"You said it" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the urine of a female patient suffering from ague (though from motives of delicacy I did not see the urine voided—still I believe that she did pass the urine, as I did not think it necessary to insult the patient), and you demonstrated to me beautiful specimens of Gemiasma rubra. You said it was not common to find the full development in the urine of such cases, but only in the urine of the old severe cases. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 • Various
... as an instance of a crime," she said, without any change of tone. "You said it would be a crime for you to marry Veronica. It did not strike me that it could be called by that name. Crimes are murder, stealing, forgery—such things. Who would say that it was criminal for Bosio Macomer to marry Veronica Serra? ...
— Taquisara • F. Marion Crawford
... "But you said it had probably been buried and to look for freshly turned dirt. And if you hadn't stuck to me when I hurt my ankle we'd been captured sure. And when the Eagles were trailing us you threw them ...
— Don Strong, Patrol Leader • William Heyliger
... story, took a mug of beer all around, and then one gentleman, drunker probably than the others, or possibly unwilling, after all the time spent, to allow the ghost to escape, punched the Captain in the ribs and shouted: "Captain—Captain Halpin, you said it was a London ghost story; maybe you'll find the ghost in London, for I'll be d—d if it's in Ireland!" The Captain was too far gone to profit ...
— The Citizen-Soldier - or, Memoirs of a Volunteer • John Beatty
... said it to me," and Philip laughed at the recollection, "and I can tell you, Patty, it had the real society ring! You said it ...
— Patty's Social Season • Carolyn Wells
... envoy of the King of Roum! if I had a thousand horses like that one I should give them all without a moment's hesitation. But last night I asked you the motive which brought you hither, and you said it was merely to visit me. So I killed the horse for your food, and that is why I am afflicted with sorrow at my lack of foresight." He sent the envoy back home with many other horses as ...
— Malayan Literature • Various Authors
... so much what you said as the way you said it," she replied. "You were uncompromisingly hostile that day, for some reason. Have you acquired a more equable ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... I am cured by the use of your truss. I believe it is the best truss ever invented by man. It did for me just what you said it would. My truss is now hanging up in a closet in my house, and I don't have to use it at all. Anyone can write to me if they don't believe what you say. So give this to the suffering people of this land, for why should ...
— Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured • Chas. Cluthe & Sons
... Ellen, speak to me often as you did just now; it soothes, it calms me. I see things in a different way from what I did a moment ago. O, dearest, best beloved! say to me sometimes, dear Henry, as you said it just now, and I will try to be to you, and for you, all that you can wish and desire. Open your heart to me without reserve, Ellen; if new difficulties present themselves to you, perhaps I may be able to serve you in cases where it might ...
— Ellen Middleton—A Tale • Georgiana Fullerton
... and pointed to the place. "You said it couldn't travel very fast," he reminded her. "Look down there where you sat fooling ...
— The Lookout Man • B. M. Bower
... tell me why you did it?" she said, suddenly sitting up, her arms still out before her on the table. "Why did you coax so? You said it was because of a little property you had, ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... strode forward and stood before the painting with legs apart, in a properly critical manner. "What? Why, you said it was your best thing." ...
— The Third Violet • Stephen Crane
... about them. It is a growing torture to you. Even in the generous flush of mercy you thought of it; you said you would never go back to that hotel. I knew why you said it. I knew what, even then, you suffered—what of fear and shame and outraged modesty. I know what you stood for, there in the street with a half-senseless crook hanging to your arm—tugging for a weapon which would have sent two ...
— The Gay Rebellion • Robert W. Chambers
... it! I am going to do it at once! Don't you see what a cowardly foolish thing it would be of you to give up and slink into a hole just because you're defeated? It's just what you said would happen that night on the Ridge. Don't you remember, you said it was bound to be a losing fight; and I said it didn't matter a bit if a man were crucified long as the cause won out? Well, you sent me the note saying you had set out on the Trail and would never quit till you got the Man Higher Up. ...
— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut
... "You said it!" agreed Tom. "That sort are so busy riding hobbies over here that they have no interest in what is going on in Europe unless it may be in Russia. Well, thank heaven, there are comparatively few nuts compared with ...
— Ruth Fielding Down East - Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point • Alice B. Emerson
... "But you said it could not fail," breaks in the girl, her countenance again clouding over. "Is there a doubt, ...
— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid
... And you said it was a place most joyous, All our poor imaginings above, With the winged cherubim for playmates, And the ...
— Poems • Victor Hugo
... true! How well you said it. (with a glare for this appreciation, HARRY opens the door. It blows away from him) Please do close ...
— Plays • Susan Glaspell
... can understand all that just as well as if you said it. I know how much it means ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... say it, Mary, you mustn't say it. Don't tell them you said it. They'll think I've been talking about the babies. The little babies. Don't tell them. Promise me you ...
— Mary Olivier: A Life • May Sinclair
... team answered. "Normally we wouldn't answer, Mr. Cornell, unless you said it aloud. But we don't mind letting you know which of us is the telepath this time. To answer, you are the last person to have received any message ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith
... did said it!" cried the wailing Ikey, pointing at his adversary a forefinger wrapped in a handkerchief. "You did! You did! I heard you said it!" ...
— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... I loved art as well as I do poetry; but I am afraid I have not so much taste as some girls have. You remember how I liked that picture in the illustrated magazine, and you said it was horrid. I have been afraid since to like almost anything, for fear you should tell me some time or other it was horrid. Don't you think I shall ever learn to know what is nice from ...
— The Guardian Angel • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... child, and then said the letter was for me; and there was no writing inside the letter, but there was fifty dollars. That's all, sir. It gave me a great shock, sir; and I couldn't think who sent it, only when you came to-night, I thought it was you; but you said it wasn't, and I never shall know who it was, now. It seems as if the hand of God was in it, sir, for it came when everything was darkest, and I was ...
— The Ghost • William. D. O'Connor
... he went on half to himself. "I was sure that God would give me that which I most desired, because I had given Him all that belonged to me. I kept back nothing except as Monsignor ordered. Through you, Honora, my faith in woman came back, as you said it would when you answered the detective in my behalf. When Monsignor told me I was free, that I could speak to you as an honorable man, I took it as a sign from heaven that the greatest of God's gifts was for me. I love you so, Honora, that your wish is my only happiness. Since you must go, if ...
— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith
... saw—between the Confederates and a spy who comes to this house, but who is far away by this time. I did it because I thought you hated and despised me because I thought it was my duty to help my cause—because you said it was 'war' between us—but I never spied on you. I ...
— Clarence • Bret Harte
... last year I urged our marriage, and you said it could not be; now you urge it, and I say it cannot be. ...
— To-morrow? • Victoria Cross
... I got out my diary in which I had recorded verbatim our conversation about the ugly preacher, whose face became illumined into beauty, by the inspired glory within. And you added that you never thought him ugly again; but he would always be plain. And you said it was not the sort of face one would want to have always before one at meals; but that you were not called upon to undergo that discipline, which would ...
— The Rosary • Florence L. Barclay
... state of mind. It is not that you do not love Kunda Nandini; you do love her, but when you said it was the love of the eye only, you spoke the truth. Towards Surja Mukhi your love is deep, but for a couple of days it has been covered by the shadow of Kunda Nandini. Now you understand that you have lost Surja Mukhi. So long as the sun remains unclouded, ...
— The Poison Tree - A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal • Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
... seen the necklace. Nobody has seen it on this side the water. When you came here years ago and got Jeff into difficulties you brought another necklace, a spurious one, paste, stage jewels, I daresay, and none of us were clever enough to know the difference. You said it was the Beattie necklace, and Esther was ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... But is it not true that, upon a wet fur coat being shown you as your wife's, you said it could not be hers, as she had taken hers ...
— The Case of Jennie Brice • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... 'a greatcoat is a good thing, to be sure; and then, after the greatcoat, as you said it would only cost half as much as the uniform, there would be some money to spare, would ...
— Forgotten Tales of Long Ago • E. V. Lucas
... warm afternoon,—Hilliard was reading aloud,—when there came a sudden peal of thunder, and presently a flash of lightning. "Oh, we're going to have a storm!" I exclaimed. "I am so glad! now I can see the ocean in a storm,—you said it was magnificent then. Why, ...
— We Ten - Or, The Story of the Roses • Lyda Farrington Kraus
... always say that," exclaimed Eustace, her twin of fourteen. "You said it yesterday coming through the scrub because you were tired; and the day before when mother made you sew for an hour instead of reading; ...
— Queensland Cousins • Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
... no embroidered cloth, and there was no red bag, nor any little chick, and there was no full-grown fowl, and there was no chair that you put on the table! There was nothing, absolutely nothing, but you and that table! Even the table was not what you said it was. It was not an unpainted pine table with four straight legs. It was a table of dark polished wood, and it stood on a single post with feet. There was nothing there that you said was there. Everything was a sham and a delusion; every word you spoke was untrue. And yet everybody in that theatre, ...
— The Magic Egg and Other Stories • Frank Stockton
... odd!" she cried. "I shall never call myself that—why, people might know I must be something connected with this castle, and they would be questioning, and I couldn't have a scrap of fun! You have got another name—you said it just now, 'Michael Howard Arranstoun'—that will do. I shall be Mrs. Howard! It is quite ordinary—and shall I be a widow? I've never thought of all this yet. Oh! ...
— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn
... time she said: "Why did you make me marry you, Monsieur John? Oh, I have racked my brain so for the answer to that question. I know you said it was to save my honor. But surely we have paid a heavier penalty than any that could have been laid upon me had you left me as ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde
... "You said it! And after riding over from Paulmouth in that dinky old stagecoach, too," went on the stranger, as though holding Sheila responsible for some measure of her discomfort. "Say, ain't the folks home?" She cast a sour look around the premises. "Gee! It's a lonesome ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... is not falling away swiftly as the air does. It is following the projectile! It is not gathering any air about it as you said it would. It does not quite keep up with us; but considering our speed, it is ...
— Pharaoh's Broker - Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner • Ellsworth Douglass
... don't know of a better man. It isn't your fault, you said it yourself, that water couldn't be squeezed ...
— Initials Only • Anna Katharine Green
... Bubbles," said the legless man after a pause. "It hits hard, but it's all right. And whether you said it or not, it was coming to me, and I knew it. Do you mind if I send you books and things now and then? There was a book I had when I was a boy. I'd like you to have it. Don't know what reminds me of it—unless it's you. It's the story of a Frenchman, Bayard—they called him the chevalier sans peur ...
— The Penalty • Gouverneur Morris
... did!" they declared. "We told people several days ago that we had seen a stranger hanging by his tail; and nobody believed us because you said it wasn't possible. You said nobody but a 'possum could do that, and that no 'possum ever came as far ...
— The Tale of Major Monkey • Arthur Scott Bailey
... remember that day on our honeymoon, going up Ben Lawers? You were lying on your face in the heather; you said it was like kissing a loved woman. There was a lark singing—you said that was the voice of one's worship. The hills were very blue; that's why we had blue here, because it was the best dress of our country. ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... be true that we can't escape, but what of yourself, Weber? We're alone in the forest and I hold the whip hand. The score that I owe you is large. You may have wrecked the life of Mademoiselle Julie and perhaps you will destroy my own, but you said it would be three hours before the detachment arrived, and I need only a ...
— The Hosts of the Air • Joseph A. Altsheler
... lad, is it? If you said it was a fool he was, I'd have laid a mighty oath he was the likeness of my wandering son (uneasily, putting his hand to his head.) Faith, I'm thinking I'll go walking ...
— The Playboy of the Western World • J. M. Synge
... You said it, I didn't. Besides takin' her home with us today don't mean nothin', does it? A visit won't hurt us. Visits don't bind anybody to anything. Jumpin' Judas! I guess we've got room enough in the house to have one young-one come visitin' for—for a couple of days, if we want to. What are you ...
— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Three more counsel are to be heard, and next week the cause will be determined. I send you the Informations, or Cases, on each side, which I hope you will read. You said to me when we were under Sir Allan's hospitable roof, "I will help him with my pen." You said it with a generous glow; and though his Grace of Argyle did afterwards mount you upon an excellent horse, upon which "you looked like a Bishop[296]," you must not swerve from your purpose at Inchkenneth. I wish you may understand ...
— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell
... you said it than pretend to be enjoying everything and being at home, when you despise us all in your heart. You showed it this afternoon, and I know what you think of my father and mother and uncle, and all of us, although ...
— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin
... cried in English, 'remember your promise after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be silent! Oh, ...
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... remember!" exclaimed Charlie. "I remember how you said it was your job to take the chance because I, being an officer, was worth more to the cause and because the loss of a private didn't matter so ...
— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright
... good to lay a bit in the rinse-water," said Mrs. James, also leaning on the fence, "sorter whitens them's what I always say. I don't mind if I lend you a hand with the wringing after. What's turned out like you said it was going to?" ...
— The Incomplete Amorist • E. Nesbit
... mortification of it. You're a plain girl; you have got a crooked shoulder; you're only a housemaid—what do you mean by attempting to speak to Me?" You never uttered a word of that, Mr. Franklin; but you said it all to me, nevertheless! Is such madness as this to be accounted for? No. There is nothing to be done but to confess ...
— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins
... aren't going to hang that here, are you? It's so old-fashioned. You said it was old-fashioned yourself. I did want that thing that came this morning to be put somewhere here. Why can't you stick this in the spare room?... Unless, of course, you prefer...." She was being deferential to the art-expert in him, as ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... one that made you turn so white. You said it was from an old friend, though why a letter from an old friend should upset any one I can't make out. What was it ...
— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty
... not, and you were not. I am very glad you said it, and glad you like me," said Kate; and just then the party called the girl, and she hurried away, and I joined Kate. "Then you heard it all. That was worth having!" said she. "She was such an honest little soul, and I mean to look for her ...
— Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett
... told you, you said it was 'just a fancy name for being hypocritical.' But it isn't, a bit. Can't you try ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm - Novelised From the Play • David Belasco
... was not novelty, but it was good. This was what they had come West to see, but better—better! Better fifty times over than the tame affair which the world's championship heavy-weight bout at Denver had turned out to be. This was a fight. You said it—a fight! ...
— Winner Take All • Larry Evans
... fear hardening her heart. "The railroad would be a good thing for us—for the furnace. You know you said it would." ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde
... that, and I am glad you said it," she declared lightly enough, although her lips quivered for a moment. "And they have put exactly the right quantity of Maraschino in my grapefruit. I feel that I am on the way to happiness. I am going to enjoy my luncheon.—Tell ...
— The Great Prince Shan • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... bad luck; but what did you say when I fetched in the snake-skin that I found on the top of the ridge day before yesterday? You said it was the worst bad luck in the world to touch a snake-skin with my hands. Well, here's your bad luck! We've raked in all this truck and eight dollars besides. I wish we could have some bad luck like this ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... have an idea! Billy, you hold up the cart on that side, so it will run on the other wheel as the ponies draw it, and Cricket can lead them, and Edna and I will roll the wheel along. You said it wasn't far, Edna." ...
— Cricket at the Seashore • Elizabeth Westyn Timlow
... believe that," he acquiesced simply. "I'm glad you said it now. I couldn't rest until I got money enough to take her out of her pauper grave and lay her by the side of ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 • Various
... my Christian name yesterday you said it wouldn't do at all, and I was never to mention it again. In the absence of definite instructions about my surname I thought I had better pursue a cautious policy of waiting. I've told the chauffeur that he will know my name in due course ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett
... Thompson replied, "I daresay I could manage. You said it would be worth my while. What do I ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... a sober smile. "You said it was true that you did not wish me to be—fond of you. Why? Don't you like me ...
— Prudence of the Parsonage • Ethel Hueston
... when I was hungry and asked no return. I will show you I do not forget. Senor, there is twenty-five thousand dollars reward for that man. The officers will never find him; but I will take you to him, the reward is then yours, and justice overtakes Jose Martinez, as you said it would. Do ...
— At the Time Appointed • A. Maynard Barbour
... fish and she is going to marry him. Peggy, why won't you marry me? You know I've always loved you, Peggy, and now I can tell you so because Uncle Fred has left me all his money. You think a great deal about money, Peggy. You said it was the greatest thing in the world. And it must be, because it is the only thing—the only thing, Peggy—that has been strong enough to keep us apart. A part is never greater than the whole, Peggy, but I will explain about that when you open that desk. There ...
— The Eagle's Shadow • James Branch Cabell
... "Whatever it was, you said it, all right. Mrs. Marteen slept like a child, and there's color in her face to-day. See if you can do as well again. I'll give you ...
— Out of the Ashes • Ethel Watts Mumford
... off since you left New York," she said, softly. "You gave it to me four years ago. Do you remember? It was on my twenty-second birthday. You said it would take two months' salary ...
— The Call of the Canyon • Zane Grey
... egg. Two noises mixed! Yo, bad water,' said Taffy. ''Course I wouldn't drink that water because I'd know you said it was bad.' ...
— Just So Stories • Rudyard Kipling
... great-coat is a good thing, to be sure; and then, after the great-coat, as you said it would only cost half as much as the uniform, there would be some money to spare, would ...
— The Parent's Assistant • Maria Edgeworth
... "You said it!" exclaimed Bud. "I should let Buck Tooth tell it, instead of keeping him gassing away about the past. What's the ...
— The Boy Ranchers on the Trail • Willard F. Baker
... letters and mother's. Hers were full of all sorts of things, the very things that you never mentioned. She didn't say she was having a good time here, but it was plain enough that she was. You said it in every letter—that you were having the good time, I mean—but it was perfectly plain that you weren't. And her last letter was so short—she was so busy with the Atterbury preparations that she could not write more, she said—and ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... bad eminence," Keith would remark. "What did you say about the book I lent you the other day? You said it was morbid and indecent; you said that no clean-minded person would car to read it. And yet, after an unnecessary amount of arguing, you were forced to admit that the subject was interesting and that the ...
— South Wind • Norman Douglas
... "You said it would be dangerous for me to come here by myself," said Sir Richard, turning to Giles, as he entered another and even worse street. "Are they then ...
— Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished - A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure • R.M. Ballantyne
... you said it was all his own fault, and that you yourself would have given him the report that so nearly 'found him on demerit.' A report on suspicion, too," she adds, with scorn in ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... have its way in an explosive laugh: but seeing that Deronda looked gravely offended, he checked himself to say, "Excuse my laughing, Deronda. You never gave me an advantage over you before. If it had been about anything but my own pictures, I should have swallowed every word because you said it. And so you actually believe that I should get my five pictures hung on the line in a conspicuous position, and carefully studied by the public? Zounds, man! cider-cup and conceit never gave me half such a beautiful dream. My pictures are likely to remain as ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... salt spring. You said it was a path used by the deer and other animals, when they went to lick the ...
— The Desert Home - The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid
... you said it old fellow," shouted Hirzel, "I have knocked about all the stones in the neighbourhood with my stick, so was beginning to be at a loss for ...
— Legend of Moulin Huet • Lizzie A. Freeth
... you said it was perfectly agreeable to you to have me charter the Tillicum to them!" Matt roared, ...
— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne
... unusual terms, Miss Baxter," said the Chief; "but I accede to them, the more willingly as we have found that all the gold is still in the Treasury, as you said it was." ...
— Jennie Baxter, Journalist • Robert Barr
... picked up that suit-case I wasn't quite sure I had the right one. You know I went back for it after we left the train at New Brunswick, and you said it was the only one in the world with ...
— Patty at Home • Carolyn Wells
... mustn't be so politic with me," she said; "I'm not a campaign club. I know that sentiment you have just expressed is lofty and noble, and ought to be true, and I know we used to think it was true—three weeks ago I believed it when you said it; but this is now, dear. This is to-night, not three weeks ago, and I ...
— The Booming of Acre Hill - And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life • John Kendrick Bangs
... way you talked about it," Lone assured her. "It's because you were sick, I reckon. I wish you'd tell me as close as you can where you left that grip of yours. You said it was under a bush where a rabbit was sitting. I'd like to find the grip—but I'm afraid that ...
— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower
... "Why? Because you said it? Didn't know you had such a reputation." Sissy was recovering. "Never mind, Split," she added, heavily sarcastic and assuming a comforting air that maddened Irene, who desired nothing more than to impress her new suitor with the ...
— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson
... when you said it wasn't true, Mr. Glover," she said, and there was a reproach in her tone for which she hated ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... you sell? You said it wan't a question of price at all. You made your brags that it wan't! To me, over and over, you made 'em. And then you sneak ...
— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln
... the hands of the clock had moved! You said it had stopped, and I looked up. Then the next time I looked, the hands had moved around—two or ...
— The Boy Scouts on the Trail • George Durston
... "You said it all," muttered Pete, turning swiftly and trudging down the road. He would have liked to howl himself. Montoya's kindliness at parting—and his gift—had touched Pete deeply, but he had fought his ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... time," Mr. Montfort began, and was greeted with a chorus of disappointment. "Oh, Uncle John! You said it was true." ...
— Fernley House • Laura E. Richards
... for a Babel of bird-like voices. At last one more energetic than the rest, in her white dressing-gown and with her hair hanging loose, flew down the long oak-panelled corridor and knocked with might and main at her brother's door: "Walter! Walter! wake up! do! You said it would rain, and it doesn't rain! It is a lovely morning! ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various
... never thought of such a thing until two minutes before you said it. I am very sorry I did not, but ...
— The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers • Mary Cholmondeley
... you said it against your heart. Now you must feel that your conscience is clear. Mother, if I had to wander the world from place to place, without even a spot of ground on which to rest my foot, I would never, never do what you say. What! take my child to grow ...
— The Marriage of Elinor • Margaret Oliphant
... his big jaw, "get onto this: here's where I chip in with ye; from now on we're in this game together, an' I ain't a guy as'll lay down his hand till I'm called—an' called good, see? You said it was goin' t' be a man's work—by Jiminy Christmas, it looks like you're right; anyway, I stand in with you, ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... so many ladies present I can't hear you, but maybe if you said it outside I could," the deputy suggested gently, a gleam of steely anger ...
— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine
... not that wonderful? You said the truth when you said it was a blessed woman that ...
— Poets and Dreamers - Studies and translations from the Irish • Lady Augusta Gregory and Others
... when you said it. Well, then, Peaches, we'll go back to our hole yonder. It's reasonable to suppose that fellers hustlin' to dig it and without any too much time wouldn't make it any bigger than they had to. How about ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White
... I ever saw," Stoner declared, admiringly. Mallow spoke last, but he spoke with conviction. "You said it, Brick. I had his number from the start. He's a master crook, and—it'll pay us all ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... her pain she thrilled with pride at the discovery that such a possibility had long since become unthinkable to him. But she insisted. "That day at the Fulmers'—have you forgotten? When you said it would be sheer madness ...
— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton
... again and went to her; drawing off her glove she felt her cheek with the back of her hand. 'You are ill, you are in a fever. I'm sure that whatever you said it was very charming.' ...
— A London Life; The Patagonia; The Liar; Mrs. Temperly • Henry James
... "You said it! But allee samee, it's good to be moving again, ain't it? There's ginger in the air, Barry. Smells like something going to happen, to me. Good. Let 'er come! I'm tired of being fed with a medicine spoon, and only ...
— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle
... jack-rabbits. Jack-rabbits is ter'ble fierce. Guess you'd most be skeered to death at a skippin' lamb bleatin' fer its mother. Can't say I ever heerd tell as a feller need be skeered of a pair o' gal's eyes, nor a sight o' red ha'r. You said it was red, Pete, didn't you? I'd sure say a bright feller don't need to worry any over talkin' pretty to a gal like that. She's up agin a proposition if she thinks she ken skeer me. Wher' is she? Jest call her out. She's ...
— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum
... it that way," laughed Jeanette, "for Aunt Charlotte wouldn't let you. You said it just as if you'd said, 'Here is a great, big ...
— Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times • Amy Brooks
... where we're going to live, of course," rejoined Pollyanna, in obvious surprise. "I THOUGHT you meant here, at first. You said it was here that you had wanted Aunt Polly's hand and heart all these years to make a ...
— Pollyanna • Eleanor H. Porter
... simple," Guth told him. "We are equal partners in the Lulu—we have been, ever since the day my store burned. It was a little thing you said to me then, but the way you said it, the fact that you didn't blame me, gave me new heart. Did you think I'd renig?" When Folsom found no answer the other nodded slowly. "I see. You probably said, 'That Guth is a Jew and he'll do me up if he can.' ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... poor, irresolute, frightened chap, who had had everything but his orphan life scared out of him when he was young, and that he had no voice in the choice of his wife even, but his uncle chose her. There she sits! I heerd it in my dreams, and you said it to her own self.' ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... moved, and was about to speak; but she held up her hand beseechingly, and said, "Let me go on—let me go on. You said it costs me little to act as I proposed to act. Think, Sherbrooke, think what it does really cost me. Even were I all selfishness, how bitter is the part that I have assigned myself to play! To pass my time ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... is twelve o'clock. You go home; you eat: you repose. At three o'clock, I pay you a visit. Why not? You said it yourself the other day, but I could not decide. Now I have decided. I pay you a visit; you receive me privately—can you not? We ...
— The Crown of Life • George Gissing
... "I get you. It was Fenton who decorated you with that 'shanty.' Well, well." He looked at the other speculatively and added: "But I thought you said it was dark. How did ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist • John T. McIntyre
... my picture. But you said it was your mother—that must have been my Aunt Jessie! And you are my cousin, then? I have heard grandpapa speak of you. But you don't look bad, and he said——" and there she suddenly stopped, while Owen's face flushed angrily with a sudden wave ...
— Canoe Mates in Canada - Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan • St. George Rathborne
... the matter for all time. Doubtless you were right when you said it was nonsense; you ought to know. Changing the subject, I think I'll like Brussels if I stay here long enough." He was again nonchalant, indifferent. Under her mask of unconcern she felt a trifle piqued that he did not persist in his endeavor to learn ...
— Castle Craneycrow • George Barr McCutcheon
... the matter with that? You said it yourself. And look out how you go peddlin' names around here. You think nobody knows anything but you! You're the little boy that invented flyin'—got the idea from yore own head, by thunder, when it swelled up like a balloon with self-conceit! ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... calm again now. When people die at Mota, you know they make a great shouting, but soon forget the dead person. But I am able to be quiet and calm now, as you talk to me about God and Jesus Christ. Yes, He rose again. Death is not the end. I know you said it is for those who repent and believe in Christ the Door to enter into life eternal. How different it ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "You said it out loud," answered Father Time. "But it wouldn't have mattered, anyway. You said that Christmas was all played ...
— Frenzied Fiction • Stephen Leacock
... what it costs you to be mixed up in such contemptible complications. I, for my part, can scarcely bear to have you know so much about me—and what I am come to. That is my real punishment, Phil—not what you said it was. ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... an entry in a notebook in a businesslike manner. "As you said it was a subscription, you'll hear from us next year. In answer to your question, it's an ancient custom, and it has the advantage that you get in ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss
... mother, that these transactions have been going on for nearly two years. Do you remember, when I gave you that large sum at Christmas, you said it would 'all but' clear you; and when I gave you another large sum last month, you professed to be entirely cleared? Yet all the time you were receiving these letters, and you owed this fellow almost as much as you do now. Do you think it was worth while ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. I • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... You said the money was in the soil, not on top of it. I remember you looked like a prophet when you said it," Cyrus Bennington declared. "But I was wild to get rich quick and let my soil go. I never look at Aydelot's spreading acres of wheat increasing in area every year without wondering why the Lord let me be ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter
... Dunstan," she flung at him. "The church-bells were tolling for him when I rode away. I could not stay to hear them. It killed me—I loved him. You were right when you said it. I loved him, though he never knew. I shall always love him—though he never knew. He knows now. Those who died cannot go away when THAT is holding them. They must stay. Because I loved him, he may be in this place. I call on him——" raising ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... so, Dmitri Fyodorovitch. You said it before Andrey. Andrey himself is still here. Send for him. And in the hall, when you were treating the chorus, you shouted straight out that you would leave your sixth thousand here—that is with ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... "It's all you said it was, and that is all I could ask for. We can run a tunnel right in now, so we can work straight along, under cover, in ...
— Two Arrows - A Story of Red and White • William O. Stoddard
... "you said it was time you grew up. For the present I will tell you this: Several months before I met you, I made a speech in which I named some of the organised forces of evil in the city. One was Tammany Hall, and another was the Traction Trust, and another ...
— Sylvia's Marriage • Upton Sinclair
... to get the work started," he was continuing. "The Federation Government felt that an old hand should do that. Well, it's started, now; you and Tony and whoever come out on the Schiaparelli must carry it on. You said it, yourself; you have a whole new world. This is only one city, of the last Martian civilization. Behind this, you have the Late Upland Culture, and the Canal Builders, and all the civilizations and races and empires before them, clear back to the Martian Stone Age." He hesitated for a moment. ...
— Omnilingual • H. Beam Piper
... to talk, he took off his coat and sat down astride a chair. "Well, Mr. Grady, when you came here before you said it was to warn me, but the next time you came you were going to begin ...
— Calumet "K" • Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster
... Richard. He's the cleanest, straightest man that ever breathed. He'd no idea who I was. He hasn't now. He never knew my name till you said it. I forced myself upon him the other day. I forced myself upon him to-night. And he's—he's just turned me down.... He said what he did just now to try and shield me. But he's blameless. It was I ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
... interrupted him: "Got it, Orne! They caught the Delphinus on the ground right where you said it'd be! Blew the tubes off it. Marines ...
— Missing Link • Frank Patrick Herbert
... can't help cancer, and they can—at least I think so—help your sort of illness. Louis, I saw the two people I love best on earth dying. One of them died of cancer, the other of drink. I wasn't going to tell you that. But when you said it was in your family I was going to tell you that was no argument. It's been in my family for generations and generations. I suppose it's in everyone's to some extent. It has wiped out all my family. But ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... have chucked the guns away we might have got a chance at something to-day," growled Jeff, when his breakfast was done. "I could make a roast dingo look foolish this morning, and I'm none so sure I couldn't eat the brute raw if I got him. You said it was dingoes got Jock last ...
— Finn The Wolfhound • A. J. Dawson
... But when you had told the whole story, you said it was a joke and there was nothing in it. And I was fool enough to believe you. No, this ...
— Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works • Kaalidaasa
... "Hey, you said it's got scanning and decision-making elements. That means your tickler thinks, even by your fancy standards. And if it thinks, ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... bird, Nat, that you saw in the cedar tree, where you said it was 'sitting about doing nothing,'" continued ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
... "You said it!" cried Laura, making a rush for lower floor with Billie and Violet not very far behind her. "And it isn't going to be more than about two minutes before I taste that ...
— Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance - The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners • Janet D. Wheeler
... self-satisfied even to suspect that she might be imposing her bounty upon me, starving herself that I might have all I required, and sending me off here finally with the last penny she had in the world. I told you I was wondering she did not answer my letters. I expect she hadn't the stamp. But you said it was out of sight out of mind, and she'd be trying it on with some one else in my absence. If I'd the strength, I'd thrash you, ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand
... "You said it," said Roy; "they're not passing around famines up at her house. Where do you think we're going? To Russia? Minerva's got the Sandwich Islands green with envy. What's the use of spoiling refreshments by eating ...
— Pee-Wee Harris Adrift • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... "You said it ought to keep very cool, so I threw it into the deep pool. 'Tain't my fault," retorted Susannah, who had a temper as well as ...
— For the Sake of the School • Angela Brazil
... human! Although I was afraid, I felt all the passion hate can rouse. You declared I must stay with you, because I durst not go back; I had broken rules and my fastidious relations would have no more to do with me. Something like that! In a sense, it wasn't true; but you said it with brutal coarseness. When I struck you I meant to hurt; I looked ...
— Lister's Great Adventure • Harold Bindloss
... passed my life among the animals that are called men in those parts, I wanted just once to see the real man who said 'The whole misery of humanity seizes upon me'—and other things like that. I knew it—but now I hear it. 'His Excellency!' Wonderful! And how beautifully you said it, my dear lady. One could see him standing stiffly before one. And I wanted to go in and take him by the hand and say, 'God, I thank Thee that for once Thou hast created something rational, so that people may believe in Thee with a good conscience—for most of Thine images here on earth—well, I don't ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various
... aware I had ever requested any help from Mr. Winston," she returned clearly, her slight form held erect. "Your following after Albrecht was entirely voluntary, but I naturally presumed the money you brought back belonged to me. You said it did, and hence I supposed it could be disposed ...
— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish
... "You're so confoundedly clever. Uncle Winthrop. You—you just put the whole thing up to the poor woman. I can't pick out a word to show where you said it, but the tone of your letter is exactly this, 'Here's the money for you, and if you take it you're doing an unheard-of thing.' She saw it right enough. Her answer is just defence of why she has to ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various
... were scattering flowers on graves of their loved ones; and then it was understood why Chester Howland sang while the thundering cannon shook the wards. Soon for him there would be no weary marches, no days of terror and nights of pain. Ah, precious gold-star mother, rightly have you said it seems that he is just "away." The home he once brightened and filled with the beauty of his presence shall know him no more; but think to what radiant fields he has gone, for which you early taught him to prepare! ...
— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand
... like 'cheri' ever so much better. I like it better than 'mon cousin' or any name, because, do you know," he added, dropping his voice a little, "I remember now, though I had forgotten till you said it—that was the name mamma ...
— The Tapestry Room - A Child's Romance • Mrs. Molesworth
... it. You said it. Did I ever tell you about the Navajo squaw that some of the women up here, stopping over at Albuquerque, fitted out ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... "You said it!" shouted Slim Degnan, and Babe added his voice to the din, the while starting one of the ...
— The Boy Ranchers - or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X • Willard F. Baker
... "there's not a doubt of it! Barker has just marked the window himself. It's a good deal broader than any bootmark. I mind that you said it was a splay-foot, and here's the explanation. But what's the ...
— The Valley of Fear • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... in cabin and forecastle!" her voice broke and her hands covered her eyes. "O Geoffry, must we stay aboard? The thought is terrible; besides, you said it ...
— Wolves of the Sea • Randall Parrish
... Instead of receiving some miraculous manifestation, you came to me and led me gently to a seat by ourselves. And there you talked to me. It was not so much what you said, but the spirit by which you said it that soothed and quieted and rested me. You repeated to me some verses, do you remember? I had you write them out, and I ...
— Added Upon - A Story • Nephi Anderson
... "You said it," Jack agreed, stretching his lazy length on the grass at her feet. "The hill has formed a sort of shallow precipice and the lake sure does look ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... unfair, dear; you know that I am sorry. But what can I do, what can any one do for men who talk such nonsense as those fellows in that hall? 'Seize London and the Government'—you said it was that, didn't you?—well, they're much more likely to get brain fever and wake up in the hospital. That's what I shall tell your father if he asks me. And, Lois, how can you and I talk about anything ...
— Aladdin of London - or Lodestar • Sir Max Pemberton
... the reason Harry gave for not choosing to speak when he was asked, and you said it was a good one; and you like him for his courage, don't ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... families are long-lived. Do you remember, when we got engaged, how you said it was so awfully serious, because all the women in your family lived ...
— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan
... that sort! You mustn't talk to me that way. There's nothing to be sorry for about me. Any man may lose his nerve, and, if he is a man, go after it and get it back again. Every man has a fighting chance. You said it yourself once—that a man mustn't ask for a fighting chance; he must take it. And I'm going to take it and win ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers
... he again faced the range. Overland heard and smiled. "You said it all," he muttered. "You said ...
— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... You said it was final; and so it was, in a very different sense. I knew it had not been there the day before. I pay a good deal of attention to matters of detail, as you may have observed, and I had examined the hall and was sure that the wall was clear. Therefore, it had been ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle
... comic talk about me enlisting because of your telling me to. I'd written my father I was going at the first chance a month and a half before that day when you said it. My mind was made up at the first time there was any talk of war, and you had about as much responsibility for my going as some little sparrow or something. Of course I don't mean I didn't pay any attention to the different things you said, because I always did, and I used to ...
— Ramsey Milholland • Booth Tarkington
... right well and forcibly you said it. I'm grateful to you. I make no mistake, I think, if your statement wasn't in reply to some idle tale told your good wife and repeated by her to you—in confidence, of course, as between man ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... on the bench beside him. "There's been so much mystery, and I suppose it was nothing, after all. What was it all about? Or do you know—eh? Fifteen years ago you came to see my father, and now you have come to see me—all in the light o' the moon, as it were; like a villain in a play. Ah, yes, you said it was to make an experiment—yet you didn't know what oxygen was! It's foolish making experiments, unless you know what you are playing with, Soolsby. See, here are two glasses." He held them up. "If I poured one into the other, we'd have an experiment—and you and I would be picked ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... Aunt Judith!" he cried, "I've done it, and it's right! You said it was better for me to do everything that I could do, by studying and ...
— Princess Polly's Gay Winter • Amy Brooks
... been expected to think of this; but I didn't. I suppose it's what you meant when you said that there were sides to the question that I didn't see. You said it, too, papa. I wish you ...
— The Street Called Straight • Basil King
... "You said it," Old Tarwater remarked sententiously, tossing the single-tree aside and starting to struggle ...
— The Red One • Jack London
... not shown me the courtesy or the sympathy you have had for the worst criminals that ever faced you. You amazed every man that was in this room, because at one time—if not now—they were my friends. It wasn't what you said. It was how you said it. Whenever there was an inclination on their part to believe, you killed it—not honestly and squarely, by giving me a chance. Whenever you saw a chance for me to win a point, you fell back upon the law. ...
— The Valley of Silent Men • James Oliver Curwood
... Can't you understand? I was married to another man.... You need not look like that! What did you expect? I warned you. I knew I could never defy mother. I told you so. But you said it wouldn't be long—that she need never know. And I waited and waited. I could have married more than once but I wouldn't. I faced mother and said I wouldn't. But every time it was harder. I couldn't keep ...
— Up the Hill and Over • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay |
