"Hoarsely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ceased travelling about nine o'clock, fixing upon a safe spot wherein to secure the vessel for the night. The cool evening hours were delicious; flocks of whistling ducks (Anas autumnalis), parrots, and hoarsely-screaming macaws, pair by pair, flew over from their feeding to their resting places, as the glowing sun plunged abruptly beneath the horizon. The brief evening chorus of animals then began, the chief ...
— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates
... all that comes to her is on my shoulders," said Teddy hoarsely, as he stood just within the door, looking hungrily about the room, as if he hoped, in some forgotten corner, to light upon ...
— Outpost • J.G. Austin
... in the morning; the children looked as stupid as ever, but the father, I am sorry to say, had been tempted to drink more whiskey than was good for him. He had a bright flush on his cheeks, and he was flourishing his whip, and hoarsely singing some meaningless tune. "Poor creature!" said I, "I should think this day's pleasuring would kill him." "Now, wouldn't you think so?" said Mrs. Kew, sympathizingly; "but the truth is, you couldn't kill ...
— Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett
... hoarsely, with a wave of the hand, and Santi went, none daring to utter a word. They waited thus an odd group, all very grave save one, and he the one that had most cause for gravity. Then the captain re-entered, followed by his two men, and Gian Maria waved ...
— Love-at-Arms • Raphael Sabatini
... wilder wailing Fills the air where music reigned, Hoarsely groans the wild storm-demon, ...
— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various
... he half dragged his drenched companions into the weather-worn cave. "What news?" he hoarsely demanded of Blunt, as he ...
— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage
... coat of mail; and since that time I have been constantly subject to it; it attacks me without my being able to check it. So don't stand any longer in awe of me, Tonino, Oh! it was indeed your heart which told you that as a little boy you lay on my bosom." "Woman," said Antonio hoarsely, wrapped up in his own thoughts, "woman, I feel as if I must believe you. But who was my father? What was he called? What was the awful fate which overtook him on that terrible night? Who was it who adopted me? And—what was that occurrence in my life which ...
— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann
... tranquil manner; and that almost nobody slept. The soldier-ranks all lay horizontal, musket under arm; chatting pleasantly in an undertone, or each in silence revolving such thoughts as he had. The Generals amble like observant spirits, hoarsely imperative. [Archenholtz, ii. 100-111.] Friedrich's line, we observed, is in the horse-shoe shape (or PARABOLIC, straighter than horse-shoe), fronting the waters. Ziethen commands in that smaller Schwartzwasser part of the ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... Mr. Retief," he said hoarsely. "I've eaten sheep's eyes in the Sudan, ka swe in Burma, hundred-year cug on Mars and everything else that has been placed before me in the course of my diplomatic career. And, by the holy relics of Saint Ignatz, you'll do the same!" He snatched up a spoon-like utensil ...
— The Yillian Way • John Keith Laumer
... by coming here? What do you want?" he demanded, hoarsely. "You come here with your hands red with blood. Two men are dead.... Four others smashed under the hoofs of your police!... You're trying to starve into submission thousands of men. You're striking at them through their wives and babies.... What do you care for them or their suffering? ...
— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland
... of the island. Most of them were so tame that they refused to move, and attacked the midshipmen's legs with their beaks. Among them were gannets, sooty terns, and tropical birds in large numbers. The gannets sat on their eggs croaking hoarsely, not moving even when the midshipmen attempted to catch them. There were also frigate birds which had built their nests, in the lower trees, of a few sticks roughly put together. They sat for some time watching the trespassers on their ...
— The Three Admirals • W.H.G. Kingston
... answered at last, very quietly. "It was Peter." With a sudden shudder she bent forward and covered her face with her hands. "And I can't forget," she said hoarsely. ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... fists. She thought he was going to kill her, and closed her eyes, but he had not the courage to hurt that delicate body, which he had so often covered with caresses, and in despair, and hanging his head, he said hoarsely: ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant
... deafening din of watermen bawling hoarsely for a place along the Paris Garden stairs, the master-player hurried up the lane through the noisy crowd. Some were faring afoot into Surrey, and some to green St. George's Fields to buy fresh fruit and milk from the farm-houses ...
— Master Skylark • John Bennett
... said Smith hoarsely. "You'll stay with us to-night. Leave the machine for once. You see, Billy, I have to rejoin at nine to-morrow—to-morrow, I say; I mean this morning. That gives me nine hours, and as I haven't been to bed for a week I want seven good solid ...
— Round the World in Seven Days • Herbert Strang
... nervous air Sir Malcolm accompanied him out into the dark road, neither speaking, and then the young man demanded hoarsely: ...
— Simon • J. Storer Clouston
... villains!" hoarsely shouted the people while the muzzles of the muskets were turned upon them. ...
— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester
... her face a little. That penetrating look pierced too deeply. "Are there not many motives?" she said, rather hoarsely—"many ways? I want to give Augustina a happiness—and—and to satisfy many questions of my own. Father Leadham is bound to teach, is he not, as a priest? He could ...
— Helbeck of Bannisdale, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... and listened. No sound was to be heard save a millpond trickling hoarsely through a hatch, and suggesting gloomy possibilities of drowning by jumping in. Gabriel dismounted when they came to a turning. The tracks were absolutely the only guide as to the direction that they now had, and great caution was necessary to avoid confusing them with some others ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... said Kitty, a little hoarsely, "I know it's my own fault, because you used to tell me much more. I suppose it was the way ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... when she told of her own part in shooting Moran the old fellow patted her approvingly on the back. "Good girl," he said hoarsely. "But I wish that job ...
— Hidden Gold • Wilder Anthony
... a thousand clouds Careered and clashed in air — a thousand waves Whirled wildly on in wrath — a thousand winds Howled hoarsely on the main, and down the skies Into the hollow seas the fierce rain rushed, As if its ev'ry drop were hot with wrath; And, like a thousand serpents intercoiled, The lightnings glared and hissed, and hissed and glared, ...
— Poems: Patriotic, Religious, Miscellaneous • Abram J. Ryan, (Father Ryan)
... then, as if a suspicion of the truth had flashed over him, he fiercely grasped the guide with both hands, hoarsely demanding: ...
— Frank Merriwell's Bravery • Burt L. Standish
... she had now removed from the wall beside her bed to a dark drawer? How could she give up that which was everything she had in the world—the very life of her bosom? "I will ask him—him himself," she said at last, hoarsely. "I will ask him, and do as he bids me. I cannot do anything unless it is as he ...
— Nina Balatka • Anthony Trollope
... laughed hoarsely. Margaret shrank as if they had struck her. At that moment a hand grasped hers—a magic grasp; it felt like heart meeting heart, or magnet steel. She turned quickly round at it, and it was Gerard. Such a little cry of joy and appeal came from her bosom, and she began ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... her whole being was no greater than the colossal desire Dick had to comfort and shield her. He rushed toward her with his arms reached out to infold, but she pushed him back, and said hoarsely: "No! No! I sha'n't let you! It would be ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton
... look which was peculiar to her. Her full white hands strained upon each other a little, bringing the colour to the tips of her fingers. During some minutes she did not move. Then she heard her aunt's voice calling to her hoarsely. She rose at once, and went into the bedroom. The abbess's pale face was very thin and yellow now, as it lay upon the white pillow; the coverlet was drawn up to her chin, and a grimly carved black crucifix ...
— Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) • F. Marion Crawford
... was hoarsely whispered, and the speaker leaned back in her fauteuil, a spark of fierce eagerness in her dilated eyes, Mabel, in her own anxiety, did not consider overstrained solicitude in behalf of a disreputable stranger. She had ...
— At Last • Marion Harland
... fresh water, on the sill of the open window, and soon had the pleasure of seeing my guest making a hearty meal. After eating till he could eat no more, he took a splendid bath out of the water-dish, muttering hoarsely all the while, and strutting up and down as he eyed the remaining meat, which he felt unable to swallow. From time to time he cast a cunning look my way, as if to hint politely that he wished to be alone. 'Go about ...
— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various
... one so bold!" whispered Reddy hoarsely, feeling for the weapon he usually carried ...
— The Outdoor Chums After Big Game - Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness • Captain Quincy Allen
... like an oak, with all thy branches round thee! Where is Fingal the King? where is Oscur my son? where are all my race? Alas! in the earth they lie. I feel their tombs with my hands. I hear the river below murmuring hoarsely over the stones. What dost thou, O river, to me? Thou bringest back the memory of ...
— Fragments Of Ancient Poetry • James MacPherson
... ordered Nasmyth hoarsely. "Some bones broken, by the look of him; but he'll have his brains ...
— The Long Portage • Harold Bindloss
... to be successful, established confidence in a victory before nightfall. Late in the afternoon, the President relieved his tension by taking a drive. He had not returned when, about six o'clock, Seward appeared and asked hoarsely where he was. The secretaries told him. He begged them to find the President as quickly as possible. "Tell no one," said he, "but the battle is lost. The army ...
— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
... there! He walked in the hall and the veranda—she was not there. He hastened to the rendezvous evidently meant by the writer, the wilderness behind the house. Sure enough, Byers, drunk and maudlin, supporting himself by the tree root, staggered forward, clasped him in his arms, and murmured hoarsely,— ...
— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte
... Sykes, his very particular friend, hoarsely, giving him a dig in the ribs. "Don't ...
— Five Little Peppers at School • Margaret Sidney
... good-by, alleging the sudden remembrance of another engagement, but without appearing to recognize the girl, who was moving away when, to my further discomfiture, the rascal stopped me with an appealing wink, threw his arms around my neck, whispered hoarsely in my ear, "Ah! you see—you comprehend—but you are the mirror of discretion!" and returned to Jocasta. But whether this meant that he had received a message from Miss Mannersley, or that he was trying to suborn her maid to carry ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... and them there was more sincerity. Grief, and not anger, was the well of those bitter tears. And it was in simple supplication, not imperiously any more, that she pointed to the door when speech failed her. The boy's answer was to go close up to her instead. "Will you come with me?" he asked hoarsely. ...
— The Camera Fiend • E.W. Hornung
... at a man in the bushes only twenty-five feet away, Lil Artha—don't tell me you were silly enough to do that?" he asked, somewhat hoarsely. ...
— Afloat - or, Adventures on Watery Trails • Alan Douglas
... He laughed hoarsely and started to get up. But he was weaker than he supposed, and fell back on the bed with a little gasp just as he had done out by ...
— Two Boys and a Fortune • Matthew White, Jr.
... lustrous hair following her glorious head in a golden wake, like the track sown in heaven by a falling star, seems to quench my most burning phrases with its splendors. If all the bees of Hybla nestled upon my lips, they would still sing but hoarsely the wondrous harmonies of outline that ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various
... Mr Jarman more like one who comes to administer a thrashing than ask for pardon, and after eyeing him almost fiercely for a moment, summoned his self-control sufficiently to say hoarsely,— ...
— Tom, Dick and Harry • Talbot Baines Reed
... galvanised into existence. "You mean," he cried hoarsely, "that General St. Clare hated Murray, and murdered him on ...
— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... "Darthea," I said hoarsely, my voice breaking, "I have been here since early in October. I have been starved, frozen, maltreated a hundred ways, but I can never take a parole. My friend Delaney and I are agreed on this. As to exchanges, I have no rank, and I may ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell
... for me to know of such doings, than if I was alive; for to be tormented for getting that together, which even while I suffer for its acquisition, is flung into the very kennels of the streets, would be insupportable torture. No,' said the old man, hoarsely, 'let that be saved at least; let there be something gained, and kept fast hold of, when so ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... broke hoarsely from the transies. Some of those in front of Jack fell to their knees as if a sudden poison had paralyzed their legs. They called names and stretched out open hands. A boy by Jack's side sprawled face-down on the sand while he uttered over and over again, "Mr. Pelopoeus! ...
— They Twinkled Like Jewels • Philip Jose Farmer
... to Mr. Whipple's," said Grafton hoarsely. "He must have seen something! Jasper, is Mr. ...
— The New Boy at Hilltop • Ralph Henry Barbour
... you know I will," said he hoarsely. A crowd of half a dozen men standing on the other side of Dr. Angus began to yell greetings and farewells to the man called Louis while the grey lady's eyes and his held each other for a moment in a passionate glance of appeal ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... made by the huge howitzer shells screeching overhead and bursting in the village, the rattle of machine guns all along the line, and the popping of rifles. Over to the right where the Garhwalis had been working with the bayonet, men were shouting hoarsely and wounded were groaning as the stretcher-bearers, all heedless of bullets, moved swiftly to and fro over ...
— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish
... yourself ever to come back," screeched the peacock, hoarsely. "For my part, I'm tired of having my handsomest tail-feathers snatched out by the handful. I'm sure I trust I shall never ...
— Prince Vance - The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box • Eleanor Putnam
... to protest again, but another scream ripped down the corridor, jerking us all around. It was Jenny, running toward us. She was breathing hoarsely as she nearly crashed into ...
— Let'em Breathe Space • Lester del Rey
... the young inventor hoarsely. "It's some other monster. It has only five arms—an octopus has eight! I've got to ...
— Tom Swift and his Undersea Search - or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic • Victor Appleton
... you," he said, hoarsely. She paused for a moment, and he spoke again, with long gaps between the sentences. "You don't know what you have done for me.... I have something to live for ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... story, "before the advance of the Prussian army, immediately preceding the battle of Sadowa, led us to camp one night in the neighborhood of a town in Bohemia. I was lodged in a peasant's cottage, when about midnight I heard the sentry at my door hoarsely challenging some new-comer. My aid-de-camp entered, and reported that a gypsy wanted ...
— The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) • Mme. La Marquise de Fontenoy
... and raised him to a sitting position. He opened his eyes and looked into Scotty's worried face. Rick managed a grin. "It's okay," he said hoarsely. ...
— The Flying Stingaree • Harold Leland Goodwin
... o'clock the next morning the sun was high and brilliant, the snows of the ravines under its fierce heat were melting fast, and the river, roaring hoarsely, was a mad rush of grey rapids and grey foam; but three weeks later in the season, lower down, its many branches are only two feet deep. This Shayok, which cannot in any way be circumvented, is the great obstacle ...
— Among the Tibetans • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs Bishop)
... was the thought which flashed through Mr. Cannel's mind, when he saw how matters stood. He turned and nodded to Paul to strike up a tune, but Paul took no notice of him. Mr. Cannel half rose from his seat, and whispered hoarsely, "Strike up a tune, Paul." All the congregation saw him. Paul made no movement, but sat perfectly still, not even looking towards Mr. Cannel. Deacon Hardhack saw what Mr. Cannel was up to, and resolved to head him off. He rose from his seat, and said aloud, "Brother Quaver, ...
— Winning His Way • Charles Carleton Coffin
... you, all round, and find 'em," hoarsely whispered Mr. Buffum, "and bring 'em back, and ...
— Sevenoaks • J. G. Holland
... The man was staggered for an instant. Then his rage boiled up and the tanned skin of his neck turned the color of old mahogany. "I'll kill the boy," he whispered hoarsely and drew back his heavy rope for a swing ...
— The Black Buccaneer • Stephen W. Meader
... For God's sake, don't cry!" he whispered hoarsely. "I know it was all a mistake. It must have been a mistake. How could anybody have been so wicked, so utterly senseless, as to believe you guilty of—of—what did they accuse ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... He goes on breathlessly, hoarsely, aware that he is making what Mr. Stephens would call a bad job of it all: "I am now beginning to doubt whether we shall ever discover the truth as to what did happen. His body may still lie concealed somewhere in the Hotel Saint Ange, and if that is so, there's but small chance indeed that we ...
— The End of Her Honeymoon • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... here, Sergeant," began Shrimp hoarsely, "you don't know what I have to put up with with these rookies. I have to do something to keep discipline among men who are new ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock
... before the law could bring up its lumbering assistance. Nevertheless, there is a supervision; nor does the watchfulness of authority permit the populace to be tempted to any outbreak. Once, in a time of dearth I noticed a ballad-singer going through the street hoarsely chanting some discordant strain in a provincial dialect, of which I could only make out that it addressed the sensibilities of the auditors on the score of starvation; but by his side stalked the policeman, offering no interference, but watchful to hear what this rough minstrel ...
— Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... her door ajar as Moya passed on her way downstairs. "You are very late," she uttered hoarsely. "Is nothing settled yet?" ...
— The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote
... to his feet. "It were easy to say that," he said hoarsely, "for, in all the two years I lay rotting in prison, and in these weeks of sordid misery here in Virginia, yours is the only face that has looked kindly upon me, yours the only voice that has told me I was believed.... But it is a fearful thing you propose! ...
— Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia • Mary Johnston
... mindful of his master's commands, narrowly eyed the dragon, to see what he was about to do. Staunching his wound with a touch of his fiery tail, he flapped his green wings, roaring hoarsely, and shook his vast body, preparatory to another attack ...
— The Seven Champions of Christendom • W. H. G. Kingston
... About 45, dishevelled, unshaved, bloated, yellow and trembling. Dressed in a ragged, light summer-overcoat and dirty trousers. Speaks hoarsely, ejecting the words abruptly. ...
— Fruits of Culture • Leo Tolstoy
... figure of a man. He staggered forward, and then, falling on his knees, stretched out his hands, and hoarsely articulated one ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke
... shouted order rang hoarsely along the line. For a moment there was wild commotion; a seething chaos, a swirl of bobbing heads and plunging horses. But in the apparent chaos there was nothing but the most smooth and ordered movement, the quick but most exact following of a routine drill so well ground ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
... she was out again, the gaslight catching her eyes so that they glared like a tigress's, her child in her arms, and a whole Babel of explaining tongues behind her. How she did it neither she nor Raymond ever knew, but in a second she had flown to her perch, saying hoarsely, "Drive me to Dr. Worth's. They were drugging her. I don't know whether I was in time. No, not a word"—(this to those behind)— "never let me ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge
... get angry," Brion said hoarsely. "And I can't bring myself to admire your ideas when they permit you to insult a man ...
— Planet of the Damned • Harry Harrison
... palate dried in his mouth. The fog shut down again, and Maisie's face was pearl-white through it. No word was spoken, but Dick fell into step at her side, and the two paced the Embankment together, keeping the step as perfectly as in their afternoon excursions to the mud-flats. Then Dick, a little hoarsely—"What has happened ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... They saluted each other again. "A secret document of enormous importance," went on the Colonel, "has just reached me from the War Office. It concerns the Regiment, the dear old Regiment." Both men saluted, and the Colonel went on hoarsely, "Were the news in this document to become public property before its time, nothing could avert the defeat of England in ...
— The Sunny Side • A. A. Milne
... hoarsely. He loved dramatic effect, and here was one to hand. He almost fancied that he could see the white outline of Chris's figure ...
— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White
... sun as if to assure himself that he was awake, then laughed hoarsely, foolishly. The wagon did not melt away. He could crawl that far, though in stretching forth his arm he might grasp but empty air. He began to crawl forward, but the wagon did not move. As it grew plainer in all its details, a new strength came to him. He strove to ...
— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis
... said the visitor hoarsely; and pressing the doctor back once more, he stood listening for a few moments as if for pursuers, and then, wild-eyed and strange, he followed Dr Chartley into the surgery, closing the door and leaning back against it breathing heavily, his eyes staring wildly round, his sun-browned face twisting, ...
— The Bag of Diamonds • George Manville Fenn
... Miss, but it's not a reporter; it's—." The landlady stretched her lean neck around the door edge and whispered hoarsely, "It's ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... their eyes remained fixed on each other's white face. "I suppose the others are the same," Henry said, hoarsely. ...
— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... come back," said Tom hoarsely. "He'd much better go on." Joel, more than halfway up the lightning conductor, was making good time shinning along. He turned to say, "I'm all right, Dave," as a window above them was thrown up, and a head in a white nightcap ...
— Five Little Peppers at School • Margaret Sidney
... know?" he cried hoarsely. "The wife and me have been here twenty years, and never seen nor heard anything, but for certain folks do die in the house. It's mortal unpleasant for me, for the doctors come along, and the coroner, and there's an inquest and no end of fuss. The folks die, although no one has ever laid a finger ...
— A Master of Mysteries • L. T. Meade
... chere amie, the coiffeur and his grisette can spoon by the lake-side as long as the moonlight lasts, and longer if they list, with never a gendarme to say them nay, or a rude voice out of the depths hoarsely to declaim, "allez!" The Bois de Boulogne is literally and absolutely a playground, the playground of the people, and this last Sunday of mine, not fewer than half a million of Parisians were making it ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson
... the machines!" he cried hoarsely. "A thing which can sit in a man's head and make him do what it will against his will; it is demon sent! There are other machines to ...
— The Defiant Agents • Andre Alice Norton
... receded from the girl's face and as she cowered against her horse, her eyes widened with horror. Her lips moved stiffly: "You—you dog!" she muttered hoarsely. ...
— Prairie Flowers • James B. Hendryx
... every day," she answered hoarsely. "And when he couldn't get his way, he drove me away at last. I'd set my mind on his being fond of me first." Her voice had grown coarse and ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... and put out his hands in quite the old way. His eyes were dim and he said hoarsely: "That's about the greatest thing you've done yet, Lyn. Thank ...
— The Man Thou Gavest • Harriet T. Comstock
... he was in the mountains, the river winding about like a lane of water between walls which were almost perpendicular, and covered with the densest, bright green foliage, in which parrots croaked hoarsely and monkeys chattered sleepily as they settled themselves for the night. The walls of the living canon grew narrower and steeper. The river here was as still as a lake, and the current so sluggish that only his labour with the paddle sent ...
— Anting-Anting Stories - And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos • Sargent Kayme
... the harbingers of day; and it pleases you as much to hear them as it must please a shipwrecked seaman once again to grasp a hand of flesh and blood after years of miserable solitude. They have the freshness of the daylight life about them. You can hear the carters cracking their whips and crying hoarsely to their horses or to one another; and sometimes even a peal of healthy, harsh horse-laughter comes up to you through the darkness. There is now an end to mystery and fear. Like the knocking at the door in MACBETH, or the cry of the watchman in the TOUR DE NESLE, they show that ...
— The Pocket R.L.S. - Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson
... almost whispering hoarsely, with a constant note of amazement and something like panic in his voice: "If it hadn't happened—the accident—I suppose I should have gone back to the hotel. And what should I have done next? I should never have found ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... in vain hopes; but I wish you a happier fate than marriage with me might prove.' With that she was gone from the room, like a shadow; and Mr. Poole and I were left foolishly staring at each other. Presently he said hoarsely,— ...
— Andrew Golding - A Tale of the Great Plague • Anne E. Keeling
... a pause, and the Amir cried hoarsely to the prisoner, throwing scorn upon him, till he ended with the dread 'Dar ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling
... be friends with me," she answered laughing; "and I will be so relieved if George will come up sometimes and help me with bonfires and about what ought to be done in the stable. You see, I don't know much about those things." At this moment George, hoarsely muttering that he wasn't much good, he guessed, but he had some good tools, fell deeply a ...
— The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne • Kathleen Norris
... "Lesley," he said, hoarsely, and stretching forward, he put one hand upon her arm. But the touch gave the girl strength. She drew her arm away, as sharply as if a noxious ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... Walter hoarsely whispered. "Turn sharp to the right, sit down on a back bench, and I daresay no ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... voice whispered hoarsely in his ear. "Can't you see it for yourself? I shall never get better; it might be a year or two, it may be weeks. But I want to see her again and make sure. Yes, I love her! There is no sense in ...
— The Shadow of the Rope • E. W. Hornung
... as he expected, he saw in the distance a little red speck, and that little red speck was moving very fast indeed. There was nothing weak or feeble in the way that red speck was coming across the snow-covered fields. Blacky chuckled hoarsely. ...
— Bowser The Hound • Thornton W. Burgess
... from killing you!" he said hoarsely, as he straightened up and, drawing his heels together with a ...
— L. P. M. - The End of the Great War • J. Stewart Barney
... terribly since the day before. A feverish restlessness had disordered his features, and reddened his eyes. He was shaking with nervous tremor. Still he waited till the jailer had shut the door; and then he asked hoarsely,— ...
— Within an Inch of His Life • Emile Gaboriau
... how the sheriff's office is run in this county." This statement was made by Talleyrand Sylvester, who came thrusting through the jam of the hall into the fore-room. "Squire," he whispered, hoarsely, "I've brought down them quedaws as you told me to. They're outside. Say the word and we'll light on that old ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day
... at last when the sun shone out warm. Daddy Longlegs crowed hoarsely his delight, the peacock tried his musical powers by shouting Ne-onk! ne-onk! and Duck Waddler quacked away more ridiculously than ever. Just then the mocking-bird ruffled his brown neck-feathers and ...
— Queer Stories for Boys and Girls • Edward Eggleston
... "I tell yer what," hoarsely said the butcher, still gripping Purt's shoulder, "a boy can deny his own father, but 'e can't deny his dawg—no, sir! That there brute knows ye, bub. Only yisterday he grabbed several links of frankfurter sassingers off'n this hook right ...
— The Girls of Central High in Camp - The Old Professor's Secret • Gertrude W. Morrison
... has been so in our family," said Colin, rather hoarsely, as he thought of the four goodly brothers who had once risen in steps between him and ...
— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge
... hoarsely, as he kissed her fresh young lips. "Pray for that, Amaryllis—pray for ...
— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn
... first to see it. With a choking gasp he leaned back and whispered hoarsely, "The schooner! We ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... of affrighted multitudes told him that another cosmic tragedy was at hand. In a flare of lightning he saw silhouetted against an angry sky three crosses at the top of the sad little hill. He reeled away, his heart almost bursting, when Neshevna grasped him. "You saw the death of the gods!" she hoarsely whispered. ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... here and spy on me," she said hoarsely, all out of breath. She stood before him, breathing hard, ...
— Shallow Soil • Knut Hamsun
... Vaughn, hoarsely; "buried beneath the waves, and their only requiem the moaning of an angry sea." He paused for a while, with his face buried in ...
— Clemence - The Schoolmistress of Waveland • Retta Babcock
... kill my love all the same," he said hoarsely. "The Jews are hard. They will not make fine distinctions. They know none ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... I not blest thee? Then go forth, nor fear Or spice, or fish, or fire, or close-stools here. But with thy fair fates leading thee, go on With thy most white predestination. Nor think these ages that do hoarsely sing The farting tanner and familiar king, The dancing friar, tatter'd in the bush; Those monstrous lies of little Robin Rush, Tom Chipperfeild, and pretty lisping Ned, That doted on a maid of gingerbread; The flying pilchard and the frisking dace, With all the ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
... I—De Haldimar," hoarsely exclaimed one of four dark figures that, hitherto, unnoticed by the officers, stood immediately beyond the ditch, with a burden deposited at their feet. "Quick, Blackwater, let us in for God's sake! Each succeeding minute ...
— Wacousta: A Tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy (Complete) • John Richardson
... would soon retire. Embarrassed by his persistent gaze, she went to the opposite side of the room on pretext of getting a photograph from a desk. Before she could reach it, her husband had intercepted her. Hoarsely ...
— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow
... Martin hoarsely, "'tis but a boy," and the veins stood out on his bronzed forehead as his hand closed tighter ...
— "Martin Of Nitendi"; and The River Of Dreams - 1901 • Louis Becke
... isn't your fault," he said, hoarsely, "it is mine. I believe I am killing you by inches. Do you want to make me feel myself a murderer? Could you not—even for my poor sake—try to get stronger, Nan, try to take an interest in something—something healthy and reasonable? ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... hoarsely; "say no more. Only I implore you tell me what to do now to save her. I will—if you tell me to do ...
— The Crusade of the Excelsior • Bret Harte
... quickly as Mat did, nor could have regulated the speed so nicely to a moment. The two different engines were running just opposite each other on the two different lines, the runaway being a good deal worn out now, and going much slower than at first, when Mat he says to me, hoarsely, 'Jump across. It'll be safer if I stick here to hold the regulator; but I'll go, if you'd rather stay.' I had such confidence in Mat Whitelaw, that I could trust my life with him before any mortal man; and the instant he gave the word, I jumped, ...
— Happy Days for Boys and Girls • Various
... almost too much for Racey. He could hardly think straight. "I told you," he said, hoarsely. "We're goin' to Arizona—minin'." ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White
... broke hoarsely, and he stood before them with his eyes averted from the three wondering faces regarding him. Mrs. Pendleton stepped quickly ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees
... towards her at once; but the cub jumped upon her body and reared up, for the first time growling hoarsely. They seemed quite afraid of the little creature, she fought so actively, and made so much noise; and, while tearing mouthfuls of hair from the dead mother, they would spring aside the minute the cub turned ...
— The Ocean and its Wonders • R.M. Ballantyne
... thought," snapped Stratton. "The two women are alone. But that isn't the worst." A sudden spasm of uncontrolled fury rose in his throat and choked him momentarily. "There's some one hidden in the loft over the harness-room," he managed to finish hoarsely. ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... photograph that was done of them—in a tent—when you took us all into Winnipeg for the first agricultural show?" he said hoarsely. "I had a copy—that wasn't burnt. At Montreal, there was a French artist one year, that did these things. I got ...
— Lady Merton, Colonist • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... last night, owing to cramp from a drenched blanket, and got up about midnight and walked over to the remains of one of our niggers' fires. Crouching over the embers I found a bearded figure, which hoarsely denounced me for coming to its fire. I explained that it was our fire, but that he was welcome, and settled down to thaw. It turned out to be a sergeant of the 38th Battery. I asked something, and he began a long rambling soliloquy about things ...
— In the Ranks of the C.I.V. • Erskine Childers
... twilight they came into Richmond by the Broad Street Road. Lights gleamed from the wet houses; high overhead grey clouds were parting, and in the west was a line of red. The wind was high, and the sycamores with which the town abounded rocked their speckled arms. The river was swollen and rolled hoarsely over the rocks beneath the red west. Rand had taken a house on Shockoe Hill, not far from the Chief Justice's, and to this he and Jacqueline came through the wet and windy freshness of the night. Smiling in the doorway were ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston
... Lydia, as before. Her tears ceased as suddenly as they had come. She lifted her head, and drying her eyes looked into her aunt's face. "Are you ashamed of me?" she asked hoarsely. ...
— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells
... 'No,' he said hoarsely. 'No, it wasn't, and you know it wasn't. Well, if you want it, you can have it. It was because I love you. There! Now I've said it, and now you can go on and laugh at me ...
— The Man with Two Left Feet - and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... and ordered one hit each for the batters. "Step up and hit!" he ordered, hoarsely. "Don't be afraid—never mind that crowd—step into the ball and swing natural.... ...
— The Young Pitcher • Zane Grey
... mean to keep her or—break her." He turned his back to say this and went toward the window. Joan, fascinated, watched his fingers working into one another, tightening, crushing. "It's another man she wants," he said hoarsely, "and if I can prevent it, she shall not have him. I will force her to keep her vows to me—force her. If it kills her, I'll break this passion, this fancy. I'll have her back—" He wheeled round, showing a twitching face. "I'll prove her infidelity whether she's been unfaithful or not, and then ...
— The Branding Iron • Katharine Newlin Burt
... two fierce dogs will somtimes stand at gaze, Whom hate or other springs of strife inspire, And grind their teeth, while each his foe surveys With sidelong glance and eyes more red than fire, Then either falls to bites, and hoarsely bays, While their stiff bristles stand on end with ire: So from reproach and menace to the sword Pass ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto
... creeper on its roof. And instantly, a feeling of amazement that almost overcame him, mingled with terror, crept like a shudder over his limbs, and his hair stood on end. And he looked at Natabhrukuti, who was watching him intently, and said, hoarsely: Who art thou, thou strange beauty, and what dost thou want of me? And what is the meaning of these inexplicable mysteries, before which I feel as if my reason were deserting me, and I were about to ...
— An Essence Of The Dusk, 5th Edition • F. W. Bain
... reverberated from the hills and shores of the neighboring river—"but, hark!, what notes of discord are these which disturb the general joy, and silence the acclamations of victory? They are the notes of John Hook, hoarsely bawling through the American ...
— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly
... the fallen man, raised an ashen face to her brother, and whispered hoarsely, "His heart has stopped, John; ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown
... secret," he said, hoarsely. "It is one of the things business men do not talk about. When stocks are rising it is easy to buy a great deal, if one only has something to give him ...
— A Black Adonis • Linn Boyd Porter
... man hoarsely, after drinking a gulp from a bottle, his eyes bloodshot, and swinging his knife, "I have suffered till my blood runs like a current of fire against all who are in ease. I hate the King, the Church, the rich, the judges, ...
— The False Chevalier - or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette • William Douw Lighthall
... right above me. Peering up with my half-blinded eyes I saw a huge red furry animal coming, half obscured by brush. It waved aside from his broad back. A shock ran over me—a bursting gush of hot blood that turned to ice as it rushed. "Big cinnamon bear!" I whispered, hoarsely. ...
— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey
... shaking his head. He spoke hoarsely, his tongue cleaving to his mouth. His eyes were ...
— The Wild Geese • Stanley John Weyman
... against Jonesy's body, he drew the bit of blanket more closely around him, and coughed hoarsely. His teeth were chattering and his lips blue. "You look nearly frozen," said Keith, who, well-clad and well-fed, scarcely felt the cold. "Here! put this on, or you'll be sick," Unbuttoning his thick little reefer, he pulled it off and tied ...
— Two Little Knights of Kentucky • Annie Fellows Johnston
... slip of paper which I held in my hand for some moments before I could reply. When my voice came back, I asked hoarsely: ...
— The Crack of Doom • Robert Cromie
... wouldn't be able to think if I did—and I can't; all I know is that I want to kiss you again." He looked at her sitting across the little table from him, so slender and still—a different Cynthia but damnably desirable. "Cynthia," he added hoarsely, "if you took my hand, you ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... put up my arm to keep him off. He clutched it, and, pointing with his other hand to the sea, whispered hoarsely, "What do you hear of the surf? Will the breakers be heavier before sundown? See how they begin to curve! Listen how they already thunder, thunder, on the beach! I tell you they are impatient—they seek some one," he shouted. ...
— Stories by English Authors: Africa • Various
... deep mellow sound of the city clock striking two. Down among the willows fringing the river bank, some lonely water-fowl uttered its plaintive cry, whereat the bloodhounds bayed hoarsely; then velvet-sandalled silence laid her soothing touch upon the world, and softly took all ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... "Nonsense!" said Ambrose hoarsely. His face was scarlet; he could hardly speak. Ghosts, robbers, and all other terrors forgotten, his whole soul was bent ...
— Penelope and the Others - Story of Five Country Children • Amy Walton
... by the car. His figure loomed up through the darkness. "You will come into the house for a few minutes?" he begged hoarsely. She ...
— Nobody's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... something is the matter below, Phil," Tom Curtis turned to mutter hoarsely. But Phyllis Alden, who had been sitting near him a moment before, was ...
— Madge Morton's Victory • Amy D.V. Chalmers
... hoarsely. "Here are life and death in the balance, as I believe, and there"—he pointed down to the little group gathering about the newsboy under the trees—"there is the command which way to ...
— At the Villa Rose • A. E. W. Mason
... said hoarsely; his face was white, he had come to the end of long days of hope and doubt; he had battered down every obstacle that stood in his path and he was telling her of his love, nor did she seem unwilling to hear him. "You are the whole thing to me! I have loved you always—ever since I first saw you! ...
— The Just and the Unjust • Vaughan Kester |
