"Crossly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rather too hard on the patience of his friends, after what they had just endured, and Dr. Skihi exclaimed, rather crossly, "At the same time, your exercise is a famous thing to make one thirsty! I would give a great deal to obtain a drink of spring water; but that is ...
— Funny Big Socks - Being the Fifth Book of the Series • Sarah L. Barrow
... none of my business," answered Gabriella crossly, "but the sooner you do it, I suppose the sooner you will have to do it again." If only for once Jane would be direct, if only she would be natural, if only she would speak ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... he exclaimed crossly. "Not clear enough! But on a fine day ye can see Axe and Axe Edge.... Finest view in the ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... surprised and then scornful. "I hate to see any one getting up a romance out of nothing," she whispered almost crossly. "They're ...
— Glenloch Girls • Grace M. Remick
... "Well" said Bement crossly, "thar's the beans an mug o' flip. Call it a thousand dollars, an fork over, but by gosh, I don' git caught that way again. It's downright robbery, that's wot it is. I say ain't ye got no ...
— The Duke of Stockbridge • Edward Bellamy
... descended to its lovely and simple end; and, for a second time in Denver, Lin brushed a hand across his eyes. He turned his face from his neighbor, frowning crossly; and since the heart has reasons which Reason does not know, he seemed to himself a fool; but when the service was over and he came out, he repeated again, "'Peace and good-will.' When I run on to the Bishop of ...
— Lin McLean • Owen Wister
... want with stones in your pocket?" he said rather crossly, as he rose and picked up the piece to throw it out of the window; but, as soon as he had it in his hand, its appearance took his attention. He turned it over, weighed it in his hand, and then held it more ...
— Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore • George Manville Fenn
... to the Wattmann," said the notices in the tramcar crossly to her in German as she slipped and slid upon its straining seats. "Don't spit, don't smoke ... don't...." But she had her revenge, for across all the notices her side of the war had written coldly: "You are begged, in the measure possible to you, ...
— The Happy Foreigner • Enid Bagnold
... been a mortal long time!' said her husband, crossly. 'I allowed you an hour at most, ...
— Victorian Short Stories, - Stories Of Successful Marriages • Elizabeth Gaskell, et al.
... you, my dear," Mr. Bushy was saying, rather crossly I am afraid, "to urge a philosophic mind, but if you had the responsibility of the family upon you—Goodness gracious! Owls and weasels! What in all the ...
— Glengarry Schooldays • Ralph Connor
... anything'll do!" grumbled Jane. Then, plucking crossly at a muslin sleeve, "Well, what do you want? Your ...
— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates
... hurt," Trixy responded crossly. "I wish I had never had an ankle, sooner than go spraining it this way. The idea of horrid floors, like black looking-glasses, and slipperier than a skating-rink. Edith, how long is it since ...
— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming
... Grieve by, in quest of metal more attractive; Lord Driffield, the Dean, Canon Aylwin, and David stood absorbed in conversation; while Lady Driffield transferred her attentions to Mr. Shepton, and the husband of the lady by the fire walked up to her, insisting, somewhat crossly, on waking her. Lucy ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... know. She's coming, at any rate," said Peggy, rather crossly. "Bunty sent me to find out if everybody had really gone. Toddlekins will have to get a taxi, that's all. Whew! I'm being blown to bits! I want to get back to my pen-painting. I'm making a birthday ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... are always getting into trouble," Will said, rather crossly, as he stood looking down. "They have a way of running into most of their dangers at night, too. It was the same up on Lake Superior, the same in the snake-haunted Everglades of Florida; the same on the Rocky Mountains, and the same in the Hudson ...
— Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns • Major Archibald Lee Fletcher
... get me something to eat," she said crossly, when she got her breath—"you might remember I've had nothing to eat since yesterday morning; only you always ...
— Seven Little Australians • Ethel Sybil Turner
... chap for a friend," said Dudley, a little crossly; "he's twice as old as you are, to begin with, and he's ...
— His Big Opportunity • Amy Le Feuvre
... all the works would go wrong!" muttered one of the Princesses crossly. "An ice-cavern full of cuckoo clocks is a poor fate for one of the ...
— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry
... away from here!" cried Uncle Wiggily, coming to the door of the underground house again, and he spoke still more crossly. ...
— Sammie and Susie Littletail • Howard R. Garis
... you stay quiet!" said Fanny Fitz very crossly. She even slapped the daughter's soap-sud muffled person, for no reason that the ...
— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross
... far as her short arm would send them, and managed to hit an indignant old starling squarely in the eye. He glared at her crossly. ...
— Brother and Sister • Josephine Lawrence
... to tell them that if you had waited a minute," said Grace, rather crossly. There was quite a little jealousy between Grace and Amy over Will. Grace had declared more than once that whereas she had known her brother all her life, Amy had only known him for a couple of years—or—or more. Grace loved her ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge - or, The Hermit of Moonlight Falls • Laura Lee Hope
... is good enough for anybody," replied Rea half crossly. She was not yet quite wide awake. "There is plenty of fruit in stores, to buy. We ...
— The Hunter Cats of Connorloa • Helen Jackson
... will see the end of this escapade!" said Max Graub, a trifle crossly. "It would have been much ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli
... just lay on his back and smiled crossly; but the kegs and the bags were smashed to bits. I like mules, but I wanted to kill that one. It was quiet down there in the canyon—quiet and hot. I looked at Whitney and he looked at me, and I had the sudden, unpleasant realization that he was a coward, added to his other qualifications. Yes, ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... changes were also made in the subordinate places of the treasury and the admiralty boards, and the strange medley, which soon became more mixed and various, has been thus described by Burke:—"He [Lord Chatham] made an administration so chequered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers; king's ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... afraid," he returned crossly. "I just don't like it. I don't want to be made love to. That's one of the mistakes women are always making. They think all men want to be made love to by any ...
— Ladies Must Live • Alice Duer Miller
... out of the carriage then, and Lily was readjusting the pillows and things. "Get that nice embroidered pillow I threw over the bushes," she ordered, crossly. Johnny obeyed. When she had finished putting the baby-carriage to rights she turned upon poor little Johnny Trumbull, and her face wore the expression of a queen of tragedy. "Well," said Lily Jennings, "I suppose I shall ...
— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... her. He heard the story of the tragedy from the surly inn-keeper, who crossly maintained that his business had been ruined. Booth was vaguely impressed, he knew not why, by Burton's description of the missing woman. "I'd say she was about the size of Mrs. Wrandall herself, and much the ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon
... with horrible music making a horrible racket, according to the same authority. Saunders and Amy held hands all the way home, too, and Nina thought it was disgusting; everyone was too tired to talk, they bounced along silently and crossly. ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris
... wouldn't," said Mrs. Dennison, almost crossly. "Why do you tease me? What's good enough for other women ought to be ...
— The Precipice • Elia Wilkinson Peattie
... Prince Eugen crossly. 'Why this sudden seriousness? Don't forget that I have an appointment with Mr Sampson Levi, and must not keep him waiting. Someone said that punctuality is ...
— The Grand Babylon Hotel • Arnold Bennett
... began a rather noisy debate on the impropriety of their master's behavior; and little Alfred, finding his brother was not speaking, ventured to remind him of his promise. Contrary to his usual habit, Hamilton turned quite crossly ...
— Louis' School Days - A Story for Boys • E. J. May
... lots of cross goddesses," I said rather crossly myself; for I saw that, after having trodden my romance in the dust, she was willing I should pick it up again and shake it off, and I wished to show her that I was not to be ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... to my house," suggested Johnny crossly. "The crowd's coming. I got boxing gloves for Christmas too, but I bet they're no good either. I bet they rip ...
— The Adventures of Bobby Orde • Stewart Edward White
... she explained almost crossly, though her voice was sweet, because it was never otherwise than sweet. "Either the ...
— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... Letty, crossly. "You do ask such foolish questions, Tully. If I don't see him to-night, he may let that house in Brook Street slip. There are several people after it—the ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. I • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... want fifty," she replied, pettishly, crossly, "only two. A separate compartment for myself and maid; the child can ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths
... Countess Mary turned pale with fright and made signs to the boy. He grew silent, and quiet ensued for a moment, terrible to Countess Mary. She knew how Nicholas disliked being waked. Then through the door she heard Nicholas clearing his throat again and stirring, and his voice said crossly: ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... to go pretty often to Ivan Semyonitch's. Sometimes, when he was out of humour, the retired lieutenant did not make me sit down to cards; on such occasions, he would shrink into a corner in silence, scowling and looking crossly at every one. The first time I was delighted at his letting me off so easily; but afterwards I would sometimes begin myself begging him to sit down to whist, the part of third person was so insupportable! I was so unpleasantly in Kolosov's and Varia's way, though ...
— The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... ill-bred lot of girls I have ever seen," returned Eleanor crossly, "and I think you are making a great deal of unnecessary fuss over a small matter. Why didn't your prize orphan get out of the way with the rest of you? Besides, you have no right to block a public highway, as you did. I am very sorry ...
— Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School - Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities • Jessie Graham Flower
... half-step, as if a little startled, one arm raised to push away a thin green branch that crossed the path at shoulder-height; and her attitude was so charming as she paused, detained to listen by this other voice with its musical youthfulness, that for a second I thought crossly of all the young men ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington
... position with a comical air of virtue. Once in a great while it would happen that on my spurring up from the rear of the column I would be mistaken for one of the pack-horses attempting illegally to get ahead. Immediately Dinkey or Buckshot would snake his head out crossly to turn me to the rear. It was really ridiculous to see the expression of apology with which they would take it all back, and the ostentatious, nose-elevated indifference in Bullet's very gait as he marched haughtily by. So rigid did all the animals hold ...
— The Mountains • Stewart Edward White
... 'you don't mean to argue that a spin of the ball is affected by the spins that have preceded it? You don't mean to argue that, because red wins four times, or forty times, running, black is any the more likely to win at the next spin?' 'You shut up!' retorted the human side of him crossly. 'I ...
— A Great Man - A Frolic • Arnold Bennett
... I WON'T have roses," answered Belle, crossly. Then she glanced at Lizzie, and said more gently, "You look very cold; come and sit by the ...
— Marjorie's Three Gifts • Louisa May Alcott
... something," Raynor Three said crossly. "I've got a lot to tell you, and I don't want you going off half-primed in the middle of a sentence. If you'd rather have a shot of tranquilizer, all right; otherwise, I prescribe that you drink what I gave you." He gave Bart a ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... a screech of his own and clapped his hands over his ears. "What did you do that for?" he said crossly, "just when I was beginning to get ...
— The Swiss Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... you, feller?" inquired Tubbs crossly. Though he now recollected the circumstances under which they were found, Ralston's presence robbed the situation of any seriousness for him. It did not occur to Tubbs that any one who knew him could possibly do ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart
... certainly try your patience, when you are tired, at the end of a day's work, to have Harry refuse to come to be put to bed because you called him "Harry"; and he replies, perhaps somewhat crossly: "I am not Harry, I told you. I am little Jack Horner, and I have to sit in my corner." But no matter how hard it may seem, do not get discouraged. Once you are fully aware of the importance of what ...
— Your Child: Today and Tomorrow • Sidonie Matzner Gruenberg
... crossly. "I, for one, don't believe in allowing servants to have such cast-iron rules. It savors too ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... crossly, "you have kept me waiting already more time than I care to lose. How much longer before you will tell me what I came ...
— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle
... you to know you are right?" demanded the First Assistant, crossly. Her feet were stinging. "'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.'" This was a favorite quotation of hers, although not Browning. "Nurses in hospitals are there to carry out the doctor's orders. ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... up suddenly. "I heard Arthur, the other day, talking very crossly about Elsie, and threatening to pay her for something; ...
— Holidays at Roselands • Martha Finley
... I am!" he said crossly. "I have left my magnifying glass on top of the safe—and it's the most necessary tool we policemen have. Don't bother to come, Mr. Brent, if you'll just lend me the keys of the vault. ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Detective Stories • Various
... want him at all, I'll take him out again," he said crossly, setting the tray on a chair beside ...
— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger
... gal like that go out in a boat alone, and without airy oar?" demanded Uncle Jabez, crossly. "Here! hold steady. I'll take that painter and 'tach it to the boat. We'll tow her in. But lemme tell ye," added Uncle Jabez, decidedly, "somebody's got ter pay me fur my time, or else they don't git the boat back. She ...
— Ruth Fielding At College - or The Missing Examination Papers • Alice B. Emerson
... persisted, and at last her aunt gave way. "Well," she said at last, rather crossly, "be quick if you are coming. I don't want to ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... day I asked her "where is my friend living now?" to which she answered. "Hanhof." (N.B. A name under which she includes the entire district). "What is the colour of the woods now?" And she answered. "Green." Then "Why are you looking at me so crossly?" "We." "In your head?" "Yes." "What has given ...
— Lola - The Thought and Speech of Animals • Henny Kindermann
... were in Guinea," said Bess crossly. "She and her old papers are just about going to spoil our trip. They are making you as nervous as ...
— Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach - Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves • Annie Roe Carr
... be once more at Smiledale with her mother. Dinah, after washing her temple with vinegar, which made it smart very much (though she did not complain), told them they had been so naughty that they should not go to play any more, nor would she hear Miss Placid's justification, but crossly interrupted her ...
— Forgotten Tales of Long Ago • E. V. Lucas
... a little hard. People sometimes speak crossly when they are frightened, and just then Jan felt the cold, skinny hands of some unnameable terror clutching her heart. Why did Fay always exclude herself ...
— Jan and Her Job • L. Allen Harker
... should I know?' said Mrs. Shepherd crossly. 'I'm not to be looking after thieves and vagabonds. He's a come-by-chance, and he's a go-by-chance, and ...
— Friarswood Post-Office • Charlotte M. Yonge
... be a minute," she shouted crossly, and let her shoulders sink once more under the comforting water. It was the first warm water she had encountered since that night when Mademoiselle had carried the jugs upstairs. Her soap, so characterless in the chilly morning basin lathered freely in the warmth and was fragrant in the ...
— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson
... use of standing there stuffing up my view?" she demanded crossly. "If you want something to do, go and get me some flowers. Everyone has flowers but me. It's outrageous. ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... crossly. Surely to have sudden pains shoot through one's eyes was not to be ill. "I would see the gardens of King Herod. That is what ...
— Christmas Light • Ethel Calvert Phillips
... tried to tell the children about the things they were passing, but the children were too sleepy and sickish to care. Grandma's mouth was a thin line of pain and the baby wailed until people looked around crossly, though there were ...
— Across the Fruited Plain • Florence Crannell Means
... complied, and, thrusting their legs out of their bunks, rolled on to the locker, and sat crossly waiting for information. ...
— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs
... the Wellenkuppe was a little thing. The three thousand extra feet made all the difference. This was obviously beyond me, and I could never get to the summit. It was ridiculous of the Pollingers to think I could. I told them so quite crossly as we went on. Probably they had made a mistake; they would, no doubt, find it out on the Shoulder. It seemed rather hard that I should have to get there when it was so easy to turn back at once. But I said nothing more and climbed. My heart ...
— A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts
... man sat outside the Cauliflower Inn, looking crossly up the road. He was fond of conversation, but the pedestrian who had stopped to drink a mug of ale beneath the shade of the doors was not happy in his choice of subjects. He would only talk of the pernicious effects of beer on ...
— Light Freights • W. W. Jacobs
... there to see what Sammy Jay was making such a fuss about. Sammy, you know, is very quick-tempered. No one knows this better than Peter. So instead of replying politely to Sammy, as he should have done, Peter spoke crossly: ...
— The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk • Thornton W. Burgess
... get back," complained the doctor crossly, when the three entered. They had been gone just ...
— The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life • Homer Eon Flint
... the world could you know that?" she said almost crossly. She did love to carry out her projects, and hitherto Julia Cloud had put no hindrance in ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... chance for a bit of a brat like her," she snarled crossly, and the man answered this statement with eagerness, because the rising inflection in his wife's ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White
... more opinionated than Neville, on this subject as on most others. He said, crossly, "It's a beastly habit, unlegitimatised union. When I say beastly, I mean beastly; nothing derogatory, but merely like the beasts—the ...
— Dangerous Ages • Rose Macaulay
... man!" she muttered crossly to herself, as the train bearing the Brabazons Londonwards steamed out of the station. She brushed her hand across her eyes as she hopped briskly into the car which had brought them to the station, ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... be here in better time for the twelve train," he said crossly. "I'm not a-going to do this sort o' work for you nor no chap, if you can't ...
— Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth
... Vic sat up crossly, groping for the top button of his pajama coat. His long hair was tousled in front and stood straight up at the back, and his lids were heavy yet with sleep. He looked very young and very unruly, and as though several years of grace were still left ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower
... the street which a little farther on ran into Pier Street, Biddy feeling more and more ashamed of herself. How she wished she had been less hasty, and not spoken so rudely and crossly to her mother. It did seem true, as Alie said, that she spoilt everything. But she did not appear as sorry as she felt; indeed, her face had a rather sulky look when at last she came up to the others, who were waiting for her at the ...
— The Rectory Children • Mrs Molesworth
... around and showed him the broad of his indignant back. When he had filled out certain forms at his desk he shoved a pen into the silent consumptive's fingers and showed him crossly where to make his mark. At a signal from his bent forefinger a negro trusty came forward and took the pardoned man away and helped him put his shrunken limbs into a suit of the prison-made slops, of cheap, black ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb
... had a nasty habit of flying down the parlour chimney, where sometimes they stuck for two or three days, and at last flew out all black and sooty into the room. Widow Dumpty used to be rather angry and spoke crossly when this happened, and then Little Dumpty used to get up and go out and feed his rabbits, which is what he generally did when he wasn't very happy. Well, then he had a tame hen and some silkworms. Once he had a baby chicken, but it ate some blue ...
— Humpty Dumpty's Little Son • Helen Reid Cross
... of Tinkletown?" she broke in crossly. "What right have all you men to be going off without me ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... answered crossly; for to her the open air at night seemed wrong, disreputable. There was something ...
— A Rough Shaking • George MacDonald
... "I think you're rather inconsiderate," she said, crossly. "You start up my curiosity and then you make fun of me. I don't think I like the way you treat me, most ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... wound up, by the sound of you,' she said to him, as if crossly. But she could never ...
— England, My England • D.H. Lawrence
... Crossly, the government lawyer, was transported for putting a "fly in a dead man's mouth"—making a forged will. He drew up the early indictments. He got his pardon this way: he drew bills (L2000), on a man of straw in England. They were returned, but as a convict he ...
— The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2) • John West
... to wait any longer for these lazy brothers and sisters of mine to get ready," he said crossly. "Besides, if I did go in a school, I might get speared, or caught so that the rest could get away, and that would not suit me a bit. I'd ...
— How Sammy Went to Coral-Land • Emily Paret Atwater
... afore?" replied Mrs. Vint, crossly. "Here's Farrier Carrick stepped in, and curing him out of ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various
... it!" repeated Captain Applegarth crossly. "If we're in the Gulf Stream, all I can say is, we must have drifted a wonderful distance in the last two or three days. Why, man, the current is seldom ...
— The Ghost Ship - A Mystery of the Sea • John C. Hutcheson
... and, seeing Jeanne, she rose to her feet suddenly. They stood face to face, so close that they touched one another. The stranger said crossly: "What! are you up? You will be ill, getting up at this time of night. Go ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... of the courts of heaven, and that if St. Paul had talked like Lancelot he would have won the most sceptical. The sound of his voice soothed me then, as far as it was possible for anything to soothe me, and I shifted slightly to one side and looked up at him furtively and crossly, my poor face all blubbered with tears and smeared with mire where I had ...
— Marjorie • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... my first insomnious night there, I went prowling all about the house in search of the bathroom. Finally, I was routed back to my room by a newly-wakened maid (in curl-pins), who told me rather crossly that I could not have a 'bawth' unless I ordered it 'before'and.' She did not say how long beforehand. But I was in a hurry to get out of doors, so I did without my bath, and promised myself I would see to it later ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... tell you so before?" said she, somewhat crossly. "But it's a sad life, this living alone. I declares I envy Hannah, 'cause she's got Jemima to sit in the kitchen with her. I want her to sit with me sometimes, but ...
— Framley Parsonage • Anthony Trollope
... that Patty spoke crossly to any one, and still more rarely that she flung out such a bitter speech as that; but she was getting tired of combating the prevalent attitude of the young people toward Mona, and though she had determined to overcome it, she began to think it meant real warfare. Dorothy looked perfectly amazed. ...
— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells
... we must get to the bridge before folks are stirring." "Why do you want to go to market, Pigling?" inquired Pig-wig presently. "I don't want; I want to grow potatoes." "Have a peppermint?" said Pig-wig. Pigling Bland refused quite crossly. "Does your poor toothy hurt?" inquired Pig-wig. ...
— A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories • Beatrix Potter
... Skinny said crossly. "Can't you ever get over your dog-goned craziness? They was just tired and went to bed. Give me that package, it's mine and private!" ...
— The Ramblin' Kid • Earl Wayland Bowman
... scandal like this going on. You, a married man, living with a native woman, and your wife out here at the hotel! Something must be done to make things look all right—must be done," and he knitted his brows, looking crossly at ...
— Six Women • Victoria Cross
... came Messrs. Fountain and Talboys. Mrs. Bazalgette asked the former a little crossly how he could make up his mind to leave ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... noise again!" he said crossly. "A person's not safe in your company." And he hurried off across the meadow. Mr. Crow was always very nervous when ...
— The Tale of Jolly Robin • Arthur Scott Bailey
... I know what happens?" she answered crossly. "About sunset Bull-Head brought home his new wife, a white chieftainess, for whom we built the hut yonder; but the fashions of marriage among these white people must be strange indeed, for this one came to her husband, her feet bound, ...
— Swallow • H. Rider Haggard
... lightly ashore, and then came the slower work of landing her imports. She bustled about, like a hen over her brood, and wasn't always talking, but put in her word every now and then, never crossly, and always ...
— A Simpleton • Charles Reade
... "Bring in breakfast," crossly responded Lady Augusta. "And then go to the young ladies, and see whether the rest are getting up. What has the cook been at with this coffee?" Lady Augusta added, when she began to pour it out. "It is cold. Her coffee is ...
— The Channings • Mrs. Henry Wood
... a story about old Mr. and Mrs. Davidson of Markdale," said the Story Girl. "She was always smiling and it used to aggravate her husband, so one day he said very crossly, 'Old lady, what ARE you grinning at?' 'Oh, well, Abiram, everything's so bright and pleasant, ...
— The Golden Road • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... is a-lasting when it hasn't been begun," retorted Bill crossly. "See what the little ...
— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis
... Miss Teenie crossly. "I never 'toyed' with my tea yet, and I'm not going to begin. It'll likely be China tea anyway, and I'd as soon ...
— Penny Plain • Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)
... he said crossly, as a low, indistinct murmuring reached him. He strained his ears intently, but could not catch anything, and losing all patience, was just about to push the door open and peep in when he heard a roar of laughter. Peal upon peal sounded until the bar shook with ...
— The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant • W. W. Jacobs
... do tell me anything about yourself," I exclaimed crossly, "whereas I've given you my whole history, almost from the day I cut my first tooth, up to that when I—adopted ...
— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... that," returned Claudet, crossly, "but after all, you do not carry your name written on your face, and, by Jove! as guardian of the seals, I have some responsibility—I want ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... Princess, (who, I firmly believe, by all her quiet sense, will turn out a Caroline,) have at last got rid of Lady Archibald,(1058) who was strongly attached to the coalition. They have civilly asked her, and Crossly forced her to ask civilly to go away, which she has done, with a pension of twelve hundred a-year. Lady Middlesex,(1059) is mistress of the robes: she lives with them perpetually, and sits up till five in the morning at their suppers. Don't mistake!-not for ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole
... that, Howl Sattawhite!" she exclaimed, crossly. "I'll tell mamma. You know what she said she'd do to you if you called ...
— The Little Colonel's Hero • Annie Fellows Johnston
... true,' she wrote once—'as though our favourite castle in the air were built. "Not really, mother? you don't think this beautiful house and garden belong to us really?" asks Mollie, in her stupid way. You know what a literal little soul she is. "Oh, go away, Mollie!" I exclaim quite crossly. "How can I help it if you have no imagination?" For all I know, the place is ours: no one interferes with us; we come and go as we like; the birds sing to us; the flowers bloom for our pleasure. ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... about on such a pouring night, dressed up like that,' she remarked crossly, and roughly pulled off the wreath as she spoke, to place it on her own daughter. As she did so the roses became withered and brown, and the birds flew out of ...
— The Orange Fairy Book • Andrew Lang
... can let Nellie know that I'm goin'," replied Mrs. Whipp crossly. "What sense is there in your takin' a girl to the port to go in swimmin' ...
— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham
... and he sat up and listened crossly to the story. She must have gone home again with Jadvyga, he said; Jadvyga lived only two blocks from the yards, and perhaps she had been tired. Nothing could have happened to her—and even if there had, there was nothing could be done about it until ...
— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair
... you, master," she said crossly. "You had no right to ... hem ... with your face in that condition.... And you have not yet told ...
— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy
... She spoke crossly, almost angrily. Cosmo seemed to himself to understand her entirely. Had she looked well-to-do, he would have taken the loaf, promising to send the money; but he could not bring himself to trouble the thoughts of a poor woman, possibly with a large family, to whom ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald
... to tear all that way after her!" thought Ingred crossly. "Verity will be sure to tell her. They seem inseparable to-day. Besides which nobody's particularly likely to go into that other meadow. There are plenty ...
— A Popular Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... so much as I can see on," he answered, turning crossly in his chair. She began to clear her table. The kettle was singing. They ...
— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence
... go to crying!" said Emma crossly. "It's bad enough to be shut in by the rain without ...
— Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 8, February 22, 1914 • Various
... her cheeks again. "I don't particularly like the idea," she said, rather crossly, still keeping her face turned away from me, "and I'm very sure he wouldn't care to have me. But dad thinks a lot of him; he might do something of the kind when he gets here. Dear, ...
— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... Faith, curtly, but not crossly. "You'll find somebody to do for, if you look out. If your mother's willing, though, you might mend up one of your old school dresses for her. 'Tisn't likely she's got anything to begin with." And so saying, Aunt Faith turned precipitately into ...
— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... Hetth tchcked with her tongue against her rather prominent teeth at the lamentable lapse in grammar, and looked crossly at Leonie, who immediately lifted up the quavering ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest
... wine is this that we may drink his health? LAVARCHAM. It's no one's that you've call to know. NAISI. Your own health then and length of life. (Pouring out wine for the three. They drink.) LAVARCHAM — very crossly. — You're great boys taking a welcome where it isn't given, and asking questions where you've no call to. . . . If you'd a quiet place settled up to be playing yourself, maybe, with a gentle queen, what'd you think of young men prying around and carrying tales? When I was a bit of ...
— Deirdre of the Sorrows • J. M. Synge
... her offspring as encumbrance, and only drew attention to them when she wished to impress people with the hardships of her lot. The natural result was that the boy and girl only knew her as mother by name; they feared her, and would shrink to Emma's side when Kate began to speak crossly. ...
— Demos • George Gissing
... window in the farmhouse was thrown up, and a sleepy Munchkin thrust out his head. "What are you doing?" he called crossly. ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... that the calf-pen would have been a more appropriate locality. "I shall go to bed, then," said he, a little crossly. "Where is the landlord? out at this time of night? no matter. I know our room. Shall you be ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... busy with Mr. Cutter the fishman. A poor woman came in with a pail and a mop, and asked Mr. Cutter if he would let her do some scrubbing for a bit of fish, because she hadn't any dinner for her children, and had been disappointed of a day's work. Mr. Cutter was in a hurry and said 'No', rather crossly, so she was going away, looking hungry and sorry, when Mr. Laurence hooked up a big fish with the crooked end of his cane and held it out to her. She was so glad and surprised she took it right into ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... "Well enough," answered Mervyn crossly, as he rolled about in an arm-chair that stood away in the furthest corner. "But oh, it is silly to be sticking up here when the dinner is ready down-stairs—oh, I smell it, and it does smell nice! and I am so ...
— Naughty Miss Bunny - A Story for Little Children • Clara Mulholland
... seemed very funny when they were old enough to look back upon it. It even seemed funny, a day or two afterward, to their alarmed elders. But at the time it was not amusing to anybody. David was gloomy at being obliged to marry Nannie; "I pretty near wish I'd stayed with Elizabeth," he said, crossly. Nannie was frightened, because, she declared, "Mamma'll be mad;—now I tell you, Blair, she'll be mad!" And Blair was sulky because he had no wife. Yet, in spite of these varying emotions, pushed by Blair's resolution, they ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland
... saw all who had gathered under the Lone Pine, and how they all looked crossly at him, Mr. Rabbit was so frightened that his heart went pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, and he wanted more than ever to run away. But he didn't dare to. No, Sir, he didn't dare to. And then he was so curious to know what it all meant that he wouldn't ...
— Mother West Wind's Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... don't need mentioning," the Virginian again protested, almost crossly. "The little things looked kind o' fresh, and I just picked them." His eye now fell upon me, where I lay upon the counter. "I reckon breakfast will be getting through," ...
— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister
... you want?" demanded Tom, crossly, feeling it impossible to elude such a pursuer, and backing up ...
— Five Little Peppers Abroad • Margaret Sidney
... said Rollo, crossly, adding, "but if there are light-houses and ships there I shall ...
— Rollo in Society - A Guide for Youth • George S. Chappell
... to somebody or other, that there may be somebody always to pray for you, that the giver of all good things may grant unto you a blessed, long, and prosperous life; fearing, if fortune should deal crossly with you, that it might be his chance to come short of being paid by you, he will always speak good of you in every company, ever and anon purchase new creditors unto you; to the end, that through their means you may make a shift by borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, and with ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... at the great bright moon that, now so large and round, was, he thought, looking earnestly at him. Soon he was able to see that there was a great man in the moon. As he watched him he was glad to notice that he was not looking crossly at him, but kindly, and so he began crying to the man in the moon to come and help him to escape from the miserable life he was leading. Sure enough, as the boy kept on crying and pleading he saw the man in the moon beginning to come ...
— Algonquin Indian Tales • Egerton R. Young
... give you a gown for your friend if I had it," she said good-humouredly; "but I have just sent the only one I can spare to my mother. I wonder who there is, now—Are you afraid of folks that speak crossly?" ...
— One Snowy Night - Long ago at Oxford • Emily Sarah Holt
... eyes of heavy mind, I see thy glory like a shooting star Fall to the base earth from the firmament. The sun sets weeping in the lowly west, Witnessing storms to come, woe, and unrest. Thy friends are fled, to wait upon thy foes, And crossly to thy good ...
— The Tragedy of King Richard II • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... his attention to the other figure, that of the young lady who, dressed all in black, tripped gracefully along by the side of her companion. Evidently some tiresome old gentleman, and his equally tiresome daughter. He told himself crossly that his absent-minded, kind-hearted father, or his incurably hospitable mother, forgetting all about Mrs. Crofton, had asked these two people in to supper. If that was so, Timmy, who was as much at home in the kitchen as in the drawing-room, ...
— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
... that medical men are in any particular danger?" asked Sophia, bashfully, but with great anxiety. "I think they must be, going among so many people who are ill. If there is a whole family in the fever in a cottage at Crossly End, as Mrs Howell says there is, how very dangerous it must ...
— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau
... clippers!" Jimmie bore down upon him crossly. "I told you to leave 'em alone. Now see what you've done! Look here, Sunny, can't you keep out of trouble long enough for ...
— Sunny Boy in the Country • Ramy Allison White
... she said. "Dare I soliloquise? I will. It is a thing I have not done for weeks. 'Oh, what a——" She got up quickly. "Nobody could soliloquise on a log like that," she said crossly. She decided she could do it just as effectively when standing. With one pale hand raised to the skies she ...
— Once on a Time • A. A. Milne
... that now?" said Duke rather crossly; "it's only making it all worser and worser. ...
— "Us" - An Old Fashioned Story • Mary Louisa S. Molesworth
... private thing, between us friends," Ferfitchkin said crossly, as he, too, picked up his hat. ...
— Notes from the Underground • Feodor Dostoevsky
... produced a wonderful effect on my pego, which had become considerably more developed when in a state of erection. As you may suppose, with such distracting thoughts, I did not get on with my lessons. Miss Evelyn, for some reason or other, was out of humour that morning, and more than once spoke crossly to me for my evident inattention. At length she called me to her, and finding that I had scarcely ...
— The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous
... minutes, and then go in again. Cox swore that they had thrice changed their fox, and was beginning to be a little short in his temper; the whips' horses were becoming jaded, and the master had once or twice answered very crossly when questioned. "How the devil do you suppose I'm to know," he had said to a young gentleman who had inquired, "where they were?" But still the Squire kept on zealously, and reminded Ralph that some of the best things of the season were often lost by men becoming slack towards evening. At ...
— Ralph the Heir • Anthony Trollope
... Mrs. Hegner, perhaps because she had become nervously aware that her husband had looked at her rather crossly a moment ago, blurted out, "There's no fear of that, miss. We sent off a lot this morning to Harwich. I expect they'll have been able to get a boat there all right——" She stopped suddenly, for her husband had just made a ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... you been, Anne?" she asked crossly. "The supper-bell rang long ago. I've looked for you everywhere. Where've you ...
— Honey-Sweet • Edna Turpin
... meat, I tell you once more," replied the Ogre, looking crossly at his wife, "and there is something here which ...
— The Tales of Mother Goose - As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 • Charles Perrault
... he asked charity of several people, and one of them said crossly: "Go to work, for an idle rogue." "That I will," says Dick, "I will to go work for you, if you will let me." But the man only cursed at him and ...
— English Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.)
... Rita answered crossly, with obvious allusion to Sofya's marrying Yagitch. "Par depit is all the fashion nowadays. Defiance of all the world. She was always laughing, a desperate flirt, fond of nothing but balls and young men, and all of a sudden off she went—to ...
— The Darling and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... wanted us to go home before the reading of the will, which took place in the front parlour; but the lawyer said, "I think the young gentlemen should remain," for which we were very much obliged to him; though the pale-faced man said quite crossly—"Is there any special reason for crowding the room with children, who are not even relatives of the deceased?" which made us feel so much ashamed that I think we should have slipped out by ourselves; but the lawyer, who made no answer, pushed us gently ...
— We and the World, Part I - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... get within three feet of me, and I take care to keep more than that distance away from them. That's why I was crossing this field, where I supposed no one would be. And I should have been perfectly safe had it not been for your beastly lasso. Now, then," he added, crossly, "are you going to get ...
— American Fairy Tales • L. Frank Baum
... my tail-coat and with my hair brushed up into a tuft on my head, I entered the passage of the lodge, where the princess lived. The old servant looked crossly at me and got up unwillingly from his bench. There was a sound of merry voices in the drawing-room. I opened the door and fell back in amazement. In the middle of the room was the young princess, standing on a chair, holding a man's hat in front of her; round the chair crowded ...
— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev
... a place near by where he had seen the berries, while Billy found a comfortable nook by the pool, and sat scowling at the water so crossly, it was a wonder any trout came to his hook. But the fat worms tempted several small ones, and he cheered up at the prospect of food. Tommy whistled while he picked, and in half an hour came back with two quarts of nice berries and an armful of ...
— The Louisa Alcott Reader - A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School • Louisa M. Alcott
... talking to you," I snapped, crossly, "I was speaking to the carnations; particularly to that elderly one at the top—the fat one who keeps bowing and ...
— Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed • Edna Ferber
... multitude of sins," said Bell, crossly, giving a vindictive snap with her scissors, "but it won't begin to cover the enormity of Mrs. Upjohn's transgressions on this occasion. You gentlemen must be very devoted to atone to us for the button-holes. There's Mr. De Forest standing in the other room looking as if he wished he ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... laugh delightedly. He kicked his legs and showed all his little white teeth. Angel opened his eyes and stared at us crossly. "What a beastly row," he said. "I want to ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche
... crossly, "you go thee him—you catch up. I will no more. You do not like my Englis' very well. You go with fat old joke-fellow, and I return the houth. Bethide, it ith the day of my lumbago." And the venerable Demetrius, with distinct temper, ...
— A Voyage of Consolation - (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An - American girl in London') • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... Mr. Santoris would be sure to get on well together," said Catherine, rather crossly—"'Birds of a feather,' ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli
... he had said, and asked why? There happened to be a pause just then and, as one has to speak rather loud to Lady Cecilia to attract her attention, every one heard, and they all looked flabergasted; and then all shrieked with laughter, and Sir Dennis said so crossly, "Little fool!" and Lady Desmond simply glared at me, and Lady Cecilia said, "Really, Elizabeth!" and Sir Dennis got purple in the face, and Jane Roose whispered, "How could you dare with his wife listening!" and every one talked and chaffed. ...
— The Visits of Elizabeth • Elinor Glyn |
