"Tartly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... child, that I slander thine," responded Mona, tartly; and her countenance darkened with an equivocal expression new to Amanda, who, catching at ...
— The Advocate • Charles Heavysege
... cousin. He hastened to add that he had not seen his cousin for many years, while he looked upon Fyne (who received him alone) with so much distrust that Fyne felt hurt (the person actually refusing at first the chair offered to him) and retorted tartly that he, for his part, had never seen Mr. de Barral, in his life, and that, since the visitor did not want to sit down, he, Fyne, begged him to state his business as shortly as possible. The man in black sat down then ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... this, Gloriana," said Ajax, tartly. "As a member of the family you have not treated my brother and myself fairly. This mysterious work of yours is not only wearing you to skin and bone, it is ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... she answered tartly, "so long as they don't mind eating after their betters. And as for your man Priske, I saw him twenty minutes ago escape towards ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... you," said Millard, tartly. "Mrs. Frankland is eloquent, but she has imposed on you and done you a great deal of harm. Why, Phillida, you are as much superior to that woman as the sky is—" He was about to say, "as the sky is ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston
... Julia tartly. "I don't bother myself much with abstractions. I know it is you and I." And she put her things on the hall-rack, as she was going out again ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) • Various
... word," tartly cried Mrs. Goddard, who began to find the tax upon her patience almost greater than ...
— The Masked Bridal • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... not, Billy," retorted Aunt Hannah, a little tartly, and with a touch of sarcasm most unlike her gentle self. "I'm sure I shouldn't wish to fill this infant's plastic mind with anything so appalling as trivial inaccuracies. May I be pardoned for suggesting, however," she went on as the baby's whimper threatened to become ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... tartly, "we have got them safe enough after they have run some risks, as I pray that you ...
— The Lady Of Blossholme • H. Rider Haggard
... thing vexed me from morning till night. Every week the father would take out the stocking and drop in the money and laugh and kiss me as we tied it up together. Up with you, Hans! There you sit gaping, and the day a-wasting!" added Dame Brinker tartly, blushing to find that she had been speaking too freely to her boy. "It's high time you were on ...
— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge
... them just as well if they always stayed there, and did n't come down to get all crumbs and grease in the sink," returned the other tartly. ...
— The Tangled Threads • Eleanor H. Porter
... could ye do?" said Kate, a little tartly, for naturally enough as "an inmate" of many years' standing, she did not quite like her new friend's insistence on this point. "Troth, it's aisy talkin', but it's not so aisy to starve. An' afther all, there's many a one that's worse off nor ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
... declared rather tartly that they had nothing to do with it. It was natural to Arthur Welby to ...
— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... story when we are beyond danger," I returned tartly, annoyed by his awkwardness. "If you utter another word before we are around yonder headland, I will have De Noyan hoist ...
— Prisoners of Chance - The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, - through His Love for a Lady of France • Randall Parrish
... over it; there will very likely be nothing to get over," Delaine reflected tartly, as he made his way to his room. "A new country like this can't be too particular." He was thankful, at any rate, that he would have an opportunity before long—for he was going straight home and to Cumberland—of putting Mrs. Gaddesden on her guard. "I may ...
— Lady Merton, Colonist • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON. 'I have looked into it.' 'What (said Elphinston,) have you not read it through?' Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, 'No, Sir, do ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... not 'a case,'" said Miss Ethel, tartly, pressing her hand to her forehead. "And I'm going to see if the men really have ...
— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose
... old," replied he, tartly. "Old age is a sorry companion; it makes people peevish ...
— Prince Eugene and His Times • L. Muhlbach
... to hear about it," she said, tartly. "I'm your wife, and I am going to do my share, keeping house and helping around. And you have got to do your share, and treat me fairly. I once heard that the first Mrs. Balberry didn't get all that ...
— From Farm to Fortune - or Nat Nason's Strange Experience • Horatio Alger Jr.
... Slope—not a word was said, not a question asked as to the serious interview on the preceding evening. There was, indeed, very little confidence between them, though neither of them knew why it should be so. Eleanor once asked him whether he would not call upon the bishop; but he answered rather tartly that he did not know—he did not think he should, but he could not say just at present. And so they parted. Each was miserably anxious for some show of affection, for some return of confidence, for some sign of the feeling that usually bound them together. But none was given. The father could ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... be, but it was not lowliness!" said Sister Ada, tartly. "If I had been elect—of course I do not mean that I expected such a thing, not for a moment—I should have knelt down and kissed the chapel floor, and protested my sense of utter unworthiness and incapacity ...
— In Convent Walls - The Story of the Despensers • Emily Sarah Holt
... do wonder at you, John, letting him talk like this before everybody. [Turning rather tartly to Lina] Would you mind going away to the drawing-room just for a few minutes, Miss Chipenoska. This is a private family matter, ...
— Misalliance • George Bernard Shaw
... in good laying condition, and there are the cherries on the tree," said Miss Fleming tartly. She did not like Jane nor any other woman, but she usually fought for her sex against men in a mannish way—for the pleasure of fighting for ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various
... that, too," interjected Madelene, tartly, "but that wouldn't make him mix her name up with mine, would it, and make him get mad every time ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... Saucypate," tartly replied Geoffery. "And so, because you have eaten and drunk with my master, it is 'old Gabergeon;' else had it been good Master Hardpiece, or 'if you will, Master Geoffery!' Out upon such carrion, say I, that think themselves live meat when they are ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... get one!" retorted the mayor, tartly. "I have dropped down here merely in a business way to find out what's wanted of me as the executive ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... are you up to, man?" shouted Silas, tartly, trying to make a stand against the staggering blow dealt amid ...
— The Knights of the White Shield - Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play • Edward A. Rand
... to do with it?" asked Virgilia tartly. "Has anybody asked his help? Why is he mixing up in the matter, anyway? And if he wants to suggest, let him stop suggesting painters and suggest a few sculptors. I haven't heard of his doing ...
— Under the Skylights • Henry Blake Fuller
... tartly in her softest tone: "Then, William, may I ask why the people all over the country are calling this year's vintage 'comet wines'? For that's the way they are marking it, and everybody is putting ...
— Round Anvil Rock - A Romance • Nancy Huston Banks
... Orton-Wells, tartly, in reply to nothing, seemingly, "that our problem is with the factory girl. She represents a distinct and ...
— Emma McChesney & Co. • Edna Ferber
... soldier,' he answered, more tartly. 'The water is warm, and you can bathe your hurt and afterwards I will plaster it.' While I laved my temple with the edge of the towel, between the dip of the water I heard his voice in broken sentences: 'To no use at all. . . . Would a man ask the sun to what use it danced? . . . or the moon ...
— Corporal Sam and Other Stories • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... the wish a little later, when both girls were in bed, and Ruth answered her a trifle tartly that it was very nearly to-morrow, and that she wanted to go to sleep some time before morning, if Amy didn't. Then for a matter of thirty minutes silence reigned. The hour was late and the girls were tired. In spite of her gloomy prophecy, Amy was surprised and pleased to find a delicious ...
— Peggy Raymond's Vacation - or Friendly Terrace Transplanted • Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith
... Douglass, "I know all about it. Now do you s'pose you're agoing to be any happier among all those great folks than you would be if you staid among little folks?" she added tartly; while Catherine looked with a kind of incredulous admiration at the future ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... tartly, as she came slowly and carefully down backwards. "What a dark hole this is, Jemmy. No wonder you're ill. Put ...
— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs
... say so at once?" he continued tartly, "and not shuffle and shirk. It was a foolish, monkeyish trick, but I suppose no great harm's done. What did you do ...
— Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore • George Manville Fenn
... a silence, during which Mrs. Ballinger, with a perfunctory hand, rearranged the skilfully grouped literature at which her distinguished guest had not so much as glanced; then Miss Van Vluyck tartly pronounced: "Well, I can't say that I consider Osric Dane's departure ...
— Xingu - 1916 • Edith Wharton
... Harry!" said the other, tartly. "I'm no gambler any more. I'm a respectable gentleman with a mine and a ranch," he emptied his glass and, smacking his lips, continued, "and a beautiful young girl that loves me ... loves me. Understand?" His hand came down upon the other's ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... girl! that may be seen,' said he, patting her, and wheezed up from his chair to waddle across to the Dragon. But Aunt Lisbeth tartly turned ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... carelessly and heavily that it appeared plainly he did not care whether it was done or no, and particularly as if he had a mind the captain should see it and take notice of it. Which the captain did, for perceiving how awkwardly he went about it, he spoke a little tartly to him, and asked him what was the reason he did not stir a little and furl the sail. Peterson, as if he had waited for the question, answered in a surly tone, and with a kind of disdain, So as we eat, so shall we work. This he spoke aloud, so that he might be sure the captain heard him and ...
— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward
... head, just because you've lost your temper!" she said tartly, in a guarded whisper. "The door into the hall is still ...
— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard
... parts of his dear brother-in-law's conduct, which he did not himself vindicate; and Mr. B. was pleased to say, that my lord was always very candid to him, and kind in his allowances for the sallies of ungovernable youth. Upon which my lady said, a little tartly, "Yes, and for a very good reason, I doubt not; for who ...
— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson
... be done," said Fred tartly. "We've got to do something. You don't know where Soc and Zeke are and I don't know where String and Pete may be. ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... young ladies!" exclaimed Miss Brokaw, tartly. "And it is not the first fire since the world began. Ruth has just come from it. She will tell you what it ...
— Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures - Or Helping The Dormitory Fund • Alice Emerson
... tartly replies: There are two kinds of Meed; we knew it; there is reward, and there is bribery, but they are always confounded. Ah! if Reason reigned in this world instead of Meed, the golden age would return; no more wars; ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
... instant attack of hysterics, and I did wonder," rejoined Gerald, tartly. "But as I told you, women are always fools, and nervous women the worst ones, I haven't any patience with them. I was vexed enough with her for keeping me from Phebe. I don't believe she was ever hurried so out of an ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... frequency and politeness. Her husband, poor as he was, sustained the credit of aristocracy by smoking innumerable cigarettes, with which he appeared to be most plentifully supplied. "You found my cigarettes, I see. That is good," said Rouquin, shortly after the introductions. He spoke somewhat tartly, as if an idea had just occurred to him. He shot a furtive glance at Mr. Bingle as ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... this burst of eloquence on the part of her usually restrained daughter, asked, tartly, "How in the world do you know what Porter wants ...
— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey
... the lady, tartly; "I think it is enough for you to take care of yourself. Recollect your Scripture proverb of 'the blind leading the blind.' I have no inclination to tumble into one of those pits," added she, pointing to ...
— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat
... the courtier from the Court hall into the illuminated gardens, and there told him, and in language that admitted of no doubt, that she wished to marry him. The courtier was indignant, and answered her so tartly that Kate, even in reading it over a second time, could not refrain ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore
... looked at the bold-eyed young man with disfavour. "Well, you're not expecting her to come out to you, are you?" she retorted tartly. ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... right away that I am not," Aggie said tartly. "I'm not and I don't want to be. Though I can't see how biting my tongue half through is going ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... on laughing at Rashe's disappointment at his solitary arrival till she said, tartly, 'You cannot wonder at our thinking you must have some reason for neither mentioning your companion's name ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... lunch in the dining-room," said Miss Brown, tartly. "You need not have gone out and made all ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe
... on without turning her head, and for many steps nothing further was heard from her quarter than the rustle of her dress against the heavy corn-ears. Then she resumed rather tartly— ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... your pose?" asked Temple, still rather tartly, "because if it is, I beg to offer you, in the name of these ladies, the ...
— The Incomplete Amorist • E. Nesbit
... his eyes towards the portrait, twisted himself about again, and again found himself the subject of the same look and smile. 'Yes, Mr Blandois,' he replied tartly. 'It was his, and his uncle's before him, and Lord knows who before him; and that's all I can tell you of ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... music in your old age," said Mrs. Chinnery, tartly. "But you always are late nowadays. When it isn't music it's something else. What's come over ...
— Salthaven • W. W. Jacobs
... authority," tartly interposed Professor Brierly, "but I am not certain it is competent medical authority. I have seen too many careless autopsies made and read too many loosely written reports to have abiding faith ...
— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew
... reaffirm my position," Dr. Hammerfield retorted tartly. "It is too long a story to enter ...
— The Iron Heel • Jack London
... Winnie informed him, a trifle tartly, "in fact I don't see why you didn't lug up a couple of tents and turn 'em loose inside. Rosemary is going to be blown out of the window some fine night and, to my way of thinking, it's better to start sleeping on the ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... been no especial 'dragging' that I am aware of; and I don't know why you should be sorry for Barrett," I returned rather tartly. ...
— Branded • Francis Lynde
... interrupted tartly, "you needn't go into details. I don't imagine Captain and Mrs. Dott will be greatly interested. What a charming old room this is, isn't it? SO quaint! Everything looks as if it had been ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Massachusetts, had nothing to do with slavery in the States; it had only to refrain from giving direct sanction to the system. Others opposed this whole argument, declaring, with Langdon of New Hampshire, that Congress ought to have this power, since, as Dickinson tartly remarked, "The true question was, whether the national happiness would be promoted or impeded by the importation; and this question ought to be left to the national government, not to ...
— The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America - 1638-1870 • W. E. B. Du Bois
... he shore found out," Mrs. Caope spoke up, tartly, and Nelia looked at her gratefully. "Hit takes a bullet to learn fellers like Jest Prebol—an' him thinkin' he's so smart an' such a lady killer. I bet he knows theh's some ladies that's men killers, too, now. Next time he meets a lady he'll wait to be invited 'fore he lands ...
— The River Prophet • Raymond S. Spears
... lost a younger daughter, and Johnson had a paralytic stroke in June. Death was sending preliminary warnings. A correspondence was kept up, which implies that the old terms were not ostensibly broken. Mrs. Thrale speaks tartly more than once; and Johnson's letters go into medical details with his customary plainness of speech, and he occasionally indulges in laments over the supposed change in her feelings. The gloom is thickening, ...
— Samuel Johnson • Leslie Stephen
... intoxicated. The vinous suitor was not to Panna's taste, besides, she was already tired, and she did not answer his first speech. But as he did not desist, but seized her arm to drag her up and away by force, she tartly answered that she would not dance now. This only made him ...
— How Women Love - (Soul Analysis) • Max Simon Nordau
... Colonel tartly, "are not going to be asked what they'd like any more than I've been. I want you each to go down quietly and have a look over at the new ground, tell the company commanders what the job is, and have a talk ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
... heart and convince yourself," suggested Clymer tartly, and the deputy marshal, dropping on one knee, did so. Detecting no heart-beat, the officer passed his hand over the dead man's unshaven chin and across his forehead, brushing back the unkempt hair. Under his none too gentle touch the wig slipped back, revealing ...
— The Red Seal • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... as she sometimes was, I could wait on her and sit beside her with that calm which always blesses us when we are sensible that our manners, presence, contact, please and soothe the persons we serve. Even when she scolded me—which she did, now and then, very tartly—it was in such a way as did not humiliate, and left no sting; it was rather like an irascible mother rating her daughter, than a harsh mistress lecturing a dependant: lecture, indeed, she could not, ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte
... in a cradle,' she said almost tartly, 'and you are the littlest. A cradle is such a nice homely thing to ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie
... I'd like to have, you, or somebody else tell me," exclaimed the old lady, tartly. "I ain't got no more use for a farm than a cat has for ...
— Hiram The Young Farmer • Burbank L. Todd
... eh?" I responded tartly that I had that very morning met four ladies the poetry of whose actual, visible loveliness had abundantly illustrated to me the needlessness and impertinence of fiction! By the way, did he not think feminine beauty was always in ...
— The Cavalier • George Washington Cable
... tartly. "We can't go about the grounds in a cab, and I'm not going to slop about in the wet to please anybody. We must go another time. It's hard luck, but ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... it's quite Hoyle to be so jubilant about the strength of your hand," she commented tartly. "I pass." ...
— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin
... nigger than be yourself, Mister Birch," interrupted Caesar tartly, dropping at the same time the covering of the goods in ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper
... it up in another guess way," said Nicholas, tartly, "than wi' scraps and scrapings fro' gallipots, and remnants o' ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... had his morning dram of brandy); I, myself, trying hard to win him to a good opinion of me. I asked him if I might clean his copper for him; it was in a sad state of dirt. "You'll have work enough 'ere, boy," he said, tartly, "without you running round for more. You mind your own business." After this little snap at my head (no thought of thanks occurred to him) he prepared breakfast for us, out of the remains of the cabin breakfast. I was much cheered by the prospect of food, ...
— Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger • John Masefield
... thought you such a fool," she said, tartly; adding: "But I consider your behavior very strange. You are not yet engaged that I know of, and the bride ought to have more than three ...
— Dainty's Cruel Rivals - The Fatal Birthday • Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
... New England fiber, and classing as morbid all forms of introspection, she always so dreaded to have the conversation drift into a reflective channel that whenever she found Willie indulging in reveries she was wont to rout him out of them, tartly reproaching herself for having even indirectly been the cause ...
— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett
... me, sir," said the captain tartly. "I should say that the difference between the symptoms of a wound from a poisoned arrow and one caused by a poisoned tooth ...
— Old Gold - The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig • George Manville Fenn
... head. "No," she added tartly, a trifle ruffled by what the low-spoken exclamation so plainly implied. "If you must know, it fell out of his ...
— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... your Mr. Marrier! I understood from you he was a clerk!" said Nellie, tartly, suddenly retransformed into the shrewd matron, as soon as Mr. Marrier had profusely gone. She had conceived Marrier as a sort of Penkethman! Edward Henry had ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... it where you won't find it in a hurry," she answered tartly. "Now hustle outdoors, the whole of you, and don't show your heads in here ...
— Polly of the Hospital Staff • Emma C. Dowd
... yourself," urged Rupert tartly, leaving his seat. "I'll do it. I know I'm a liar, I guess, but that won't ...
— From the Car Behind • Eleanor M. Ingram
... reddened. She did not like to own to awe of her daughter. "I VENTURE, if that is all," said she, tartly. "You don't suppose I am afraid of Diantha?—but she would not let Amelia wear one of the dresses, anyway, and I don't want the child made any ...
— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... rejoined, a bit tartly. Truth to tell, the secretary was haunted by a grim suspicion that she herself was not quite the lady of her dreams, and never would be able to acquire the graces of the Vere De Vere. For Sarah, while a most efficient secretary, was not in her ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... Milton," she tartly replied. "Look at the Chopin prelude. Will you contradict me if I say that in one prelude this composer crowds the experience of a lifetime? When he expands his idea into the sonata form how diffuse, how ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... your position afford preferences?" he inquired, tartly. Thus far the banker had fully lived up to his ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... "Thanks," he said tartly. "When I marry Athalia, I intend to have an old-fashioned home and a Black Age family. I don't relish having my children ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... come a-bustin' in hyar that thar way, Sol?" his mother demanded rather tartly. "Ef ye hed been raised 'mongst the foxes, ...
— The Young Mountaineers - Short Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock
... was doing up a glove which possessed more buttons than his own waistcoat, looked up and eyed him calmly. "New clothes—and not before they wanted'em," she replied, tartly. ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... deduce it," observed the town detective tartly. "In the first place, she wouldn't 'a' been standin' 'round like that if the job was over, would she? Wouldn't she 'a' been streakin' out fer ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon
... therefore commanded that the monk should also be present on the occasion of the discussion between Las Casas and Quevedo. The appearance of the Franciscan, was not to Quevedo's liking, and he somewhat tartly remarked to him that the Court was no place for monks, who had much better be in their cells. As the Bishop himself was of the same Order, the monk aptly retorted that he was of the like opinion and that "all of us monks would be better off in our cells." Quevedo seems to have ...
— Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt
... rascal intimating her interest in him was greater than in the others. She was about to reply tartly, but Frank awkwardly took her hand and squeezed it, then hurriedly released it again. Demonstrations of affection were not frequent between these two, yet they had a pretty good understanding. They ...
— The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards • Gerald Breckenridge
... said the pleasant lady tartly; "I'm not ashamed of our humble beginnings, but I am ashamed to make ...
— Son Philip • George Manville Fenn
... tartly that no, she had not got a headache. The Mad Hatter appeared to be absorbed in tracing rude verses on her rough notebook with ...
— Superseded • May Sinclair
... trifle tartly. "How can I? Granting that my voice is worth the trouble, would you like me to go and study in the East or abroad? Would you be willing to bear the expense of such an undertaking? To have me leave Jack to nursemaids and ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... said the woman tartly. "And if you'll take my advice, you won't bring him into these parts again, where they're doing nothing else but swash-buckling from morning to night. The broken heads I've seen this year ...
— In Honour's Cause - A Tale of the Days of George the First • George Manville Fenn
... would leave my clothes alone and tell me where you are going," Jeanne declared, a little tartly, "it ...
— Jeanne of the Marshes • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... there, if I'm to judge by last night,' Elsie answered rather tartly. 'You know, Mildred, I don't believe all ...
— Celibates • George Moore
... Mrs. Haughton answered somewhat tartly, but being one of those good-hearted women who, apt to be rude, are extremely sorry for it the moment afterwards, she wished to repair any hurt to his feelings occasioned by her first impulse; and when, renewing his excuses, he offered his arm over ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... tartly, "but if you'd just left me alone, instead of sicking all your dogs on me, I'd've been over there looking for him, long ago. Of course I'm wrong—that's ...
— Shadow Mountain • Dane Coolidge
... when they like," Mrs. Caldwell answered tartly; "but they're too lazy to try. When did you learn ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand
... the head of the command which participated in the unfortunate engagement at Greeger Lake," responded the woman, tartly. "He would have won had he not been outnumbered, ...
— An Undivided Union • Oliver Optic
... carried on his suit in the most open and flagrant manner. The King took this for his theme, and very stiffly reproached Monsieur for the conduct of his son. Monsieur, who needed little to exasperate him, tartly replied, that fathers who had led certain lives had little authority over their children, and little right to blame them. The King, who felt the point of the answer, fell back on the patience of his daughter, ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... by the scheme," he said tartly, "if you get the sole contract for building these premises of mine, and a fat ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown
... either," tartly. "Hold your palm steady so that I can see more clearly. It's a scar, ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... coals of fire on your head, young man," said Madge, tartly, as she passed the pan ...
— Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp • Alice Emerson
... treated us as a lady should," she said tartly. "She acted more like one than you did, if I do have to say it. She was as kind and sweet as could be. She's got a tender heart. I could see that when she up and gave me that blotter, just because I remarked that it reminded me ...
— Hidden Gold • Wilder Anthony
... it," observed Georgy tartly. "She is too pale, and her eyes are too big: then she is such a solemn little thing. Don't you ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various
... you want," replied Mrs. Lightfoot, tartly. "If he ever gets clean again after a whole night in a common gaol, I must say I don't see how he'll manage it. But if you aren't satisfied I can only tell you that the affair was all about some bar-room wench, and that the papers will ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... tartly. "Thy deeds will scarce bear out thy protestations." He sighed. "Sorely was I wounded yesternight when thy marriage thwarted me and placed that Frankish maid beyond my reach. Yet I respect this marriage of thine, as all Muslims must—for all that in ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini
... that piquant employment of juxtaposition and contrast which made every issue of "A Line-o'-Type or Two" a work of art in its way. But no arrangement of items from that source could becloud the essential nature of its Conductor: though "The So-Called Human Race" sometimes plays rather tartly and impatiently with men's follies and shortcomings, it clearly and constantly exhibits a sunny, alert and airy spirit to whom all things ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... were coming," began their mother tartly. "'Milyer, you're the worst of the lot when you get your nose buried in a newspaper. Boys, do keep still, though I suppose you're half starved," with a reproachful look at those who ...
— A Little Girl in Old New York • Amanda Millie Douglas
... said M. Vulfran, tartly. "I may as well tell you that for a long time I have wanted someone intelligent to be near me, one who is discreet and whom I can trust. This young girl seems to have these qualities. I am sure that she is intelligent, and I have already ...
— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot
... was disposed of, the lady again sat down upon her stool, and ordered her slave to open the gate. Upon her husband's entering the room he was surprised at beholding things set out for an entertainment, and inquired who had been with her; when she replied tartly, "A lover." "And where is he now?" angrily replied the officer. "In yonder chamber, and if you please you may sacrifice him to your fury, and myself afterwards." The officer demanded the key, which she gave him; but while this was passing, the agony of the unfortunate tailor was worse than death; ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous
... Harlan, somewhat tartly. Then, as he remembered the utter ruin of his work, he added, viciously, "never having known him intimately, I can't say ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed
... everything—a marvellous name, great riches, beauty, a magnetic quality that I have never seen equalled. I always reproached him with having added nothing to his inheritance—no glory—no achievement—'I have spent,' he would say, shrugging his shoulders. 'Wasted,' I retorted tartly. 'If you like. I have never admitted my past or my future as barriers—or even frontiers—to my actions. I have lived without forethought or arriere pensee—without the weakness of regrets or the stinginess ...
— Balloons • Elizabeth Bibesco
... Nell, as she tartly replied: "A war of the sex without me? It was stupid, then. The ...
— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.
... worry over them," said Mrs. Amber tartly; "but this isn't the time. You're going to be comfortable, and I'm going to make you so. You'll come along with me right now, my duck, and in five minutes you'll say what a wise old woman ...
— Married Life - The True Romance • May Edginton
... said, tartly, "be you comin' in, or be you goin' to stand out there wagglin' that ...
— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland
... abruptly, in very bad Portuguese, as to the state of her larder, the elder woman, who, ugly and blear-eyed, with ragged, scanty dress, and bare feet, yet wore a necklace of beads and earrings of gold. She answered tartly, that it being a fast-day, there was no flesh in the house. They had bacalhao and sardinhas, and garlic, and pepper, and onions, and oil; and everything that Christians wanted on a fast-day. ...
— The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters • Sue Petigru Bowen
... head-quarters," he replied rather tartly; "and you may thank the good God that it is so; for, whatever may be your mode of death, you may accept my assurance that it will not be anything like so protracted or unpleasant as that which awaited you ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood
... not yours, at present, Solomon," retorted the girl, tartly; "and perhaps it never may be yours. You take as much upon yourself because of your new copper vein as ...
— Bred in the Bone • James Payn
... as white as yours," rejoined Mrs. McLane tartly. "But I remain a woman, and for that reason attract ...
— Sleeping Fires • Gertrude Atherton
... its solution," Mr. Minturn said tartly. "Work on the theory I outlined; if it fails after a fair test, we'll try another. Those boys have got to be saved. They are handsome little chaps with fine bodies and good ancestry. What ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... coats of a hevening nowadays?" asked Miss Sellars, tartly, of the lank young man. "New ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... said rather tartly. "And I think you're a mean pig. However, go on! Have your own way! Don't ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... tartly. "I'm not to blame for that. I'm not responsible for your failure. Why take it ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... with credit and praise to herself; the other, downcast and irritable, with annoyance at the interference with her schemes, at the prospects of her school, and at herself for being out of temper, prone to murmur or to reply tartly, and not able to recover from her mood, but only, as she neared the house, lapsing into her other trouble, and preparing to resist any misjudged, though kind attempt of her father, to make her unsay her rebuke to Miss Bracy. Pride and temper! Ah! ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... tartly retorted, that during the last week she had spent even more time upon Father's wardrobe than she had upon her own; while Abe inwardly rejoiced to think that for seven days to come—seven whole days—he and Angy would be free from the ...
— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund
... grass when he related all that Mr. Crow had said. Those that did pause and listen to Snowball only giggled and went to feeding again. No! there was one that spoke to him. Aunt Nancy Ewe spoke up a bit tartly. ...
— The Tale of Snowball Lamb • Arthur Bailey
... trifle tartly, "of course there is a next—several of them, indeed. But it is useless to speak of them until this, perhaps the most important of them all, is settled. Upon what grounds do you assert that my first condition is impossible, senor? You have secured possession ...
— The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer • Harry Collingwood |
