"Contritely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sorry," said Elinor contritely, and Oliver felt somewhat as if he were swindling her out of sympathy she probably needed for herself by deliberately calling attention to his own cut finger. But it had to be done—there wasn't any sense in both of them, ...
— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet
... cried Gerald, all the impatience instantly coming back to her face and voice. As instantly too she frowned in self-conviction, and turned almost contritely to Denham. "You see, Mr. Halloway, I shall have to bring my own character first to that future Day of Judgment, and to be very careful that I do not err on your side,—in ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... mind that, Cadbury," said Smith contritely. "I confess I was irritated for a moment because it ...
— Jennie Baxter, Journalist • Robert Barr
... a word I've heard of what ye are saying!" he exclaimed contritely. "My mind was on your eyes, and the brown of them. Do they keep changing color ...
— Sandy • Alice Hegan Rice
... Anitchkoff must have caught my raised eyebrows, for he added contritely, "It was odd for Mantovani to give away a Giorgione. You're quite right. I was ridiculously young." "You may imagine," he pursued, "that the flight of the Giorgione to the Pyrenees only embittered my curiosity. For years I might have seen it—shabbily ...
— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather
... Billy! Please forgive me," pleaded Bet contritely. "I didn't know there was a wasp inside that stick. I really thought it was a ...
— The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure • Lizette M. Edholm
... of Henry's difficulties and misfortunes it seems miraculous that he was able to maintain himself as king at all. Sick at heart, unable to trust any one, and forced to flee from his own subjects, he writes contritely to the pope: "We have sinned against heaven and before thee and are no longer worthy to be called thy son." But when cheered for a moment by a victory over the rebellious Saxons, he easily forgot his promise of obedience to the pope. He continued to associate with counselors whom the pope had ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson
... Bobby discovered that he was being pursued. A number of soldiers and drummer boys were out hunting for him, contritely enough, when the situation was explained by the angry sergeant. Wherever he went voices and footsteps followed. Had the sergeant gone alone and called in familiar speech, "Come awa' oot, Bobby!" he would probably have run to the man. But there were so many calls—in English, ...
— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson
... said Spatola, contritely. "But I could not help it. He was a fool, and fools seldom like to hear ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Investigator • John T. McIntyre
... a short prayer, he bade them good night and went to his room. Here he permitted himself a long look at the fair young face set in the little gilt oval of the rubber case. Then, as if he had forgotten himself, he fell contritely to his knees beside the bunk and prayed that this face might never remind him of aught but his sin; that he might have cross after cross added to his burden until the weight should crush him; and that this might atone, not for his own sins, which must be punished ...
— The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West • Harry Leon Wilson
... smitten with remorse. He looked across the table at the old man's gentle, white face, and a lump rose in his throat. "I don't mean to say anything disparaging of the ministry, Uncle," he said contritely, "but I know Mr. Egerton better than anyone thinks, and,—well, he's not a gentleman, ...
— Duncan Polite - The Watchman of Glenoro • Marian Keith
... up and rowed back to the town," I assured him contritely, "and I hope to heaven you know who he is, for I don't! He's a thoroughly good fellow, anyhow, and he knows us, and from what I've seen of him he strikes me as just about the ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... horrible," agreed Gurley contritely. "I spoke hastily, Nancy, and without thought. Doesn't the surgeon hold out any hope that Bob may ...
— The Lost Despatch • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... is I who am to blame,"—this most contritely. "He had a future before him: the open door was his winning in the railroad fight, and I closed it ...
— The Grafters • Francis Lynde
... she lamented, "and such a celebration of it; isn't it perfectly awful? Just as if Captain Monroe and the storm had not brought us distress enough! Of course," she added, contritely, "it's unfeeling of me to take that view of it, and I don't expect you to sympathize with me." There was a pause in which she felt herself condemned. "And the house all lit up as for a party; oh, dear; it will all be solemn as a grave now in spite of the lights, and our pretty dresses; ...
— The Bondwoman • Marah Ellis Ryan
... had no idea things would be like that," he told her contritely. "I wish I hadn't suggested that ...
— The Cosmic Computer • Henry Beam Piper
... was so hateful about it, and said such mean things!" said Agony contritely. "I take it all back, Oh-Pshaw. It was the luckiest thing you ever did ...
— The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos • Hildegard G. Frey
... make me ashamed!" said Polly contritely. "I ought to have been here before, and 'specially when I was the one to blame for ...
— Half a Dozen Girls • Anna Chapin Ray |
