"Shan't" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said Peter, keeping his own temper by what looked exactly like a miracle; "if you hadn't been so keen on a row, I might have told you about it being only noble-heartedness that made me not tell you my idea. But now I shan't tell you anything at ...
— The Railway Children • E. Nesbit
... my ankles! You hurt! Now don't scream. I shan't fall. Don't you know that this is the Christmas Angel, and he will never let me get hurt ...
— The Christmas Angel • Abbie Farwell Brown
... Don Juan was sent, on Saturday last, by post, in four packets, two of four, and two of three sheets each, containing in all two hundred and seventeen stanzas, octave measure. But I will permit no curtailments.... You shan't make canticles of my cantos. The poem will please, if it is lively; if it is stupid, it will fail; but I will have none of your damned cutting and slashing. If you please, you may publish anonymously; it will perhaps be better; but I will battle my way against ...
— Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Various
... I'm confident—I shan't utter another syllable—nor never would have articulated a syllable about the lace (though Valenciennes, and worth thirty guineas, if it is worth a farthing), had I had the least intimacy or suspicion the young lady was ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... lose his temper. He, however, took the book she had brought and gave her back the other, observing, "Perhaps your aunt will lend it me at some other time if I feel ill and fancy I am going to die; but I shan't die yet, O no, no, I want to live a great ...
— Ned Garth - Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade • W. H. G. Kingston
... see, papa, I stayed there three months. Now, if three of them stay here one month, it will be the same proportion. And, besides, I like them, and I want them to stay a good while. I shan't ...
— Patty at Home • Carolyn Wells
... right there, my lad, I shan't, and that's a fact," returned Enderby. "The trouble is that I don't know where to make a start— whether to begin with what happened the night afore last, or whether 'twould be best to go back to ...
— The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn • Harry Collingwood
... a condition. Please don't look upon me as a sort of blackmailer. If you don't choose to agree to the condition, you needn't. I shan't on that account go round gossiping about your affairs. At the same time, I expect you would rather drive a fair and square bargain with me than be in any way in ...
— The Native Born - or, The Rajah's People • I. A. R. Wylie
... shan't go yet," replied Benjamin. "I don't like your foreign parts; they have no good ale, and I can't understand their talk. I'd sooner remain in jolly old England with a halter twisted ready for me, than pass my life with such a set of chaps, who drink nothing but ...
— The Children of the New Forest • Captain Marryat
... of footsteps and his voice calling me. I turned and saw him, hatless, at the foot of the steps. 'One moment,' he cried; 'I can't let you go till you tell me again that you are not offended, and I shan't believe that till you promise once again to come. Now, promise'—holding both my hands. Of course I promised, wondering how many smaller men would have shown the same courtesy. For some reason on my part, which I now forget, that appointment was never kept, ...
— Stories of Authors, British and American • Edwin Watts Chubb
... wonder what I'll do with my decree when I get it—I can't wear it on my finger, and it certainly isn't the thing for gold leaf and a shadow box—Oh! I shan't waste time placing it; perhaps Carlton will find a pigeon-hole for ...
— Letters of a Dakota Divorcee • Jane Burr
... addressing Nan. "You've got to drink that while you're undressing, and then you'll sleep well. And you're not to come down to-morrow except for dinner. I'll send your meals up—you shan't be starved! But you ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... is filled with so much that must be done, letting alone so much that I would wish to do, that I am fairly out of breath, and feel as if I were flying myself in a whirling high wind, and if ever I stop for a moment, shan't be surprised to find that I have gone crazy. I think I should like to spend a few days entirely alone in a dark room, secluded from every sight and sound, for my senses are almost worn out, and my sense exhausted, ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble
... drew herself up. "No right to say what I like of him? Are you going to tell me what I shall say and what I shan't of the man I loved?—yes, and who loved me, too, but in a way you couldn't understand you who think all you have to do is to smile your silly smile, and spoil another person's life. You didn't know, no, of course not!—didn't know this was his room as well ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... evening before. The word tiff in connection with her tale had a peculiar savour, a paralysing effect. Nobody made a sound. The relative of de Barral proceeded uninterrupted to a display of magnanimity. "Auntie told me to tell you she's sorry—there! And Amelia (the romping sister) shan't worry you again. I'll see to that. You ought to be satisfied. Remember ...
— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad
... enough of it. I don't like chestnutting, and I don't like to be laughed at, either. I shan't stay ...
— Gypsy's Cousin Joy • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... is, she'll finish it quicker than Lettice and I can," returned Maisie Talbot. "Why can't you be hanging up some of those skirts, instead of sitting staring at me? Yes, this is a whole box of Edinburgh rock, but you shan't have a single piece, any of you, unless you get off ...
— The New Girl at St. Chad's - A Story of School Life • Angela Brazil
... go by myself, then," said Urquhart. "What a bore. I really am going, you know, sometime this spring, to stay with my uncle in Venice. I expect I shall come across you, Margery, with any luck. I shan't start yet, though; I shall wait for better motoring weather. No, I can't stop for tea, thanks; I'm going off for the week-end. Good-bye. Good-bye, Margery. See you ...
— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay
... "Only to think, she called me mother," she said to Melinda, to whom she reported the particulars of her interview with Ethelyn—"me, who had been meaner than dirt to her—called me mother, when I used to mistrust her she didn't think any more of me than if I'd been an old squaw. I shan't forget it ...
— Ethelyn's Mistake • Mary Jane Holmes
... carry the matter to the courts," he told the father. "These men deserve punishment, and if you'll let me go on with it, it shan't cost you anything; and by bringing a civil suit as well, you'll probably get some money ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford
... do what you can to help your aunts." Then he went on more nervously. "Think of me sometimes. I shan't be able to come and see you very often, you know—too busy. But I shall like to know that you're ...
— The Captives • Hugh Walpole
... think—all the time I was sitting here last night, fretting and angry at him, he was loving me and praising me! Dear, dear, if we could only know! Then we shouldn't ever go wrong; but we are only poor, dumb beasts groping around and making mistakes. I shan't ever think of last ...
— The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories • Mark Twain
... likes you I shan't interfere," said Walter. "Now I'm going to talk business. I would like to insure ...
— Walter Sherwood's Probation • Horatio Alger
... "I'll bet we shan't be ready for the batteries when they come in," he went on gloomily—and then added, like the good soldier that he is, "My groom will show you where the horses ...
— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)
... you with a recital so commonplace?" he exclaimed, bringing his fist down on the table; "are you beginning to ask yourself that? What have you to do with journalistic adulteries? Only wait: you shan't complain that the sequel is commonplace, and perhaps, one day, when you read in the papers the sequel to the sequel, you will remember and be entertained. He caught us red-handed, you see. It was one evening when we hadn't expected him ...
— The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice - From "The New Decameron", Volume III. • V. Sackville West
... must be going myself.' 'Well,' said I, 'we can go together; to tell you the truth, I am rather tired of this place.' 'Our paths must be separate,' said Belle. 'Separate,' said I, 'what do you mean? I shan't let you go alone, I shall go with you; and you know the road is as free to me as to you; besides, you can't think of parting company with me, considering how much you would lose by doing so; remember that you scarcely know anything of the Armenian language; now, to learn ...
— George Borrow - The Man and His Books • Edward Thomas
... "I shan't take it back. I can't. I am dead against your going. I know this country. It's not a place for lone women. And you're not much more than a child, whatever you may say. It's rough, I tell you. And you"—he looked down upon her slender fairness—"you ...
— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... slightly, speaking with the awful precision of the half-drunk. "'As 'e got any-thin' in about my 'orrible death an' execution? Excuse me, but if I open my eyes, I shan't be well. That's where I'm different from ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... you needn't exult too much. I generally pay my debts, and I shan't forget what I owe you. I will be even ...
— Helping Himself • Horatio Alger
... little, Jim," said Elsie "There, there! my poor pretty Glossy, be quiet now. It was too cruel to serve you so; but it shan't happen again if your mistress can help it," she added in a voice tremulous with sympathy and indignation, patting and stroking her pony caressingly ...
— Elsie's Girlhood • Martha Finley
... dozen reasons afore, but I'm bound to say this is the most foolish yet. All right, keep the real reason to yourself, then. But I tell you what I'm goin' to do to get even with you: I'm goin' to send these folks down to look at your house and I shan't tell you who they are or ...
— Shavings • Joseph C. Lincoln
... "beat the record," as the runners and jumpers says, both for illigance and wariety, and, shoud I atemt to describe 'em, where on airth shoud I begin! But, as I must begin sumwheres, I hopes as I shan't awake the biling jealousy of all the other mothers present when I says as I gives the Parm Tree to the two rayther youthfool Beef Eaters. As for the number of Angels and Fairys, with most lovly wings, they ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 100, May 2, 1891 • Various
... "you couldn't listen in any other way to a speech against suffrage. I shan't applaud him, I know. If he represents Miss Slammer, like as not he shares her views about college girls, too, and is just as deserving as she is to ...
— Molly Brown's Senior Days • Nell Speed
... "We shan't forget you, dear," said Mrs. Hewlitt to Loveday, as she saw them off. "You must come and see us again some time—perhaps in America. Take care of my little Diana for ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... and Sanin gave another wave of his hand. 'You can rely on my prudence, Frau Lenore! Indeed, I shan't do any bargaining with her. I shall tell her the fair price; if she'll give it—good; if not, let ...
— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev
... "Well, I shan't say no," said he, obviously bracing himself for an effort of courage; "but we'll take Faukes, and James the helper, with us; and please, sir, you'll not mention the circumstance as has ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various
... in the house, I know, for you to call. You may go, Miss: but I must step behind you to the room door; no further—she shan't see me, nor know any one is there, unless you tell her. This young lady will sit as still as a mouse ...
— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau
... "I shan't, if I can help it, and yet I'm like to soon, for Mr. Purblind's mother is coming on a visit to us, and I know she'll worry the ...
— How to Cook Husbands • Elizabeth Strong Worthington
... "I shan't stay here alone," shivered the half-witted boy. Then, before Dick could stop him, he set off at the top of his speed, yelling discordantly ...
— The Boy Land Boomer - Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma • Ralph Bonehill
... at all? I shall only collapse if I do like it. But what I seem to feel is that I don't WANT to like it. That is," he amended, "unless I feel surer I do than appears very probable. I don't want to have to THINK I like it in a case when I really shan't. I've had to do that in some cases," he confessed—"when it has been a question of other things. I don't want," he wound up, "to be MADE to ...
— The Golden Bowl • Henry James
... it my business if you'll let me, Aunt de Tracy!" pleaded Robinette. "If you don't feel inclined to provide for Mrs. Prettyman, mayn't I? She is my mother's old nurse and she shan't want for anything as long as I have a penny to call my own!" Robinette's eyes filled with tears, but Mrs. de Tracy was not a whit moved by this show of emotion, which appeared ...
— Robinetta • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... am beholding to him, and wou'd requite his Civility, if his Wife were but as willing, tho he be one of our Merchants at Sea, he shall give me leave to be Owner at home; and where is my Boy? what, shan't I see him? ...
— The City Bride (1696) - Or The Merry Cuckold • Joseph Harris
... you! I was about to have given them to you for nothing, but now you shan't have them at all—not if you offer me three kingdoms in exchange. Henceforth I will have nothing to do with you, you cobbler, you dirty blacksmith! Porphyri, go and tell the ostler to give the gentleman's horses no oats, ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... first by beginning to walk again, and then Vanderbank broke it as through the apprehension of their becoming perhaps too solemn. "Well, you immensely interest me and you really couldn't have chosen a better time. A secret—for we shall make it that of course, shan't we?—at this witching hour, in this great old house, is all my visit here will have required to make the whole thing a rare remembrance. So I assure you the more you ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James
... that ye have?' I didn't ask myself twice, Jan. Of course I could bear it. Would any parent stop his child from being better than himself because he'd be looked down on? I never heard of one. 'I want him to think me rough and ignorant,' says I, 'for I want him to know what's better. And I shan't expect him to think on how I've slaved for him, till he's children of his own, and their mother a lady. But when I'm dead,' I says, 'and he stands by my grave, and I can't shame him no more with ...
— Jan of the Windmill • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... only too pleased to see her," I says. "There are the two beds in my room, and we shan't quarrel." She was quite a sensible young woman, as I had judged from the first look at her, though suffering at the time from a cold. She hires a bicycle from Emma Tidd, who only uses it on a Sunday, and, taking a market basket, off she ...
— Malvina of Brittany • Jerome K. Jerome
... a broad-shouldered jack-tar, giving the fluke of the anchor a hearty slap with his hand after the housing was completed —"there, lass, take a good nap now, for we shan't ask you to kiss the mud again for many a long ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne
... answered nothing, only tried to get away. "But, child!" she exclaimed. "Where's your coat—wait till I bring it—and your gloves!" Kate paused at the door. In a minute Belle came running back: "He's gone, absolutely. There isn't a soul anywhere about. Now you shan't go till you take a cup of coffee. Here's the cream—he left it at the ...
— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman
... stood on a ladder's rung, And answered him with rudish tongue: "I've caught the villain—this here kite Kept my hens ever in a fright; I've nailed he here to my barn-door, Him shan't steal turkey-pouts no more." And lo! upon the door displayed, The caitiff kite ...
— Fables of John Gay - (Somewhat Altered) • John Gay
... We are off!" cried the lively little Baroness. "I hope we shan't be shipwrecked," retorted Jacquemin; and he then proceeded to draw a comical picture of possible adventures wherein figured white bears, icebergs, and death by starvation. "A subject for a novel,—'The Shipwreck of ...
— Prince Zilah, Complete • Jules Claretie
... Out of so many I shan't be missed. By and by they'll learn to cry. But if any one's there, it won't be I. I'd rather sing or dance or fly, Or swim in a puddle where star-shines ...
— Tell Me Another Story - The Book of Story Programs • Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
... mine, Mr. Fenwick. I shan't say no more about 'em. You've got me, and you've smashed my arm, and now what is it you're a-going to do with me? I ain't done no harm,—only just walked ...
— The Vicar of Bullhampton • Anthony Trollope
... to the devil from this on, but he shan't take her with him. . . . Why, Jed, you know what Maud is to me. She's all I've got. She's all I've contrived for and worked for in this world. Think of all the plans ...
— Shavings • Joseph C. Lincoln
... double I couldn't," she whispered back. "Sister's goin' to earn money, and Deanie shall have plenty of good things to eat next winter, and some shoes. She shan't be housed up every time ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke
... "Shan't I? You'll see," was the significant answer. "It's some distance from here to the vestry of the cathedral, and a fellow could scarcely steal there and steal back without being seen by somebody. It was done stealthily, mark you; and when folks ...
— The Channings • Mrs. Henry Wood
... join you in half an hour—but if you pull me out of bed like this, you will have to make a night of it with me. You shan't go home ...
— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn
... girl, Jane,' she says, 'a very good girl, and I shan't forget it, my dear. Go on down, now, and make haste with your washing up, and get ...
— In Homespun • Edith Nesbit
... my word anyhow; I said he shouldn't come back, and he shan't; so now there's no use in pining yourself to death ...
— Queer Stories for Boys and Girls • Edward Eggleston
... whose marriage-ring it was,' cries Angelica. 'Marry the person who picks it up if she's a woman; you shan't marry ME. And give me back MY ring. I've no patience with people who boast about the things they give away! I know who'll give me much finer things than you ever gave me. A beggarly ring ...
— The Rose and the Ring • William Makepeace Thackeray
... to thank, whatever happens. I shan't interfere again. I'm tired of trying to help anyone. I never get anything but ingratitude ...
— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey
... you're more prehistoric than Aunt William! Well, look here, if this little blighter keeps his place I shan't interfere. But, mind you, if I ...
— The Twelfth Hour • Ada Leverson
... "It's a shame how everybody wants to trouble him. He shan't be bothered any more at all! He doesn't need to have everybody telling him how to get away from that old hole he's worked in so long and begin to make us all nice ...
— Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington
... at his watch). 'You've had two already—that makes five. Be a sensible woman, say Yes, and sit down to tea with me, and we'll talk it over together; for, after tea, I shall be busy; say No' (he hesitated a moment to try and keep his voice in the same tone), 'and I shan't say another word about it, but pay up a year's rent for my rooms tomorrow, and be off. ...
— Victorian Short Stories, - Stories Of Successful Marriages • Elizabeth Gaskell, et al.
... I'm sorry, I ought to have told you before. Well now, Mr. Cayley, we shan't do any good by pretending. Here's a man been shot—well, somebody ...
— The Red House Mystery • A. A. Milne
... H, and the N, and the R, Its first syllable "PEN," Is pronounceable;—then Come two LL's, and two HH's, two FF's, and an N; About half a score R's and some Ws follow, Beating all my best efforts at euphony hollow: But we shan't have to mention it often, so when We do, with your leave, we'll curtail ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... Though he had not saved me as a favor to me, but because it fitted in with his plans, whatever they were, my eyes were dimmed. "I shan't forget this," said I, my voice ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... "We shan't fall out over a pound or two," urged the Iron King with a meaning motion of the hand towards his ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... very important. It has been settled at the Cabinet that I shall go over on Tuesday. It is particularly troublesome and inconvenient to me; but I shan't mind that, if any good is to be done and that the friendly motive of ...
— Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. - In Two Volumes. VOL. II. • John Knox Laughton
... "I shan't. For I've got to tell you how much I admire your work. I'm not going to ask how you do it, for I don't suppose ...
— The Creators - A Comedy • May Sinclair
... goodness! Aunt Sarah Ann! I feel all shaky. I never saw a lord—and he's a marquis, isn't it? I shan't know what ...
— Robin • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... waddle. But for all that, I'm the only person in the play with a grain of common-sense. And I'm sure—whatever Mr. IBSEN or GREGERS choose to say—that a screaming burlesque like this ought not to end like a tragedy—even in this queer Norway of ours! And it shan't, either! Tell the child to put that nasty pigstol down ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, May 30, 1891 • Various
... She took a sudden resolution. Well, why not? Everything conspired to push her in that direction. The few factors which did not were mere imbecile idealism, or downright hypocrisy. She drew a long breath. She smiled at Page, a smile of reference to something in common between them. "Shan't I play you some Beethoven?" she asked, "something with a legato passage and great solemn chords, and a silver melody binding ...
— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield
... in a mysterious whisper. 'For the purpose of catching her in a trap! I shan't send in my name—I shall announce myself as a person on business, and the first words I say to her will be these: "I come, my lady, to acknowledge the receipt of the money sent to Ferrari's widow." Ah! you may well start, Mr. Troy! It almost takes you off your guard, doesn't it? ...
— The Haunted Hotel - A Mystery of Modern Venice • Wilkie Collins
... shan't go, either," said the one who was knitting socks. "My knitting-needles give me ...
— Russian Fairy Tales - A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore • W. R. S. Ralston
... did! You worked well, and I shan't forget it But I'd like to know how this fire started. No cowman would be so careless with matches when he knows how dry it's been. And I don't believe lightning set it. I'd like to know how ...
— Cowboy Dave • Frank V. Webster
... guard to a convoy, and am comfortably installed, with no work to do, in the house of an old woman who has lent me a candle and writing materials. I shan't be suffering from the cold in the way I have done on previous nights, as I have a roof over me and a fire. What luxury! It's been freezing for several nights, and you feel the frost when you are sleeping in the ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... called down to me over the banisters, and says in his sweetish voice: "Be hextra sure to wake me at a quarter to seven, Mrs. Drabdump, or else I shan't get to ...
— The Big Bow Mystery • I. Zangwill
... that to-night I shan't sleep a wink," she retorted crossly, "once father has gone. I shall always be thinking of you out there in the dark, watching this house. It will ...
— A Bride of the Plains • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... or your business here," said she; "but I do know that you take a good deal upon yourself when you say what I shall do or shan't do. I don't ...
— The House of the Whispering Pines • Anna Katharine Green
... roared inside. "You'll scratch my eyes out. I shan't see— anything!" His mouth apparently was full of earth. They watched the retreating soles of his heavy shooting-boots. Slowly the feet were dragged in after him. They disappeared from sight. ...
— The Extra Day • Algernon Blackwood
... "He shan't have the chance," she answered scornfully. "No, no, Tim, I'll take care of myself. Be a good boy; getting away from us is the best thing could come to you. And some day maybe I'll have news of you, ...
— "Us" - An Old Fashioned Story • Mary Louisa S. Molesworth
... "We shan't advise any such thing," said Jack, "but it's perfectly natural for Jim to think you ought to have ...
— The House that Jill Built - after Jack's had proved a failure • E. C. Gardner
... possible that we have a thief in the institute?" said Mrs. Smith, nervously. "Socrates, I shan't sleep nights. Think ...
— Hector's Inheritance - or The Boys of Smith Institute • Horatio Alger
... "Shan't go out!" he said, and sticking his hands into his jacket pockets discovered the missing cap in ...
— The History of Mr. Polly • H. G. Wells
... face? I never shall get well. I shall die here instead of in New York, that's all. Why did you follow me down here? It only tortures you. And, truly it's not so bad for me. You all have lost your realness to me, somehow. I shan't mind going, much." ...
— The Heart of the Desert - Kut-Le of the Desert • Honore Willsie Morrow
... not. I was here first, and you came and talked. But that doesn't matter. I shan't ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand
... laughed the ogre. "I shan't have to beg as long as I've got you." Then he said, "Lay!" once more; and, lo and behold! there was another beautiful, ...
— English Fairy Tales • Flora Annie Steel
... off the reel, Wildwood," he said. "I believe you're honest. Go on with your little arrangement, and let's see how it pans out. I shan't make any move until after ten o'clock ...
— Andy the Acrobat • Peter T. Harkness
... her head bent well forward, her hands behind her back, lacing herself into determination). Get up, Mr. Regniati. (No sign of life in the bed.) Don't pretend to have gone to sleep again. (Not a movement.) I know you haven't. I shan't wait for you when I'm once dressed. It's twenty-five minutes. (Sharply.) Do you hear, ...
— Happy-Thought Hall • F. C. Burnand
... afraid I must not," said Richard; who, to her surprise, did not look pleased or satisfied with the prosperous translation; "but come, Tom, you shan't have many words, if you ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... "It shan't occur again. I have told the Ducharme woman to call at my rooms for treatment, and I will give Miss Clark her ten dollars. She was an exceptionally interesting ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... "I shan't get a compliment from Frank, Miss Wyllys," replied the widow, shaking her head. "I agree with him, though, about the brown-haired beauties; for, I once took the trouble to count over my acquaintances, and I found a great many that answered his description. I think it the ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper
... Of course you can. Go where you like. Order the motors whenever you choose. Mrs. Berry will do all you want her to; just tell her your plans. All I ask is that I shan't be troubled with you during ...
— Two Little Women on a Holiday • Carolyn Wells
... the letter away. "Come, William," said I, "you shan't send her an empty letter; tell her you have a friend coming with you that must be as retired as yourself, and I'll send her five ...
— The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton • Daniel Defoe
... "I thought at least it was something from Die Meistersinger;" but he deigned no reply and walked away, evidently hating me quite bitterly. I shan't play that game again, and I can't believe the silly man really whistled "Rule, Britannia," for it is a simple tune and one with which I am entirely ...
— Olivia in India • O. Douglas
... Troubridge, we shan't have very long to wait afore we're able to prove the haccuracy of your calculations; but let me tell ye this, sir—if you're able to hit off that there bit of a hiland anywhere near as close as you hopes to, a'ter all the box-haulin' about, breakin' off, heavin'-to, and driftin' ...
— Overdue - The Story of a Missing Ship • Harry Collingwood
... you, Tom Gradgrind. To tell you the truth, I don't think it would be worthy of my reputation to quarrel on such a subject. As to your gentleman-friend, he may take himself off, wherever he likes best. If he falls in my way, I shall tell him my mind; if he don't fall in my way, I shan't, for it won't be worth my while to do it. As to your daughter, whom I made Loo Bounderby, and might have done better by leaving Loo Gradgrind, if she don't come home to-morrow, by twelve o'clock at noon, I shall understand ...
— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*
... growing up," he said. "I have just seen Juliet Burwell, and, on my life, she gets prettier every day. We shan't keep ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... I shan't trouble you about my train of thoughts or fancies; but I began to feel very like a gentleman in a ghost story, watching experimentally in a haunted chamber. My cigar case was a resource. I was not a bit afraid of being found out. I did not even take the precaution of smoking up ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... Bab says, you have come to feel that you want something different, and if you have drifted so far from your religion as to feel that a legal document can undo what was solemnly done in the name of God, why then I shan't oppose it. You can call it desertion or incompatibility, ...
— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris
... both male and female, reached an almost impossible height, for parents had only to lift a finger and say, "You shan't go to the flag-raising!" and the refractory spirit at once armed itself for new struggles toward the perfect life. Mr. Jeremiah Cobb had consented to impersonate Uncle Sam, and was to drive Columbia and the States to the "raising" on ...
— The Flag-raising • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... to you, Captain Fishley, if you'd do it," said Miss Larrabee, delighted with the suggestion. "I shan't be gone more'n a month, and when I come back I'll hand it to you. That letter must come to-day or to-morrow, and if you have a mind to, you can open it, and take the money out. It ...
— Down The River - Buck Bradford and His Tyrants • Oliver Optic
... me your money! What do you suppose I'm going to be doing while you're rolling up your millions? I intend to be rich myself, thank you," retorted Bob, throwing down his book. "Now for the plum-cake! You deserve about half the loaf, old man, but I shan't give it to you, for it would make you sick as a dog, and then I'd have you to take care of. Oh, I say, listen a minute! Isn't that the crowd coming from the gym? Open the window and whistle to them. Tell 'em to pile up here for a feed. And get your muscle ...
— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett
... whatever on him, I wish I had some of PODBURY's faculty for flippant chaff! I wonder if he and the PRENDERGASTS really are at Milan. I certainly thought I recognised ——. If they are, it's very bad taste of them, after the pointed way in which they left Bellagio. I only hope we shan't— ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, December 12, 1891 • Various
... "You shan't be," she whispered; and then, just when they were approaching the point where their eyes might have been opened, in came General Trednoke. The group round ...
— The Golden Fleece • Julian Hawthorne
... do anything worse than shoot, I shan't come to much grief," he said, with a laugh. "Master Haines is not as wise a man as I have supposed him to be if he thinks it is possible to bring his game down by firing at random, for he ...
— Neal, the Miller - A Son of Liberty • James Otis
... When man with his blazing lights made an end to night in his towns and houses—it is only a hundred years or so ago that that was done—then it followed he would presently resent his eight hours of uselessness. Shan't we presently take a tabloid or lie in some field of force that will enable us to do with an hour or so of slumber and rise ...
— The World Set Free • Herbert George Wells
... seamed and smoky face of the pew opener, who had been watching her from the lobby, and had crept out after her. She dropped a courtesy, and went on hurriedly, with an anxious look now and then over her shoulder—"Oh, ma'am! we shan't see 'im no more. Our people here—they're very good people, but they don't like to be told the truth. It seems to me as if they knowed it so well they thought as how there was no need for them to ...
— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald
... the checks fast enough," said the old man, "and I shan't give 'em up without I get the trunks. They'd ought to had 'em down here long ago; and now if I've got to pester round after 'em I'm sure to miss ...
— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells
... my boy,' says he, as he puts on his hat, 'you shan't hear another word about this till the play's written; and you are to ask no questions. Is that a bargain? Very well, then. When I've finished it—down to the very last touches—you shall come and sit up all night with me, and I'll read you every word. And ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... catching up the check and examining it closely, to see that there was no mistake. "The old miser has really opened his heart. Now, we'll have some genuine silver forks for our best company, so we shan't be in constant terror lest some one should discover that they are only plated. I'll buy that set of pearls at Mercer's, too, and, Alice, you and I will nave some new furs. I'd go to Rochester to-morrow, if it were not Sunday. What shall we get for you, mother? ...
— Dora Deane • Mary J. Holmes
... sir," said Mrs. Murchiston. "I shan't feel safe for them again until we get out of ...
— Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp • Alice Emerson
... to join you in this expedition I was moved by friendship as well as interest. Certainly, I never dreamed that you would desert the ship. I thought it was understood that we should sink or swim together. If you leave us I shan't answer for the consequences. I appreciate the dilemma in which you are placed, but surely friendship has a prior if a weaker claim than love-passion. Surely you owe some allegiance to ...
— A Trip to Venus • John Munro
... not terrible. I'm really awfully kind. I'm telling you these things for your good. Don't you worry. I shan't run very far after ...
— The Three Sisters • May Sinclair
... As a matter of fact, they only had ten deaths, but a great deal of sickness, and I do enjoy the prospect of trying to be efficient about that. As for fighting, it doesn't look as if there would be much, whereon Purefoy greatly commiserates me; but if that is the only privation I shan't complain! ...
— Letters from Mesopotamia • Robert Palmer
... too severe— You are too bad, I do declare; Your motto has upset me quite, I shan't ...
— The Apple Dumpling and Other Stories for Young Boys and Girls • Unknown
... town saw us off, as Grandmother was already popular, and looked on as rather a sporting character. Al Stevens, who drove us, was a bitter disappointment to me, not looking in the least romantic or like the hero of a Western story. I shan't even describe him, except to say that he smoked most evil-smelling cigars, the bouquet of which blew back into our faces and spoiled the pure mountain air, but we didn't dare say a word, for fear that he might lash his horses round some hair-pin curve ...
— The Smiling Hill-Top - And Other California Sketches • Julia M. Sloane
... cried the seaman furiously. "D'you think I'm going to wait 'ere while you prods about in all the blasted lot? It's damn near high tide—I shan't get out. 'Alf time! Savvy? ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer
... myself to keep us both. You've bin a 'ard workin' man, Joe, for many a year. You've bin long enough under water. You'll git rheumatiz, or somethin' o' that sort, if you go on longer, so I'm resolved that you shan't ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne
... and she shot one of my horses just as I was gaining on her. If I see her again I shan't miss my chance. The Emperor has put twenty ...
— Vera - or, The Nihilists • Oscar Wilde
... did not move a finger. Obstinacy sat enthroned on him. In a rage, the Master made a snatch at a metal flower-wreath to throw at him. "Shan't! She's my aunt. I knows my duties to my aunt—me," ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... that bear'll ketch 'old of yer. I shan't forget how he ketched 'old of my leg that day and knocked me over; so you'd better take care, and not go nigher than you can 'elp. He's always a-lookin' out to ketch yer, but he won't 'ave me no ...
— J. Cole • Emma Gellibrand
... the good of praying? If we're martyred we shall go to heaven, shan't we, whether we ...
— Androcles and the Lion • George Bernard Shaw
... "Well, I shan't believe it if I can help it," said Tom; "you know, you said just now that you never called on any one. Perhaps you don't give men a fair chance. They might be glad to know you if you would let them, and may think it's ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes
... panic of laughter, "he painted hairs on the bald parts of Frieda Fuller's pony-skin coat. Thick, plutocraticky sort of hairs. I shan't forget 'em. And they melted and smudged her neck. Remember, ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple
... thought of his stepdaughter's plight pleased him rather than not. "Well, if she can't come down here, we'll go up there. Turn round, my man, and go up the stairs and keep your hands over your head all the time. I shan't hesitate to shoot if you don't, ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon
... said Grumpy Weasel softly. "His yelping and whining don't scare me. He can't get inside this jug of mine. And I certainly shan't leave it so ...
— The Tale of Grumpy Weasel - Sleepy-Time Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey
... sighed Senka. "Then I'd best bring it to you myself in the evening ... Right, Tamarochka? ... It's so very hard for me to stand it without you! Oh, my dearie, how I'd kiss and kiss you; I wouldn't let you close your eyes! ... Shan't ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... comes," said Dick cheerfully. "So long as we get enough to eat and are not abused I shan't say a word." ...
— The Rover Boys on Land and Sea - The Crusoes of Seven Islands • Arthur M. Winfield
... this time speaking so loudly that she startled herself. "Please go away. I shan't go out with you again. I was silly to go out with you at all. You don't know how ...
— The Foolish Lovers • St. John G. Ervine
... 'Shan't we, each of us, tell a little story while we sit here?' Well! the others had nothing against that. It would be good fun, they said, and the Bear began; for you may fancy he was king of ...
— Popular Tales from the Norse • Sir George Webbe Dasent
... he said; 'when Joel Burns gets a clean deed of your half the paper mill, according to this agreement, I will tear up these little documents'—exhibiting some law papers. 'Don't forget. You have undertaken to settle with me. I shan't have settled with you till I get the deed. ...
— The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... "Come, Jack, they shan't make fun of our baby," said sister Mary, as she took it into the other room. "It's a good ...
— Nanny Merry - or, What Made the Difference • Anonymous
... "I shan't forget you, Jude," he said, smiling, as the cart moved off. "Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can. And if ever you come to Christminster remember you hunt me ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... hope so. But don't look so inquiringly. I don't love a woman in the world,—except you, mother. I shan't fall in love, even if ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859 • Various
... 'Charley, thou shan't strike him,' she said. 'He is a damned scoundrel' (this was said in the hardest, quietest tone) 'but he ...
— Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. III • Elizabeth Gaskell
... old man rising—"I am a man of God—it is my faith an' hope. I'm gettin' old, but I have been a man in my day, an' I've still got strength enough left with God's he'p to stop you. You shan't ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore
... Hemphill—Rachel's mother, you know. See her, there with the three children? We must make the most of ourselves, and you can jolly up the girls better than I. I'm going to bring some of the interesting people to you, ma mere. You'll know how to talk to all of them, but you shan't be bored!" ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... when Oliver pays us what he has promised," said Francis, eagerly. "We will have some land of our own, and get far away from the temptation of the city. Then you will see what a different fellow I'll be, Mary. You shan't have reason ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... stranger to me, Ma'am.—I don't doubt you would like to know all I said to the schoolmistress.—I shan't do it; I had rather get the publishers to return the money you have invested in this. Besides, I have forgotten a good deal of it. I shall tell only what I like ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index • Various
... all. They shook hands, some of them. One man improvised a new version of the battlesong, "Good-bye, good-bye to Tipperary," ending with "And we shan't get there". And they all went on firing steadily. The officers pointed out that such an opportunity for high-class, fancy shooting might never occur again; the Germans dropped line after line; the Tipperary humorist asked, "What price Sidney Street?" And the few ...
— The Angels of Mons • Arthur Machen
... morning, after a night spent on a roof of bad repute. Can you picture to yourself a living creature less eager to attract attention? 'Dear me,' you can all but hear it saying to itself, 'I'd no idea it was so late; how time does go when one is enjoying oneself. I do hope I shan't meet any one I know—very ...
— Novel Notes • Jerome K. Jerome
... closets to hang 'em in, I'll be bound!" rejoined Crenshaw. "But if you'll take the boy, Bob, you shan't lose by it." ...
— The Prodigal Judge • Vaughan Kester
... this yowling," said Sir Maurice firmly, waving his hand over the vocal baskets. "These animals must be placed out of hearing, or I shan't be ...
— The Terrible Twins • Edgar Jepson
... Mathew Kearney: I have lived to see that we don't suit each other at all, and I have come here to declare to you formally that it's all off. No nephew of mine shall come here for a wife. The heir to Shea's Barn shan't bring the mistress of it out of ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever
... It's more than I ought to spare, but I am determined you shall stand as good a chance as any of your school- fellows. They shan't be able to say that your father stints you in anything ...
— Try and Trust • Horatio Alger
... "We shan't ask your permission," said the old pedant loftily. "In fact, some will be set off this evening, and some ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... flung her arms around his neck and broke into a storm of weeping. "You shan't marry her! You shan't. She shall not have ...
— The Title Market • Emily Post
... late arrivals, who had no choice but to stand or to leave the hall, were two ladies. One of them at once decided on leaving the hall. "I shall go back to the carriage," she said, "and wait for you at the door." Her friend answered, "I shan't keep you long. He is advertised to support the second Resolution; I want to see ...
— Little Novels • Wilkie Collins
... the cart; Mr. Chancellier being seated before, and the American behind, in order to protect the women, who were in the middle. In their flight the American was mortally wounded. As he was falling out, Mr. Chancellier seized him and threw him into the midst of the women, exclaiming, "they shan't get the scalp of my American." He was at the same time struck by two balls, which broke his arm in as many places, above the elbow. His wife received a bullet through the middle of her hand, the elder daughter was shot through the shoulder, immediately above the ...
— Great Indian Chief of the West - Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk • Benjamin Drake
... Ivory turned the subject cheerily, saying, "Well, we're sure of a good season, I think. There's been a grand snow-fall, and that, they say, is the poor man's manure. Rod and I will put in more corn and potatoes this year. I shan't have to work single-handed very long, for he is growing to ...
— The Story Of Waitstill Baxter • By Kate Douglas Wiggin
... it about. Also, isn't there a verse somewhere, about an Infant of Days who was a hundred years old, and young at that? Helen will love the Infant. She will polish it with a silk handkerchief, and make a bed for it on the sofa! I shan't write to her about it. I shall bring it ...
— The Upas Tree - A Christmas Story for all the Year • Florence L. Barclay
... "I shan't be able to fight any more this afternoon," said the Wombat, "as I've got sore feet." The Possum said hurriedly, "We shall be late for that appointment," and they took their grindstone and ...
— The Magic Pudding • Norman Lindsay
... Grandmother Van Stark's and the Home's. Ours doesn't matter so much as the others, for we have $9.00 left of our birthday money, and it's lasted so long that it will prob'ly go on lasting, specially if we forget it, or unless we buy more babies, which we shan't do now because of not being able; but dear grandmother without money would be awful, and the Home not to have money for the poor little city children that are sick would be awful, too. Please, please don't lose that, and we will pray for you and love ...
— What Two Children Did • Charlotte E. Chittenden
... Emma Dean's one romance," smiled Grace. "I shan't tell you about it. Wait until we have the reunion and I'll ask her to dig up her sentimental past for ...
— Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer • Jessie Graham Flower
... Miss Inquisitive," said Nancy. "And guess fifty times more if you like. You'll never guess the right person and I shan't tell you for ...
— The Motor Maids in Fair Japan • Katherine Stokes
... significance is lost at once, and whole value of such letters—the cypher changed, the vowel-points removed: but how can that affect clever writing like this? What do you, to whom it is addressed, see in it more than the world that wants to see it and shan't have it? One understands shutting an unprivileged eye to the ineffable mysteries of those 'upper-rooms,' now that the broom and dust pan, stocking-mending and gingerbread-making are invested with such unforeseen reverence ... ...
— The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 • Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
... at fourteen, for "his father is so rich that he would give him five pounds a year to live upon"), leads off, much to the mortification of those boys who will not be "young gentlemen"—the many who won't, can't, and shan't dance! but, being bent upon mischief, dispose explosive spiders and chair-crackers about the carpet;—one little mischievous fellow wishing he had brought some pepper to strew on the floor, and make 'em sneeze; however, they get up a little excitement another way ...
— Christmas Comes but Once A Year - Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, - during that Festive Season. • Luke Limner
... than ditching, I can tell you, Ready," replied William. "I shan't be sorry to leave that ...
— Masterman Ready • Captain Marryat
... I suppose I shan't be able to decide about the state of my feelings until I've had more of them on the same subject, or until I've written down in this book of mine everything exactly as it's happened. I like doing that; it makes things seem so clear when you ...
— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... she will be for us, all winter long!" said Violet. "I hope papa will not be afraid of her giving us a cold! Shan't you love her ...
— The Snow-Image - A Childish Miracle • Nathaniel Hawthorne |
