"Icily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... icily, "is no one's affair but my own. I am not wholly ignorant of the ways of the world. And I know whom ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... nature must be singularly slight," replied the other icily, "if you imagine that a man without sufficient courage to be fitted by a tailor would be brave enough to ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 • Various
... "Oh," said Dick icily, when they came up to him. "So that's where you were. Uncle Jack"—for now he saw he had just cause for anger—"I'll thank you to let my ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown
... entered the cavern. Oh, how icily cold it was; but it did not last long. The Eastwind spread his wings, and they shone like the brightest flame; but what a cave it was! Large blocks of stone, from which the water dripped, hung over them in the most extraordinary shapes; at one moment it was so low and narrow that ...
— Stories from Hans Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen
... these little village girls have come to town since time was and brought with them the level heads of icily wise women who make love a business and not a folly. Many men are keeping sober mainly nowadays because it is good business; many women ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... feel my heart grow as bitterly cold as my demeanour was icily stiff, when I stood up ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin
... very good," she said, icily, and drawing her slight, graceful figure haughtily erect, "but—if at any time I should find my duties heavier than I could perform faithfully, I should tell her so ...
— Mona • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... wise brook, I cannot come, alas! I am but mortal as the leaves that flicker, float, and pass. My body is not used to you; my breath is fluttering sore; You clasp me round too icily. Ah, let me go once more! Would God I were a naiad-thing whereon Pan's music blew; But woe is me! you pagan brook, I ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... find it," Captain Nemo replied icily. "But be that as it may, you're already familiar with the first use I've found for this valuable force. It lights us, and with a uniformity and continuity not even possessed by sunlight. Now, look at ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
... don't see anything the matter with him for yourself," George responded, icily, "I don't think pointing it out would help you. You probably ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... was sure of that—had rolled up, touched him icily if slightly, and receded, like a wave on the beach, without his knowing in the least what had energized it in his direction. During lulls, for years to come, Ling Foo's consciousness would strive to press behind the wall for a key to the riddle; for years to come he would be searching ...
— The Pagan Madonna • Harold MacGrath
... nothing Brown could do. He retreated into icily correct, outraged dignity. And the others hauled in and unloaded rockets as they arrived. They came up fast. The processes of making them had been improved. They could be made faster, heated to sintering temperature faster, and the hulls cooled to usefulness in a quarter ...
— Space Tug • Murray Leinster
... said Hawkins icily, "if one dish is broken, I'll pay for it and make you a present of the machine, if you say so. If you do not wish to make the test, doubtless there are other hotel men in New York who ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin
... indestructible hard-finish. He had a resolute chin and a pair of hard, steel-gray eyes, which were set much too close together to leave great room for any attribution of an open-minded generosity. He and Mrs. Bates, under Marshall's promptings, bowed icily, and a cold and chilling silence ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller
... it like a man of the world, I hope," she replied icily, and he drooped submissive once more. "You ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... "Tristan?" she said icily, drawing herself back with a movement which La Mothe recognized by an unhappy experience. "You choose ...
— The Justice of the King • Hamilton Drummond
... of the dinner passed off well enough, as the subject was changed. Lord George began to talk of racing, and Hay responded. Mrs. Krill alone seemed shocked. "I don't believe in gambling," she said icily. ...
— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume
... too ignoble? Was she not herself responsible for much of the strangeness in his behaviour of late? The question she had once asked herself, whether he loved her, she could not answer doubtfully; was it not his love that had set her icily against him? If she could not render him love in return, that was the wrong she did him, the sin she had committed in becoming his wife. Adela by this time knew too well that, in her threefold vows, love had of right the ...
— Demos • George Gissing
... the deacon, icily, "religion is religion, and business is business. You understand religion—to a certain extent; though I must own that I don't think you understand it as far as I once thought you did. But about business, you must excuse me if I say you don't know anything, ...
— All He Knew - A Story • John Habberton
... a little older," said Mrs Bosenna icily, "you'll know that anything can be done with roses in these days—with proper precautions. Why"—she turned to Captain Cai—"I've planted out roses in July month—in pots, of course. You break the pots in the October following. But there must ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... icily. "And if you have a brother whom you love, Onoto, think how much more amusing it must be to ...
— The Secret of the Night • Gaston Leroux
... dissertation on the American gentleman?" she said icily, putting aside each thrust with a parry ...
— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath
... intellect was too speedy even for Gibbon. She fenced all 'round him and over him, and he soon discovered that she was icily gracious to every one, save her father alone. For him she seemed to outpour all the lavish love of her splendid womanhood. It was unlike the usual calm affection of father and daughter. It was a great and absorbing love, of which even ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14 - Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women • Elbert Hubbard
... him mechanically. Everything seemed to have become very still and cold; feeling had frozen in her limbs; terror clutched at her icily out of the gloom. There were two lighted windows in front of her, two baleful yellow gleams, like the eyes of a monster of the night. At any instant the door would ...
— The Heart of Thunder Mountain • Edfrid A. Bingham
... George," I said icily, "that I appreciate the fact of being deprived of the services of an honest woman in favor ...
— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer
... am not thinking of a flirtation," she said icily, "but if I were, I should as certainly be unaffected by the rank of my victim. In America we aren't quite so strong for pedigrees and ...
— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace
... not be back for a week or ten days," she said icily. "If I'm longer than two weeks you can start Charlie Sands out ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... out crystalclear, more musical than the cooing of the ringdove, but they cut the silence icily. There was that in her young voice that told that she was not a one to be lightly trifled with. As for Mr Reggy with his swank and his bit of money she could just chuck him aside as if he was so much ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... be," said Timmendiquas icily, "but neither the Manitou of the Wyandots, nor the Aieroski of the Iroquois has given to me the eyes to see everything that ...
— The Scouts of the Valley • Joseph A. Altsheler
... Helena icily. "It would hardly be courteous to Mr. Davidson—to use his servants and his table in this way ...
— The Lady and the Pirate - Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive • Emerson Hough
... black ink attracted his attention; and it was opposite a name among the 'Deaths.' His blood ran icily as he discerned the words 'The Palace, Melchester.' But it was not she. Her husband, the Bishop of Melchester, had, after a short illness, departed this life at the comparatively early age of ...
— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy
... heart stopped; her trembling hands grew icily quiet. All the Past rose before her in mute, overwhelming reproach. She took up the lines which her own hand had written hardly a minute since, and looked at the ink, still wet on the ...
— No Name • Wilkie Collins
... like!" Susan said icily. But presently, in a more softened tone, she added, "I do feel badly about Thorny! I oughtn't to have left her. It was all so quick! And she DID have a date, at least I know a crowd of people were coming to their ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... no real girl—is inflexible when there is a wedding in the air, and your letter only proves you are a real girl—which I always thought you to be. And I'm awfully glad you are! Only think how icily unhuman you would seem if you could hold yourself superior even to a wedding, and especially to one so romantic as this of Miss Hurd's promises to be, with all the melodramatic settings of a possible ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble
... but one suitable reply to your assertion, Mr. Clayton," she said icily, "and I regret that I am not a man, that I might make it." She turned quickly and ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... him, but without much success; and a pitiless thought that had sometimes assailed her of late - that he regretted their friendship and everything connected with it, struck icily on ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page
... competently at one of the chairs at one of the tables nearby. He stopped, and Johnny Simms took courage. Cochrane said icily: ...
— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... man who brings the spirit of adventure into the game that I want. Of the Quaifes and the Scottons and the Barlows I have nothing but dreary memories. They do not mean cricket to me. And even Shrewsbury and Hayward left me cold. They were too faultily faultless, too icily regular for my taste. They played cricket not as though it was a game, but as though it was a proposition in Euclid. ...
— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)
... the toil of the day she's beautifying herself for your august approval," said Agg icily. "I expect she's hurrying all she can. But naturally you expect her to be in a permanent state of waiting for you—fresh out ...
— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett
... time to choose between us?" asked Paul, icily. "Yes, I understand. You shall have the time,—as long as you please to remain in Constantinople. I am much obliged to you for being so frank. May I give you my arm to go into the ...
— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford
... suppose there is; one would rather risk one's life for a friend than for an enemy," replied Claudia icily. ...
— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... icily, "my daughter has informed me what passed between you. I must say that you have taken a deal ...
— A Splendid Hazard • Harold MacGrath
... which once had been his heart trickled vaguely and icily through the wrong veins, upsetting ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... scholarship men have given up the thought that culture consists of an exquisite refinement in manners and dress, in language and equipage. The poet laureate makes Maud the type of polished perfection. She is "icily regular, splendidly null," for culture is more of the heart than of the mind. But as eloquence means that an orator has so mastered the laws of posture, and gesture and thought and speech that they are utterly forgotten, and have become second nature, so ...
— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis
... experience," remarked the canteen matron icily. She thought Miss Gibbs "bossy" and interfering, and considered that she knew her own business best, without ...
— The Madcap of the School • Angela Brazil
... not too busy," O'Connor said in his icily polite tone, "I would like to have Miss Thompson back as soon as possible." He sounded as if Malone had borrowed ...
— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett
... coals and he gazing at her. She was facing the gloomy afternoon light, though she did not think out these things like her uncle, so he had a clear and wonderful picture of her. "How could so voluptuous looking a creature be so icily cold?" he wondered. Her wonderful hair seemed burnished like dark copper, in the double light of fire and day, and that gardenia skin looked fit to eat. He was thrilled with a mad desire to kiss her; he had never felt so strong an emotion towards a ...
— The Reason Why • Elinor Glyn
... remarked icily, "it is none of your business. It's none of your business whether I get shot as a deserter, ...
— The Deserter • Richard Harding Davis
... be generous." She was sitting primly, speaking icily. "For that reason I wish to keep him in prison, as an example to evil-doers. I've gotten religion, George, since the terrible thing that man did to me. Sometimes I used to be unkind, and I wished for worldly pleasures, for dancing and the theater. But when ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... friendships," she says, icily. "And," pausing as if to make the effect greater, "if I were you, I think I should seek some better employment than standing idling all day ...
— Rossmoyne • Unknown
... feeling of the hunted, who looks upon ease and joy. The house was gleaming with lights, even the measured tread of the dancers mingled with the flow of music; but here, outside, the wind began to whistle icily down the street, and the girl bent her head ...
— Before the Dawn - A Story of the Fall of Richmond • Joseph Alexander Altsheler
... ill-favoured jest about the farmer's wife, but it came hollowly from his lips, and was allowed to drop in silence. Still their unnatural burden bumped from side to side; and now the head would be laid, as if in confidence, upon their shoulders, and now the drenching sackcloth would flap icily about their faces. A creeping chill began to possess the soul of Fettes. He peered at the bundle, and it seemed somehow larger than at first. All over the country-side, and from every degree of distance, the farm dogs accompanied their passage with ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... icily sarcastic. Denny's answer came sharp upon its heels. His voice was just as measured, just as inflectionless as ...
— Once to Every Man • Larry Evans
... his place in the life-sized family group (tres distingue et tres soigne, remarks a modern critic of the work) painted about this time. His mother expostulated with him on the matter:—she must needs feel, a little icily, the emptiness of hope, and something more than the due measure of cold in things for a woman of her age, in the presence of a son who desired but to fade out of the world like a breath—and she suggested ...
— Imaginary Portraits • Walter Horatio Pater
... her own fault. She is being punished for her obstinacy. Father is disciplining her—he will not harm her.' In the end the power conquered, and the girl lay back in slumber so deep, so dead, that her breath seemed stilled forever—her hands icily inert, her face as white ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland
... quietly. Nelly had not heard definitely the date of Captain Langrishe's departure. For six days she kept away from the Rookes' house. On that last evening he had been icily cold. The poor girl was in torture. All the week she was calling pride to her aid. The sixth day it refused to bolster her up any longer. The sixth day she met at lunch a friend of hers and Belinda Rooke's. She asked a question about ...
— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan
... He was alive still; slowly the death-like pallor was passing away, faint tokens of returning circulation tingled through his benumbed veins. The beating of his heart was stronger, and his hands seemed less icily cold. But so slowly, and with so many intermissions, did the change creep on, that she did not dare to assure herself that he was reviving. Now and then the scent made her feel sick with terror; for she knew that his life depended upon her unceasing attention, and the ...
— Brought Home • Hesba Stretton
... feet now and he was smiling icily. "One or the other of us will be ruined, and then perhaps we can resort to those methods which both of us would enjoy using. Of the two, I believe I am the more primitive, for the mere act of killing does not satisfy me. I've come a long way to sink my teeth into you. Now that they're in, they'll ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... judge people by their eyes. Her hands look as if she had done rather a lot of hard work—they are so very thin. Her clothes are neat but shabby—that is not the last look like French women have—but as if they had been turned to "make do"—I suppose she is very poor. Her manner is icily quiet. She only speaks when she is spoken to. ...
— Man and Maid • Elinor Glyn
... you for good and sufficient reasons," she said icily. "That you choose to ignore these reasons does not affect the issue. Will you leave this house, or shall ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... offences against taste, inaccuracies, occasional revelations of personal pique it has; but it is not malicious. Sometimes it is even affecting in its tenderness. It breathes a spirit of paternal regard. But it is, perhaps, the dullest of books. If not "icily regular," it is "splendidly null." The style is as oppressive as a London fog. It is marked, to use the author's own words, by "elegant and drowsy stagnation." After the first few pages, it is with weariness that we follow him. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various
... rather than saw her approach; for now he ventured to peep no more. She touched him lightly upon the mouth with her fingers and laughed a little low, rippling laugh, the sound of which seemed to trickle along his sensory nerves, icily. She bent over him—lower—lower—and lower yet; until, above the nauseating odor of the place he could smell the musk perfume of her hair. Yet lower she bent; with every nerve in his body he could ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer
... my way carefully, so I made no attempt to enter into conversation. Just before lunch the jolting of the train deposited the major's coat at my feet. I picked it up and handed it to him. He received it with thanks and a trace of a smile. He was polite, but icily so. I was an American, he was a German officer. In his way of reasoning my country was unneutrally making ammunition to kill himself and his men. But for my country the war would have been over long ago. Therefore he hated me, but his training made him ...
— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin
... ingenious breach of the peace, and, it being a Wednesday and a half-holiday, sent him into extra lesson. On the following morning, more by design than accident, Farnie upset an inkpot. Mr Smith observed icily that unless the stain was wiped away before the beginning of afternoon school, there would be trouble. Farnie observed (to himself) that there would be trouble in any case, for he had hit upon the central ...
— A Prefect's Uncle • P. G. Wodehouse
... gave way to open country, softly swelling fields, willow copses, and clear running streams. In the crystal air the mountain walls seemed near at hand, above shone Orion, icily brilliant. The lawyer from a dim old house in a grove of oaks and the school-teacher from Thunder Run went on in silence for a time; then ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston
... uttered in a tone of the most bitter reproach, the young man made no reply, but clasped his icily cold hands against his forehead, as ...
— Caught In The Net • Emile Gaboriau
... of neglecting any one of you four," she says, icily. "Edward Percy, I told you last night that I would burn certain papers in your presence. I am quite ready to keep my word. There will be no use for them after to-night. But I shall not stifle the testimony of living witnesses ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch
... it no longer. "Don't trouble, Mr. Marbolt," he said icily. "It is no use your offering rewards. The man who has gone after Anton will find him. And you can rest satisfied he'll take nothing from you on that score. You may not know ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... right, as he entered, a fire was burning in the grate and it struck him, with the inconsequent insistence of trifles in enormous issues, how chilly for the time of year the day had been and how icily cold his own house. On the left, at the far end of the room, Twyning sat at his desk. He was crouched at his desk. His head was buried in his hands. At his elbows, vivid upon the black expanse of the table, lay a ...
— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson
... to do with Quebec," he laughed icily, "as the President of France. If the Pope should issue instructions to the bishops of Quebec, asking the clergy to educate the people of Quebec on their duty to go to war or to vote for either of the old line parties, ...
— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino
... say," he remarked icily, "it is none of your business. It's none of your business whether I get shot as a ...
— The Lost Road • Richard Harding Davis
... understand this at all—not at all," she said, icily. "However," very distinctly, "it is not necessary that I should, for I shall not do it." She folded her ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... Ainslee, that you met the handsomest and most likeable chap on earth in Yokohama—if you remember," she reminded him icily. ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds
... any kind from men who have come to despoil our country and ruin its people," she said icily. ...
— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler
... Dobson,—need not be lovely in themselves to serve as pegs to hang a poem on; and all the atmosphere of the eighteenth century may be wafted from a jar of potpourri. Read a lyric instead of a rose jar, and the rule holds as well. The man of feeling cannot but find all Ranelagh and Vauxhall in some icily regular effusion of the eighteenth century, and will take a deeper retrospective thrill from an old playbill than from the play itself. And since this is so,—since the interest in the overtones, the added value given ...
— The Psychology of Beauty • Ethel D. Puffer
... Southerner, the sympathy for the oppressed, the compassion for the weak and the defenceless, animated Mark Twain to one of the noblest actions of his career. For his defence of Harriet Westbrook is something more than a work, it is an act—an act of high courage and nobility. With words icily cold in their logic, Mark Twain tabulated the six pitifully insignificant charges against Harriet, such as her love for dress and her waning interest in Latin lessons, and set over against them the six ...
— Mark Twain • Archibald Henderson
... not discuss the matter further,' said General Forsyth icily; 'I have told you my wishes on the subject. If I am to treat you as one of my own daughters, you will accompany them wherever they go. I am accustomed to be obeyed in my own house, and I do not think you will deliberately oppose ...
— Dwell Deep - or Hilda Thorn's Life Story • Amy Le Feuvre
... excursion as a good joke on us, and smiled with a show of teeth as white as the eggs in his basket. After all, it was not wholly a hardship; we could walk about in the sunny if somewhat muddy open, and warm ourselves against the icily shaded drive back to town; besides, there was a little girl crouching at the foot of a tree, and playing at a phase of the housekeeping which is the game of little girls the world over. Her sad, still-faced mother standing near, with an interest ...
— Familiar Spanish Travels • W. D. Howells
... "Amen," Sary carried the large soup-pot from the stove and was about to ladle the soup into the bowls when Barbara said icily: ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... Mazarin icily. "You were in Paris last night. You had an appointment at the Hotel de Brissac. You entered by a window. Being surprised by the aged Brissac, you ...
— The Grey Cloak • Harold MacGrath
... drawing-room, where he contrived to hover over Violet, and fence her round from all other admirers for the rest of the evening. They sang their favourite duets together, to the delight of everyone except Rorie, who felt curiously savage at "I would that my love," and icily disapproving at "Greeting;" but vindictive to the verge of homicidal mania at "Oh, wert thou in ...
— Vixen, Volume II. • M. E. Braddon
... colored, drew her arm away, froze. She detested all forms of familiarity; physical familiarity she abhorred. "You have known Grant Arkwright long?" she said, icily. ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips
... "That, Ferdinand," Charlotte interposed icily, "is not necessary. Monsieur Eloin, at my command, brought the American here. You should ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... my dear?" Grandmother Ridge demanded with a subtle undercut of reproof. The little old lady, all in black, with a neat bonnet edged with white, stood on the steps midway between her son and her granddaughter, and smiled icily at the girl. Milly recognized that smile. It was more deadly to her than a curse—symbol of mocking age. She tossed her head, the sole retort that youth ...
— One Woman's Life • Robert Herrick
... a summer evening, and all the French windows reaching to the ground were open to admit the cool south wind, which had just come up, deliciously icily cold after a scorching day. In the verandah sat the Major and the Doctor over their claret (for the Major had taken to dining late again now, to his great comfort), and in the garden were Mrs. Buckley and Sam ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley
... as charming as ever?" demanded Mrs. Morrell sweetly but icily. "Go in carefully now, so dear little wifey ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White
... not now Americans naturalized?" rebuked Hans, icily. Suddenly he thawed. "Whose brother! The brother of Camilla ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge
... leaped within me at that 'Oliver.' True, it was the familiarity of one born to command, one who had last night icily desired my services in the morning, and, womanlike, knew that she could queen it over me as she listed, but still, and this was the main thing, it was familiar and friendly, and seemed to lift me ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... needless to say that I found the Petit Plateau keenly interesting. The menacing seracs leaned from the cliffs, glittering icily, and threw black shadows upon the neve beneath, but ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various
... perhaps, of all Stevenson's efforts it is yet most out of nature and truth,—a farce, felt to be disguised only when read in a certain mood; and this all the more for its perfections, just as Stevenson would have said it of a human being too icily ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson - a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial • Alexander H. Japp
... the raw by this reminder that before the world he had been nothing to the loved one, that before the world the squire, who had been nothing to her, had been everything, Winton said icily: ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... Carlos, we call a man a cad who persists in attempting to force his unwanted attentions on a girl," she remarked icily. "I do not know if there is a Spanish equivalent for the ...
— Bandit Love • Juanita Savage
... said icily, "my fellow-countrymen have decided to pay a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, and to sell you down the river. They suggest an international UN committee to receive custody of you children. That committee could then set to work on you ...
— Long Ago, Far Away • William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
... calling; and of the wretched, rainy, cold nights of late autumn. Then one would pull a few trusses of straw out of a stack and creep shivering into the hole, which would gradually become wet through from the dripping rain, and through the opening of which the east wind would blow in icily. ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... sudden alternations of warm light and cold shade made him shiver. In front of the Palazzo di Venezia, and in front of the Gesu, it had seemed to him as if all the night of ancient times were falling icily upon his shoulders; but at each fresh square, each broadening of the new thoroughfares, there came a return to light, to the pleasant warmth and gaiety of life. The yellow sunflashes, in falling from the house fronts, sharply outlined ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... of gain, run-aways before peril, readier to pay back injury than kindness. "Worst of all they take middle paths." Upon these, his observations, he proceeds to tell a story of a State and he tells it icily. He lays bare the foulness of man. He doesn't lecture, he does not preach, he never laughs, never scolds, is never surprised. He shows, says Mr. Morley about "as good a heart as can be made out of brains." In my opinion, that sentence is the most terrible indictment in the book. ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... determinedly, almost icily, looking Bernard squarely in the face: "Bernard, you know that I love you. It was I that asked you to kiss me. Always remember that. But as much as I love you I shall never be ...
— Imperium in Imperio: A Study Of The Negro Race Problem - A Novel • Sutton E. Griggs
... have even that. There are millions in this town who, etc., etc.' And so the thing will go on until one day he asks, 'Have you no fuel at all?' when I can hear myself replying, 'Only two chairs and one wardrobe,' and he will reply icily, 'You are lucky to have that. Everybody else is dead because ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 26, 1919 • Various
... to be quite all right—in our normal senses," returned the Senator, icily. "I believe there are persons who gibber and giggle at mishaps to others—but I also believe that such a peculiar sense of humor is confined largely to institutions for the refuge ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... it away," she said, icily. "I didn't say I didn't want it, nor that I wouldn't wear it. I only said ...
— Old Rose and Silver • Myrtle Reed
... Ste. Marie was amazed to see that she seemed not to have altered at all—in spite of this enormous lapse of time, in spite of all that had happened in it. And yet, unaltered, she seemed to him a stranger, a charming and gracious stranger with an icily beautiful face. He wondered at her and at himself, and he was a little alarmed because he thought that he must be ill. That blow upon the head must, after all, have done ...
— Jason • Justus Miles Forman
... had been blowing icily since sundown, had increased in violence to a gale. But he strode out of the lobby and into the street, unaware of it. There must be a stage door somewhere, he knew, and he meant to find it. It didn't occur to him to inquire. He'd quite lost his sense of social being; of membership ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster
... I said icily. "You don't deserve an explanation, but you shall have one, and that is the last word I shall ever speak to you on the subject of Jack. His letter is the truth. I am his 'nearest of kin,' save the cousins in Pennsylvania ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... that led to the prince's apartments. Ever since their strange marriage the man and the woman had lived thus apart; the man, on his part, always courteous, always deferential, always tender, always ready to be respectfully affectionate, and the woman, on her part, icily reserved, wrapped around in the blackness of her widowhood, inexorably deaf to all wooing, immovably resolute ...
— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... and more important things to think about," Mr. Skinner retorted icily. As a business man he was opposed to levity in the office. "What are your plans with reference to the Retriever? Do you wish to bring her ...
— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne
... Carmen was worried, Carmen was a little self-reproachful, and she kindled easily. Consequently she said icily: ...
— The Story of a Mine • Bret Harte
... husband, icily, "but you might just as well tell her, too. It'll make her afraid ...
— The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix • Homer Eon Flint
... hear that," said Mrs Patrick, rather icily, for this last observation had seemed to her a little rude. ...
— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed
... back door, and finding it locked, circled the rest of the way around the house. Judith was waiting for him on the front porch. "How nice of you to walk Zarathustra," she said icily. "I do hope you ...
— The Servant Problem • Robert F. Young
... "Really, Barbara," she said icily, "if you cannot move without falling over something you'd better remain in your seat. It is positively disgraceful for a girl of your age ...
— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... Cleo, I hope," Mrs. Delarayne retorted icily, "that I say these things to amuse you ...
— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici
... do. She could not decline to know the Prince without making some explanation to Millicent. She also could not flatter him so much. She must just be icily cold, and if he should be further impertinent she ...
— His Hour • Elinor Glyn
... activity—entertains a doubt of this, his family physician will be happy to remove it. Nothing is more certain than that the dancing girls of oriental countries themselves feel nothing of what they have the skill to simulate, and the ballet dancer of our own stage is icily unconcerned while kicking together the smouldering embers in the heart of the wigged and corseted old beau below her, and playing the duse's delight with the disobedient imagination of the he Prude ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 - Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales • Ambrose Bierce
... from Damietta, from 1250 to 1254, he expended, in small works of piety, sympathy, protection, and care for the future of the Christian populations in Asia, his time, his strength, his pecuniary resources, and the ardor of a soul which could not remain icily abandoned to ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume II. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... Mr. Graham," said the Prince icily, "and I should not judge you to be a wise one. It is not likely that you will ever be as prudent as you are daring, and I foresee a troubled career, whether it be ...
— Graham of Claverhouse • Ian Maclaren
... higher came the water, icily cold and numbing. The wave that passed was succeeded by another, but that only reached to our waists, and when this had gone by there was the old slow rising of the flood as before till it was as high as our knees. Then by degrees it crept on ...
— Bunyip Land - A Story of Adventure in New Guinea • George Manville Fenn
... icily. "However, I've traveled so much I daresay many incidents slip my mind. Well, Gladys, let's go in and get good seats. I want to hear Mrs. Eustice; they say she is a direct ...
— Betty Gordon at Boarding School - The Treasure of Indian Chasm • Alice Emerson
... it myself, thank you," she replied icily. "If you will take ten shillings on account now, I will pay you the balance after Christmas. Will you let it ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil |
