"Tartly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... just going to put the arch-impostor through his credentials,' he said tartly. 'Now then, Lawford!' He read out the questions, one by one, from his crafty little list, pursing his lips between each; and one by one, Lawford, seated at the dressing-table, fluently scribbled his answers. Then question and answer were ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare
... unreasonable,' exclaimed Monica tartly. 'What possible harm is there in Mr. Barfoot, when he meets me by chance in a public place, having a conversation with me? I wish I knew twenty such men. Such conversation gives me a new interest in life. I have every reason to ...
— The Odd Women • George Gissing
... the scheme," he said tartly, "if you get the sole contract for building these premises of mine, and a fat ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown
... have Eleanor come home by herself than bringing a strange woman and a hired girl," Albertina contributed a trifle tartly. The distinction of a hired girl in the family was one which she had long ...
— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley
... Cocksmoor, and plenty of management, with credit and praise to herself; the other, downcast and irritable, with annoyance at the interference with her schemes, at the prospects of her school, and at herself for being out of temper, prone to murmur or to reply tartly, and not able to recover from her mood, but only, as she neared the house, lapsing into her other trouble, and preparing to resist any misjudged, though kind attempt of her father, to make her unsay her rebuke to Miss Bracy. ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... labored in the neighborhood, and aided to support her, and Nanny Smith maintained a cheerful aspect and an independent spirit. One of her gossips suggested to her that William should marry, and bring home a young wife to help her and take care of her. "Nay, nay," replied Nanny, tartly, "I want no young mistress in my house." So much for the love of rule—poor Nanny's house was a hole in ...
— Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey • Washington Irving
... your head, just because you've lost your temper!" she said tartly, in a guarded whisper. "The door into the hall is still wide ...
— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard
... you goin'?" Aunt Mary asked tartly. "Of course if you ain't intendin' to go I'd be glad to know it; 'n while you're gone, Lucinda, I wish you'd get me the handle to the ice-cream freezer an' lay it where I can see it; it'll help me ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner
... received that morning,—so happy that she had said to her elder sister, Martha Jocelyn, "To think of Marian Selwyn's inviting me. Isn't it beautiful of her?" and Martha had answered back rather tartly, "I don't see why you should put such an emphasis on 'me,' as if you were so inferior. You're as good as ...
— A Flock of Girls and Boys • Nora Perry
... Winnie informed him, a trifle tartly, "in fact I don't see why you didn't lug up a couple of tents and turn 'em loose inside. Rosemary is going to be blown out of the window some fine night and, to my way of thinking, it's better to start sleeping ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... thoughts of the Dominican cloister he was about to visit, he was much annoyed by the noise of a pig, which a country youth was carrying a little way before him. At length, irritated by the unmitigated noise, "Have you not learned how to quiet a pig" demanded the imperial traveller, tartly. "Noa," replied the ingenuous peasant, ignorant of the quality of his interrogator;—"noa; and I should very much like to know how to do it," changing the position of his burthen, and giving his load a surreptitious pinch of the ear, which immediately altered ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton
... with Jerrold's pungent exclamation—"Good Lord, Thackeray! I hope you didn't present the child with your own mug!" And still less was he flattered when he heard that, on its being reported in the Punch office that he was "turning Roman," simply because he defended Doyle's secession, Jerrold tartly remarked that "he'd best begin with his nose." (Jerrold, by the way, uses the same conceit in a letter to Sir Charles Dilke when repeating a rumour of the attempted conversion of the novelist by "Lady ——.") These and many more sardonic thrusts ...
— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann
... How does anybody know?" snapped Susan tartly. "Look a-here, Mis' McGuire, you must excuse me from discoursin' particulars. We don't talk 'em here. ...
— Dawn • Eleanor H. Porter
... my business, an' I can keep it to myself," said Ellen tartly. "But I'll tell you this much—I'm goin' to ...
— The Wall Between • Sara Ware Bassett
... rejoined, a bit tartly. Truth to tell, the secretary was haunted by a grim suspicion that she herself was not quite the lady of her dreams, and never would be able to acquire the graces of the Vere De Vere. For Sarah, while a most efficient secretary, was not in her person of that slender elegance which always characterized ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... the taxman if 'twere so, Who promptly answered, rather airish, The man had long been on the parish.) The more he feared, the more he grew A cynic and a miser, too, Until his bitterness and pelf Made him a terror to himself; Then, with a razor's neckwise stroke, He tartly cut his final joke. So perished, not an hour too soon, The wicked ...
— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce
... my dear fellow," said I rather tartly, for I did not like the wind-up of his sentence. It was unthinkable that an officer and a gentleman should inveigle a brother-officer into a solemn promise to do anything dishonourable. "Of course. ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke
... Colonel tartly, "are not going to be asked what they'd like any more than I've been. I want you each to go down quietly and have a look over at the new ground, tell the company commanders what the job is, and have a talk with me after as to what you think ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
... thought you such a fool," she said, tartly; adding: "But I consider your behavior very strange. You are not yet engaged that I know of, and the bride ought to have more than three weeks ...
— Dainty's Cruel Rivals - The Fatal Birthday • Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
... alarm and then retreat to the upper floor where La Follette and Hugues were posted. La Follette, who had been a lover in his day, would have kept watch below and taken Hugues with him, but Ursula de Vesc, in the upper room, told them tartly that the Dauphin would be displeased if the usual plan were departed from, and so, in no very playful humour any of ...
— The Justice of the King • Hamilton Drummond
... or not—and whether Big Pony or Little Pony—clearing weather would disclose. Meantime, as Archie Armstrong somewhat tartly pointed out, the Spot Cash was to be looked to. She had gone aground at low tide, it seemed; and she was now floating at anchor, free of the bottom. The butt of her bowsprit had been driven into the forecastle; ...
— Billy Topsail & Company - A Story for Boys • Norman Duncan
... little sister, observed tartly that if Cissie hadn't acted so, she wouldn't have been ...
— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling
... to," reflected Nell, as she tartly replied: "A war of the sex without me? It was stupid, then. The Duchess missed ...
— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.
... tartly. "When I marry Athalia, I intend to have an old-fashioned home and a Black Age family. I don't relish having ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... your salary for its solution," Mr. Minturn said tartly. "Work on the theory I outlined; if it fails after a fair test, we'll try another. Those boys have got to be saved. They are handsome little chaps with fine bodies and good ancestry. What ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... quality that I have never seen equalled. I always reproached him with having added nothing to his inheritance—no glory—no achievement—'I have spent,' he would say, shrugging his shoulders. 'Wasted,' I retorted tartly. 'If you like. I have never admitted my past or my future as barriers—or even frontiers—to my actions. I have lived without forethought or arriere pensee—without the weakness of regrets or the stinginess of precautions,' ...
— Balloons • Elizabeth Bibesco
... Yes!" returned Morrison, tartly. "What other kind of gossip would I be interested in, ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... at the bold-eyed young man with disfavour. "Well, you're not expecting her to come out to you, are you?" she retorted tartly. ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... New England fiber, and classing as morbid all forms of introspection, she always so dreaded to have the conversation drift into a reflective channel that whenever she found Willie indulging in reveries she was wont to rout him out of them, tartly reproaching herself for having even indirectly been the cause of stirrin' ...
— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett
... too," interjected Madelene, tartly, "but that wouldn't make him mix her name up with mine, would it, and make him get mad every time I ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... ancient a term. I made a visit yesterday to the Abbess of Panthemont, General Oglethorpe's niece,(1089) and no chicken. I inquired after her mother, Madame de Meziers, and I thought I might to a spiritual votary to immortality venture to say, that her mother must be very old; she interrupted me tartly, and said, no, her mother had been married extremely young. Do but think of its seeming important to a saint to sink a wrinkle of her own through an iron grate! Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if animals have any fun in them, how we must ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... been waiting for this, Gloriana," said Ajax, tartly. "As a member of the family you have not treated my brother and myself fairly. This mysterious work of yours is not only wearing you to skin and bone, it ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... inquired Miss Priscilla, a trifle tartly, for after the vicissitudes of her life it was but natural that she should hesitate to regard so stable an institution as the Dinwiddie Bank as something to be "stood." "Why, I thought a young man couldn't do better than get a place in the bank. Jinny's father was telling ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... swords that flashed above our Margaret's cradle; for a Methodist mother in Israel, hopeful of a sympathetic response from Elsie M'Phatter (the non-churchgoing one), ventured the comment that similar events in her own brilliant maternal record had provoked no unseemly joy; to which Elsie responded tartly— ...
— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles
... brought up to think a fire was for warmth, not for looks," said Sylvia, tartly. She had lost the odd expression which Henry had dimly perceived several days before, or she was able to successfully keep it in abeyance; still, there was no doubt that a strange and subtle change had occurred within the woman. Henry was constantly looking at her when she spoke, because he vaguely ...
— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... Herr von Gondremark,' said Seraphina, somewhat tartly, 'you often attribute your ...
— Prince Otto • Robert Louis Stevenson
... do anything at all for me," returned Janice, rather tartly. "If your own conscience doesn't tell you what course to pursue, pray remain neutral—as you are. But I ...
— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long
... of the neighbors' business, I know," added Mrs. Green, a little tartly; "but I can't look on and see such meanness without speaking of it. It don't make no difference who I say it to, neither; I had just as lief say it to Captain Littleton, as say it to you and your ...
— Little By Little - or, The Cruise of the Flyaway • William Taylor Adams
... authority," tartly interposed Professor Brierly, "but I am not certain it is competent medical authority. I have seen too many careless autopsies made and read too many loosely written reports to have ...
— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew
... "Phelps!" Annette interrupted tartly, "you needn't go into details. I don't imagine Captain and Mrs. Dott will be greatly interested. What a charming old room this is, isn't it? SO quaint! Everything looks as if it had ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... all this, and how Sidonia danced up and down on the plank, while the water splashed over her robe, she called to her—"Dear Lady Sidonia, come hither: I have somewhat to tell thee." But she answered tartly—"Dear Lady Clara, keep it then: I am too young to be told everything." And she danced up and down on the plank ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V1 • William Mienhold
... alarmed," she said tartly. "I shan't bother myself about your concerns. I've no doubt you're able to look out for ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... pursued the courtier from the Court hall into the illuminated gardens, and there told him, and in language that admitted of no doubt, that she wished to marry him. The courtier was indignant, and answered her so tartly that Kate, even in reading it over a second time, could not refrain from fits ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore
... I declared tartly. I was by no means satisfied with so half-hearted a vindication; nor did I care to owe my immunity to a patronizing lie on Mr. Van Blarcom's part. "You have accused me of spying. Do you think I'll let it go at that? I insist that you have my baggage brought up here and that ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti
... to hear you've got as far as that," she remarked rather tartly. "Your fault, Bob, is not thinking nearly ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
... brother-in-law's conduct, which he did not himself vindicate; and Mr. B. was pleased to say, that my lord was always very candid to him, and kind in his allowances for the sallies of ungovernable youth. Upon which my lady said, a little tartly, "Yes, and for a very good reason, I doubt not; for who ...
— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson
... happened when Sydney Smith—who, as everybody knows, was an exceedingly sensible man, and a gentleman, every inch of him—ventured to preach a sermon on the Duties of Royalty. The "Quarterly," "so savage and tartly," came down upon him in the most contemptuous style, as "a joker of jokes," a "diner-out of the first water" in one of his own phrases; sneering at him, insulting him, as nothing but a toady of a court, sneaking behind the anonymous, ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various
... insolent," she said tartly. "Better wash out your mouth before you try that on Paul Cleary. He eats wise young ...
— The Trouble with Telstar • John Berryman
... for bed. O'Hana listened as the rain dashed in streams against the amado, as if trying to break its way in. She gave a little chuckle—"Who would have thought it!"—"What?" asked Iemon, perhaps a little tartly. He was nervous. O'Hana laughed—"That Iemon and this Hana should be where they now are. Their parting was on a night like this. Ah! At seeing a man weep Hana could have retired into a cave—forever. Only the fortunate ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... do with slavery in the States; it had only to refrain from giving direct sanction to the system. Others opposed this whole argument, declaring, with Langdon of New Hampshire, that Congress ought to have this power, since, as Dickinson tartly remarked, "The true question was, whether the national happiness would be promoted or impeded by the importation; and this question ought to be left to the national government, not to the states ...
— The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America - 1638-1870 • W. E. B. Du Bois
... the road by which I had come. I looked back, and there stood the stalwart Tongan where I had left him, gazing at the sixpence I had placed in his hand. There was a kind of stupefaction in his attitude. Presently the consul said somewhat tartly: "Ah, you've been to the Palace—the Crown Prince ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... next day Janet had actually arrived. She looked thin and sharp, her keen black eyes roamed about uneasily, and some indescribable change had passed over her. Her brothers told her study had not agreed with her, and she did not, as of old, answer tartly, but gave a stiff, mechanical smile, and all the evening talked in a woman-of-the-world manner, cleverly, agreeably, not putting out her prickles, but like a stranger, and as ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... said Mrs. Douglass, "I know all about it. Now do you s'pose you're agoing to be any happier among all those great folks than you would be if you staid among little folks?" she added tartly; while Catherine looked with a kind of incredulous admiration at the future ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... entirely with Susan and the sailor, I am sure," said Mrs. Cosham, rather tartly. "My sister-in-law," she continued, "has laid her burdens upon Providence at every crisis in her life, and Providence, I must confess, has responded nobly, ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... master-singers' verdict then does not agree with hers, how is it to operate?"—"Let the young lady choose at once according to the inclination of her heart, and leave master-singing out of the game!" remarks Beckmesser tartly. "Not at all! Not at all!" Pogner strives to calm them, "Not in the very least! You have imperfectly understood. The maiden may refuse the one to whom you master-singers award the prize, but she may not choose another. A master-singer he must be. Only one crowned by yourselves ...
— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall
... way I deduce it," observed the town detective tartly. "In the first place, she wouldn't 'a' been standin' 'round like that if the job was over, would she? Wouldn't she 'a' been streakin' out fer ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon
... Betty tartly, in reply to the first question, while she dismissed the second with ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
... nothing of the kind," said Lady Linden tartly. "I mean that Miss Meredyth has for some very considerable time been Mrs. Hugh Alston. They were married, if you want to know—and I don't see why it should any longer be kept a secret—three years ago, in June, nineteen ...
— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper
... Miss Sommerton answered tartly, "I have no opinion whatever of you." Then, with womanly inconsistency, she proceeded to deliver her opinion, saying, "A man who would smoke here would smoke ...
— One Day's Courtship - The Heralds Of Fame • Robert Barr
... see him," said Mrs. Mowgelewsky, somewhat tartly. "I seen, already, lots from dogs. Don't you go make no foolishness mit him. Don't you go und get ...
— Short Stories of Various Types • Various
... Billy," retorted Aunt Hannah, a little tartly, and with a touch of sarcasm most unlike her gentle self. "I'm sure I shouldn't wish to fill this infant's plastic mind with anything so appalling as trivial inaccuracies. May I be pardoned for suggesting, ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... the mayor, tartly. "I have dropped down here merely in a business way to find out what's wanted of me as the executive head of ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... officer," she replied tartly, and Doggie felt snubbed. "But I'm sure he agrees with everything I say." She paused and, in a different tone, went on: "Don't you think it's rather rotten to have this piffling argument when I've come all this long way ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke
... catarrhal colds, which, however, as he would learnedly explain to Maggie, could not be connected, in the brain of a reasonable person, with currents of fresh air. Maggie mutely disdained his science. This, too, fretted him. Occasionally she would somewhat tartly assert that he was a regular old maid. The accusation made no impression on him at all. But when, more than ordinarily exacerbated, she sang out that he was 'exactly like his father,' ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... de Mayenne answered her, tartly. "I consider my salon no place for intrigues with horse-boys. If you must hold colloquy with this fellow, take him whither he belongs—to ...
— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle
... Paul. Madame Loisillon in her time, when sounding the praises of her apartments at the Institute, never failed to add with emphasis, 'I have entertained there even Sovereigns.' 'Yes, in the little room,' good Adelaide would answer tartly, drawing up her long neck. It was the fact that not unfrequently, after the prolonged fatigue of a Special Session, some great lady, a Royal Highness on her travels, or a leader influential in politics, would go ...
— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
... would leave my clothes alone and tell me where you are going," Jeanne declared, a little tartly, "it ...
— Jeanne of the Marshes • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... night. Every week the father would take out the stocking and drop in the money and laugh and kiss me as we tied it up together. Up with you, Hans! There you sit gaping, and the day a-wasting!" added Dame Brinker tartly, blushing to find that she had been speaking too freely to her boy. "It's high time ...
— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge
... have made up his mind in spite of the reasonableness of this suggestion. For when the man rowing bow stooped back and reached out for the painter—the course seemed the obvious and natural one—he was stopped by his chief, who said rather tartly:—"You take your orders from me, Cookson!" and then held out his hand as before, saying:—"You're a tidy weight, my lad. I shan't pull ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... white as yours," rejoined Mrs. McLane tartly. "But I remain a woman, and for that reason attract men ...
— Sleeping Fires • Gertrude Atherton
... Mrs. Douglass; "I know all about it. Now, do you s'pose you're agoing to be any happier among all those great folks than you would be if you staid among little folks?" she added, tartly; while Catherine looked with a kind of incredulous admiration at the future ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell
... no good come of settin' down an' wishin' for rights," remarked his wife tartly. "It's a sight better to ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... wish a little later, when both girls were in bed, and Ruth answered her a trifle tartly that it was very nearly to-morrow, and that she wanted to go to sleep some time before morning, if Amy didn't. Then for a matter of thirty minutes silence reigned. The hour was late and the girls were tired. In spite of her gloomy prophecy, Amy was surprised and pleased to find a delicious drowsiness ...
— Peggy Raymond's Vacation - or Friendly Terrace Transplanted • Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith
... dear, you won't pry on me going in and out there," she answered tartly, with a sniff. "Whenever I wish to withdraw some of my balance, to invest it, I send for Mr Pamphlett, and he calls on me and advises—I am bound to ...
— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... wasn't made overnight," she said tartly. "I've had this pesky thing a month. Do you know ...
— Man to Man • Jackson Gregory
... anti-cocaine ordinance, which the saloon element, who instinctively resented any species of "reform" as a threat against business, opposed. Whereupon, Hal, in an editorial on the prohibition movement, had tartly pointed out that where the saloons were openly vaunting themselves disdainful of public decency, the public was in immediate process of wiping out the saloons. Which citation of fact caused a cold chill to permeate the spines of the liquor ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... his Will to the offices of the New Colliery Company, and sat down in the empty Board Room to read it through. He answered 'Down-by-the-starn' Hemmings so tartly when the latter, seeing his Chairman seated there, entered with the new Superintendent's first report, that the Secretary withdrew with regretful dignity; and sending for the transfer clerk, blew him up till the poor youth knew ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... on without turning her head, and for many steps nothing further was heard from her quarter than the rustle of her dress against the heavy corn-ears. Then she resumed rather tartly— ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... as to the serious interview on the preceding evening. There was, indeed, very little confidence between them, though neither of them knew why it should be so. Eleanor once asked him whether he would not call upon the bishop; but he answered rather tartly that he did not know—he did not think he should, but he could not say just at present. And so they parted. Each was miserably anxious for some show of affection, for some return of confidence, for some sign ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... silence, during which Mrs. Ballinger, with a perfunctory hand, rearranged the skilfully grouped literature at which her distinguished guest had not so much as glanced; then Miss Van Vluyck tartly pronounced: "Well, I can't say that I consider Osric ...
— Xingu - 1916 • Edith Wharton
... it up in another guess way," said Nicholas, tartly, "than wi' scraps and scrapings fro' gallipots, ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... knocking you off your balance," said his brother tartly. "Do you know where your ...
— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner
... said Mrs. Hardy, tartly. "I have no relish for them. And as for your defence of cow punchers, I prefer gentlemen. Why Irene should wish to throw herself away when there are men ...
— The Cow Puncher • Robert J. C. Stead
... hear about it," she said, tartly. "I'm your wife, and I am going to do my share, keeping house and helping around. And you have got to do your share, and treat me fairly. I once heard that the first Mrs. Balberry didn't get all that was coming to her—that she ...
— From Farm to Fortune - or Nat Nason's Strange Experience • Horatio Alger Jr.
... quite taken aback at such frigid formality; and dear Maria's very heart was in her mouth: but the brother tartly added, "If Mr. Clements wishes to see Sir Thomas—that's his knock: he was following me close behind: I saw him; but, as I make it a point never to walk with the governor, perhaps it's as well for you two I dropped in first by way of ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... too well as it is," remarked Sylvia tartly. "Thomas! What are you thinking of? Don't you touch ...
— The Old Gray Homestead • Frances Parkinson Keyes
... tartly, "that you have still your old trick of asking questions. I wish that you would try to get the better of it; it is very disadvantageous to you, and very ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... tartly that no, she had not got a headache. The Mad Hatter appeared to be absorbed in tracing rude verses on her rough notebook with ...
— Superseded • May Sinclair
... the more famous and wiser sort, such as were those great Poets, Stesichorus and Pindar. And not onely amongst the more sottish heathens, who might account that Planet to be one of their Gods, but the primitive Christians also were in this kinde guilty; which made S. Ambrose so tartly to rebuke those of ...
— The Discovery of a World in the Moone • John Wilkins
... quite Hoyle to be so jubilant about the strength of your hand," she commented tartly. ...
— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin
... practically impossible; I can't do it." Then he said, "you've got to do it, I've spent too much time looking for you already, you've got to clerk for us." I am a little hot headed myself, and I answered him as tartly as he spoke to me. "Mr. Moore," says I, "I've got to do nothing of the sort." Then Mr. Moore cooled down and talked more like a business man and ...
— The Second William Penn - A true account of incidents that happened along the - old Santa Fe Trail • William H. Ryus
... found out," Mrs. Caope spoke up, tartly, and Nelia looked at her gratefully. "Hit takes a bullet to learn fellers like Jest Prebol—an' him thinkin' he's so smart an' such a lady killer. I bet he knows theh's some ladies that's men killers, ...
— The River Prophet • Raymond S. Spears
... I said," rejoined Ida May tartly. "When the store closes my time's my own. I can do as I please. And I've got nobody to please but myself. Oh, you don't understand at all, ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... innocently replied the Notary. "He is the devil!" said the Seigneur tartly. "I beg your pardon, Cure; but it is Evanturel's business not to know what letters go to and fro in that office. He should be blind and dumb, so far as ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... AN-I-MALS can't see how naughty you are sometimes," said Miss Henny tartly, not having recovered her ...
— A Garland for Girls • Louisa May Alcott
... tartly. "We can't go about the grounds in a cab, and I'm not going to slop about in the wet to please anybody. We must go another time. It's hard luck, but ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... he had not seen his cousin for many years, while he looked upon Fyne (who received him alone) with so much distrust that Fyne felt hurt (the person actually refusing at first the chair offered to him) and retorted tartly that he, for his part, had never seen Mr. de Barral, in his life, and that, since the visitor did not want to sit down, he, Fyne, begged him to state his business as shortly as possible. The man in black sat down then with a faint ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... she answered tartly, "so long as they don't mind eating after their betters. And as for your man Priske, I saw him twenty minutes ago escape towards Church Street ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... replied Jack tartly, 'you do,' adding, in an undertone, 'leave it to me, man, and I'll let you in for a good thing. Yes, Mr. Sponge,' continued he, addressing himself to our hero, 'Mr. Pacey fancies the ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... an end, not without laughter on the part of the ladies, of the story of Fra Puccio, the queen with a commanding air bade Elisa follow on. She, rather tartly than otherwise, not out of malice, but of old habit, began to speak thus, "Many folk, knowing much, imagine that others know nothing, and so ofttimes, what while they think to overreach others, find, after the event, ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio
... you will not quote Cicero to me," replied the elder man, a little tartly. "He will soon be back from Cilicia, and will be prodding and wearying us in the Senate quite enough, with his rhetoric and sophistries. But I must be more precise. I have found out how much you owe Phormio. I thought your dead uncle had left you ...
— A Friend of Caesar - A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. • William Stearns Davis
... so?" said Asad tartly. "Thy deeds will scarce bear out thy protestations." He sighed. "Sorely was I wounded yesternight when thy marriage thwarted me and placed that Frankish maid beyond my reach. Yet I respect this marriage of thine, as all Muslims must—for all that in itself it was unlawful. But there!" he ended ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini
... an ugly word," tartly cried Mrs. Goddard, who began to find the tax upon her patience almost greater ...
— The Masked Bridal • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... surprised that you so much as dreamed of it under the present circumstances," she replied, tartly. ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various
... devil?" Thompson returned tartly. "Is there anything strange about that? A good many men have gone. A good many more will have to go before this ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... happy to oblige you," I said, tartly, for I did not like his laughter. "So long as you confine your amusement to me, I am satisfied; but pray avoid using any objectionable ...
— A Roman Singer • F. Marion Crawford
... case,'" said Miss Ethel, tartly, pressing her hand to her forehead. "And I'm going to see if the men really have ...
— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose
... to have, you, or somebody else tell me," exclaimed the old lady, tartly. "I ain't got no more use for a farm than a cat has ...
— Hiram The Young Farmer • Burbank L. Todd
... of the Flemings listened, afterwards reporting their impressions to the King. His Majesty therefore commanded that the monk should also be present on the occasion of the discussion between Las Casas and Quevedo. The appearance of the Franciscan, was not to Quevedo's liking, and he somewhat tartly remarked to him that the Court was no place for monks, who had much better be in their cells. As the Bishop himself was of the same Order, the monk aptly retorted that he was of the like opinion and that "all of us monks ...
— Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt
... the lights are dim," said the voice tartly, and Bart found himself looking down, as his eyes adjusted to the new light level, ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... only reaffirm my position," Dr. Hammerfield retorted tartly. "It is too long a story to ...
— The Iron Heel • Jack London
... never come back," he said tartly. "An Indian stake and a bloody head will be the end of all ...
— Salute to Adventurers • John Buchan
... he very sorry, I dare say," said Miss Monimia tartly, tying the strings of her bonnet, which had again fallen back and shown ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Vol. 56, No. 346, August, 1844 • Various
... period followed for both the friends. Mrs. Thrale lost a younger daughter, and Johnson had a paralytic stroke in June. Death was sending preliminary warnings. A correspondence was kept up, which implies that the old terms were not ostensibly broken. Mrs. Thrale speaks tartly more than once; and Johnson's letters go into medical details with his customary plainness of speech, and he occasionally indulges in laments over the supposed change in her feelings. The gloom is thickening, and the old playful gallantry has ...
— Samuel Johnson • Leslie Stephen
... must remember," she said tartly, "I'm not accustomed to taking morphine. Anyway, that's ...
— The Winning Clue • James Hay, Jr.
... not like to own to awe of her daughter. "I VENTURE, if that is all," said she, tartly. "You don't suppose I am afraid of Diantha?—but she would not let Amelia wear one of the dresses, anyway, and I don't want the child made any ...
— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... Edith tartly inquired. "Deborah is living here—and before I came she ran the house. In her place I ...
— His Family • Ernest Poole
... well for you to grin,' said Solomon tartly. 'We've got to bear it. You didn't take over ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... that piquant employment of juxtaposition and contrast which made every issue of "A Line-o'-Type or Two" a work of art in its way. But no arrangement of items from that source could becloud the essential nature of its Conductor: though "The So-Called Human Race" sometimes plays rather tartly and impatiently with men's follies and shortcomings, it clearly and constantly exhibits a sunny, alert and airy spirit to whom all things human made ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... messmates, arnt you satisfied so long as the articles you signed are kept by captain and crew?" asked Bill Marline, somewhat tartly. ...
— The Sea-Witch - or, The African Quadroon A Story of the Slave Coast • Maturin Murray
... replied tartly. "I'm not to blame for that. I'm not responsible for your failure. Why take it out ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... Mrs. Harbolt tartly, as she came slowly and carefully down backwards. "What a dark hole this is, Jemmy. No wonder you're ill. Put ...
— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs
... him, and began at once to tell the anxiety he had suffered. Nor was Rachel without her word, and between their reproofs it was some time before Joseph began to apprehend the cause of the tumult: Azariah had laid a long complaint of truancy! As to that, Joseph answered tartly, he has little to complain of. And he spoke of the pact between them, relating that seven or eight months before he had promised Azariah not to be past his time by five minutes. Look to his tally, Father: it will tell that I have kept my word for eight months and more and ...
— The Brook Kerith - A Syrian story • George Moore
... want dockyments, mister,' she said tartly, 'I guess I kin supply 'em. I've brought our weddin' stiffykit, and our letters from the church to Neeponsit, and our fire insurance papers.' She laid a suggestive satin-gloved hand upon her bosom and tossed ...
— Against Odds - A Detective Story • Lawrence L. Lynch
... aimin' to," remarked Yellin' Kid somewhat tartly and in rather grieved tones. "Come out of that, you soap footer!" he cried to his steed. "What do you mean, ...
— The Boy Ranchers - or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X • Willard F. Baker
... Georgy tartly. "She is too pale, and her eyes are too big: then she is such a solemn little thing. Don't you like golden hair ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various
... he touched the bell of a rich old maiden lady, and on entering her boudoir he bluntly admitted his lack of funds, and said, "Give me L200 and I'll marry you." She gave him the money, and for months after never saw his face. Finally she wrote asking an interview. He came, and she tartly said, "Did you not say, Mr. Rogers, that if I gave you L200, you would marry me?" "Certainly I did," said the cunning minister, "and I'm ready to marry you whenever you produce your man: where is he?" This anecdote shows the difficulty of being unambiguous when speaking ...
— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes
... never coming," said Miss Kybird, tartly, as she led the way to the back room and took her seat at the ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... you up to, man?" shouted Silas, tartly, trying to make a stand against the staggering blow dealt amid the laughter of ...
— The Knights of the White Shield - Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play • Edward A. Rand
... husband, poor as he was, sustained the credit of aristocracy by smoking innumerable cigarettes, with which he appeared to be most plentifully supplied. "You found my cigarettes, I see. That is good," said Rouquin, shortly after the introductions. He spoke somewhat tartly, as if an idea had just occurred to him. He shot a furtive glance at Mr. Bingle as he made ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... Well," tartly, "she better mind her own affairs. I thought she rated Kenelm Parker about as high as anybody these days. He spends more time in ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln
... things you don't understand, Sir George," said T. X. tartly, "that I despair of ever ...
— The Clue of the Twisted Candle • Edgar Wallace
... want your daughter to look after me I shall ask you for her assistance," she replied tartly. "You broke your word to me, and ...
— The Prodigal Father • J. Storer Clouston
... tea?" he asked tartly. "With six major operations this morning and a probable meningitis diagnosis ahead of me this afternoon I think I might be spared the babblings of an hysterical nurse!" Casually over his shoulder he ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... turn up as we want them," said Reginald, tartly. "Look here, Horace, you surely don't suppose I prefer to go to ...
— Reginald Cruden - A Tale of City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... so bitter and sarcastic upon one!" replied he, tartly; "my only desire was to secure a good fortune for you, and another for myself. I don't see, for my part, what women are made for, except to mar everything a man wants to do for himself ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... a decent man if he's to be my husband, which he is," said Miss Junk, tartly. "I told one of them idle bobbies to go and ...
— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume
... with you young ones none too well. I reckon we won't have them very often," Father Jenkins remarked tartly. His own eyes smarted from loss ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... replied Jenny tartly. "He eats nothing but insects, and he catches them flying. Now I must get back to ...
— The Burgess Bird Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... she repeated more tartly. "For you to come here in this way to care for my character, when you yourself are the ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... kind," answered Pinky, a little tartly; "and if there's any way to keep Flanagan from murdering another child, I'm going ...
— Cast Adrift • T. S. Arthur
... according to Cheiro, either," tartly. "Hold your palm steady so that I can see more clearly. ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... happen," declared the Post Mistress tartly. "Anything is liable to happen in Kansas, the ...
— The Way of the Wind • Zoe Anderson Norris
... remembered anything in his life," said his mother tartly. "Those trunks ought to be here before I ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... tartly, "but if you'd just left me alone, instead of sicking all your dogs on me, I'd've been over there looking for him, long ago. Of course I'm wrong—that's understood ...
— Shadow Mountain • Dane Coolidge
... the worse for Milton," she tartly replied. "Look at the Chopin prelude. Will you contradict me if I say that in one prelude this composer crowds the experience of a lifetime? When he expands his idea into the sonata form how diffuse, how garrulous ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... Swann, tartly. "I'm going to run up with them by car to Mrs Vernon's. I can slip them quietly over to Gil. They keep your hands warm better than anything. Don't I remember when I was a child! I shall leave Mrs Vernon's immediately, of course, but perhaps you'd better give me ...
— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett
... hearts, Sir, you may say," interrupted my Uncle MacKenzie. "And I'd thank you not to 'good-friend' me," he added tartly. ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... 'No,' he said tartly, 'we ain't tryin' to silence their guns. An' if you partickler wants to know why we ain't—well, p'raps them Glasgow townies o' ...
— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable
... said Armstrong tartly, but glad of the opportunity to talk back to the personage who treated him in the House as a Czar treats a minion. "We are the only party that is ready to cling to the Constitution as if it were ...
— Senator North • Gertrude Atherton
... what more you want," replied Mrs. Lightfoot, tartly. "If he ever gets clean again after a whole night in a common gaol, I must say I don't see how he'll manage it. But if you aren't satisfied I can only tell you that the affair was all about some bar-room wench, and that the papers will be full ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON. 'I have looked into it.' 'What (said Elphinston,) have you not read it through?' Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, 'No, Sir, do ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell
... doubt, very kind, but the tone seemed to Mary one of tolerance. She fancied Louise meant to patronize her, making allowance for her short-comings, and she could not brook that in her present mood, so she answered, somewhat tartly: ...
— The Four Canadian Highwaymen • Joseph Edmund Collins
... was doing up a glove which possessed more buttons than his own waistcoat, looked up and eyed him calmly. "New clothes—and not before they wanted'em," she replied, tartly. ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... her stool, and ordered her slave to open the gate. Upon her husband's entering the room he was surprised at beholding things set out for an entertainment, and inquired who had been with her; when she replied tartly, "A lover." "And where is he now?" angrily replied the officer. "In yonder chamber, and if you please you may sacrifice him to your fury, and myself afterwards." The officer demanded the key, which she gave ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous
... Mrs. Orton-Wells, tartly, in reply to nothing, seemingly, "that our problem is with the factory girl. She represents a ...
— Emma McChesney & Co. • Edna Ferber
... man!' I returned, tartly, 'here we are in October, the summer over, and the weather gone to pieces. We're alone in a cockle-shell boat, at a time when every other yacht of our size is laying up for the winter. Luckily, we seem to have struck ...
— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers
... her daughter as if discrediting the authorship of this remark. "I don't know what you are thinking of, child," she said tartly, "but you appear to me to be talking nonsense. Your father and I have no idea ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 8th, 1920 • Various
... broken if there hadn't been a school of fish in it," interrupted his aunt, tartly. "That just proves what I say; the weight of so many made the hole, ...
— How Sammy Went to Coral-Land • Emily Paret Atwater
... either of you, but remember the lesson you've got,' said the doctor, tartly, and away he plunged into a sharp trot, with a cling-clang and a cloud of dust. And Puddock followed that ungracious leech, with a stare of gratitude and admiration, almost with a benediction. And his anxiety relieved, he and his principal prepared forthwith to ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... the kind, James," said the pleasant lady tartly; "I'm not ashamed of our humble beginnings, but I am ashamed to make ...
— Son Philip • George Manville Fenn
... think, papa, that you and Mr. Brooks had been quarrelling," she remarked, tartly. ...
— A Prince of Sinners • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... your sherry; it is about to be appreciated," said the deserted beauty, tartly, as the men ...
— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay
... to rely on my own judgment," he said tartly. "From what this man reports they are in stronger force than we are. Besides my instructions ...
— Molly McDonald - A Tale of the Old Frontier • Randall Parrish
... your Mr. Marrier! I understood from you he was a clerk!" said Nellie, tartly, suddenly retransformed into the shrewd matron, as soon as Mr. Marrier had profusely gone. She had conceived Marrier as a sort of Penkethman! Edward Henry had ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... how I was in the show business thirty years, you needn't feel called on to post me on fakes," said Hiram, tartly. "But the bigger the fake is the better it catches the crowd. If she'd simply been an old scandal-monger at a quiltin'-bee and started a story about us, we could run down the story and run old scandal-grabber up a tree. ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... wrongs do not make a right," he answered tartly, "even less will an assembly of deadly dry persons ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... so," said the woman, tartly. "Them Days never did have right good sense—yer uncle an' aunt, I mean. When I was a gal we wouldn't have been allowed to have so much freedom where the young ...
— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long |
