"I'm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "I'm telling you what the Colonel himself told me," I answered, and ran on. "Davy, darlin'!" I heard him calling after me as I turned the corner, but ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... dreadful?" the voice of Mrs. Bodewin Ranger said, at Edith's elbow. "I'm really getting too old to trust myself in such ...
— The Philistines • Arlo Bates
... "I'm complimented by your impatience, Nuwell," she said. "But there is a good reason for waiting, for me. When we're married, I want to be your wife, completely. I want to keep your home and mother your children. Don't you ...
— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay
... put upon us like tame cattle, As if th' had routed us in battle? For my part, it shall ne'er be said, 255 I for the washing gave my bead: Nor did I turn my back for fear O' th' rascals, but loss of my Bear, Which now I'm like to undergo; For whether those fell wounds, or no 260 He has receiv'd in fight, are mortal, Is more than all my skill can foretell Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome. But if I can but find them out 265 That caus'd it (as ...
— Hudibras • Samuel Butler
... said Clare, having eaten his half loaf, "I'm going out to look for work, and you must take care of baby. You're not to feed her—you would only choke her, ...
— A Rough Shaking • George MacDonald
... "Oh, yes! I'm sure I could!" cried Pollyooly eagerly; and her eyes shone with a bright joy at the prospect of so excellent a game of hide-and-seek. "If once I got into that wood, they'd never find me unless I let them. ...
— Happy Pollyooly - The Rich Little Poor Girl • Edgar Jepson
... he asked tranquilly, rising to shake hands. 'You've had a grand success, I'm learning. I read the notice ...
— Despair's Last Journey • David Christie Murray
... "Very pleasant, I'm sure," Norgate remarked, curling himself up in his corner. "Personally, I can't see why we can't make our own crockery. I get tired of seeing ...
— The Double Traitor • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... "I'm so glad; now Sancho will like it. There's a poodle that might be his ownty donty brother—the one with the blue ribbon," said Bab, beaming with delight as the dogs took their seats in ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 - Scribner's Illustrated • Various
... "I'm getting Uncle John his breakfast to be sure, Joe," she answered. "Have you seen so many sights this morning that you don't know breakfast, when you see it? Have a care there, for hot fat WILL burn," as she deftly poured the contents of a pan, ...
— Twilight Stories • Various
... beauty! She came with a little dark man—her husband, I'm sure; for while she was taking off her cloak—it always takes some time—he didn't say a word to her. No eagerness, no little attentions. Yes, he could only be a husband. I examined the cloak. People one doesn't know puzzle me and my colleague. ...
— Parisian Points of View • Ludovic Halevy
... Texas didn't show me any mercy; but Bob Evans knew the difference between a railroad-train and a torpedo-boat, and didn't shoot. I told him, the last time I saw him, that he was clearly entitled to take a crack at me. Every other ship in the fleet had had the privilege, and it was his turn. I'm the only man in the navy," he said, with renewed laughter, "who has ever sustained the fire of a whole fleet of battle-ships and cruisers and ...
— Campaigning in Cuba • George Kennan
... lady; 'mother made me have my Christian name printed. She said all but the daughters of the head of the family ought to have it so. I'm glad of it.' ...
— Nuttie's Father • Charlotte M. Yonge
... sun, Like him to drive the wain, And, ere my work is done, I sing a song or twain. I follow the plough-tail With a bottle of ale. On every saint's day With the minstrel I'm seen, All footing away With the maids on the green. But oh, I wish to be more great, In honour, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXII. - June, 1843.,Vol. LIII. • Various
... the year your committee has worked on the problem of setting up a judging schedule for black walnuts, mainly through correspondence. Unfortunately, it has not been possible to get together for discussion. Had we done so, I'm sure we could have achieved close agreement upon essentials. As it is, there are several phases of the problem upon which we would like the judgment of the association members. As far as this group here is concerned, I am quite sure that we can't profitably go into a discussion of the various ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report - at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 • Various
... that would leave two lonely ones; and maybe, too, she was thinking that she herself would never be having Bryde (for another reason), and that would make three lonely ones. As for being all in the family—well, if she could not be having Bryde, she could be having his cousin, and I'm thinking that not the half of an acre of land was even in her mind at all. But it would not do to be telling that to a man that would just ...
— The McBrides - A Romance of Arran • John Sillars
... suspicion that people are laughing in their sleeves over the slight put upon her makes her feel sick and faint with shame, and just then a friendly hand places a chair for her and a kind voice says: "I'm awfully sorry you missed that chance, for I'm quite sure you would do the part far and away better than that milliner's block will. But don't distress yourself, your chance will come, and you will know how to make the ...
— Stage Confidences • Clara Morris
... Massa, He giv me de pass to go to de city Hurra, for good ole Missis, She bile de pot, and giv me de licker. Hurra, I'm ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
... have some of your new roles on the brain," went on Ruth. "I know I've been doing a lot of thinking over mine. They are nearly all nice ones, I'm glad to say, but I don't like the parts we have to take in the shipwreck. Fancy having actually to jump into ...
— The Moving Picture Girls at Sea - or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real • Laura Lee Hope
... Tom," I said. "You know, there's always a bite and a sup and a bed, whenever you come hither. Good by. God knows, I'm sorry to ...
— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan
... brightest mining-engineers, and the apple of Guggenheim's eye. You arrived this afternoon from Constanza, and I met you at the packet. The clothes for the part are in your bedroom next door. But I guess all that can wait, for I'm anxious to get to business. We're not here on a joy-ride, Major, so I reckon we'll leave out the dime-novel adventures. I'm just dying to hear them, but they'll keep. I want to know how our mutual inquiries ...
— Greenmantle • John Buchan
... to blame, Sir Peter, because flowers are dear in cold weather? You should find fault with the climate, and not with me. For my part, I'm sure I wish it was spring all the year round, and that ...
— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education
... to do much selling that afternoon. The prize-winning salesman, too, is delighted to secure a big order. But he doesn't say to himself, "That will put me 'way ahead on the sales record for today." Instead he grins and thinks, "This is my day. I'm going to fatten up my batting average while I'm going good." Success is pepper to him, not the poppy drug that ...
— Certain Success • Norval A. Hawkins
... I'm grown-up," was Tim's verdict, "I'll be a soldger just exactly the same, only not yellow, and taller, and not so thick in the middle, and much, much richer, and with C.B. in front of my name as well as ...
— The Extra Day • Algernon Blackwood
... breathing hard; your hand trembles; your pulse beats quickly. There's something amiss—I'm sure there is. Now, what is ...
— The House of Whispers • William Le Queux
... I'm weary of thinking, Said the sad-eyed Hindoo king, And I see but shadows around me, ...
— A Man and a Woman • Stanley Waterloo
... when you are spoken to and acting like a gawky girl. What ails you?" Tom Willard laughed good-naturedly. "Well, I guess you'll get over it," he said. "I told Will that. You're not a fool and you're not a woman. You're Tom Willard's son and you'll wake up. I'm not afraid. What you say clears things up. If being a newspaper man had put the notion of becoming a writer into your mind that's all right. Only I guess you'll have to wake up to do ...
— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson
... was too modest—but in running so fast that, obedient to the laws of centrifugal motion, the snake waved out behind him like a flag. The village wits are not so shy. The young ladies, like Betsy Ward, say, "If you mean getting hitched, I'm on." The public is not above the most practical jokes, and a good deal of the amusement is derived from the extreme dryness, the countrified slowness of the narrative. The humorists are Puritans at bottom, as well as rustics. ...
— Lost Leaders • Andrew Lang
... If doughty deeds my lady please I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden If Thou survive my well-contented day If to be absent were to be If women could be fair, and yet not fond I have had playmates, I have had companions I heard a thousand blended notes I met a traveller from an antique land I'm wearing awa', Jean In a drear-nighted December In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining In the sweet shire of Cardigan I remember, I remember I saw where in the shroud did lurk It is a beauteous evening, calm ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... 'Oh! I'm so glad that he got another kantele,' cried little Mimi, delighted. 'And now what is coming ...
— Finnish Legends for English Children • R. Eivind
... such a mystery, I cannot find it out; For when I think I'm best resolved, I then am ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... indite. My work is framed by Muses torn and rude, And my sad cheeks are with true tears bedewed: For these alone no terror could affray From being partners of my weary way. The art that was my young life's joy and glory Becomes my solace now I'm old and sorry; Sorrow has filched my youth from me, the thief! My days are numbered not by time but Grief.[79] Untimely hoary hairs cover my head, And my loose skin quakes on my flesh half dead. O happy death, that ...
— The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
... again. Hospital. But this time I'm flourishing. No more wooden barracks, but a farmhouse right in the fields. I have a room all to myself. Quite correct: I downed three Fritzes, one ablaze, and the next day again great sport: mistook four Boches for Frenchmen. At first fought three of them, then one alone at 3200 to 800 meters. ...
— Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux
... care to hear exactly how he puts it, he says I'm damned lucky, Mrs. Tresslyn. Of course, you are not to assume that I agree with him. If I thought all this was Anne's doing and not yours, I should say that I am lucky, but I can't believe—good heavens, I will ...
— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon
... dhrop of the cratur', we should have lived like princes. One thing there was which the Indians had not carried off, and that was a wheel-barrow. When Klitz saw it, 'We will go to California!' says he. Says I, 'I'm the boy for it!' So, as we had our muskets and a few rounds of ammunition, afther drying the mutton and making some other necessary preparations we set off. The Indians had left the country, and no one stopped ...
— In the Rocky Mountains - A Tale of Adventure • W. H. G. Kingston
... other people dependent on me, and I don't choose to be such a mean skunk as to run away myself and leave other people here to suffer. Besides, it's a sort of point of honour. As I'm here, I'm going to play the game. All I say is that the game is not worth the playing; and you will never persuade me into the belief that ...
— The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue • G. Lowes Dickinson
... an annuity of seventy pounds a year.' Indeed his openness with people at a first interview was remarkable. He said once to Mr. Langton, 'I think I am like Squire Richard in The Journey to London, "I'm never strange in a strange place."' He was truly SOCIAL. He strongly censured what is much too common in England among persons of condition,—maintaining an absolute silence, when unknown to each other; as ...
— Life of Johnson - Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood • James Boswell
... was a wonderful trip. You'll have to tell us all the particulars this evening. I suppose you are as hungry as bears just now. Tom is, I'm sure." ...
— The Rover Boys in Camp - or, The Rivals of Pine Island • Edward Stratemeyer
... Here I'm sitting in the gloom Of my quiet attic room. France goes rolling all around, Fledged with forest May has crowned. And I puff my pipe, calm-hearted, Thinking how the fighting started, Wondering when we'll ever end it, Back ...
— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 - Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh • Various
... father if you can't spend the winter in Boston with me. I'm sure there'll be another course of Parlor Philosophy next winter. But how dreadful that we must stop talking about it now to dress for dinner! You are going to have company, you said; ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 • Various
... finalize the atmospheric tests. Oxygen, nitrogen, helium, with trace gases. Those trace gases are stinkers. Bishop discovered a new inert gas, heavier than Xenon. He's excited. I'm currently checking stuff that looks like residual organic, and am not too happy about it. Still, ...
— Competition • James Causey
... adieu—I've chirp'd too long, Must leave the finish of my song To some more learned bird's son; Whose mellow notes can charm the ear With no discordant chatter near; So now, dear Sir, I'm your sincere And ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 388 - Vol. 14, No. 388, Saturday, September 5, 1829. • Various
... kin keep on talkin' ef you want to," said the shiftless one, "but ez fur me I'm a man o' sense, a lazy man who don't work when he don't hev to, ...
— The Keepers of the Trail - A Story of the Great Woods • Joseph A. Altsheler
... we heard a rollicking shout, As the swing boats hurtled over our heads to the tune of the roundabout; And 'Little Boy Blue, come blow up your horn,' we heard the showmen cry, And 'Dickery Dock, I'm as good as a clock,' we ...
— Giant Hours With Poet Preachers • William L. Stidger
... now flowing, I'm touching the wave, I hear the loud call of "The Mighty to Save"; My faith's growing bolder—delivered I'll be— I plunge 'neath the ...
— The Authoritative Life of General William Booth • George Scott Railton
... a fairy. I was wild and contrary. I'm still wild and contrary. But her heart's a heart for two. She sees rooms of starry graces, Kind firelight on our faces, And a watch on sleeping fairies, And the fairy home come true. Once again, with gentle evening And the ...
— Perpetual Light • William Rose Benet
... "You'll have to, I'm afraid," said Clephane with the kindly air of a doctor soothing a refractory patient. "Of course, you can take a spell at ...
— The Politeness of Princes - and Other School Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... eye on a bench facing Green Park," he replied. "It is a favourite locality for the impecunious philosopher. In other words I don't know where I'm going but I have a pretty solid conviction that one of these days I shall get there. There are two empty trunks in my bedroom which I should be ...
— Men of Affairs • Roland Pertwee
... once a part of her body almost. I feel better this way.... Would you believe it? I've actually deserted my dressing-table, and the perfume I used lies all forsaken and forlorn. Fresh water, plenty of fresh water ... that's what I like. I'm a long way from the Leonora who had to paint herself every night like a clown before she could appear before an audience. Take a good look at me! Well ... what do you think? You might mistake me for one of your vassals ...
— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... ruefully. "It never does. Nobody seems to think a girl can seriously attempt to run a cattle-ranch—even the way I'm trying to run it, with a capable foreman to look after things. Sometimes ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... There, that's it—not too fast now; not too fast. Ah, he has begun to move again, Aranjuez. Don't hoist that signal any farther; if he only keeps as he is going for another ten minutes he will be under our guns. Oh, good luck, good luck! he's coming along at full speed, or I'm ...
— Under the Chilian Flag - A Tale of War between Chili and Peru • Harry Collingwood
... couple of hours more we step ashore at Fairlawn, where we find the carriage waiting to take us over the twelve remaining miles of our journey. The road, like the marsh, may seem lonely and tedious to you, but I know every turn and bend of it, and the trees are all old friends. I'm sure I know that green heron which "skowks" to me as he springs from the rail of the bridge, and there is something familiar in the bark of the black squirrel which has just rushed up that pine. Hark! that was the yelp of a turkey. Stop the horses for a moment and we may see them. One, two, four, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, - No. 97, January, 1876 • Various
... "there's one thing I'm inclined to think: that whoever was the means of bringing shame and disgrace upon poor Granua will get a touch of his middogue that won't fail as the first did. Shawn now knows his man, and, with the help of God, I hope he won't miss his ...
— The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... "I'm glad to hear that, because I shouldn't think of doing it. I mean to go on asking her, over and over again, until ...
— The Path to Honour • Sydney C. Grier
... winds and Neptune's waves Have tossed me to and fro: By God's decree, you plainly see, I'm harbored here below. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various
... before I go to walk, I want your promise to take Santuzza to live with you. Now that is all! I'm off. Good-bye, God bless you, mother. I love you very much." Before she hardly knew what had happened, Turiddu was off and away. She ran to the side of the square and called after him, but he did not return. ...
— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
... his wife, a week but only four, When, mournfu' as I sat on the stane at the door, I saw my Jamie's ghaist—I couldna think it he, Till he said, "I'm come hame, love, ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various
... the clerks going out may have seen that it was bolted. Wouldn't he have pushed the bolt back? I'm going to see." ...
— The Girl and The Bill - An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure • Bannister Merwin
... smash a china bowl; To carry off expensive clocks My tender conscience sears and shocks; I really don't enjoy at all Hacking to bits a panelled hall, Rare books with priceless bindings burning, Or boudoirs into cesspools turning. My heart invariably bleeds When I'm engaged upon these deeds, And teardrops of the largest size Fall from my heav'n-aspiring eyes. But, though my sorrow is unfeigned, Still discipline must be maintained; And, when the High Command says, "Smash, Bedaub with filth, loot, hack and slash," I do it (much against the grain) Because, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 4, 1917 • Various
... "God knows I'm doing all in my power to save my dear old friend Poland," said the physician huskily, and then he shook his head as if he had little ...
— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe
... Decide that for myself," he retorted with a lame effort at dignity which he was unable to sustain. His eyes fell from mine. "Besides, I'm almost quite certain that the last time it was the melon. ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... curse me, are you, for not having let you be, And for taking the trouble to pull you out when your wife was drowned in the sea? I'm inclined to think you are right—there was not much sense in it; But there was no time to think—the thing was done in a minute. You had not gone very far in; you had fainted where you were found, You're the sort of fellow that likes to drown with his toe on the ground. However, you ...
— The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. - A Judge of the High Court of Justice • Sir Leslie Stephen
... little tenderly, and he continued more confidently. 'But I'm glad to say there is no longer any question of waiting. My father has consented to settle four hundred a year upon me, the same sum as your brother proposes to settle on you. We can be married when ...
— Celibates • George Moore
... said Lord Fawn. "I'm afraid, however, there are a great many people who don't think so. Your cousin Greystock would do anything on earth to turn ...
— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope
... "I'm not marked with it. I've got a birthmark, but it's a strawberry, on my left side, like the princesses have ...
— The Wishing Moon • Louise Elizabeth Dutton
... leddy—as thrue as the blessed gospel. I'm afeered she's dyin' if yer honour's glory won't lend us ...
— Gladys, the Reaper • Anne Beale
... Falls is th' first," answered Bob, adding uncertainly: "I'm 'feared you'll find th' work on th' river wearisome, not bein' used t' un—th' portagin' an' trackin'. ...
— The Gaunt Gray Wolf - A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob • Dillon Wallace
... sometimes, and then those who see the explosion despise me, and I hate myself for days afterwards . . . I have just received your epistle and what accompanied it. I can't tell what should induce you and your sisters to waste your kindness on such a one as me. I'm obliged to them, and I hope you'll tell them so. I'm obliged to you also, more for your note than for your present. The first gave me pleasure, the ...
— The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 • Elizabeth Gaskell
... old or young, rich or poor, fat or lean, I'm a ginooine malefactor o' the human race, a honor to my profession; in fact I'm an eye doctor, and if you've weak eyes, as I ...
— Five Thousand Dollars Reward • Frank Pinkerton
... smoke with me? 'Your granny was Murray!'—you're sojering. You're first mate; you belong on the bridge in storms. I'm before the mast. Tend ...
— Quaint Courtships • Howells & Alden, Editors
... publisher." This evoked a hollow laugh from him. "A business claim, call it," she pursued. "Ursula does a lot for me: I live on her for half the year. This dress I've got on now is one she gave me. Her motor is going to take me to a dinner to-night. I'm going to spend next summer with her at Newport.... If I don't, I've got to go to ...
— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton
... in your wits, Katrina, Make your food smack sourly?—Well, this time, It's serious with me. I believe I'm caught. ...
— Emblems Of Love • Lascelles Abercrombie
... be possible that some cunning rascal has invented an entirely new process," he said. "But anyway, I'm prepared to swear to the genuineness of this signature. There is only one other way to account for the whole business, and as a sane man who has long come to years of discretion, I am almost afraid to mention it to a business ...
— The Slave of Silence • Fred M. White
... you get taking on like that, Mr Jack, sir," said the man earnestly. "That is being chicken-'arted. I'm all right. These two holes in my arm don't burn so; don't burn at all. Feel as if I hadn't got no arm that side. But I ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn
... dollars if you can spare it. Fact is I'm a little hard up, and I've got a bill to meet. I have some money invested but I can't put my hands on it just this minute. I'll pay you in a week or so as soon as I get some cash—I wouldn't ask you, only my father is so blamed reluctant ...
— The Four Pools Mystery • Jean Webster
... I'm all over wonder. Surely the kitchen must be somewhere under? But where's the room?—the matchless little chamber, With its dark ceiling, and its light of amber— That fairy den, by Price's pencil ...
— A Walk from London to Fulham • Thomas Crofton Croker
... whispering hope and peace, 'twere my choice To be thus smitten deaf and blind! Fill me with light and music from above, And so inspire with truth, faith, courage, love, That Thou and man my work can well approve— Father, to all I'm then resigned! ...
— The World As I Have Found It - Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl • Mary L. Day Arms
... you have won her already," said the little woman. "And so you have, too; her heart is all your own, and I'm half inclined to think that my trouble will be thrown away, for if you had never a wedding robe to give her, she'd rather have you this minute than all the kings of Erin, or than all the other princes and kings and chieftains in the whole ...
— The Golden Spears - And Other Fairy Tales • Edmund Leamy
... wore check ap'ons? The one lad as growed up in your house? And the other lad as I helped to resky myself when the schooner Blue Bird was wrecked on the shore?' But there! It's no use talking. People say I'm getting too old for my office. Well, let 'em. I mean to hold on to it as long as I can read a warrant or ride a horse. If only to pervent some one taking my place who will be hard on skipple-skapple young ...
— Her Mother's Secret • Emma D. E. N. Southworth
... a programme. I'm only thinking out loud. I see little hope of doing anything so long as we choose to be ruled by an obsolete remark made by ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I • Burton J. Hendrick
... "I'm glad I did," answered the girl with a rare smile, again placing her arms about his neck and drawing his face down to hers; "for I love you also very, very dearly." Billy's heart sprang backward thirty years, ...
— A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties • Charles Major
... Norfolk none forbeare, I'm confident thou shalt be welcom'd there, Where that thy autor hee was bred and borne, Though to ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850 • Various
... corrected her. "I'm only a lord, by courtesy, unless we can bash Rupert on the head some dark night and ...
— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton
... I used to like, The things I'm fond of still, The sound of fairy wands that strike Men ...
— The True Story Book • Andrew Lang
... Venice well-founded And stiffly coercing the Adrian main, The jolly tar cried, in a rapture unbounded: "Why, d—ash my eyes, Jove, but I have you again; You may boast of your city, and Mars of his walling; But while I'm afloat, I'll stick to it that mine Beats yours into rope-yarn in spite of your bawling, Just as snuffy old Tiber is flogged by the brine; And he who the difference cannot discern Is a lob-sided lubber from ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859 • Various
... but he stopped me. "Don't come near me," he cried, "don't touch me. I'm not fit to shake hands ...
— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... told me, wa'n't it? Most like they'll let up for a couple o' days for Thanksgivin', but John mightn't think't was wuth his while to travel here and back again 'less he had something to do before winter shets down. Perhaps they'll prevail upon the old lady, I wish they would, I'm sure; but an only daughter forsakin' her so, 'twas most too bad of Ad'line. She al'ays had dreadful high notions when she wa'n't no more'n a baby; and, good conscience, how she liked to rig up when she first used to come back ...
— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett
... "Just plain lost. Surely I must have come fifty miles, and I followed their directions exactly, and now I'm tired, and stiff, and sore, and hungry, and lost." A grim little smile tightened the corners of her mouth. "But I'm glad I came. If Aunt Rebecca could see me now! Wouldn't she just gloat? 'I told you so, my dear, ...
— The Gold Girl • James B. Hendryx
... exclaimed, "and I'm a plum-busted idjut not to have thought uv it afore; I've hearn about 'em often enough. This here backterian camel must be one of that ...
— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering
... said softly. "Listen, B-12, you've got to believe me. I didn't know a thing about this, though I've suspected something was up. I'm on your side, but what are we going to do? Maybe they'll listen ...
— B-12's Moon Glow • Charles A. Stearns
... "Oh, yes. I'm too clever for you, Mallare. Very much too clever. You present a pair of red hands to me. I wash them carefully in the snow. They ...
— Fantazius Mallare - A Mysterious Oath • Ben Hecht
... to madness To see thee all gladness, While I'm full of sadness Thy meaning to guess. Thy gown is deep blue, love, In honour of true love: Ever thinking of you, love, My ...
— Life and Remains of John Clare - "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" • J. L. Cherry
... harmless to the ground, glancing off his boreen, out again he stretched his arms and held up again his head, shouting, "Come on, try again, I'm ready." ...
— Australian Legendary Tales - Folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies • K. Langloh Parker
... "I'm going to dance, fellows," he announced, and his companions followed him, with the exception of the cadaverous Higgins, who maintained that dancing was a pastime for the ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... Thank you, I'm aware of it. One reads of Ottoline's movements in every rag one picks up. [Walking over to the right.] She's the biggest chasseuse ...
— The Big Drum - A Comedy in Four Acts • Arthur Pinero
... money-grabber and a driver," said Chase with crabbed bitterness, "but who is it that gives that reputation to me? People that can't beat me and take advantage of me and work money out of me by their rascally schemes! I'm not a hard man by nature—my actions with you ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... and sat on the stool at his sister's feet, while she whispered confidentially in his ear: "I've lost some money out of my drawer, and I'm ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 • Various
... he said, "that we two should come together. I, too, will soon be back in the Western Seas, and belike we'll meet. I'm something of a rover, and I never bide long in the same place, but I whiles pay a visit to James Town, and they ken me well on the Eastern Shore and the ...
— Salute to Adventurers • John Buchan
... Now my argument is that I have a different nature from Roger and all of you, but I'm not a worse man ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine
... brows and gazed into the smithy fire as if he were engaged in pondering some knotty point. "Well, I'm not sure," said he slowly, and descending to a graver tone of address—"I'm not sure that I can go quite so far as that. If we had no war at all, perchance our swords might rust, and our skill, for want of practice, might fail us in ...
— Erling the Bold • R.M. Ballantyne
... at the map, Tish," I suggested. "I'm pretty good at maps. You know how I am at charades and acrostics. At ...
— Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... style of praying," said the doctor; "and, if I'm not mistaken, we're going to be called upon to play a ...
— Five Weeks in a Balloon • Jules Verne
... in my house of clay, A beggar buried by me lay; Rascal! go stink apart, I cry'd, Nor thus disgrace my noble side. Heyday! cries he, what's here to do? I'm on my dunghill sure, as ...
— Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I • Hester Lynch Piozzi
... like her, wasn't it? She said she knew I'd hear the yarn when I got to Trumet, but she wanted me to hear it just as it was, and nobody but she and Grace and you knew the whole truth about it. So she come. I'm glad she did; not that I shouldn't have done the same, ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln
... wind blew shrill, the sky was gray: "Oh, dear," sighed Molly, "how it rains! Let's think of some new game to play, I'm ...
— Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 10, March 8, 1914 • Various
... this history, And rue that I began the tale; It seems a kind of mystery— I'm very much afraid I'll fail, For want of facts of the sensation kind: I therefore dwell upon ...
— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various
... ridiculous?—and they say he doesn't care one little bit about her.' 'Well, I don't know—he might do a great deal worse—she's a very clever girl, I think, and she will have lots of money.' 'Yes, if her father chooses to give it to her; but I'm told she hasn't a single sixpence of her own, and Sir Rupert mightn't quite like the idea of her taking up with a beggarly foreign exile from South America, or South Africa, or wherever it is.' 'But, my dear, ...
— The Dictator • Justin McCarthy
... "Oh, yes,—and I'm not afraid at all. I can go out to the farthest edge, where other heads would feel the motion of the earth, perhaps, and I stand firm as though the north-pole ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various
... to sit out two dances, and that made me think he really must want to be with me, not just because I'm the "pretty girl's sister," but ...
— The Powers and Maxine • Charles Norris Williamson
... laundry. That's how I finished at college. I'm ashamed to admit it now, but at first that work hurt me like a knife. I couldn't see any relation between that and my ambition for art. But it wore off. I grew tougher, I learned the real meaning of things. And now ...
— Read-Aloud Plays • Horace Holley
... distinctly as possible," she said, "but I could not see his face for the mask; and I saw the place, so that I'm sure if I were taken ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 • Various
... I shall sail round to the island to-night after dinner. But I'm not sure. So you need ...
— A Spirit in Prison • Robert Hichens
... Hopalong. "It's only thirty miles to Buckskin, an' if I can get away from here I'm good to make it by eleven to-night. I'll stop at Cowan's an' have him send word to Lucas an' Bartlett, so there'll be enough in case any of our boys are out on the range in some line house. We can ...
— Bar-20 Days • Clarence E. Mulford
... let out the landing-place, if I could make something out of it. The Faroese would be sure to give me something for the pot if I gave them a hand with launching and unloading. They could row most ways from there—I'm not exaggerating—they had to stay at home time and time again last summer, when it was easy for Snjolfur and me to put off. There's a world of difference between a deep-water landing-place and a shallow-water one—that's what Snjolfur ...
— Seven Icelandic Short Stories • Various
... right for killing that poor girl! Yes, I'm to blame that Oswald Langdon and Alice Webster were drowned! But tell the jury, Mary and the children were hungry! Tell them that. Tell the judge about Mary and the children. Don't forget to tell the judge that! Tell ...
— Oswald Langdon - or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 • Carson Jay Lee
... him fiddle the faster. "An early frost!" he would exclaim. "I must hurry if I'm to finish my ...
— The Tale of Chirpy Cricket • Arthur Scott Bailey
... find flesh, I'se find appetite conforming, ony day o' the year. But the truth is, sir, that the appeteezement has been coming on for three days or four, and the meat in this southland of yours has been scarce, and hard to come by; so, sir, I'm making up for lost time, as the piper of Sligo said, when he eat a hail side ...
— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott
... bob turn'd to a dress'd bag wig) I hear him cry—'What doth this jargon mean? Was ever such a damn'd dull blockhead seen? Majesty!—Bard!—Prerogative!—Disdain Hath got into, and turn'd the fellow's brain: To Bethlem with him—give him whips and straw— I'm very sensible he's mad in law. A saucy groom, who trades in reason, thus To set himself upon a par with us; 320 If this here's suffered, and if that there fool, May, when he pleases, send us all to school, Why, then our only business is outright To take our caps, and bid the ...
— Poetical Works • Charles Churchill
... that Wednesday morning. And indeed at first sight on getting outside the tent it looked a quite hopeless situation. I thought it was madness to try and save the ponies and gear when, it seemed, the only chance at all of saving the men was an immediate rush for the Barrier, and I said so. "Well, I'm going to try," was Bowers' answer, and, quixotic or no, he largely succeeded. I never knew a man who treated ...
— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard
... right, thanks," replied Durnovo. "I only landed at Liverpool yesterday. I'm home on business. I'm buying ...
— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman
... give something if the women were away from here. I hope I am magnifying the trouble; but I fear that we are going to be between two fires; and, at present I hardly know what course to pursue. I'm afraid of your gold, my lad, but a prince's fortune must not be slighted; and my conscience does not much upbraid me with respect to helping you to secure it. But we must not pass over this robbery in silence. That was done by no ...
— The Golden Magnet • George Manville Fenn
... The ideal young man. That's who—or is it whom?—I'm waiting for. Bailey, shall I tell you something? You're so scarlet already—poor boy, you ought not to rush around in this hot weather—that it won't make you blush. It's this. I'm ambitious. I mean to marry the finest man in the world and have the greatest little ...
— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse
... prices, and made, I believe, four or five thousand pounds. I went on Monday to hear Lushington speak in the cause of Swift and Kelly. He spoke for three hours—an excellent speech. I sat by Mr. Swift all the time; he is not ill-looking, but I should think vulgar, and I'm sure impudent, for the more Lushington abused him the more ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II • Charles C. F. Greville
... well for you that he was, Barnes," Lord Kew said. "The young fellow showed great temper and spirit. There has been a famous row, but don't be alarmed, it is all over. It is all over, everybody may go to bed and sleep comfortably. Barnes need not get up in the morning to punch Jack Belsize's head. I'm sorry for your disappointment, you Fenchurch Street fire-eater. Come away. It will be but proper, you know, for a bridegroom elect to go and ask news of la charmante ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... rubbing his toes, "took himself off coolly this morning as soon as the wagon came, and has not done a stiver of work all day. I'll not have that kind of thing now I'm master ...
— The Story of an African Farm • (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner
... Ellison, Braithwaite, Bertier, Colonel Sykes and Guest appeared. They looked more depressed than I felt. I had to work like a beaver before I could brighten them up. "I'm not dead yet," I felt inclined to tell them, "no, not by long chalks." What I did say to one or two of them was this:—"My credit with Government is exhausted; clearly I can't screw men or munitions ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 • Ian Hamilton
... why, bo. It's because when I take a trail like that it only has one end I'm going to bump off the other bird or he's going ...
— Gunman's Reckoning • Max Brand
... face suddenly assuming an expression of weak despair; "I'm cleaned out again, Jack," he continued, in a whining tone that formed a pitiable contrast to his bulky figure, "can't you help me with a hundred till tomorrow's cleanup? You see I've got to send money home to the old woman, and—you've ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... a chair to the table. "Since we have missed the big game, let us follow the less. I'm for supper, if this gentleman will permit us to share a feast destined for another. Sit down, sir, and fill your glass. You are not to be blamed for not being a certain Scots lord. Lovel, I dare say, is an honester name ...
— The Path of the King • John Buchan
... bunch of roses I'm bringing, Is a valentine for you, To show that in storm or in sunshine My ...
— Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 7, February 15, 1914 • Various
... the latter agreed. "For Heaven's sake, don't spoil it. Sit down and have a smoke; I'm ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... I'm very much afraid that you may tell me less what it is than what it is not. Allow me to put a question to you in my turn. I once saw one of your temples; why do you depict God with a ...
— Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire
... "I'm coming in," Elsbeth murmured with her eye to the telescope. "Cassiopeia," she murmured. "Where are you all?" she asked, taking her eye away from the telescope. "How ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
... tragedy out of such absurd material is, you will say, merely stupid. Well, I'm sorry. I know no other way to make it save life's own, and I know that the tragedy of William's life hung upon a silly little ink-stained 'J' pen. I would pretend that it was made of much more grandiose material if I could. But ...
— Prose Fancies • Richard Le Gallienne
... oblivious of the fact that my men had been left in a public-house, and would infallibly, if not prevented, get dead drunk. I was soon awakened to this startling probability by the guide, who walked up the road in a very solemn I'm-not-at-all-drunk sort of a manner, peering about on every side, evidently in search of me. Having found me, he burst into an expression of unbounded joy; and then, recollecting that this was inconsistent with his assumed character of sobriety, became ...
— Hudson Bay • R.M. Ballantyne
... do that," replied the parson; "though there is people in Bethesdy who says he is a rascal. He's a powerful smart fool. Why, that boy's got money, Jools; more money than religion, I reckon. I'm shore he fallen into mighty bad company—" ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various
... I guess I'm lost!" she cried with a little break in her voice. "I hope there are no bears in these hills. Oh, why did I run away, and where is ...
— Little Tales of The Desert • Ethel Twycross Foster
... "supposing him and me was married, and supposing we was to have a son, and supposing he were to grow up to be a man, and supposing he were to come down to draw cider like as I'm doing, and supposing the mallet were to fall on his head and kill him, how dreadful it ...
— English Fairy Tales • Flora Annie Steel
... engrossed in thoughts of the marvelous collection to fly into a rage. "It's such a bargain," he said mournfully. "An archaic Henry Moore figure—really too big to finger, but I'm no culture-snob, thank God—and fifteen early Morrisons and I can't begin to tell you what else." He looked hopefully at the Secretary of Public Opinion: "Mightn't I seize it for the public good ...
— The Adventurer • Cyril M. Kornbluth
... I know what I'm about. She's lying inside, as dead as a brickbat I'll have her out in a jiffy," and then his head and shoulders disappeared—then came a wild, blood-curdling yell of rage and pain, and the Man Who Knew Everything backed out with the infuriated ...
— The Call Of The South - 1908 • Louis Becke
... night I've been sailing from him, wherever he did sink to. Aye, aye, like many more thou told'st direful truth as touching thyself, O Parsee; but, Ahab, there thy shot fell short. Good by, mast-head—keep a good eye upon the whale, the while I'm gone. We'll talk to-morrow, nay, to-night, when the white whale lies down there, tied by ...
— Great Sea Stories • Various
... replied slowly, "yes, I'm quite sure, any good woman would wish her son to be good rather than great. I don't believe any good woman would hesitate at all, if it were possible for her to make such ...
— The Fate of Felix Brand • Florence Finch Kelly
... to be sure,' repeated the veteran dicer. 'Twenty-two black, and only three red! There'll be a series of red now: I feel there will, and when I don't play myself, I'm always right. I bet this deal begins with seven red. Who bets a hundred francs to fifty it ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various |
