"-ly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Newport; the parasols, gloves, fans, shoes, 'frillies'—enough to stock the Rue de la Paix, to say nothing of gowns—but why do I run on? Here am I with a few little simple summer things, fit enough indeed for the quiet place we shall reach for July and August, but ab-so-lute-ly impossible for Newport—so say no more about it, dear. You're a sweet—but it's madness ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... lean-ing o-ver the side and look-ing down at his fa-ther. His hat had blown off, and he looked like such a nice boy that Kate smiled at him as they went by. He laughed back and made her a lit-tle bow, but the hors-es went by so fast that she saw him for a min-ute on-ly. ...
— A Bit of Sunshine • Unknown
... head, these sounds were only as a lullaby to his slumbers, and disturbed him no more than they troubled his foster-mother, to whom the revolving stones ground out a homely and welcome measure: "Dai-ly bread, dai- ...
— Jan of the Windmill • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... Griggs," cried the doctor warmly. "Cer-tain-ly not," added Bourne. "You will come with us, ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn
... laugh—"It would be judged so, I suppose, if I ever gave it,—but I don't. It was only in England, and by an Englishman, that I was once, to my utter amazement, addressed as 'He-ly-oh-bas'—and I was quite alarmed at the sound of it! One would think that most people in these educational days knew the Greek word helios,—and one would also imagine it as easy to say Heliobas as heliograph. But now to avoid mistakes, whenever ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli
... went to Zunday skule, Passen's darter, on greaaet high stule, Taakes me oop on 'ur lady knee, An' kissed ov Oi, zo Oi kissed ov she! An', arter skule, zure-ly, Oi vollers T' little blushin' vemale scholars All round t' orchards, an' under stacks, Oi bussed t' lot, an' yew can ax— Polly Potter, Trixie Trotter, Gertie Gillard, Zairy Zlee, Zusan Zettle, Connie Kettle, Daisy Doble, La'ra Lee, Hesther Holley, ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie
... business of the States is done Ex-clu-sive-ly by telephone; And that is why the people say, "I guess we're ...
— Little People: An Alphabet • T. W. H. Crosland
... remember, when I was like to run mad with the desire to wear a coat of that colour. If any one (except my father) had called me a fool for my pains, how I should have fired and fumed! But what a fool I must have been, sure-ly!' ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens
... he imitated a certain pathetic yet comical old woman he had heard singing at some camp-meeting, "The dear blessed Bible, the Fam-i-ly Bible," etc. He told me one day that this fondness for singing, especially amid extremely unpromising or gloomy circumstances, had on more than one occasion led the men of the first expedition to suspect ...
— A Canyon Voyage • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
... should generally be separated from the radical words to which they have been added; as, harm-less, great-ly, connect-ed: thus count-er ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... called Friends did not like the making of pictures, as I said. But they thought that Benny West had a talent that he ought to use. So he went to Phil-a-del-phi-a to study his art. After a while he sailed away to It-a-ly to see the pictures that great ...
— Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans • Edward Eggleston
... call home-life a hag-ridden dream, And you'd sigh, and you'd sock; but at present you seem To know not of megrims or melancho-ly!" - "True. There's an ...
— Poems of the Past and the Present • Thomas Hardy
... He works fer Pa; An' he's the goodest man ever you saw! He comes to our house every day, An' waters the horses, an' feeds 'em hay; An' he opens the shed—an' we all ist laugh When he drives out our little old wobble-ly calf; An' nen—ef our hired girl says he can— He milks the cow fer 'Lizabuth Ann.— Aint he a' awful good Raggedy Man? ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various
... a good omen To drop the cognomen. So I beg you to promise That you'll call me "Thomas," Or better yet, "Tommie," Instead of th' abomi- Nable "Mr. Gilfoyle." You can, and you will foil My torments Mephistian By using my Christian Name and permitting Yours Truly To call you yours too-ly. ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... and to enhance His children's pleasure in their harmless rollicking, He, like a good old fellow, stood to dance; When something checked the current of his frolicking: That curate, with a maid he treated lover-ly, Stood up and figured with him ...
— The Bab Ballads • W. S. Gilbert |
