"Crossly" Quotes from Famous Books
... walked aimlessly about the house, looking out of window, or turning over the leaves of albums, though he was sick of the sight of them already. When he came across his wife or children, he began grumbling crossly. It seemed to him, for some reason that day, that his children's manners were revolting, that his wife did not know how to look after the servants, that their expenditure was quite disproportionate to their income. All this meant that "the master" ... — The Duel and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... goddesses," I said rather crossly myself; for I saw that, after having trodden my romance in the dust, she was willing I should pick it up again and shake it off, and I wished to show her that I was not to be so ... — Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... She spoke crossly, almost angrily. Cosmo seemed to himself to understand her entirely. Had she looked well-to-do, he would have taken the loaf, promising to send the money; but he could not bring himself to trouble the thoughts of a poor woman, possibly with a large family, to whom the price ... — Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald
... and he chasing in the woods. May we drink? (He takes up flask.) Whose wine is this that we may drink his health? LAVARCHAM. It's no one's that you've call to know. NAISI. Your own health then and length of life. (Pouring out wine for the three. They drink.) LAVARCHAM — very crossly. — You're great boys taking a welcome where it isn't given, and asking questions where you've no call to. . . . If you'd a quiet place settled up to be playing yourself, maybe, with a gentle queen, what'd you think of young men prying around ... — Deirdre of the Sorrows • J. M. Synge
... me and whispered crossly, 'Take yourself and your dusters off; when company are in the house, servants don't commence scouring and cleaning in the room ... — Wuthering Heights • Emily Bronte
... Thurston crossly. Time was when Philip Thurston would not have answered any man abruptly, however great the provocation. He was only lately getting down to the real, elemental man of him; to the son of Bill Thurston, bull-whacker, prospector, ... — The Lure of the Dim Trails • by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower
... go that pace for?' she said crossly. 'It's enough to kill anybody going up this kind ... — The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the thanks of the metal dealer for past services and future feasting. It was with some displeasure therefore that O'Taki had her offices interrupted to respond to a loud and harsh—"Request to make!" sounded at the house entrance. Said she crossly—"Who is it?... Ah! O'Take and O'Haru San of Toemon Sama." Then in wonder—"Oya! Oya! O'Take San.... Your honoured face.... Has O'Take San gone to bed in the dark with the cat?" Answered O'Take, in no amiable mood—"It could well have been. Your man Cho[u]bei deals in such articles. ... — The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... expected to pay that sum myself," said du Portail, crossly; "but the question is whether the utility of your presence in this enterprise is worth to me the interest on one hundred and thirty-three thousand, three hundred and ... — The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac
... at the opening of the bedroom door, prepared to have his say, and there was Jane with their big bouncing baby in her arms. "Here!" she said crossly, "you just get this kid off to sleep, I'm going for the supper beer. I've minded him all day, and I'm tired of him. I believe he wakes up in the ... — The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh
... little maid gazed at her with such admiring observation that the scuttle she carried was titled, and the coals were strewn all over the kitchen floor. At which catastrophe Miss Leaf looked miserable. Miss Selina spoke crossly, and Ascott, who just then came in to his tea, late as usual, burst ... — Mistress and Maid • Dinah Craik (aka: Miss Mulock)
... come, and that is all there is to it," said Migwan rather crossly. She was in a hurry to be off and get the marketing done. Betty stamped her foot, and snatching Migwan's market basket, she ran around the corner of the house with it. Migwan ran after her, and forcibly recovering the basket, hit Betty over the head with it several times. Then she ... — The Camp Fire Girls at School • Hildegard G. Frey
... with sleep, had answered so crossly that Mrs. Ede did not speak for some time; at last, at the end of ... — A Mummer's Wife • George Moore
... a place near by where he had seen the berries, while Billy found a comfortable nook by the pool, and sat scowling at the water so crossly, it was a wonder any trout came to his hook. But the fat worms tempted several small ones, and he cheered up at the prospect of food. Tommy whistled while he picked, and in half an hour came back with two quarts of nice berries and an ... — The Louisa Alcott Reader - A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School • Louisa M. Alcott
... them have their fights," said the man crossly; "but it's your business to see that the right men are put up, so that it doesn't make ... — The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford
... young creature of sixteen years that ever brightened and bothered a home. Merry from morning until night, with scarcely ever a pause in her constant flow of fun; thoughtless, nearly always selfish too, as the constantly thoughtless always are. Not sullenly and crossly selfish by any means, only so used to think of self, so taught to consider herself utterly useless as regarded home, and home cares and duties, that she opened her bright brown eyes in wonder whenever she was ... — Ester Ried • Pansy (aka. Isabella M. Alden)
... doctor crossly. 'Why didn't you tell me that before? Now I shall have to write another certificate. ... — The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia • William Somerset Maugham
... Fountain and Talboys. Mrs. Bazalgette asked the former a little crossly how he could make up his mind to ... — Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... children that I heard quarrelling; it was only two little crabs. Children never speak so crossly to each other; but those two little crabs scolded and bit down there in the water until— But I am getting ahead of my story. I'll tell you ... — Harper's Young People, September 21, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... we are going. Will he come with us, or is he to stay here?" Doktorenko asked crossly ... — The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... Dick, crossly, producing his passport, and cards with the names of the papers for which he had engaged to correspond. "Ropes, fork ... — The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... very crossly indeed, 'tell me how you got here. This Chosen of the Gods business is all very well for the vulgar. But you and I know that there is ... — The Magic World • Edith Nesbit
... help you pay for that cow," said the squire, crossly. "If you can't pay for't when the time comes you mustn't ... — Bound to Rise • Horatio Alger
... what I deserve!" she said crossly to herself, as she laced her shoes, "what need had I to be caring about Sophy Traill and her whims? She is a dissatisfied lass at the best, and her love affairs are beyond my sorting. Serves you right, ... — A Knight of the Nets • Amelia E. Barr
... she, a little crossly. She added with one of her gushes of naivete, "and I shall be unhappy too if ... — Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... medical men are in any particular danger?" asked Sophia, bashfully, but with great anxiety. "I think they must be, going among so many people who are ill. If there is a whole family in the fever in a cottage at Crossly End, as Mrs Howell says there is, how very dangerous it ... — Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau
... her son was cured of the disorder of his mind, which she ascribed to a dream, began to laugh with him, and ask him questions about it; when suddenly he started up, and looking crossly at his mother, said, "Old sorceress, you know not what you say. I am not your son, nor you my mother. You deceive yourself and would deceive me. I tell you I am the commander of the faithful, and you ... — The Arabian Nights Entertainments vol. 3 • Anon.
... and Audrey crossly came after, until they arrived nearly at the end of the hedge which, separating the upper from the lower garden, hid from those immediately behind it all view of the estuary. Here, still sheltered by the hedge, he stopped and Audrey stopped, and Aguilar absently ... — The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett
... to enforce the rule against passengers riding on the platform, too, even if we are stuck in a snowdrift?" Bess said a little crossly. They had come out into the vestibule, and she ... — Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays • Annie Roe Carr
... She leaned forward in the chair she had taken, and pretended to slap his hand crossly. "Isn't that exactly what I said you couldn't think one single think about till ... — Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington
... be ridiculous," said the peer of France, crossly, "I have no means of preventing it; but I beg you to remark one thing: if people disturb physicians for mere nonsense, they often can't get them when they ... — The Deputy of Arcis • Honore de Balzac
... me," she replied, crossly, "I happen to know her quite well by sight, and she isn't a bit like me. And it's an odd thing you should have mentioned her, for it so happens she's just come into the room. That lady in black, with the yellow plume in her hat, there over ... — The Toys of Peace • Saki
... see," I objected, crossly, for I felt I could not solemnly and adequately thank the young man before my listening relatives, for popping out of the sea in his microscopic costume, and coming to the rescue of me in mine. I had squeaked and ... — The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson
... "Par depit," Rita answered crossly, with obvious allusion to Sofya's marrying Yagitch. "Par depit is all the fashion nowadays. Defiance of all the world. She was always laughing, a desperate flirt, fond of nothing but balls and young men, and all of a sudden off she went—to ... — The Darling and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... it has to do with you," said Dick, crossly, while the Dodo, with his eyes shut and his head on one side, ran about rubbing his back with one pinion, and crying, "Oh! oh! oh!" for he had evidently hurt ... — Dick, Marjorie and Fidge - A Search for the Wonderful Dodo • G. E. Farrow
... men complied, and, thrusting their legs out of their bunks, rolled on to the locker, and sat crossly ... — Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs
... should," said Harry rather crossly. "It's a great bore having her here at all, and if I'm barely civil to her that's all I shall manage. They won't stay more than a few days, I suppose." After a second he went on: "Her mother wouldn't know my mother, though after ... — Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
... your sins," said Doctor Sloane crossly. "You're coming out of the woods all right, and you'll be sorry if you tell her too, much. I'll begin a little flirtation with you, Miss Laura, if you please." And he motioned to her to ... — The Flirt • Booth Tarkington
... Nellie know that I'm goin'," replied Mrs. Whipp crossly. "What sense is there in your takin' a girl to the port to go in ... — In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham
... alone!" commanded the artist, crossly. "I've said all I wanted to. I've no interest at all in what you and your ... — Whistler Stories • Don C. Seitz
... that Ah don' care if he never comes back. Ah done got other things to bother about more'n a worthless, no'count Possum what don' take care of his fam'ly," she said crossly, and hurried into the house to see that the eight little Possums were properly tucked in bed, for it was a cold day, and the eight little Possums had to stay in bed ... — The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum • Thornton W. Burgess
... tell you so before?" said she, somewhat crossly. "But it's a sad life, this living alone. I declares I envy Hannah, 'cause she's got Jemima to sit in the kitchen with her. I want her to sit with me sometimes, ... — Framley Parsonage • Anthony Trollope
... The boy still spoke crossly, aggrievedly, but every trace of displeasure had fled from the little girl's face at his words. She ... — Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... you come down and visit with us before, instead of hiding up amongst the leaves," demanded Sammy Woodchuck rather crossly. ... — Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories • Howard B. Famous
... a lack of luck crossly attributed by the fishermen to the noise made by constant advice on the part of their attendant gallery. Messrs. Milholland, Bender, and the other rock throwers came up shouting, and ... — Ramsey Milholland • Booth Tarkington
... Patty spoke crossly to any one, and still more rarely that she flung out such a bitter speech as that; but she was getting tired of combating the prevalent attitude of the young people toward Mona, and though she had determined to overcome it, she began to think it meant real warfare. Dorothy looked perfectly ... — Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells
... that his professional pride, as the leader and practical man of the party, had been hurt by the escape of her laugh; and he spoke so crossly that they all turned around and began to try to make conversation to cover their embarrassment. But they didn't succeed very well; and presently the Baby spoke the thought that ... — The Garden of the Plynck • Karle Wilson Baker
... she said, crossly—she and Angela were in Polly's and Lois' room the early part of the afternoon. "I'm tired of us. We are all so afraid of letting anybody else into our select company that we are growing positively stuck up. Deny it, if you can," she persisted, as Polly ... — Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School • Dorothy Whitehill
... returned Claudet, crossly, "but after all, you do not carry your name written on your face, and, by Jove! as guardian of the seals, I have some responsibility—I ... — A Woodland Queen, Complete • Andre Theuriet
... here in better time for the twelve train," he said crossly. "I'm not a-going to do this sort o' work for you nor no chap, if you can't ... — Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth
... She's coming, at any rate," said Peggy, rather crossly. "Bunty sent me to find out if everybody had really gone. Toddlekins will have to get a taxi, that's all. Whew! I'm being blown to bits! I want to get back to my pen-painting. I'm making a birthday present for ... — A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... mentioning," the Virginian again protested, almost crossly. "The little things looked kind o' fresh, and I just picked them." His eye now fell upon me, where I lay upon the counter. "I reckon breakfast will ... — The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister
... was a little boy and a girl. This latter was the oldest of the family. She was not so shy as her mother; on the contrary, she arranged herself in a most becoming attitude against the front of the verandah. Every now and then the mother showed her teeth and spoke crossly to the baby, and once when it cried she whipped it with a bit of palm-leaf until it came to a better mind—which it did promptly. After a time, a Chinaman called and had a talk with the lady of the house. I think he wanted a load of firewood. An old ... — A Visit to Java - With an Account of the Founding of Singapore • W. Basil Worsfold
... thought of such a thing, as going to Ladies' Aid in all this heat, if you hadn't come after me, Abby," she said crossly. "I guess flannel petticoats for the heathen could ... — An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
... disagreeable feeling that I could not define grew within me—something like a physical bruise. Harold was evidently feeling it too, for after repeating "She's going to-day!" in a tone more befitting the Litany, he looked hard in my face for direction as to how the situation was to be taken. But I crossly bade him look sharp and say his prayers and not bother me. What could this gloom portend, that on a day of days like the present seemed to hang my heavens ... — The Golden Age • Kenneth Grahame
... under the eye of a peevish old man, whom, moreover, she was expected to love. He stood beside her, by no means like the groom in the Song of Solomon who "steps into the chamber like the morning sun." "You've cried enough now," he said crossly; "remember, it isn't you who are making me happy; I am making you happy!" She looked up to him humbly and seemed to feel that he was right. The business was ended; the young wife had drunk to her husband's health, ... — The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various
... I am!" he said crossly. "I have left my magnifying glass on top of the safe—and it's the most necessary tool we policemen have. Don't bother to come, Mr. Brent, if you'll just lend me the keys of the vault. Thanks, I'll be ... — Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Detective Stories • Various
... alone," she said. "Dare I soliloquise? I will. It is a thing I have not done for weeks. 'Oh, what a——" She got up quickly. "Nobody could soliloquise on a log like that," she said crossly. She decided she could do it just as effectively when standing. With one pale hand raised to ... — Once on a Time • A. A. Milne
... anything," returned Mollie crossly, fishing in vain for the lost stitch. "If the poor soldiers depended upon the sweaters you made, Grace, I'd feel sorry for ... — The Outdoor Girls in Army Service - Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys • Laura Lee Hope
... come in!" she cried, crossly. "Oh! it is you, mother," she interrupted herself, with a ... — A Woman of Thirty • Honore de Balzac
... think what you please," said Marjory, a little crossly, for her naturally good temper had been severely tried, "but nothing will ever make me believe it was not ... — Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25. • Various
... said Miss Teenie crossly. "I never 'toyed' with my tea yet, and I'm not going to begin. It'll likely be China tea anyway, and ... — Penny Plain • Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)
... eyes open with a start. "For mercy's sake, do we have to stay out here all night?" she demanded crossly. "I can stand a picnic supper, if I have to, but it's no picnic for me to have to sleep ... — Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... do," he said crossly. "I know some people here, rich ones, too, but father would flog me soundly if I borrowed a cent from anyone. He has 'An honest man need not borrow' written over the gateway ... — Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge
... not!" cry I, crossly, making a spiteful lunge, as I speak, at a startle-de-buz, which has lumbered booming into my face. "Who on earth supposed ... — Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... crossly; it was a relief to speak so. Anne turned round—she was sitting at the window of the inn ... — Agatha's Husband - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)
... matter with you, feller?" inquired Tubbs crossly. Though he now recollected the circumstances under which they were found, Ralston's presence robbed the situation of any seriousness for him. It did not occur to Tubbs that any one who knew him could possibly ... — 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart
... don't all stop talking now, how am I going to tell this joke?" asked the Calico Clown crossly. "Now, who is a—" ... — The Story of a White Rocking Horse • Laura Lee Hope
... and, "At your service, sir," says she, "though I am but a poor country maid." So in we went, hand in hand, to the parlor. But yet her first question, "Who's there?" had left me so doubtful as to whether she might not be playing a double game, that I turned my back on her, and said crossly that I supposed she had been expecting a number of lovers, and that the thought quite spoiled my pleasure. But oh! what a darling Hana is! Coming to my side and clasping tight my hand, she ... — Japanese Literature - Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical - Poetry and Drama of Japan • Various
... be told crossly to sit down was bewildering, when in answer to c, a, t, one said "Pussy." And yet there was Pussy washing her face, on the chart, and Miss Clara's ... — Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various
... said Froissart crossly. "This is simple police work, which I have done a thousand times. I could do it on ... — The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone
... what you call busted," said John, "but I consider it most disagreeable." Without a word more he left her, set out up the hill and coasted again. He upset half-way down, rolled over, and got on again laughing. This time somehow he got over the brook and turned crossly on Leila with, "I hope now ... — Westways • S. Weir Mitchell
... hand, gave it a single shake, dropped it, and stalked across the drawing-room head in air. "Don't call me brother," he said crossly. ... — Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... he said, rather crossly. "I am doing all I can to make you happy, and I want very much to have a merry little girl to run upstairs and downstairs in my palace and make it brighter with her laughter. This is all I ask you to do for ... — Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) • Various
... a good actor," said he a trifle crossly. "Perhaps you will tell me if Maubranne has ... — My Sword's My Fortune - A Story of Old France • Herbert Hayens
... is coming to help me down, but I say, crossly, "Do not, please; Algy manages best!" Algy, however, has no intention of helping anybody down. He has helped himself down; and, without a word or a look to any of his fellow-travellers, has thrown himself down on ... — Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... crossly, then sloshed across the swamp toward Black Eyes. The creature waited on its stump until she came quite close, and then, with a playful little bound, it hopped onto her shoulder, still squatting on its haunches. Lindy ... — Black Eyes and the Daily Grind • Milton Lesser
... and declared that he would do no such thing. But his daughter was as obstinate as he was; and finding that he could not get his own way unless he yielded to her, he said crossly: ... — Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit • S. M. Mitra and Nancy Bell
... the two men came up to them. "The French are a wonderful people," he said rather crossly, "everybody says that Florac is ruined,—that he's living on ten francs a day allowed him by a kind grandmother—and yet since I have been standing here he's dropped, at least so I've calculated, not far short ... — The Uttermost Farthing • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... said Rita, crossly. "You and I are business women, anyway, and eleven is too late for week days. I'll wait until I ... — The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers
... cried Miss Salisbury, quite softened, "don't feel so" "I'll not sing a note!" "For shame, Polly, if the Little Brown House teachings are forgotten like this" Polly turned and waved her music-roll at them "I'm not going to lecture you" "Don't stop me," cried Pickering crossly "I'm going home," declared Charlotte "What do you say?" cried Polly "Oh, Polly, are you hurt?" Old Mr. King drew up his chair to oversee it all "You come along yourself, Dobbs," said Joel pleasantly "I'll help you; I'm strong," said Charlotte. "It's ... — Five Little Peppers Grown Up • Margaret Sidney
... to lend," said the beggar crossly. "Methinks you are as young a man as I, and as well able to earn a supper. So go your way, and I'll go mine. If you fast till you get aught out of me, you'll go ... — Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
... all that way after her!" thought Ingred crossly. "Verity will be sure to tell her. They seem inseparable to-day. Besides which nobody's particularly likely to go into that other meadow. There are plenty of ... — A Popular Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... walk!' she announced. 'I'm all ri'!' Farrell assured her. 'You may be yet,' she answered, 'if you keep your head shut.' Farrell asked me if I considered that a ladylike expression. To this she retorted that she couldn't bear for anyone to speak crossly to her: ... — Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... said, half-crossly, half-defiantly; "only if you come near my hammock, I will bite you, and then ... — Phantastes - A Faerie Romance for Men and Women • George MacDonald
... Gunson, crossly. "Lie down, you two fellows, and go to sleep. He was dreaming, Gordon. Don't listen to ... — To The West • George Manville Fenn
... you to know you are right?" demanded the First Assistant, crossly. Her feet were stinging. "'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.'" This was a favorite quotation of hers, although not Browning. "Nurses in hospitals are there to carry out the doctor's orders. Not to think or to say what they think ... — Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Wellenkuppe was a little thing. The three thousand extra feet made all the difference. This was obviously beyond me, and I could never get to the summit. It was ridiculous of the Pollingers to think I could. I told them so quite crossly as we went on. Probably they had made a mistake; they would, no doubt, find it out on the Shoulder. It seemed rather hard that I should have to get there when it was so easy to turn back at once. But I said nothing more and climbed. My heart did its work well, and ... — A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts
... bore down upon him crossly. "I told you to leave 'em alone. Now see what you've done! Look here, Sunny, can't you keep out of trouble long enough for ... — Sunny Boy in the Country • Ramy Allison White
... Philip very crossly indeed, but the captain signed to him to be silent. Then Lucy was questioned and her answers written in the book, and when that ... — The Magic City • Edith Nesbit
... my first insomnious night there, I went prowling all about the house in search of the bathroom. Finally, I was routed back to my room by a newly-wakened maid (in curl-pins), who told me rather crossly that I could not have a 'bawth' unless I ordered it 'before'and.' She did not say how long beforehand. But I was in a hurry to get out of doors, so I did without my bath, and promised myself I would see to it ... — The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... more developed when in a state of erection. As you may suppose, with such distracting thoughts, I did not get on with my lessons. Miss Evelyn, for some reason or other, was out of humour that morning, and more than once spoke crossly to me for my evident inattention. At length she called me to her, and finding that I had scarcely ... — The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous
... you want with stones in your pocket?" he said rather crossly, as he rose and picked up the piece to throw it out of the window; but, as soon as he had it in his hand, its appearance took his attention. He turned it over, weighed it in his hand, and then held ... — Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore • George Manville Fenn
... wish a spider would come and catch it!" went on Rose, quite crossly, "for I do not like to kill it myself!" And here she gave me a little poke with a fork. But not ... — Dick and His Cat and Other Tales • Various
... persisted, and at last her aunt gave way. "Well," she said at last, rather crossly, "be quick if you are coming. I don't want to ... — Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... eyes and, seeing Jeanne, she rose to her feet suddenly. They stood face to face, so close that they touched one another. The stranger said crossly: "What! are you up? You will be ill, getting up at this time of night. Go ... — Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... swung his chair around and showed him the broad of his indignant back. When he had filled out certain forms at his desk he shoved a pen into the silent consumptive's fingers and showed him crossly where to make his mark. At a signal from his bent forefinger a negro trusty came forward and took the pardoned man away and helped him put his shrunken limbs into a suit of the prison-made slops, of cheap, black shoddy, with the taint of a jail ... — The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb
... "Get away!" cried Joel crossly to the besiegers, each and all wildly clamoring. "What is it? What are you talking about? It's my secret," he cried, "and his," pointing with a dismayed finger ... — Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney
... not discredit your own flesh and blood for a stranger," cried Mrs. Corfield crossly; and the mute man with an aggravating smile suddenly seemed to repent of his unusual loquacity, and gradually subsided into himself and his calculations, from which he was so ... — Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XVII, No. 102. June, 1876. • Various
... forgive you, master," she said crossly. "You had no right to ... hem ... with your face in that condition.... And you have not ... — The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy
... you know that?" she said almost crossly. She did love to carry out her projects, and hitherto Julia Cloud had put ... — Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... think you're rather inconsiderate," she said, crossly. "You start up my curiosity and then you make fun of me. I don't think I like the way you treat me, ... — Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... supper than was prudent, ate all those things that Sir George Millington, his good physician, forbade him to eat, and drank two or three glasses of wine more than his usual portion. At the time, all this seemed to do him no harm, and he spoke somewhat crossly to his own servant who reminded him of the physician's regulations. He even shook his finger playfully at Laura for her grave looks upon the occasion, and during the rest of the evening was as gay as gay could be. The consequence, however, was, that about a quarter ... — The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... crossly, groping for the top button of his pajama coat. His long hair was tousled in front and stood straight up at the back, and his lids were heavy yet with sleep. He looked very young and very unruly, and as though several years of grace were still left to Helen May before she need trouble ... — Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower
... she explained almost crossly, though her voice was sweet, because it was never otherwise than sweet. "Either the train's ... — The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... back your handsome Indian head to grin at me, Nicky Stretton," said she crossly. "I'm tired of always doing the same thing. And anyhow, the stable lost money, and I had ... — The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones
... woman who said that crossly, and a big rough-looking bugler, in the uniform of the 200th Fusiliers, with belts, buttons and facings looking very clean and bright, but the scarlet cloth ragged and stained from the rain and mud, and sleeping in it anywhere, often without shelter, who dropped the lid as if ... — Our Soldier Boy • George Manville Fenn
... said crossly. "If you had knocked these papers an inch farther, I should have invited you to correct them. If you go about in that abstracted way much longer, my dear, Miss Selbourne will inform the world (on the very best ... — A Reversion To Type • Josephine Daskam
... by travelling over them all on foot," the fairy had said crossly. "You are growing up idle, selfish, and disobedient; a shame to your godmother and a disgrace to your family. You will be associating with the Blue Wizard ... — Prince Vance - The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box • Eleanor Putnam
... contrary to his intended course, by which he was wind-bound many weeks, the fittest season for his purpose being thereby lost, his victuals much consumed, and the minds of his people greatly changed. When her majesty came to understand how crossly all this went, she began to call the propriety of this expedition in question, as the 6th of May was come before Sir Walter could put to sea. Sir Martin Frobisher came to him the next day, in a pinnace of the lord admiral called the Disdain, and brought her majestys letters ... — A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr
... do as I've a mind to for once in my life!" said Lettie Glover crossly, when her mother refused to allow her to carry out a plan she had made. "I never can do anything I want to," she went on. "I've heard that stepmothers were horrid, but I believe real mothers are just as bad!" and she ... — Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic • Olive Thorne Miller
... staying here?" said Rosy, rather crossly. "I think you should stay till mother tells is to go," for she wanted to hear what more her mother and the gentleman said to each other, the very ... — Rosy • Mrs. Molesworth
... I know what happens?" she answered crossly. "About sunset Bull-Head brought home his new wife, a white chieftainess, for whom we built the hut yonder; but the fashions of marriage among these white people must be strange indeed, for this one came to her husband, her feet bound, and with a face like to the face ... — Swallow • H. Rider Haggard
... rather noisy debate on the impropriety of their master's behavior; and little Alfred, finding his brother was not speaking, ventured to remind him of his promise. Contrary to his usual habit, Hamilton turned quite crossly to him: ... — Louis' School Days - A Story for Boys • E. J. May
... said Mr. Critz crossly. "Scarin' me to fits, a'most. How'd I know who 'twas? If you want to come in, why don't you come right in, 'stead of snoopin' an' sneakin' an' ... — Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler
... once—'as though our favourite castle in the air were built. "Not really, mother? you don't think this beautiful house and garden belong to us really?" asks Mollie, in her stupid way. You know what a literal little soul she is. "Oh, go away, Mollie!" I exclaim quite crossly. "How can I help it if you have no imagination?" For all I know, the place is ours: no one interferes with us; we come and go as we like; the birds sing to us; the flowers bloom for our pleasure. Sometimes ... — Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... a tall, strong fellow, answered crossly, "Shut your mouth, you stupid swine! And if you dare to report me I'll break ... — 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... I'm going to tell you," said the sybil crossly. She resumed her chest tones hurriedly. "I must tell you. It was sent to me to tell you. I wanted ... — Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... a naughty girl to tease her when her was so sick?" Marjorie sought to comfort her chum, but Mary eluded her sympathetic caress and said almost crossly, "Don't baby me. I—I hate being babied and ... — Marjorie Dean - High School Sophomore • Pauline Lester
... crossly: she divined his meaning exactly. "Come awa' wi' ye!" she ordered, facing ... — Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880. • Various
... stomach, Mrs. Munday," said Lewisham, roused from a tangled and apparently gloomy meditation; "that's my affair." Quite crossly he spoke for him. ... — Love and Mr. Lewisham • H. G. Wells
... place. La Fontaine, sauntering about from one to the other, a wandering, absent, boring, unbearable shade, who kept buzzing and humming at everybody's shoulder a thousand poetic abstractions. He so often disturbed Pellisson, that the latter, raising his head, crossly said, "At least, La Fontaine, supply me with a rhyme, since you say you have the run of the gardens ... — The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas
... to," said Billie crossly. "It's none of your business." And she turned away and looked ... — Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island - The Mystery of the Wreck • Janet D. Wheeler
... good enough for anybody," replied Rea half crossly. She was not yet quite wide awake. "There is plenty of fruit in stores, to buy. We ... — The Hunter Cats of Connorloa • Helen Jackson
... time he had ever spoken crossly. Beverley started, and the look on her face, instead of overwhelming ... — The Lion's Mouse • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... believe his eyes when he saw that Darry had come off victor, and that the idle men who gaped at the encounter were giving Jim the laugh as he crossly slouched away. ... — Darry the Life Saver - The Heroes of the Coast • Frank V. Webster
... were in Guinea," said Bess crossly. "She and her old papers are just about going to spoil our trip. They are making you as nervous ... — Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach - Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves • Annie Roe Carr
... is high time to go home, I am tired," her mother replied crossly. "Hurry with what you ... — Lucia Rudini - Somewhere in Italy • Martha Trent
... "See?" said Kismine crossly, when he was out of hearing. "You've spoiled it all. We can never meet any more. He won't let me meet you. He'd have you poisoned if he ... — Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... not daring to take the clean handkerchief which Sister Marie-Aimee handed to me. Before she spoke, I could hear the scolding which I knew I deserved. And even when Sister Marie-Aimee said nothing at all, I could see her frown, and her eyes looked crossly at me and followed me about. I felt crushed with shame, so crushed that I could scarcely lift my feet. I tried to hide in the corners as I walked; and, in spite of it all, next time I had lost my handkerchief again. Madeleine used to look at me with ... — Marie Claire • Marguerite Audoux
... speak crossly to the monkey, and that was when he put him into the cage preparatory to commencing his morning's ... — Toby Tyler • James Otis
... "Well," said Brother Demetrius crossly, "you go thee him—you catch up. I will no more. You do not like my Englis' very well. You go with fat old joke-fellow, and I return the houth. Bethide, it ith the day of my lumbago." And the venerable Demetrius, with distinct temper, turned ... — A Voyage of Consolation - (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An - American girl in London') • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... half-past nine,' said the old man crossly; 'too late for you to be in the streets. Get to bed now, and be up to work in ... — The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... very funny when they were old enough to look back upon it. It even seemed funny, a day or two afterward, to their alarmed elders. But at the time it was not amusing to anybody. David was gloomy at being obliged to marry Nannie; "I pretty near wish I'd stayed with Elizabeth," he said, crossly. Nannie was frightened, because, she declared, "Mamma'll be mad;—now I tell you, Blair, she'll be mad!" And Blair was sulky because he had no wife. Yet, in spite of these varying emotions, pushed by Blair's resolution, they really did ... — The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland
... given that wretched dog such an enormous dinner he wouldn't have had that fit," she said crossly. "I warned her—but she said she couldn't starve the poor dog—he would soon be all she had left, etc. I could have ... — Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... I'm not going away," said Jack crossly, huskily, too much hurt to study his tone. "If I can't always see things as ... — Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas
... then he looks up and sees me, and such a smile comes to his face. Oh, we understood each other." But to all this Jean apparently turned a deaf ear, only when her mistress had finished, but not a moment before, she answered, crossly, how was the tea-supper to be ready for the gentry if folks hindered her with their clavers, at which hint Mrs. Duncan, judging which way ... — Wee Wifie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... a word for several minutes. He was too angry. But the Queen said, "My dear child, don't interfere," quite crossly, ... — The Book of Dragons • Edith Nesbit
... George cut in crossly, "if you think I'm too much trouble, you can just drop me down in the snow anywhere and I'll take care ... — Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds • Archibald Lee Fletcher
... be hanged!" he said crossly. "I don't want any stuccoed, over-grown Dutch farm. I might as well be at Roehampton ... — The Moon Endureth—Tales and Fancies • John Buchan
... is not falling in love with his grandmother. I have heard of such things in my life," thought the judge crossly within himself, for the judge was growing jealous for Claudia. He had apparently forgotten ... — Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... at all," said Mollie, rather crossly; "it's her way. She can make such a deal out of nothing, and she does n't stand at trouble when she wants to make people like her. She says any one can do it, and it is only a question of patience; but I don't believe her. See how frantic Griffith is about her. He is more desperately in love ... — Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... smoke-wraith? 'Tis Swanhild the Fatherless who walks the waters. Begone, Swanhild, thou witch! thou hast worked evil enough upon me. Nay, it is not Swanhild, it is Elfrida; lady, here in England I may not stay. In Iceland I am at home. Yea, yea, things go crossly; perchance in this garden we may ... — Eric Brighteyes • H. Rider Haggard
... standing there stuffing up my view?" she demanded crossly. "If you want something to do, go and get me some flowers. Everyone has flowers but me. It's ... — Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... the Marshal of Tinkletown?" she broke in crossly. "What right have all you men to be going ... — Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... you to decide this question," said the zebra, crossly. "So long as neither of us could prove we were right we quite enjoyed the dispute; but now I can never drink at that pool again without the soft-shell crab laughing at me. So I must find another ... — The Emerald City of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... the magic of the morning vanished, it must be confessed, when the farewells could no longer be postponed, and the girls turned their faces toward Dolittle Cottage. "The worst of nice things," said Ruth crossly, "is that you miss them so when ... — Peggy Raymond's Vacation - or Friendly Terrace Transplanted • Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith
... troubles were as nothing, and that the immediate need of the moment was to pet and comfort her friend. Her knowledge of Aline told her the probable tragedy was that she had lost a brooch or had been spoken to crossly by somebody; but it also told her that such tragedies bulked very ... — Something New • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... she answered crossly; for to her the open air at night seemed wrong, disreputable. There was ... — A Rough Shaking • George MacDonald
... Pinkey demanded, crossly. "Why don't you talk United States? You sound like a Fifth Reader. If you mean you aim to argue with him, he'll knock you down with a neck-yoke while you're ... — The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart
... of his own and clapped his hands over his ears. "What did you do that for?" he said crossly, "just when I was beginning ... — The Swiss Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... look at the tide and get home in decent time? It's no good crying over spilt milk!" grunted Merle rather crossly. ... — Monitress Merle • Angela Brazil
... her crumbs as far as her short arm would send them, and managed to hit an indignant old starling squarely in the eye. He glared at her crossly. ... — Brother and Sister • Josephine Lawrence
... to control that imagination of yours, Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isn't," said Marilla crossly. "Yes, you did hear me say just that and no more. It isn't decided yet and perhaps we will conclude to let Mrs. Blewett take you after all. She certainly needs you much ... — Anne Of Green Gables • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... questions!" said Birdie crossly, as she sat before her dressing-table, wearily washing off the make-up of the afternoon in order to put on the make-up of the evening. "I'm so dog tired I'd lots rather be going to bed than to ... — Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice
... would raise his eyelids for a moment and pronounce a few coldly ironical words, some ponderous jest at the expense of provincial people, which cut short Christophe's attempts to talk more intimately. Kitty returned with the breakfast tray: coffee, butter, ham, etc. She put it down crossly on the desk in the middle of the untidy papers. Christophe waited until she had gone before he went on with his sad story which he had such difficulty in continuing. Hassler drew the tray towards himself. He poured himself out some coffee ... — Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland
... devilish well!" said Sir Peter crossly. "But I shall worry! Do I know more about the world or do you? Not that I want to quarrel with you, my dear boy," he added hastily. "I admit things are awkward for you—damned awkward—still it's no use sitting ... — The Dark Tower • Phyllis Bottome
... mercy," rejoined the Caterpillar somewhat crossly, "but I was digesting a gooseberry leaf when you lifted me in that abrupt manner, and I did not quite follow your remarks. Did I understand you to mention my name in connection with ... — The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales • Richard Garnett |