"Humph" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Humph! on the head!" said Borroughcliffe, dryly; "the hurt is not likely to be mortal, I see.—Well, I shall offer to raffle with the first poor devil I can find that has but one good leg, for who shall have both; and that will just set up a beggar and a gentleman!—Manual, give me your hand; we ...
— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper
... "Humph!" said Walter; "I guess what it is. It's a new scheme for paying off the national debt, by turning radishes into sovereigns and cabbage- leaves into bank-notes; and it'll take a deal of time and pains to do it." He laughed furiously at his own wit, but, to his mortification, ...
— Amos Huntingdon • T.P. Wilson
... "Humph! old heads don't grow on young shoulders, evidently. You are a foolish boy, Grant. With a liberal education you can do ...
— Helping Himself • Horatio Alger
... of the Cherokee tribe, Swanson was closely guarded. All the answer he could get for his indignant questionings was a surly "Humph," or a sullen admonition to keep quiet. The chief led the party due southwest from Swanson's ranche, and all day long the sturdy ponies were kept at the long, swinging lope which enables them to cover miles during ...
— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton
... "Humph!" Dick muttered. "Would it be any breach of confidence, Marchioness, to relate what they say of the humble individual who has ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV • Various
... "Humph! I am not afraid of them," growled Tad Sobber. "I suppose they think, because they are rich and have traveled some, they can lord it over everybody. Well, I'll show them a trick or two before I'm done ...
— The Rover Boys on the Farm - or Last Days at Putnam Hall • Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)
... "Humph!" as he thrust his tousled head into the cupboard, and searched for butter, and ran his dirty hands all over the clean, bare shelves—"well, this will keep me from starving." So he rolled the towel as tightly as he could over ...
— The Adventures of Joel Pepper • Margaret Sidney
... deuce!" he muttered; "does Jason mistrust me? Has he set another dog on the scent? Humph!" He drained off his brandy, and sallied forth to confer with ...
— Lucretia, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... "Humph!" said Miss Daggett. "You're promising a good deal. If you accomplish what you've mentioned, I shall consider you the best neighbour I've ever experienced in ...
— Patty at Home • Carolyn Wells
... dear boy, why can you not be satisfied to remain here with me? Why do you wish to go away? 'Idle life!' 'Making a living and do some good!' Humph, sir! you need not be idle. Read to me; ride with me. As for your living, sir, I made that for you before you were born; and now I intend you shall enjoy it. Now, my boy, my son in all my heart's dearest affections, stay with me. Wait until the old man is gone; then you will have time enough ...
— The Rector of St. Mark's • Mary J. Holmes
... "Humph!" ejaculated Socrates, with ill-concealed sarcasm. "If you'll take Xanthippe's word for it, the House-boat was the fastest ...
— The Pursuit of the House-Boat • John Kendrick Bangs
... there is one thing I loathe, it is the God and His day that were taught to me when I was a child: joyless, hard, cruel. Fire—humph!—and brimstone for all but a few hundred. I remember. Well, I don't know yet if there is any better," with a vague look. "A man shifts for himself in the next chance as well as now, I suppose. Did you believe what you preached, Stephen?" with an abrupt change. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various
... his funnybone, and he has a struggle to keep a grin out of his mouth corners. "Humph!" says he. "I—I'd like to have seen her then. So you went on to describe the general state of my health, ...
— Torchy • Sewell Ford
... "Humph!" said Robert shortly. "Jolly cheerful news that would be for your poor mother when she arrived at the end of her journey! Don't be so selfish. Now then, up you get! ...
— About Peggy Saville • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... "Humph!—I suppose I must beg pardon again. I shall never get out what I wanted to say—which is, that you must be quiet, my good dame, and you must keep Mrs. Rothesay quiet. She is a delicate young creature, you know, and must have every possible ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... Humph! the legs we used to fling Limber-jointed in the dance, When we heard the fiddle ring Up the curtain of Romance, And in crowded public halls Played with hearts like jugglers'-balls.— Feats of mountebanks, depend!— Tom Van Arden, my ...
— Riley Love-Lyrics • James Whitcomb Riley
... 'Humph!' said the blind man, after some consideration. 'Set me with my face towards the point you speak of, and in the middle of the ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens
... "Humph! I don't want to go on those terms," replied Howe, in disgust. "That's some more of Shuffles's cant! One of his sensations! He thinks he whipped us out on board of the Josephine, and now he wants to be magnanimous with his victims. If we go with the ...
— Down the Rhine - Young America in Germany • Oliver Optic
... Humph? that may not be safe—No Chargy, I'll Settle it upon thee for Pin-mony; and that will be every bit ...
— The Busie Body • Susanna Centlivre
... "Humph," responded Mr. Mencke, bluntly; "it must be either one thing or the other. Which shall it be, Violet—Europe or Canada? We can't leave you here while we ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... "Humph! Well, you're a funny kid," said the senior, leaving her. "You'll never get along in this girls' menagerie if you let ...
— A Little Miss Nobody - Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall • Amy Bell Marlowe
... "Humph!" said I, by way of criticism, when these verses were shown to me. "Where be the mackerel lines, Captain Jo? There's too much love-talk aboard this ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... was not a boy to be played with, as Opal Ledoux would find out. And he sulked in a corner, refusing to be conciliated, until at last she re-entered the room, leaning on the Count's "venerable" arm. She had doubtless been showing him the orchid. Humph! What did that old reprobate ...
— One Day - A sequel to 'Three Weeks' • Anonymous
... the milk in the cocoanut. eh? Hadn't force of mind to get rid of the agent. Couldn't say no. Humph! I wondered why you, a man of sense, a man of dignity, a gentleman, should take ...
— The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces • John Kendrick Bangs
... "Humph! I knew the child would get what she wanted," observed the old lady who had first spoken. "I felt all the time that the mother would have to give in. What on earth did she let her take those big black wings for? Two of those little yellow sugar birds would have been better for a child's ...
— Dickey Downy - The Autobiography of a Bird • Virginia Sharpe Patterson
... MR. X. Humph, I should of course have the whole thing smelted, and then I should have it cast into ducats—full ...
— Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter • August Strindberg
... "Humph!" sniffed Mr. Rivers contemptuously, "You'd better let me manage that fellow, Blaisdell, he'll ...
— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour
... stopped. "His friends, the Campbells—humph! So the Campbells are his friends, are they?" repeated he. "They were his friends," answered Mackenzie; "but Mr. Forester thought proper, nobody knows why, to run away from them, some months ago; the only ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... Recreations. Selected from the finest Fancies of Moderne Muses, With a Thousand out Landish Proverbs. London. Printed for Humph. Blunden at ye Castle ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
... "Humph, there's more to be made by him than that," replied the first; and as I looked up at him, I recognised the very man whom I had formerly prevented from breaking into my master's country house. I growled fiercely; and if he ...
— Cat and Dog - Memoirs of Puss and the Captain • Julia Charlotte Maitland
... "Humph!" said Sary Jane, squeezing her lemon under her work-box. "I never see your beat for glass-dreams. What do they say? ...
— Stories of Childhood • Various
... "Humph!" growled the man, as the boy gave him the message. "It's a nice thing that I should have to fetch and carry all your fooling playthings for you; it's a pity you young gen'lemen can't do something for yourselves, ...
— The Triple Alliance • Harold Avery
... costumer remarked. "Humph!" said Chester. The three mesdames exchanged glances, and the reading ...
— The Flower of the Chapdelaines • George W. Cable
... "Humph!" grunted Mr. Marshall, when he had finished with it. "So Larry's knocked out at last—always thought he would be—always expected it. Sorry, too. He was a decent fellow. Well, ...
— Kilmeny of the Orchard • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... "Humph!" laughed Dan. "I think I can see Greg Holmes turning his back upon Dick Prescott. Why, Greg wouldn't do that even if he had to get out ...
— Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock
... it; we've seen lots worse than that! Humph! That's no reason why you should mess up a house that belongs to your own people, is it? I'd like to know what your wife would say if she caught you smoking a pipe in ...
— With Those Who Wait • Frances Wilson Huard
... "Humph!" said Tony; "easy enough. I hadn't nuthin to row with but a bit o' pole, and I got a sorter cross a-gettin' along so slow, and so I stood up and gin a big push, and one foot slipped, an' ...
— What Might Have Been Expected • Frank R. Stockton
... uncommonly like his father. We all send our kind love to you, and father, and Tom. By the way, where is Tom? You did not mention him in your last. I fear he is one of these roving fellows whom the Scotch very appropriately style ne'er-do-weels. A bad lot they are. Humph! you're one of 'em, Mister Sam, if ever there was, an' my only hope of ye is that you've got some soft ...
— The Battle and the Breeze • R.M. Ballantyne
... "Narrow-minded, humph!" snorted "the Major," highly indignant at the accusation. "The idea of the thing! to be sure, Mr Lathrope, I ought never to be surprised at anything you choose to say; your manners and ...
— The Wreck of the Nancy Bell - Cast Away on Kerguelen Land • J. C. Hutcheson
... "Humph!" said a sensible old Worker, who had seen many Queens hatched and many swarms fly away, "you'd be a good deal more sorry if we did let her out now. It ...
— Among the Farmyard People • Clara Dillingham Pierson
... "Humph, you mean that old Billy's tight as a drum," said Uncle Dick. "An old pack-horse will groan as though you were killing him, and will blow up like a horned toad. Then maybe a half-hour later on the trail all his ...
— The Young Alaskans in the Rockies • Emerson Hough
... "Humph!" Austin grunted, disagreeably. "So just for that you come prowling around threatening my help, eh? Trying to frame up a case, maybe? Well, it don't go. I was out with one ...
— Heart of the Sunset • Rex Beach
... "Humph!" exclaimed the constable. "Don't you boys go to interferin' with the bucket brigade. I won't have it. The bucket brigade is the ...
— The Young Firemen of Lakeville - or, Herbert Dare's Pluck • Frank V. Webster
... "Humph! I thought you had shown yourself a girl of spirit, and had sent him about his business when he came ...
— The Sign Of The Red Cross • Evelyn Everett-Green
... "Humph! a military despotism?" asked Mrs. Renfrew, a young bride of the Executive Mansion, whose husband was confidential adviser of the President. "I don't think I shall obey. I shall show the honesty of my rebel blood by selecting ...
— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan
... 'Humph,' said the eyebrows, 'a pale, washed-out rag of a creature—but what can you expect from such a mother? No brains, no style, no conversation; always a simpering, weak-eyed rag baby. Oh, my dear, ...
— The Bishop's Secret • Fergus Hume
... "Humph," muttered Aunt Belindy, "dem Grammont gals be glad to see any t'ing dat got breeches on; lef 'lone good ...
— At Fault • Kate Chopin
... eh? Then three girls running, Mary, Anne, and Fanny. Pack them off to a good school too. Never mind. Then comes William, eight—and Stephen, seven. Think I know where to place them——Just the right age. Perhaps can't do it at once, though. Humph. That's all I can take at present. The other three, Sarah, Henry, and Philip, too young. Well, my worthy Wag, you will hear about what I mean to do with them before long, and a friend of mine will call upon you some day to consult ...
— Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 • Various
... "Humph," grinned the Indian, "I ain' know w'at you mean—you say, if you scare, you brave—an' if you ain' scare, you ain' so brave. By Goss! I lak dat better if I ain' so mooch brave, den—an' ain' so mooch ...
— Connie Morgan in the Fur Country • James B. Hendryx
... "Humph!" added Charles. "Thus do our plans come to naught. If you got her, and wore her, what end would ...
— Under the Rose • Frederic Stewart Isham
... "Humph!" growled Giant Despair, peering at the strange object, even resorting to his big magnifying glass that he might ...
— The Pleasant Street Partnership - A Neighborhood Story • Mary F. Leonard
... "Humph!" resumed the voice as I continued my survey, "you mus pe so dronk as de pig den for not zee me as I zit ...
— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various
... "Humph! I should laugh at such a thing! Have I any need of him? As long as I have ten fingers and good eyes, I shall not be at the mercy of any man. He made me change my name, and wanted to accustom me to luxury! And now there is neither a Miss Jenny, nor riches, but there ...
— The Mystery of Orcival • Emile Gaboriau
... "Humph!" Jim retorted contemptuously. "Air ye aimin' to tell me the Lord died to save me, when He ain't never seed me, ner ...
— Jokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers • Anonymous
... "Humph!" exclaimed Richard, "I suppose I must credit assertions made with such confidence, but I could have sworn I saw you ride off with the hag ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... "Humph! I don't want to attract too much attention. I see Bazalgette watching me, and I don't wish to be misinterpreted myself, or give my ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... "Humph!" he said with a sneer, "you look to be a little more than half nigger yourself. If I was dead broke I'd run you to market an' ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend
... would a good deal rather believe circumstantial evidence than not. Humph!" The colonel primed his pipe and relighted it. "She couldn't have ...
— The Place of Honeymoons • Harold MacGrath
... "Humph!" grunted Sile. "Let a yarn like this git started, an' half the folks that go near Devil Island will see this ere critter. Some folks is ...
— Frank Merriwell's Cruise • Burt L. Standish
... derisively; "very well, Mort Cambridge, just you step out and tell your runners they'd better be straining some of their tendons, because they'll need everything that Fred Fenton's got, if they want to be in sight when he comes romping home. A strained tendon, humph! Look at him walking across the field right now; did you ever see anybody have a more springy step than that? Isn't it so, Flo?" and there was a shout, as the doctor's daughter, with a flushed face but with sparkling ...
— Fred Fenton on the Track - or, The Athletes of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... "Humph!" he grunted. "Well, there are no women in this case so far as I know. But there may be other things ...
— The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... "Humph!" ejaculated the peddler. "There is something particular, indeed, to be seen behind the thicket on our left. Turn your head a little, and you may see and profit by ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper
... you got?" said Calton, looking over the table. "Ham and eggs. Humph! Your landlady's culinary ideas ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume
... "Humph! They don't make much fuss about it, do they?" was all John said, while Betty was especially impressed by how very much the King and Queen resembled ...
— John and Betty's History Visit • Margaret Williamson
... there he comes! with his big pack and all, Down the sunbeams that slope from the high-windowed wall, And Joe tried to speak, but could not, if he died, When Santa Claus came and sat down by his side. "A tenement boy! humph! he probably swears." (Joe trembled, and tried hard to think of his prayers.) He lifted Joe's eyelids, he patted his brow, And said. "He is not a bad boy, anyhow." But hark! there is music; a deep-swelling sound ...
— A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others • Various
... thee, dame, that I'm less by a good score of winters than Dan o' the higher Wient, when he wed old Simon's daughter.—Humph!—She was a merry and a buxom lass; ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... "Humph! that will be nothing new for you. But I came out here to induce you to reconsider that resolution. I wish to persuade you to join us at Beacon House. That high promontory stretching far out to sea and exposed to all the sea breezes will be the very place to recruit your health at. Come, ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... "Humph!" said Stangrave with a smile. "Who so cruel at times as your too benevolent philanthropist? Did you ever count the meaning of those words? Disruption of the Union, an invasion of the South by the North; and an internecine war, aggravated by the horrors of a general ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley
... 'Humph!' The Chaplain drew his hard road-worn feet under his robe. 'Let us hear the tale that it is permitted thee to tell,' he said, and the ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling
... "Humph! It looks to me, from what I've heard of it," growled the older prospector, "that the Double Cross would have been a heap more fittin' name for it. It's busted everybody that ever ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton
... Peg said "Humph! You mean a proper old glory-row like they have in novelettes, eh? Don't mean to make it up till the last chapter, if ...
— The Beggar Man • Ruby Mildred Ayres
... yet to see; and my companion added, that though the design of the Boothby monument was good, the execution was coarse and clumsy in the extreme, compared with the elaborate finish of the Robinson's. "Humph," said the old lady, with a most vinegar expression of countenance, with a degree of angry hauteur, an air of insulted dignity that Yates would have travelled fifty miles to witness; "the like of that's what I now hear every day. Hang that fellow Chantee, or Cantee, or what you ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 13, No. 356, Saturday, February 14, 1829 • Various
... him on the shoulder. "I haven't seen you since you took your degree. Splendid, my boy! But it might have been better. I hear you are reading Law—good. With the House before you? Good again! Let me look at you. Humph!" He grunted a little disappointment. "You don't look quite so—quite so—what? ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... gathering pens, ink and paper, he was soon seated at the table, while JONES, creeping on tiptoe across the room, stood peeping over his shoulder. The lawyer commenced: 'My oppinion in the case——' 'Humph!' said the lunatic, suddenly seizing his hat, and turning on his heel, 'I wouldn't give a d—n for your opinion with two p's!' . . . MANY of our public as well as private correspondents seem to have been not a little interested in the articles on Mind ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 - Volume 23, Number 2 • Various
... inspection of every outline and every light and shadow in her figure. She did not announce any opinion as to the age or good looks or general aspect or special points of Miss Cynthia; but she made a sound which the books write humph! but which real folks make with closed lips, thus: m'!—a sort of half-suppressed labio-palato-nasal utterance, implying that there is a good deal which might be said, and all the vocal organs want to have a chance at it, if there is to ...
— The Guardian Angel • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... "Humph!" was Cyrus's rejoinder, and then: "Well, what about my nephew, madam?" Clasping his bony hands over his knee, he leaned forward and waited, not without curiosity, for her answer. He did not admire Oliver—he even despised him—but when all was said, the boy had succeeded in riveting ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... "Humph!" he responded. Mrs. Evringham gave the child a little squeeze intended to be repressive. Jewel wriggled around a minute trying to get ...
— Jewel's Story Book • Clara Louise Burnham
... hour. "I'll soon be through dis ward, an' in time for the up-town gentry too, as dey takes breakfast late. Old Peter has a long round, but he don't mind dat, so he gits de money. Den all de quality knows old Peter, and how de hats come off and de ladies smile when de New Year comes round again. Humph! Jingo! How stiff dis knee! When old Peter dead and gone, nebber find anodder carrier like him. Peter nebber stop for nuffin, de rain nor de shine, de northers nor de anything-umph! not even de rheumatiz." Here ...
— Leah Mordecai • Mrs. Belle Kendrick Abbott
... "Humph!" he said, ungraciously striking a third match just in time to watch Michael's face. "Where's ...
— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill
... Johanna tittered. "Humph! you know mawnstus well he ain't gone. Miss Barb, dass de onyess maan I even see wear a baang. Wha' ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable
... "Humph!" said the brown one, with the air of meaning that it was only to be expected of an idiot like Cleggett that he would NOT want to buy any seed potatoes. But after a further embarrassing silence he relented enough to give ...
— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis
... "Humph! Not much aroma here!" he growled, "I ought to have made the old fool"—the laird must have been some fifteen years younger than he.—"set it down before the fire—only what would have become of me while it was thawing? It's no wonder though! By the time I've been buried as long, ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald
... "Humph!" ejaculated Cap; "especially the women! As if they were in any particular danger. Never mind, young man; we shall understand each other by talking like two plain seamen. Do you know of any ...
— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper
... "Humph! humph!" grumbled Porthos, which D'Artagnan pretended not to hear; and, changing the conversation, he said, "You seem to be living in a very solitary place ...
— Louise de la Valliere • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... "Humph! Well, that is something better than I expected. You can take the new gig, you know, and take Melchisedek to drive you, and to ...
— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... et praeterea nihil? What matter How close ears may seem if the hearts are apart? Humph! Nothing go easy as cynical chatter; Distrust's diplomatic, and satire sounds "smart." But, as RAIKES suggests, there is something in hearing The "great human voice" o'er some three hundred miles, In spite of the scorn that's ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, March 28, 1891 • Various
... "Humph, I am rather doubtful of the sanity; I always told you that you were too independent and strong-minded for a girl; but what is the use of preaching to deaf ears?" continued Aunt Agatha, in a decidedly cross voice, as she arranged the ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. • Various
... "Humph! There's a man who is never troubled with counting the fool's beads. Silver and copper are his gods and goddesses. Ha! ...
— The Goose Girl • Harold MacGrath
... "Humph!" said Coyote. "When I walk here, I do not wish to walk around anyone at all. You go to one side. ...
— Myths and Legends of the Great Plains • Unknown
... "Humph," said Mother Uberta, as she lighted a pine-knot and stuck it into a crack in the wall (for it was already dark, and candles were expensive), "it is a great sin and shame—the lad is neither crooked nor misshapen—the Lord has done well enough by him, Heaven knows; ...
— Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... "Humph!" remarked Robert her nephew; "do you s'pose folks could go to Iowa or Missouri as quick as this! Cars'd have to put on ...
— Old Caravan Days • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... "Humph!" grunted the visitor, turning restlessly again in his chair. Then he said: "I agree as the necessity of that last statement; but I can only hope ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Locomotive - or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails • Victor Appleton
... her with mingled wonder and indignation. "Bad luck to you, you owld sthrap!" he muttered between his teeth. "How consaited you are, all of a sudden—by Jakers, I'm sorry I towld you—cock you up, indeed—put a beggar on horseback to be sure—humph!—the devil cut the tongue out o' me if ever I give any one good news again. I've a mind to turn back and tell Tim Dooling his horse is in ...
— Handy Andy, Vol. 2 - A Tale of Irish Life • Samuel Lover
... "Humph! A'll put a crimp in that! The Sheriff man is to give evidence yet! Eleanor, y' better not wait! A'm goin' t' do some plain speakin' t' y' father's honor, but 'tis not talk for a woman's ears! Y've heard ...
— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut
... "Humph!" said Mr. Montfort, twisting the note, and frowning at the window. "Precisely! and so, you were saying, Sophronia—ahem! that is, you are obliged to ...
— Margaret Montfort • Laura E. Richards
... how she did sing operettas! Offenbach, you know;" and the General tried to hum a bar or two of the 'Dites lui', with ludicrous effect. "Charming! To leave her, ah! I found that very hard. I remained five days: that wasn't much, eh, Zilah? five days? But the devil! There was a Grand Duke—well—humph! younger than I, of course—and—and—the Grand Duke was jealous. Oh! there was at that time a conspiracy at Odessa! I was accused of spending my time at the theatre, instead of watching the conspirators. They even said I was in the conspiracy! Oh, Lord! ...
— Prince Zilah, Complete • Jules Claretie
... "Humph!" said Temple, grimly, thinking he might as well take the money, though he had no intention of releasing Philip. "Have you got five dollars ...
— The Tin Box - and What it Contained • Horatio Alger
... "Humph! Ready they was, fast enough. But—man, look here," and she opened the cupboard door to draw forth the apron ...
— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond
... "'Humph!' muttered the old soldier; 'ready enough to run his comrades into the noose, but devilish careful to keep his own ...
— The Old Bell Of Independence; Or, Philadelphia In 1776 • Henry C. Watson
... not afraid of opening your mouth, I see. Three thousand francs!—humph! Security, ten acres of middling land, uncultivated, and a tumble-down house; title, droit de guillotine. It is a risk, but I think I may venture. Pierre Nadaud,' he continued, addressing a black-browed, sly, sinister-eyed clerk, 'draw a bond, secured upon Les Pres, and the appurtenances, for ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 - Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 • Various
... "Humph!" grunted Chris, as he realised the truth that a roaring fire of pinewood was burning in a sheltered ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn
... very evening of this meeting, while Edna was looking over her favorite page of her father's paper, she heard him say to his wife. "Humph. That was a bad failure of Green and Adams to-day. Adams was a pretty high-flyer, and a good many of the men on the 'Change have been ...
— A Dear Little Girl at School • Amy E. Blanchard
... that Christ was actually quarreling with the doctors. So I asked an old slave, who was a sort of a herb doctor in a small way—unlicensed, of course—what the meaning of the picture was. "What had has done?" I asked. And the colored man replied "Humph, he ain't ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... "Humph!" Stillman looked at Ashton-Kirk, with surprise upon his face. "That seems odd. Men usually go into Hume's business through love of it." He turned once more to Brolatsky. "And he had no hobby of his own, no collection that he fancied more ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Investigator • John T. McIntyre
... [Lat.], mirabile visu [Lat.]; to one's great surprise. with wonder &c n., with gaping mouth; with open eyes, with upturned eyes. Int. lo, lo and behold!, O!, heyday!, halloo!, what!, indeed!, really!, surely!, humph!, hem!, good lack, good heavens, good gracious!, Ye gods!, good Lord!, good grief!, Holy cow!, My word!, Holy shit! [Vulg.], gad so!, welladay!^, dear me!, only think!, lackadaisy!^, my stars, my goodness!, gracious goodness!, goodness gracious!, mercy on us!, heavens ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... "Humph!" grunted Mr. Mencke, and then he fell to musing again, doubtless computing the chances upon some other ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... Pres. Humph! (Aside, to his Colleagues.) Rather an unpromising commencement. However, he may have devoted more of his time to cricket or football in the Playing Fields than to anything else. (Aloud.) I hope you have ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, May 30, 1891 • Various
... our officers? They could not be seen. Corporals, sergeants, lieutenants, captains, all had torn all the fine lace off their clothing. I noticed that at the time and was surprised and hurt. I asked several of them why they had torn off the insignia of their rank, and they always answered, "Humph, you think that I was going to be a target for the Yankees to shoot at?" You see, this was our first battle, and the officers had not found out that minnie as well as cannon balls were blind; that they had no eyes and could not see. They thought that the balls ...
— "Co. Aytch" - Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment - or, A Side Show of the Big Show • Sam R. Watkins
... "Humph! It will not be our fault. I tell thee thou dost not yet know our lord, and too much zeal may only damage you in ...
— The House of Walderne - A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars • A. D. Crake
... "Humph. Maybe you do, but——My humble (not too humble!) opinion is that you like to be different. You like to think you're peculiar. Why, if you knew how many tens of thousands of women, especially in New York, say just what you do, you'd lose all the fun of thinking you're a lone genius and you'd ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... "Hot water? Humph! Pipes done froze last night, an' bus' loose this mo'nin', and fill the kitchen range with water an' bus' loose again. No plumber here yit. Made this breakfuss on the gas-stove. That's half-froze, tew. I tell you, ma'am, you're lucky to git your coffee nohow. Better take ...
— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes
... "Humph! It will, eh? Well, Andy can do as he pleases as long as he doesn't bother me. I won't be around here ...
— Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice • Victor Appleton
... losing this dear old soul gave a serious tone to his voice. He kissed her on the cheek and went out into the hall. Jove came waltzing after him. "Humph! What do you want, sir? Want to go out with me, eh? Very well; but you must promise to behave yourself. I'll have you talking to no poor-dog trash, mind." Jove promised ...
— Half a Rogue • Harold MacGrath
... and I expected him by some quick motion or muttered command to summon me, as always before, into his hot little cubby-hole. Never was boy more taken aback! "Who dah knockin' at mah door?" he said again, standing within two feet of my elbow, looking past me not two inches from my nose. "Humph! Somebody knockin' at mah door better look at what dey doin' or dey gwine git into a ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes
... an Indian torturing his prisoner. The missionary approaches and beseeches him to regard the Golden Rule. "Humph!" utters the savage: "Golden Rule! what's that?" "Why" says the good man, "all that you expect or desired other Indians, in similar circumstances, do you even so to them." "Humph!" growls the warrior, with a fierce smile,—"Missionary—good: that's ...
— Slavery Ordained of God • Rev. Fred. A. Ross, D.D.
... "Humph!" the grunt of Maestro Diego was not polite. Even the desert might not be a safe place to bring youth if damsels of this like grew in the sage clumps. "It is said to be a good luck sign when a man ...
— The Flute of the Gods • Marah Ellis Ryan
... "Humph, I'll investigate this," muttered the captain, and went off for a boathook. When he returned he caught the hook into the loop of the wire and tried to bring the end of the strand to the deck. He was ...
— The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle - or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht. • Edward Stratemeyer (AKA Arthur M. Winfield) |
