"Huskily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Saturday evening in the interval before dinner, when she became aware that somebody was listening, and turning her head, she saw through the Irish mist a man's figure standing in the conservatory. The figure was vanishing when she cried out a whit huskily, "Oh, pray, don't let me ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill
... he said huskily. "The moon will be up by ten o'clock and I can make better time traveling by moonlight than ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne
... he whispered huskily; and, before she had time to stop him, he had taken her in his arms and kissed her, passionately, lingeringly. Then, with no other word, he released her and went off quickly ...
— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
... in the service of a large mercantile house, picked up his receiver wearily. It rang the new girl's bell, and like a flash, she said, 'Hello.' The bookkeeper gasped. 'Is that you, Central?' he asked huskily. 'Yes,' replied the unsophisticated maiden, pleasantly. 'What number, please?' The old man sat bolt upright and clutched the desk. 'Give me purple six double-nine,' he said, in quavering tones, and his weak form trembled as he spoke. Nimbly worked the fingers of the uninitiated telephone girl, ...
— Said the Observer • Louis J. Stellman
... a terrible question. Bartley knew nothing about the prices that city papers paid; he feared to ask too much, but he also feared to cheapen his wares by asking too little. "Twenty-five dollars," he said, huskily. ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... Lord Maxwell," he said at last, huskily, turning his head away from her to the fire. "I've just had a long walk with him. Then he left me; he had no idea I came on here. But something drove me; I felt I must come, I must tell. Will you promise not to be angry with me—to believe that I've thought about ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... tears started suddenly in her earnest eyes, and a miracle happened to little Jason. Something quite new surged within him, his own eyes swam suddenly, and he cleared his throat huskily. ...
— The Heart Of The Hills • John Fox, Jr.
... Suzette, of course! And I hadn't called her," said Adeline, breaking off from her weeping. She ran to the foot of the stairs, and called, huskily, "Suzette, Suzette! Come down this instant! Come down, come down, come down!" She bustled back to her father. "You must be hungry, ain't you, father? I'll get you a cup of tea over my lamp here; the water heats as quick! And you'll ...
— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells
... of regret for the lie so laboriously concocted which would never now be uttered, delivered himself huskily of ...
— The Snare • Rafael Sabatini
... had said very little about the events of the day before, but Gwen knew exactly what he must be thinking. She mopped her eyes with her handkerchief, and tried to believe it was her toothache that was making her cry. After a long time she said huskily, a propos of ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil
... please," said the Millstones huskily. "So long as you supply the power we'll supply ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... slightest encouragement, she brought him a favour: 'four times in succession. When the fourth came, "Look here!" said George huskily. "You going to keep this up all night? What ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... arm caught the dog about the middle, and leaped back into the nearest doorway. The muscles of his left arm were sorely tried; the dog considered his part in the fray by no means ended, and he tugged and yelped huskily. With his right hand Maurice sought his revolver, cocked and leveled it. There came a respite. The students had not fully recovered from their surprise, and the yells sank ...
— The Puppet Crown • Harold MacGrath
... face was gray, sweat was pouring from Fat Joe's scarlet face when the life-tide ebbed lowest and there came a sudden cessation in that stream of babbled madness, Garry Devereau lay so quiet that an oath jerked huskily from Fat Joe's lips; but when he had listened at the motionless chest he lifted his head and ...
— Then I'll Come Back to You • Larry Evans
... sidewalk, twenty steps from the clergyman's door, a pale-faced, fat man huskily enveloped him with a raised, red fist and the voice of a bell buoy, demanding ...
— The Trimmed Lamp and Others • O Henry
... Lard saw good to take my legs to Himsalf. Rack'n I knaw now." He reached out a huge hand, gripped the little rifleman and pulled him closer. "There's nawthin cut to waste in this world," he whispered huskily. "And it's my belieft He's been savin of em up this ten year past agin this day—to put the strength of em into your'n, Jack Knapp. May you make good use o both pairs—your own o the flesh, and mine o the sperrit!—that's my best prayer ...
— The Gentleman - A Romance of the Sea • Alfred Ollivant
... the old man huskily, 'I know what my duty in the matter really is. I ought to give you a good spanking, like this (whack!). But I haven't the heart to give you such a blow as you deserve. (Whack!) But the next time (whack!), I'm going to give you ...
— The Grammar School Boys of Gridley - or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving • H. Irving Hancock
... out of it to feel her cheek soft against his, her head trustfully on his shoulder. He said huskily, "All ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... present, yes," said the third mate huskily. "But I hope we'll meet again some other day to have a bit of ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne
... Mabel, who could speak, though her voice sounded huskily and smothered; "I have no fears, uncle, and will stay here until we know what has ...
— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper
... said huskily. "Maybe we'll meet someday again. I'll have my wife call—write to you so you can visit us before we have to come into ...
— Cerebrum • Albert Teichner
... to Yellow Handkerchief, who mumbled it huskily to his men. He was suffering from a bad cold, which doubled him up in convulsive coughing spells and made his eyes heavy and bloodshot. This made him more evil-looking than ever, and when he glared viciously at me I remembered with a shiver the ...
— Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories - Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews • Jack London
... him in the eyes, and a strong liking for him came over me. "I probably owe you my life," I said, huskily. "I know I do. And I hate—you must consider me ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister
... dragons myself. Scorched my tongue on one once," said the Cowardly Lion huskily. "But I'll fight with you, brother Hokus. Stand back, ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... me to say anything to help you just now," he answered huskily, "for after this I don't dare, Bobby. ...
— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp
... agree to be manager, at a fixed salary?" said James hurriedly and huskily, his fine fingers slowly rubbing each ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence
... Mlle. de Varion to the governor," he answered, huskily, "and that at the top of the hill that rises from the throne-shaped rock by the river road to Narjec is the burrow ...
— An Enemy To The King • Robert Neilson Stephens
... Micky huskily. "And perhaps—some day—do you ... do you ... think ... you could ever care for me more than ... than you cared for ... that other fellow, confound ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... President and wild-eyed Gail pushed through the knot of children huddled about the fallen heroine, and demanded huskily, "How is she? Not dead? Thank God! Any ...
— Heart of Gold • Ruth Alberta Brown
... said poor Tom huskily, "if he hadn't chosen just this time for it; but it will worry ...
— We Two • Edna Lyall
... the window, and said, somewhat huskily:—"I wish some of these here poor people, as they call themselves, would either go away to Aymericay, or keep their premises a bit cleaner; nobody wants 'em here that ever I've heard tell ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... world fer you," he said, huskily, and then he kissed her wet cheek again and again, and repeated his ability to thrash all comers in her cause, and stated his desire to undertake exactly that task for the term of her natural life. "If you was to marry me," he said, "they ...
— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland
... show herself, and Jim retired early. When he rose to say good-night, Cornelius jumped up, knocking his chair over, and ducked out of sight as if to pick up something he had dropped. His good-night came huskily from under the table. Jim was amazed to see him emerge with a dropping jaw, and staring, stupidly frightened eyes. He clutched the edge of the table. "What's the matter? Are you unwell?" asked Jim. ...
— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad
... I thought the whole affair would make such a row that Prescott would never be quite able to hold up his head in Gridley again," declared Drayne huskily. "But I thought that it would stop his thinking of ...
— The High School Captain of the Team - Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard • H. Irving Hancock
... path on the shore where the tide dragged huskily up and down the shingle without disturbing it, and thence up the steep crest of land opposite, whereon she lingered awhile to let the ass breathe. On one of the spires of chalk into which the hill here had been split was perched a cormorant, silent and motionless, with wings spread out to dry in ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy
... soft. "It was all my fault," she said huskily. "Let's begin over again, Evelyn." And under the stars they made a new ...
— Grace Harlowe's Problem • Jessie Graham Flower
... leave bygones alone," he answered, a little huskily. "I never minded your tandrums, knowing there was a good heart at the bottom. I only wished I was not such a dry old fellow, and that you could have been fonder of me. Perhaps you will understand me better some day, and——" Here he stopped and cleared his throat, and said "hir-rumph" once or twice, ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. • Various
... had come into his life; he thought of her rather with affectionate regard, and pictured her as a tall, slim girl in white. When he took a tall, slim girl in white in to dinner, he could not help saying huskily: ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... interposed the Seigneur huskily. Presently he laid a hand upon the Cure's arm. "Shall I ask her again?" he said, breathing hard. "Do you think she has found out ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... "Gents," he said huskily, while a gust of wind fanned a cloud of dust from his clothes, "is there anybody in this town can gimme a hoss to get to Stillwater, inside three ...
— Ronicky Doone • Max Brand
... here," and they took the arm-chairs that stood on the porch, and swung to and fro in silence for a little while. The sea came and went among the rocks below, marking its course in the deepening twilight with a white rope of foam, and raving huskily to itself, with now and then the long plunge of some heavier surge against the bowlders, and a hoarse shout. The Portland boat swam by in the offing, a glitter of irregular lights, and the lamps on the different points ...
— The Story of a Play - A Novel • W. D. Howells
... o' yourself, Louise," he added huskily. "If anything should happen to you, what—what would ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper
... bear it," he said, huskily; and, turning on his face, he kissed the grass, earth's "perfumed garment," ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
... use fer us to promise," Gess said huskily. "We're jest bound to holler when the fireworks begins to go off, even if we had ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various
... said huskily, "I want you to listen while I answer a question which, without speaking, you asked me—Why should I, a rough railroad contractor, esteem it an inestimable privilege to freely lay down my life for you? It is only because I love you, and have done so from the day we talked together ...
— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss
... bright light radiating from the candelabra and the chandelier—which they now saw for the first time without its fly-specked cover—that they gave way to most exuberant folly and indulged in the coarsest enjoyment. Their voices rose in the warm atmosphere more huskily and eulogistically at each successive dish till they could scarcely invent fresh compliments. However, one of them, an old retired master-tanner, hit upon this fine phrase—that the dinner was a "perfect feast ...
— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola
... door; but ere he had reached it Janice had overtaken him and seized his hand in both of hers. "You deserve to love a better maid," she said huskily, "and I wish you might; but perhaps 't will be some comfort to you to know that dadda holds to his promise, and—and that I am less wilful and more obedient, I hope, than ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... Bagley," he said huskily. "Or rather, don't say anything until we've seen Norris. Come on. We've got to ...
— The Long Voyage • Carl Richard Jacobi
... hand, Dear John and I surveyed our band. First to the cradle light we stepped, Where Lilian the baby slept, A glory 'gainst the pillow white. Softly the father stooped to lay His rough hand down in loving way, When dream or whisper made her stir, And huskily he said: ...
— McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... four broke toward the old priest's room. I jumped up, put on one boot, and holding the other in my hand, I stepped out in the yard, with my hat and coat off—both being left in the room. A Yankee captain stepped up to me and said, "Are you No. 200?" I answered very huskily, "No, sir, I am not." He then went on in the house, and on looking at the fence, I saw there was at least two hundred Yankee cavalry right at me. I did not know what to do. My hat, coat, gun, cartridge-box, and knapsack were all in ...
— "Co. Aytch" - Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment - or, A Side Show of the Big Show • Sam R. Watkins
... now were as colorless as his cheeks. "I'm surprised, hurt," he managed to say. "How should I know? Why, this is wretched—rotten! People will say that I've got in a mess with a married woman. That's what it looks like, too." His voice broke huskily. "How could you do it, when I meant my love to be clean, honorable? How could you let me put myself, and you, in ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach
... back an oath, and instinctively clenched his fist, but Ernestine already had moved on and was huskily chaffing the young man with the budding beard. Julot sat with sombre face and angry eyes, only replying in curt monosyllables to the occasional remarks of his next neighbour, Billy Tom. Marie, the waitress, was passing near him and he signed to ...
— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre
... regarded the mate sullenly. One of them, with a face mashed by some mad god in the making, and who was afterwards to be known by me as Larry, burst into a guffaw, and spat insolently on the deck. Then, with utmost deliberation, he turned to his fellows and demanded loudly and huskily: ...
— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London
... and he flinched, but repeated that what he had said was only the truth. "I don't understand; it was all beyond me," he added huskily. ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington
... whatever unfair means, of the same offence, is liable to be looked on with suspicion. And I shouldn't like"—for a second Sir Richard, who loved Chloe Carstairs as though she had been his daughter, faltered, and cleared his throat rather huskily—"I shouldn't like that poor, pretty creature over yonder ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... sermon," he said huskily; "I hope to get some help from that. But you!—you are making things harder for me every word you utter. You don't understand ...
— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen
... still, for a sun-browned, bearded man had crossed the threshold, and thrown a paper into her lap, saying huskily:— ...
— A Princess in Calico • Edith Ferguson Black
... huskily, looking down upon her with tears almost falling from his long-lashed, tender eyes. "I knew it would be hard to go. Love is like a fever, and makes one faint and weak. Oh! why did I let a little silly pride stand in the way of my happiness? Why did I promise ...
— The Scarlet Feather • Houghton Townley
... and the second head both away at once. But there were two good understudies ready trained—Skystein and Dr. Mary Mudd—with Mr. Hopkins as chairman to balance their powers. Michael Shay too, came to offer gruffly and huskily his help: "If I can do anything, like puttin' up cash, or fixin' anybody that's workin' agin you, count on Mike." Then after a pause he added, a little wistfully: "I ain't got many real friends, but I want to have them know ...
— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton
... said huskily, "I have in some degree complied with evil. But it is so with all: the very saints, in the mere exercise of living, grow less dainty, and take on the tone ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)
... "'Night," he said huskily. Again there was no hand-shaking; but as they reached the front door, Benjamin Wright called to Dr. Lavendar, who stepped back into the library. Mr. Wright had put on his hat, and was chewing orange-skin violently. ...
— The Awakening of Helena Richie • Margaret Deland
... victim had, meanwhile, been conveyed to an apartment on the ground floor of the hotel, where on his arrival he was immediately confronted with it; but no sign of remorse or regret was visible as he gazed upon the corpse. "Turn it over," he said huskily, after he had gazed for awhile upon the glazed eyes and the parted lips. "Let me see if he be really dead." His request was complied with; and as he became convinced that life had indeed departed from the already stiffening ...
— The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Julia Pardoe
... six," began the patient. When the young doctor, with a start, opened his eyes, he was counting huskily: "Tin hundred an' sixty-nine, tin hundred an' sivinty, tin ...
— Best Short Stories • Various
... huskily, passing his hand across his face. "Then don't forget, if—if you can't; but I'd hate to think of the ...
— Where the Souls of Men are Calling • Credo Harris
... huskily. There was no doubt that he had been deeply hurt. Lucy saw tears in his eyes, and her first impulse was to put a hand on his and tell him how sorry she was. But she desisted. She did not feel at ...
— Wildfire • Zane Grey
... went white as a sheet, and put his hand quickly up to his face. Cicely darted to his side with a frightened cry, and caught his hand away. He tried to smile, but it was a ghastly attempt. "Tush, tush! little one; 'twas something stung me!" said he, huskily, "Sing, Nicholas, I beg ...
— Master Skylark • John Bennett
... wonder if the words did as well," he said quickly, and so huskily, that Honor looked ...
— Honor Edgeworth • Vera
... silence: all in the room knew that the ship was lost, but it was terrible to hear it again. The lad's face broke into lines of grief, and he spoke huskily. ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson
... patiently at his manuscript, rewriting, condensing, pouring over it the sincere sweat of his brow and the light of his boarding-house lamp during most of the evenings of two years, until at last he was able to tell his confidants, rather huskily, that there was "not one single superfluous word in it," not one that could possibly be cut, nor one that could be changed without "altering the significance ...
— Harlequin and Columbine • Booth Tarkington
... war should not be over as soon as we all hope," he said, rather huskily, "I could escort you myself, in a few weeks' time, to the Cape. Or—or arrange for your going earlier if you desired, and if I could not get away. Probably you would get no further than Cape Town; but it might be easier for ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
... to the man that gets him!" shouted Doubleday, huskily. Some of the boys gave a whoop and began to look around, but they did not ...
— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman
... he asked, huskily. "Evelyn? This is her work, I feel; a piece of her bitter vengeance! Tell me the truth, Miriam—who has ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield
... he croaked huskily. Then he grinned. His Rosa would soon get married now, would soon have children, many little grandchildren-girls as small as this one, and he gazed once more at the floor. There she was, the little girl who could not reach up to the table. He had long ago chosen a ...
— Absolution • Clara Viebig
... smiling vacuously and clutching the type-script of The Girl who Waited, to the O.P. corner. I caught the eye of a tall lady in salmon-pink, and said "Good evening" huskily—my voice is always husky behind the scenes: elsewhere it is like some beautiful bell. A piercing whisper of "Sh-h-h-!" came from somewhere close at hand. This sort of thing does not help bright and sparkling conversation. I sh-h-hed, and ...
— Not George Washington - An Autobiographical Novel • P. G. Wodehouse
... it's not that," said the Sergeant huskily; "but they were both amongst the missing as I ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn
... lover, lifted her hand and called to him, and though he shrank from entering the throng he obeyed. Those who recognized him fell back with a sort of awe of his good-fortune. Helen reached her hand, saying, huskily, ...
— The Light of the Star - A Novel • Hamlin Garland
... he said huskily; "one of you chaps, in this bar to-day, called Macquarie a scoundrel, and a loafer, and a blackguard, and—and a sneak ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... whether you believe I am going to another existence,—and if so, what sort of a one you think is in prospect for such a man as I am? Now don't pity me, my dear Bonpre,- -don't pity me!—" and he laughed a little huskily as the Cardinal took his hand and pressed it with a silent sympathy more eloquent than words, "We must all die,—and if I am to go somewhat sooner than I expected, that is nothing to compassionate me for. But there is just a little uncertainty in my mind,—I am not at ...
— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli
... you're afraid," continued Ralph, huskily. "You little wild bird, you've been in a cage all your life. I'm going to open the door and ...
— A Spinner in the Sun • Myrtle Reed
... up, with his eyes looking the darker for his flushed face. "Gentlemen," he said huskily, "thar's only one thing to be done. A lot of us have got to ride over to Sawyer's Dam tomorrow morning and pick up as many square men as we can muster; there's a big camp meeting goin' on there, and there ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... Wilhelm phrases it, in those confused old documents and Cabinet Letters of his; [Forster, i. 374, 379, &c.] which awaken a strange feeling in the attentive reader; and show us the ruggedest of human creatures melted into blubbering tenderness, and growling huskily something which we perceive is real prayer. Here has a business fallen out, such as ...
— History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 7 • Thomas Carlyle
... Yangee kirls no more;" and how at last Uncle Andrew walked home with her, I have not time to tell. When the Philosopher bade her adieu, he called her names which she did not understand. But she turned back to him, and after a minute's hesitation, spoke huskily. "Uncle Andrew if he—if he ...
— The End Of The World - A Love Story • Edward Eggleston
... dear old miss," said Bones, passing a weary and hypocritical hand across his brow. "Just a fit of the jolly old staggers. The fact is, I've been keeping late hours—in fact, dear young miss," he said huskily, "I have been engaged in a wicked old ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace
... said James huskily. "I think I may say we've settled to go. Hamlyn has got a letter from a cousin of his, who is making a fortune; and besides, I've got tired of the ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... life, nor men, nor women," he said huskily and clutched her hands in his. "If life cheats and injures you, you have a right to snatch what joy you can. It's not only what you do to love, but what you do to yourself, that counts. For ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock
... it," said she, huskily; "it seemed worse than killing myself. I believe it would have killed me to have stood before him, with his eyes upon my face, and ...
— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne
... the boyishness in Peter's tone. James Thorold wheeled around until he faced him. "Peter," he said huskily, "there's something you'll have to know before I go to Forsland—if ever I go to Forsland. You'll have to decide." The boy shrank from the ominous cadence of the words. "Why, I can't judge for you, dad," he said awkwardly. "Our children ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... "No," he said huskily, "I didn't find it on the stairs. It was given to me by Jack Bevens, on the top floor. If you don't believe it, ask him. I'll wait until ...
— Options • O. Henry
... said huskily, his voice sounding as if it came from the next room,—"Maria, I s'pose you ...
— The Life of Nancy • Sarah Orne Jewett
... operator to a chair, and O'Neill ran to the inner room. The moment his eye covered the order book he saw what had happened. "Extra 81 is against a passenger special," exclaimed O'Neill, huskily, seizing the key. "There's the order—Extra 81 from Cambridge to meet Number 50 at Sumter and Special 833 has orders to Cambridge, and nothing against Extra 81. If I can't catch the freight ...
— The Daughter of a Magnate • Frank H. Spearman
... into the coupe quickly, as if he were hiding from some pursuing danger. "Home!" said he, huskily, and in a whimpering voice. "Home! Good God! I wish ...
— Sevenoaks • J. G. Holland
... done, Brokaw?" he asked huskily. "What if you had a wife, an' she told you that another man had insulted her, and was forcing his attentions on her, and she asked you to give up your job and take her away? Would you have done it, Brokaw? No, you wouldn't. You'd have hunted up the man. That's what I did. He had been drinking—just ...
— Back to God's Country and Other Stories • James Oliver Curwood
... intelligible in the circumstances. As he entered his unfamiliar marble halls he staggered, and his red eyes rolled and his mouth gaped in a cod-like fashion. "They've been at it 'ere, too, seemin'ly," he remarked huskily. ...
— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey
... the news from the North—that my little girl was motherless—and fatherless; and then came my little girl herself. She was a very little girl then; a sad and lonely little girl; but"—Sir Peter cleared his throat, and spoke huskily and slowly—"but she brought comfort to me. There was something in life for me again—besides my work. My work I always had. I thanked God for that. I need not tell you, John, how this little girl crept into my heart, nor how her small fingers smoothed away the wrinkles ...
— Old Valentines - A Love Story • Munson Aldrich Havens
... he said huskily. "Fifteen years you and me's been together, and if we haven't hit it as we might, well, it was only natural, me being an Englishman and you almost a black; but it's this as brings us all together, natives and furreners, and all. He was a ...
— The Dark House - A Knot Unravelled • George Manville Fenn
... back to your barracks; if you fire, you must die for it!" exclaimed he, in a deep voice. Preston stared at him, hardly seeming to see him, and quivering with agitation. "Stand aside —I know what I'm about," he replied huskily. As the soldiers reached the sentinel's post and faced about in a semicircle, the crowd fell back, and there were voices calling "Home—home!" The soldiers began to load, pouring the powder and ball into the muzzles of their guns, and ramming the charge home sharply ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne
... yacht near, Ned?" said Jack huskily. "What's that to you?" cried the man fiercely. "You mind your lesson. Ought to know better than that. I want to see you swim well, and you were doing beautiful before you began to talk. No, you ain't getting tired. If you was, as I told you, I'd ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn
... you, my lad," said the old man huskily. "You have saved our pretty flower. All Pendlepoint will thank you ...
— Thankful Rest • Annie S. Swan
... her, and beneath the gaze of the other boys his eyes were those of a little hunted animal at bay. "Bethlehem," he said, huskily. ...
— Stories Worth Rereading • Various
... Court at Boggs City, after hearing the evidence, at once entered the appointment of Mr. Crow. When the court asked in mild surprise why he did not adopt the child, Anderson and Eva looked at each other sheepishly and were silent for a full minute. Then Anderson spoke up a bit huskily: ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon
... man, huskily. "No, no, Mary! It can't be! It must not be! Richard Peveril is dead, and the contract is void. He has no claim on the Copper Princess. It is all mine. Mine and yours. But don't let him know. Keep the secret for one week longer—only ...
— The Copper Princess - A Story of Lake Superior Mines • Kirk Munroe
... the carriage. In his eyes you could read the question, "What in the devil's name does the child mean?" The robust woman read it there, and answered him huskily— ...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... for? Do you mean to tell me she thinks I took the money?" he said, huskily, after ...
— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs
... anything. I always said you had good blood in you, don't you know," Hugh continued, with a boyish laugh, then added, a little huskily, "I'll say this much, and I mean it. I would rather give up what I supposed was mine to you than to anybody ...
— That Mainwaring Affair • Maynard Barbour
... place," she whispered, huskily. "And they say he comes here. Poor boy! He isn't what he ...
— Ten Nights in a Bar Room • T. S. Arthur
... God, Miles," answered my worthy guardian, still pacing the piazza, the tears running down his cheeks in streams, and speaking so huskily as barely to be intelligible; "yes, we will have the prayers of the congregation next Sunday morning; and most devout and heartfelt prayers they will be; for her own sainted mother was not more deservedly loved! To be called away so young—to ...
— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper
... he heard the news. To conceal his distress he moved toward the door. Anywhere to get away from the girl to whom he feared he would betray himself. "I'll join 'em," he huskily answered. ...
— The Round-up - A Romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama • John Murray and Marion Mills Miller
... madame?" the Secretary inquired a trifle huskily; his throat was becoming somewhat parched by the ...
— The Cab of the Sleeping Horse • John Reed Scott
... were holding on to each other on the other side of the door, and trembling with anxiousness - and very hoarse with their howls. They could hardly speak, but Cyril managed to reply huskily: ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... hill they had a narrow escape from stumbling on a Boer picket. The sentry heard if he did not see the line of crouching figures that passed him like ghosts in the darkness with stealthy steps that must have sounded weird across the night stillness. In a voice huskily vibrant, he challenged, "Wie kom dar?" Getting no reply, he called again twice in louder tones, and then fired his rifle at nothing in particular. Then, the whole picket waking, or beginning to realise that danger was near, let off ...
— Four Months Besieged - The Story of Ladysmith • H. H. S. Pearse
... he said, rather huskily. "But I want you altogether—for my very own. I don't want to have to part with you at the gate of The Cottage. You don't understand; but I don't want you to. But, Nell, as we are going to be married, we might as well be ...
— Nell, of Shorne Mills - or, One Heart's Burden • Charles Garvice
... 'bout?" he demanded huskily. "Getting up rev'lution, I s'pose. A'right; only thing to do in this country. Only don't ask me to be pres'dent. Nor good enough. Goo' night, boys; don't cut my throat by mistake. Gor bless ...
— The Purple Land • W. H. Hudson
... so likely to save us both," he said huskily, and then could think of nothing more to say. He drew her to him as though to kiss her, but a blind movement of the old rage with him or circumstance leapt in her, and she pulled herself away. The thought of that ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... broke her heart to leave us," returned his father huskily. "Dear heart, how she prayed that we might be spared that parting; but the ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... huskily, "whether it is really necessary for me to assure you of the tremendous burden of obligation that ...
— Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock
... got you at last!" growled a stern voice almost in his ear, it seemed; and poor Billiard's hands shot high into the air, he shut his eyes, held his breath and waited for the end. But to his utter amazement, a second voice huskily replied, after an instant, "Yes, you've got me, boys. I knew it was no use to run away, but—I—couldn't bear—to stay—and know that everyone looked at me as a thief. I ...
— Tabitha's Vacation • Ruth Alberta Brown
... me, Frances," I said huskily, as the door swung wide and a shaft of light fell upon a figure moving rapidly. Mabel was going down the corridor. Beyond her, in the shadows on the staircase, a second ...
— The Damned • Algernon Blackwood
... "Yes," said the man huskily. "She said she'd let me know, one way or another, when it is safe to do so. Don't cry, Ruby. They're better off. They couldn't 'ave stayed on, God knows. And God will ...
— The Rose in the Ring • George Barr McCutcheon
... huskily, leaning far over the corpse, and, needle in hand, menacing his companion with his aguish fist. "Take that back, or I'll throttle your lean bag of ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... was useless. Short circuited by moisture, no doubt. He crouched there, calling huskily to Ulana. She must run for it; force her way into the thick undergrowth where the thing could not reach her. She lay there, helpless with terror. Then, in a flash, she was on her feet dashing to his side. God, the huge head was poised there again! Pulsating! ...
— The Copper-Clad World • Harl Vincent
... vanished within the darkness. Leaning far over to listen, the young miner heard the bucket touch bottom, and then, with a quick word of warning to the man grasping the handle, he swung himself out on the taut rope, and went swiftly down, hand over hand. Mike, still grumbling huskily to himself, waited until the windlass ceased vibrating, securely anchored the handle with a strip of raw-hide, and composedly sat down, his teeth set firmly on the pipe-stem, his eyes already half closed. It was an obstinate, mulish old face, ...
— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish
... tempt me from my faith to you, Wallace," she huskily murmured. "Oh!" she cried, with a sudden start, as a warning whistle blew, "does that ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... was well, I became suddenly exhausted, and went forward slowly. I reached the red blanket, and looked down. Yes, all was well. A hunting knife lay in an open bundle. I stooped and seized it, and hurled it far into the water, and then I asked, rather huskily, a question that had not been ...
— Montlivet • Alice Prescott Smith
... in their boy she had attributed it to that. But early one evening he came in with a sheaf of roses in his arms, and when she had exclaimed at them and breathed deep of their dewy fragrance, Joe bent over and kissed her, and said a little huskily: ...
— His Second Wife • Ernest Poole
... it was clear to the old man, he laid his hand upon the head of the young girl and whispered huskily, "I cannot thank you as I would, or tell you what's in my heart, God ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes
... too,' the slow one sang huskily as he stumbled along with difficulty 'but there's never any hurry. I'll fill their journeys with desire and make adventure call ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood
... between his sister's and his mother's arms and kissed by them both. Mr. Paget, picking his paper from the floor beside his chair, took an arm-chair by the fire, stirred the coals noisily, and while cleaning his glasses, observed rather huskily that the little girl always knew, she could come back again if anything ...
— Mother • Kathleen Norris
... MR. BUMSTEAD, huskily; himself taking a seat upon a coal-scuttle near at hand, with considerable violence. "I'm glad you aroused me from a dreadful dream of reptiles. I sh'pose you want me ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 • Various
... She broke off huskily, and Noel, out of pity for her, got up and walked to the other end of the little room. When he got back she had recovered, and ...
— A Beautiful Alien • Julia Magruder
... yes," said the skipper huskily, "that is just about the sum and substance of it. But don't you trouble about us, or about your sister and the rest of them either for that matter. We shall be all right, never fear. The island yonder, ...
— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood
... take that off you, Phil," he said, a bit huskily, "if we hadn't been friends and I didn't realize that you sure would never say it in your right mind. I'm ...
— Rival Pitchers of Oakdale • Morgan Scott
... "Well," he said, huskily, "what I have dreaded has come. The men I have given up everything for have turned against me. No, you must not think I am sorry for what I have done, and it was right then; but they have listened to some of the crazy fools from Europe and are letting loose anarchy. I and the ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... a trifle huskily, perhaps, "why, Shipmate!" and he held out his hands. Then Small Porges uttered a cry, and came running, and next moment Big Porges had him in ...
— The Money Moon - A Romance • Jeffery Farnol
... poor Prescott's romance—I never knew him, but shall always think of him as a swift and vehement spirit—was told very huskily by Jaffery beneath the wistaria arbour. Tears rolled down Barbara's and Doria's cheeks. My wife's sympathetic little hand slid into Liosha's. With her other hand Liosha fondled it. I am sure it was rather gratitude for this little feminine act than poignant emotion ...
— Jaffery • William J. Locke
... He did not recollect where to put it. Nellie, understanding, took it from his fingers and pushed him gently by the arm towards his wife. He knelt down by the weeping woman's side and put his hands on the head that was bent to the ground. "Sue," he said, huskily, not knowing what to say. "Don't take on ...
— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller
... voice and answered huskily, laying one hand upon his chest, and with the other gesturing up by the Winslow elm to ...
— Bylow Hill • George Washington Cable
... have come home," he said a little huskily, "come home to see you all once more. The old place never ...
— Tom Tufton's Travels • Evelyn Everett-Green
... farewells were hurried; Alan seemed voiceless, only nodding in reply to Mary's vociferous messages to Harry, and huskily whispering to Ethel, "Good luck ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... on Fletcher's beard, and as he wiped it away he spoke huskily. "It's a clear case of assault and I'll have the law on him," he said. "Sam Murray, you saw him hit ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... me?" Trent said huskily. "I'm Scarlett Trent—we went up to Bekwando together, you know. I thought you were dead, Monty, or ...
— A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... down over his work again, silent for a minute, to my discomfiture, but at last he spoke, almost huskily. ...
— "Surly Tim" - A Lancashire Story • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... that hung about old Sol seemed to have got into his throat; for he spoke huskily. His hand shook too, as he clinked his glass against his nephew's. But having once got the wine to his lips, he tossed it off like a ...
— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens
... he were not the victim of some practical joke, and if there were not a crowd of listeners hidden somewhere, who, after enjoying his discomfiture, would suddenly make their appearance, holding their sides. This fear restored his presence of mind. "Well, then," he replied, huskily, "this is my reason. I know nothing respecting my parents. This morning, a man with whom you are well acquainted, assured me that I was—your son. I was completely stunned at first, but after a while I recovered sufficiently ...
— Baron Trigault's Vengeance - Volume 2 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau
... said Laura, speaking huskily, with her head bent over the bronze insect. 'What can it mean?' she asked again, and looked up ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... Barker, rather huskily; "we were in hopes that we had seen the last of them, but they made an attack last night. We did not know till quite late this morning, when a man from the next claim went down to the bar nearest ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... huskily, covering both her hands with one of his and crushing them. "If you left him now and came ...
— The Letter of the Contract • Basil King |
