"Reassuringly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all right, Mrs. Dyke," he said, reassuringly. "We know where he is, I believe. You and the little tad stay here, and Hooven and I will go ...
— The Octopus • Frank Norris
... boots and belts of leather, and they wore caps of cloth with back and ear flaps. They followed one another in single file, walking slowly and yawning as they walked, like men who have been up all night. There was something so reassuringly prosperous and respectable in their bearing that after a moment's hesitation Nunez stood forward as conspicuously as possible upon his rock, and gave vent to a mighty shout that ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells
... Madison reassuringly. "Maybe you are blessed above most people—you can pick one out for yourself. ...
— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard
... the dying man articulated slowly at intervals. "Wait a little." He was silent. "Right!" he pronounced all at once reassuringly, as though all were solved for him. "O Lord!" he murmured, and ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... so far as it looks from here," said my companion reassuringly, "but we 've got no time to spare either," and she hurried on, leading the way with a fine sort of spirit in her step; and presently we struck into the old Indian footpath, which could be plainly seen across the long-unploughed turf of the pastures, ...
— The Queen's Twin and Other Stories • Sarah Orne Jewett
... a ruined village, they had come across a green felt hat and a fearsome moustache, which turned out reassuringly to belong to a rocking, tottering old man; and the Tommies—who are a primitive and adventurous race—were glad of the protection of this wild old totem of the ...
— General Bramble • Andre Maurois
... watching us with all his solitary eye, as though he knew that we were discussing him. Suddenly he broke out in agonized accents, his hands clasped, and a face so full of fear that every moment I expected to see him on his knees. But Raffles answered kindly, reassuringly, I could tell from his tone, and then turned to me ...
— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung
... about her," said Miss Dolly reassuringly. "It's the money, you know. He hadn't a farthing of his own. Now he'll be set up ...
— Dolly Dialogues • Anthony Hope
... your sitting-room just before luncheon time, my dearest," he whispered back reassuringly. "Do not distress ...
— The Reason Why • Elinor Glyn
... Pratt reassuringly. "I know these folks—I've lived here several years. And nobody could hear however much they put their ears to the keyhole. Good thick old walls, these, Mrs. Mallathorpe, and a solid door. We're as safe here as we were in your study ...
— The Talleyrand Maxim • J. S. Fletcher
... reassuringly. "Fool's errand, Herr Hauptmann?" he responded in German. "Is there anything more precious to our cause than to learn just now where this next blow is to be struck? For the past ten days all of ...
— Aces Up • Covington Clarke
... Smith reassuringly. "I've looked into that. Have no pity for them. They are amateurs—degraded creatures of substance who take the cocktails out of the mouths of deserving professionals. B. Henderson Asher, for instance, ...
— The Prince and Betty - (American edition) • P. G. Wodehouse
... she certainly did not think that," said Miss Charlotte reassuringly. "I know my friend well enough to know that she would never have made the offer ...
— The Carroll Girls • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... Terry, laughing reassuringly, but far from joyous within, I knew. "But it's nothing alarming. A little side-slip, ...
— My Friend the Chauffeur • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... medical corps came to the door and looked out. He smiled reassuringly at Martin Howe. "He's not violent any more. And ...
— One Man's Initiation—1917 • John Dos Passos
... Mr. Berrington," he interrupted reassuringly, "I know everything, and more than you know, but I rather feared that you might see through this disguise. I have been loafing about Paddington station for nearly an hour. The lady I expected to see arrived just after seven, and took ...
— The Four Faces - A Mystery • William le Queux
... shrink away, saying, "Oh I can't!" when she remembered that Tom once called her a coward. Here was a chance to prove that she was n't; besides, poor Tom had no one else to help him; so she came up to the sofa where he lay, and nodded reassuringly, as she put a soft little hand on either ...
— An Old-fashioned Girl • Louisa May Alcott
... addressed her mistress with a tone of anxiety in her voice, Mrs. Brewster turned her head and smiled reassuringly as she replied: ...
— Polly and Eleanor • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... and rubbed in, as craftily as she could, the grime streaks on her face and hands. It was neither artistic nor perfect, but in the meager, flickering light now the face of Gypsy Nan seemed to stare reassuringly back at her. It might not deceive any one in daylight—she did not know, and it did not matter now—but with only this candle to light the garret, since the lamp was empty, she could fairly count on her ...
— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard
... dear; I am not offended," said Katherine, smiling reassuringly. "Of course, you understand that, to me, our service is very beautiful and sacred. I would dearly love to have you go with me in a proper way; but if you do not like to ask permission you can wait until vacation, when you will not be hampered by ...
— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... you feel up to giving wishes to-day, because we very much want an extra besides the regular one? The extra's a very little one,' he added reassuringly. ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... but another twenty," Hobotov said reassuringly. "It's all right, all right, colleague; don't lose heart. . . . Don't ...
— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... "They will make no attempt on your life, Mr. Edestone," he added reassuringly, "except as a last resort; but they are determined to have your secret. They prefer to get it with your co-operation and assent. If not, they want it anyhow. Finally, they stand ready to accomplish its destruction and your own rather than ...
— L. P. M. - The End of the Great War • J. Stewart Barney
... "any time. If you come in about four, I'll give you a cup of tea into the bargain. Though you don't deserve it!" After an instant, she added reassuringly: "Of course I know business is business with you. But I'm glad I've told you the real truth about your precious Mr Herbert Calvert, ...
— The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns • Arnold Bennett
... she accepted trustfully. He was a strange old man, but she liked him. When she withdrew her hand, something cold and hard remained in her palm. Wonders of all the world! It was a piece of gold. Her eyes went up quickly, but the giver smiled reassuringly and put a ...
— The Goose Girl • Harold MacGrath
... at her reassuringly. "Something they didn't find! Something," he added, after a slight pause, "which ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... so heavily powdered that their complexions were almost blue. All the men explained to them at once. The younger answered gayly; the older listened with entire placidity. But when the account was finished, she reached out to pat Nan's hand, and to smile reassuringly. ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White
... Martha, you can believe me," Cornelli replied reassuringly. "I should just love to come right away, if I did not live here already. But now I shall write, for I know exactly what I shall say." Cornelli, running down stairs, dipped her pen into the ink and began ...
— Cornelli • Johanna Spyri
... confided Chris in a low tone; "but he's strong, strong as anything! I guess there couldn't much hurt him, could there?" he smiled reassuringly. ...
— Polly of Lady Gay Cottage • Emma C. Dowd
... allowed in the streets, under penalty of twenty-five rubles for each offense. The drainage system is flushed from the river every night; and from the ventilation towers, which are placed at short intervals, the blue smoke of purifying fires curls reassuringly. Great care is necessary in this department, and the sanitary conditions, though as good as possible, are never very secure. The whole low sandspit is often submerged during the spring floods, and the retreating waters ...
— Russian Rambles • Isabel F. Hapgood
... stage," said Nevill reassuringly, Miss Ray having already broken this hard fact to the Scotch ...
— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... all to my discretion," said Van Berg, reassuringly; "and, by the way, you might limp a little more decidedly," which ...
— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe
... shaven except for a short-pointed beard, and his greyish hair was very closely-cropped. His eyes she could not see, for they were bent on the pages before him, but presently raising them his glance fell on her, and he smiled reassuringly. Susan had never been used to smile at strangers; so, though she did not remove her gaze, it continued to be a very serious ...
— Susan - A Story for Children • Amy Walton
... laughter followed. In the midst of his rage and mortification Mr. Clinch fancied he saw a shade of pain and annoyance flit across the face of the maiden. He was puzzled, but pressed her hand, in spite of his late experiences, reassuringly. She made a gesture of silence to him, and then slipped away in ...
— The Twins of Table Mountain and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... back, dear," responded Tucker reassuringly; "but I think you need a change if a woman ever did. What about that week you're to spend ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... Congo, as he wrapped the robe about his master's knees. "Did you ever heah tell er sech doin's!" then, as he mounted the box, he leaned down and called out reassuringly, "Don' you min', Ole Marster, we'll des loose de dawgs on 'em, dat's w'at we'll do," and they rolled off indignantly, leaving the Governor half angry and half ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... reflections, she had been considering Ward Latisan merely as her stricken grandfather's staff of hope, an aid so essential that the Comas had determined to eliminate him. She surveyed him as he stood there in his own and fitting milieu and found him reassuringly stalwart ...
— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day
... to him reassuringly, and presently she knew that he bore her upstairs, holding her ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... my dear," answered the major, reassuringly. "It is only a token of some jollification among our Indian friends: a war dance, or a scalp dance, or the advent among them of a new lot of wretched captives, or something of that kind. I remember Truman mentioning, more than ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... not suppose that you have done him very serious injury," said the doctor, reassuringly; "but you ought to take warning by this. You will promise now, won't you, that there shall be no ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... Swan said reassuringly. "They don't hurt you. The fence is between, and they don't ...
— The Quirt • B.M. Bower
... go first then, Marinthy," said old Mr. Beebe, dryly, "with him, an' Phronsie an' I'll foller on. Now then, my dear." He set her on the floor, and bent his old white head down to smile into her face reassuringly, while her trembling ...
— The Adventures of Joel Pepper • Margaret Sidney
... he said, reassuringly. "I'm just waiting for a friend. It's an appointment made twenty years ago. Sounds a little funny to you, doesn't it? Well, I'll explain if you'd like to make certain it's all straight. About that long ago there used to be a restaurant where ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry
... difficulty of knowing what to say and how to say it had increased. A new and scaring thought occurred to him. Suppose she wanted her liberty to marry this fellow! Well, if she did, she couldn't have it. He had not married her for that. The image of Prosper Profond dawdled before him reassuringly. Not a marrying man! No, no! Anger replaced that momentary scare. 'He had better not come my way,' he thought. The mongrel represented—-! But what did Prosper Profond represent? Nothing that mattered surely. And yet something real enough in the world—unmorality let ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... Sis Tempy," said Uncle Remus, reassuringly, "en ef dat aint do no good den you kin whirl in ...
— Nights With Uncle Remus - Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation • Joel Chandler Harris
... well!" Mrs. May smiled reassuringly, for the poor little thing was certainly terrified and ill at ease as well as tired. Angela sprang to the conclusion that the young woman was in money difficulties, and having remembered the loan of the sitting-room at Santa Barbara had somehow found her way to Tahoe in the hope of getting help. ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... and tactful hostess. But in her heart, the fear had grown a little stronger, and a specter walked by her side. Once during the evening, her husband looked at her questioningly, and she breathed a few words to him. He laughed reassuringly. ...
— The Malefactor • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... it isn't dangerous," he said reassuringly. "I've removed its charge and put in a percussion cap. Let me show you, on a small scale, how it works," he added, winding up the battleship and placing it ...
— The Romance of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve
... solicitude that usually ended in a joke. He was a tall fresh-coloured youth, with a candid circular countenance and a love of cigarettes, horses and boats which had not been sacrificed to more strenuous studies. He was reassuringly natural, in a supercivilised age, and I soon made up my mind that the formula of his character was in the clearing of the inward scene by his so preordained lack of imagination. If he was serene this was still further simplifying. After that I had time to meditate on the line that divides ...
— Louisa Pallant • Henry James
... course not," stammered Genevieve. The rest of the Happy Hexagons looked suddenly heartbroken. But the minister smiled reassuringly. ...
— The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch • Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
... simply doesn't know!" said the King; of that he was quite certain. "We are sure to hear from her in the course of the day," he continued reassuringly, "meanwhile we ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... shuck up, little one," he whispered reassuringly to Ardea. "There ain't nothin' goin' to happen, worse than has happened, I ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde
... destroyed the serenity required for good work; but Eric was not dissatisfied with the progress of his play. Ease and command had grown reassuringly; his psychology was surer, perhaps because his own psychological experience had been so much enriched; and his dialogue, losing nothing of its neatness and economy, had taken on an added verisimilitude. It was ...
— The Education of Eric Lane • Stephen McKenna
... what could she say, supposing Clara asked about the morning's expedition? At this thought all her spring deserted her, and she went slowly up the stair. Perhaps Clara had forgotten about it, and then it recurred reassuringly to her mind how seldom Clara touched anywhere near the subject of ...
— The Coast of Chance • Esther Chamberlain
... wore a puzzled look, but it was wholly free from resentment. He answered her immediately and reassuringly. ...
— The Way of an Eagle • Ethel M. Dell
... has actually been abusing you, Harry." He pressed her arm reassuringly. Wolfram Eschenbach began to sing "Blick' ich umher in diesem edlen Kreise," and once more silence fell upon the bored crowd. Sympathy was in his tones and he sang tenderly, lovingly. Elizabeth listened unmoved. She now had eyes for Tannhaeuser only, and she ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... an American, Miss Falconer? You were born in the States? You are going to Italy—and then home again?" The questions came in a reassuringly mechanical fashion; the man was ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti
... The young man smiled reassuringly. He had begun to speak and, though apparently engaged with the beer-glass he was polishing, ...
— Somewhere in France • Richard Harding Davis
... cried the young inventor reassuringly. "No one is hurt, Mrs. Baggert!" Then he flashed his light on the spot where the burglar had crouched. As the smoke rolled away Tom peered in vain for ...
— Tom Swift and his Motor-cycle • Victor Appleton
... said my aunt, ignoring my pertinent question, but glancing at me reassuringly "there is another reason why it would be well for you to come on this cruise with us." She sank her voice. "You met Miss Gascoigne ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke
... condition of Hawke's superiors; to say the least, anxiety strained to the point of approaching panic. But Hawke could have adopted truly as his own Farragut's other words, "I have full confidence in myself and in my judgment,"—that is, of course, in professional matters; and he spoke reassuringly out of the firmness of his self-reliance. "Their Lordships will pardon me for observing that from the present disposition of the squadron I think there is little room for alarm while the weather continues ...
— Types of Naval Officers - Drawn from the History of the British Navy • A. T. Mahan
... that be so, it's all right!" rejoined lady Feng reassuringly; "on our return we'll speak to her venerable ladyship and ask her to send some one to arrange matters in the family school, and invite Ch'in Chung to come ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... one following us," said Tom's companion reassuringly. "If we can just get some old clothes and some ...
— Tom Slade with the Boys Over There • Percy K. Fitzhugh
... the general's wife reassuringly. Rita had hardly strength to nod assent. All the same, the healthy snoring of a living man comforted her. Without moving from where she stood, the maid tremblingly drew her woolen shawl closer about her, trying to see the sofa on which the ...
— The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations • Julian Hawthorne
... in starched and creaking garments which had been made for a slightly smaller child, Ardelia was transported to the station, and for the first time introduced to a railroad car. She sat stiffly on the red plush seat while the young lady talked reassuringly of daisies and cows and green grass. As Ardelia had never seen any of these things, it is hardly surprising that she ...
— The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 - December, 1906. • Various
... leading another horse, with couple of large saddle-bags, pick, and short-handled shovel, on its back. He points to these and mounts his horse. Jess smiles gratefully, then looks grave again. He reaches down and just touches her reassuringly on the shoulder. Then he rides quickly away, leading the second horse, while Jess watches him for a moment, and ...
— Writing the Photoplay • J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds
... said reassuringly. "I shall keep my eyes well open. Here, in London, one's life is safer than anywhere else in the world, perhaps—certainly safer than in some places I could name in your own country, eh?" at ...
— The Czar's Spy - The Mystery of a Silent Love • William Le Queux
... these foolish notions," said Ralph reassuringly. "We made a successful run, and as to the enemies, they generally get the worst of it. Men in ...
— Ralph on the Overland Express - The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer • Allen Chapman
... admiration for her character, respect for her numerous good qualities, he would certainly not be so wanting in control as to let a passing inclination sway him to a momentous decision. He recounted those good qualities to himself reassuringly. Her innocence, her gentleness, her apparent willingness to be led by any one stronger than herself. Mr. Arthur dwelt long on that. That was a distinctly promising characteristic. He would consider that essential in any woman whom he thought to make his wife. Then ...
— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston
... they were most anxious for her well-being. The island housewife produced another dish, smiled reassuringly, and said, "Manioc—bom," repeating the phrase several times. The compound looked appetizing, and Iris ate a little. She discovered at once that it was tapioca, but her new acquaintance suggested "cassava" as an alternative. The girl, however, nodded cheerfully. She had heard the ...
— The Stowaway Girl • Louis Tracy
... these virtues shone out of our young man less engagingly or reassuringly than a few days before; the shadow at any rate fell darker across the brow of his critic, who turned away and frowned while lighting a cigar. The person in the coupe, he accordingly judged, whether or no the same person as the heroine of the episode of the Bois de Boulogne, was not a source ...
— Madame de Mauves • Henry James
... he said, reassuringly, to his betrothed. "It is only this. News reached Columbus to-day that Baywater's gang is near Villula, and as usual their progress is marked by bloodshed and outrage. The feature that concerns me most is that if I am detailed ...
— Idle Hour Stories • Eugenia Dunlap Potts
... Irene looked first at young Polson Jervase with a glance of fear and inquiry, and the young fellow responded to it only by a curt nod of the head, as much as to say 'Go! 'She looked into her father's face as she passed through the doorway, and the old man smiled down on her reassuringly. ...
— VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea • David Christie Murray
... Spurge reassuringly. "They can't get out o' Scarvell's Cut into the river till the tide serves. Yes, that's Cap'n Andrius right enough—and ...
— Scarhaven Keep • J. S. Fletcher
... condition and meek complaint went to my heart, notwithstanding my growing dread of any conversation between us on this all-absorbing but equally peace-destroying topic. Reassuringly pressing her hand, I was startled to find a small piece of ...
— The House of the Whispering Pines • Anna Katharine Green
... spoke reassuringly. "My friend, we want only the courtesy of space to which the law entitles us. We have had an unfortunate accident to our astrogation instruments, and we wish to come aboard ...
— Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet • Blake Savage
... unanimously appointed him chairman. It was passingly suggested that his lordship's growing evil reputation might prejudice the concern in the eyes of the public; but the promoter, who knew the public well, reassuringly explained that investors were so hopelessly idiotic that a board composed entirely of burglars would not prevent their investing so long as the prospectus contained sufficiently impossible promises of profit; so the ghost of Lord Pimblekin officiated as chairman ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... certain social conditions and certain social considerations and individual truths may be illustrated thereby. Consequently, I shall not pause, though I ask the reader to do so, in order to point a moral in any extended way. In return for the readers' courtesy and tolerance, I will here reassuringly assert that there will be found in these pages no detailed description of Marie's life during her few months of prostitution; and nothing whatever, from cover to cover, of anything that in my judgment is ...
— An Anarchist Woman • Hutchins Hapgood
... truth was she had determined not to tell him until she more certainly knew its extent. She shook her head; reassuringly smiled. ...
— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
... "Nothing," and Courthorne smiled reassuringly. "Why should I do anything? After all, I owe you a little reparation. Silence is easy and in our case, I think, advisable. Presumably you are as fond of the worthy Potter as you were of me, and there is no doubt that he is considerably more ...
— Winston of the Prairie • Harold Bindloss
... much bowing and scraping leads the way back to the ferry. My explanation that I am bound in the other direction elicits sundry additional bobbings of the head and soothing utterances and smiles, but he points reassuringly to the ferry. Arriving at the river, the little officer is dumbfounded to discover that I have no sampan—that I am not travelling by boat, but overland on the bicycle. Such a possibility had never entered his head; nor is it wonderful that it should not, considering the likelihood ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens
... it to be hard for you to tell me anything, Amarilly," he said reassuringly. "Suppose you show me that you trust me by ...
— Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley • Belle K. Maniates
... look up the record of James Higgins, who was applying for enlistment in the Mechanical Department of the Motor Corps? There was some delay—Mr. Harrod was talking—while Jimmie sat, decidedly nervous; but it was all right apparently—the sergeant hung up the receiver, and remarked reassuringly, "He says you're just a dub. He told me to congratulate you on having ...
— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair |
