"Shan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bit," Frank laughed. "The campaign has pretty well destroyed all my kit, and I shan't be too proud to fill up from ...
— Through Russian Snows - A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow • G. A Henty
... back a pace. "I can't force you to go if it bores you, but I shan't take it back. You can throw it in the fire or even take it virtuously to the ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland
... exemplified in this section. Hercules grows more and more anxious at the turn the debate is taking, and hastens from one god to another, saying: "Don't grudge me this favour; the case concerns me closely. I shan't forget you when the time comes. One good turn deserves another" (Manus manum lavat). This is exactly the Neapolitan proverb, "One hand washes the other, and both together wash the face." "Una mano lava l'altra e tutt'e due si lavano la faccia," is more or less the modern version. In chapter ...
— Greek and Roman Ghost Stories • Lacy Collison-Morley
... said. "We can put your machine on the cab, and I'll accompany you part of the way home. Our cabman will think that you came from the house. I shan't be long, Bell." ...
— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White
... colonel as several other officers came in to assist in handling the prisoner, who was struggling violently. "It's probably the same poison, mixed with French dope, that killed Mr. Carwell. Jean had it hidden in the collar band of his shirt ready for emergencies. But you shan't cheat the chair, Jean ...
— The Golf Course Mystery • Chester K. Steele
... the moor talk! Don't you love to hear it? It's the voice I love best. I shan't like living in your house ...
— Moor Fires • E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
... Hear him. Leave me your money! What do you suppose I'm going to be doing while you're rolling up your millions? I intend to be rich myself, thank you," retorted Bob, throwing down his book. "Now for the plum-cake! You deserve about half the loaf, old man, but I shan't give it to you, for it would make you sick as a dog, and then I'd have you to take care of. Oh, I say, listen a minute! Isn't that the crowd coming from the gym? Open the window and whistle to them. Tell 'em to pile up here for a ...
— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett
... apart for battles—places that look as though Nature had condemned them for just such sacrifices. Colenso, with its bare kopjes and great stretch of veldt, is one of these, and so, also, is Spion Kop, and, in Manchuria, Nan Shan Hill. The photographs have made all of us familiar with the vast, desolate approaches to Port Arthur. These are among the waste places of the earth—barren, deserted, fit meeting grounds only for men whose object in life for the moment is to kill men. Were you shown over one ...
— Notes of a War Correspondent • Richard Harding Davis
... confess I should very much like to read that," she exclaimed, and then she added, "but I shan't be in this afternoon. I've promised to go over ...
— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
... shan't. Papa knows how I treat them, and he never blames me for it: he says it is just what HE used to do when HE was a boy. Last summer, he gave me a nest full of young sparrows, and he saw me pulling off their legs and wings, and heads, and never said anything; except that they were nasty ...
— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte
... "as soon as you go into the office, write a discharge, as bad a one, for that old vagabond, as the English language can enable you to do—for by the light of heaven, he shan't sleep another night ...
— The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine • William Carleton
... "I'll go; but I'm sure I shan't sleep a wink. It's impossible, with the sun shining so ...
— Steve Young • George Manville Fenn
... he'll soon get over it; if you chuck me, I shan't. He's never gone after the drink ...
— Gone to Earth • Mary Webb
... kiss you," he admitted with a martyr-like sigh and a further echo of her own frankness, "but I shan't. Under the circumstances it ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) • Various
... That's right. I can see I shan't have to speak to you again. Now tell me your name, and I bet you I get it right first time. And do ...
— Mr. Pim Passes By • Alan Alexander Milne
... can only say, in return, that I am NOT proud; I shan't mind you! But you speak as if you intended to be ...
— The American • Henry James
... hope we shan't, any of us, be shopped again for a while,' says he, rather slow like. 'It's bad work, I'm afraid, and worse to come; but we're in it up to our neck and must see it out. We'll have another feed and be off at sundown. We've the ...
— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood
... have thought that to an amateur in crime— with a taste for discovery—it offered great possibilities. But never mind, child," said this strange man, and shook hands. "I have great hopes of finding the scoundrel, and of dealing with him. Eh? 'How?' Well, if we get him upon an island, he shan't get away, like Napoleon." ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... helps to keep me a decent sort of fellow. But when I saw the likeness this morning, it startled me; and then to hear the story, it seemed like a dream—the Gordon affair over again. I suppose rustic nerves are tougher; however, your village blackguard shan't have the chance of committing murder if ...
— Frances Kane's Fortune • L. T. Meade
... strength to come, I shall return by the next steamer; but the fact is, my dear Gilbert, I am very ill—have been completely prostrate since writing the above—and a doctor here tells me I must not think of the voyage yet awhile. But I shan't allow his opinion to govern me. If I can crawl to the steamer, which starts three days hence, I ...
— Fenton's Quest • M. E. Braddon
... them without me!' burst out Arthur Graydon, his face scarlet with rage, for he had quite expected to carry the patrol with him. 'I shan't be ...
— The Wolf Patrol - A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts • John Finnemore
... onwards we have a series of poems to Stella, written chiefly in celebration of her birthday. She was now thirty-eight (Swift says, "Thirty-four—we shan't dispute a year or more"), and the verses abound in laughing allusions to her advancing years and wasting form. Hers was "an angel's face a little cracked," but all men would crowd to her door when she was fourscore. His verses to her ...
— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift
... lord, come with me!" cried the landlord, bursting into energy in a moment. "I know who you are well enough. But they shan't catch you here, I warrant you. Come into the stable: there's not a minute to be lost; for there's old Sir John Bulrush, and Parson Jeffreys, who's a magistrate too, drinking away up at the rectory ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... asked him to drink, and fairly roared out, "Why, God bless my soul, Colonel, a word from one Virginia gentleman to another is 'nuff ced.' There's Stone's Landing been waiting for a railroad more than four thousand years, and damme if she shan't have it." ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 2. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner
... "And you make up your mind to tell me what was in that telegram, and not to have any secrets from me. One thing I can tell you—until you decide to behave yourself—Bob shan't show his nose in my house, and you shan't go out to meet him, either. He only leads you into mischief; I don't consider he has at all a good influence over you. The sooner he's away somewhere, earning his own living ...
— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce
... see what I have to do. I will leave out of consideration my extra-parliamentary utterances—they will take care of themselves. Shan't forget them. But other matters. Well, I have to turn the works of my dear old friend ALF TENNYSON into Greek—of course, omitting certain highly injudicious lines of a reactionary character. Then ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890 • Various
... feeling as that. I know I shan't be killed," laughed Ben. "The bullet hasn't been cast yet that will ...
— The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army - A Story of the Great Rebellion • Oliver Optic
... I'm the mountain in this case. Go in peace, my child." Esme patted the other's head with an absurd and delightful affectation of maternalism. "And look in the 'Clarion' to-morrow with a clear assurance. You shan't find your name there—unless in the Social Doings ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... extract of a letter from Mr. W.M. Cooper, Her Majesty's Consul at Ningpo, is given: "The wood in universal use for book blocks, wood engravings, seals, etc., is that of the pear tree, of which large quantities are grown in Shantung, and Shan-se, especially. Pai'cha is sometimes used as an indifferent substitute. Pai'cha is a very fine white wood of fine fiber, without apparent grains, and cuts easily; is well suited for carved frames, cabinets, caskets, etc., for which large quantities are manufactured here ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various
... proposition is. It's too old a game. You won't handle my money with control in your hands. I have no objection to letting you have two hundred thousand dollars worth of common stock out of the half million, because that will give you an incentive to make the common worth par; but you shan't at any time have or be able to acquire a share over two hundred and forty-nine thousand; not if I know anything about it! Can you call a meeting as soon as ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester
... it. When Helen comes, bring her to me, for I've something to tell her that I mustn't carry to my grave. The blind child, too, I should like to see her again. I would give one of my eyes now, to put sight into hers—both of them, I might say, for I shan't use them much longer." ...
— Helen and Arthur - or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel • Caroline Lee Hentz
... Jack was near the door. Then she said, "I shall remember your recipe—I shan't neglect home duties: I shall attend ...
— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace
... I shan't tell you what's his name: When we want to play a game, Always thinks that he'll be hurt, Soil his jacket in the dirt, Tear his trousers, spoil ...
— Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing - Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study • Anonymous
... you know how it is. He speaks it in me, right here, here, mother," laying his little hand on his throbbing breast. "I don't want to live; I want to go where Jesus is, and be His own little boy, and not be naughty any more; and I hope I shan't get well, I am afraid if I do I shall be naughty again. O, mother, I have been a great sinner, and done many naughty things; but Jesus has forgiven me all my sins, and I do wish sister would go to Him and be forgiven for ...
— Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters - Volume 3 • Various
... "No, I shan't see it, because I won't come. Mother does not want us to have anything to do with this story, you know that, Kurt! Oh, here comes Elvira! I must speak ...
— Maezli - A Story of the Swiss Valleys • Johanna Spyri
... said, softly, under his breath. "And I shan't have a thing to take home to him; nor Mary's violets, either. It'll be the first Christmas that ever happened. I suppose that chap would think it was ridiculous for me to be buying violets. He wouldn't understand what the flowers ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various
... certain we shan't!" cried Sally, turning away her head so that Paul should not see that there were tears in her eyes. "It was too delightful a ...
— The Village by the River • H. Louisa Bedford
... "Pollyanna Peter!" chaffed Carlotta; "shan't you mind it if the blizzard blows down your tent and the dogs run away with your dinner ...
— The Come Back • Carolyn Wells
... I don't like you and I shan't pretend I do. But I'll call it Pax for the present if you like. We've got to escape from this place somehow, and I'll help you if you like, and you may help ...
— The Magic City • Edith Nesbit
... "I shan't do that," he said gravely; "it will be without a shilling." But he tempered this savage statement ...
— IT and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris
... nothing of the sort," replied my Wife, calmly. "I locked you in, and I shan't let ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 100, May 2, 1891 • Various
... "Well, we shan't see the result yet awhile," said nurse, "for the way you've devil-oped these holidays is ...
— Troublesome Comforts - A Story for Children • Geraldine Glasgow
... grunt. "Don't know about quality, but as long as your mamma trusted me, she shan't repent. Take this line, and ...
— A Little Florida Lady • Dorothy C. Paine
... gravely from her place on the floor. "I am a fairy who has been under the spell of a wicked witch," she asserted with solemnity, "but now the spell is broken and I've run away from her. I shan't go back ...
— Madge Morton's Victory • Amy D.V. Chalmers
... am beholding to him, and wou'd requite his Civility, if his Wife were but as willing, tho he be one of our Merchants at Sea, he shall give me leave to be Owner at home; and where is my Boy? what, shan't I see him? ...
— The City Bride (1696) - Or The Merry Cuckold • Joseph Harris
... an interview? Drag him here at once—by the heels, if necessary. Tell him I shan't keep him waiting an instant," said the ...
— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon
... frightful rage about your putting those coals on the kitchen fire, Oswald. She says we shan't have enough to last over Christmas as it is. And Father gave her a talking to before he went about them—asked her if she ate them, she says—but I don't believe he did. Anyway, she's locked the coal-cellar door, and she's got the key in her pocket. I don't see how ...
— New Treasure Seekers - or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune • E. (Edith) Nesbit
... half an hour the gentleman with whom Miss Larolles had been talking, left the room, and then that young lady, turning suddenly to Cecilia, exclaimed, "How odd Mr Meadows is! Do you know, he says he shan't be well enough to go to Lady Nyland's assembly! How ridiculous! as if ...
— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney
... know she poisoned Miss Murray's mind against me—but I shan't hold a grudge against a lady. Now, Miss Murray herself was so gentle and kind when she refused me—what? I—I didn't mean any harm." For his sympathetic listener had ...
— The End of the Rainbow • Marian Keith
... you," croaked the old woman, fixing one evil eye on the lawyer; "an' I know what you'd like to know; but ye shan't, ye shan't." ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume
... off the reel, Wildwood," he said. "I believe you're honest. Go on with your little arrangement, and let's see how it pans out. I shan't make any move until ...
— Andy the Acrobat • Peter T. Harkness
... "Shall I—shan't I?" he said to himself. Should he make a bold dash, and go off like heroes he had read of before, ...
— Syd Belton - The Boy who would not go to Sea • George Manville Fenn
... won't! I am not your slave and I am not going to jump at your bidding! You can't make me; you shan't ...
— The Everlasting Whisper • Jackson Gregory
... "We shan't get much here," whispered a lady to her companion, as John Murray blew out one of the two candles by whose light he had been writing when they asked him to contribute to some benevolent object. He listened to their ...
— Architects of Fate - or, Steps to Success and Power • Orison Swett Marden
... be dressed in character.—I know their meaning—they think Clara has no dress fit for such foolery, and so they hope to eclipse her; Lady Pen, with her old-fashioned, ill-set diamonds, and my Lady Binks, with the new-fashioned finery which she swopt her character for. But Clara shan't borne down so, by ——! I got that affected slut, Lady Binks's maid, to tell me what her mistress had set her mind on, and she is to wear a Grecian habit, forsooth, like one of Will Allan's Eastern subjects.—But here's the rub—there ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott
... told you before; but I must be going myself." "Well," said I, "we can go together; to tell you the truth, I am rather tired of this place." "Our paths must be separate," said Belle. "Separate," said I, "what do you mean? I shan't let you go alone, I shall go with you; and you know the road is as free to me as to you; besides, you can't think of parting company with me, considering how much you would lose by doing so; remember that you scarcely know anything of the Armenian language; now, ...
— Isopel Berners - The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 • George Borrow
... a close shave," murmured Ben, as he passed on. "He handled his sword like an expert. I shan't forget ...
— The Campaign of the Jungle - or, Under Lawton through Luzon • Edward Stratemeyer
... Lu, belonging to the Chi; vi. 7, Min Tzu-ch'ien refuses the governorship of; xi. 24, Tzu-kao made governor of; xvi. 1, Chuan-yue is strong and close to Pi; xvii. 5, held in rebellion by Kung-shan Fu-jao. ...
— The Sayings Of Confucius • Confucius
... about that. But really there is not much to get—a couple of good rifles and two brace of pistols, with a good store of ammunition, those clothes you have just bought, and two or three suits of duck for the voyage. I shan't get any special kit until we arrive there, and can take the advice of people at Lima whether we had better travel in European clothes or in those worn by the Peruvians. Of course saddles and bridles and all that sort of thing we can buy there, ...
— The Treasure of the Incas • G. A. Henty
... one evening, her friend said to her: "I must go out to-morrow; but that needn't prevent you from coming down here. Wait for me; I shan't be ...
— A Love Episode • Emile Zola
... and mock, And sell our children on the block, Then choke us if we say a word, And say that "niggers" shan't ...
— The Anti-Slavery Harp • Various
... she said. "The Topeka sails at eight o'clock. I shan't stay to breakfast. I thought I would ...
— Colorado Jim • George Goodchild
... drum behind him; for, though he can make pretty music on it, the parchment sags in wet weather, by reason of the sea-water getting at it; an' if he carries it to Plymouth, they'll only condemn it and give him another. And, as for me, I shan't have the heart to put lip to the trumpet any more when Johnny's gone. So we've chosen a word together, and locked 'em together upon that; and, by your leave, I'll hang 'em here together on the hook over your fireplace. Maybe Johnny'll come back; maybe not. Maybe, if he comes, I'll be dead an' ...
— The Roll-Call Of The Reef • A. T. Quiller-Couch (AKA "Q.")
... I shan't try. Only remember this. Get her to promise to be firm, and then go at once to Sir Harry. Don't let there be an appearance of doubt in speaking to him. And if he tells you of the property,—angrily I mean,—then do you tell him of ...
— Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite • Anthony Trollope
... muttered the settler, sullenly and doggedly, "I shan't do no sich thing. Yon don't belong to the custom-house I reckon, and so I wish you a good day, for I have a considerable long course to run, and must be movin'." Then, seizing the paddles that were lying on the sand, he prepared to shove ...
— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson
... Dan Baxter ever bothers me he'll catch it warm," came from Tom. "I shan't attempt to mince matters with him. Everybody at this school knows what a bully he was, and they know, too, what a rascal he's been since he left. So I say, let him beware!" And so bringing the conversation ...
— The Rover Boys In The Mountains • Arthur M. Winfield
... am still curious about this Chevalier Georg and his singing. Unfortunately we shan't be long together. I want to ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... Come, come, Mr. Deuceace, don't you be running your rigs upon me; I ain't the man to be bamboozl'd by long-winded stories about dukes and duchesses. You think I don't know you; every man knows you and your line of country. Yes, you're after young Dawkins there, and think to pluck him; but you shan't,—no, by —— you shan't." (The reader must recklect that the oaths which interspussed Mr. B.'s convysation I have left out.) Well, after he'd fired a wolley of 'em, Mr. Deuceace ...
— Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush - The Yellowplush Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray
... that I have not the heart to carry you all back again; and I cannot afford it either; and if you want anything more, Susan," added the peremptory creature, flashing forth into something of her old spirit, "I shan't ...
— The Doctor's Family • Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
... need for you to get angry, mother!" Hseh P'an rejoined, "nor for you sister either; for from this day, I shan't any more make common cause with them nor drink wine or gad about. What do you ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... use; if we do nothing we shan't get proper attention from the police officials till to-morrow. If you will only go and see Mr. Curtis about this business I promise to take all other ...
— The End of Her Honeymoon • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... impelled, further, by the conviction—notwithstanding unimpeachable evidence to the contrary—that the Bank was insolvent, and by his indignation at the refusal of Biddle and his associates to accept the electoral verdict as final. "Biddle shan't have the public money to break down the public administration with. It's settled. My mind's made up." So the President declared to Blair early in 1833. And no one could have any reasonable doubt that decisive action ...
— The Reign of Andrew Jackson • Frederic Austin Ogg
... afternoon, Grantham, who was a keen sportsman, took his gun, and, accompanied by a wiry little Shan servant, departed into the jungle on shikar thoughts intent. He was less successful than usual; indeed, he had proceeded fully three miles before he saw anything worth emptying his gun at. In the jungle the air was as close as a hothouse, ...
— My Strangest Case • Guy Boothby
... in se dominatur'!" said the Hermit in a sepulchral tone. "Yes, my boy; but keep it mum. I shan't waste my Latin over you again in ...
— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed
... a little at first, but it is all well now. But I shan't go back to school,—no, not even to please Cousin Leverett, and I like him best of ...
— A Little Girl in Old Salem • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... "I shan't get a compliment from Frank, Miss Wyllys," replied the widow, shaking her head. "I agree with him, though, about the brown-haired beauties; for, I once took the trouble to count over my acquaintances, and I found a great many ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper
... a note of acceptance to the Home Secretary, who had asked him to luncheon. Doris was not included in the invitation. "But anybody may ask a husband—or a wife—to lunch, separately. That's understood. I shan't do it often, however—that I can tell them!" And justified by this Spartan temper as to the future, he wrote a charming note, accepting the delights of the present, so full of epigram that the Cabinet Minister to whom it was addressed had no sooner read it than he ...
— A Great Success • Mrs Humphry Ward
... the truth, I think that probably we have," answered Mr. Motte; "but you shan't lose out, anyway. Not after you helped me along the way you did, with that ticket. No, sir. Shall he, Mary?" And the young woman shook her head. Mr. Motte continued, while the camp listened intently. "As I've explained to these men my uncle—or my wife's uncle, rather, whose name was Tom ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin
... react until I found poor Leonard. I am steady now. I shan't ever like your Henry, dearest Meg, or even speak kindly about him, but all that blinding hate is over. I shall never rave against Wilcoxes any more. I understand how you married him, and you will now be ...
— Howards End • E. M. Forster
... walk and turned round toward Maggie. "You forgot to feed 'em, then, and Harry forgot," he said, his color heightening for a moment, but soon subsiding. "I'll pitch into Harry—I'll have him turned away. And I don't love you, Maggie. You shan't go fishing with me to-morrow. I told you to go and see the rabbits ...
— Eighth Reader • James Baldwin
... "I feel quite competent to manage the bread question. We'll call that settled then. When I next cast an appraising eye over my beloved valley, I shan't select the choicest spot in it for Peter Morrison to write a book in; and I want to warn you people when you go hunting to keep a mile away from Marian's plot. She has had her location staked from childhood and has worked on her ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter
... one, seeing my frail figure, would have believed. "I know the reputation of your hireling crew. I read your dreadful purpose in your eye. Tell me not that your designs are not sinister. You came here to insult me,—to kiss me, perhaps. You shan't,—you ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... of this year, in the company of Mr. Edkins, he visited the sacred city of Woo T'ai Shan, a famous place of ...
— James Gilmour of Mongolia - His diaries, letters, and reports • James Gilmour
... he want to come just at the end of the quarter when I'm busy with my accounts?" grumbled Augustus Shilling, the assistant paymaster, blinking behind his spectacles. "I know jolly well what it'll be. For the next week I shan't be able to call my soul my own, and he'll be sending for me morning, noon, and night to explain things. The writer's gone sick, too. ...
— Stand By! - Naval Sketches and Stories • Henry Taprell Dorling
... shade (the shell). Dr. Medhurst thinks that "the Kwei Shans" (see "Theology of the Chinese," pp. 10-12) are "the expanding and contracting principles of human life!" "The Kwei Shans" are brought about by the dissolution of the human frame—and consist of the expanding and ascending Shan which rambles about in space, and of the contracted and shrivelled Kwei, which reverts to earth and nonentity. Therefore, the Kwei is the physical body; the Shan is the vital principle the Kwei Shan the linga-sariram, or the vital soul; Zhing ...
— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various
... me what I'm there for! I know me job an' don't want no tellin'. Get stuck into it an' don't let me 'ave any o' yer bloody lip, else yer'll be up fur orderly room—I shan't give yer another warnin'!" ...
— Combed Out • Fritz August Voigt
... young person you are!" laughed Mrs. Everard. "Now, I should have rushed straight up to the easel and examined every line of what he was doing. You are a model of discretion, really! I shan't be anxious about leaving you alone any more. But about your dress for to-night. Let me see it, there's ...
— A Romance of Two Worlds • Marie Corelli
... "My dear lady, I shan't turn them into the street. I shouldn't be allowed to. There's a cottage at Lower Wyck they can go into. The one he had when he first came ...
— Mr. Waddington of Wyck • May Sinclair
... polar in high Tien Shan; subtropical in southwest (Fergana Valley); temperate in northern ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... she had been obstinate. All she had answered was: "Well, he would probably be a villain, if he had the opportunity. I hope I shan't see him again. I don't see, Bab, why you should be so interested in him. He's lots older than ...
— The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires - The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail • Laura Dent Crane
... don't aggravate me. I say Mary Jane shan't learn to sing and plant another instrument of torture in this house, while I'm boss of the family. Her voice is just like yours; it's got a twang to it like blowing on the edge of a ...
— The Universal Reciter - 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems • Various
... I shan't sleep till daddy comes," she said. "Of course," she added, smiling at him out of gentian-blue eyes, "if you are sleepy I shouldn't dream of ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert Chambers
... "Then I shan't look forward to anything," replied Hippy with such earnestness that even scornful Nora ...
— Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... "Well, I shan't have to make mittens or anything this time, 'cause you're at home, Milly. I like to be with my twin cousin in a twin house," said Flaxie, twisting her neck to look at Mrs. Hunter's door-stone. It was just like Aunt Charlotte's, only there ...
— The Twin Cousins • Sophie May
... till we sink down into our own graves," said old Tom, "which won't be long. I've nothing to wish for now, and I'll never sing again, that's sartain. We shan't last long, either of us. As for me," continued the old man with a melancholy smile, looking down at his stumps. "I may well say that I've two feet in the grave already. But come, Jacob, tell us ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat
... though he is, he's likely to step out and receive a lesson.—Well, he's the favoured cavalier for the present . . . h'm . . . Fryar-Gannett. Swears he told her, circumstantially; and it was down at Lockton, when Diana Warwick was a girl. Swears she'll spit her venom at her, so that Diana Warwick shan't hold her head up in London Society, what with that cur Wroxeter, Old Dannisburgh, and Dacier. And it does count a list, doesn't it? confound the handsome hag! She's jealous of a dark rival. I've been down to Colonel Hartswood at the Tower, and he thinks Wroxeter ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... mind very tender against that changeable woman, and nought but a hair turned the balance her way. 'Tis a strange experience for me not to have my will, and I feel disgraced in a manner of speaking; but, if I've lost her, I've gained you, seemingly. And I shan't squeak about it, nor yet go courting no more; and I'll venture to bet, ...
— The Torch and Other Tales • Eden Phillpotts
... cried,—"you can't,—I shan't be ready for you; there'll be no breakfast. Get out immediately, Hugh, and don't be so foolish." She actually dragged at his coat to pull ...
— In the Mist of the Mountains • Ethel Turner
... "I shan't be able to give you very much," he had said, a formula to which June was not unaccustomed. "Perhaps this What's-his-name ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... Fred. "Knowing that they will have to raise the siege, two or three saddles will be emptied, and when we seek to return their fire, we shan't find an enemy to contend against. They will scatter in various directions if their force is small; and if large, why; a bushranger is a dangerous foe, and fights with a halter around his neck. Let ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... must come again, He the great, the horned one? Shan't I caper in his train Through the hours of feast and fun!" And he looked with eyes of jade Through the sunshine, through the shade, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, August 18th, 1920 • Various
... that. Lawd bless you, Sammy; I do reckon she knows what a man needs. And she says to me, 'Pap, you shan't go one step toward that fetch-taked town unless you agree to take Sammy some pickles made outen the finest cucumbers that ever growd.' And I jest said, 'You do up your pickles and don't you be askeered of me.' ...
— Old Ebenezer • Opie Read |
