"I've" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him by a short cut through some woods close by here, and I've only just remembered there's a sort of quarry in the middle of them. I'll bet he's ...
— The Pothunters • P. G. Wodehouse
... lord duke, I will let the mask drop—yes! I've full powers for a final settlement. The Rhinegrave stands but four days' march from here With fifteen thousand men, and only waits For orders to proceed and join your army. These orders I give ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... already," commanded Miss Flagg. "I've heard that from a lot of people. Say Sister ...
— The Red Cross Girl • Richard Harding Davis
... Perhaps. I daresay I can find out something about it. After all, I've given some ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
... the stranger. "The woods are immense, but there are not many of us, and those of marked qualities soon become known. It seems to me that I've heard you were at Wyoming ...
— The Border Watch - A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand • Joseph A. Altsheler
... "I've half a mind," said the Woman of the World, "to give up housekeeping altogether and go into an hotel. I don't like the idea, but really servants are ...
— Tea-table Talk • Jerome K. Jerome
... to me of course," said the sailor, picking his pipe quietly with his clasp-knife; "but come here, boy, I've somethin' to say ...
— Fighting the Whales • R. M. Ballantyne
... misfortunes he was given a hot feed, a large snow wall, and some extra sacking, and on the following day he showed appreciation of these favors by a marked improvement. Bowers' pony, however, refused work for the first time, and Oates was more despondent than ever; 'But,' Scott says, 'I've come to see that this is a characteristic of him. In spite of it he pays every ...
— The Voyages of Captain Scott - Retold from 'The Voyage of the "Discovery"' and 'Scott's - Last Expedition' • Charles Turley
... "I've been thinking," said Gerda, after a long silence, "that I told Hilma I should understand about the midnight sun if I should see it; but I'm afraid I don't understand ...
— Gerda in Sweden • Etta Blaisdell McDonald
... right!" said Charity with a sigh of evident relief. "We's [we shall] get on famous, Rachel and me, and nother on us 'll feel as if we'd been cast away of a desert island, as I've been feeling afore yo' come. Eh, but it is a town, ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... lady I've ey'd with best regard; and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too-diligent ear. For sev'ral virtues Have I liked several women. Never any With so full a soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace ...
— Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... vouchsafed the wearer of the star. "I knowed her right away, and I've seed her often. She's been in Sihasset well nigh on ...
— Charred Wood • Myles Muredach
... remarked as they were preparing for bed, "I've been having deep thoughts to-night, and I've come to the conclusion that I haven't done right by you. ...
— The Fourth Watch • H. A. Cody
... trait. His father had it when he used to row me twenty-five years ago, and I've no doubt his forbears were all like that. It's a ...
— A Venetian June • Anna Fuller
... sure way to quiet one's feelings, Winchester; but it's most too serious when it comes to hanging. If Bolt deserve any punishment, he deserves death; and that is a matter about which one ought to be tolerably certain, before he pushes things too far. I've sometimes had my doubts about three or four of our people's being ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper
... quoth he in mighty voice, peering at me over the fire. "I've a blunderbuss here and two popps, so hold hard or I'll be forced to brain ye wi' this here kettle. Now then—come forward slow, my covey, slow, and gi'e us a peep o' you churi—step cautious now or I'll be the gory ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol
... "I've been looking at them for some time, as you know, Helen," he said, looking at his wife, "and to-day I decided upon the purchase. It's a big touring car, and will comfortably accommodate the whole Maynard family and a chauffeur beside. It will arrive day after to-morrow, that's Monday, and after ...
— Marjorie's Maytime • Carolyn Wells
... is a good man. He has a good heart, but there's so many of them that it is all he can do to rustle what must be had. Why," she told me in a burst of confidence, "I've been saving up for a tombstone for ma for twelve years, but I have to help pa once in a while, and I sometimes think I never will get enough money saved. It is kind of hard on three dollars a week, and then I'm kind of extravagant at times. I have wanted a doll, a beautiful one, all ...
— Letters on an Elk Hunt • Elinore Pruitt Stewart
... shade where forest-trees shut out All but the distant sky,— I've felt the loneliness of night, When the dark winds pass'd by. My pulse has quicken'd with its awe, My lip has gasp'd for breath; But what were they to such as this— The solitude ...
— A Walk from London to Fulham • Thomas Crofton Croker
... time the native taste for Scottish song in city society seemed nearly, if not altogether lost, and a kind of songs, such as 'I've been roaming,' 'I'd be a butterfly,' 'Buy a broom,' 'Cherry-ripe,' &c. (in which if the head contrived to find a meaning, it was still such as the heart could understand nothing about), seemed alone to be popular, ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... all how men like to come and sit round and talk over matters; for my part, I 'ain't got any time to talk; I've got to work," ...
— The Portion of Labor • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... got home to-day, and a more tuckered out lot you never saw. Home is home, if it's ever so homely, I tell 'em. By the way, I'm glad you happened this way. I was goin' to send you word, I've brought home with me one of your relations, Mrs. Archibald McPherson, your nephew's wife, and I hope you'll call and see her. She is very nice, and so pretty, too. ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes
... Captain Abner, 'that's a real good rule to go by, and it looks to me as if it might fit other things besides gilded idols and conch-shells. And now that you're here I'd like you to stay and take supper with me. I've got ...
— John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein • Frank R. Stockton
... cup, and to joy incline; * I've no patience, O brother, from pressing of wine: See'st not how night with her hosts be fled * Routed, and morn doth her troops align? How with Nadd and ambergris, rarest scents, * Rose laughs and smiles on us Eglantine? This, my lord, is joy, this is ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... said the trooper. "My partner's coming along behind you; you're corraled all right. I've a warrant for ...
— Lister's Great Adventure • Harold Bindloss
... know," says he, his three-fingered fist softly beating the table, shaking in an intense agitation of suspense. "I've been waitin' an' waitin' for months—jus' ...
— The Cruise of the Shining Light • Norman Duncan
... tell you what I've seen with my own eyes. My own good man, the master here, with the horsewhip laid about his shoulders at that very thornbush, by one of the fine gentlefolks, just because he had mended the gap in the hedge they was used to ride through, and my Lady sitting by in her laced ...
— Love and Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "Pray excuse my rudeness," he remarked apologetically, "but do sit down; I shall shortly rejoin you, and enjoy the pleasure of your society." "My dear Sir," answered Yue-ts'un, as he got up, also in a conceding way, "suit your own convenience. I've often had the honour of being your guest, and what will it matter if I wait a little?" While these apologies were yet being spoken, Shih-yin had already walked out into the front parlour. During his absence, Yue-ts'un ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... my dear man? Why do you look so sad? Do you need money? Look here, now! (He pulls out his purse.) I've half my wages left. What's ...
— Master Olof - A Drama in Five Acts • August Strindberg
... that is no Hard matter for a man to do, 1090 That has but any guts in 's brains, And cou'd believe it worth his pains; But since you dare and urge me to it, You'll find I've light enough to ...
— Hudibras • Samuel Butler
... awake yet," said the mother. "I'm afraid I have but a poor breakfast for you. But you'll take a dram and a bit of fish. It's all I've got." ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald
... know it," she admitted, chokingly, wiping her eyes with a soaked handkerchief. "I shan't, Rachel, only this once, I promise you. You see I can't. I just can't on Zelotes's account. I've got to bear up for ...
— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... mean to say is—oh, she is, is she? I see what you mean." The absolute necessity of saying something at least moderately coherent gripped him. He rallied his forces. "You wouldn't care to come for a stroll, after I've seen the mater, or a row on the lake, or any rot ...
— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... Sir Charles was dead? I didn't, at least, not till a little while ago when I arrived in Cannes and rang up the house. But I knew he wasn't expected to live more than a day or two. You see, I've been in communication with—Chalmers more or less during the past few days. I asked him to keep me posted in case the old man got worse or anything. Yesterday he telephoned me that there was absolutely no hope. I hopped into the car and burnt up ...
— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell
... it was a bad wreck, as I've heard," said Mrs. Kane. "Leastways, nobody has ever come to claim her, and no questions have been asked. Unless it was much for her good I would fain hope that nobody ever will claim her now. Wild as she is, I've ...
— Hetty Gray - Nobody's Bairn • Rosa Mulholland
... "I've got nothing new to tell you, You know what I always said - But you've built their bones into churches And stolen their wine and bread; You with My Name on your foreheads, Liar, and traitor, and knave, You have lived by ...
— Many Voices • E. Nesbit
... "Only that I've got the candle," said Vince, laughing. "I'll come and see you to-morrow, and bring you something to eat, for you'll never find your way ...
— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn
... those dog-headed girls the monk talked of, have you? Well, then, we have money and women; and if we want sport, it's better sport killing men than killing beasts; so we had better go where we shall find most of that game, which we certainly shall not up this road. As for fame and all that, though I've had enough, there's plenty to be got anywhere along the shores of that Mediterranean. Let's burn and plunder Alexandria: forty of us Goths might kill down all these donkey-riders in two days, and ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley
... I've concentrated largely, now, on domestic matters. To view the state of the Union in perspective, we must not ignore the rest of the world. There isn't time tonight for a lengthy treatment of social—or foreign policy, I should say, a subject ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Ronald Reagan • Ronald Reagan
... main hospital tents are placed, as I described, became a deep torrent of filth. The tents were three feet deep in water, washing over the sick. "Sure it's hopeless, hopeless!" cried unwearying Major Donegan, the medical officer in charge. "I've just seen me two orderlies swimmin' away down-stream." The sick, wet and filthy as they were, had to be hurried away in dhoolies to the chapels and churches again. They will probably be safe there as long as the ...
— Ladysmith - The Diary of a Siege • H. W. Nevinson
... "I've heard say there are some gypsies camped on Netherwood Common, four miles away," that functionary said, in ...
— For Name and Fame - Or Through Afghan Passes • G. A. Henty
... durance vile. Silence, and the whole of us profit and get the wherewithal to live. I often think, Ewart, that the public, as they call it—the British public—are an extraordinary people. They are so confoundedly honest. But, nowadays, there surely isn't any honesty in life—at least, I've never found any. Why, your honest business man who goes to church or chapel each Sunday, and is a model of all the virtues, is, in the City, the very man who'll drive a hard bargain, pay a starvation wage, and ...
— The Count's Chauffeur • William Le Queux
... "Kathleen," he said, "I've tried to forget you, but I can't. I came here to-night to ask you to come with me; I heard that cursed Quirk speaking to you. What can you care for an ...
— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin
... "I've always wanted an alligator bag, and I never could afford it. Now's my chance. But we may never get far enough into the interior for that. By the way, where did it say those girls started from? ...
— The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms - Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida • Laura Lee Hope
... he off in a few minutes and shut myself up in your study. I won't he long turning out the copy; and after that I can talk to you without feeling I've neglected my work. There's an ...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... thing I chiefly admired in the place, That a saint and a virgin endued with such grace, Should yet be so wonderful kind a well-willer To that whoring and filching trade of a miller, As within a few paces to furnish the wheels Of I cannot tell how many water-mills: I've studied that point much, you cannot guess why, But the virgin was, doubtless, more righteous than I. And now for my welcome, four, five, or six lasses, With as many crystalline liberal glasses, Did all importune me to drink of the water Of Saint Winifreda, ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... cried, "I've been watching your dolorous expression till I determined to learn how you ...
— The Young Seigneur - Or, Nation-Making • Wilfrid Chateauclair
... that I've given up myself. I'm in it, now, as deep as you! I couldn't fight it back any longer—it had ...
— Phantom Wires - A Novel • Arthur Stringer
... you here I've hurled My lone way over the wide, wide world. South and North and West and East I've fought with man and I've fought with beast; And I've opened the gates and cleared the bar That blocks the road to the ...
— The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch • R. C. Lehmann
... Mrs. Bowen," he acknowledged. "I've managed it badly. But you know I've been out of practice a great while there ...
— Indian Summer • William D. Howells
... then," thought Aleck; and then aloud to a great white-breasted gull which floated overhead, watching him curiously, "Well, what are you looking at? I've ...
— The Lost Middy - Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap • George Manville Fenn
... thy holy ways, I've walk'd upright before thy face; Or if my feet did e'er depart, 'Twas ...
— The Psalms of David - Imitated in the Language of The New Testament - And Applied to The Christian State and Worship • Isaac Watts
... "Yes; I've come, aunt. And as I want to say something very particular to you yourself, perhaps Ziska won't mind going out of the room for a minute." Nina had not sat down since she had been in the room, and was now standing before her aunt with almost militant firmness. She was resolved ...
— Nina Balatka • Anthony Trollope
... heavens are vouchers[69] I've kept my vowes with that strict purity That I have done ...
— A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II • Various
... down, and a down! I've a lassie back i' the town; Come day, come night, Come dark or light, She will wed me, back ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
... Their visit has been a failure. I've a great mind to make an arrangement with Mrs. Fixfax to have them keep house in her room." (Mrs. Fixfax was Mrs. Allen's housekeeper.) "The novelty will amuse them. Of course they will waste flour and sugar, but not very ...
— Prudy Keeping House • Sophie May
... "It's the place where I've always wanted to be a cadet," sighed Hal. "But there's no chance for me, I fear. Jack, I'd rather be an officer of the ...
— The Submarine Boys and the Middies • Victor G. Durham
... sperit," said Mr. Wiley. "There's a few places in the Kennebec where the water's too shaller to let the logs float, so we used to build a flume, an' the logs would whiz down like arrers shot from a bow. The boys used to collect by the side o' that there flume to see me ride a log down, an' I've watched 'em drop in a dead faint when I spun by the crowd; but land! you can't drownd some folks, not without you tie nail-kags to their head an' feet an' drop 'em in the falls; I've rid logs down the b'ilin'est rapids ...
— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... he said, "but it's great to feel you've got the thing you've been working for. As you know, Fred, I've been thinking of this for years; in fact, I've always wanted it, and I've worked hard to get it. And then the Chief Forester's fine; he's just fine; I liked him ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... "I've had several troubles lately, and don't find much amusement in hunting poachers who aren't there," said Geoffrey. "You will excuse me from ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss
... sharp young gentlemen, I've an opinion," said the skipper. "If you don't like my terms you will stay here until you wish you had accepted them. I shall not be away for a fortnight or more, for I only came in yesterday, and have to get rid of my cargo and take a ...
— The Three Admirals • W.H.G. Kingston
... has got too many ideas; I don't think much of ideas myself; I've got on well enough in life without 'em; why shouldn't my children? There's Dmitri! could have stayed here and kept the inn; many a young lad would have jumped at the offer in these hard times; but he, scatter-brained featherhead of a boy, must needs go off to Moscow to study ...
— Vera - or, The Nihilists • Oscar Wilde
... place not many years ago in the town of Brisbane, and, if I mistake not, the principal actor in which is still living, and in this country. Captain Jones' marriage, its results, the poisoning, murder, and protection society, are all drawn from life; though, as I've said before, varied in their arrangement. Neither have I indulged in any flights of the imagination in depicting the horrible, but rather subdued the poignancy of the original; particularly in the case of the murder, which in my hands has received considerable detrition. Though the proceedings of ...
— Fern Vale (Volume 1) - or the Queensland Squatter • Colin Munro
... right—as Mr Hayes says—if we did clear out, lock, stock, and barrel, and leave their precious country to be scrambled for by others of a very different jat[33] from the stupid, splendid British. I'm glad I'm going, anyway. I've never felt in sympathy. And now, after all this ... and Amritsar ... ...
— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver
... you where I've been," said the hussar, haughtily, and dropping at the same time the familiar "thee" and "thou" of soldier intercourse—"I've been at Montenotte, at ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various
... "I've always been a little vain of it," continued he, waving his curls upon his shoulders; "but I value it more since I know it ...
— Stories of Modern French Novels • Julian Hawthorne
... man will be peeping of his own accord into things of that nature—I've nothing to say ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne
... "I've quit bothering about science. It has ruined nature, filled the world with silly, artificial people, doing silly, ...
— The Cosmic Express • John Stewart Williamson
... exclaimed the Superintendent. "I've the most positive information that the Sioux could place in the war path two thousand fighting-men inside of a month. And old Copperhead is at the bottom of it all. We want that old snake, and we want him badly." And the Superintendent swung ...
— The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail • Ralph Connor
... the remainder of her breath. "Thank you, my dear Georgie. It's extraordinary what Yoga has done for me already. Cold quite gone. If ever you feel out of sorts, or depressed or cross you can cure yourself at once. I've got ...
— Queen Lucia • E. F. Benson
... and puts it in his mouth.] Never gave tha' fellow anything! [He hunts through all his pockets and pulls a shilling out; it drops and rolls away. He looks for it.] Beastly shilling! [He looks again.] Base ingratitude! Absolutely nothing. [He laughs.] Mus' tell him I've got ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... Jean." Lite took her by the arm and swung her away from the curious crowd which she did not see. "You're my girl now, and I'm going to start right in using my authority. I've got Pard here in the stable. You go climb into your riding-clothes, and we'll hit it outa this darned burg where every man and his dog has all gone to eyes and tongues. They make me ...
— Jean of the Lazy A • B. M. Bower
... pile on that, miss," said her companion gravely. "It's all the preachin' and psalm-singin' I've heern since I was a boy." "Noble being!" said Miss Tompkins to herself, glancing at the stately Pike as he bent over his paddle to conceal his emotion. "Reared in this wild seclusion, yet he has become ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... but now without a son, still live and cannot end my days! But come! tell me at once where is my son! let me not die athirst for want of knowing this and fall among the Pretas. In former days, at least, my will was strong and firm, difficult to move as the great earth; but now I've lost my son, my mind is dazed, as was in ...
— Sacred Books of the East • Various
... the ranch to-day," he said half-heartedly. "I've got to start a bunch of beeves for ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry
... He hastened to relieve her, while Hermione murmured regrets that he wasn't staying. 'Lady John didn't ask me,' he confided. As he saw in Hermione's face a project to intercede for him, he added, 'And now I've promised my mother—we've got a lot of people ...
— The Convert • Elizabeth Robins
... diamond man. "I've never been in an airship before, and it's different than what I expected; but it's great! It's the only craft that will serve our purpose among the towering mountain peaks, where the diamond makers are hidden. I hope we can ...
— Tom Swift Among The Diamond Makers - or The Secret of Phantom Mountain • Victor Appleton
... it. Look here, Major, I've seen this trick with the snake before. Not long ago I tried to hang the servant of a rich bunniah for murdering his master by means of it, but the Sessions Judge wouldn't convict him. If you look you'll see that that brute"—he ...
— The Elephant God • Gordon Casserly
... gassed three times, twice with the old gas and once with the new, and I've had my share. Would I like to go home now? Say, I'd rather be a lamp-post at the foot of Michigan Boulevard in Chicago than the whole electric light system in all the rest ...
— With Our Soldiers in France • Sherwood Eddy
... you mustn't think that, because I've been laughing a good deal and have seemed to treat all this as a joke, you haven't saved me from real trouble. If you hadn't been there and hadn't acted with such presence of mind, it ...
— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... "I've got the unfinished manuscript of his last novel here beside me, a rollicking Irish tale, different from anything he ever wrote before. Stephen thought I was the only person who could finish it, and he was too ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane
... their sighing And have even found the grace Of a smile when they were dying As they looked upon his face; And I've seen his eyes of laughter Melt in tears that only ran As though, swift dancing after, Came the Funny ...
— Riley Child-Rhymes • James Whitcomb Riley
... angry helplessness seemed to darken the sunlight. 'You are to me. No one else. I've known you all my life. ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... "I've rowed back your property. It was almost taken from me. Our suburbanites have their own conceptions of the divine rights ...
— The Created Legend • Feodor Sologub
... there—bori bars—and many a night I've slept there in the moonlight, in the open air, when I was a boy, and listened to my father tellin' me about the Baker. For there's seven great stories, and they say that hundreds of years ago a baker used to come with loaves of bread, and waste it all a tryin' to make seven loaves remain at the ...
— The English Gipsies and Their Language • Charles G. Leland
... "Yes, I've got the plans in detail; my distances may not be exactly correct, but they are approximately, and I would be willing to go on ...
— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish
... am getting a fair salary. I have been offered a position in a rival house. Would it be right and honourable for me to leave? I am to get a little more salary. I must give my answer by to-morrow. I must make some excuse for leaving. I've thought it all over and don't know what to say. My present employers have treated me ...
— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage
... riding home without me, I would give her a good half hour of it. I always do when she throws herself over like that.—I've gat my Epictetus?" he asked himself feeling in ...
— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald
... smooth hair and a copper skin—and the rest Bastaards of various hues, some mixed with black, probably Mozambique. The Caffre lads were splendid young Hercules'. They had just printed the first book in the Caffre language (I've got it for Dr. Hawtrey,)— extracts from the New Testament,—and I made them read the sheets they were going to bind; it is a beautiful language, like Spanish in tone, only with a queer 'click' in it. The boys drew, like Chinese, from 'copies', and wrote like copper-plate; ...
— Letters from the Cape • Lady Duff Gordon
... vein is it, anyhow?" cried Tom, going down upon his knees and peering into the darkness. "Blest if there isn't a sort of cave down here. Knock out some more, boys, and let me get down. This is the queerest thing I've struck in a ...
— The Boys of Crawford's Basin - The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado • Sidford F. Hamp
... will go to the plunge with us." He stopped and stared in at the window of a curio store. "Say, that's a dandy Navajo blanket," he murmured. "It would be out-uh-sight for a saddle blanket." He started on, hesitated and went back. "I've got time enough to get it," he explained to himself. He went in, bought the blanket and two Mexican serapes that caught his fancy, tucked the bundle under his arm and started down the street toward the office where Mary worked. It was just ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... his way home to see the Bullfinches," said Cathy, getting ice cubes out of the refrigerator to put in the water pitcher. "I've seen him ...
— Jerry's Charge Account • Hazel Hutchins Wilson
... that you? I've been waiting and waiting, and I just wondered if you had enlisted and gone off to war without even calling up to say good-by. I've been perfectly ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower
... go in deep. I'm not deep. I'm perfectly happy when I've got hold of the first principles. It sounds dreadfully superficial, but I'm not interested ...
— The Tysons - (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) • May Sinclair
... Mr. Vermont," commenced the first speaker again. "I've 'eard tell 'e does all the work and pays out all the other one's money; but he ain't no class himself—he's not a real tip-top swell like them others." He pointed to a little group of white-waistcoated, immaculately-dressed men, now standing on the steps ...
— Adrien Leroy • Charles Garvice
... it again, that's all," returned Mollie, uncompromisingly, her eyes once more on the road ahead, "I've eaten so many chocolates this week that I've had indigestion and mother threatened ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge - or, The Hermit of Moonlight Falls • Laura Lee Hope
... don't want another thing to wear; I've got so many things now that it makes me tired to keep changing to suit the thousand and one occasions," declared Eleanor, running after her father to kiss ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... said Mr. Sandford. He was one of the people who look as if they never could be. Black whiskers and a round face sometimes have that kind of look. "Mustn't be cast down! No need. Everybody gets a tumble from horseback once or twice in his life. I've had it seven times. Not pleasant; but it don't hurt you much, nine times ...
— Melbourne House, Volume 2 • Susan Warner
... all is," he thought as he awoke and saw the dark windows; for it was evening. "I've had sleep enough, and what shall ...
— The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories • Anton Tchekoff
... "Fred," I said, searching for words that wouldn't offend him. "I have more confidence in you than in any man I've ever worked with. But execution! Sure, three years ago, when the President declared the psychic emergency, we were killing the most fatally dangerous ones. But that's a couple years behind us. I just can't go that far without more ...
— Tinker's Dam • Joseph Tinker
... her faults—I've never denied it," he began. "And riding the high horse, now and then, is one of them. She has been trying to ride over you—and you have put up with it. Lord, Mr. Franklin, don't you know women by this time better than that? You have heard me talk of ...
— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins
... What should I want with your old history book? I've finished for good with such vanities, thank ...
— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil
... again. There was a great banquet in the evening. VULLIAMY came down for it and spoke very kindly about me in his speech. Said he had followed my career with profound interest and pleasure from my earliest years. I've only ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 100, May 2, 1891 • Various
... a father of a family myself," added Mr. Menteith, more gently: "I've six of them; but, thank the Lord, ne'er a one of them like this. Take it on your lap, nurse, and let the minister look at it! Ay, here comes ...
— A Noble Life • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... hand through his arm. "I've thought of you so many times," he began, as if they had parted the best of friends. "It has been a sad year for many, ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas
... Zalia, but I'd like to go to sleep, I'm feeling cold now and I've got needles sticking into my ...
— The Path of Life • Stijn Streuvels
... aren't likely to trouble me," he remarked. "Harris is all right, and I've promised him we'll make up a little party and go over to Cannes in a day ...
— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... "Reckon I've got a funny-bone in my head," he said impatiently. Then steadying himself with his right hand he climbed slowly into the back ...
— Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party • C. E. Jacobs
... shows they weren't ashamed of us," he laughed. "Come, then, cousin Rudolf; I've got no house of my own here, but my dear brother Michael lends us a place of his, and we'll make shift to entertain you there;" and he put his arm through mine and, signing to the others to accompany us, walked me off, westerly, through ...
— The Prisoner of Zenda • Anthony Hope
... am no speech-maker, but what I say, I'll do. I've lived among you twenty years, and if I've shown myself a clever fellow, you know it, without a speech: if I'm not a clever fellow, you know that, too, and wouldn't forget it with a speech. I'm a candidate for the legislature: if you think ...
— Western Characters - or Types of Border Life in the Western States • J. L. McConnel
... the other; "indeed, I've no doubt of it; but visitors, you know, often require so much accommodation. There are so many of the bishop's relatives who ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... are that we shall be upon them in the dark," said Jack to Tom; "and we'll surprise them, I've a notion. The captain thinks so, or he wouldn't have given the order to ...
— From Powder Monkey to Admiral - A Story of Naval Adventure • W.H.G. Kingston
... with the eyebrows," he went on with a quite pathetic enthusiasm. "We're to play their American game of poker—drawing poker as they call it. I've watched them play for near a fortnight. It's beastly simple. One has only to ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... thirty-three years! I have carried you all in my arms, you and your brothers and sisters. All of the rest are dead. You are still here, Paul. I closed your mother's eyes for her. I witnessed the death of your father. In all of my days I have known only Ellernhof. At the cemetery I've selected a place for myself where all of them are lying. Shall I go away now at the very end? At least, ...
— The German Classics, v. 20 - Masterpieces of German Literature • Various
... Blake answered with a laugh. "Besides, I've been on the jump too much to allow an ordinary bird the chance. What's ...
— The Moving Picture Boys at Panama - Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal • Victor Appleton
... out from under my philosophy. I've had enough hypocritical eyewash. I had to prove you. ...
— A World is Born • Leigh Douglass Brackett
... the Saguenay in the background; and the tiny old mission chapel of the Jesuit Fathers where the same bell has been ringing for nearly three hundred years? I was there the summer after I graduated; and I've never forgotten it. It's a picture and a dream. That is where I want to have my wedding. I don't believe that anybody else would have thought of it. Perhaps it's more than a hundred years since the last Indian ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke
... I've been a little girl so long, That, somehow, it seems almost wrong To think how grown-up I shall be In days that have to come to ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... happy love, where love like this is found! Oh, heart-felt raptures, bliss beyond compare! I've paced this weary mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare, If heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the ...
— The Hunted Outlaw - Donald Morrison, The Canadian Rob Roy • Anonymous
... that I've heard your stories, and remember the onion bed and the stone, I think that this is the boundary line. Drive a stake down here, Benny. Now, neighbours, we've got it settled without costing a penny, and I want you to shake hands ...
— Ben Comee - A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 • M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
... too much of it, you HARRY! You are here to fetch and carry, And not to pass opinions in the presence of the Vet. But he does look dicky, Mister; I've tried bolus, I've tried blister, But I haven't got him up to his old form by ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 12, 1892 • Various
... You're as tough as a piece of whalebone, and a little nick like that can't put you on the retired list. Sit down here—I've got a few words to ...
— Owen Clancy's Happy Trail - or, The Motor Wizard in California • Burt L. Standish
... and shall I tell you why? because the marchioness is a woman, and you are a woman too: now I've always observed that when a female has done wrong, she ever meets with least indulgence from persons of her own sex; and whenever I want to hear the foibles of one woman properly cut up, I never fail to ask another woman what she thinks ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Vol. I. No. 3. March 1810 • Various
... the old Colonel aint long for this world, anyway; think so, Hank?" Robie making no reply, the Judge relapsed into silence for a while, watching the cat (perilously walking along the edge of the upper shelf) and listening to the occasional hurrying footsteps outside. "I don't know when I've seen the windows closed up so, Hank; go down to thirty below to-night; devilish strong wind blowing, too; tough night on ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 • Various
... When they were collecting the fares Dick holds out his penny, which was all the 'tin' he had in the world. 'The fare's a shilling,' said the captain. 'Yes, it may be,' said Dick, 'but I asked you the fare for lambs. My name is Lamb; I'm an innocent creature, and the long and the short of it is I've only a penny. If you can't take it, just give me a sail back again.' That chap over there with the one arm is a regular 'mumper,' and he is a strong, robust fellow, able to work with any man in the prison; but he can make ten times more by 'mumping,' and I do not blame the like ...
— Six Years in the Prisons of England • A Merchant - Anonymous
... indoors, my dear. I've had some news. I dare say it will be all right—but just at first, you understand, it is ...
— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman
... I've stood to gaze on the sunset hill, When the winds were hush'd and the waves were still; As the sun sank slowly down the west, I thought of the good man dropping to rest, When his race is run—he yields his breath, And softly sinks in the ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 17, Number 489, Saturday, May 14, 1831 • Various
... said I did.... Now, I've been on the track this five years. I've tramped two thousan' miles since last Chris'mas, and I don't see why I can't tramp the last mile. Do you think my old dog wants ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... "Eleven thirty, Dave. I've set the alarm clock for five thirty. You know that new hydroplane will probably come in on an ...
— Dave Dashaway and his Hydroplane • Roy Rockwood
... nature. My old friend Josh Brooks had a heap of it, and it wouldn't be strange if some was left in his children, and burst through their straight-lacing in a queer way. That's all! Good-morning, Mr. Bly. Forget what I've told you for six months, and then I shouldn't wonder if Tappington was on hand ...
— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... You let me run this thing. Now, I won't take 'no.' You just get a carriage, and get this all down to my hotel. You can finish it there. I've got to go down to my bank, and you be there to meet me. You'll have a good dinner; you bet you will. God! what a man Valois was. ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage
... dear child! My dear child!" she cried, "I've been up and down here all night afraid that ...
— Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore • George Manville Fenn
... "I've brought thee home the best i' the world, A shipful of Danzig corn!" She stared at him long; her red lips curled, Her blue eyes filled ...
— The Red Flower - Poems Written in War Time • Henry Van Dyke
... know who and what Charlotte Oliver is?—No? Well, to begin with, she's a married woman—but pshaw! you believe nothing till it's proved. If I tell you who and what I am will you do what I've asked you; will you promise not to stop at Lucius Oliver's house?" She softly reached for my hand and pressed and stroked it. "Don't stop there, dear. Oh, say ...
— The Cavalier • George Washington Cable
... "I've got it," he said as he reined up his horse when he met them. "It was a stiff job, for she did not like to part with it. I had to talk to her a long time. I put it to her that when she died the gun would have to go to someone, and I wanted it for a nephew of Straight ...
— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty
... it, but I've been waiting here all day for Him to come and raise my papa up. He's late, and I thought maybe He sent you to tell me to wait a little, just as He sent Mary to tell His disciples, you know," said the ...
— Life and Literature - Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, - and classified in alphabetical order • J. Purver Richardson
... and touching the notes) I—of course I did. Oh, fortune, all hail to thee, queen of monarchs, archduchess of loans, princess of stocks and mother of credit! All hail! Thou long sought for, and now for the thousandth time come home to us from the Indies! Oh! I've always said that Godeau had a mind of tireless energy and an honest heart! (Going up to his ...
— Mercadet - A Comedy In Three Acts • Honore De Balzac
... Beside a handful of pale, smouldering fire, On hearing Basil's words, moved on her chair, And turning to him blue, beseeching eyes, And pinched, pathetic features, faintly said— "O, Basil, love! now that you seem to feel And understand how much I've suffered since You first gave way—now that you comprehend The bitter heart-wear, darling, that has brought The swift, sad silver to this hair of mine Which should have come with Age—which came ...
— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall
... kingly and noble life was in dim old days. Now, all along the Seine and near it, we shall have some splendid churches instead of castles. We can hold a revel, almost an orgie, of magnificent ecclesiastical architecture if we like to spend the time. I've got Ferguson's book and Parker's, anyhow, and why shouldn't we run ...
— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... rough here then, but I had little to do with that. I staked out my claim and went to digging. I knew very little about mining, but they were striking it all around me, and so I kept on. Besides"—here he looked at her in a curiously shy way—"I've always had a superstition that just when things were worst with me they were soonest to turn to the best, so I dug away. My tunnel went into the hill on a slight upraise, and I could do the work alone. You see I had so little money I didn't want ...
— The Spirit of Sweetwater • Hamlin Garland
... say! We have no men To match the mighty masters of the past: I've read, I've seen their works; the acumen Of Learning on their triumph I have cast. Divine! Colossal! Tongue nor pen Can tell their beauty, ...
— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee
... astonishingly. He was not unaware if men whom he considered his superiors were present; he was sure to make them understand that he meant to sit at their feet and listen to them, even if his own excitement ran away with him. "I've talked too much," he often said, with a feeling of sincere penitence, as he rose from the table. "I wanted to hear what our guest had to say." But the wise guest, seizing the opportunity, usually led Dr. Holmes on until he forgot that he was not listening and ...
— Authors and Friends • Annie Fields
... in its beginning, 'tis proper to state That, somehow, it chanced to be part of my fate To be born far remote from the populous town, And therefore, perhaps, I've a spice of the clown. Be this as it may, I acquired a taste For joys which, though simple, are equally chaste. In rural employments expended, my years Knew not the unnatural pleasures, nor fears, Which fall to the fortune of one who ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various |
