"Deep down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spirit and policy of his profession, was a shock that hurt. She would have flashed out at him with scornful, cutting words, but she felt, intuitively, that he was not being true to himself in this—that he was forced, as it were, into a false position by something deep down in his life. This feeling robbed her of the power to reply in stinging words, and instead gave her ...
— The Calling Of Dan Matthews • Harold Bell Wright
... And deep down in her heart, each woman nursed a grievance. With Gertie it was the remembrance of the angry letter of protest which Nora had written her brother when she learned of his approaching marriage and which he had been indiscreet enough to show her; with Nora, it was the recollection of Gertie's ...
— The Land of Promise • D. Torbett
... Yet deep down in her mind she felt little doubt of the object in view, or who were involved. Excited as she was, and frightened, the girl was still composed enough to grasp the nature of her surroundings, and she had time now, as the wagon rumbled forward, to think over ...
— The Strange Case of Cavendish • Randall Parrish
... floated before her eyes first it was Gorgo, the idol of her old heart, lying pale and fair on a sea of surf that rocked her on its watery waste—up high on the crest of a wave and then deep down in the abyss that yawned behind it. She, too—so young, a hardly-opened blossom—must perish in the universal ruin, and be crushed by the same omnipotent hand that could overthrow the greatest of the gods; and a glow of passionate hatred snatched her away from the aim of her hopes. Then ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... wither'd flower beneath. Touching and beautiful the lovely sight Of such devotion deep at friendship's shrine. My sterner heart, in welling sympathy, Throbb'd its response to this ennobling act Of these fair sisters, and did them homage Deep down within its silent recesses. Oh, when with them life's fitful fever ends May ne'er be wanted hand of sympathy To strew affection's token ...
— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various
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