"Eh" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... demerit of the Cappadocians rose in proportion to their rank and riches, he inserts a more pointed epigram, which is ascribed to Demodocus. The sting is precisely the same with the French epigram against Freron: Un serpent mordit Jean Freron—Eh bien? Le serpent en mourut. But as the Paris wits are seldom read in the Anthology, I should be curious to learn, through what channel it was conveyed for their imitation, (Constantin. Porphyrogen. de Themat. c. ii. Brunck Analect. Graec. tom. ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon
... Mr. Greene assured them. "Say, I remember your golf, Mr. Busby! You're some driver, eh? And those long putts of yours—you never took three on any green ...
— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... in. 'He cannot be in bed,' I thought, 'those showers would drench him through.' And so it was, for when I entered the chamber his face and throat were washed with rain, the bed-clothes dripped, and he was perfectly still—dead and stark. I called up Joseph. 'Eh, what a wicked 'un he looks, girning at death,' exclaimed the old man, and then he fell on his knees and returned thanks that the ancient Earnshaw stock were restored ...
— The Worlds Greatest Books - Vol. II: Fiction • Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.
... story about that, Mr. Doctor. If you can patch the poor devil up between this and next Monday, I'll take him home in my ship, without the passage costing him sixpence.' You don't feel offended with me for having called you a poor devil, eh, Joyce?—for you really were, you know—you really were an uncommonly poor creature just then," ...
— Run to Earth - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... "Eh, why do you smile?" she cried. "If you doubt it, you must see the bambino!" And she took the lamp and conducted me to the other side of the room, where on the wall, in a plain black frame, hung a large drawing ...
— The Madonna of the Future • Henry James
... eh?" he said. "Well, we don't think you will. If you intended to escape you would not be so foolish as to tell us about it; and then, if you did attempt it, you could not get out of Cologne with an English face like yours. That's alright," ...
— The Sequel - What the Great War will mean to Australia • George A. Taylor
... caught, my fine friend! You were going to run off in my ship, eh? But you are not a good enough sailor to beat Ben Ali, the Barbary Dragon. I want that duck you've got—and the pig too. We'll have pork-chops and roast duck for supper to-night. And before I let you go home, you must make your friends send ...
— The Story of Doctor Dolittle • Hugh Lofting
... any of the tribes; send to Spain for those Vandals—they have had enough of Adolf by now, curse him!—I'll warrant them; get together an army, and take Constantinople. I'll be Augustus, and Pelagia, Augusta; you and Smid here, the two Caesars; and we'll make the monk the chief of the eunuchs, eh?—anything you like for a quiet life; but up this accursed kennel of hot water I go no farther. Ask your girls, my heroes, and I'll ask mine. Women are all ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley
... eh?" said Boswell. "Well, if you were in my place you'd change your mind. After my unexpected endorsement by the Emperor and his cabinet, I've decided to keep out of politics for a little while. I can stand having a poem tattooed on my back, but if it came to having a three-column ...
— The Enchanted Typewriter • John Kendrick Bangs
... hours in primary school, eh? Talked your mother and father deaf in the ears to let you come to Space Academy and be a spaceman! You want to feel those rockets bucking in your back out ...
— Stand by for Mars! • Carey Rockwell
... Efflorescence florado. Effluvium malbonodoro. Efflux defluado. Effort peno. Effrontery senhonteco. Effulgent radiluma. Egg ovo. Egg-shaped ovoforma. Egoism egoismo. Egoist egoisto. Egress eliro. Egyptian Egipto. Eh! he! Eider-down lanugo. Eider-duck molanaso. Eight ok. Either aux. Ejaculation ekkrio. Eject eljxeti. Elaborate prilabori. Elastic elasta. Elastic elastajxo. Elasticity elasteco. Elbow kubuto. Elder (tree) sambuko. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... was. When you met me at the railroad station yesterday I could see there was something wrong with you. All this morning you've had something on your chest. I thought it was the biscuits, of course; but it wasn't, eh?" ...
— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln
... many places where it could be used. Perhaps, if you make it known at your office that when you are given a good territory, I shall give preference to the Delkoff over other typewriting machines, it might—eh?" ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... Eh' es verdueftet Drink of the stream Schoepfet es schnell! Ere its potency goes! Nur wann er gluehet No bath is refreshing Labet der ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... soon as you were hoisted aboard, Dr. Barker pronounced you down with coast fever. That trip up the river Duff tells me about, probably planted the seeds, and exposure did the rest—eh, Doc." ...
— Ralph Granger's Fortunes • William Perry Brown
... "Fishin', eh? Well, look out for rattlers." His voice was so cheery that one might have thought these snakes well worth meeting for their companionship. "This is the season for 'em, Davy—real rattler season, and you're sure to see some." To ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd
... said Mr. Richard, thoughtfully, "poor Jane, who was always the drudge of the family, has contrived to bring up her son well; and the boy is really what you say, eh?—could ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various
... las lides contra los moros del reino de Granada; armole caballero el mismo Rey Catolico,[36-3] y monto mas de una vez la guardia en el Quirinal,[36-4] siendo Papa nuestro tio Alejandro Borja! [36-5] iEh, eh! iNo me haciais tan linajudo!—Pues este DIEGO GARCIA DE 15 PAREDES, este ascendiente mio..., que ha tenido un descendiente boticario, tomo a Cosenza y Manfredonia; entro por asalto en Cerinola, y peleo como bueno[36-6] en la batalla de Pavia![36-7] iAlli hicimos ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
... say any harm o' Tom, eh?" said Mr. Tulliver, looking at Maggie with a twinkling eye. Then he added gently, "Go, go ...
— Tom and Maggie Tulliver • Anonymous
... weary man who was overtaken by a correspondent of mine on the acclivity called the King's Head Hill, toiling up its steepness on a very old-fashioned, solid-tyred tricycle. He had the brake hard down, and when this was pointed out to him, he replied shrewdly, "Eh master, but her might goo backards." Such whimsical excess of caution, such thorough calculation of all the chances, is not truly typical, nor is the miller's oddity truly typical; and yet if one set forth to find humorous eccentricity, humorous suspicion, and ...
— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas
... compensates for its want of strength. But if, in addition to being fresher by two hundred years than the tap of William Shakspeare of Stratford, it were as strong—as cunningly mixed of malt and hops—and had as beautiful a flavour as his had when it was first brewed—eh! Smith? What do you think, then? Isn't it worth while to live forty years on the chance? isn't it worth while to be teetotallers in the meantime? to live upon slops and gruel? Gentlemen, I propose the health of Mr ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 • Various
... coming closer, and looking the wedding-dress over critically, "Rehearsing, eh, in your wedding-dress! What would Buffalo think if it saw you!" With which rebuff, she sank, blowing, upon the couch, and drew Mrs. Milo down ...
— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... went away, and I answered, I was a poor rat-catcher. 'A rat-catcher, are you? Well then, Mr Rat-catcher, when you are killing rats, if you find a nest of young ones, don't you kill them too? Or do you leave them to grow, and become mischievous, eh?'—'I kill the young ones, of course,' replied I. 'Well, so do we Malignants whenever we find them.' I didn't say a word more, so I went out of the house ...
— The Children of the New Forest • Captain Marryat
... "EH BIEN!" riposted Fouquier-Tinville. "Bring me more tangible proof that our prisoner is not Paul Mole and I'll deal with him quickly enough, never fear. But if by to-morrow morning you do not satisfy me on the point ... I must let him ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... announced to us everything that was going to be done, with the importance of a prologue. Some of the country folks assembled, and our party was enlivened by the squeaks of the wenches and the long-protracted Eh, eh's! by which a ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... said he. "I have no friends yet to offer you, though you shall have some young dogs like yourself very soon. What do you like?—riding, hunting, a quiet minuet on the terrace, eh? Ah me, the coquettes of Quebec! I well ...
— The False Chevalier - or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette • William Douw Lighthall
... out,[135] with some sentimental sing-song of my own to fill up,—and how does it take, eh? and where the devil is the second edition of my Satire, with additions? and my name on the title page? and more lines tagged to the end, with a new exordium and what not, hot from my anvil before I cleared the Channel? The Mediterranean and the Atlantic roll between me and criticism; ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. I. (of VI.) - With his Letters and Journals. • Thomas Moore
... breath, 'Impossible! it cannot be!' or words to that effect. He recovered himself however by a great effort, and after a preparatory cough or two, cried, with a ghastly smile which is still before me, looking at the same time round the walls, 'Ha! the breakfast-room, steward - eh?' We all foresaw what the answer must be: we knew the agony he suffered. He had often spoken of THE SALOON; had taken in and lived upon the pictorial idea; had usually given us to understand, at home, that to form ...
— American Notes for General Circulation • Charles Dickens
... it is, eh, uncle! Only fancy my going down to the sea! Why, I shouldn't want to come back if it wasn't ...
— Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... another word—it would be more distressing to you than you imagine, perhaps. Now there is just one thing I want to say. I feel that I am really indirectly responsible for this illness of yours, and I think I ought to defray the expense which it has—eh?' ...
— Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - Part 2: More Ghost Stories • Montague Rhodes James
... it would be just like as if I wanted a beer and I would go up to the bar and say "Give me a bee" and I guess the man would think I thought I was in a bee hive or something or else he would think I had a bee in my bonnet eh Al? ...
— Treat 'em Rough - Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer • Ring W. Lardner
... than him that way; but you must be plain about this, Brady, that they were talking about Ussher that night—d'ye hear? Be d——d but if you let them shake you about that you're lost. D'ye hear? Why don't you answer me, eh?" ...
— The Macdermots of Ballycloran • Anthony Trollope
... "Eh? Oh, yes!" said Roberts quickly, yet still with a certain embarrassment; "of course THAT'S better furnished, and she's quite satisfied, and so are the kids, with anything. And now, Mr. Breeze, I reckon you'll say nothin' o' this, and you'll ...
— Under the Redwoods • Bret Harte
... "Shouldn't, eh? Well, you never saw a fellow from ole Kaintuck that would stand up an' let a man shoot at him without sending his compliments back—if he happened to be packin' his ...
— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor
... "Eh?" said I. I looked up quickly at the moon; then back toward the possessor of the voice. It was peculiar I had not noticed her before, for she sat on a rustic bench not more than forty feet away, and in full view of the street. It was, perhaps, the strangeness of the ...
— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al
... "Eh, my Marie, what is it then that you plan? The people in the country from which she comes have no fetes. It might be that she would think it a folly," answered Father Antoine, by no means sure that Hetty would like ...
— Hetty's Strange History • Anonymous
... "Mordon dead, eh? That's bad. But how on earth are they going to explain it? I suppose," he said with a smile, "you didn't write a letter saying that you were going to ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... little man danced about the room, exclaiming at intervals, "Ted Crawford gone? Dear, dear! Not a better fellow in South America! I'd shoot 'em all or string 'em up! The country's going to the dogs, and a man isn't safe in his own house! Eh? What? Hurt the boy? What's the boy to do with it? They can't punish him if his father had ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens
... him came home to him. The hat masked the upper sinister quarter of his face, and he spoke with a wrathful eye regarding his wife from under the brim. In a voice thick with fury he said: "I s'pose you'd like me to wear that silly Mud Pie for ever, eh? I tell you I won't. I'm sick of it. I'm pretty near sick of everything, ...
— The History of Mr. Polly • H. G. Wells
... once was known to nations like their homes, Neglected or forgotten:—such was Spain; But such she is not, nor shall be again. These worst, these home invaders, felt and feel The new Numantine soul of old Castile[eg], Up! up again! undaunted Tauridor! The bull of Phalaris renews his roar[eh]; Mount, chivalrous Hidalgo! not in vain Revive the cry—"Iago! and close Spain!"[306] Yes, close her with your armed bosoms round, 360 And form the barrier which Napoleon found,— The exterminating war, the desert plain, The streets without a tenant, save the slain; The wild Sierra, with ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... on Saturday the 8th of August, lasted one minute and forty-seven seconds. Three days later, though he flew for only four minutes, the figures of eight and other manoeuvres which he executed in the air caused M. Delagrange, who witnessed them, to remark, 'Eh bien. Nous n'existons pas. Nous sommes battus.' On the last day of the year he flew for two hours and twenty minutes, covering seventy-seven miles. In the intervening time he had beaten the French records for duration, ...
— The War in the Air; Vol. 1 - The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force • Walter Raleigh
... fifteenth or the seventeenth? Not she. Sometimes she puts her nose out and smells at the other floors, but she won't get off until I stop at the right one. Sometimes she has to ride up and down three or four times before any one wants the sixteenth. Eh, Susan?" he added in caressing tones; but Susan was watching the floors flash past and paid no attention until, arrived at the top, she and Pete stepped ...
— The Happiest Time of Their Lives • Alice Duer Miller
... "Eh?" exclaimed the other, entering the garden hastily; "let me see. Oho! this may throw some light on the matter. Did you find ...
— The Lighthouse • Robert Ballantyne
... "You don't, eh?" And Captain Gordon was evidently very much surprised, for whatever he had expected, he certainly had not anticipated a mutiny the first ...
— Little By Little - or, The Cruise of the Flyaway • William Taylor Adams
... George," he replied, reproachfully. "Eh? Lil fire—two lil fire—twent lil fire," he cried, excitedly. "'Mell um cook suffum. Come 'long, ...
— Mass' George - A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah • George Manville Fenn
... thee mid this dance Of plastic circumstance, This Present, thou, forsooth, wouldst fain arrest: Machinery just meant To give thy soul its bent, Try thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed." BROWNING, "Rabbi Ben Ezra." "Eh, Dieu! nous marchons trop en enfants—cela me fache!" ST. JANE ...
— The Education of Catholic Girls • Janet Erskine Stuart
... he said, "this is the man I said could nail the four dollars before they hit the dust. I figger you don't think how it can be done, eh?" ...
— The Untamed • Max Brand
... thrash you a little, no doubt, but respect you more for it. And surely it would be better to bear one thrashing, and not do what's wrong, than to do it and to go two such journeys out of the window, and get the thrashings into the bargain? So even on that ground you ought to refuse. Eh, Arty?" ...
— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar
... eu votre cafe? Eh bien alors—allons! pour passer chez mon ami VESQUIER," says DAUBINET, at the same time signalling a meandering fly-driver who, having pulled up near the Cathedral, is sitting lazily on his box perusing a newspaper. He looks ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101. Sep. 12, 1891 • Various
... insult you if you don't look out. (Throws away the cigarette) No, I can't. As long as I keep standing or walking I manage somehow. The moment I sit down, it's hell. Oh! Ow-w! (Writhing in agony) I simply can't catch my breath. Oh, God, do you see my torture? Eh? Well, well, it's nothing. It's gone. ...
— Savva and The Life of Man • Leonid Andreyev
... cried, looking him down. "A woman? So that's what your fine learning comes to, eh? Take care, sir! take care! No son of mine shall disgrace himself. The day he does that he will be put to ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine
... what EMILY meant. She'd like to enamel 'em all in Art shades and drape Liberty scarves round 'em, like terra-cotta drainpipes or wicker-chairs—eh, EMILY? ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, July 9, 1892 • Various
... did," returned Lord Hastings. "Come, tell me something about yourselves. So you were in at the finish, eh?" ...
— The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets - The Fall of the German Navy • Robert L. Drake
... "Can't, eh?" said Bud. "That's all er collidge eddication done fer yer? Why, if we hadn't got them cattle off'n thar pretty pronto, thet thar lootenant would hev bagged every animile on foot. But Ted, he foresee what they wuz up ter, an' ther simplest way wuz ter run 'em off in a fake stampede. It ...
— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor
... Fenn's brother. "Isn't that just the part for him? It's just like he was in the dressing-room, eh? Short sentences and everything. The funny part of it is that I didn't know the man when I wrote the ...
— The Head of Kay's • P. G. Wodehouse
... walls. "A nice room, my dear, and I ought to be much obliged to you for it, since my maid tells me it is yours," said her ladyship; "but I am pretty sure you repent your generosity to me, after all those ghost stories, and tremble to think of a strange bed and chamber, eh?" I made some commonplace reply. The old lady arched her eyebrows. "Where have they put you, child?" she asked; "in some cock-loft of the turrets, eh? or in a lumber-room—a regular ghost-trap? I can hear your heart ...
— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne
... idiocy? It's possible, don't you see, that I don't want to talk to you. You ought first to ascertain whether I am disposed to listen to you or not, you dolt. What am I to you? ... am I your equal, eh? Damn the fellow! A mighty clever idea he's hit upon! And then up he must come and straightway start holding ...
— The Storm • Aleksandr Nicolaevich Ostrovsky
... 'Eh, me!' cried the negro woman faintly, after a long silence, her head falling back with extreme exhaustion. Her companion made no reply, but, roused at the sound of her voice, bent forward, slid open the door a little, and looked out to windward. ...
— The Pirate and The Three Cutters • Frederick Marryat
... feller that wore this was a sport, eh?" he said, proudly, shaking the pieces on his arms until they rattled. "I guess he done 'em up pretty well for all these handicaps. I'll bet when he got to falling around on 'em and butting 'em with this fire helmet he made 'em purty tired. Don't youse ...
— Van Bibber and Others • Richard Harding Davis
... d'A., and that, though highly susceptible to such a desire, my usual shyness, or rather consciousness of inability to meet the expectations that must have made him seek me, induced my declining an interview. Eh bien—at church at Sandgate, the day after my arrival, I saw this justly celebrated man, and was introduced to him in the churchyard, after the service, by Charles. The ramparts and martellos around us became ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay
... of bad paper, eh? Come now, didn't you cash a check on the Cotton Exchange Bank for about six hundred dollars when there was only fifteen on deposit? Don't try to bluff me. I know your sort. Lucky if you don't ...
— The Confessions of Artemas Quibble • Arthur Train
... d'Amerique, une des foudroyantes proclamations du roi d'Angleterre excita de vives discussions dans une societe a Philadelphie. II y avait un membre du congres qui ecoutait les debats sans y prendre part. Il se tourne vers une jeune personne qui paraissait y prendre beaucoup d'interet, et lui dit: "Eh bien! mademoiselle, les rugissements du lion anglais, ont-ils porte la terreur dans votre ame?—Point du tout, monsieur, car j'ai appris dans l'histoire naturelle que c'est quand cet animal a le plus peur qu'il ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... these God-damn pacifists, eh?" cried the ex-soldier; and he dropped his matches and sprang up with fists clenched. Carpenter faced him without flinching; there was something so majestic about him, the man did not strike him, he merely put his spread hand against the prophet's chest and shoved him violently. "Get back ...
— They Call Me Carpenter • Upton Sinclair
... a stupid name; I want to change.... Eh bien, eh bien, mon garcon.... What a restless beast it is!" The horse snorted, pawed the ground, and shook ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev
... I'm sure, now, you must have some handsome young lover of your own, and that is why you don't care to come and drink wine and sit by me. Am I not right, eh?" ...
— Tales of Old Japan • Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
... that a facer. That's just it: you are to go to Vienna as Roxbury Medcroft, not as yourself. Ha, ha! Ripping, eh?" ...
— The Husbands of Edith • George Barr McCutcheon
... up—ships, machines, guns, cities, all the order and organisation. All that will go. If we were the size of ants we might pull through. But we're not. It's all too bulky to stop. That's the first certainty.' Eh?" ...
— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells
... "Eh! Ce n'est pas ca," interrupted De Griers in a tone of impatience and contempt (evidently he was the ruling spirit of the conclave). "Mon cher monsieur, notre general se trompe. What he means to say is that he warns you—he begs of you most ...
— The Gambler • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... your mouth in that game of ball when the strain of her deep breathing and the violent turning and twisting of her lithe body burst the lacing of her corsage and half her fair bosom broke covert? What a pillow was that for a bridegroom, eh, Ricciardo?" ...
— Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) • Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney
... out till I was twenty-one. At the end of that time I was to receive a hundred dollars and a freedom suit to begin the world with. That wasn't a very large capital, eh?" ...
— Paul the Peddler - The Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... who wrote an answer to Coelebs, coming into a room, folding up his greatcoat, taking out a little pocket volume, laying it down to think, rubbing the calf of his leg with grave self-complacency, and starting out of his reverie when spoken to with an inimitable vapid exclamation of 'Eh!' Mudford is like a man made of fleecy hosiery: Roger was lank and lean 'as is the ribbed sea-sand.' Yet he seemed the very man he represented, as fat, pert, and dull as it was possible to be. I have not ...
— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt
... folks, eh, Timothy?" he said to the ferret-faced groom beside him, as he gathered up the reins; and the brown mare, knowing the hand on her mouth, laid herself out to her work. "Handsome young couple as anybody need wish to see. Not much business doing there for me, I fancy, unless it lies ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet
... "Eh, Joseph! Another battle won! Fifty thousand men lost! Twenty-five standards, a hundred guns won. All goes well, all goes well. It only remains now to order a new levy to replace ...
— The Conscript - A Story of the French war of 1813 • Emile Erckmann
... "A May-day party, eh?" said Elder Haven, when Anne and Amanda told him of the plan. "Why, I think it an excellent idea. It will surely be a pleasant sight to see the children dance about the May-pole, and I shall like well ...
— A Little Maid of Province Town • Alice Turner Curtis
... eh?" he sneered, furious. "Since when have you been takin' his side against me? No facts, eh? I'll show him an' you an' everybody else whether there's any foundation in fact! What do you suppose the insurance company is after him for ...
— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams
... and in a simple and beautiful way read to them the story of the Good Shepherd and the sheep that followed. Then, as an illustration, she took the story of Peter's denial of our Lord, and showed that Peter sinned because he followed "afar off." "Eh, bairns," she said, "it's the wee lassie that sits beside her mother at meal times that gets all the nice bittocks. The one who sits far away and sulks disna ken what she misses. Even the pussy gets more than she does. Keep close to Jesus the Good ...
— Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary • W. P. Livingstone
... "Eh? What?" said the Baron. Then Cisy indulged in a confused flood of mouthings. He wished to fight with firearms—to discharge a single pistol ...
— Sentimental Education, Volume II - The History of a Young Man • Gustave Flaubert
... are you?" laughed Mr Bligh sarcastically, as he rose to his feet. "Although all hands of you appear to be armed, you are not going to run the risk of having too many of us loose out on deck at once, for fear of what we might do, eh? Well, you are a fine, courageous lot of mutineers, I must say! You wouldn't even chance a fight with a single one of us when you started out to take the ship, but must needs entice us for'ard, one man at a time, upon ...
— Turned Adrift • Harry Collingwood
... in, I cannot choose but sin and sin, Whatever happens: yet I think They could not make me eat or drink, And so should I just reach my rest. Nay, if you do not my behest, O Jehane! though I love you well, Said Godmar, would I fail to tell All that I know? Foul lies, she said. Eh? lies, my Jehane? by God's head, At Paris folks would deem them true! Do you know, Jehane, they cry for you: Jehane the brown! Jehane the brown! Give us Jehane to burn or drown! Eh! gag me Robert! Sweet my friend, This were indeed a piteous end For those long fingers, and long feet, And long ...
— The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems • William Morris
... "Eh, nuncle," said he, stroking his beard, "but you're in mighty grace. The Welshman always mounts his he-goats for guard on them he delighteth to honour." With one of his more than ordinarily elvish and malicious ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... 'Eh-eh, Brer Wolf! dat ain't nigh gwine ter do. You'll hatter stan' out in de rain a mighty long time 'fo' you kin talk hoarse ...
— The Book of Stories for the Storyteller • Fanny E. Coe
... overheard). A most excellent selection! That's a man, Sir, who knows how to live! Ha! here's my porridge. Will you give me some brown sugar with it, please? And—(to the N.)—there's your stew—smells good, eh? ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892 • Various
... him while he ran through the letters and signed them. "Meeting of the regional vice-chancellors tomorrow, eh?" he said as he handed them back ...
— It's All Yours • Sam Merwin
... for my cursing Carter and the Major cursing me. Four hundred sabres, eh? No wonder we thought there were a few extra men in the troop. Kurruk Shah,' he whispered to a grizzled native officer that lay within a few feet of him, 'hast thou heard anything of a dead ...
— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling
... a gun caisson, and delivered his orders. "Something to do at last, eh?" laughed the rosy-cheeked youngster. "The smallest favors thankfully received. Won't you take a bite of rebel chicken, Captain? This rebellion must be put down. No? Well, tell the Colonel I am moving on, and John ...
— The Brigade Commander • J. W. Deforest
... They got Chattanooga. "Now, where are you, Johnny Reb? What are you going to do about it? You've got the dry grins, arn't you? We've got the key; when the proper time comes we'll unlock your doors and go in. You are going to starve us out, eh? We are not very hungry at present, and we don't want any more pie. When we starve out we'll call on you for rations, but at present we are not starving, by a jug full; but if you want any whisky or tobacco, send over ...
— "Co. Aytch" - Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment - or, A Side Show of the Big Show • Sam R. Watkins
... seems to you, eh? Your imagination is working overtime again, Muller," said the commissioner with a laugh. But the laugh turned to seriousness as he realised how many times Muller's imagination had helped the clumsy official mind to ...
— The Lamp That Went Out • Augusta Groner
... make a cent, eh? Well, I suppose you want all the profits for yourself." Turning to Stevens, who had just entered, the ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise
... cousin?" said Bertha to the false Sylvia. "Do you like music? We will play together. Let us sing the lay of some sweet ancient bard. Eh? What do you say? Come to my organ; come along. As you love ...
— Droll Stories, Volume 3 • Honore de Balzac
... there won't be any trade nor work nor religion left in this country in another twenty years. I often wish I had gone abroad when I was younger. And if I had chanced upon your parts I should be worshipped, eh?" and at the agreeable thought the aged man laughed in ...
— The Mirror of Kong Ho • Ernest Bramah
... not yet arrifed, eh? Dicky, eh? Oh, this poor little one he will miss his master. ...
— Men of Affairs • Roland Pertwee
... hotel proprietor insensibly softened itself into the best bedside manner when he spoke to the patient on the carpet, who, from a sitting posture, was now endeavouring to struggle to his feet. "You think you can get up, eh? Well, it won't do you any harm. That's the way!" Sir Henry assisted the young man to rise, and supported him with his arm. "Now, the next thing is to get him to his room. No, no, not you, Willsden—you're too small. Where's that gentleman I was sitting with a few minutes ago? Ah, thank ...
— The Shrieking Pit • Arthur J. Rees
... what you come for, eh?" the boy cried, angrily. "Well, it won't do any good, for when we get through with sneaks they can't do much harm. Pick up that load, an' if you don't walk lively I'll find ...
— Down the Slope • James Otis
... dear! what can the matter be? I'll be hanged if he isn't a-crying like a babbey that's broke his pretty toy. Ay, my master, cry your eyes out, stamp and whop your head—'twont mend matters, I promise ye. Clear case of total loss, and no insurance to look to, eh! And that's the chap as had the himpudence but t'other day to call me a hard-hearted old blackguard, and that before our whole board of guardians, too—just because I proposed doctoring the paupers by tender, and that the lowest tender ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 • Various
... Mr. Winters one bright day, "whom have we here?" A merry jingle of bells suddenly stopped and two gray horses and a handsome sleigh stood in front of the gate. "Mr. Monteith, eh? He has most likely come to take me out riding," he said, with ...
— Divers Women • Pansy and Mrs. C.M. Livingston
... responded Deacon Tubman. "Oh, yes, and they are all well enough for the old folks, but they ar'n't the kind of biscuit the young folks like—too heavy in the centre, and over-hard in the crust for young teeth, eh, parson?" ...
— The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories • W. H. H. Murray
... is what all the sweet charity's been about, eh?" he snapped. "The White Moll, the Little Saint of the East Side, that lends a helping hand to the crooks to get 'em back on the straight and narrow again! The White ...
— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard
... Lasher!" exclaimed Jerry, pretending to be wonderfully surprised. "Where in the world did you come from—hiding in that drygoods box, eh? Up to some of your old tricks, Andy, I guess. Going to carry off the whole dry-goods emporium ...
— The Outdoor Chums - The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club • Captain Quincy Allen
... enlarge upon all he has done to merit the worst punishment it is in our power to bestow, if ever he should fall into our hands—the worst I say, eh?" ...
— Jack Harkaway and his son's Escape From the Brigand's of Greece • Bracebridge Hemyng
... after Girty and his redskins if they were alone, we're pretty likely to go quicker now that they've got white women prisoners, eh?" and Joe laughed ...
— The Spirit of the Border - A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley • Zane Grey
... disapproved of Laylock, who sang in choirs and was merry at home over games of Hearts and Old Maid. He had a tenor voice, wavy chestnut hair, and a mustache like a camel's-hair brush. Babbitt considered it excusable in a family-man to growl, "Seen this new picture of the kid—husky little devil, eh?" but Laylock's domestic confidences were ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... and put one black ant in the Donkey's right ear, and another black ant in the Donkey's left ear, and another and another. The ants pinched the poor Donkey's ears dreadfully, and the Donkey was so hurt and frightened he began to bellow as loud as he could: "Eh augh! eh augh! eh augh! augh! augh!" and at this terrible noise the Rakshas fled away in a great fright, saying: "Enough, enough, father Bakshas! the sound of your voice would make the most refractory obedient." And no sooner had he gone than ...
— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) • Various
... "why, that you're kicking up a dust about nothing, my hearty! Missed the banjo out of y'r chest, eh— where are y'r eyes, bo? There it are, hanging right over y'r heads in the galley, on the same cleat where poor Sam Jedfoot left it afore he met his fate! Why, where are y'r peepers—old stick in the ...
— The Island Treasure • John Conroy Hutcheson
... a fool, dot boy dere. He ask all tam, 'Vot for? Who write dis? You not? Eh? Who sen' dis?' He make me put my name dere; den I get out putty quvick or he ask yet vat iss it for a yob you ...
— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine
... saucy Juno answered, playfully pulling his mustache; "but, upon my word, Will, you are fast settling down into an oldish married man, even turning gray," and she ran her fingers through his dark hair, where there was now and then a thread of silver. "Disappointed in your domestic relations, eh?" she continued, looking him archly in ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... How astonishing! The game's up, and Maurice has lost his chance! Bertha's fortune is to go out of the family! It's very puzzling. How did it all come about? De Bois, you sly fellow, you lucky dog, I never suspected you. Managed matters quietly, eh? Should never have thought you were the man to succeed with a ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
... perfectly certain, Brandon," said Mauleverer, "that if you were to live tolerably well, you would soon get the better of your nervous complaints. It is all poverty of blood, believe me. Some more of the fins, eh?—No! Oh, hang your abstemiousness; it is d——d unfriendly to eat so little! Talking of fins and friends, Heaven defend me from ever again forming an intimacy with a pedantic epicure, especially if ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... with fine scorn, "what's the matter with our building a shelter of logs, bark and driftwood on the shore of the lake, if the worst strikes us? It wouldn't be the first time we'd done such a thing either, eh, Frank?" ...
— The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point - or The Golden Cup Mystery • Quincy Allen
... ex-governor, somewhat surprised. 'Eh? It does not often happen to me now-a-days to have the honour of such an appealunless from my own mad daughters. In what direction do you want me to come over your guardians, Miss Kennedy? ...
— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner
... you call improper, eh?" she laughed, referring to the tales. "I will sing you a Turkish song which ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke
... assented Christie, cheerfully. "But where have you been lingering all this time? We thought you must have returned to New York. Oh, I remember! There were attractions at Oswego. Eh, Bullen! you ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... be compleened o'," answered the man, with that limited degree of praise which gardeners and farmers usually bestow on the very best weather. Then raising his head, as if to see who spoke to him, he touched his Scotch bonnet with an air of respect, as he observed, "Eh, gude safe us!—it's a sight for sair een, to see a gold-laced jeistiecor in the Ha'garden ...
— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... "Eh? You have? My lan'!" Mrs. Trapes bolted a caramel in her astonishment and thereafter stared at Ravenslee with watering eyes. "An' you to set there an' never tell me!" quoth she, "an' Hermy never told me—well, well! When did ye meet ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... sentimental youth. "Bought 'em at Nathan's; very glad you like 'em; and eh, Amelia, my dear, I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather." Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond everything to ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... bigger than you. You ain't got no hair, nor yet no teeth. You're the littlest I ever seed. Eh? Don't not speak ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... I had an idea, you understand what I mean—of stoppin' in passing. You and me, you see, are sorter alike; we don't seem to jibe in with the gin'ral gait o' the camp. You understand what I mean? We ain't in the game, eh? ...
— The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... of luck, our falling in with that examining magistrate and his Registrar, eh? What did I tell you about that revolver?" His head was bent down, he had his hands in his pockets, and he was whistling. After a while I heard ...
— The Mystery of the Yellow Room • Gaston Leroux
... "A friend of mine used to have to mix with them quite a lot, poor fellah! He used to say they was none of them truly refined. And this kid takes after his pop, eh? Kind of scrappy ...
— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse
... gai, Coco, Eh! gai, Coco, Eh! venez voir la danse Du petit marmot! Eh! venez voir la danse ...
— Rosin the Beau • Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
... her crooked old legs would carry her, and it in the dead of winter, mind you, to tell Widow Ashby's Sabrina all that had happened. How lovely fair the bride looked beside her handsome bridegroom! "Eh law, they were a doughty couple, Jasper and Talithie," Granny Withers mouthed the words. She lifted a bony finger, "Yet, mark my words, ill luck awaits the two. When the bat flew into the house and dipped low over the fair bride's head, she ...
— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas
... "we must carry two or three loaves of good habitant bread, just for the first week out. I can't do without that. Do you suppose, by any chance, that Angelique would bake it for us? Or perhaps those lady friends of yours who have just left you—eh?" ...
— The Unknown Quantity - A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales • Henry van Dyke
... young. Have a whisky and soda with me. No? Hale, you must buck him up, for they'll all be down on you if you don't bring your man up to time in the pink of condition. We certainly did ourselves up to the top hole last night. Couldn't face your breakfast, eh? Neither could I. A strawberry ...
— A Duet • A. Conan Doyle
... a present at that," was the prompt reply of the man in the red sweater. "And seem' it's government money, you ain't got no kick coming, eh, Perrault?" ...
— The Call of the Wild • Jack London
... Iv. 437. Danton exclaims, in relation to the hot-headed commissioners sent by him into the department: "Eh! damn it, do you suppose that we would send ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 3 (of 6) - The French Revolution, Volume 2 (of 3) • Hippolyte A. Taine
... the official who startled the inmates of our house of mourning about five o'clock in the morning, when, thrusting his head inside the door, he cried out, "A corpse there, eh?" ...
— The Cross and the Shamrock • Hugh Quigley
... though indeed OF what he wished at this special juncture he would doubtless have contrived to make but a crude statement. It sifted and settled nothing to put to her, tout betement, as she often said, "Do you like him, eh?"—thanks to his feeling it actually the least of his needs to heap up the evidence in the young man's favour. He repeatedly knocked at her door to let her have it afresh that Chad's case—whatever else of minor interest it might ...
— The Ambassadors • Henry James
... Betsy, with a snort, "that's to be my business, eh? I'll have my hands full; a pearter couple o' lads a'n't to be found this side o' Nottin'gam. They might ha' growed up wild on the Barrens, for all the manners ...
— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor
... diff'rent, my dear, from the way they did business when you and me were pikers, up in the West Forties, eh?" ...
— Phantom Wires - A Novel • Arthur Stringer
... channels, by the wreathing into so many little strings as there were ridges, which was very difficult to determine; but there were in the wreathed part two very conspicuous channels or clefts, which were continued from the bottom F to the elbow bow EH or all along the part which was wreath'd, which seem'd to divide the wreath'd Cylinder into two parts, a bigger and a less; the bigger was that which was at the convex side of the knee, namely, on the side A, and was wreath'd by OOOOO; this, as it seem'd the broader, ...
— Micrographia • Robert Hooke
... hasty friend from Hedge-gutheridge, so you haven't got all your buttons, eh?" he drawled. "I congratulate you upon your frankness, as it isn't everybody who will admit it. But sit down, anyhow, and make yourself at home. Watson has the 'makings' over there; I've got a cocaine-squirter ...
— The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons • James Francis Thierry
... into his counting-room some two hours before noon, and says to his porter and factotum, as he enters the door, "Well, Roger, I suppose you 'll be counting this puff of a southeaster the equinoctial, eh?" ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various
... another son, who, still more remarkable to say, had, at the time of his birth, a piece of variegated and crystal-like brilliant jade in his mouth, on which were yet visible the outlines of several characters. Now, tell me, was not this a novel and strange occurrence? eh?" ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... just off to Larchmere now. Want to be there to check the quantities, and there's my other house at Fittlesdon. I must go on afterwards and set it out, so I shall probably be away some days. I'm taking Harrison down, too. You won't be wanting him, eh?" ...
— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey
... "Butter—eh?" said the grocer. "Well, I hope it's as good as the last." He unpacked the basket and proceeded to weigh the ...
— White Lilac; or the Queen of the May • Amy Walton
... No gettin' 'long without it among you sea-sharks. Pirate, am I? And you with a thousand passengers packed like sardines! Charge 'em double first-class passage, feed 'em steerage grub, and bunk 'em worse 'n pigs! Pirate, eh! Me?" ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London
... I do not doubt it a moment. I know enough of the world never to have found a sheep-dog yet who would not, on occasion, help to make away with a little of the mutton which he guarded. Eh, my venerable sir?' turning to Wulf ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley
... "Eh bien!" said M. Max; then, turning to Denise Ryland and Dr. Cumberly, and shrugging his shoulders: "you see, frightful as your suspense must be, to make any foolish arrests to-night, to move in this matter at all to-night—would be a case ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer
... see that sort of thing, I think we've made a mistake—eh, Varian?" he said, half serious. "It's a poor job, getting old alone. Live at the club, visit here and there, make yourself agreeable to get asked again, nobody to care if you're sick, always play the other fellow's game—little monotonous after a ...
— Mrs. Dud's Sister • Josephine Daskam
... hear that, boys? Won't let us settle among 'em, eh? And there are nine of us and we hain't had a scrimmage since we left Sacramento, except with the Injins, which don't count. Stranger, we're yearning to hear your folks say we shan't jine 'em, 'cause if they try to stop it, it'll ...
— A Waif of the Mountains • Edward S. Ellis
... well, but Pachita She speak for me; is it not so, my Pancha? Eh, little rogue? Come, salute me the ...
— East and West - Poems • Bret Harte
... FIRST CITIZEN. Eh, man, who do you think you are? You weren't of course born with such lofty strides, my friend?—Why should we stand off, my dear sir? Why should we budge? Are we ...
— The King of the Dark Chamber • Rabindranath Tagore (trans.)
... said the old pensioner, for it was he indeed. "I expected a trap, and had you followed by two lads that I could trust.—Gave him a body-guard of a couple of weaver-lads, eh?" he said, turning to the rescuers. "You've done your work ...
— Miss Grantley's Girls - And the Stories She Told Them • Thomas Archer
... "Battery, eh?" repeated Lieutenant Lawrence. "Good enough! Get out and do it. Durville, you're one of the real batsmen. Run out there to the home plate, and see whether Prescott and Holmes can put anything ...
— Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point - Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps • H. Irving Hancock
... "'Eh, dear,' said Mrs. Patten, falling back in her chair and lifting up her withered hands, 'what would Mr. Gilfil say if he was worthy to know the changes as have come about in the church in these ten years? I don't understand these new sort of doctrines. When Mr. Barton ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume VII • John Lord
... when that youth was taking his last look round at the mise en scene before, as it were, raising the curtain, "eh—er—just go round to Corbyn's and get them to make ...
— From One Generation to Another • Henry Seton Merriman
... his hand a little way to meet Captain Cai's grasp. "Eh? Eh? I've been moored here since breakfast on the look-out for 'ee." He spoke indistinctly by reason of his paralysis. "They brought word early that the Hannah Hoo was in, and I gave orders straight away for a biled leg o' mutton—with ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... to rob this gent, eh?" said the bluecoat, turning to our hero and catching his arm. "I reckon I ...
— The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview • Ralph Bonehill
... Gaudin, Duc de Gaete, "Memoires," I., 28. Gaudin, commissioner of the Treasury, meets the president of the revolutionary committee of his quarter, an excellent Jacobin, who says to him: "Eh, well, what's all this? Robespierre proscribed! Is it possible? What is wanted—everything was going on so well!" (It is true that fifty or sixty heads fell daily.) "I replied, 'Just so, there are some folks ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 4 (of 6) - The French Revolution, Volume 3 (of 3) • Hippolyte A. Taine
... I'll do that again, eh?" said Jennie Junebug, interrupting her rudely. "Very well! Here goes!" This time she gave Mrs. Ladybug a terrific blow. She dropped upon the grass, where she clung to a blade and swayed up and down ...
— The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug • Arthur Scott Bailey
... cinematograph impressions, found his father a patient but inattentive listener. For indeed Mr. Brumley was not listening at all; he was thinking and thinking. He made noises like "Ah!" and "Um," at George Edmund and patted the boy's shoulder kindly and repeated words unintelligently, such as, "Red Indians, eh!" or "Came out of the ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... train to New York, but I missed it. So I said to myself, 'I'll cut across the fields, down the hill, and stop at Mellen's, beg a dinner, and get him to send me over in time for the five o'clock train'—wasn't a bad idea, eh?" ...
— A Noble Woman • Ann S. Stephens
... is a most terrible thing that it should come on Belgium, eh? Our little country had no quarrel with any great country. We desired only that ...
— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb
... in the distance, and with a bright smile he studied it. "Say," he exclaimed, "suppose she should not go to the picnic to-morrow? She said this morning she did not know if she could go. Somebody was expected from New York, I think. Wouldn't it break you up, though! Eh?" ...
— The Third Violet • Stephen Crane
... eh?" he said thoughtfully. "Well, I might take a little run up there, though I wasn't calculating to go so far ...
— Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island • Mabel C. Hawley
... of his troubles, I hope," continued Uncle John, reflectively. "He wrote me once that his wife had nearly driven him crazy. Perhaps she murdered him in his sleep—eh, Louise?" ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces • Edith Van Dyne
... Mr. Jollyface, and as the children slowly mounted the stairs they could hear him saying: "So it was you the children were waiting for, and the animal friend they expected was a chocolate lion, eh?" ...
— The Tale of Lal - A Fantasy • Raymond Paton
... had come in, alone, to see how she was, she had said abruptly: "I wonder if it's true that doctors can keep a secret better than most men?" And when he had made some joking answer, she had asked, in a very serious tone: "You're a great friend of Lionel Varick, eh?" He had answered: "Men don't vow eternal friendships in the way I'm told young ladies do; but, yes, I hope I am a great friend of Lionel Varick's. I've a high opinion of him, Miss Bubbles, and I've seen him under circumstances ...
— From Out the Vasty Deep • Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
... An equally good opportunity for an imposing—[closing his eyes] and reverential display! [To LADY FILSON.] Lady Maundrell's girl Sybil, eh, Winnie? ...
— The Big Drum - A Comedy in Four Acts • Arthur Pinero |
