"Bluntly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... master bluntly; and then correcting himself, he added, "that is, midshipmen in general; but I think you may be worth something by-and-by. However, Keene, I do think, on the whole, it's a very good plan; and if the Captain is not better to-morrow, we will then consider it more seriously. ...
— Percival Keene • Frederick Marryat
... matter bluntly to Cresswell as soon as he saw him. "Which would the South prefer—Todd's Education ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois
... Raymond's attitude to Estelle had begun insensibly to change since his accident in the cricket field. From that time he won a glimpse of things that apparently others already knew. Sabina, in their recorded conversation, had bluntly told him that Estelle loved him; and while the man dismissed the idea as an absurdity, it was certain that from this period he began to grow somewhat more sentimentally interested in her. The interest developed very slowly, but this business of Abel brought them closer together, for ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts
... President, explained what he thought could be done, closing "by saying something apologetic;" to which McClellan replied, "somewhat coldly if not curtly: 'You are entitled to have any opinion you please.'" Secretary Chase, a leader among the anti-McClellanites, bluntly asked the general to explain his military plans in detail; but McClellan declined to be interrogated except by the President, or by the secretary of war, who was not present. Finally, according to McClellan's account, which differs a little but not essentially from that of McDowell, Mr. ...
— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I. • John T. Morse
... bad news for you, King,' he said, bluntly. 'I wish it hadn't been my sister. But you know what women are. It's better to have nothing at all ...
— The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols • William Black
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