"Consolingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Charity told her consolingly, "we will have some special daylight celebrations all for you. Now clear out, girls, because I'm dying to lay out the first ...
— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester
... him uneasy. He whimpered piteously. He lay across the sergeant's feet, and through his boots the man could feel the little creature's heart beat. Then he rose and uttered his pleading cry. The sergeant stooped and patted the shaggy head consolingly, ...
— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson
... on Ebearhard consolingly, "that even if we may not leave the Castle, at least the Pfalzgraf cannot penetrate into the stronghold, therefore we ...
— The Sword Maker • Robert Barr
... hope for the best, Mercedes," said Monte-Cristo, consolingly. "God owes you a recompense, and you will ...
— The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I (of 2) • Alexandre Dumas pere
... man, consolingly; "I ought to make enough soup to feed them all, I'm so big; so I'll ask them to put me in ...
— The Road to Oz • L. Frank Baum
... English wery good? We had such a foreigners at this HOtel a'ready. We had oncet one, he was from Phil'delphy and he didn't know what we meant right when we sayed, 'The butter's all any more.' He'd ast like you, 'All what?' Yes, he was that dumm! Och, well," she added consolingly, "people can't help fur their dispositions, ...
— Tillie: A Mennonite Maid - A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch • Helen Reimensnyder Martin
... 'Don't cry,' Dick said consolingly; 'it'll all come out happy—it always does you know.' This was the philosophy of the Waddy Library, and Dick had the most ...
— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson
... again in this glory, my child, nay, in a far more beautiful one," said her father consolingly, "when we are all together again, your mother and you and I, where there will be no more parting and the glory will ...
— Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country • Johanna Spyri
... consolingly, "mother's often threatened and never done it before, and Elsie's a wilful child, with a spirit and temper that must needs be broken. But what was the ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... promptly relieved the impetuous Croghan of his command and sent a colonel to replace him. But Croghan argued the point so eloquently that the stockade was restored to him next day and he won his chance to do or die. Harrison consolingly informed him that he was to retreat if attacked by British troops "but that to attempt to retire in the face of an Indian force ...
— The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 - The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 • Ralph D. Paine
... are old hands," speculated Missouri Jones consolingly. "And the fact that Injuns is abroad would make them ...
— Gold • Stewart White
... a little to himself, and said, consolingly, "Well, well, you know all these country things are new to her. You must be patient ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... mother," he said, consolingly. "You'll be coming over in a year or two with the Pater, and Moggy and I will give you such a good time as you never had in your lives. We'll all go up to Estes Park and camp out for a month. I can see you now coming down the trail on a burro,—what ...
— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge
... to share our anxiety and sorrow, as he consolingly told us no meat, fish, or fowl was to be procured for love or money on the Island. Slowly and sadly we undid that little parcel, and lo! happily sitting on the white paper ...
— Through Finland in Carts • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie
... of them ever again owned a hat, if Helen May must stay here in the city and face the doom that had been pronounced upon her? What did anything matter, if Babe died and left him plodding along alone? Vic did not occur to him consolingly. Vic was a responsibility; a comfort he was not. Like many men, Peter could not seem to understand his son half as well as he understood his daughter. He could not see why Vic should frivol away his time; ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower
... and said, slowly and consolingly: "I reckon if you'd shot me I'd be knowin' it. Don't take it so hard, ma'am. Why, if a man goes to breakin' into a woman's room that way he sure ain't fit to go on livin' in a world where there ...
— 'Drag' Harlan • Charles Alden Seltzer
... of the air. His behaviour was the scandal of the town, yet the greater his sins, the intenser grew Jane's sweetness, the more twining her hold. "Nobody will ever think of blaming you, darling," said Mrs. Carr consolingly. "You have behaved beautifully from the beginning. We all know what a ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... "Don't seem to fit in, that! However," he added consolingly, "if they did abolish you, you'd no doubt ...
— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
... sweeping gesture. "They're going to take all the r-robots, dismantled or not. They're not good for anything anyway. The bill is up before the Federation Congress right now. And it will pass if my master, Langley says so." He patted my helmet, consolingly, his grapples clanking. "If you were worth a damn, you know—" he ...
— B-12's Moon Glow • Charles A. Stearns
... cunning little Topknot," whispered Horace, consolingly. "Sit still, darling, and when we get home I'll give ...
— Dotty Dimple's Flyaway • Sophie May
... bawbee," he went on. "Gentlemen like Gary Dilkes used to go regularly to London, spring and fall, for their things. No doubt then about a man of breeding. You didn't see the other kind around. Wouldn't have 'em." Rudolph murmured consolingly. "Sat in the pit but never got into the boxes," his voice grew thin, querulous. "I'm moving along, Rudolph," he admitted suddenly; "the manners, and, by thunder, the music too, don't suit me any more. Give me the old Academy days in Irving Place." ...
— The Three Black Pennys - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... looked at his hand as though noticing its condition for the first time. Then he spoke consolingly. "But it was the only one I had to put on this ...
— Charred Wood • Myles Muredach
... bother myself about that, Colon," Brad hastened to say, consolingly; "given a few days to rest, and you'll be as tough as ever. That strain was heart-breaking, and nobody could blame you for wilting under it, after what you passed through yesterday. If I'd known we were going to meet that bunch, all primed to give us a race, ...
— Fred Fenton on the Crew - or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... my advice, and boast a little less, and do a little more,' said Jonas, consolingly. 'Walter is not a ...
— The Lilac Fairy Book • Andrew Lang
... safe enough, ma'am," said Huldah, consolingly. "The thieves didn't as much as open the door before Dick was on them, and they won't be coming back here again in a hurry; they'll never feel sure but what Dick's under the wall waiting ...
— Dick and Brownie • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... had so winningly greeted us at the station welcomed us more and consolingly. There was not only steam-heating, but the steam was on! It wanted but a turn of the hand at the radiators, and the rooms were warm. The rooms themselves responded to our appeal and looked down into a silent inner court, deaf to the clatter of the streets, ...
— Familiar Spanish Travels • W. D. Howells
... occurred to him: "What will father say when he hears of this walk? Will he not scold mother and be even more angry with her than usual?" A sullen defiance took possession of him; he set his teeth, then he stroked his mother's hand consolingly, kissed her, ...
— Dame Care • Hermann Sudermann
... Yollop consolingly. "You see, my dear Alice, Mr. Smilk thinks,—and maintains,—that you did him a dirty trick when you had him turned out into a wicked, dishonest world. He was living on the fat of the land up there in Sing ...
— Yollop • George Barr McCutcheon
... this conviction upon his conscience-stricken dupe by a lengthened and grave silence, the Mayor added, consolingly: ...
— The Old Homestead • Ann S. Stephens
... you to it—it is not your fault," said Trude, consolingly. "Every human being is free to work out his own good or bad fortune, and, as our dear Old Fritz says, 'to be happy in the future world in his own way.' They have sold you for money, and you only prove to them ...
— Old Fritz and the New Era • Louise Muhlbach
... Mrs. Chapman, rising from her chair, and placing her hand consolingly on Angeline's shoulder; "there is nothing in the world to weep for. Nothing in the world. I would be proud of a son who had courage and ambition enough to go on one of these voyages. It is proof, my good woman, that he has something in him. And if he should bring home ...
— The Von Toodleburgs - Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family • F. Colburn Adams
... with the Maggid" the Shalotten Shammos reminded him consolingly. "There are hundreds of you in the market. There are several morceaux of the service which you do not sing half so well as your predecessor; your horn-blowing cannot compete with Freedman's of the Fashion Street Chevrah, nor can you read the Law as quickly and accurately ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... to my two friends, until at last I was able to get them all together for a private reading, which made a deep impression on the few intimate friends who composed the audience. As Frau Wesendonck appeared to be particularly moved by the last act, I said consolingly that one ought not to grieve over it, as, under any circumstances, in a matter so grave things generally turned out in this way, and Cosima heartily agreed. We also had a good deal of music together, as in Billow I had at ...
— My Life, Volume II • Richard Wagner
... and she was almost grave for an instant. "But I will come back some day, when I have found my Prince, and then you shall be my gardener," she went on consolingly. "And you don't mind my going without you, ...
— All the Way to Fairyland - Fairy Stories • Evelyn Sharp
... of schemers have their wild moments," he remarked consolingly. "This was one of yours. You paid me a very poor compliment, by the bye, to imagine that ...
— The Malefactor • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... in his pocket for the papers. "These police-reports will soon stem the torrent of my ideas, and effectually hinder any rebellious overflowing of the time-worn banks of official duties"; he said to himself consolingly, while his eye ran over the first page. "DAME TIGBRITH, tragedy in five acts." "What is that? And yet it is undeniably my own handwriting. Have I written the tragedy? Wonderful, very wonderful!—And this—what have I here? 'INTRIGUE ON THE RAMPARTS; or THE DAY OF REPENTANCE: vaudeville with new ...
— Andersen's Fairy Tales • Hans Christian Andersen
... There's nothing for you to fret about, you see," said Rob consolingly. "She has forgotten all about it, and the best thing you can do is to follow her example. What would you think of some light refreshment? Let's go to the dining-room and drown our sorrows in strawberry ice. Then we can have a waltz, and ...
— About Peggy Saville • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... tightly together on his bosom, and he looked consolingly into her eyes. Her eyelids, were trembling, and her lips. She was sorry for her father, herself, Cowperwood. Through her he could sense the force of Butler's parental affection; the volume and danger of his rage. There were so many, many ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser
... old hunks," said McGuffey consolingly. "You ain't got nothin' to cry about. You're a rich man. Look at me. I ain't a-bawlin', am I? And I don't get so much as a bean out of this mix-up, all on account of me bein' tied up with a lot of hounds that quits fightin' before ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... the village. They fell off when I was running. Somebody will bring them back all right," she added, consolingly, "they've ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... because Betty's car is so much lighter," suggested Mrs. Ford consolingly. "We have all ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point - Or a Wreck and a Rescue • Laura Lee Hope |
