"Bleakly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... turned her glassy eyes on the fresh young face. "Well, I don't know that she was fond," she responded bleakly, "but when you're as bad off as that, there ain't many things that you ...
— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow
... so bleakly pinched [8] A hundred stretches hence? The thimbles, slangs, and danglers filched, [9] A hundred stretches hence? The chips, the fawneys, chatty-feeders, [10] The bugs, the boungs, and well-filled readers; [11] And where the fence, and snoozing ken, [12] With all the prigs and lushing ...
— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer
... mean?"—bleakly. "Oh, nothing. I never do mean anything, do I? . . . Well, good-bye. I expect you'll have left the house before I come down to-morrow morning. I hope . . . you'll enjoy your visit ...
— The Splendid Folly • Margaret Pedler
... rather bleakly, but asked Laura to come and inspect some china on the kitchen dresser from which she ...
— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose |
