"Nope" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hesitation, just as if it hadn't been four hours or so since he'd mentioned the point. "Nope, Ray. Fact is I welcomed him into our little fellowship about six months back. This is his knife here, this horn-handle in my boot, though he never killed with it. He claimed he'd been tortured for years by the thought ...
— The Night of the Long Knives • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... "Nope," she said, shaking her head, "I don't believe he meant it. He used to tease me a lot, you know. It's an awful ...
— Tharon of Lost Valley • Vingie E. Roe
... searching glance; but Harris frankly met the question. "Nope," he asserted, "we're both rank heathen. And ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... "Nope. I reckon he were too busy problamatin' the exact altitude projected in an inverse direction by th' square root of th' new engine when operated at a million times inside of a few seconds, but he didn't ...
— Five Thousand Miles Underground • Roy Rockwood
... "Nope, no such married life for me," I thought I could hear him responding, rather pleased than not to be the butt of ...
— Great Possessions • David Grayson
... "Nope. It's a hayfield, fresh cut, from the looks of it. Should be okay. The leaves on the trees across the creek aren't moving, so wind ...
— The Blue Ghost Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin
... "Nope! They won't shoot anybody!" said Arnold. "They have only make- believe guns, and I'll only make-believe shoot 'em. I yell 'Bang! Bang!' and that's all the shooting there is. Now ...
— The Story of a Bold Tin Soldier • Laura Lee Hope
... "Nope!" as the answer. "I'm looking to see when it's going to snow. Mother said a snowstorm was coming, and I'm watching for the first flakes. What's the good of a toboggan slide when ...
— The Curlytops and Their Playmates - or Jolly Times Through the Holidays • Howard R. Garis
... "Nope. I'm goin' home now," Joe Durgan replied tersely, with the abruptness of one who has done an irksome duty and would avoid further responsibility ...
— The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty • Robert Shaler
... "Nope; never pays to split up a going concern. There's too much competition in the world anyway, and Disko says 'blood-kin hev to stick together.' His crowd never go back on him. That's one reason, he says, why they make such big fares. Say, the We're Here goes off ...
— "Captains Courageous" • Rudyard Kipling
... is my full name, only nobody ever calls me by the middle name except my pop, who calls me that only when he doesn't like me or when I'm supposed to have done something I shouldn't. Then Little Jim said to Poetry, just as his stick ker-whammed the initials, "Nope, something else." Then he whirled around and started making tracks that looked like rabbit tracks in the snow with his stick, and Tom Till spoke up and said, "I'll bet you're thinking about the fight ...
— Shenanigans at Sugar Creek • Paul Hutchens
... "Nope! It's 'cause a train can whistle and so can a boy," said the little chap with a laugh. "Isn't that a ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford's • Laura Lee Hope
... "Nope. Fact is, they'd trimmed a Greeley boob and was rowin' about the split. Miller he claimed Doble held out on him. I'll bet he ...
— Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine
... "Nope; you're right," replied Bill. "If you have some luck you'll get him—mebbe. If he wears out his feet, or if you crowd him into a narrow canyon, or run him into a bad place where he can't get by you. Thet might happen. An' then, with Nagger, you stand a chance. ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various
... "Nope," he said slowly. "I gotta get up to a hard day's work to-morrow, and I guess the girls has got ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London
... "Nope!" and to the girls' surprise the horse wrangler snapped out the answer. "Shoot the leaders and pile 'em up in the ...
— Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch • Annie Roe Carr
... "Nope," said Hardy, "I've only been in the Territory a little over a year, this trip, and I'm learning, myself. Funny how much you can pick up from some of these Indians and Mexicans that can't write their own names, ...
— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge
... "Nope, course not," said Freddie. "I can go all over the island, and I won't let you be lost. Snoop knows us better than he does Nan and Bert anyhow, 'cause we ...
— The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island • Laura Lee Hope
... "Nope; this is a case of plain starvation. I'm nearer sunstroke myself than he is—not a wink of sleep for two nights now. Fifty-two runs since yesterday at this time, and the bell still ringing. Gee! but it's hot. This lad won't ever care about ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... "Nope," replied Earle. "I was just as completely taken by surprise as you were. And I am not at all sure, Dick, but that it was as well. If we—you and I—had been able to put up a fight, we could never have beaten them off, there were too ...
— In Search of El Dorado • Harry Collingwood
... "Nope," he said. "Much obliged. I'll send my man up to-morrow. Business keeps a-goin' on just the same, no matter who passes out. If you or me died to-night, the whole world would just keep ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton
... "Nope," answered the cowman promptly. But immediately he modified his statement to add that he had seen two men riding toward Dry Creek a couple of hours ago. "They was going kinder slow. Looked to me sorter like one ...
— Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West • William MacLeod Raine
... Stan's motor car the Blue Assassin or the Homicide Wagon; I shall say my best frocks are "mighty conducive"; I shall get bored by poor Mr. Duckworth, our newest curate, and tell him he's "the limit"; I may even take to abbreviating my affirmatives and negatives by saying "Yep" and "Nope" when I'm in a hurry; but if I do fall into these ways, I tremble to think what may be the ...
— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... "Nope—nothing to signify. Got some purple patches on my person and a twist to my wrist, but that's all. I was always a lucky devil. Got more lives than ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper
... "Nope, you're a long way off. We didn't say anything more than what you and Mother heard. Father's written to the Senator. Captain Clarke got him all enthused; the Captain promised to write, too. But you'll never guess the other, and it has something ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... "Nope! Nope!" pronounced Hassayamp positively, "he's got a company—I know that. I reckon that's what worries him. Anyhow, they's something the matter; he ain't took a drink in a week. Seems like when he was broke he was round hyer ...
— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge
... "Nope. I ran footage. Got the palace, climbed the ridge up to the condensation vanes. I never knew there was so much water in the air till I saw the stream pouring off those vanes! ...
— Sjambak • John Holbrook Vance
... "Nope! While Bunker's in the house helping Uncle Tad move the sideboard, we'll crawl in the back end of the ark. And we'll keep awful still, and we'll have a nice ride over to East Milford, and Bunker won't know a thing ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony • Laura Lee Hope
... "Nope; not on the face of it they ain't. It's the Woman's Forum that's doin' this. They've got a sweet little idea. 'Seein' Whitewater Sweat' ...
— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.
... "Nope, not after the warnin' comes to him. Now Grandad Woggles had that warnin' as much as three days afore the angel clim' the fence and flopped about his house. But don't keep breakin' in on me, little missy, 'cause I cain't finish if ye ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White
... "Nope. You's all wrong, cap'n. Wych Street were alongside de church, way over where the Strand takes a ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Various
... "Nope," Bud grinned. "Over at the Muleshoe they seemed to think I was. I just struck out for myself, and I want to show up at home some day with a stake I made myself. It's just a little argument with my dad that I want to settle. And," he added frankly, "I seem ...
— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower
... "Nope!" Bill promptly answered. "We've been here two days, and nobody passed here—has they, Charlie?" The freighter confirmed Bill's assertion and the troopers were then ordered to stable their horses for ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman
... "Nope! I'm a fireman, and my sister's a fairy!" went on Freddie, pointing to Flossie so every one would know he did not ...
— The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West • Laura Lee Hope
... "Nope, son. He'll jest go and git another drink and tell everybody in Concho how he's goin' to kill me—some day. I've ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... "Nope, I don't, an' I'll tell ye why. Gold, as it's found in these parts, runs in a strata of quartz. Now, there ain't no quartz in this range, except on Cheyenne. The old-timer down at the inn says that there's ...
— Buffalo Roost • F. H. Cheley
... "Nope," said Casey wearily, "I don't want yer goats. I've had more goats a'ready than I want. And tires has gotta roll outa this shop paid for. We talked that ...
— Casey Ryan • B. M. Bower
... just butted in," said Master Maloney complainingly. "I was sittin' here, readin' me book, when de foist of de guys blew in. 'Boy,' says he, 'is de editor in?' 'Nope,' I says. 'I'll go in an' wait,' says he. 'Nuttin' doin',' says I. 'Nix on de goin' in act.' I might as well have saved me breat'. In he butts, and he's in der now. Well, in about t'ree minutes along comes another ...
— Psmith, Journalist • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... t' find a Johnnie Smith comet!" declared Johnnie. "And after all"—solemnly—"I think I won't try t' be President; nope, I'll be a 'stronomer." ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... was squirming, but I thought I would pin him down hard and fast, so I asked him the pat question: 'Then you have not bought any straw hats for this season's business, Brother Ward?' 'Nope, nope,' said he—telling what I knew to be ...
— Tales of the Road • Charles N. Crewdson
... "Nope!" Tom answered. "I hear she ain't bigger than my thumb, and awful pretty, Tim Biggs says, and he is threatening to thrash anybody who is mean to her. I'd laugh to see him ...
— The Cromptons • Mary J. Holmes
... minute," said the youth. "Nope. No address here. Say, why don't you send it to his brother? He'd know. Dwight ...
— Miss Lulu Bett • Zona Gale
... My pa's main work was shoemaking, but he worked in the field too. He was a driver chiefly when he was out in the field. He hoed and plowed. He was the leader of the gang. He never got a chance to make no money for hisself before the war. Nope, the colored people didn't have no money 'tall lessen they slipped and ...
— Slave Narratives: Arkansas Narratives - Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 • Works Projects Administration
... "Nope, I'm not crazy, an' I shore said invitation.... I meant thet white shimmy dress you wore the night of Flo's party. Thet's my invitation to get a little fresh with you, ...
— The Call of the Canyon • Zane Grey
... "Nope. Struck luck. Paw was bound I'd ride the Horse with the scuffler all day, but he gee'd too short an' I arranged to tumble off'n him, an' Paw cuffled me foot some. Law! how I did holler! You should ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton
... thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw; the man thought to have escaped by breaking through the hedge, but we brought him back by a great blow on the ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.
... "Nope—so they say. Either one of 'em might have done it. They 're down on each other for something; glare at each other ...
— The Paternoster Ruby • Charles Edmonds Walk
... recognize her best friend before you can count three, so you should worry. And you'll run me back or you won't get the dough. See? I'll see to that. Pat said I wasn't to run no risks fer not bein' back in time. Now, shift that guy's feet out on my shoulder. Handle him quick. Nope, he won't wake up fer two hours yet. I give him plenty of dope. Got them bracelets tight on his feet? All right now. He's some ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill
... you mind,' says he. 'Well, who is he?' I asks. What do you think happens then? He thinks hard for a spell, rolls his eyes, and says: 'Search me. I've forgotten.' 'Know where he lives?' I asks him. 'Nope,' he says. ...
— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse
... "Nope. I'm goin'. You heard what Benson told me. Alloway wouldn't give me the benefit of any doubts. Buck, a last word—look out fer ...
— The Lone Star Ranger • Zane Grey
... "Nope. You'd spile the door. But let me tell you. A supervisor is a deputy sheriff—and that goes anywhere they's a American flag. I don't see none here, but I reckon Criswell is in America. What's the use of your actin' like a goat just because you got chin whiskers? I'm tellin' you Jim ...
— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert
... "Nope. My gun was empty. I had him at the foot of the ladder, not ten feet from the muzzle, and click—nothing doing. The beggar turned ...
— The Pirate of Panama - A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure • William MacLeod Raine
... "Nope. Got a better one. Hurry up, he'll git mad." Hopalong was a very methodical person. He was the only one of his crowd to carry a second cartridge strap. It hung over his right shoulder and rested on his left hip. His waist belt held thirty cartridges for the revolvers. He extracted twenty from that ...
— Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up - Bar-20 • Clarence Edward Mulford
... "Nope," Johnny smiled. "But I'm afraid the rascal's ripped a hole in one of my moose-hide sacks. The ...
— Panther Eye • Roy J. Snell |
