"Happy hour" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... helpful to Harriet and a closer relation than that of teacher and pupil existed between the two. Both were passionately fond of Nature. They loved the fields, the woods and the waters and many a care-free happy hour they had spent together in the open. Hazel, Margery and Grace frequently accompanied them, though in such instances Harriet and Miss Elting usually found it necessary to cut short their outing because Margery "got all flustered up" from the heat and Tommy's ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas • Janet Aldridge
... done, there was again rest for her body, and swimming withal and fishing from the eyot by the witch's leave. And again by her own leave she went to seek Habundia in the wood, and spent a happy hour with her, and came back with a fawn which she had shot, and so but barely saved her skin from the twig-shower. Then yet again she went into the wood on the witch's errand as well as her own, and was paid by her friend's ...
— The Water of the Wondrous Isles • William Morris
... wood became more and more familiar to them, and at length they saw their father's house in the distance. Then they set off to run, and bounding into the room fell on their father's neck. The man had not passed a happy hour since he left them in the wood, but the woman had died. Grettel shook out her apron so that the pearls and precious stones rolled about the room, and Hansel threw down one handful after the other out ...
— The Blue Fairy Book • Various
... to you And bless your song,—I know, for I am one Of these, and know the good that you have done. 'Tis true, Arline, an earnest womanhood Can always do unto the world some good. One heart in truth has felt your better power, And that is mine, in this last happy hour; and have you nobler made even one weak heart, You've done within this world a worthy part. And many hearts, Arline, have heard your song And turned away ashamed from sin and wrong. No man, however dark his heart, could gaze Upon a face ...
— Love or Fame; and Other Poems • Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
... meeting indeed, and a miserable one; yet to none of the three so miserable as to the injured Wraysford, who ever since the day of the Nightingale examination had not known a happy hour at ...
— The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's - A School Story • Talbot Baines Reed
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