"Teasingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to work. I sat on his worktable and watched him. He did not touch his tools at first, but figured for a long while on a piece of paper, and measured the planks and made marks on them. While he was thus engaged, he whistled softly to himself, or teasingly pulled at his half-ear. Grandmother moved about quietly, so as not to disturb him. At last he folded his ruler and turned a cheerful ...
— My Antonia • Willa Cather
... show them to us!" cried Evelyn, as Lucile put both her hands teasingly over the letters, inviting ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... said Dick, looking up from his well-filled plate as she entered and sat down opposite him at the table. "You'll never have time to cram down cabinet pudding and tart to-day, I'll be bound;" and the boy grinned teasingly on the bright face ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... life," he went on, "by the time you are educated enough to leave us." He turned teasingly to Cesca. "You think the white squaw can cross the desert soon ...
— The Heart of the Desert - Kut-Le of the Desert • Honore Willsie Morrow
... suppose this wonderful fortune never does materialize," she said half-teasingly but still tremulously, a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. ...
— The Silver Butterfly • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
... us, too. There, I took Jerry's news away from her. That pays up for what she did to you." Muriel glanced teasingly at Jerry. ...
— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester
... you a few years hence when your education is complete," she returned, evading his question teasingly. "But you mustn't marry, or you ...
— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
... teasingly: "I assure you it was embarrassing, when the pheasants were bursting cover, to be under the necessity of inquiring at the nearest house if those were really ...
— In the Quarter • Robert W. Chambers
... Teasingly she jumped up and walked to the door with him, and stood there peering out beyond the cool shadow of his dark-blue shoulder into the dazzling road where, like so many figures thrust forth all unwittingly into the merciless flare of a spot-light, ...
— Little Eve Edgarton • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... you were," she said, teasingly, sitting down opposite to him, heated with the exercise she had gone through. She gazed into his face with her cheek resting on her hand and her elbow on the table. "You were afraid; and now you are angry. The women in your country don't do ...
— The Pilot and his Wife • Jonas Lie
... envelope such as the wireless messages are delivered in, and bowed to take his leave of the group of girls. Polly gazed at the outside of the envelope but did not open it. Her friends laughed and Nancy Fabian, the oldest girl of the five, said teasingly: ...
— Polly's Business Venture • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... story comes in lots of mythologies, and old family histories!" he said, teasingly. "I don't suppose she ever existed at all, really, or if she did it was because she'd been tarred and feathered and took refuge at that out of the world show because she was ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... was hoping the darn thing would bust. (Miss Howard sniffs. Murray grins at her teasingly.) It keeps you from talking to me. That's the ...
— The Straw • Eugene O'Neill
... you don't intend to have birthdays since we've moved—" said Mr. Merrill teasingly. And then everybody knew! To be sure! It was almost time for Mary Jane's birthday—almost a year, it was, since the lovely birthday party when the little girl was five years old—and in the excitement of moving and getting settled and seeing ...
— Mary Jane's City Home • Clara Ingram Judson
... laundry bag, shoe pocket, twine bag, a collar bag and a table runner, the only expense being several skeins of green embroidery silk, and a couple yards of green cord to draw the bags up with, and a couple of the same-hued skirt braids for binding edges, and," teasingly, "Mary, you might embroider Ralph Jackson's initials on the collar and ...
— Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit - among the "Pennsylvania Germans" • Edith M. Thomas
... was Minnesota-born Carol was not an intimate of the prairie villages. Her father, the smiling and shabby, the learned and teasingly kind, had come from Massachusetts, and through all her childhood he had been a judge in Mankato, which is not a prairie town, but in its garden-sheltered streets and aisles of elms is white and green New England reborn. Mankato lies between cliffs and the Minnesota River, hard by ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... West Point," nodded Hazelton teasingly. "But afterwards, in the Army, it's just one dream ...
— Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point - Standing Firm for Flag and Honor • H. Irving Hancock
... go until we let you," said Dorothy, laughing. "I suppose you think all the fun went with Harry," she added, teasingly, for Dorothy knew Nellie had been acting lonely ever since the carnival. She was surely homesick to see her mother and talk ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore • Laura Lee Hope
... philosopher, for all you know," said Farr, teasingly. "There are knights in fustian as ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day
... member had been in to the sick-room and given his greeting to the dear invalid, who had appeared so bright and cheerful that he seemed almost like his old merry self. When Alsie was recounting to him all the pretty things she had found in her stocking, he said, teasingly, "Now don't get into mine, too—I'm going to wait until Uncle Dick and his little tots come before I take my allotted hour ...
— Grandfather's Love Pie • Miriam Gaines
... been seeing Philadelphia. Mr. Lee teasingly told me that most newcomers want to "do" the city so he and Virginia would take me round. They took me to see all the places I studied about in history class. I've done the Betsy Ross House, Franklin's Grave, Old Christ Church and Old Swede's Church. I like them all. Best of all I ...
— Patchwork - A Story of 'The Plain People' • Anna Balmer Myers
... not surprised at the result," said the oldest of the officers, a man of late middle age, rather affectionately and teasingly. He wore a single order on his breast, a plain iron cross, and the insignia of his rank was ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer |
