"Brokenly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the long summer sunshine the Cottage is stirred By passers, who brokenly fling them a word: Such tidings of slaughter! "The enemy cowers;"— "He breaks!"—"He ...
— Beechenbrook - A Rhyme of the War • Margaret J. Preston
... ask Him to let my mother live!" he said brokenly. "I've tried and tried, and the words just ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde
... have been the first in many months, for they came with the gush that follows a probe. "You know him," she said brokenly. "You've seen him lately, up ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... Prince Otto brokenly, for it was he, "at last I begin to realise the horrors of an invasion—for ...
— The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England - A Tale of the Great Invasion • P. G. Wodehouse
... could only sob as she felt his arms and his lips. And when presently he heard her voice again murmuring brokenly to him in the way that he knew and had said over in his mind and dwelt upon through the desert stages he had ridden, he trembled, and with savage triumph drew her close, and let his doubt and the thoughts that had chilled and changed him sink deep beneath the flood ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister
... that two men and a petty officer should be sent aboard the Laughing Lass to make her fast with a cable, and remain on board over night. But when the order was given the men hung back. One of them protested brokenly that he was sick. Trendon, after examination, reported ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams
... word came brokenly and was followed by silence. Then, seeing the hopelessness of contending with police authority, he cast another glance of strong repulsion in the direction of the gallery and started to his feet. Mr. Gryce did the same, ...
— The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow • Anna Katharine Green
... life had gone out of his face as I ceased speaking. His lips trembled. 'Then—it was not she?' he said brokenly. ...
— Against Odds - A Detective Story • Lawrence L. Lynch
... hanging on by the rope to steady it, and as Desmond descended, he seized him by the hand and shook it enthusiastically, murmuring brokenly, "My dear master, thank God that ...
— In the Irish Brigade - A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain • G. A. Henty
... had tears in them. "I don't like to go to him on such an errand, Grammer," she said, brokenly. "But I will, to ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy
... cut adrift by her more than anything," he said, brokenly. "Nine-an'-twenty years I sailed with the cap'n and served 'im faithful, and this is ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... a welcome, and Jamie tried to cry "Hurrah;" but the feeble voice faltered and failed, and he could only wave his hand and cling fast to his friend, whispering, brokenly,— ...
— On Picket Duty and Other Tales • Louisa May Alcott
... just Thinking," replied the Urchin, brokenly. "I was just Thinking what chance have I got to grow up and be the ...
— Fables in Slang • George Ade
... don't know. I don't believe she is," the girl murmured, brokenly. She seemed newly distressed; her lips, very red against her white cheeks, quivered, her full breast strained against ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... and especially the expression of it, might sound uncouth and unfashionable to nice ears, his matter was nevertheless very profound; and would not only bear to be often considered, but the more it was so, the more weighty and instructing it appeared. And as abruptly and brokenly as sometimes his sentences would seem to fall from him, about divine things, it is well known they were often as texts to many ...
— A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers • William Penn
... raised his head a little and rested it upon my knee, he spoke again, very feebly and brokenly: "On my breast is the bag of akin. In it is the Priest-Captain's token, and the paper that shows the way to where the stronghold of our race remains. Only with me abides this secret, for I am of the ancient house, as thou art also, whence sprung of old our priests and kings. Only when the sign ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... hand was extended feebly. Ducie took it in his sinewy palms and pressed it gently. "You have this day done for me what I can never forget," whispered the Russian, brokenly. Then he closed his eyes, and seemed to sink off into a sleep ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 • Various
... "Don't speak," he said brokenly, springing up, and standing before her in her path. "You shall forgive me—I will compel it! See! here we are on this moonlit space of floor, alone, in the night. Very probably we shall never meet again, except as strangers. Put off convention, ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Maren," he said brokenly; "I have followed you to the land you sought. Maid of my heart! ...
— The Maid of the Whispering Hills • Vingie E. Roe
... another cat, he noticed, on a doorstep a few yards away, and he wondered how any living creature in this heat could possibly lie like that, face coiled round to the feet, and the tail laid neatly across the nose. A dreaming cock crooned heart-brokenly somewhere out of sight, and a little hot breeze scooped up a feather of dust in the middle of the road and ...
— None Other Gods • Robert Hugh Benson
... heavily in the same direction, they called "Good-night!" to him. He looked round at them, an old, tired, bewildered man, and he made a gesture with his hands, a gesture of despair. "Ach, mein freund!" he said brokenly, and again he made the suppliant motion with ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine
... mutual embrace tightened and her low voice thrilled brokenly as she went on: "Conway, dearest.... I can't say a thing, but you know.... ...
— Triplanetary • Edward Elmer Smith
... York to the Brick Church, and Dr. Henry van Dyke spoke only a few simple words, and Joseph Twichell came from Hartford and delivered brokenly a prayer from a heart wrung with double grief, for Harmony, his wife, was nearing the journey's end, and a telegram that summoned him to her death-bed came before the ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... time David managed to say brokenly: "She's gone!" and then his head dropped forward on his cold hand that rested on the mantel. Great beads of perspiration stood out upon his white forehead, and the letter fluttered gayly, coquettishly to the floor, a reminder of the uncertain ways ...
— Marcia Schuyler • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
... what one can do with money!" exclaimed Gavrilo, passionately. He began to talk brokenly and rapidly, as though pursuing an idea, and seizing the words on the wing, of life in the country with and without money. "Respect, ...
— Twenty-six and One and Other Stories • Maksim Gorky
... nor Impostor," he said brokenly. "Ah! say not that thou canst not love me as a man. When thou didst first come to bless my life I had not yet declared ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... she said brokenly. "I ache for you, dear; but I understand! I have parted with a child of my own—not for a few years, but for ever, till we meet again in God's heaven. I'll help you every way I can. I'll watch her night and day; I'll coddle her when she's ill; I'll try to make her a good woman. I'll love her, ...
— About Peggy Saville • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... hand to her face as if terribly hurt). As if I didn't exist. (Crosses over to table L. C., puts down revolver.) As if I weren't in your life at all. Oh, how godless you are! (Brokenly.) Tell me, tell me, what about all ...
— Redemption and Two Other Plays • Leo Tolstoy et al
... fury burst from Duncan's labouring bosom. His broadsword flashed from its sheath, and brokenly panting out the words: "Clenlyon! Ta creat dufil! Haf I peen trinking with ta hellhount, Clenlyon?"—he would have run a Malay muck through the room with his huge weapon. But he was already struggling in the ...
— Malcolm • George MacDonald
... O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with your French heart, I will be glad to hear you confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do you like ...
— The Life of King Henry V • William Shakespeare [Tudor edition]
... rouse at the least call, and at midnight came the message. Earth was passed and earthly pain; so solemn was the triumphant brightness of that face it checked even the sobs of sorrow. A glorious smile, and she said, brokenly, "Oh—love—joy—peace" and ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VIII • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... this moment ceased to be my partner," said Mr. Taynton brokenly. "I could never again sign what he has signed, or work with him, or—or—except once—see him again. He is coming here by appointment at half-past nine. Suppose that we all meet here. We have both ...
— The Blotting Book • E. F. Benson
... trembling hand for the paper, and involuntarily the other went up to her eyes to push away the bandages. "Let me see it," she cried, eagerly, but the thrill of gladness in her voice died in a pitiful little note of despair as she whispered, brokenly, "Oh, I forgot! I ...
— The Little Colonel's House Party • Annie Fellows Johnston
... like this," he said, brokenly, as if the words were dragged from him. "Ambrosine, my dearest! Little Comtesse, please, please do ...
— The Reflections of Ambrosine - A Novel • Elinor Glyn
... swallow a small portion of the lump that filled her throat. "You.... You laughed at me!" she said brokenly. "You ...
— The Heart of Arethusa • Francis Barton Fox
... fell upon them, though the larches beside the road were rustling beneath a little cold wind, and the song of the river came up brokenly out of the valley. An odour of fresh grass floated about them, and the dry, cold smell of the English spring was in the air. Across the valley dim ghosts of hills lighted by evanescent gleams rose out of the east wind greyness ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... in one place that he is like a mirror, seeing all things sharply except that he saw not himself. Whether he judged me justly or not, I must leave to others to decide. I should be glad to think that, in the great account, I shall be as kindly dealt with as in the worn and faded pages which tell brokenly of the days of our youth. I am not ashamed to say that my eyes have filled many times as I have lingered over these records of my friend, surely as sweet and true a gentleman as I have ever known. Perhaps sometimes they have even overflowed at what they read. Why are ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell
... said Victor, brokenly, "what you have done this night. You are mad, mad! What are you going to do? You have publicly branded yourself as the illegitimate son ...
— The Grey Cloak • Harold MacGrath
... rose slowly to her feet. She made a little helpless gesture, swaying as she stood. "What can I say?" she said brokenly. "Do you think it means nothing to me! Don't you know that what I already owe you and Mr. Craven is almost more than I can bear, that I would give my life for either of you? But this—oh, you don't understand—I can't tell you—I can't explain——" ...
— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull
... want to die, Alec," she whispered brokenly. "I want to live, dear. I want to live and be your wife. Oh, Alec, let us ask Heaven for one year of happiness, one short year——" She choked, and the tears so bravely repressed hitherto dimmed her glorious eyes. ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy
... massy hoariness; the ruined wall Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone; The bars survive the captive they enthral; The day drags through though storms keep out the sun; And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on: ...
— Childe Harold's Pilgrimage • Lord Byron
... brokenly, "it cannot hurt him now. He has found his 'cure.' As a candle-flame in this broad sunlight, so all those earthly longings"—The old gentleman could not finish his sentence, though a sentence was dear to him almost as the truth from which, even in his love of verbiage, his speech never deviated. ...
— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
... said brokenly. "Please don't. I don't want any settlement as long as you care for me. What is a settlement to me if, as you say, you were to die? What good would it be to me then? Do you think I could bear to go ...
— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston
... said the gray-headed parent brokenly, "but I can't help it. It is my fault that I should let ...
— Jennie Gerhardt - A Novel • Theodore Dreiser
... drenched, storm-beaten bird. He had flown to his one solitary possession for a refuge. He was almost exhausted; his little hands grasped a branch like steel claws. Mr. Fairbanks took him down and carried him home. "He was up in his tree," he told his sister, brokenly, when he entered the kitchen. "He's ...
— Young Lucretia and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins
... coming," she said, brokenly, pointing to the reflection in the glass. "That first day, you knew how it ...
— A Mountain Woman and Others • (AKA Elia Wilkinson) Elia W. Peattie
... say! Isn't this rather—What I mean to say is, the lad's an absolute scourge! The Great Lover, what! Also ran, Brigham Young, and all that sort of thing! Why, it's only a few weeks ago that he was moaning brokenly about that vermilion-haired female who subsequently hooked on to old Reggie ...
— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse
... in vain for Gretchen. Then he beckoned to Carmichael, and whispered brokenly: "If you see her, do not tell her what has happened. Better to let her think that I have gone. And she will see nothing in the arrest ...
— The Goose Girl • Harold MacGrath
... and how it seemed to take on a reproachful nobility—and yet, under the circumstances, nothing could have been more natural than that George, having paid but the slightest attention to his father in life, should begin to deify him, now that he was dead. "Poor, poor father!" the son whispered brokenly. "Poor man, I'm glad you ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... I'm ungrateful and horrid," she said brokenly. "But how would you like to be in my position? I haven't a shilling of my own in the world—the things I've been wearing since I came here are paid for by ... by ... oh, you know! I hate to look at that fur coat and my new frock. You talk to me about being proud and obstinate; well, I can't help ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... saw a boat off to the left in flames. A dozen girls had rushed upon it, darting in among its smaller rays to where their own would be effective. But there was only one girl above it now, struggling brokenly to maintain herself in flight. The boat sank with the roar of an explosion of some kind, but in the sudden darkness about I could still see this lone wounded ...
— The Fire People • Ray Cummings
... Tristan's heart with such rapture that he embraces Kurvenal, thanking him brokenly for his lifelong devotion, and bidding him climb up into the watch-tower that he may catch the first glimpse of the coming sail. While Kurvenal is hesitating whether he shall obey this order and leave his helpless patient alone, the shepherd joyfully announces the appearance of the ship. Kurvenal, ...
— Stories of the Wagner Opera • H. A. Guerber
... whispered David brokenly. "With God's help I'll turn over a new leaf and I'll come ...
— The Alchemist's Secret • Isabel Cecilia Williams
... doctor said she needed food—good nourishing food. She's only eleven, and he told father that with care she might outgrow it, especially if she could get in some Institution for Cripples, where she could have good attention," and the girl threw herself on her face and sobbed brokenly. ...
— How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl • Irene Elliott Benson
... trees, among which a few big lights gleamed, and the roar of the city came up across them brokenly. Ida sat down, and a ray of light fell upon her companion, who leaned against the rails. Gregory Kinnaird was well-favored physically, and bore the stamp of a military training. He was, she understood, captain of a rather famous regiment, ...
— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss
... Sergeant Wilson, his face drawn and wrinkled like old parchment, came forward and asked hesitatingly if there were any news from Washington. The officer shook his head. The cords in the old negro's throat worked convulsively, and he requested rather brokenly that he might be excused from this formation, and be allowed to remain ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various
... convulsed with sobbing; but putting her arms round her mother's neck with an almost painful clinging, she said brokenly, "I can't bear any one to be very ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... continued brokenly, "but a man can't do anything against the law. My attorney says that it used to be ...
— Nobody's Boy - Sans Famille • Hector Malot
... face upon his hand, and once more he was the miserable man who had begun brokenly to unfold the history of his shame. The unconscious animation produced by the mere unloading of his heart, the natural boyish slang with which his tale had been freely garnished, had faded from his face, had died upon his ...
— Mr. Justice Raffles • E. W. Hornung
... from the court-room and Frank followed him. He could not help but feel a certain pity for the poor wretch, wailing brokenly that he was "ruined." He could never face his friends again. His customers would leave him. Frank learned the details of his ancient crime; he also ascertained that Haas had lived rightly since. The incident rankled. He wrote a guarded story of the affair. But he did not mention ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... just beyond the stricken village, the car came to a standstill of its own accord, panting brokenly, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, March 19, 1919 • Various
... any of us—mind anything then, Susan," said the man softly, a little brokenly. And Susan, looking into his face, turned away suddenly, ...
— Dawn • Eleanor H. Porter
... Aunt Jane heart-brokenly, and of course a tear trickled gently down her nose, following the path of many previous tears which had already ...
— Spanish Doubloons • Camilla Kenyon
... sorry for me," he said rather brokenly; "I am not the only man who has been denied his heart's desire;" and he turned away and plunged into the little fir wood. Elizabeth sat listening to his retreating footsteps. The tears were running down her cheeks. She was still ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... can not bear it," declared Tom Curtis brokenly. "Oh, won't some one go for a doctor? Can't you do something else ...
— Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid • Amy D. V. Chalmers
... come in," he said brokenly. "You are one of us: nothing shall be kept from you in this hour of great affliction. I am ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... connected by a door; and, gradually, in spite of her preoccupation, Johanna could not but become aware how brokenly Ephie was practising. Coaxing, encouragement, and sometimes even severity, were all, it is true, necessary to pilot Ephie through the two hours that were her daily task; but as idle as to-day, she had never been. What could she be doing? Johanna listened intently, but not a sound came ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... "It did," said Ambrose, brokenly. "He couldna bear tew look na tew spik to nane o' us. He were bent i' body, an' gray o' head, that awfu' night when he kem back fra' the waking. It were fearfu' tew see; and we couldna dew naught. Th' ony thing as he'd take tew ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida
... face in her hands and sobbed brokenly. "Oh, my love, my love—and I did not even now ...
— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn
... fell brokenly from her lips, and tears streamed down her pallid cheek, a great pity took possession of me, the old longing to find some solace for my solitary life returned again, and peace seemed to smile on me ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... would not believe it herself. She kept saying continually, that she must contrive to rise before Michael came back at night. Even when she knew she was dying, she seemed to think only of him; but always in her simple, humble way. I remember how she talked, brokenly, of some draperies she had to make for his model that day—asking me to get some one else to do it, or the picture would be delayed. Once she wept, saying, 'who would take care of Michael when she was gone?' She would not have him sent for—he never liked to be disturbed when he was at the Sistine. ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... decreed again, his powerful grip on the old man, his eyes half shut, "I by my love for Sally Madeira, you by your love for Piney's young mother! Swear!" He held up his own right hand, and Bernique said brokenly: ...
— Sally of Missouri • R. E. Young
... his passion, out of the door into the night. And as he went he heard his father cry out, brokenly: ...
— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey
... appeared to rouse the younger man, and bring him to himself. He stepped forward, with his hands behind him and his face still set, wild and drawn, and said brokenly: "Bill! Bill! Strike back! Do ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton
... facing each other. Again she stood before him in the dimlit hall, sobbing, and with the memory came a surging realization of what he might have lost. Unconsciously his last words to her, spoken that Christmas night, sprang brokenly to his lips as he ...
— Terry - A Tale of the Hill People • Charles Goff Thomson
... be compared with a pure, unselfish, gently strong life. Yet its power is limited to one spot where it is being lived. Power through the lips depends wholly upon the life back of the lips. Words that come brokenly are often made burning and eloquent by the life behind them. And words that are smooth and easy, often have all their meaning sapped by the life back of them. Power through service may be great, and may be touching many spots, yet it is always less than that of a life. ...
— Quiet Talks on Prayer • S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
... why you have done this for me, or who you are, sir," he said brokenly. "But at least I understand that in some strange way you have stepped in between me and—and those men. You—you ...
— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... a big, husky Yank in "I" Company was brokenly "parlevooing" with a little French gunner, who was seen to leap excitedly into the air and drape himself about the doughboy's neck exclaiming with joy, "My son, my son, my dear sister's son." This is the truth. And he took the Yank over ...
— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore
... for you to-morrow, Charlotte," he said, brokenly. "It has not yet come to pass that you have to do such work." He spoke brokenly. He did not trust himself to look at the girl, who was now looking ...
— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... soul, and the pain inflicted by the cruel blow which crushed his dearest hopes, robbed him of fortitude and calmness. With tears in his eyes, he threw himself on his knees before her and gazed into her face with anxious entreaty, exclaiming brokenly: "Do not—do not inflict this suffering upon me, Wawerl! Rob me of everything except hope. Defer your acceptance until I can offer you a still fairer future, only be merciful and ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... brokenly. She had not called him that for many years—not since the day he had rebelled ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... her,' he said brokenly. 'She made a row and the devil got into me. I didn't know what I'd done till she screamed and I saw ...
— The Explorer • W. Somerset Maugham
... the right note. Isabel's heart gave a leap of sorrow and sympathy. "Oh, Hubert," she said brokenly, "I am so sorry; but I promise I will tell you—by Easter?" and her ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson
... his death Captain Driver placed his Old Glory flag in the hands of his elder daughter, Mrs. Roland, of Wells, Nev., who was then on a visit to him, saying brokenly as he resigned it: "Take this flag and cherish it as I have done. I love it as a mother loves her child. It has been with me, and it has protected me in all parts of ...
— How the Flag Became Old Glory • Emma Look Scott
... to us all the pilot stood, but we heard him Swallowing hard, as he pulled the bell-rope to stop her. Then, turning,— "This is the place where it happened," brokenly whispered the pilot. "Somehow, I never like to go by here alone in the night-time." Darkly the Mississippi flowed by the town that lay in the starlight, Cheerful with lamps. Below we could hear them reversing ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860 • Various
... so good, pa, lyin' there!" she said brokenly. "An' you'd ought to see how much like Joey the littlest one ...
— Three Young Knights • Annie Hamilton Donnell
... given a thought to that, my heart has been so heavy for you," she murmured, brokenly. Then she added, after a moment of thought: "I have my pretty silk that you sent to San Francisco for in the spring, and I wondered when I should ever wear it here, you know. It ...
— Virgie's Inheritance • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... length the professor in the spectacles turned to me with an air of indifference, and invited me to answer, I felt hurt, as I looked at him, to think that he should have so undeceived me: wherefore I answered brokenly at first. In time, however, things came easier to my tongue, and, inasmuch as all the questions bore upon Russian history (which I knew thoroughly), I ended with eclat, and even went so far, in my desire to convince the ...
— Youth • Leo Tolstoy
... said brokenly. "I am a coward to give way. But I was alone. I have brooded over it all. And Frederic—Thank you, oh, thank you! To have said so much, perhaps, has helped me. Oh, we shall all live—live to talk of these days with shudders ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson
... was a fool about crying—an' I was thinkin' about Bill," she said brokenly. "Good-by." She wrung his hand, turned, and walked rapidly out of the room, leaving Keith with a warm feeling about ...
— Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page
... pale, staggered backwards with both his hands clasped to his head, and gasped out brokenly as ...
— The Angel of the Revolution - A Tale of the Coming Terror • George Griffith
... passionately. "Muriel! Stay with me, look at me, love me! There is nothing in the mountains to draw you. It is here—here beside you, touching you, holding you. O God," he prayed brokenly, "she doesn't understand me. Let her ...
— The Way of an Eagle • Ethel M. Dell
... out of school next spring," she heart-brokenly said when questioned. "And when I can't see you every day, Miss Margaret, I won't feel for nothin' no more. And I thought to get more educated than what I am yet. I thought to go to school ...
— Tillie: A Mennonite Maid - A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch • Helen Reimensnyder Martin
... at least two months. The doctor said the light would last, perhaps, three months. Then I shall be blind. But if I could give eyes to the blind world before I go into the dark, what matter? What matter, I say?" he cried, brokenly. ...
— Life at High Tide - Harper's Novelettes • Various
... had already risen from his seat, and, with unsteady footsteps, passed to the door murmuring brokenly to himself, 'Peccavi, peccavi' as he withdrew ...
— Border Ghost Stories • Howard Pease
... Bob!" I groaned; "don't rub it in!" And then I told him brokenly how I had known Polly as a little girl in Glendale, and how I was certain that her father had more than once been on the verge of recognizing me. Then, in such fashion as I could, I made my will, or tried to, ...
— Branded • Francis Lynde
... came to her vaguely and brokenly at first, then forced themselves on her attention connectedly. Surely she was not at Le Bon Pasteur! Then where was she? And finally the recollection of recent events rushed upon her, and her poor little head seemed to be on the point ...
— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray
... out of your clerk. He speaks so brokenly, and I don't know a word of Italian. But perhaps I ought to first introduce myself. My name is Philip Hornby," and he handed me a card bearing the name with the addresses "Woodcroft Park, Somerset ——— ...
— The Czar's Spy - The Mystery of a Silent Love • William Le Queux
... to her own room, through her bedroom to Selina's—almost as large and quite as comfortable as her own and hardly plainer. She knocked. As there was no answer, she opened the door. On the bed, sobbing heart-brokenly, lay Selina, crushed by the hideous injustice of being condemned capitally merely for tearing off a bit of leather which the shoemaker had neglected to ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips
... near to look. Gerald looked at the group of men, the Russian golden and like a water-plant, Halliday tall and heavily, brokenly beautiful, Birkin very white and indefinite, not to be assigned, as he looked closely at the carven woman. Strangely elated, Gerald also lifted his eyes to the face of the wooden figure. And his ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... melted his heart. Dropping on his knees beside her bed, he pressed her fingers to his lips, then rose. "I'll see you again—somewhere—some time," he said, brokenly. "Good-by." ...
— They of the High Trails • Hamlin Garland
... almost stammered in sudden confusion, speaking quite brokenly), "bot, sair, it haf come to me dat you vos an insulter of womens, an' had refuse to fight mit mens. I know ...
— My Lady of the North • Randall Parrish
... in an undertone, and the woman who had borne his children and stood shoulder to shoulder with him through the years of fight, came over and knelt at his knee. He took her hand and held it for a while in silence, and then he said a little brokenly: "Mother, when we first came here from the little church down there, this house looked pretty good to ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... wished me to leave him a little," she said, brokenly. "The ambulance will be here directly. They will take him to Lytchett. I thought it should have been Tallyn. ...
— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the place of honor, at the captain's right; and he was not long in discovering that he was the great man on board. But no more unsatisfactory great man ever sailed on a ship. He spent the afternoon in a deck-chair, with closed eyes, dozing brokenly most of the time, and in the ...
— Martin Eden • Jack London
... 'Mamma,' she said brokenly, 'I didn't, oh, truly, I didn't mean it that way. I know papa isn't old enough to die; but I thought he was too big to ...
— The Rectory Children • Mrs Molesworth
... the better. I want to have it over with." A moment longer she sat still as death; then suddenly the mood of apathy departed, and in infinite weakness, infinite pathos, the dark head buried itself on the man's shoulder. "Promise me," she pleaded brokenly, "that you will be kind to me! Promise me that you always ...
— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge |
