"Resentfully" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... need care," she protested half resentfully. "Other folk dunnot. I'm left to mysen most o' toimes." Her head fell again and she trembled from ...
— That Lass O' Lowrie's - 1877 • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... bellowed Slim, popping up from below on a heaving horse. Slim was getting fatter every year, and his horses always puffed when they climbed a hill under his weight. His round eyes glared resentfully at the man and the shack and at the three who were sitting there so quietly on their horses—just as if they had ridden up for a friendly call. "Ain't this shack on your land?" ...
— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower
... this time, no word of the author; but Hugh, as he walked by her side, broke out resentfully, "Do ...
— The Light of the Star - A Novel • Hamlin Garland
... to the window confused and absorbed, with something of the dread of a woman who finds herself suddenly with child. When Ulick came to her she did not notice him, and when he asked her to do some music with him she refused, and when he put his arms about her she drew away sullenly, almost resentfully. ...
— Evelyn Innes • George Moore
... resentfully, "an' you'll always be thrown' it up to me afterwards that I done you out ...
— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson
... eyes glittered resentfully. A flush crept into the center of either cheek as she walked towards him. Though he did not intend it, there was perhaps too strong a suggestion of command in his attitude, and when Helen came abreast of him, he laid a hand restrainingly upon her arm. She shook ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss
... growled resentfully. "Yer kin believe er not just as you please, but, so help me, that's the truth. I reckon ...
— Gordon Craig - Soldier of Fortune • Randall Parrish
... bring his cigar into the drawing-room, for Tante would smoke her cigarette with him, and there, until bedtime, things went as well as they had at dinner—or as badly; for part of their badness, Gregory more and more resentfully became aware, was that they were made to seem to go well, from her ...
— Tante • Anne Douglas Sedgwick
... the mother cows licked the blood from their offsprings' mangled ears and mooed resentfully, but the big white-faced steer stood in brutish content on the salting grounds and gazed after the ...
— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge
... in that way at all," said Elinor resentfully. "I think you have been very fortunate, as I suppose you would have married somebody in any case. I believe you are able to appreciate ...
— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw
... there's horror, there's beauty, wonder; The trench lights gleam and the rockets play. That flood of magnificent orange yonder Is a battery blazing miles away. With a rush and a singing a great shell passes; The rifles resentfully bicker and brawl, And here I crouch in the dew-drenched grasses, And look and ...
— Rhymes of a Red Cross Man • Robert W. Service
... the Constitution and laws of the United States, the President has no power to remove the Secretary of War and to designate any other officer to perform the duties of that office ad interim." The Senate could do nothing more than express and record this opinion, but it did that promptly, resentfully, ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
... He was not sufficiently versed in the study of human nature to know that it has always been thus with men and women, since Eve tried to share her apple with Adam and only got blamed for her pains. Austin blamed himself, bitterly and resentfully, and decided afresh that he was the most utterly ungrateful and unworthy of men. His reflections made ...
— The Old Gray Homestead • Frances Parkinson Keyes
... bears the scars of a hundred fights. One eye has been lost in some long-forgotten encounter. Now they walk over him, kittens and all, and tread about his head, as if he were a hillock of earth, while his claws twitch resentfully with rage or pain. ...
— Alone • Norman Douglas
... it means running to seed, a weakening of the will and the vital force. If I remained too long in that lovely land—so admirably governed that I could not have lost myself, or my cat, had I possessed one—I should in no long course yield utterly to a certain resentfully admitted tendency to dream and drift and live for pure beauty; finally desert my own country with the comfortable reflection: Why all this bustle, this desire to excel, to keep in the front rank, to find pleasure in ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 • Various
... now?" cried Cal Emmett resentfully, feeling that, in the light of what had gone before, Andy could not possibly make a ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... lips resentfully together, and Jude followed her like a pet lamb till she slackened her pace and walked beside him, talking calmly on indifferent subjects, and always checking him if he tried to take her hand or clasp her waist. Thus they descended to the precincts of her father's ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... simply walked over; he made straight for them as though there was nothing but empty space before him, and never, under any circumstances, turned aside. I gloated over my resentment watching him and ... always resentfully made way for him. It exasperated me that even in the street I could not be on an even ...
— Notes from the Underground • Feodor Dostoevsky
... the man of tense, would thrust his hand under his peruke, and rub, rub, rub his polished scalp, which all the while effused a divine ichor—(poets never perspire)—and, when he was gently reminded that his wig was a little awry towards the left side, he would pluck it, resentfully, equally as much awry on the right; and then, to punish the offending and displacing hand, he would commence gnawing off the nails of his fingers, rich with the moisture from above. We have recorded this little personal trait, because it may be valuable to the ...
— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard
... he did?" returned Louise, resentfully; she did not in the least know what her friend's husband did, and he was no more there to speak for himself than ...
— The Story of a Play - A Novel • W. D. Howells
... pain in one foot so intense as to deaden all other pain. It was the foot that had been caught under the horse. "I think I'm all right," she murmured, in a constrained tone and, in her manner, briefly. "How did you find me here?" she asked, almost resentfully. ...
— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman
... together, Miss Claire. Don't you remember? Oh (looking resentfully at the others) don't let any little thing spoil it for you—the work of all those days—the hope ...
— Plays • Susan Glaspell
... with Melvina Lyon if she likes her so much," thought Luretta resentfully, and started off up the slope. Luretta was nearly as tidy as when she left home, so she would have no explanations to make on her return. As she went up the slope she turned now and then and looked ...
— A Little Maid of Old Maine • Alice Turner Curtis
... Stephen's resistance, gave her an uncomfortable feeling of helplessness. Even when her son acquiesced, as he did usually in her demands, she suspected that his acquiescence was merely on the surface, that in the depths of his mind he was, as she said to herself resentfully, "holding ...
— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow
... that again," said Frank, resentfully; "my brother is a noble-hearted fellow; I love him as I do myself. You don't understand me, White-Jacket; don't you see, that when my brother arrives, he must consort more or less with our chuckle-headed ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... and regret; her manner to me is a sort of cold defiance, not to dare to revive our old intimacy, nor to fancy that I can take up our acquaintanceship from the past. I almost fancied she looked resentfully at the Greek girl for the freedom to which she admitted me—not but there was in the other's coquetry the very stamp of that levity other women are so ready to take offence at; in fact, it constitutes amongst women exactly the same ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever
... direction of her eyes, and found a bright yellow motor car, with dark goggled driver and fur-clad passengers, whooping, throbbing, and buzzing resentfully at his heel. He moved his foot, and the mechanism, with three angry snorts, resumed its fussy way towards the town. "Filling up the roadway!" floated up ...
— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells
... that," said Alick, rather resentfully, "than sympathy that she wants. Nobody ever gave her that except your Ermine! By-the-bye, is there any news ...
— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge
... drew back resentfully. "I wish you wouldn't touch my hair," he said. "I know it's nasty dry hair. It's a sore point with me. I think you should ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... him a young pup, Robert MacLaurin," retorted Miss Vost resentfully. "He is a fine young man. I admire him and I respect him very, ...
— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts
... acute that Norma was inwardly surprised, and a little impressed. She sat down at one end of the clean little kitchen table, and rested her face in her hands, and looked resentfully at the older woman. ...
— The Beloved Woman • Kathleen Norris
... over her biscuit dough, Claire listened to their talk resentfully. She wished they would keep still, but she said nothing. They went ahead, demonstrating, she thought bitterly, the truth of ...
— Claire - The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author • Leslie Burton Blades
... itself, where the Emperor had received them as guests, they had robbed and ravaged and burned as if they had been in an enemy's country; and when at last he had persuaded them to cross over to Asia, they had left the great city half sacked behind them, so that the Emperor's heart was resentfully hardened against every ...
— Via Crucis • F. Marion Crawford
... once, smoothed her hair and looked a little resentfully at Lessingham. He was wearing a brown tweed knickerbocker suit, and he carried a gun under ...
— The Zeppelin's Passenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... slowly, lazily, and let them rove aimlessly about the bright cabin; then, chancing to come upon Jessie and Evelyn sleeping sweetly and peacefully, they stopped and focused resentfully. ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... as soon as the number preceding was over; he wanted, not only to miss none of it, but he hungered to snatch all the prelude he could. The conventional-looking young personage she had been dancing with regarded the approaching Mr. Heatherbloom rather resentfully, but he moved straight as an arrow for her. At once she stepped toward him, and he soon found himself walking with her across the smooth shining floor, on into the great conservatory. Here were soft shadows and wondrous perfumes. ...
— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham
... thought a little enviously; "they are both devoted to him, and he certainly returns their affection. He is good and kind to every one but me," she continued resentfully: "if Dinah had said that, he would not have answered her so curtly and then turned on his heel and left her." Here Elizabeth wilfully ignored the fact that Cedric had signalled to him ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... to take me on the river," said Tishy in a low voice to Larry, looking resentfully ...
— Mount Music • E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross
... he reached for his hat and cane: "I must go somewhere," he complained resentfully. "The saints of my generation are enjoying the saint's rest. Nobody is left but a few long-lived sinners, of whom I am a great part. They are the best I can find, and I suppose they are the ...
— The Mettle of the Pasture • James Lane Allen
... Joan had waited for him. She had given him precedence over the few other young men of the village, a fact she resentfully believed he did not appreciate. Jim was unsatisfactory in every way except in the way he cared for her. And that ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey
... men she had met since she became a widow treated her as an irresponsible being. Many of them tried to flirt with her for the mere pleasure of flirting with so pretty a woman; others, so she was resentfully aware, had only become really interested in her when they became aware that she had been left by her husband with an income of two thousand pounds a year. She had had several offers of marriage since her widowhood, but not one of the men who had come and said he loved her had confessed ...
— The Chink in the Armour • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... in thunderation he was to manage to cram all that confounded truck into the limited amount of trunk space at his command. He was also wondering, resentfully in the names of a dozen familiar spirits, where he had put his pipe: it's simply maddening, the way a fellow's pipe will persist in getting lost at such critical times as when he's packing up to catch a train with not a minute to spare.... ...
— The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance
... a trifle resentfully. Mrs. Hildreth, like many busy people, was an adept at pointing ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... having nothing else to say. A few Cockneys inquired resentfully why somebody didn't do something. Then the word went round that all were out but one. A woman was left at the top. A sick hush fell. Away in the upper regions a voice was wailing. The women turned pale, and one or two edged away. The men whistled ...
— Nights in London • Thomas Burke
... do wi' th' work'us?" Polly asked resentfully, and seized the bread under one arm and the remains of the haddock ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann
... resentfully, as if to imply that it would require something more than that line of persuasion to ...
— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici
... away from the woman who looked at her so analytically, so resentfully. She got up nervously and picked up ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White
... played with the silken reins of her camel. Behind her veil a sarcastic smile played about the corners of her mouth. Aquila watched her resentfully, waiting with an immense reserve of caustic words for her refusal to ...
— The City of Delight - A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem • Elizabeth Miller
... opposition, nay, rather support and applause. But when he brought the clergy and monks also within the circle of his condemnation, and began to upbraid them for their covetousness, their ambition, their luxury, their sloth, and for other vices, they turned resentfully upon him, and sought to undermine his authority, everywhere spreading reports of ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... not fiercely or resentfully, but in a sort of meditative, passive despair. A sense of the wickedness, the cruelty there was in the world, the hopelessness of struggling against it, of disentangling fact from falsehood, of silencing ...
— Christian's Mistake • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... had succeeded in arousing his brother, Pepper Blake, and the latter's bunk mate, Dick Wilson, who gazed out a little resentfully, as they threw back the sash, but whose faces quickly brightened at the scene that ...
— The Boy Scouts on the Yukon • Ralph Victor
... rest until I came to you," said the nurse resentfully. "She would have you told that she felt strangely, and before you went forth would have a ...
— A Lady of Quality • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... it out," replied the mother, half resentfully, and kissing him upon the forehead pretended to busy herself with the ...
— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson
... wistfully at first, as he passed, he soon ran, singing or shouting, by the door, with no thought of the little companion who used to wait to join him there. When at length he took to coming in again for his screw of sweets, Mrs. Day would look away from him resentfully, leaving him to Mr. Pretty to serve. She could not bring herself to speak to the child who was alive and well, and happy with his acid-drops, while Franky lay ...
— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann
... to be spied upon like this, surely!" I said resentfully. "Have you done anything to arouse her suspicions that you are not—well, not exactly what you pretend ...
— The Count's Chauffeur • William Le Queux
... front, and showed their style even through the lack of polish and the coating of dust and ashes. The gauntlets also, though worn and old, were innocent of grease. This was no cub fireman, said Ben, resentfully, as he revolved in mind a scheme or two that should take the stuffing of conceit out of him, when suddenly he paused. "Why, certainly," Ben had it, just another case such as he had been reading about, how the sons of successful railway magnates, discarding wealth ...
— To The Front - A Sequel to Cadet Days • Charles King
... silence for a while, still quickly breathing, Then started up and walked about the room resentfully: "O woman, witch, whom I, in sooth, against my will have wedded, Why castedst thou thy ...
— Late Lyrics and Earlier • Thomas Hardy
... Colonel," said the Governor, and thus dealt the Colonel's pride a wound that was to smart resentfully for many a week. At the moment it struck him silent, and sent him stamping out of the shed in a rage for which he could ...
— Captain Blood • Rafael Sabatini
... presence before, and he put his arm round her again, but this time almost unconsciously, and drew her toward him. She did not repel him; she even allowed her head to rest a moment on his shoulder; though she quickly lifted it, and drew herself away, not resentfully, it seemed, but for her greater freedom ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... a few on the bushes," she said rather resentfully, when the berry-pickers had recounted their experiences with an enthusiasm which gave to the expedition through the pasture the glamor of real adventure, "I'd like the fun of ...
— Peggy Raymond's Vacation - or Friendly Terrace Transplanted • Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith
... to find three pairs of eyes on him. He thought resentfully over his ten years of journalism; then, with a warm rush of satisfaction, he saw the elaborate little flat in Ryder Street, the bathroom poster of "A Divorce Has Been Arranged," the envelopes from his agent Grierson, containing cheques for—what would they ...
— The Education of Eric Lane • Stephen McKenna
... back a little. "Nanni is the naughtiest goat in the whole flock," she said resentfully. "If it weren't for getting my lunch back, I ...
— The Swiss Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... this palpable hit, spoke resentfully. "Oh, I dare say they'd make a good team,—one's a prude ...
— Under Fire • Charles King
... came to the apartment; Boswell shrank from them, not bitterly or resentfully, but sensitively. Men took him more or less for granted when he touched their lives; women overdid the determination, on their parts, to set him at ease. Long since he had turned his poor, misshapen back upon the very natural and legitimate desire for the ...
— The Place Beyond the Winds • Harriet T. Comstock
... plenty of times before, and never had a drop too much," said Tom, rather resentfully, "and I was just going away last night, when Dixon offered me another glass; and Allison laughed and said, 'Don't you take it, young 'un; head ain't strong and temper too short.' And I told him I could drink against ...
— The Village by the River • H. Louisa Bedford
... is there too. When I wish to know if he is at home, I go and rap upon his tree, and, if he is not too lazy or indifferent, after some delay he shows his head in his round doorway about ten feet above, and looks down inquiringly upon me—sometimes latterly I think half resentfully, as much as to say, "I would thank you not to disturb me so often." After sundown, he will not put his head out any more when I call, but as I step away I can get a glimpse of him inside looking cold and reserved. He is a late riser, especially if ...
— Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers • John Burroughs
... lightly, Thompson rather preoccupied. It was turning out so different from what he had fondly imagined it would be. He had envisaged a mode of living and a manner of people, a fertile field for his labors, which he began to perceive resentfully could never have existed save in his imagination. He had been full of the impression, and the advice and information bestowed upon him by the Board of Missions had served to heighten the impression, that in Lone Moose he would fill a crying want. ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... stared stupidly at his left leg where, midway between his knee and his foot, it turned out at an unnatural angle. He thought resentfully that he had had enough trouble for once, without having a broken leg on top of ...
— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower
... had asked Gyp to come to her after school. It was a glorious winter day and Gyp's friends were playing hockey on the little lake. Gyp had faced Miss Gray resentfully. ...
— Highacres • Jane Abbott
... completed, when he espied fairies walk out of the mansion, all of whom were, with their dangling lotus sleeves, and their fluttering feather habiliments, as comely as spring flowers, and as winsome as the autumn moon. As soon as they caught sight of Pao-y, they all, with one voice, resentfully reproached the Monitory Vision Fairy. "Ignorant as to who the honoured guest could be," they argued, "we hastened to come out to offer our greetings simply because you, elder sister, had told us that, on this ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... was pleased to see how the scrawny waitress purred at Walter when he gave his order. Actually she was feeling resentfully that no saw-voiced, galumphing Amazon of a waitress ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis
... emotionally. "Baby was feverish when you left. You remember, perhaps, that I was worried and did not like being left alone?" she concluded resentfully, her eyes refusing to ...
— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
... hearing of their jailors. Soon afterwards Clare went to her tent. Stonor watched her disappear with a gripping pain at his heart, wondering if he would ever see her again. "She might have looked her good-night," he thought resentfully, even while better sense told him she had refrained from looking at him only because such indications of an understanding always ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
... beg you will not think that," she said, flushing almost resentfully. "I have thought these things, as the Scripture tells us to meditate on the Law, day and night, sleeping and waking, standing up and ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... thanks I get for furnishing some means of transportation," said Roy resentfully. "Well, I don't know that I ...
— Rival Pitchers of Oakdale • Morgan Scott
... for Gorky's reply. He appeared to have swallowed something the wrong way. It was just like them to wait, CONFOUND them, thought he resentfully. ...
— Her Weight in Gold • George Barr McCutcheon
... spoke up, resentfully. He lifted his battered face on his elbow, and lisped through the gap Lynch's fist had made in his teeth. "Number seven hundred and three wasn't so finicky about his pals the time he jumped the dead line, and ...
— The Blood Ship • Norman Springer
... they had been before, but anyhow Bell Robson's voice was heard calling Sylvia through the second door, which opened from the dairy to the house-place, in which her mother had been till this moment asleep. Sylvia darted off in obedience to the call; glad to leave him, as at the moment Kinraid resentfully imagined. Through the open door he heard the conversation between mother and daughter, almost unconscious of its meaning, so difficult did he find it to wrench his thoughts from the ideas he had just been forming with Sylvia's bright ...
— Sylvia's Lovers — Complete • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... I'm sorry," she murmured, longing to have it over and to return to Jane and the children. It occurred to her almost resentfully that love was not always an ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... resentfully, muttering as she did so, "I'm not little—I'm seven; and Towzer isn't made ...
— A Christmas Posy • Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth
... a bit resentfully. I was not quite sure that I liked her high-handed way of disposing of me as if I were a child. Then as I felt her keen eyes upon me I knew that she was reading my thoughts, and I felt mightily ashamed of ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... them together, all of them," he said, "I'd like to make them——" Words failed him and again he sat down on the log beside the woman. "Well I'd like to lead them to an old mine shaft and push them in," he concluded resentfully. ...
— Marching Men • Sherwood Anderson
... may talk," said she resentfully. "How much longer must this go on? Why do not you make your call and ...
— The Leopard Woman • Stewart Edward White et al
... not—not seeing things again, auntie," she said in an anxious voice, her eyes fixed resentfully upon the detested crystal. "You know Dr. Valmer forbade you—practicing for at least ...
— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum
... on the morrow he would not surrender to this feminine invulnerability. She had not done anything that he had expected of her and so inasmuch as he loved her he loved her more. It was bewitching. He half considered himself a fool. But at any rate he thought resentfully she should be thankful to him for having rendered her a great service. However, when he came to consider this proposition he knew that on a basis of absolute manly endeavour he had rendered her ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane
... second subject, "Transcendentalism," had been assigned her, she felt "old Adam" beginning to stir resentfully again, for she was impressed that, when the topic came up for discussion, certain members of the club intended to make her the target for ...
— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... spectacles the eyes of Bleyer gleamed resentfully. "You'll have to ask Mr. Kilmeny how he makes his living. ...
— The Highgrader • William MacLeod Raine
... resentfully. He did not like these taunts, and would have assaulted him had he dared, but the new-comer was powerfully built, and evidently an unsafe man to take liberties with. He threw himself back on the pallet ...
— In A New World - or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia • Horatio Alger
... cold as ice," exclaimed the woman, half- resentfully. "I'm the only one who seems to feel it. I—I'm positively delirious. My partners look at me in the strangest way, as if they thought I were liable to become dangerous at ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... demanded Mrs. Prohack, anxiously and resentfully, when her husband at length reached the bedroom. "I'm dying of hunger, and I've got a real headache now. Oh! Arthur how absurd all this is! At least it would be ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett
... it's to be put out," growled Doctor Parris. "I know a good dog when I see one," he muttered resentfully. ...
— Old Mr. Wiley • Fanny Greye La Spina
... little nearer, and leaned forward over his spade. "Go your way," he said, resentfully and timidly at the same time, because he was always afraid of being laughed at. Every mental state, even madness, has its equilibrium based upon self-esteem. Its disturbance causes unhappiness; and Captain Hagberd lived amongst a scheme ...
— To-morrow • Joseph Conrad
... wound his way into his employer's confidence," thought Mrs. Estabrook, resentfully, "but it may not ...
— Helping Himself • Horatio Alger
... to the hand that's fed 'm all these months," the dog-musher muttered resentfully. "And you—you ain't never fed 'm after them first days of gettin' acquainted. I'm blamed if I can see how he works it ...
— White Fang • Jack London
... not for the fall that I cried," said Catharine, resentfully, "but because cousin Louis and you laughed at me, and said, 'Cats, you know, have nine lives, and seldom are hurt, because they light on their feet,' and I thought it was very cruel to laugh at me when I was in pain. Beside, you called me 'puss,' and 'poor ...
— Canadian Crusoes - A Tale of The Rice Lake Plains • Catharine Parr Traill
... handsomest couple in the room," said Vincent, at random to a farmer near him, who looked at him astonished by the heat of his accent. And then, seeing that Nelly's husband was in possible earshot, Vincent raised his voice recklessly. "They're the handsomest couple in the room," he repeated resentfully. "They ought ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... mother, but neither would interfere between me and Carlotta. I had to talk to her until she voluntarily lapsed into offended silence. Then Ed, to save the evening from disaster, began discussing with me the fate of our class-mates. I saw that Carlotta was studying me curiously,—even resentfully, I thought; and she was coldly polite ...
— The Plum Tree • David Graham Phillips
... to the purpose," he interrupted, angrily. "I've been faithful to you and you have spoiled my life—both our lives . . ." Then after a pause the unconquerable preoccupation of self came out, and he raised his voice to ask resentfully, "And, pray, for how long have you been ...
— Tales of Unrest • Joseph Conrad
... we weren't: that's just it," said Abel, resentfully. "It would be better for some coves now, if we'd all been on the same footin' then. But that we never were. I was overseer at the principal out-station—a good enough billet in its way—and Minchin was overseer in ...
— The Shadow of the Rope • E. W. Hornung
... "I seriously mean what I say. But, tell me," he demanded resentfully, "why are you here to ...
— The Stretton Street Affair • William Le Queux
... laugh, throwing back her head, and he laughed with her, shyly but not resentfully. It was as though a crisis in their relationship had been passed. He could trust her to understand. And he knew that though what he had said was true, it had also sounded ...
— The Dark House • I. A. R. Wylie
... Mrs. Omicron's dreadful failure of tact in asking him about the ring after the mutton had proved to be underdone and the coffee to be inadequate. "She only thinks of spending," reflected Mr. Omicron, resentfully. A more or less true reflection, no doubt, but there would have been a different colour to it if Mr. Omicron had exercised the greatest of his faculties. Suppose you were to unscale your eyes, Mr. Omicron—that is to say, use your imagination—and try to see that ...
— The Plain Man and His Wife • Arnold Bennett
... been a glorious day. She recalled it now smoulderingly, resentfully. Different, indeed, was the tragic present. No one to play with—that was bad enough. But there were still worse conditions. She was not even allowed to play by herself! Rover had been banished to a neighbor's, the kitten ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan
... her amazedly. "Why, no, not when that happened!" she replied. "Aunt Sylvia was there, too." She spoke a little resentfully. "What if Mr. Allen and I had been alone; what is ...
— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... of his own importance, full of levity and passion, and morally, if not physically, a coward. Ralegh, whom some social brilliancy in the man, as well as his rank and fortune, may have dazzled, can at no time have been wholly unconscious of the defects which later he resentfully characterized: of the 'dispositions of such violence, which his best friends cannot temper'; 'his known fashion to do any friend he hath wrong, and then repent it'; and 'his fashion to utter things easily.' Cecil regarded a nature like this scornfully. Infirmities might ...
— Sir Walter Ralegh - A Biography • William Stebbing
... conversation he had heard that the reddish-haired young man, standing so alert and cheerful by the table in there, had somehow precipitated matters. Anthony himself had come up on some trifling errand, and had run straight into this affair; and now he sat and wondered resentfully, with his eyes and ears ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson
... dump, ain't they? [She puffs, staring at the table top. MARTHY looks her over with a new penetrating interest, taking in every detail of her face. ANNA suddenly becomes conscious of this appraising stare—resentfully.] Ain't nothing wrong with me, is there? You're looking ...
— Anna Christie • Eugene O'Neill
... steps back, rather resentfully, because I had never been spoken to in that way before, and I thought it very rude of him, but I did not leave the place. The doctor was very busy with some instruments and perhaps had ...
— Sweetapple Cove • George van Schaick
... the world around him so that all the dreams of his long winter sleep shall be pleasant. A persistent fly, a slap, and the woodchuck hears. He turns that dark gray, solemn looking face, and asks mutely, reproachfully, perhaps resentfully, why his reverie has been disturbed. Then he hastily scurries to his burrow and he will not again appear though I sit ...
— Some Summer Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell
... never considered himself mistaken about anything, and he did not like being told that he was, even when the pill was sweetened with the term "old-timer." He rolled his eyes at Ford resentfully. ...
— The Uphill Climb • B. M. Bower
... speedily accomplished. On the 9th of August Petrucci was able to report that the plan arranged at Bayonne was near execution.[26] Yet he was not fully initiated. The Queen afterwards assured him that she had confided the secret to no foreign resident except the Nuncio,[27] and Petrucci resentfully complains that she had also consulted the Ambassador of Savoy. Venice, like Florence and Savoy, was not taken by surprise. In February the ambassador Contarini explained to the Senate the specious tranquillity in France, by saying that the Government reckoned on the death of the Admiral ...
— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
... so hopeless at that sort of business. Naturally I got in the way of leaving things to Marcus. But that's all. (Resentfully) ...
— First Plays • A. A. Milne
... sailor can do it, I guess a newspaper man can," retorted the other resentfully. "I ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... said a word,' said Alda, half resentfully. 'We have hardly been in all day except ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the corner seat next the conductor, where his long legs made it difficult for anyone to get in, and at all who passed him he looked resentfully, as if they had no business to ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... in return. He had given up trying to explain to the Italian the idiomatic style of old Broadway. He got up and brushed his flannels perfunctorily. "Well, I suppose I've got to dress for supper," resentfully. He still called it supper; and, as in the matter of the silk hat, his wife no longer strove to correct him. The evening meal had always been supper, and so it would remain until that time when he would cease to look forward ...
— The Place of Honeymoons • Harold MacGrath
... resentfully. Charley Bo Yip's cheerful acceptance of change of masters angered him. He had been quite friendly with Yip during the passage, and he knew the Chinaman was a veteran of the Chinese revolution and a professed enemy of all Japanese. Yet here he was working for these same Japanese, ...
— Fire Mountain - A Thrilling Sea Story • Norman Springer
... with all their eyes—not resentfully, though face to face with the enemy that had laid waste their habitation and swept all comfort out of their lives; but with a simple awe. Manifestly, too, they expected something more to happen. I saw the old woman searching the incurious features ...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... the steep bank below the white face of the dam and crossed the street to his own raw shack, which was office and home alike. He gazed resentfully at his parted leader as he hung up the rod on the nails at the rear of the small porch, and sighing, entered the ...
— The Sagebrusher - A Story of the West • Emerson Hough
... longshoreman, resentfully. "I guess when y've made up your mind about a man, there ain't no use talkin' t' y', ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... anything so strange," Mrs. Hale said resentfully, after the outside door had closed on the three men—"our taking up our time with little things while we're waiting for them to get the evidence. I don't see as ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... flushed resentfully. "If you wish to go around looking like a scarecrow, that's no reason why I should," she said. "The corn is too large for the crows to pull now, so if I were you I would touch myself up a little. I don't wonder that Miss Jocelyn mistook you ...
— Without a Home • E. P. Roe
... she cried resentfully. "It comes from the souls of the dead as they fly through the air. They fly round and round the houses, crying to those who ...
— The King's Mirror • Anthony Hope
... all," Caroline muttered resentfully, and deliberately opening the door of the brougham, ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... and gathered up his letters with a gesture of annoyance. "In that case—if I had been notified earlier of this decision, I might have caught the morning train," he interrupted himself, glancing resentfully at his watch. ...
— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton
... more to have held your tongue." His tone was such as the other had never heard him use—such as most people would be loth to employ toward the meanest dependent. No description can do justice to the intensity of its insolence; it made even Mr. Fullarton's torpid blood boil resentfully. ...
— Sword and Gown - A Novel • George A. Lawrence
... Singing resentfully, young Luis stayed in here, where it was pleasant. Bright green branches of fruit-trees and small cottonwoods and a fenced irrigated square of green growing garden hid the tiny adobe home like a nut, smooth and hard and ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister
... but not resentfully. "My work has not been without a fair measure of success," he answered, now sitting upright and motionless. "You must have noticed that we are building quite a ...
— An Arkansas Planter • Opie Percival Read |
