"Tartly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the command which participated in the unfortunate engagement at Greeger Lake," responded the woman, tartly. "He would have won had he not been ...
— An Undivided Union • Oliver Optic
... too," interjected Madelene, tartly, "but that wouldn't make him mix her name up with mine, would it, and make him get mad every ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... were entirely with Susan and the sailor, I am sure," said Mrs. Cosham, rather tartly. "My sister-in-law," she continued, "has laid her burdens upon Providence at every crisis in her life, and Providence, I must confess, ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... said, tartly. "We can't go about the grounds in a cab, and I'm not going to slop about in the wet to please anybody. We must go another time. It's hard luck, but ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... make your own bargains," returned the old woman, tartly. "The devil himself could not deal with you, for I guess he would have the worst of it. What do you say, sir?" and she fixed her keen eyes upon my husband, as if she would read his thoughts. "Will you agree to ...
— Roughing it in the Bush • Susanna Moodie
... imposed on," I said tartly. "I must be getting along, Godfrey. I haven't anything ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... dim," said the voice tartly, and Bart found himself looking down, as his eyes adjusted to the new light ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... 'suppose'," said M. Vulfran, tartly. "I may as well tell you that for a long time I have wanted someone intelligent to be near me, one who is discreet and whom I can trust. This young girl seems to have these qualities. I am sure ...
— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot
... then, this section should have a little enterprise shaken into it," said Whittaker, tartly. This promised opposition promptly fired his modern spirit ...
— The Rainy Day Railroad War • Holman Day
... my dear fellow," said I rather tartly, for I did not like the wind-up of his sentence. It was unthinkable that an officer and a gentleman should inveigle a brother-officer into a solemn promise to do anything dishonourable. "Of ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke
... bold-eyed young man with disfavour. "Well, you're not expecting her to come out to you, are you?" she retorted tartly. ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... do I know? How does anybody know?" snapped Susan tartly. "Look a-here, Mis' McGuire, you must excuse me from discoursin' particulars. We don't talk 'em here. None of ...
— Dawn • Eleanor H. Porter
... 'long!" said Mrs. Douglass; "I know all about it. Now, do you s'pose you're agoing to be any happier among all those great folks than you would be if you staid among little folks?" she added, tartly; while Catherine looked with a kind of incredulous admiration at ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell
... well I never saw ye, then," said his wife tartly. "And to imagine that a lady like Miss Plinlimmon would concern herself with your deboshes! But you'd lower ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... back," he said tartly. "An Indian stake and a bloody head will be the end of all ...
— Salute to Adventurers • John Buchan
... and in action on being. And excepting his own fundamental position concerning the sensuous origin of our ideas,—to which few, since Kant, will assent,— there is hardly a theorem, in all the writings of this school, of prime and vital significance. The school is tartly, but aptly, characterized by Professor Ferrier: "Would people inquire directly into the laws of thought and of knowledge by merely looking to knowledge or to thought itself, without attending to what is known ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
... looked at me instead," retorted Ada tartly. "But I've no patience with Adrien. Why can't he get 'em something lively? A musical comedy now—I could make that go, if you like! Plenty of songs and no talky-talky business. Besides, ...
— Adrien Leroy • Charles Garvice
... the British Constitution," I remarked tartly, "what do you propose to substitute for ...
— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay
... you say it, Mr Elsworthy?" said Miss Dora, a little tartly; "you are not in any way particularly connected with my nephew." Here she gave an angry glance at Rosa, who had drawn near to listen, having always in her vain little heart a certain palpitation ...
— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
... declared tartly. I was by no means satisfied with so half-hearted a vindication; nor did I care to owe my immunity to a patronizing lie on Mr. Van Blarcom's part. "You have accused me of spying. Do you think I'll let it go at that? I insist that you have my baggage brought up here ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti
... think, papa, that you and Mr. Brooks had been quarrelling," she remarked, tartly. "You seem ...
— A Prince of Sinners • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... tartly; "the girl shouldn't have been such a fool. I will pay one hundred pounds into the bank for her, and she shall not have another penny." Geoffrey thought himself well out of the scrape, but before the incident closed there ...
— The Rhodesian • Gertrude Page
... fear. Since her lover was unwilling to speak to her of his mother, she attributed his reserve to a certain aristocratic arrogance, even to a lack of consideration, for her, at which the pride of the freewoman and the plebeian was up in arms. She was wont to say to him tartly: ...
— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France
... sir," she answered tartly, "so long as they don't mind eating after their betters. And as for your man Priske, I saw him twenty minutes ago escape towards Church ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... his Will to the offices of the New Colliery Company, and sat down in the empty Board Room to read it through. He answered 'Down-by-the-starn' Hemmings so tartly when the latter, seeing his Chairman seated there, entered with the new Superintendent's first report, that the Secretary withdrew with regretful dignity; and sending for the transfer clerk, blew him up till the poor youth knew not ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... rejoined Lady Montfort, somewhat tartly. "For a real opposition there must be a great policy. If your friend, Lord Roehampton, when he was settling the Levant, had only seized upon Egypt, we should have been somewhere. Now, we are the party who wanted to give, not even cheap bread to the people, ...
— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli
... Fyles," she said, almost tartly, "but I guess that lever needs to help them into your traps to do ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum
... of Massachusetts, had nothing to do with slavery in the States; it had only to refrain from giving direct sanction to the system. Others opposed this whole argument, declaring, with Langdon of New Hampshire, that Congress ought to have this power, since, as Dickinson tartly remarked, "The true question was, whether the national happiness would be promoted or impeded by the importation; and this question ought to be left to the national government, not to ...
— The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America - 1638-1870 • W. E. B. Du Bois
... watchfulness of Mrs. Solomon Black. On the two occasions when he had rung Mrs. Black's front door-bell, that lady herself had appeared in response to its summons. On both occasions she had informed Mr. Dodge tartly that Miss ...
— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
... only approach to merriment which he was ever known to exhibit. The servant, who was really disappointed, having hoped for holiday times, feasting and debauchery with impunity during the rejoicings which would have accompanied a christening, turned tartly upon the little valet, telling him that he should let Sir Robert know how he had received the tidings which should have filled any faithful servant with sorrow; and having once broken the ice, he was proceeding with increasing fluency, when his harangue was cut short and his ...
— The Purcell Papers - Volume I. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
... rapped the physician tartly, turning upon their following. "Will someone send for the police and ring up Scotland Yard? ...
— The Sins of Severac Bablon • Sax Rohmer
... was tartly criticised in the Edinburgh Review by Jeffrey, who made some rather severe comments upon the improprieties chargeable to Moore's early writings. The consequence was a challenge, and what would have been a duel ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... plenty of lunch in the dining-room," said Miss Brown, tartly. "You need not have gone out and made ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe
... Miss Priscilla, a trifle tartly, for after the vicissitudes of her life it was but natural that she should hesitate to regard so stable an institution as the Dinwiddie Bank as something to be "stood." "Why, I thought a young man couldn't do better than get a place in the bank. Jinny's father was telling me in the market ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... have anything to say about it," replied the lady rather tartly. "We escaped with our lives when the house ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin
... on medical authority," tartly interposed Professor Brierly, "but I am not certain it is competent medical authority. I have seen too many careless autopsies made and read too many loosely written reports to have abiding ...
— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew
... Cocksmoor, and plenty of management, with credit and praise to herself; the other, downcast and irritable, with annoyance at the interference with her schemes, at the prospects of her school, and at herself for being out of temper, prone to murmur or to reply tartly, and not able to recover from her mood, but only, as she neared the house, lapsing into her other trouble, and preparing to resist any misjudged, though kind attempt of her father, to make her unsay her rebuke to Miss Bracy. Pride and temper! Ah! Etheldred! where ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... smooth wind makes an easy rudder.' Not a thing vexed me from morning till night. Every week the father would take out the stocking and drop in the money and laugh and kiss me as we tied it up together. Up with you, Hans! There you sit gaping, and the day a-wasting!" added Dame Brinker tartly, blushing to find that she had been speaking too freely to her boy. "It's high time ...
— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge
... very well when they like," Mrs. Caldwell answered tartly; "but they're too lazy to try. When did you learn ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand
... She walked on without turning her head, and for many steps nothing further was heard from her quarter than the rustle of her dress against the heavy corn-ears. Then she resumed rather tartly— ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... not let my dear friend's sanguine expectations blind all my judgment is no reason why you should seek this interview, Lycon," he rejoined tartly. "If this is the object of your summons, I'm better back ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... lady had just taken her seat in a car on a train bound for Philadelphia, when a somewhat stout man sitting just ahead of her lighted a cigar. She coughed and moved uneasily; but the hints had no effect, so she said tartly: "You probably are a foreigner, and do not know that there is a smoking-car attached to the train. Smoking is not permitted here." The man made no reply, but threw his cigar from the window. What has her astonishment when the conductor told her, a moment later, that ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden
... catarrhal colds, which, however, as he would learnedly explain to Maggie, could not be connected, in the brain of a reasonable person, with currents of fresh air. Maggie mutely disdained his science. This, too, fretted him. Occasionally she would somewhat tartly assert that he was a regular old maid. The accusation made no impression on him at all. But when, more than ordinarily exacerbated, she sang out that he was 'exactly like his father,' he ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... house to pieces!" said Mrs. Hignett tartly. She had begun to revise her original estimate of this girl. To her, Windles was sacred, and anyone who went about shooting holes in it forfeited ...
— Three Men and a Maid • P. G. Wodehouse
... "Charlotte Oliver, eh?" I responded tartly that I had that very morning met four ladies the poetry of whose actual, visible loveliness had abundantly illustrated to me the needlessness and impertinence of fiction! By the way, did he not think feminine beauty was always in its ...
— The Cavalier • George Washington Cable
... offended and again complained to his wife. Laughing at his irritability she observed tartly that he evidently did not know how to keep up his own dignity; and that with her, anyway, "the boy" had never permitted himself any undue familiarity, "he was naive and fresh indeed, though not regardful of the conventions of society." Von Lembke sulked. This time she made peace between ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... mistress," said Mr. Caryll, a thought tartly, for if his speech was tainted with a French accent it was in so slight a degree as surely to ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... were coming," began their mother tartly. "'Milyer, you're the worst of the lot when you get your nose buried in a newspaper. Boys, do keep still, though I suppose you're half starved," with a reproachful look at those who had delayed ...
— A Little Girl in Old New York • Amanda Millie Douglas
... to," reflected Nell, as she tartly replied: "A war of the sex without me? It was stupid, then. The Duchess ...
— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.
... have, you, or somebody else tell me," exclaimed the old lady, tartly. "I ain't got no more use for a farm than a ...
— Hiram The Young Farmer • Burbank L. Todd
... beauty, a magnetic quality that I have never seen equalled. I always reproached him with having added nothing to his inheritance—no glory—no achievement—'I have spent,' he would say, shrugging his shoulders. 'Wasted,' I retorted tartly. 'If you like. I have never admitted my past or my future as barriers—or even frontiers—to my actions. I have lived without forethought or arriere pensee—without the weakness of regrets or the stinginess ...
— Balloons • Elizabeth Bibesco
... tartly, "I have lived in the country, and, until a few minutes ago, I was ignorant of the extent ...
— The Tithe-Proctor - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton
... Paul a little tartly. "Of course most people must do so if they talk at all, and they are usually the people who talk all the time. But I have known people whose ordinary conversation was extraordinary, and worth putting down in a book—every ...
— The Spinner's Book of Fiction • Various
... so," he retorted tartly, "but if you'd just left me alone, instead of sicking all your dogs on me, I'd've been over there looking for him, long ago. Of course I'm wrong—that's ...
— Shadow Mountain • Dane Coolidge
... retorted the mayor, tartly. "I have dropped down here merely in a business way to find out what's wanted of me as the executive head of ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... elsewhere. And I could not regularly be the prioress, till after passing through the novitiate, in which they had all served two years before their being engaged. When I should have done as much, I should see how God would inspire me. The prioress replied quite tartly, that if I would ever leave them it were best for me to do it immediately. Yet I did not offer to retire, but continued still to act as usual. I saw the sky gradually thickening and storms gathering on every side. The prioress then affected a milder air. She assured me, that she ...
— The Autobiography of Madame Guyon • Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
... said Cyril tartly. "And I'm not unkind, I'm only truthful. And I say it was utter rot breaking the water-jug; and as for the missionary-box, I believe it's a treason-crime, and I shouldn't wonder if you could be hanged for it, if any of us was ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... of saying you refuse to answer!" snapped Robinson tartly. "You know your name isn't Fairfax, any more than it's mine. ...
— A Husband by Proxy • Jack Steele
... replied the lady, tartly; "I think it is enough for you to take care of yourself. Recollect your Scripture proverb of 'the blind leading the blind.' I have no inclination to tumble into one of those pits," added she, pointing to ...
— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat
... Trevlyn dismissed the boy with a gracious gesture and led her little daughter away. Paul stood watching her, as if forgetful of his companion, till she said, rather tartly, "Young man, you'd better have thanked my lady while she was here than stare after her now it's too late. If you want to see Parks, you'd best come, ...
— The Mysterious Key And What It Opened • Louisa May Alcott
... Cappy interrupted tartly. "I wouldn't give two hoots in hell for a satisfied man, unless he's his own man—understand. You should have a more vital interest in the Ricks Lumber and Logging Company and the Blue Star Navigation Company. We always make our skippers own a piece ...
— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne
... she declared rather tartly that they had nothing to do with it. It was natural to Arthur Welby ...
— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON. 'I have looked into it.' 'What (said Elphinston,) have you not read it through?' Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, 'No, Sir, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... "Thanks," he said tartly. "When I marry Athalia, I intend to have an old-fashioned home and a Black Age family. I don't relish having ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... not cheer, when he sulkily answered, 'he was so well cheered by the other side that it was not necessary.' Lord Harrowby was under the gallery. I asked him what he said to Peel's speech. 'I did not hear it,' he tartly replied, 'but he seems to have given up the aldermen. I have a great affection for the aldermen.' At the 'Travellers' I met Strangford, and asked him the same question. He said, 'I say, Not content.' 'But,' said ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III • Charles C. F. Greville
... Miss Satterly breathlessly, and rather tartly, "only for you having my dress, I'd have gone straight back home. Do brothers always ...
— The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories • B. M. Bower
... and heavily that it appeared plainly he did not care whether it was done or no, and particularly as if he had a mind the captain should see it and take notice of it. Which the captain did, for perceiving how awkwardly he went about it, he spoke a little tartly to him, and asked him what was the reason he did not stir a little and furl the sail. Peterson, as if he had waited for the question, answered in a surly tone, and with a kind of disdain, So as we eat, so shall we work. This he spoke ...
— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward
... this burst of eloquence on the part of her usually restrained daughter, asked, tartly, "How in the world do you know what Porter ...
— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey
... not without laughter on the part of the ladies, of the story of Fra Puccio, the queen with a commanding air bade Elisa follow on. She, rather tartly than otherwise, not out of malice, but of old habit, began to speak thus, "Many folk, knowing much, imagine that others know nothing, and so ofttimes, what while they think to overreach others, find, after the event, that they themselves have been outwitted of them; wherefore ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio
... to have made up his mind in spite of the reasonableness of this suggestion. For when the man rowing bow stooped back and reached out for the painter—the course seemed the obvious and natural one—he was stopped by his chief, who said rather tartly:—"You take your orders from me, Cookson!" and then held out his hand as before, saying:—"You're a tidy weight, my lad. I ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... of a hevening nowadays?" asked Miss Sellars, tartly, of the lank young man. "New ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... clown in the ring, but not in the dressing room," said he, tartly. "I want my pay, or I ...
— The Rover Boys on the River - The Search for the Missing Houseboat • Arthur Winfield
... as white as yours," rejoined Mrs. McLane tartly. "But I remain a woman, and for that reason attract ...
— Sleeping Fires • Gertrude Atherton
... tartly, "that I am a sort of living multiplication-table, or that I have as many lives as a cat. By the way, can you bound ...
— Prince Vance - The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box • Eleanor Putnam
... parts of his dear brother-in-law's conduct, which he did not himself vindicate; and Mr. B. was pleased to say, that my lord was always very candid to him, and kind in his allowances for the sallies of ungovernable youth. Upon which my lady said, a little tartly, "Yes, and for a very good reason, I doubt not; for ...
— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson
... again sat down upon her stool, and ordered her slave to open the gate. Upon her husband's entering the room he was surprised at beholding things set out for an entertainment, and inquired who had been with her; when she replied tartly, "A lover." "And where is he now?" angrily replied the officer. "In yonder chamber, and if you please you may sacrifice him to your fury, and myself afterwards." The officer demanded the key, which she gave ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments vol. 4 • Anon.
... Miss Jerusha, tartly, still holding the door much as if Polly were a robber; "it's a little girl, and I can't make out what ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney
... right away that I am not," Aggie said tartly. "I'm not and I don't want to be. Though I can't see how biting my tongue half through is ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... of snakes, they tell me," he observed, tartly. "A rattlesnake's honest, anyhow, and he ain't afraid to bite. He ain't all bad smell ...
— Shavings • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Thackeray! I hope you didn't present the child with your own mug!" And still less was he flattered when he heard that, on its being reported in the Punch office that he was "turning Roman," simply because he defended Doyle's secession, Jerrold tartly remarked that "he'd best begin with his nose." (Jerrold, by the way, uses the same conceit in a letter to Sir Charles Dilke when repeating a rumour of the attempted conversion of the novelist by ...
— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann
... feeling nor imagination enough to care for anything not transmutable into dollars, perhaps it has," I rejoined, somewhat tartly. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... Mary asked tartly. "Of course if you ain't intendin' to go I'd be glad to know it; 'n while you're gone, Lucinda, I wish you'd get me the handle to the ice-cream freezer an' lay it where I can see it; it'll help me believe in ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner
... you want," replied Mrs. Lightfoot, tartly. "If he ever gets clean again after a whole night in a common gaol, I must say I don't see how he'll manage it. But if you aren't satisfied I can only tell you that the affair was all about some bar-room wench, and that the papers will be full ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... He hastened to add that he had not seen his cousin for many years, while he looked upon Fyne (who received him alone) with so much distrust that Fyne felt hurt (the person actually refusing at first the chair offered to him) and retorted tartly that he, for his part, had never seen Mr. de Barral, in his life, and that, since the visitor did not want to sit down, he, Fyne, begged him to state his business as shortly as possible. The man in black sat down then with a faint ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... had received that morning,—so happy that she had said to her elder sister, Martha Jocelyn, "To think of Marian Selwyn's inviting me. Isn't it beautiful of her?" and Martha had answered back rather tartly, "I don't see why you should put such an emphasis on 'me,' as if you were so inferior. You're ...
— A Flock of Girls and Boys • Nora Perry
... newcomer retorted tartly. "But, if it 'll do you any good, I 'm a fireman on the China steamers, and, as I said, I 'm goin' to see fair play. That 's my business. Your business is to give fair play. So pitch in, and don't ...
— The Cruise of the Dazzler • Jack London
... girl in your position afford preferences?" he inquired, tartly. Thus far the banker had fully lived up to ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... to oblige you," I said, tartly, for I did not like his laughter. "So long as you confine your amusement to me, I am satisfied; but pray avoid using ...
— A Roman Singer • F. Marion Crawford
... a portrait if an original didn't exist?" demanded the young man tartly. "Since you want to know so much, you may as well come to the gypsy encampment on the verge of the wood and satisfy yourself." He threw on a Panama hat, with a cross look. "Since when have you come to the conclusion that I ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... silence, during which Mrs. Ballinger, with a perfunctory hand, rearranged the skilfully grouped literature at which her distinguished guest had not so much as glanced; then Miss Van Vluyck tartly pronounced: "Well, I can't say that I consider Osric ...
— Xingu - 1916 • Edith Wharton
... tartly, "that whenever you begin reminding me of my 'Majesty' you have always something unpleasant to spring on me! You are treating me now just as you have been treating the Bishops; you will not listen to advice; no, you will not ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... waiting for this, Gloriana," said Ajax, tartly. "As a member of the family you have not treated my brother and myself fairly. This mysterious work of yours is not only wearing you to skin and bone, it is consuming ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... verdict then does not agree with hers, how is it to operate?"—"Let the young lady choose at once according to the inclination of her heart, and leave master-singing out of the game!" remarks Beckmesser tartly. "Not at all! Not at all!" Pogner strives to calm them, "Not in the very least! You have imperfectly understood. The maiden may refuse the one to whom you master-singers award the prize, but she may not choose another. A master-singer he must be. Only one crowned ...
— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall
... to Cheiro, either," tartly. "Hold your palm steady so that I can see more clearly. It's a ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... tartly. "He eats nothing but insects, and he catches them flying. Now I must get back to my duties ...
— The Burgess Bird Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... man's heart and convince yourself," suggested Clymer tartly, and the deputy marshal, dropping on one knee, did so. Detecting no heart-beat, the officer passed his hand over the dead man's unshaven chin and across his forehead, brushing back the unkempt hair. Under his none too gentle touch the wig ...
— The Red Seal • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... when he began!" said the old lady, tartly. "He couldn't foresee that she was going to be, could he? If he had he might have asked your permission. She preferred George Jaquith, naturally. Women mostly prefer a handsome scamp. Not that Homer ever looked like anything but a sheep. Then there ...
— Mrs. Tree • Laura E. Richards
... a law against the jokes of the clergy, Sir," I interrupted tartly. "The jokes aren't funny and ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... returned the woman tartly, "a big expense and a sight of work for nothing. And now permit ...
— Romance Island • Zona Gale
... think a fire was for warmth, not for looks," said Sylvia, tartly. She had lost the odd expression which Henry had dimly perceived several days before, or she was able to successfully keep it in abeyance; still, there was no doubt that a strange and subtle change had occurred within the woman. Henry ...
— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... we want them," said Reginald, tartly. "Look here, Horace, you surely don't suppose I prefer to go to Liverpool ...
— Reginald Cruden - A Tale of City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... Nanny Smith maintained a cheerful aspect and an independent spirit. One of her gossips suggested to her that William should marry, and bring home a young wife to help her and take care of her. "Nay, nay," replied Nanny, tartly, "I want no young mistress in my house." So much for the love of rule—poor Nanny's house was ...
— Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey • Washington Irving |
