"Insinuatingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... enjoyment, that in itself was repugnant to her womanly delicacy. "Do you know, missus, I shall have to stay here all night? Can't go out in that gale again; not such a fool." Then with a sly look at her trembling form and white face he insinuatingly added, ...
— Room Number 3 - and Other Detective Stories • Anna Katharine Green
... nothing but his bright peering gray eyes could be seen. "Attract the ghost!" he echoed. "Then you kalkilate that it's—" he stopped, insinuatingly. ...
— The Argonauts of North Liberty • Bret Harte
... more than I should be willing to acknowledge regarding Mrs. Simonson's other lodger, that Mr. Norton, who calls himself an artist. I am sure I never saw any one except a convict wear such short hair!" and Miss Kling shook her head insinuatingly. ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer
... could but prance insinuatingly, his ears forward, his head tossed, his eye now and again turned ...
— The Magnificent Adventure - Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and - the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman • Emerson Hough
... her up a tree," said Philip. "She's playing she's a little birdie. You haven't got any candy that we could play was worms, have you, Johnny?" he finished insinuatingly. ...
— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer
... moment, but her sweetness and good humour were never away. "There, you have given your wicked little sister a screed," she said, looking insinuatingly up at him. "Just as if I did not think her a darling, and would not for the world do anything to spoil her. Have not I been leading the most exemplary life, talking systems and visiting cottages with Rachel and playing with the boys, and singing with the clergyman; and here ...
— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the other man loudly. Then his voice became insinuatingly low. 'How about poor Herbert—' His tones were so indistinct that I could not catch the name. Then he went on more defiantly, 'His wife—' He didn't finish the sentence, Ramon, for father groaned suddenly, ...
— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
... attentive Capua, whose eyes had been for some time oscillating with indecision between Helen Heath and Mrs. Laudersdale. "Hannibal Raleigh's my name; though Massa alwes call me Cap," he added, insinuatingly,—which, by the way, "Massa" never had been ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various
... who opened the door smiled graciously and knowingly. It made him furious. She mistook his rage for blushes and giggled insinuatingly. ...
— The Southerner - A Romance of the Real Lincoln • Thomas Dixon
... than the appeal of electricity for attention? It thundered at man's ears, it signalled to him in blinding flashes, occasionally it killed him, and he could not see it as a thing that concerned him enough to merit study. It came into the house with the cat on any dry day and crackled insinuatingly whenever he stroked her fur. It rotted his metals when he put them together.... There is no single record that any one questioned why the cat's fur crackles or why hair is so unruly to brush on a frosty day, ...
— The World Set Free • Herbert George Wells
... gave her subject a long look, and then, walking to him, took his head tenderly in her hands. With the left, she held his forehead; the fingers of the right crept insinuatingly among the curls resting on his neck, swept thence over to his brow, and down across his eyelids, closing them; and Amidon sat, senseless as a statue, and ...
— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick
... I lost a pile myself," he began insinuatingly. "Thim scoundrels 'll bate ivery horse they say a man look at. It 's ...
— Bred In The Bone - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page
... up in Ellen's bed and playing with a feather that she had pulled out of the corner of the down-quilt. She readily allowed herself to be kissed, and sat there with pouting mouth and the funniest little wrinkled nose. "You're man!" she said insinuatingly. ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... you like a good and sufficient reason," she returned, insinuatingly; in her anxiety to make a quick job of it, in her cynical estimate of men as she had been finding them out in the city, she was venturing to employ her usual methods as a temptress, naturally falling into the ...
— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day
... there are opportunities waiting for all such as you. You could live in this town a thousand years and you'd be just what you are now. You have had some experience in the show line but in a line that is beneath you; your place in the show business is higher up. I want your advice," he continued insinuatingly. "Now, I offered John (he referred to Alfred's father), the best thing of his life. He has worked hard all of his days; he is deserving of something better. I have offered him a half interest in my show. ("Holy Mother of Moses!" ...
— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field
... say, in this instance, my dear aunt," replied Captain Delmar, insinuatingly. "I must confess that neither sailors nor marines are quite so strict as they ought to be; however, Ben has married her. Come, my dear aunt, allow me to plead for them, although I am very much distressed that such an event should take place in your ...
— Percival Keene • Frederick Marryat
... your grandmother. If you remember things long ago so nicely, you must remember story sort of things of then," said Molly insinuatingly. ...
— Grandmother Dear - A Book for Boys and Girls • Mrs. Molesworth
... insinuatingly, when he had recovered his breath, "why do you flee from me? Can you not see that I am anxious to ...
— Rabbi and Priest - A Story • Milton Goldsmith
... he added insinuatingly: "Why not let me go in there and apprehend Rateau now? We should have the ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... two, three week. And who conduct you to poor Madame's apartment, my dear Maud?' She inquired insinuatingly. ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... feature of the entertainment was the mottoes, flat scalloped candies of pink and white sugar, whose printed messages caused endless merriment among these uncritical young persons. "Do You Love Me?"; "I Am A Flirt"; "Don't Kiss Me"; "Oh, You Smarty," said the mottoes insinuatingly, and the revellers read them aloud, exchanged them, secreted them, and even devoured them, in their ...
— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris
... the mystery with which he had invested his story, and smiling insinuatingly. His work was done; his fee was due. Sime rewarded him with five piastres, ...
— Brood of the Witch-Queen • Sax Rohmer
... few of the boys on board," Brand continued insinuatingly, "who would like to join in our little chat, if you wouldn't mind their ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... the sofa, Bridget glided to his, and standing close in front of him, so that her skirt brushed his knees, she looked insinuatingly into his face. ...
— Enter Bridget • Thomas Cobb
... "Well," said Goldmark insinuatingly, "if he should be such a sucker as to stake you, don't forget you was on my pay roll first; ...
— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
... at her and smiled. He had recently lost a front tooth and this added a quaintness to the splendor of his irresistible smile. "You could sing as you get the dinner ready," he said insinuatingly, ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... WAIFE (insinuatingly interrupting).—"Their calculations of intellectual progress and their tables of pecuniary return. Few of these societies, I am told, are really self-supporting: I suppose Professor Long is!—and if he resides in Gatesboro', ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... before whom sun and moon and stars bow down,' said Rekh-mara insinuatingly, 'am I pardoned? ...
— The Story of the Amulet • E. Nesbit
... discipline, not only because the congregation was more numerous, but also because, being a shrewd man in his own innocent way, he knew that people bear better to be preached at after dinner than before; that you arrive more insinuatingly at the heart when the stomach is at peace. There was a genial kindness in Parson Dale's way of preaching at you. It was done in so imperceptible, fatherly a manner, that you never felt offended. ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 • Various |
