"Musingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... continued, smilingly, half-musingly, "for a father to venture a suggestion anent a name.... Eh bien, then. I should wish that the baby be known as" he stopped for a moment, thinking, the while lightly tapping booted leg with the tip of his crop. "I should suggest," he repeated, "calling her Rien. It is an appropriate name, ...
— A Fool There Was • Porter Emerson Browne
... know it, Walter," said Alice, musingly, looking out upon, but not seeing the calm river, and the stars that gazed upon its waves, and all the solemn beauty with which night ...
— Aunt Phillis's Cabin - Or, Southern Life As It Is • Mary H. Eastman
... said the other musingly; "no, of course you wouldn't have, and, unfortunately, I cannot tell you why you should. But I'll tell you this: if you ever do find cause to suspect any of these persons, you will find that this group is not complete. It ought to contain the ...
— The Mummy and Miss Nitocris - A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension • George Griffith
... Embers (Musingly). This opens with a quiet, tender theme after the style of An Old Love Story. The piece is quite short, but displays a mastery both of harmony and counterpoint. The music is grave and deep, but very tender. The little middle ...
— Edward MacDowell • John F. Porte
... will be thinking of himself—how many commissions he has performed—how many he has left undone—and how many he intends to do. The next, he will probably give to his home attractions—his anxious wife, sat musingly round the tea-table—his favourite son George (so like his father)—and all the nine hundred and ninety-nine pretty nothings we hear of, after a brief absence. These will send his heart a long way from the coach, and therefore keep him in the full enjoyment ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 266, July 28, 1827 • Various
... beyond the slapping tent-flap, the keen, gray eyes of the Colonel were fixed musingly on two black points which crawled along the edge of the dulled silver of the distant river—Miles Morgan and Sergeant O'Hara ...
— The Militants - Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
... detective that came to see Mrs. Rogers," said Tom, musingly. "She told me a strange man had been there from Mr. Forbes, to inquire ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work • Edith Van Dyne
... tastes of an antiquarian disposition—in an amateur way, you know. At any rate, Mr. Polke, you should examine the house—and especially that room, for Horbury may have hidden Lord Ellersdeane's property there. A deeply interesting room that!" added the old man musingly. "I haven't been in it for some sixty years or so, but I remember it quite well. It was in that room that Jasper ...
— The Chestermarke Instinct • J. S. Fletcher
... brink," repeated Mr Snow, musingly. "Well, it did look like that, one while. I wonder if I was really willing to have you go. It don't seem now as if I could have been—being so glad as I am that you did not go, ...
— Janet's Love and Service • Margaret M Robertson
... sat down on the nurse's chair, the women grouped round him. He continued to gaze on the contents of the cradle, and at length said, musingly, "And Homer ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... there like so many sheep, but they found nothing. Don't think about treasure-seeking, Hal—it's a mistake; fortunes have to be made by toil and scheming, not by haphazard proceedings; but all the same I must say," he added musingly, "they do tell of the golden ornaments and vessels of the sun-worship hidden by the poor conquered people ages ago to preserve them from their greedy conquerors. Their places are known even now, they say, having been handed ...
— The Golden Magnet • George Manville Fenn
... that page," said Ormiston, musingly. "It is singular, since, he wears the Earl of Rochester's livery, that we have never seen him before among his followers. Are you quite sure, Sir ...
— The Midnight Queen • May Agnes Fleming
... of many years, the procession of poets again wends its way in the sunshine up the slope to the proud mansion of the Trimbergs. The venerable Walther von der Vogelweide again opens the festival of song. Wolfram von Eschenbach, followed by a band of young disciples, musingly ascends the mountain-side. The ranks grow less serried, and in solitude and sadness, advances a man of noble form, his silvery beard flowing down upon his breast, a long cloak over his shoulder, and the peaked hat, the badge of the mediaeval Jew, on his head. In his eye gleams ...
— Jewish Literature and Other Essays • Gustav Karpeles
... Musingly, as if contemplating the divine presence in the works of man, Selwyn went on, while he closely watched Rockland from behind his ...
— Philip Dru: Administrator • Edward Mandell House
... bundle of rods in his hand to repel any unclean spirits that should venture to approach the sacred fire. Meanwhile, the assembled multitudes prostrate themselves without and offer up their silent adoration. "Yet, after all," musingly said the Parsee, "the universe is the throne of the invisible God, of whom fire is but the emblem, and we worship Him most acceptably with our eyes fixed on the east when the sun rides forth at morning in his celestial ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875. • Various
... very anxious time for them,—the family at Viamede, I mean," remarked Edward musingly. "And poor, dear Vi is so young to have such burdens to bear. What a blessing that she has ...
— Elsie's Kith and Kin • Martha Finley
... went on musingly. "We've all heard of the British fleet. Perhaps we have heard too much about it. Don't you think it's ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I • Burton J. Hendrick
... and looked musingly out of the window, as she turned her mind to her story. 'You may write now,' said she, and ...
— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe
... said, musingly, "I suppose I would have done the same. But, Robby, it did go hard with me at first. However, I soon found out that my neighbors had been going through the same thing. But its all over now. Let by-gones be by-gones. What are you doing now, and where ...
— Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted • Frances E.W. Harper
... disappearance of Beddingfield," said the girl musingly. "That certainly points very strongly to him. He was a man in good practice, I ...
— The Old Man in the Corner • Baroness Orczy
... about all those things your cousin wanted, wasn't it?" the woman said, musingly. "'Seemed like kind of a sign to him, I could see—going to Harvard College and all. I s'pose ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... of me?" asked the girl, musingly. After a pause she continued, "That was kind in Sir Karl and—and evidently sincere." After another pause devoted to revery she said: "Perhaps I shall be his friend sometime in a manner he little expects. Even the friendship of a helpless burgher girl is not to ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... choirs up there, mademoiselle?" She paused a moment to gaze at the sky, the sun-bathed campanile, with a wistfulness not unfamiliar to her companion, and which she attributed to an imaginative childhood. "Perhaps the evening bells of Rome are the echoes of her voice in another world," she added, musingly. ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 • Various
... said Peace, musingly. Peace always seemed to see just what other people were living and hoping and fearing, without any words from them to ...
— Gypsy's Cousin Joy • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... Douglass musingly. "His heart is in the right place, but sometimes I wonder whether it is the right kind of heart. Do you mind dining at seven for once in your life. Miss Higham? It's a ridiculous hour, I know, but we must be at the hall sharp by eight. Miss Loriner will show you your room when ...
— Love at Paddington • W. Pett Ridge
... musingly, "in these days, when women just serenely ignore the question of children, or at most, as a special concession, bring up one or two,—just the one or two whose expenses can be comfortably met!—there's something ...
— Mother • Kathleen Norris
... and Hackett have figured when it will be passing over here and are going up in an X-type yourselves to look for it," Harding said musingly. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various
... and waiting for us, all embowered and carpeted for love," said Allan musingly. "I wonder what old Van Amburg would think of his estate if he could see it now? And what would he say to our having it? You know, Van was pretty ugly to me at one time about my political opinion—but that's ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England
... the subject, when he was suddenly called upon to attend a lady who imagined herself unwell. He arrived, was shewn up stairs, and felt the lady's pulse. "It falls! it falls! good God! it falls continually!" said he musingly, while the lady looked up in his face all anxiety for his opinion. "Oh, M. de Chirac," said she, starting to her feet and ringing the bell for assistance; "I am dying! I am dying! it falls! it falls! it falls!" "What falls?" inquired the doctor in amazement. "My pulse! my pulse!" ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay
... be sore because I ran away and deserted her, leaving her no alimony except the dying che-ild. But I must produce a real wife and child from somewhere or I'll lose the $9.75 my uncle left me. (Goes L. musingly.) Why do I love money so? Ay, that's the question. (Looking up at gallery.) And what's the answer? (Points off L. with cane—dramatically.) We shall see—we shall ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page
... hill of Hoerselberg in Thuringia, there to sniff and snicker in Venus's crimson court. His attitude is the attitude of one beholding a Tristan en voyage for a garden of love and roses he can never reach. His attitude, the attitude of an old and understanding professor, shaking his head musingly as his tender pupils, unmellowed yet in the autumnal fragrances of life, giggle covertly over the pages of Balzac and Flaubert, over the nudes of Manet, over even the innocent yearnings ...
— Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright
... think of Polyphemus and Seer Marcous and Antoinette," she said, musingly. "And then I wished I was back. I ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke
... so afraid of facing the truth as we are," Nan made answer musingly. "I wonder why we always try to shut our eyes against the fact of death? . . . It's there waiting for us round ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... sayings have survived. The two who obtained the greatest celebrity in this field, seem to have been Theodore Hook and Sydney Smith. Selwyn, a precursor of these men, was so full of banter and impudence that George II. called him "that rascal George." "What does that mean," said the wit one day, musingly—"'rascal'? Oh, I forgot, it was an hereditary title of all the Georges." Perhaps Selwyn might have been called a "wag"—a name given to men who were more enterprising than successful in their humour, and which referred originally to ...
— History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
... he, musingly, "it would be a sin to keep it, now that to break it can do him no harm, and may do him good, especially as, in case of imprisonment or death, the oath is not held to be binding; yet I fear it is too late for the reward. The father will scarcely thank ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... it was Sophie, but I thought likely as not it was a mistake of one for another. Sophie," repeated she, musingly, "that sweet, delicate little angel. Oh, I should fear, I should fear! Cornelia would have been better—not so sensitive—she can bear more—and who knows?—No; but I do him wrong; he loves her: she'll be happy; she ...
— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne
... man, with a quiver of strong feeling in his tone. "You would like something prized by the giver, would you?" he added, musingly. "Well, you shall ...
— Mona • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... he said musingly, "for all who let their old parents lie waiting and freezing in icy chilliness— pardon even to this day. But afterward it ...
— The Emperor of Portugalia • Selma Lagerlof
... to me," said Zillah, musingly, after a thoughtful silence, "to be a very—very mysterious person. Though I love her dearly, I see that there is some mystery about her. Whatever her history may be she is evidently far above her present position, for when she does allow herself to talk she has the manner ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... one day, when she was in the midst of a circle of her fashionable acquaintances. I was particularly ill-dressed, and I noticed that they stared at me; but I had no intention, then, of throwing myself in her way. Well," she continued, musingly, "I am not to be foiled with one rebuff. I know her better than she knows me, for the busy world has canvassed her life, while they have never meddled with my own: and I think there are points of contact enough between us for us to understand each other, if we once found an opportunity. She stands ...
— Friends and Neighbors - or Two Ways of Living in the World • Anonymous
... Paradoxes musingly uttered, and flying over his head, wore to Tom a natural and comfortable atmosphere; and the conversation proceeded. Louis found that geography had been as much at fault as chronology, and that the runaway had found himself not at the sea, but at Illershall, where ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the dolorous voices were left behind, and the cheerful light of the plain reasserted itself. Norcross, looking back down upon the cedars, which at a distance resembled a tufted, bronze-green carpet, musingly asked: "What do you suppose planted those ...
— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland
... and left the room. The inquiries he made soon elicited the fact that Platzoff's servant had been even more severely injured than his master, and was at that moment lying, more dead than alive, in a little room upstairs. Slowly and musingly, with hands in pocket, Captain Ducie then took his way towards the scene of the accident. "It may suit my book very well to make friends with this Russian," he thought as he went along. "He is no doubt ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 • Various
... said Joel, shutting one eye and looking up at the ceiling, musingly, while he smacked his lips in remembrance; "wasn't that ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney
... musingly. "However, do not let us waste time. I am about to leave London, perhaps this country—for ever. But I could not depart without an interview with you. You are aware of my strong attachment to my poor lost child. My daughter Isabella now ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
... the stranger, musingly. "There might be danger," he muttered to himself, but Hedges ...
— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood
... it, however, the more imperative that his spent displeasure shouldn't be blown out again. It charmed the child to see how much she could interest him; and the charm remained even when, after asking her a dozen questions, he observed musingly and a little obscurely: "Yes, damned if she won't!" For in this too there was a detachment, a wise weariness that made her feel safe. She had had to mention Sir Claude, though she mentioned him as little as possible and Beale only appeared to look quite over his head. It pieced itself ...
— What Maisie Knew • Henry James
... moment," replied Gatton, musingly, "I cannot see that this would have served any useful purpose; but nevertheless you may be right. I am going to assume, however, that you are wrong, and that the object of sending Bolton here last night was to open and shut these doors. I propose now to return again to the scene ...
— The Green Eyes of Bast • Sax Rohmer
... courier arrives with dispatches, and enters the Emperor's quarters, whence he emerges and goes on with other dispatches to the hut of DECRES, lower down. Immediately after, NAPOLEON comes out from his hut with a paper in his hand, and musingly proceeds towards an eminence ...
— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy
... opening the note, and dampening it much in doing so, "Jim Ellison, eh? More of his queer business doings, I reckon. He's a smart one, he is," he added musingly, as he waddled away to his bed-room to change his dripping garments; then, spying his own face in the mirror: 'What's the matter with you, Daniel Witham? Aren't you smart, too? In all these dealings, isn't there ...
— The Rival Campers Ashore - The Mystery of the Mill • Ruel Perley Smith
... aware of a fly hovering on the purlieus of his web, issued from its centre, as the Parnass turned his back on the shop and gazed musingly ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... tear fall. At the funeral, her face wore much the same look it had worn, twenty-three years before, at her grandfather's funeral. There were some present who remembered that day well, and remembered the look, and they said musingly,— ...
— Hetty's Strange History • Anonymous
... hardly be foregone contentedly. We recalled to mind, for example, such descriptive particulars in the original story as that, in mentioning each successive kind of eatable, Tugby did so "as if he were musingly summing up his good actions," or that, after this, rubbing his fat legs and jerking them at the knees to get the fire upon the yet unroasted parts, he laughed as if somebody had tickled him! We bore distinctly enough in remembrance, and longed then to have heard ...
— Charles Dickens as a Reader • Charles Kent
... wonderful how ashamed Jews are of their religion outside a synagogue!" said Hannah musingly. "My father, if he were here, would put on his hat after supper and bensh, though there wasn't another man in the room to ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... me is a strange thing," replied Drake musingly. "Sometimes thou and I are so close in touch as to be almost one; yet, again, we find ourselves a world's space asunder: our thoughts oft run in couples like hounds, and 'tis because of such times that I love thee as ...
— Sea-Dogs All! - A Tale of Forest and Sea • Tom Bevan
... "Hum! Yes!" musingly remarked Mr. Hardley. "That's all very well. Part of it is true; but I imagine most of it is the work of imagination of some enterprising reporter. Of course there is no question but that there are untold millions on the bottom of the ocean. The only trouble, ...
— Tom Swift and his Undersea Search - or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic • Victor Appleton
... Jervas musingly, "very strange that I should be pleading your gipsy's suit and find you so coldly, mercilessly determined to make that pleading vain! You are as stubborn as a Vereker and I think a trifle more merciless. Doubtless the reasons for your so sudden change are ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol
... remarked, rubbing her nose, that from constant friction had become red and shining; "I have been lonesome to-day. I usually run into Mrs. Simonson's in the afternoon, but she has been out since twelve o'clock. I can't make out—" musingly, "where she can have gone! not that she is just the company I desire. She has never been used to anything above the common, poor soul, and will say 'them rooms,' but she is better than no one, and at least can appreciate ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer
... safe, then," said Barthorpe. "Another safe at the Alpha, eh?" he continued, musingly. "I never knew he had a safe there. Did you ever ...
— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher
... higher in the bed and put his pipe on a chair. "It has been a long time since I went hunting," he said, musingly. "It seems a long time since I have done anything, except to brood over my failing health. But I will have no more of that. Yes, I will go hunting with you." He shoved up the sleeve of his shirt and called his wife's attention. "Don't you think I'm getting more flesh on ...
— An Arkansas Planter • Opie Percival Read
... he were," he added, darkly, and turned to look musingly across the marshes toward the distant sea. For River Andrew, like many hawkers of cheap wares, knew the ...
— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman
... art connoisseur," musingly said Wade, "and I've picked up a few pretty bits of etching now and then at his shop. You must come up and see my ...
— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage
... though I'm not sure that I recollect the details,' said the colonel musingly. 'Your father was John Platt, who enlisted in one of the line regiments—the 24th, wasn't it? Tell us ...
— Teddy's Button • Amy Le Feuvre
... stern countenance, drew his hand across his chin musingly, and stood silently for a few ...
— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren
... stripling; and I permit boys and fools to speak of me as they list. But I am no tyrant, Karl! He might have spared me that. (Musingly.) Tyrant!— ...
— Poems • George P. Morris
... as his companion paused. Then he added, musingly, "Your uncle's name seems to be rather unusual among the Mainwarings; I do not recall your having ...
— That Mainwaring Affair • Maynard Barbour
... not know," rejoined Jack musingly. "I don't care very much. My reputation does not depend upon what he says nor upon what some of the boys here may say. I have enough friends among the boys of Hilltop, and the faculty, ...
— The Hilltop Boys on the River • Cyril Burleigh
... Don Cossacks in the seventeenth century, once offered a human sacrifice to the Volga. Among his captives was a Persian princess, to whom he was warmly attached. But one day "when he was fevered with wine, as he sat at the ship's side and musingly regarded the waves, he said: 'Oh, Mother Volga, thou great river! much hast thou given me of gold and of silver, and of all good things; thou hast nursed me, and nourished me, and covered me with glory and honor. But I have in no way shown thee my gratitude. Here is somewhat for thee; take it!' ...
— Russian Fairy Tales - A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore • W. R. S. Ralston
... said Mrs. Schofield musingly. "Of course you and I and everybody who really knows the Bitts and Magsworth families understand the perfect absurdity of it; but I suppose there are ever so many who'll believe it, no matter what the ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington
... she leaned on her elbow musingly, as if construing his words literally, and quite unaware of the tender intent of his prayer. "It ought to be a line to go on your sword—there's where you have the advantage of poor Jack, he has only a musket. But, ...
— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan
... few, very few, as correspondence counts nowadays. Each was in its envelope just as it had arrived, and the handwriting was of the same womanly character as the historic notes. He unfolded them one by one and read them musingly. At first sight there seemed in these small documents to be absolutely nothing to muse over. They were straightforward, frank letters, signed "Sue B—"; just such ones as would be written during short absences, with no other thought than their speedy destruction, and chiefly concerning books in ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... around the club's homelike, perfectly appointed room. He nodded to a fellow member here and there, then his eyes rested musingly on his guest again. ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... he said musingly, "that no two lives have ever been so widely separated as yours and mine, and yet our ...
— The Slave Of The Lamp • Henry Seton Merriman
... bishop, musingly, "that although we may discover ourselves, and be greatly pleased with the prospect of what we see, we may not be permitted to enter into its enjoyment, and must content ourselves with looking over the fence and longing for ...
— The Associate Hermits • Frank R. Stockton
... screen," MacMaine said in a matter-of-fact tone. "I assure you that I have no intention of returning to Earth. If Keroth loses this war, then I will die—either fighting for the Kerothi or by execution at the hands of Earthmen if I am captured. Or," he added musingly, "perhaps even at the hands of the Kerothi, if someone decides that a scapegoat is needed to atone for ...
— The Highest Treason • Randall Garrett
... Master, musingly. "I wonder!" And he thoughtfully pulled Finn's ears, as though he thought this might extract information regarding the whereabouts of Desdemona. But Finn, as his way was, said nothing. He maintained in this matter a policy ...
— Jan - A Dog and a Romance • A. J. Dawson
... floor reveals the girl sobbing over the body of the millionaire,'" he read, aloud, musingly. "H'mm! 'She screams and cries out.' ...
— The Film Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve
... was that he had done neither of these things, and had thereby markedly stood off from the risk involved in trying to draw out her reason. To attenuate, on the other hand, this appearance, and quite as if to fill out the too large receptacle made, so musingly, by his abstention, he had himself presently given her a reason—had positively spared her the effort of asking whether he judged Charlotte not to have approved. He had taken everything on himself—THAT was what had settled her. She had had to wait ...
— The Golden Bowl • Henry James
... relations—opened its pale hues frankly to the noonday sun. Graham approached slowly, noiselessly, and the last note of the song had ceased when he stood at the entrance of the arbour. Isaura did not perceive him at first, for her face was bent downward musingly, as was often her wont after singing, especially when alone; but she felt that the place was darkened, that something stood between her and the sunshine. She raised her face, and a quick flush mantled over it as ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... the old man musingly, "that even the worst sinners are better than these Rabbis? So blind are they in the arrogance of their self-conceit, so darkened by their pride, that their very devotion to the Law becomes ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... at him from the path," he answered musingly. "That is, if he's keeping north. I'll show you ...
— The Second Class Passenger • Perceval Gibbon
... obvious enough," Mr. Warne suggested, as the girl stooped and began to wrestle with the cords which tied the big package. His glance fell musingly on the down-bent head with its masses of dark-brown hair, upon the white and shapely arms from which the sleeves were rolled back,—Georgiana had been busy in the kitchen when the expressman came,—upon the whole comely young figure in its blue-print morning ...
— Under the Country Sky • Grace S. Richmond
... medical students, body-snatchers?" I asked musingly. "Or was it simply a piece of vandalism? I wonder if there could have been any jewels buried with him, as Shaughnessy said? That would ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve
... Maurice, musingly. "A gentleman of that name visited Brittany before I left. I wonder if it can ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
... was musingly looking on the floor, and the operation went on for some minutes in silence. At length her thoughts seemed to turn to the present, and she lifted ...
— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy
... number of Dickens's new tale, or directs their attention to the most note-worthy points on their route. Mr. Verdant Green is seated vis-a-vis to the plump Miss Bouncer, and benignantly beams upon her through his glasses, or musingly consults his Bradshaw to count how much nearer they have crept to their destination, the while his thoughts have travelled on in the very quickest of express trains, and have already reached ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede
... Dr. Conwell, musingly, "the advantage of aiming at big things. That building represents $109,000 above ground. It is free from debt. Had we built a small church, it would now ...
— Acres of Diamonds • Russell H. Conwell
... trodden for ages, by nobles and robbers, peasants and sailors, priests of more than one religion, and traders of many seas, who have gone, and left no record. The sun was slanting his last rays into the corridors as I musingly looked down from one of the arched openings, quite spellbound by the strangeness and dead silence of the place, broken only by the plash of waves on the sandy beach below. I had found my way down through a wooden door half ajar; ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... something in that," said Lady Corisande, musingly. "You know not what a relief it is to me to speak to you on this matter. Mamma agrees with me, and so do my sisters; but still they may agree with me because they are my mamma and my sisters; but I look upon our nobility joining the Church of ...
— Lothair • Benjamin Disraeli
... air and lightness of form, that as often belongs to the youthful American of her sex, perhaps, as to the girl of any other nation on earth. Rose continued to gaze at her companion for some time, when she walked musingly to a window that looked out ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 • Various
... their hands, poor fellow, by seeming to notice their game," said Lady Esmondet, musingly, "until you see your own way clear to face them, by telling them and ...
— A Heart-Song of To-day • Annie Gregg Savigny
... Miss Ferris musingly. "That's quite a possible point of view. Still, I'm inclined to think that on the whole we have just as much orange left and it tastes far better, if we give a good deal of it away. If we try to hang on to it all, ...
— Betty Wales Freshman • Edith K. Dunton
... small house in Charlottenburg. It was yet early, for he had risen before sunrise, and had been at work a long time, when he ceased for a moment and yielded to his meditations. Leaning back in his easy chair, he gazed musingly through the open glass-doors, now on serene sky, and again on the fragrant verdure of ...
— NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER • L. Muhlbach
... with a new hat. I think I shall live till the spring if I don't get influenza. I hope you'll remember not to come near me if you feel a cold coming on." Winn assured him that he would. "I asked Dr. Gurnet the other day," Mr. Bouncing went on musingly, "if he thought I should ever be able to walk to the post-office again—I used to get there and back last winter, you know—but he wouldn't give me a direct answer. He said he thought I could rely on the hotel porter. He's ...
— The Dark Tower • Phyllis Bottome
... looked musingly at the earnest face of his visitor, and some shadowy expression, which was almost like a smile, flitted feebly across the sick ...
— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
... murmured Frigga, still looking down and speaking half musingly to herself; "for all things have sworn to ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes
... lamp with a reflector hung on the japanned wall of the fireplace and by its light his aunt was reading the evening paper that lay on her knees. She looked a long time at a smiling picture that was set in it and said musingly: ...
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce
... would fight for us if we removed the lumps from their necks," he said musingly, his eyes narrow. "I wish there were some ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various
... Adelaide we must find him. He may have seen the cable addressed to me, or he might have seen our names in the passenger list wired from Albany," said Hal, musingly. ...
— Australia Revenged • Boomerang
... snares are round her!" he added, musingly: and now, certainly for the first time, he examined my face, anxious, doubtless, to see if any kindly expression there, would warrant him in recommending to my care and indulgence some ethereal creature, ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte
... know," said Heimdal musingly, "unless—unless. Where could he hide except in that stream, and how could he conceal himself there without changing himself to a fish? Mark my words. Loki is there, and he feared we might catch him ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester
... he continued musingly, "to get at them, to make out what they're saying—the big fellows, I mean. They're not a communicative lot. At first I couldn't make much out of their lingo—it was too different from mine! But gradually, by picking up a hint here and there, and piecing ...
— Crucial Instances • Edith Wharton
... face, is not so sure... It may be that I wanted this thing to happen without knowing it. When I see what it has brought me, I cannot understand how I could help wanting it... It is true that I do not always know for certain what I have at heart." His eyes came back from space to rest musingly on Elfgiva. "When I began this feasting-time, I thought I had grasped heaven with my hands, but now—" he spread out his fingers and released the little bunch of dead leaves that he had been rolling against his palm—"now I let not this go from me more ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... exciting," Rosanne said musingly. "Don't you think so?" she added quickly, and began to ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... Flora, musingly; "I did not think of that. It would do that damp, cold room good to get a fire ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie
... book just before one o'clock—couldn't seem to get to sleep," explained Miss Ocky musingly. "The dagger was not here then—but it didn't occur to me to raise the house about it. I took it for granted there was some simple reason for its being gone, and I didn't stop to look for it, as I was only striking matches to find what ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston
... said musingly. The afternoon wore away, and there were no signs of our brother coming, so I began to get rather uneasy, and spoke to ...
— Our Home in the Silver West - A Story of Struggle and Adventure • Gordon Stables
... have been a very extensive bankrupt stock you acquired," said the clergyman musingly. "And were all the applicants ...
— Reginald Cruden - A Tale of City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... that," laughed Rand, "but I'd rather not be the victim. I wonder," he went on musingly, "if we ...
— The Boy Scouts Patrol • Ralph Victor
... said, musingly, "I suppose you must, go; but it is a pity. You are too handsome a boy to—to do what you will probably do: but the game does not regard good looks, or it would fare ...
— Dead Man's Rock • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... good he was," Phyllis went on musingly, "unless you'd sat next him in a tunnel. The other day he had his waist squeezed and he simply sat still and did nothing. And then when the tunnel ended, it was Jock after all, not me. His face was—Oh! ah! ha! ha! Ah! ha!" She threw back her head, displaying all her white, round throat. Then ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... "Yes," said the doctor musingly. "The idea is Utopian, but I have often thought how pleasant life would be were there no rents or ...
— The Bag of Diamonds • George Manville Fenn
... of silence followed, during which the Earl sat musingly, half absently, regarding the tall, erect, powerful young figure standing before him, awaiting his pleasure in motionless, patient, almost dogged silence. The strong, sinewy hands were clasped and rested upon the long heavy sword, around ...
— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle
... to hear the cause of that death," said Dr. Crowell, musingly. "I'm an old, experienced practitioner, and I've never seen anything so mysterious. There's absolutely no trace of any poison, and yet ...
— Raspberry Jam • Carolyn Wells
... "Yes," said the editor musingly, "I suppose one oughtn't to throw any sort of chance away. But you're sure you don't prefer the novels? You'll excuse ...
— The Minister's Charge • William D. Howells
... allowance for the unexpected or for the other fellow's point of view. To be more exact, Mike, I figure that German psychology is the only kind of psychology a German can understand. And to tell you the truth, Mike," he added musingly, "there are blamed few people who ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... he repeated musingly, eyeing the glowing tip of his cigar. "And to think how that mysterious 'M. J.' used to tantalize me! Do you mean," he added, turning slowly, "that no one calls you 'Mary ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... musingly as she and Kitty were preparing for bed that night. "Isn't it a dear name, Kit? What does it ...
— Marjorie's New Friend • Carolyn Wells
... like begging for meals, Ted,' I said musingly. And in a moment I was wishing with all my heart I could withdraw the words. It seemed that, for the first time in all our acquaintance, I had hurt and ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... up, if only for the satisfaction of ascertaining whether it be a true or a false one. If true, your poor aunt is without doubt long since dead; but your cousin is still alive, and—there he stands!" pointing to Bob, who was in the waist leaning musingly over the lee rail. ...
— The Pirate Island - A Story of the South Pacific • Harry Collingwood
... each successive kind of eatable, as if he were musingly summing up his good actions. After which he rubbed his fat legs as before, and jerking them at the knees to get the fire upon the yet unroasted parts, laughed as if somebody had ...
— The Chimes • Charles Dickens
... would be nicer than giving performances about the village," she said musingly. "If only ...
— The Brother of Daphne • Dornford Yates
... moves me to tears," said Mr. Amarinth musingly. "There is nothing so absolutely pathetic as a really fine paradox. The pun is the clown among jokes, the well turned paradox is the polished comedian, and the highest comedy verges upon tragedy, just as the ...
— The Green Carnation • Robert Smythe Hichens
... of the doves on the roof flew down and strutted on the ground before her, coo-cooing proudly, as though desirous of attracting her attention. One of them boldly perched on the window-sill; she glanced at the bird musingly, and softly stroked its opaline wings and shining head without terrifying it. It seemed delighted to be noticed, and almost lay down under her hand in order to be more conveniently caressed. Still gently smoothing its feathers, she leaned ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... arose, one of his brethren relieved him of his charge over the herd, and he went away, but not to his father's home. Musingly he plunged into the dark and leafless recesses of the winter forest; and shaped out of his wild thoughts, more palpably and clearly, the outline of his daring hope. While thus absorbed he heard a great noise in the forest, and, fearful lest the hostile ...
— The Pilgrims Of The Rhine • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... musingly; "I am not surprised to learn that none of you men can understand such directions as those; I am not at all sure that I understand them myself. At the same time there is hint enough to put me on the right track. And now, O'Gorman," continued I, throwing all the impressiveness I could muster into ...
— The Castaways • Harry Collingwood
... neutrality, Strong went his way, and as he walked musingly back to his rooms, he muttered to himself that he had done quite as much for Hazard as the case would warrant: "What a trump the girl is, and what a good fight she is making! I believe I am getting to be in love ...
— Esther • Henry Adams
... be!" said Marian musingly. "I can realise that now as I never could before my little darling came. But now, about Rosie and her betrothed. Do they not expect to settle somewhere ...
— Elsie at Home • Martha Finley
... fix," said his chum, musingly. "The only safe thing to do, I guess, is to take that convict's advice and move away at once. If we interfere with their plans or even let on that we know what they are, it will mean fight, with us outnumbered three ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... it so,' she said, looking musingly at the fire. 'So,not in precise colour, of course, nor exact pattern,but in general qualityand plainnessand' she ...
— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner
... so much the old expedient," said the professor musingly, "as it is that I would be afraid to leave you herewith no protection against that ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane
... her hand upon the key of the shaded electric lamp. "I suppose so," she said. "I think perhaps—" For a moment or two she wrapped herself in thought. "Perhaps"—she repeated, musingly—"perhaps we'll keep this just a secret between you and me for a little while, Jane, and not say anything to papa about the clothes. I don't think it will hurt them, and I suppose Willie feels they give him ...
— Seventeen - A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William • Booth Tarkington
... British fleet that rode at anchor there, and her eyes were wistful. Her fingers, with that little gesture peculiar to her in moments of constraint, were again entwining themselves in her rope of pearls. "Yes," she said almost musingly, "I think I must be ...
— The Snare • Rafael Sabatini
... heaven yet. I never could find the way," said the child, with a troubled expression suddenly clouding her sweet face; and then she added musingly,— ...
— Outpost • J.G. Austin
... Bob musingly. "We must treat them to some respectable names, that is, good sounding ones. I'm afraid there is little chance of our producing a ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various
... strongest and the one most to be feared," continued Alvarez musingly, "I am not saying it to flatter you, but because it is a matter that I have weighed well for reasons pertaining to statecraft. There sentiment or personal liking cannot count. I have plans, large plans, in regard to this country. I suppose that every ambitious ...
— The Free Rangers - A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi • Joseph A. Altsheler
... can be no harm in accepting of your offer," replied the old man, musingly. "When I am rich, it will of course be a different thing—then you can ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... sometimes I tell her stories,—stories of sailors supposed to be lost, and recovered after all hope was abandoned." Here the captain musingly went back to ...
— A Message from the Sea • Charles Dickens
... musingly; "it's no slouch of an advertisement. 'The Pontiac,' the property of A. Nott, Esq., of St. Jo, Missouri. Send it on to your aunt Phoebe; sorter make the old folks open their eyes—oh? Well, seem' he's been to some expense fittin' up an entrance from the other street, we'll let him slide. But as to ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... "Yes," she answered, half musingly, for the tremendous fact I had related had half robbed her of her consciousness of ...
— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap
... musingly. "I wonder if, by any chance, Will could have gone there? Many young men go down South in the winter to work as waiters in the big hotels. But I hardly think he would be so foolish. Well, of course if ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Florida - Or, Wintering in the Sunny South • Laura Lee Hope
... such a lady, and it seems that you ought to find some lady-like work, if you must do it," said Mrs. Groody, musingly. ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe |
