"Icily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... came to them on the still air. Rose's slim figure stiffened very slightly, barely perceptibly, at the sound. "Sir Eustace has forgotten his engagement," she said icily. "Yes, Captain Brent, I ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... now, and the next moment he too was gazing down at the fierce face, icily sealed in death, the light playing upon the huge red beard, while the eyes were ...
— To Win or to Die - A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze • George Manville Fenn
... House unusually irritable. Mr. HEALY fulminated at Sir E. CARSON (who was not present) in language that reminded Colonel SHARMAN-CRAWFORD of "a low police-court." Mr. DILLON'S high top note was ceaselessly employed in emitting adjectives more remarkable, as Mr. BONAR LAW icily observed, for their strength than for their novelty. At one time it looked as if there was to be a first-class Irish row. But wiser counsels ultimately prevailed. The House as a whole was in no mood for protracted discussion in which ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Dec. 12, 1917 • Various
... it," said Jessie, icily, though there was a twinkle in her eye. "Not having a mirror, I'm afraid I can't join ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... icily. "What day was it that Mr. Barrows was found in the vat?" she inquired, turning to me with an ...
— The Mill Mystery • Anna Katharine Green
... on the American gentleman?" she said icily, putting aside each thrust with a parry of ...
— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath
... icily, when they came up to him. "So that's where you were. Uncle Jack"—for now he saw he had just cause for anger—"I'll thank you to let my ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown
... mood was on her, and the very colour of her mind seemed to change beneath it. It was no longer torture-torn and hateful, as I had seen it when she was cursing her dead rival by the leaping flames, no longer icily terrible as in the judgment-hall, no longer rich, and sombre, and splendid, like a Tyrian cloth, as in the dwellings of the dead. No, her mood now was that of Aphrodite triumphing. Life—radiant, ...
— She • H. Rider Haggard
... asked icily, "that Frank's mother would actually refuse him so small a thing as a puppy, if it meant the merest chance ...
— Old Mr. Wiley • Fanny Greye La Spina
... to see that she seemed not to have altered at all—in spite of this enormous lapse of time, in spite of all that had happened in it. And yet, unaltered, she seemed to him a stranger, a charming and gracious stranger with an icily beautiful face. He wondered at her and at himself, and he was a little alarmed because he thought that he must be ill. That blow upon the head must, after all, have done something ...
— Jason • Justus Miles Forman
... chosen a very appropriate occasion," she remarked icily at length. "Do you imagine yourself irresistible when playing the fool, ...
— The Tidal Wave and Other Stories • Ethel May Dell
... what might he must see her. But he returned a few minutes after, breathing hard and with his teeth set. He had taken her hand, had tried to tell her all a loving heart could find to say; but how sharply, how icily had he been repulsed, with what an air of intolerable scorn had she turned her back upon him! And now that he was in their midst again he scarcely heard his father express his regrets that so painful a scene should have occurred ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... country through which we came, though it was George Eliot's country; and I half expected something to happen as soon as we arrived; Sir Lionel perhaps turning on me at last, and saying icily: "I know everything, but don't want a ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... in your opinion I have made a statement or mooted a scheme so bizarre that your brain reels at it. In the present instance, there is absolutely nothing to say 'Sir?' about. The plan I have put forward is entirely reasonable and icily logical, and should excite no sirring whatsoever. Or don't ...
— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse
... One drawer of the desk was slightly opened. What could be seen of his features appeared sharper than usual, as if the inner virulence, the dark hidden passions smoldering in his breast had at length stamped their impression on the outer man. When he first spoke his tones were more irascible, less icily imperturbable, than they had been hitherto. They seemed to tell of a secret tension he had long been laboring under; but the steady cold eyes looked out from behind the wood ...
— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham
... will be happy to remove it. Nothing is more certain than that the dancing girls of oriental countries themselves feel nothing of what they have the skill to simulate, and the ballet dancer of our own stage is icily unconcerned while kicking together the smouldering embers in the heart of the wigged and corseted old beau below her, and playing the duse's delight with the disobedient imagination of the he Prude posted in the nooks and shadows thoughtfully provided for him. Stendahl frankly ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 - Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales • Ambrose Bierce
... a little gasp, and a heaving of the flat breasts. Then she said icily: 'And what ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... dropped to his sides, though, for he felt that she was icily cold, and as involuntarily he gave place, and she walked slowly past him to the open door, out on to the broad landing, and as he caught up the candle and followed, he saw the tall grey figure go slowly on up and up the stairs, and when he followed it to the first landing it was on the one above, ...
— The Dark House - A Knot Unravelled • George Manville Fenn
... sat erect in her chair, frigidly, icily, disgustedly erect. Beside her Mrs. Brackett sat, scorn and mental nausea plain upon her countenance. Every one looked angry and disgusted except Mrs. Chase, who was eagerly whispering questions to her next neighbor, and Mrs. Tidditt, ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... quite all right—in our normal senses," returned the Senator, icily. "I believe there are persons who gibber and giggle at mishaps to others—but I also believe that such a peculiar sense of humor is confined largely to institutions for the ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... flatter yourself, Cleo, I hope," Mrs. Delarayne retorted icily, "that I say these things to amuse you and ...
— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici
... the only reason you can think of that I might have for wanting to prevent a massacre?" Rynason said icily. ...
— Warlord of Kor • Terry Gene Carr
... to catch Farnie in the act of performing some ingenious breach of the peace, and, it being a Wednesday and a half-holiday, sent him into extra lesson. On the following morning, more by design than accident, Farnie upset an inkpot. Mr Smith observed icily that unless the stain was wiped away before the beginning of afternoon school, there would be trouble. Farnie observed (to himself) that there would be trouble in any case, for he had hit upon the central idea for the most colossal 'rag' that, in his opinion, ever was. After morning school he ...
— A Prefect's Uncle • P. G. Wodehouse
... humbled Clifford Heath. When the first momentary look of surprise had left his face, he stood before her as proudly erect, as icily courteous, as if he were receiving her ...
— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch
... no prescriptions from you!" he said icily. He looked at Trigger as he turned to walk out of the cabin. "Or drinks from you either, Trigger Argee!" he growled. "Who in the great spiraling galaxy is there ...
— Legacy • James H Schmitz
... Fontainebleau, then in its violation by the subsequent seizure of Portugal, and finally in the occupation of Spain by French troops. Declaring that more had been lost than gained by the events which occurred at Bayonne, Talleyrand says that on one occasion he icily observed to Napoleon that society would pardon much to a man of the world, but cheating at cards never. If this be true, it was a stinging rebuke and one which touched the ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane
... stood head to foot icily still, without the least feeling, or thought, or stir—staring into the looking-glass. Then an inconceivable drumming beat on his ear. A warm surge, like the onset of a wave, broke in him, flooding neck, face, forehead, even his hands with colour. He caught himself ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare
... teetered up to the prisoners on his gangling legs, and stared icily at them. Crouched beside him, her lovely body all one mute appeal to the Earthmen to forgive her for the part she was ...
— The Red Hell of Jupiter • Paul Ernst |
