"Seriously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... indeed true," said the girl: "and if you don't believe what I say, look for yourself," and she placed the mirror before her. There, looking back from the smooth metal disk, was her own sweet face. She pointed to the reflection seriously: ...
— Japanese Fairy Tales • Yei Theodora Ozaki
... few who have been able to do them justice. Artists who have possessed the technical skill requisite to such delicate work have rarely been willing to give to what they have regarded as unimportant subjects the necessary study; and those who have been willing to study cats seriously have possessed but seldom the skill ...
— Concerning Cats - My Own and Some Others • Helen M. Winslow
... looking seriously at him for a while. "I am sorry for thee, Otto," said she, at last. And then, at her childish pity, he began ...
— Otto of the Silver Hand • Howard Pyle
... Clarisse Mergy, who was nearly breaking down under the strain of events and who herself needed repose, lest she should fall seriously ill, went, with her son, to board with a friend who had a house on the skirt of the Forest of Saint-Germain. She felt very weak, her brain was haunted by visions and her nerves were upset by troubles which the least excitement ...
— The Crystal Stopper • Maurice LeBlanc
... thing I must make clear to you," Dyce pursued, now swimming delightedly on the flood of his own eloquence. "For a long time I seriously doubted whether I was fit for a political career. My ambition always tended that way, but my conscience went against it. I used to regard politics with a good deal of contempt. You remember our old ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing
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