"Tartly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... procuring orders for her beloved Paul. Madame Loisillon in her time, when sounding the praises of her apartments at the Institute, never failed to add with emphasis, 'I have entertained there even Sovereigns.' 'Yes, in the little room,' good Adelaide would answer tartly, drawing up her long neck. It was the fact that not unfrequently, after the prolonged fatigue of a Special Session, some great lady, a Royal Highness on her travels, or a leader influential in politics, ...
— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
... brother-in-law's conduct, which he did not himself vindicate; and Mr. B. was pleased to say, that my lord was always very candid to him, and kind in his allowances for the sallies of ungovernable youth. Upon which my lady said, a little tartly, "Yes, and for a very good reason, I doubt not; for who cares to ...
— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson
... haven't said anything yet, as far as I can see," returned Mrs. Richards tartly. "Don't be ...
— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith
... pull yourself together and try not to talk nonsense for once in your life," retorted Aunt Charlotte, tartly. "Embezzling my money, indeed!—I should just like to catch them at it. Of course it's nothing of the kind. But I've lately given them certain instructions which they virtually refuse to carry out, and in a case of that sort it's always ...
— Austin and His Friends • Frederic H. Balfour
... do not make a right," he answered tartly, "even less will an assembly of deadly dry persons ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... the lights are dim," said the voice tartly, and Bart found himself looking down, as his eyes adjusted to the new light level, ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... "Do?" she retorted tartly. "What would I do in a boarding-house? Look for rooms for us, of course, and inquire about the other lodgers to be sure it's respectable for a decent, middle-aged, married couple. Do you think I'm goin' lookin' for a long-lost son? The life must ...
— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
... what else you can expect," replied the lady, rather tartly; "he can't help feeling—as we all must and do, after what you said just now—that, but for you, this ...
— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey
... Sir, you may say," interrupted my Uncle MacKenzie. "And I'd thank you not to 'good-friend' me," he added tartly. ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... salary for its solution," Mr. Minturn said tartly. "Work on the theory I outlined; if it fails after a fair test, we'll try another. Those boys have got to be saved. They are handsome little chaps with fine bodies and good ancestry. What happened ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... two have abolished the British Constitution," I remarked tartly, "what do you propose to ...
— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay
... catarrhal colds, which, however, as he would learnedly explain to Maggie, could not be connected, in the brain of a reasonable person, with currents of fresh air. Maggie mutely disdained his science. This, too, fretted him. Occasionally she would somewhat tartly assert that he was a regular old maid. The accusation made no impression on him at all. But when, more than ordinarily exacerbated, she sang out that he was 'exactly like ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... the other lady, tartly. "That is more than the price of the whole meal if she had let us pay for it. A present of a shilling at the outside. No, a ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... said that I was going to marry you at all, have I?" I said tartly, just to be consistent. For I wasn't ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... help hearing when people are talking at the top of their voices," she said tartly. "Come on, for dear sake, and have your teas, the ...
— The Foolish Lovers • St. John G. Ervine
... reddened. She did not like to own to awe of her daughter. "I VENTURE, if that is all," said she, tartly. "You don't suppose I am afraid of Diantha?—but she would not let Amelia wear one of the dresses, anyway, and I don't want the child made any unhappier ...
— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... I never saw ye, then," said his wife tartly. "And to imagine that a lady like Miss Plinlimmon would concern herself with your deboshes! But you'd lower the King ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... (having had his morning dram of brandy); I, myself, trying hard to win him to a good opinion of me. I asked him if I might clean his copper for him; it was in a sad state of dirt. "You'll have work enough 'ere, boy," he said, tartly, "without you running round for more. You mind your own business." After this little snap at my head (no thought of thanks occurred to him) he prepared breakfast for us, out of the remains of the cabin breakfast. I was much cheered by the prospect of food, for nearly three hours ...
— Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger • John Masefield
... Miss Quincey relied tartly that no, she had not got a headache. The Mad Hatter appeared to be absorbed in tracing rude verses on her rough notebook ...
— Superseded • May Sinclair
... judgment in this instance is excellent," Mrs. Pantin contradicted tartly. "It's quite evident the business men of Prouty agree with him, since none of them will ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... and plenty of management, with credit and praise to herself; the other, downcast and irritable, with annoyance at the interference with her schemes, at the prospects of her school, and at herself for being out of temper, prone to murmur or to reply tartly, and not able to recover from her mood, but only, as she neared the house, lapsing into her other trouble, and preparing to resist any misjudged, though kind attempt of her father, to make her unsay her rebuke to Miss Bracy. Pride and temper! Ah! ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... "That's so, Mr. Fyles," she said, almost tartly, "but I guess that lever needs to help them into your traps to do any ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum
... dear Agatha," said I just a bit tartly, "to the time I've given myself. I'm sorry for you, but I think you ought to be a little ...
— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke
... ordinary day's work I might lay up some thousands of years' indulgence. There was but one drawback in the matter. "I don't believe in purgatory," I rejoined. "What is that to me?" said the old man, tartly, accompanying the remark with a quick shrug of the shoulders and a ...
— Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber - Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge • James Aitken Wylie
... imposed on," I said tartly. "I must be getting along, Godfrey. I haven't anything to ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... enough to send messengers to the city and ask, on the ground of a common Christianity, for the restoration of the prisoners and spoil taken from the Crusaders. The governor of the city tartly reminded the messengers that Christian conduct alone proved men to be Christians, and that the Crusaders having made the first attack, he could only count ...
— Peter the Hermit - A Tale of Enthusiasm • Daniel A. Goodsell
... without turning her head, and for many steps nothing further was heard from her quarter than the rustle of her dress against the heavy corn-ears. Then she resumed rather tartly— ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... she said tartly. "I shan't bother myself about your concerns. I've no doubt you're able to look out ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... day Janet had actually arrived. She looked thin and sharp, her keen black eyes roamed about uneasily, and some indescribable change had passed over her. Her brothers told her study had not agreed with her, and she did not, as of old, answer tartly, but gave a stiff, mechanical smile, and all the evening talked in a woman-of-the-world manner, cleverly, agreeably, not putting out her prickles, but like a stranger, and as if ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... mother when he began!" said the old lady, tartly. "He couldn't foresee that she was going to be, could he? If he had he might have asked your permission. She preferred George Jaquith, naturally. Women mostly prefer a handsome scamp. Not that Homer ever looked like anything but a sheep. ...
— Mrs. Tree • Laura E. Richards
... features of the trip, they were tartly received by the owner of the ranch when they arrived there at night worn out and hungry. The proprietor was very ill natured and did not conceal his aversion to entertaining them. Boyton made several polite attempts to engage him in conversation; but was answered with frowns and monosyllables. ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... you were hiding within our lines is ample reason for my insistence," he said tartly, "and I am not accustomed to treating spies with any great consideration, even when they claim Rebel commissions. You are not the first to seek escape in that way. Was your despatch the cause of the hurried ...
— My Lady of the North • Randall Parrish
... it should, but very often it doesn't," retorted Molly, a trifle tartly, for the sermon had bored her and she looked forward ...
— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow
... not well planned," Aunt Selina retorted tartly. "The idea was good, but the young person who was playing the ...
— When a Man Marries • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Edith tartly inquired. "Deborah is living here—and before I came she ran the house. In her place I ...
— His Family • Ernest Poole
... good," she said, tartly. "We can't go about the grounds in a cab, and I'm not going to slop about in the wet to please anybody. We must go another time. It's hard luck, but there's worse ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... said M. Vulfran, tartly. "I may as well tell you that for a long time I have wanted someone intelligent to be near me, one who is discreet and whom I can trust. This young girl seems to have these qualities. I am sure that she is intelligent, and I have already had the proof that ...
— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot
... do wonder at you, John, letting him talk like this before everybody. [Turning rather tartly to Lina] Would you mind going away to the drawing-room just for a few minutes, Miss Chipenoska. This is a private family matter, if you ...
— Misalliance • George Bernard Shaw
... have to leave your school," she said tartly. "You could hardly come sixty miles in the morning, and home again at night. You might as well live here for all the company you would be to your mother. Think before you speak, Audrey; it would save you from saying many ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... said Mrs. Smith tartly, "I don't know any Sal, and if I did I wouldn't carry messages to her for a chicken thief, and it is past midnight, and the draught on my bare feet is giving me my death of cold, and if you think this is a pink tea for me to stand around and hold ...
— Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler
... bring it up in another guess way," said Nicholas, tartly, "than wi' scraps and scrapings fro' gallipots, and remnants ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... keep a country store than it is to hoe your own potatoes, barefoot," she responded tartly. "Besides, ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray
... tartly, "you needn't go into details. I don't imagine Captain and Mrs. Dott will be greatly interested. What a charming old room this is, isn't it? SO quaint! Everything looks as if it had been ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... a soul to be saved, and it's quite saveable," answered the nun tartly. "The more hopeless from man's view, the more likely from God's. I have a taste for ...
— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith
... know what more you want," replied Mrs. Lightfoot, tartly. "If he ever gets clean again after a whole night in a common gaol, I must say I don't see how he'll manage it. But if you aren't satisfied I can only tell you that the affair was all about some bar-room wench, and that the papers will be full of it. Not that the boy was anything ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... getting old," replied he, tartly. "Old age is a sorry companion; it makes people ...
— Prince Eugene and His Times • L. Muhlbach
... to do with slavery in the States; it had only to refrain from giving direct sanction to the system. Others opposed this whole argument, declaring, with Langdon of New Hampshire, that Congress ought to have this power, since, as Dickinson tartly remarked, "The true question was, whether the national happiness would be promoted or impeded by the importation; and this question ought to be left to the national government, not to the states ...
— The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America - 1638-1870 • W. E. B. Du Bois
... and easy attitude as though perfectly at home, to say, 'Well, mon cher collegue' (here Blake would visibly writhe, to the equally apparent delight of the intruder), 'I have called for you to come for a walk with me.' 'My good sir,' Blake would tartly reply, 'I have work here that will keep me for the next two hours.' 'But it will be dark then,' objected the caller. 'Well, my good {106} sir,' was the retort, 'we can walk in the dark, I suppose'—which ...
— The Day of Sir John Macdonald - A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion • Joseph Pope
... she answered tartly, "so long as they don't mind eating after their betters. And as for your man Priske, I saw him twenty minutes ago escape towards Church ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... over it; there will very likely be nothing to get over," Delaine reflected tartly, as he made his way to his room. "A new country like this can't be too particular." He was thankful, at any rate, that he would have an opportunity before long—for he was going straight home and to Cumberland—of putting Mrs. Gaddesden on her ...
— Lady Merton, Colonist • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... thought Mr. Brookes; and had it not been for the certain knowledge that Berkins had lately increased his income by a couple of thousands a year, he would have answered him tartly enough; but as this fact admitted of no doubt he bridled his anger and said: "If you could put my boy right it would be more to the point. He has all the method of the best clerk in London; he ...
— Spring Days • George Moore
... outdoors all right," Winnie informed him, a trifle tartly, "in fact I don't see why you didn't lug up a couple of tents and turn 'em loose inside. Rosemary is going to be blown out of the window some fine night and, to my way of thinking, it's better to start sleeping on the ground than to land there sudden like, right ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... so," said the woman, tartly. "Them Days never did have right good sense—yer uncle an' aunt, I mean. When I was a gal we wouldn't have been allowed to have so much freedom where the young fellers ...
— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long
... words, I could only say "Noblesse oblige," meaning to convey that whatever the North Americans did, the next Earl of Brinstead must not meet persons one doesn't know, whereat he rejoined tartly that I was "to stow ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... doubt, very kind, but the tone seemed to Mary one of tolerance. She fancied Louise meant to patronize her, making allowance for her short-comings, and she could not brook that in her present mood, so she answered, somewhat tartly: ...
— The Four Canadian Highwaymen • Joseph Edmund Collins
... not been making love to me,' I said rather tartly, 'and he does not seem to me at all impertinent, and I really don't care the least whether ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... him for a moment, his eyes holding sparks of indignation. "Young man," he said tartly, "you should hear Cap'n Am'zon himself tell it. You wouldn't cast no doubts ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper
... tartly. "Mrs. Frankland is eloquent, but she has imposed on you and done you a great deal of harm. Why, Phillida, you are as much superior to that woman as the sky is—" He was about to say, "as the sky is to a mud-puddle," but nothing ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston
... the count somewhat tartly, "I assure you that what you say is quite impossible. I repeat, I have known the man all his life, and I have done him nothing but good. I have befriended him in a thousand ways, and I know he would lay down his life rather than bring ...
— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood
... to be a law against the jokes of the clergy, Sir," I interrupted tartly. "The jokes aren't funny and ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... nonsense," returned the woman tartly, "a big expense and a sight of work for nothing. And now permit me ...
— Romance Island • Zona Gale
... had not seen his cousin for many years, while he looked upon Fyne (who received him alone) with so much distrust that Fyne felt hurt (the person actually refusing at first the chair offered to him) and retorted tartly that he, for his part, had never seen Mr de Barral, in his life, and that, since the visitor did not want to sit down, he, Fyne, begged him to state his business as shortly as possible. The man in black sat down then ...
— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad
... replied the Doctor tartly, as he fixed his eyes on the portly, middle-aged officer on the opposite side of the cloth. "You didn't take those ...
— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn
... over. It becomes clearer every minute," said Miss Rebecca a little tartly. Then she added: "I dare say it will do him good to find that some one has something which ...
— The Law-Breakers and Other Stories • Robert Grant
... man," said the woman tartly. "And if you'll take my advice, you won't bring him into these parts again, where they're doing nothing else but swash-buckling from morning to night. The broken heads I've seen this year is ...
— In Honour's Cause - A Tale of the Days of George the First • George Manville Fenn
... a little later, when both girls were in bed, and Ruth answered her a trifle tartly that it was very nearly to-morrow, and that she wanted to go to sleep some time before morning, if Amy didn't. Then for a matter of thirty minutes silence reigned. The hour was late and the girls were tired. In spite of her gloomy prophecy, Amy was surprised and pleased to find a delicious ...
— Peggy Raymond's Vacation - or Friendly Terrace Transplanted • Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith
... it and you know it!" I said tartly. "But when the Lord sends want and suffering to one's ...
— Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... an ugly word," tartly cried Mrs. Goddard, who began to find the tax upon her patience almost ...
— The Masked Bridal • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... pry on me going in and out there," she answered tartly, with a sniff. "Whenever I wish to withdraw some of my balance, to invest it, I send for Mr Pamphlett, and he calls on me and advises—I am bound to say—always ...
— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... tartly. "How can I? Granting that my voice is worth the trouble, would you like me to go and study in the East or abroad? Would you be willing to bear the expense of such an undertaking? To have me leave Jack to nursemaids and you ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... get along well enough with them," I suggested tartly, remembering Mother Borton's stories with ...
— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott
... I answered, "Mr. Moore, that is practically impossible; I can't do it." Then he said, "you've got to do it, I've spent too much time looking for you already, you've got to clerk for us." I am a little hot headed myself, and I answered him as tartly as he spoke to me. "Mr. Moore," says I, "I've got to do nothing of the sort." Then Mr. Moore cooled down and talked more like a business man and ...
— The Second William Penn - A true account of incidents that happened along the - old Santa Fe Trail • William H. Ryus
... Satterly breathlessly, and rather tartly, "only for you having my dress, I'd have gone straight back home. Do brothers always act ...
— The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories • B. M. Bower
... had some respect for papa," Theodora said tartly. "I don't see why he needs to go and get married again, and I won't say I'm glad to see her, when ...
— Teddy: Her Book - A Story of Sweet Sixteen • Anna Chapin Ray
... Douglass; "I know all about it. Now, do you s'pose you're agoing to be any happier among all those great folks than you would be if you staid among little folks?" she added, tartly; while Catherine looked with a kind of incredulous admiration at ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell
... compliments," said Mrs. Hardy, tartly. "I have no relish for them. And as for your defence of cow punchers, I prefer gentlemen. Why Irene should wish to throw herself away when there ...
— The Cow Puncher • Robert J. C. Stead
... the worse for Milton," she tartly replied. "Look at the Chopin prelude. Will you contradict me if I say that in one prelude this composer crowds the experience of a lifetime? When he expands his idea into the sonata form how ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... happy by the invitation she had received that morning,—so happy that she had said to her elder sister, Martha Jocelyn, "To think of Marian Selwyn's inviting me. Isn't it beautiful of her?" and Martha had answered back rather tartly, "I don't see why you should put such an emphasis on 'me,' as if you were so inferior. You're as ...
— A Flock of Girls and Boys • Nora Perry
... replied Jack tartly, 'you do,' adding, in an undertone, 'leave it to me, man, and I'll let you in for a good thing. Yes, Mr. Sponge,' continued he, addressing himself to our hero, 'Mr. Pacey fancies the ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... was a furious dissension when Dickson attempted to pay for the night's entertainment. Mrs. Morran would have none of it. "Ye're no' awa' yet," she said tartly, and the matter was complicated by Heritage's refusal to take part in the debate. He stood aside and grinned, till Dickson in despair returned his notecase to his pocket, murmuring darkly the "he would ...
— Huntingtower • John Buchan
... flush; she did not quite like his tone, and, moreover, she had no answer ready. "Some business, of course," she answered tartly. "You have no profession. Henry has promised to see if any of his friends have vacancies in their offices. I suppose you have saved enough to keep you ...
— People of Position • Stanley Portal Hyatt
... respect. Stern and even morose as she sometimes was, I could wait on her and sit beside her with that calm which always blesses us when we are sensible that our manners, presence, contact, please and soothe the persons we serve. Even when she scolded me—which she did, now and then, very tartly—it was in such a way as did not humiliate, and left no sting; it was rather like an irascible mother rating her daughter, than a harsh mistress lecturing a dependant: lecture, indeed, she could not, though she could occasionally ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte
... of you, but remember the lesson you've got,' said the doctor, tartly, and away he plunged into a sharp trot, with a cling-clang and a cloud of dust. And Puddock followed that ungracious leech, with a stare of gratitude and admiration, almost with a benediction. And his anxiety relieved, he and his principal prepared forthwith to provide real ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... red-hot. Hannah had left a pan of bread to rise, Meg had worked it up early, set it on the hearth for a second rising, and forgotten it. Meg was entertaining Sallie Gardiner in the parlor, when the door flew open and a floury, crocky, flushed, and disheveled figure appeared, demanding tartly... ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... Greece, I suppose,' said Kate tartly; then, suddenly, 'Will you undertake to make this gentleman's peace with Mr. Walpole, and show how the whole was a ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever
... you, mademoiselle," Mme. de Mayenne answered her, tartly. "I consider my salon no place for intrigues with horse-boys. If you must hold colloquy with this fellow, take him whither ...
— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle
... the devil?" Thompson returned tartly. "Is there anything strange about that? A good many men have gone. A good many more will have to go before this thing ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... said he, as soon as we reached it, to the housekeeper, who had swiftly followed us, and now stood staring with eager eyes in the doctor's face, as if life and death hung on his lips. "Have the goodness to leave us," he added tartly, perceiving she did not stir, but continued her fearful, scrutinizing glance. She started at his altered tone, flushed crimson, then paled to a chalky whiteness, and ...
— The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney • Samuel Warren
... a trifle tartly, for after the vicissitudes of her life it was but natural that she should hesitate to regard so stable an institution as the Dinwiddie Bank as something to be "stood." "Why, I thought a young man couldn't do better than get a place in the bank. Jinny's father was telling me in the market last ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... said Mr. Caryll, a thought tartly, for if his speech was tainted with a French accent it was in so slight a degree as surely to be ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... inconsolable, and he kept lamenting his loss daily in such lugubrious tones that the people, instead of sympathizing, laughed at him. I asked him why he purchased such a slave, and, while he was with him, why he did not feed him? Replied he, tartly, "Was he not my slave? Was not the cloth with which I bought him mine? If the cloth was my own, could I not purchase what I liked? Why ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley
... impact, stood firm as a rock, and it flitted through my brain that here at last was solved the old problem of what would happen if an irresistible force met an immoveable mass. But it was obvious that the rock was not rejoicing in the moment of victory. I was tartly asked whether I had not explained to Herr Browning that his guest did not understand English. I hastily rectified my omission, and thenceforth our host spoke in Italian. Ibsen, though he understood ...
— A Christmas Garland • Max Beerbohm
... don't want to hear about that rubbish," tartly rejoined Tynn. "If you take to peep through doorways, girl, you ...
— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood
... that to her extreme discomfort she had felt herself completely at home. Even the presence of the Countess Disthal had not been wanting. She therefore regarded this as not seeing England at all, and said so. Fritzing remarked tartly that it was a way of seeing it most English people would envy her; and she was so unable to believe him ...
— The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight • Elizabeth von Arnim
... de Sary, maid of honour to Madame, and carried on his suit in the most open and flagrant manner. The King took this for his theme, and very stiffly reproached Monsieur for the conduct of his son. Monsieur, who needed little to exasperate him, tartly replied, that fathers who had led certain lives had little authority over their children, and little right to blame them. The King, who felt the point of the answer, fell back on the patience of his ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon
... too late. You should have been here with Great-Aunt Sophronisba," Alicia told him, tartly. "You'd have been ideal companions, both ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler
... to the offices of the New Colliery Company, and sat down in the empty Board Room to read it through. He answered 'Down-by-the-starn' Hemmings so tartly when the latter, seeing his Chairman seated there, entered with the new Superintendent's first report, that the Secretary withdrew with regretful dignity; and sending for the transfer clerk, blew him up till the poor youth knew not ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... attack of hysterics, and I did wonder," rejoined Gerald, tartly. "But as I told you, women are always fools, and nervous women the worst ones, I haven't any patience with them. I was vexed enough with her for keeping me from Phebe. I don't believe she was ever hurried so out of an ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... her head. "No," she added tartly, a trifle ruffled by what the low-spoken exclamation so plainly implied. "If you must know, it fell ...
— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... thinking were true, you'd have a right to be," I replied tartly. "And I want to tell you I'D ...
— The Metal Monster • A. Merritt
... would leave my clothes alone and tell me where you are going," Jeanne declared, a little tartly, "it would be ...
— Jeanne of the Marshes • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... portrait if an original didn't exist?" demanded the young man tartly. "Since you want to know so much, you may as well come to the gypsy encampment on the verge of the wood and satisfy yourself." He threw on a Panama hat, with a cross look. "Since when have you come to the conclusion that I need a ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... explained," retorted Mrs. Orton-Wells, tartly, in reply to nothing, seemingly, "that our problem is with the factory girl. She represents a distinct and ...
— Emma McChesney & Co. • Edna Ferber
... said, tartly, "be you comin' in, or be you goin' to stand out there wagglin' that door knob ...
— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland
... those great Poets, Stesichorus and Pindar. And not onely amongst the more sottish heathens, who might account that Planet to be one of their Gods, but the primitive Christians also were in this kinde guilty; which made S. Ambrose so tartly to rebuke those of ...
— The Discovery of a World in the Moone • John Wilkins
... away that I am not," Aggie said tartly. "I'm not and I don't want to be. Though I can't see how biting my tongue half through is going to ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... for you to grin,' said Solomon tartly. 'We've got to bear it. You didn't take over any of ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... them to," he answered, tartly. "If they asked me I'd decline. I simply don't enjoy that ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben
... does Dad, and so do we all, but we can't get it," replied Beatrice rather tartly. "We have to make up our minds to go without. You're no worse off than the ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil
... Gondremark,' said Seraphina, somewhat tartly, 'you often attribute your own sagacity ...
— Prince Otto • Robert Louis Stevenson
... to do is to look at yourself now," retorted Mr. Button somewhat tartly. "You're soaked, you're dripping from your head ...
— Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat • Ross Kay
... way. So he began to question abruptly, in very bad Portuguese, as to the state of her larder, the elder woman, who, ugly and blear-eyed, with ragged, scanty dress, and bare feet, yet wore a necklace of beads and earrings of gold. She answered tartly, that it being a fast-day, there was no flesh in the house. They had bacalhao and sardinhas, and garlic, and pepper, and onions, and oil; and everything that Christians wanted on a fast-day. She forgot to say that the house was without flesh many more days than the church commands. ...
— The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters • Sue Petigru Bowen
... Meredith will bear me out in the statement, sir, though I am quite willing that my word should stand by itself," retorted the commissary, tartly. "Nor am I in the habit of having it questioned by colonial striplings," he ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... said the other, tartly. "I'm no gambler any more. I'm a respectable gentleman with a mine and a ranch," he emptied his glass and, smacking his lips, continued, "and a beautiful young girl that loves me ... loves me. Understand?" His hand came down upon the other's ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... your opinion, Mr. Smith," answered the lady tartly; "mine is that a quiet old maid, from somewhere far off in the country, and with an income of two or three hundred dollars a year, would not make much of a figure in our society. At all events, I shan't ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various
... to your own mismanagement, I should say," Mrs. Gower commented tartly. "Putting the whole cannery burden on Norman when the poor boy had absolutely no experience. Really, you must have mismanaged dreadfully. I heard only the other day that the Robbin-Steele plants did better last season than they ever did. I'm sure the Abbotts made ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... was momentarily touched by the anguish in the old man's voice. "I guess you will find the person you are looking for upstairs," she answered tartly; and flounced out of the house, calling to Julia and the others to follow her, and declaring that she would soon let folks know how the parson had brought a "circus ridin' girl" ...
— Polly of the Circus • Margaret Mayo
... but punishment is what you will get, young man," replied our governess, tartly. "What you three need is discipline at the hands of a strong man. ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche
... bold-eyed young man with disfavour. "Well, you're not expecting her to come out to you, are you?" she retorted tartly. ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... a woman that could help it," said Gavinia, tartly, for the honour of her sex, "but she's no are o' them." To be candid, Gavinia was not one of them herself. "I'm thinking she's terrible fond o' him," she said, "and I'm nain sure that he has ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... says Theseus of actors, "are but shadows, and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them." To which Hippolyta, less tolerant than Theseus of the incapacity of the players to whom she is listening, tartly retorts: "It must be your imagination (i.e., the spectator's), then, and ...
— Shakespeare and the Modern Stage - with Other Essays • Sir Sidney Lee
... ever known to exhibit. The servant, who was really disappointed, having hoped for holiday times, feasting and debauchery with impunity during the rejoicings which would have accompanied a christening, turned tartly upon the little valet, telling him that he should let Sir Robert know how he had received the tidings which should have filled any faithful servant with sorrow; and having once broken the ice, he was proceeding with increasing fluency, when his harangue was cut short and his temerity ...
— The Purcell Papers - Volume I. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
... from, we are very apt to fall into trouble. A New York lady had just taken her seat in a car on a train bound for Philadelphia, when a somewhat stout man sitting just ahead of her lighted a cigar. She coughed and moved uneasily; but the hints had no effect, so she said tartly: "You probably are a foreigner, and do not know that there is a smoking-car attached to the train. Smoking is not permitted here." The man made no reply, but threw his cigar out of the window. What was her astonishment when the conductor told her, ...
— The True Citizen, How To Become One • W. F. Markwick, D. D. and W. A. Smith, A. B.
... do very well when they like," Mrs. Caldwell answered tartly; "but they're too lazy to try. When did you ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand
... Peril, instead of one of your much-vaunted steeds," I remarked tartly, "I could go at him with a wrench and have him in working order again in five minutes; as it is—" I felt that the sentence ...
— The Range Dwellers • B. M. Bower
... Aunt Mary asked tartly. "Of course if you ain't intendin' to go I'd be glad to know it; 'n while you're gone, Lucinda, I wish you'd get me the handle to the ice-cream freezer an' lay it where I can see it; it'll help ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner
... plenty of lunch in the dining-room," said Miss Brown, tartly. "You need not have gone out and ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe
... Virginia seemed to have a vague suspicion that Hepsey was still making fun of her; and being considerably nettled, she interjected tartly: ...
— Hepsey Burke • Frank Noyes Westcott
... felt quite taken aback at such frigid formality; and dear Maria's very heart was in her mouth: but the brother tartly added, "If Mr. Clements wishes to see Sir Thomas—that's his knock: he was following me close behind: I saw him; but, as I make it a point never to walk with the governor, perhaps it's as well for you two I dropped in first by way ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... therefore commanded that the monk should also be present on the occasion of the discussion between Las Casas and Quevedo. The appearance of the Franciscan, was not to Quevedo's liking, and he somewhat tartly remarked to him that the Court was no place for monks, who had much better be in their cells. As the Bishop himself was of the same Order, the monk aptly retorted that he was of the like opinion and that "all of us monks would be better ...
— Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt
... General Oglethorpe's niece,(1089) and no chicken. I inquired after her mother, Madame de Meziers, and I thought I might to a spiritual votary to immortality venture to say, that her mother must be very old; she interrupted me tartly, and said, no, her mother had been married extremely young. Do but think of its seeming important to a saint to sink a wrinkle of her own through an iron grate! Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if animals have any fun in them, ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... replied tartly. "I'm not to blame for that. I'm not responsible for your failure. Why take it out ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... is something to be done," said Fred tartly. "We've got to do something. You don't know where Soc and Zeke are and I don't know where String and Pete may be. ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... especial 'dragging' that I am aware of; and I don't know why you should be sorry for Barrett," I returned rather tartly. ...
— Branded • Francis Lynde
... believe it," observed Georgy tartly. "She is too pale, and her eyes are too big: then she is such a solemn little thing. Don't you like golden ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various
... don't," said Cyril tartly. "And I'm not unkind, I'm only truthful. And I say it was utter rot breaking the water-jug; and as for the missionary-box, I believe it's a treason-crime, and I shouldn't wonder if you could be hanged for it, if any of ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... could be induced to crave the forgiveness of the excitable Dublinites. Finally he yielded to expediency, and, coming forward to the centre of the stage, expressed his contrition. At this, a puppy in the pit cried out "Kneel, you rascal!" and Evans, now thoroughly exasperated, tartly answered: "No, you rascal! I'll kneel to none but God, and my ...
— The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield • Edward Robins
... much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON. 'I have looked into it.' 'What (said Elphinston,) have you not read it through?' Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, 'No, Sir, do ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... fiber, and classing as morbid all forms of introspection, she always so dreaded to have the conversation drift into a reflective channel that whenever she found Willie indulging in reveries she was wont to rout him out of them, tartly reproaching herself for having even indirectly been the cause of stirrin' ...
— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett
... to make me," said Mrs Corporal tartly. "There never was such a boy before. Look at him!" and she pointed to where the little fellow, in full uniform, was perched on a mule-pack, and the baggage guard with fixed bayonets ...
— Our Soldier Boy • George Manville Fenn
... tartly. I was by no means satisfied with so half-hearted a vindication; nor did I care to owe my immunity to a patronizing lie on Mr. Van Blarcom's part. "You have accused me of spying. Do you think I'll let it go at that? I insist that you ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti
... frequency and politeness. Her husband, poor as he was, sustained the credit of aristocracy by smoking innumerable cigarettes, with which he appeared to be most plentifully supplied. "You found my cigarettes, I see. That is good," said Rouquin, shortly after the introductions. He spoke somewhat tartly, as if an idea had just occurred to him. He shot a furtive glance at Mr. Bingle as ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... for a green boy, I approached the person whom I was told was the proprietor and asked him if he had any work for a boy, whereupon he looked at me in what seemed a most scornful way and said very tartly: ...
— Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains • William F. Drannan
... to look after me I shall ask you for her assistance," she replied tartly. "You broke your word to me, ...
— The Prodigal Father • J. Storer Clouston
... own hedges, Maria Hobson, and see that your own cattle don't go a-straying, with their monkey tricks," she had said tartly and not over-lucidly, to her grace's maid, who had heard from someone who had heard from someone else that Miss Hethencourt was out at all hours of the night, here, there and everywhere. "I know what time she comes in and where she has been, and who with, ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest
... Mrs. Douglass, "I know all about it. Now do you s'pose you're agoing to be any happier among all those great folks than you would be if you staid among little folks?" she added tartly; while Catherine looked with a kind of incredulous admiration at ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... no good come of settin' down an' wishin' for rights," remarked his wife tartly. "It's a sight better to be ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... acquit her," said Mrs. Ballinger tartly. "A more cold-blooded and unattractive man I've ...
— Sleeping Fires • Gertrude Atherton
... loss whether to receive this piece of news in the light of information or a threat. He was inclined to believe it the latter; and as he was a rash youth, he somewhat tartly ...
— The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's - A School Story • Talbot Baines Reed
... of a hevening nowadays?" asked Miss Sellars, tartly, of the lank young man. "New fashion ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... on laughing at Rashe's disappointment at his solitary arrival till she said, tartly, 'You cannot wonder at our thinking you must have some reason for neither mentioning your companion's name ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... a moment longer on Fanny than any one else. "By another Christmas we may—dear me, I think this room must be very hot," he remarked, breaking off abruptly to look at Fanny's rosy cheeks. But Fanny rather tartly told him to "go on with his tea and never mind nothing 'bout hot rooms, nor anything else that didn't concern him," and quite unabashed he ...
— Kitty Trenire • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... said Julia tartly. "I don't bother myself much with abstractions. I know it is you and I." And she put her things on the hall-rack, as she was going out again in ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) • Various
... section should have a little enterprise shaken into it," said Whittaker, tartly. This promised opposition promptly fired ...
— The Rainy Day Railroad War • Holman Day |
