"Comfy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... should have got married," she said snappishly. "I am not going to worry because he is a lonely old bachelor when all these years I have supposed him a comfy Benedict. Why doesn't he hire him a housekeeper, at least? He can afford it; the place looks prosperous. Ugh! I've a fat bank account, and I've seen almost everything in the world worth seeing; but I've got several carefully hidden gray hairs and a horrible conviction that grammar ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... staying in a semi-foreign hotel which is tucked away in a pocket in the side of a mountain as comfy as a fat old lady in a big rocker who glories in dispensing hospitality with both hands. Just let me put my head out of my room door and the hall fairly blossoms with little maids eager to serve. A step toward the entrance brings to life a small army of attendants bending as they come like animated ...
— The Lady and Sada San - A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration • Frances Little
... little house up in the tree Is just the very thing for me. It holds my food and keeps the rain From off my comfy counterpane. ...
— Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers • David Cory
... delicately that she is subject to a certain softening). Sit down, won't you, my dear sir, and make yourself comfy. ...
— Dear Brutus • J. M. Barrie
... roof," said Mr. Harley capably. "Let's see; if we take that door and put it across these two barrels, that will keep the rain off. Here's a piece of oilcloth we can use for a curtain to shut the lightning out. Now we're as comfy as we would ...
— Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island • Mabel C. Hawley
... Very comfy and bright looked the fire. Very funny were the shadows on the wall, dancing and bowing to each other and jumping up ...
— Seven O'Clock Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson
... off the rails and the stoker is damaged above a bit," said Acton, seriously, "and we're fixtures here until the company comes and digs us out. There's only one thing to do: we must make ourselves as comfy as possible for the night. I must see that lady, though, before we do anything for ourselves. Back ...
— Acton's Feud - A Public School Story • Frederick Swainson
... vanished, leaving the business woman quite serene and satisfied. She would find her happiness in mere things—in owning her home; in facing old age single-handed and knowing it would not bring the gray wolf; in helping Luke through college while her mother was in a comfy orthodox heaven with plenty of plates of hot cakes and dozens of starched window curtains; in rejoicing at some new possession for her living room, at her immaculate business costumes, new books, tickets for the opera season; in vacationing ...
— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley
... that, sweety," she pleaded. "Ye're just like ye was goin' dead.... I tell ye nobody'll hurt the poor little feller in the garret.... I'll see to that.... I'll fix it up all comfy fer 'im." ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... your head against my knees, if you like," Rose said to Quin, who was sprawling on the floor at her feet. "There, is that comfy?" ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... hit. Anyway, I'll make enough to keep things going—so there'll be enough for you and mother. Now—there isn't any use arguing. It's college for yours, Virgie, and when you graduate you'll marry a millionaire and we'll all be happy and comfy." ...
— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow |
