"Crossly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you are right?" demanded the First Assistant, crossly. Her feet were stinging. "'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.'" This was a favorite quotation of hers, although not Browning. "Nurses in hospitals are there to carry out the doctor's ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Rita, crossly. "You and I are business women, anyway, and eleven is too late for week days. I'll wait until I ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers
... confessing your sins," said Doctor Sloane crossly. "You're coming out of the woods all right, and you'll be sorry if you tell her too, much. I'll begin a little flirtation with you, Miss Laura, if you please." And he motioned to her to ...
— The Flirt • Booth Tarkington
... crossly. "This is simple police work, which I have done a thousand times. I could do ...
— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone
... Bella said, half sadly, half crossly, "what good it does people to go away. There is Maurice, who seems to have everything he can wish for, and yet, according to Mr. Leigh, he is perfectly restless and miserable, and wants to ...
— A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 - A Novel • Mrs. Harry Coghill
... going to play with you!" Bunny said, trying to speak crossly, but finding it hard work, for he loved Splash. "You've got to go on back home! Next time we'll take you with us, but now we're going to the farm, and there's a bad dog there that'll bite you. You've ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony • Laura Lee Hope
... think themselves much too grand for us," said Nesta crossly. "Fancy their thinking such silly things about the way we lived, just as if we weren't ladies and gentlemen! Why, last night, when Brenda told me we were to go in to dessert, she said, 'You know people always dress for dinner in England,' in that snubby way of hers; and I laughed right ...
— Queensland Cousins • Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
... help you pay for that cow," said the squire, crossly. "If you can't pay for't when the time comes you ...
— Bound to Rise • Horatio Alger
... it to be?' broke in Alda crossly. 'You and Felix seem to be encouraging him to come dangling here, when we all agreed that Ferdinand must keep away in Felix's absence, though matters are ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Sam demanded crossly. Penrod's reiteration of his new-found phrase, "for the main and simple reason", had been growing more and more irksome to his friend all day, though Sam was not definitely aware that the phrase was the cause ...
— Penrod and Sam • Booth Tarkington
... great revolution; he, or rather Lord Granville, or perhaps the Princess, (who, I firmly believe, by all her quiet sense, will turn out a Caroline,) have at last got rid of Lady Archibald,(1058) who was strongly attached to the coalition. They have civilly asked her, and Crossly forced her to ask civilly to go away, which she has done, with a pension of twelve hundred a-year. Lady Middlesex,(1059) is mistress of the robes: she lives with them perpetually, and sits up till five ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole
... effect on my pego, which had become considerably more developed when in a state of erection. As you may suppose, with such distracting thoughts, I did not get on with my lessons. Miss Evelyn, for some reason or other, was out of humour that morning, and more than once spoke crossly to me for my evident inattention. At length she called me to her, and finding that I had scarcely done ...
— The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous
... place be hanged!" he said crossly. "I don't want any stuccoed, over-grown Dutch farm. I might as well be at Roehampton ...
— The Moon Endureth—Tales and Fancies • John Buchan
... come in!" she cried, crossly. "Oh! it is you, mother," she interrupted herself, with a ...
— A Woman of Thirty • Honore de Balzac
... minute," she shouted crossly, and let her shoulders sink once more under the comforting water. It was the first warm water she had encountered since that night when Mademoiselle had carried the jugs upstairs. Her soap, so characterless in the chilly morning basin lathered freely ...
— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson
... crossly, when he was out of hearing. "You've spoiled it all. We can never meet any more. He won't let me meet you. He'd have you poisoned if he thought we ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... cannot stay indoors always, like a rat in a drain," said Peter crossly, "so what is to be done? Appeal ...
— Fair Margaret • H. Rider Haggard
... Gunson, crossly. "Lie down, you two fellows, and go to sleep. He was dreaming, Gordon. Don't listen to his ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... crossly. No one could think of anything, only Anthea did manage to remember a private wish of her own and Jane's which they had never told the boys. She knew the boys would not care about it—but still it ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... of bringing home a child and getting a bed for it a week afterwards," said the woman crossly; "and I should like to know who will pay for it if we must build something more for her ...
— Rico And Wiseli - Rico And Stineli, And How Wiseli Was Provided For • Johanna Spyri
... and her door evidently locked, for it would not yield when Betty, anxious at getting no answer to her knocks, tried to open it. But when she called softly, "Eleanor, are you there? Can I do anything?" Eleanor answered crossly, "Please go away. I'm better, but I ...
— Betty Wales Freshman • Edith K. Dunton
... Patty spoke crossly to any one, and still more rarely that she flung out such a bitter speech as that; but she was getting tired of combating the prevalent attitude of the young people toward Mona, and though she had determined to overcome it, she began to think it meant real warfare. Dorothy ...
— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells
... threw back her head and laughed and laughed and laughed. It was a most irritating and provoking laugh. Finally Peter began to lose patience. "What are you laughing at?" he demanded crossly. "You know very well that Jumper the Hare is ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... forward in the chair she had taken, and pretended to slap his hand crossly. "Isn't that exactly what I said you couldn't think one single think about till you get ...
— Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington
... please," said Marjory, a little crossly, for her naturally good temper had been severely tried, "but nothing will ever make me believe it was not ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25. • Various
... "No," he answered crossly. He was not used to being crossed in any desire by a lady, "I want you to talk to me. Bother the Sunday-school! Give them a vacation to-day and let them go fishing. They'll be delighted, I'm sure. You have a wonderful foot. Do you know it? You must be a good dancer. Haven't ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill
... fool, shut up, can't yuh, a minute?" Happy Jack, with his fingers pressed against the windpipe of the other, had the satisfaction of seeing his request granted at once. The shrieks died to mere gurgling. "What I want uh you," Happy went on crossly, "ain't your lifeblood, yuh dam' Swede idiot. I want some clothes, and some grub; and I want to borry that pinto I seen picketed out in the hollow, down there. Now, will yuh let up that yelling and act white, or must I pound some ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... the fearless Tarasconais waits a little longer, walking up and down in front of the door before entering. In the end, tired of waiting for "them" and certain that they will not show themselves, he throws a last look of defiance into the dark and mutters crossly "Nothing... nothing... always nothing" With that our hero goes in to play bezique ...
— Tartarin de Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet
... I, crossly, making a spiteful lunge, as I speak, at a startle-de-buz, which has lumbered booming into my face. "Who on ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... and thunder, the shooting, the railway train, the murder, the bomb, the hero, the funny man—jumbling everything up in her excitement, repeating little scraps of dialogue—all wrong—gesticulating, getting excited and red in the face at the recollection. Liza listened rather crossly, feeling bored at the detail into which Sally was going: the piece really didn't ...
— Liza of Lambeth • W. Somerset Maugham
... or other, that there may be somebody always to pray for you, that the giver of all good things may grant unto you a blessed, long, and prosperous life; fearing, if fortune should deal crossly with you, that it might be his chance to come short of being paid by you, he will always speak good of you in every company, ever and anon purchase new creditors unto you; to the end, that through their means you may make a shift by borrowing from Peter ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... he asked crossly; and when he had heard the story he seized Dan and shook him till his ...
— Twilight Stories • Various
... the world into a splendid joy, and was approved under investigation with "quite all right"—short of that glorious competence and pride of life, one might surely be an average man, who could walk from San Pietro to Florence without tumbling on the road at dawn. Peter sighed over it, rather crossly. The marvellous morning was insulted by his collapse; it became a remote thing, in which he might have no share. As always, the inexorable "Not for you" rose like a barred gate between him and the lucid country the ...
— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay
... "Yes, stupid," said Elsie, crossly; "I always said mother favoured Robbie, and so she does. Why he has new things much oftener than you, and you're older too. Do you and me have boots and stockings for week-a-days? then why should Robbie? Don't you wonder why mother ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... no idea of our going away together," said Madame Wolsky, rather crossly. "I only wish there were! You are going on to Switzerland to join your friends, and as for me, in spite of Madame Cagliostra's mysterious predictions, I shall, of course, go to some place—I think it will be Dieppe ...
— The Chink in the Armour • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... tchcked with her tongue against her rather prominent teeth at the lamentable lapse in grammar, and looked crossly at Leonie, who immediately lifted up the ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest
... on then," said Katherine crossly. Then she added, "I suppose it was kind of foolish to expect a big boat like that to stop and pick up a bunch of folks that didn't know any better than to climb into an old lighthouse and let their boats ...
— The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle - The Trail of the Seven Cedars • Hildegard G. Frey
... frightening the birds. So far all was well, and all was well too whilst Reuben was saying his lessons; but when Marten wanted to study his Latin exercise, the child was so restless and troublesome, that it was only by speaking very decidedly to him—indeed almost crossly—that Marten could get ...
— Brotherly Love - Shewing That As Merely Human It May Not Always Be Depended Upon • Mrs. Sherwood
... feller?" inquired Tubbs crossly. Though he now recollected the circumstances under which they were found, Ralston's presence robbed the situation of any seriousness for him. It did not occur to Tubbs that any one who knew him could ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart
... world could you know that?" she said almost crossly. She did love to carry out her projects, and hitherto Julia Cloud had put no hindrance ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... went out crossly, stopping in the hall a moment before passing beyond hearing. And, after lunch, Penrod sought in vain for his accordion; he even searched the library where his father sat reading, though, upon inquiry, Penrod explained that he was looking for a misplaced schoolbook. ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington
... When asked why she had not spoken the day before, she said that "Jesus Christ in Heaven" had told her she should not tell anything, "till all of you had gone, then I could go home with him, because that is the way we came in and it was Jim too all the time." Finally she said crossly, "Go away now, you are all trying to keep me ...
— Benign Stupors - A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type • August Hoch
... go pretty often to Ivan Semyonitch's. Sometimes, when he was out of humour, the retired lieutenant did not make me sit down to cards; on such occasions, he would shrink into a corner in silence, scowling and looking crossly at every one. The first time I was delighted at his letting me off so easily; but afterwards I would sometimes begin myself begging him to sit down to whist, the part of third person was so insupportable! I was so unpleasantly ...
— The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... making plans, and so did Vallie, who was very quick and bright about everything, while Nan was rather a sleepy little girl, though exceedingly good-natured. I don't think I ever knew her speak crossly. ...
— My New Home • Mary Louisa Molesworth
... the admiralty boards, and the strange medley, which soon became more mixed and various, has been thus described by Burke:—"He [Lord Chatham] made an administration so chequered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers; king's ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... And straightway the women, Who nearer and nearer Have drawn to the table, Begin most devoutly To cross themselves too. And one begins sobbing In just such a manner 260 As had the old servant. ("That's right, now, start whining, Old Widow Terentevna, Sill-y old noodle!" Says Vlasuchka, crossly.) ...
— Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia? • Nicholas Nekrassov
... running, his handkerchief round the inside of his collar. "To see him! I have come to see the Herr Baron von Steinlach," he retorted, crossly. "And what news are you talking about now?" He continued to pant and wipe while the porter read from his copy of the Bund, the German official communique of the previous day's fighting on ...
— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon
... up," said Tom crossly, running over to him. "John will maybe get over here, we've made so much noise. Hurry up, Joe, we must all ...
— Five Little Peppers at School • Margaret Sidney
... old woman crossly; "it seems as if I were never to have an hour's quiet, just as all that roaring, greedy lot, with their Mother Morena here and Mother Morena there, and their grumbling at the olla, and their curses and their quarrels, are off, and I think I ...
— The Young Buglers • G.A. Henty
... at the fire. Allister was too much occupied with his book to take any heed of me. All at once I felt a pair of little arms about my neck, and Davie was trying to climb upon my knees. Instead of being comforted, however, I spoke very crossly, and sent him back to his bed whimpering. You see I was only miserable; I was not repentant. I was eating the husks with the swine, and did not relish them; but I had not said, "I will arise and go to ...
— Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood • George MacDonald
... not utter a word for several minutes. He was too angry. But the Queen said, "My dear child, don't interfere," quite crossly, ...
— The Book of Dragons • Edith Nesbit
... sharply. "What have you been doing now—tearing your clothes on a barbed-wire fence or trying to crawl through a bull-briar thicket? I should think you were big enough by this time to look out for yourself!" said Granny Fox crossly, as she came over to ...
— The Adventures of Reddy Fox • Thornton W. Burgess
... she replied, pettishly, crossly, "only two. A separate compartment for myself and maid; the child can come ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths
... Marker?" Holm asked crossly. "He once said the same thing to me." His temper had suffered badly among ...
— The Half-Hearted • John Buchan
... "Well," said Isabelle crossly. "I, for one, don't believe in allowing servants to have such cast-iron rules. It ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... her eyes and, seeing Jeanne, she rose to her feet suddenly. They stood face to face, so close that they touched one another. The stranger said crossly: "What! are you up? You will be ill, getting up at this time of night. ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... busy night. Marie was called upon to pack a few things for a hurried journey. The telephone rang, and the sleepy night-operator answered crossly. But Elizabeth found out all she wanted to know about the early Chicago trains, and then ...
— The Girl from Montana • Grace Livingston Hill
... more annoyed than anything else," said Jim crossly to Elsie, when the final arrangements were being ...
— A Child of the Glens - or, Elsie's Fortune • Edward Newenham Hoare
... him crossly, then sloshed across the swamp toward Black Eyes. The creature waited on its stump until she came quite close, and then, with a playful little bound, it hopped onto her shoulder, still squatting on its haunches. ...
— Black Eyes and the Daily Grind • Milton Lesser
... family. She was not so shy as her mother; on the contrary, she arranged herself in a most becoming attitude against the front of the verandah. Every now and then the mother showed her teeth and spoke crossly to the baby, and once when it cried she whipped it with a bit of palm-leaf until it came to a better mind—which it did promptly. After a time, a Chinaman called and had a talk with the lady of ...
— A Visit to Java - With an Account of the Founding of Singapore • W. Basil Worsfold
... that medical men are in any particular danger?" asked Sophia, bashfully, but with great anxiety. "I think they must be, going among so many people who are ill. If there is a whole family in the fever in a cottage at Crossly End, as Mrs Howell says there is, how very dangerous it must ...
— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau
... and then came the slower work of landing her imports. She bustled about, like a hen over her brood, and wasn't always talking, but put in her word every now and then, never crossly, ...
— A Simpleton • Charles Reade
... He heard the story of the tragedy from the surly inn-keeper, who crossly maintained that his business had been ruined. Booth was vaguely impressed, he knew not why, by Burton's description of the missing woman. "I'd say she was about the size of Mrs. Wrandall herself, and much the same figger," he said, as he had said ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon
... Ann Betty, vexed at once at having been frightened for nothing, shook him none too gently. "Here, Lutey, get up to once, do you hear!" she cried crossly. "Why ever didn't 'ee come in to supper,—such a beautiful bit of roast as I'd got, too! Where've 'ee been? What 'ave 'ee been doing? What 'ave 'ee been sleeping ...
— Cornwall's Wonderland • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... crossly to Mrs Nixon. "A pot of that gooseberry, please. A small one will do. She knows it's short of sugar, and so she's determined to try it, just out of spite; and nothing will ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... on his back and smiled crossly; but the kegs and the bags were smashed to bits. I like mules, but I wanted to kill that one. It was quiet down there in the canyon—quiet and hot. I looked at Whitney and he looked at me, and I had the sudden, unpleasant ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... the man, and to force him to move; but the man sat as a dead weight, and only mumbled crossly, and ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin
... the pile of songs in the music cabinet as neatly as though it were an accustomed duty. Malcolm gave him an impatient glance. "One would think he belonged to the house," he said to himself rather crossly. ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... questions!" said Birdie crossly, as she sat before her dressing-table, wearily washing off the make-up of the afternoon in order to put on the make-up of the evening. "I'm so dog tired I'd lots rather be going to bed than to ...
— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice
... here in better time for the twelve train," he said crossly. "I'm not a-going to do this sort o' work for you nor no chap, if you can't be here ...
— Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth
... entering, bringing with her a telegram from the Princess of Wied in which she asked for something—I cannot now remember what—for Albania. The King refused, but the Queen insisted, until he at last told her very crossly to leave him in peace, as he had other things to ...
— In the World War • Count Ottokar Czernin
... crossly, "you have kept me waiting already more time than I care to lose. How much longer before you will tell me what I ...
— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle
... crossly what she wanted, and Costanza's head went on one side with delight at the sheer music of her voice. She said, after waiting a moment in case the music was going to continue, for she didn't wish to miss any of it, that she wanted orders; she had ...
— The Enchanted April • Elizabeth von Arnim
... said; 'it looks as if you were getting quite like yourself again. We shan't want the doctor any more to-day.' She made no answer to this, except an impatient sign with her hand. I didn't understand the sign. Upon that she spoke again, and crossly enough, too—'I want ...
— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins
... laugh delightedly. He kicked his legs and showed all his little white teeth. Angel opened his eyes and stared at us crossly. "What a beastly row," he said. "I ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche
... about, anyway?' demanded Ogden crossly. 'Can't a fellow have a bit of grub in peace? ...
— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse
... George cut in crossly, "if you think I'm too much trouble, you can just drop me down in the snow anywhere and I'll take ...
— Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds • Archibald Lee Fletcher
... to see," I objected, crossly, for I felt I could not solemnly and adequately thank the young man before my listening relatives, for popping out of the sea in his microscopic costume, and coming to the rescue of me in mine. I had squeaked and curled up my toes, and been ...
— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson
... and secret as they know how to be," answered Belle crossly. "Boys are nothing but rough, rude miseries; and the next time Tony Luttrell tells me to 'bubble along' as he did Mamie Sue and me, when Mamie Sue only wanted to stop him to give him a piece of fudge, I am going to tell him what ...
— Phyllis • Maria Thompson Daviess
... physical bruise. Harold was evidently feeling it too, for after repeating "She's going to-day!" in a tone more befitting the Litany, he looked hard in my face for direction as to how the situation was to be taken. But I crossly bade him look sharp and say his prayers and not bother me. What could this gloom portend, that on a day of days like the present seemed to ...
— The Golden Age • Kenneth Grahame
... metal dealer for past services and future feasting. It was with some displeasure therefore that O'Taki had her offices interrupted to respond to a loud and harsh—"Request to make!" sounded at the house entrance. Said she crossly—"Who is it?... Ah! O'Take and O'Haru San of Toemon Sama." Then in wonder—"Oya! Oya! O'Take San.... Your honoured face.... Has O'Take San gone to bed in the dark with the cat?" Answered O'Take, in no amiable mood—"It could well have ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... taking the trouble to come here without any breakfast goes for nothing," said the Doctor, a little crossly. He liked his own way, and he liked to help people, and this girl was balking him in ...
— Flint - His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes • Maud Wilder Goodwin
... Rain's school was out, and the jolly little raindrops coaxed her to play with them, she would say crossly, "You am too rough, let me alone!" and they would go and play with the happy little sisters as the sunbeams had done; for everybody loved the two good little lily sisters, who were sorry to see how naughty ...
— Buttercup Gold and Other Stories • Ellen Robena Field
... Miss Picolet is awake she'll smell the brew and will be up here instanter," declared the Fox, crossly, as Belle insisted in having her share of the drinkables as ...
— Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall - or Solving the Campus Mystery • Alice B. Emerson
... was no longer is," answered the other, crossly; then to me, "Send down my goods by some of those black fellows, and no more ...
— The Heart's Highway - A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeeth Century • Mary E. Wilkins
... Desnoyers protested crossly. Go away? . . . Paris had become a shrunken place for them nowadays because Marguerite refused to go to a single place where there was a possibility of their being surprised. In another square, in a restaurant, wherever they might go—they would ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... this is provoking perseverance!' cried Paula, laughing half crossly. 'I expected that after expressing my decision so plainly the first time I should not have been further urged upon the subject.' Saying which she turned and ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... that evenness of temper which the President of the Royal Academy so abundantly possessed. He was easily angered, but as soon appeased, and says his biographer,[67] "If he was the first to offend, he was the first to atone. Whenever he spoke crossly to his wife, a remarkably sweet-tempered woman, he would write a note of repentance, sign it with the name of his favourite dog 'Fox,' and address it to his Margaret's pet spaniel, 'Tristram.' Fox would take the note in ...
— Heads and Tales • Various
... about old Mr. and Mrs. Davidson of Markdale," said the Story Girl. "She was always smiling and it used to aggravate her husband, so one day he said very crossly, 'Old lady, what ARE you grinning at?' 'Oh, well, Abiram, everything's so bright and pleasant, I've just got ...
— The Golden Road • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... said the Major crossly. "I can't stand these martyrs. If she leads a dog's life it's her own fault. She's a fool to put up ...
— The Knave of Diamonds • Ethel May Dell
... you?' snapped Slivers, crossly, after waiting a reasonable time for an answer and ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume
... and nervous, too. Since they had been married she had found such delight in preparing Louis's meals that she was miserable in not doing it to-day. She felt that she was to blame, that she had been remiss somewhere, though she could not see where. But she answered him crossly and impatiently, and he began to fidget about the ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... crossly. "Not clear enough! But on a fine day ye can see Axe and Axe Edge.... Finest view in ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... was led, by the prevailing superstition, to believe that witches caused her malady. How keen the apprehensions were among children, we learn from a document preserved by Wodrow. An eminent Christian of his acquaintance thought in boyhood that an old woman looked crossly at him, and he went in dread of being bewitched for a whole summer. The mere terror might have caused fits, he would then have denounced the old woman, and she would probably have been burned. Charles ...
— Cock Lane and Common-Sense • Andrew Lang
... comb it, Jenny, Now, if you like, and comb it all day long; But don't get crabbed, and don't speak so crossly! ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... cupboard where the bread and cheese were kept and said crossly, "I never said that ...
— Heidi • Johanna Spyri
... for you, my dear," Mr. Bushy was saying, rather crossly I am afraid, "to urge a philosophic mind, but if you had the responsibility of the family upon you—Goodness gracious! Owls and weasels! What in ...
— Glengarry Schooldays • Ralph Connor
... mentioning," the Virginian again protested, almost crossly. "The little things looked kind o' fresh, and I just picked them." His eye now fell upon me, where I lay upon the counter. "I reckon breakfast will be getting ...
— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister
... things fer ye, and I'll let ye know I have no use fer seven dollars," returned the red-bearded man, crossly. "What are ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington
... after delivering the paper. Brown was sitting up over a tiny fire; all the others were lying down. "I could tell you something you would like to know," Cornelius mumbled crossly. Brown paid no attention. "You did not kill him," went on the other, "and what do you get for it? You might have had money from the Rajah, besides the loot of all the Bugis houses, and now you get nothing." "You had ...
— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad
... fights," said the man crossly; "but it's your business to see that the right men are put up, so that it doesn't make any difference which ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford
... not falling in love with his grandmother. I have heard of such things in my life," thought the judge crossly within himself, for the judge was growing jealous for Claudia. He had apparently forgotten ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... journey should be different from any other," said Lizzie crossly. She had not done anything that made it necessary that she should be taken ...
— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope
... Vic sat up crossly, groping for the top button of his pajama coat. His long hair was tousled in front and stood straight up at the back, and his lids were heavy yet with sleep. He looked very young and very unruly, and as though several years of grace were still left to Helen ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower
... and laid under the day of God's power, when Christ is opening his ear to discipline, and speaking to him that his heart may receive instruction, many times that poor man is as if the devil had found him, and not God. How frenzily he imagines; how crossly he thinks; how ungainly he carries it under convictions, counsels, and his present apprehension of things! I know some are more powerfully dealt withal, and more strongly bound at first by the word; but others more in an ordinary manner, ...
— The Riches of Bunyan • Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
... of them—and you weren't—you alone?" The General looked annoyed. "I didn't want to be captured," he explained crossly. "I had the despatches besides." He went on: "I slipped off my horse, keeping hold of the bridle to guide him, and swam low beside him, because they were firing from the bank. But all at once the shots ...
— The Militants - Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
... cross goddesses," I said rather crossly myself; for I saw that, after having trodden my romance in the dust, she was willing I should pick it up again and shake it off, and I wished to show her that I was not ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... went through streets of wooden houses, all grimed, and adding their own grime from many a sooty chimney; flimsey wooden houses of a thousand flimsy whimsies in the fashioning, built on narrow lots and nudging one another crossly, shutting out the stingy sunlight from one another; bad neighbors who would destroy one another root and branch some night when the right wind blew. They were only waiting for that wind and a cigarette, and then they would all be gone together—a ...
— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington
... I don't mind," said Helen a little crossly. "It is that you and Meg are both so absurdly grave about it, when there's nothing to be ...
— Howards End • E. M. Forster
... on and stopped, and the sound of a chair pushed back was heard. It was plain the irritated pianist meant to rebuke the tiresome visitor, who had come at an untimely hour. "Papa is not in," a pale girl with crimped hair said, crossly, coming out into the ante-room, but, seeing a young man in a ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy
... said Mrs. Carroll, not crossly, but with a distracted air, pushing aside Angela's clinging, eager arms. "I've got more than enough to think of as it is. Of ...
— The Carroll Girls • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... I'm not going away," said Jack crossly, huskily, too much hurt to study his tone. "If I can't always see things as ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas
... the calf-pen would have been a more appropriate locality. "I shall go to bed, then," said he, a little crossly. "Where is the landlord? out at this time of night? no matter. I know our room. ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... said, and I daresay I spoke rather crossly, 'you're really silly. It's just as unlikely as it can be that it's mums' thing, and you'd much better put out of your head that it could be. You'll get yourself into a fidget, and then mums will think there's something new the ...
— The Girls and I - A Veracious History • Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth
... pleases you to be ridiculous," said the peer of France, crossly, "I have no means of preventing it; but I beg you to remark one thing: if people disturb physicians for mere nonsense, they often can't get them when ...
— The Deputy of Arcis • Honore de Balzac
... meat, I tell thee once more," replied the Ogre, looking crossly at his wife; "and there is something here which I ...
— The Blue Fairy Book • Various
... prolonged ringing of the front-door bell. She did not observe the young man in the most immaculate of white spring suits who came inquiringly around the house. But when the chattering of a saucy robin became annoying, she flung a cherry at him crossly. ...
— Prudence Says So • Ethel Hueston
... out of the carriage then, and Lily was readjusting the pillows and things. "Get that nice embroidered pillow I threw over the bushes," she ordered, crossly. Johnny obeyed. When she had finished putting the baby-carriage to rights she turned upon poor little Johnny Trumbull, and her face wore the expression of a queen of tragedy. "Well," said Lily Jennings, "I suppose ...
— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... got no treacle," said the old woman, crossly, whereupon there followed a sharp dialogue between the two women in their unknown tongue, and one of the small sphinxes snatched at the bread-and-bacon, and began to eat it. At this moment the tall ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... becoming unobservant," he said crossly. "This place is playing the very deuce with my mental processes! But stay: surely your hair is arranged differently? It wasn't brought over your ears like that, the first time I saw you, I know ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler
... of sight and crossly, for he was hurt, rather severely; "it's steps, and there's a ...
— The Enchanted Castle • E. Nesbit
... is all there is to it," said Migwan rather crossly. She was in a hurry to be off and get the marketing done. Betty stamped her foot, and snatching Migwan's market basket, she ran around the corner of the house with it. Migwan ran after her, and forcibly recovering the basket, ...
— The Camp Fire Girls at School • Hildegard G. Frey
... the magic of the morning vanished, it must be confessed, when the farewells could no longer be postponed, and the girls turned their faces toward Dolittle Cottage. "The worst of nice things," said Ruth crossly, "is that you miss them so when ...
— Peggy Raymond's Vacation - or Friendly Terrace Transplanted • Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith
... from which hung graceful pendants of lace and ribbons, but the sleepy child clung to her father and whimpered crossly. ...
— By the Light of the Soul - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... going to say disagreeable things about the baby, I won't listen to you," said Deena, crossly, and then, ashamed of her petulance, added: "Run along to school, dear; the sooner you get some knowledge into that little red head of yours, the sooner you can have automobiles and horses ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various
... you've got to enforce the rule against passengers riding on the platform, too, even if we are stuck in a snowdrift?" Bess said a little crossly. They had come out into the vestibule, and she ...
— Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays • Annie Roe Carr
... Yorkshire women must have!" she said almost crossly. "Mrs. Rawdon has been talking incessantly for six hours. She has felt all she said. She has frequently risen and walked about. She has used all sorts of actions to emphasize her words, and she is as fresh ...
— The Man Between • Amelia E. Barr
... not expected to talk. It was apparent indeed that the regularity with which every one met every one at this hour of the day, during months and months of the year negatived any polite necessity of cordiality or genial spirits. When any one spoke it was crossly and in considerable irritation, and although the food was consumed with great eagerness on everybody's part, the faces of the company were obviously anxious to express the fact that the food was worse than ever, and they wouldn't stand ...
— Fortitude • Hugh Walpole
... I couldn't be in half a dozen places at once," answered her cousin, rather crossly. "I've been badgered within an inch of my life by confounded women in shabby dresses and poky bonnets all day. Out of two or three bushels of chaff I only ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... farther than they had been and she looked very, very stern until Jenny Lind broke into joyous song again, when the corners of Mrs. Schuneman's mouth tilted up, slightly. "Well, well," she said again, but not quite so crossly. "So long as you behave yourself and aren't a nuisance I shan't say a word. Where I lived before my brother left me his money there were more children than a body could count. Such a noise and confusion all the ...
— Mary Rose of Mifflin • Frances R. Sterrett
... and declared that he would do no such thing. But his daughter was as obstinate as he was; and finding that he could not get his own way unless he yielded to her, he said crossly: ...
— Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit • S. M. Mitra and Nancy Bell |
