliver's, whose bad temper made him incautious. While his son and the other two jayhawkers obstinately pressed their scheme he kept saying, sourly, "That's—not—our—wa-ay!" ...
— The Cavalier • George Washington Cable
... coughed sourly. "I'm fifty-nine," he growled. "Nothing 'll make me believe as Mrs. Pullen's fifty-five, nor anywhere ...
— Lady of the Barge and Others, Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... a book, leant back in her chair, and so declined further conversation. I watched her for nearly half-an-hour: during all that time she never turned a page, and her face grew momently darker, more dissatisfied, and more sourly expressive of disappointment. She had obviously not heard anything to her advantage: and it seemed to me, from her prolonged fit of gloom and taciturnity, that she herself, notwithstanding her professed ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte
... "Gentleman!" said the Major sourly. "I believe he's a mischievous hanger-on, and I should like to see him sent right away. There, I've done. As you, in your diplomatic fashion, would say, the ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn
... for Ingratitude to God in that I stamp'd my foot and said No! But Richard laugh'd at the idea of Jessamine wedding yon tun. Quoth Richard, "Let Jessamine be, all of ye! she is meat for his masters." Freeman smil'd sourly, & shrug'd. I love not Freeman, nor do I hate him overmuch though he call'd me ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler
... tails and stamped in the dust. Nan was a long, handsome brown mare, with two white feet—an old friend of Wally's, who came and patted her and let her rub her worried head against his coat. Cecil mounted Betty and looked on sourly, while Jim walked round Monarch and ...
— Mates at Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce
... you won't," said Cousin Egbert sourly. "He wants to show you off." This, I could see, was ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... I'd knock your face in. Mind your own dirty business and keep out. Mr. Hannington is a man-sized man, with a man-sized bean-pot and doesn't need a wet nurse with him. He knows whether he wants a mine or not," said Dalton sourly. ...
— The Spoilers of the Valley • Robert Watson
... joyless Hebrews. May our dear Lady of Sidon, holy Astarte, forgive me, that I kneel before the many sorrowed Mother of the Crucified and pray. Only my knee and my tongue worship death—my heart remains true to life. But do not look so sourly," continued the Spaniard, as he saw what little gratification his words seemed to give the Rabbi. "Do not look at me with disdain. My nose is not a renegade. When once by chance I came into this street at dinner time, and the well-known savory odors of the Jewish ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI. • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke
... "hollered," with a right good will. We were much taken aback to find that Mrs. Ray came to the gate instead of Judy, and rather sourly demanded what we were yelling about. When she heard our news, however, she had the decency to say she was glad, and to promise she would convey the good tidings to Sara—"who is already in bed, where all children of her age should be," added ...
— The Story Girl • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... minute? They won't start to go through the smoke for a while. They'll think they've choked us, when we don't come out on the rush, shooting. But they'll wait quite a time to make sure. They don't like my style so well that they'll hurry me." He smiled sourly at the thought. "And we got time to learn a lot of things that we'll never find out, unless we ...
— Ronicky Doone • Max Brand
... to get a look at Milty. He turned out to be the maitre d'. What did he have that Malone didn't have? the agent asked himself sourly. Obviously Dorothy was captivated by his charm. Well, that showed him what city girls were like. Butterflies. Social butterflies. Flitting hither and yon with the wind, now attracted to this man, now to that. Once, Malone told himself sadly, ...
— Out Like a Light • Gordon Randall Garrett
... his captives sourly, kicked viciously at Hilary to relieve his feelings. There was fighting to be had outside; Earth slaves to be tortured and slain, and he was out of it—wet nurse to a ...
— Slaves of Mercury • Nat Schachner
... it chanced that two motor-loads of persons they both thoroughly disliked poured into Holly Court, and Nancy rushed out to scramble some sandwiches together in the frigid atmosphere of the kitchen, where Pauline and Hannah were sourly attacking the ruins of ...
— Undertow • Kathleen Norris
... of gentler sex, Who tread the pavement hourly, I do not wish your hearts to vex, Then pray don't take it sourly— Methinks sometimes 'tis no disgrace Tho' seldom you are nigh it, To be at home, your proper place,— If you don't believe it, try it. Are there no duties there to do? If so "be up and doing!" No clothes to ...
— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various
... it?" said Kent, smiling sourly. "If not, I can set it out for you in words. The Western Pacific is the best-hated corporation this side of the Mississippi, and I am ...
— The Grafters • Francis Lynde
... see her again," the first mate grumbled sourly, when she stepped off the gangplank, and the ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... false, and every woman evil, And give up all that's female to the devil. If poor (you say), she drains her husband's purse; If rich, she keeps her priest, or something worse; If highly born, intolerably vain, Vapours and pride by turns possess her brain; Now gaily mad, now sourly splenetic, 90 Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick: If fair, then chaste she cannot long abide, By pressing youth attack'd on every side; If foul, her wealth the lusty lover lures, Or else ...
— Poetical Works of Pope, Vol. II • Alexander Pope
... and flinching from no consequences which its principles may bring upon itself, it flinches from no consequences which they may bring upon others; and its attitude towards the laws and customs of instituted imperfection is almost as sourly belligerent as towards ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various
... On the other hand, you are the curate of the district," replied Fray Damaso sourly, without taking his hand from the back ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... sourly. "Now, let me orate on that subject for a moment and then we'll get to the real meat of this argument. James, there is no way of delivering this machine to the public without delivering it to them through the hands of a capable Government agency. If you try to release ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith
... building pyramids, of course." Jim twisted his mouth sourly. "And since we're asking questions about each other's way of life, when is your State going ...
— Summit • Dallas McCord Reynolds |
