"Been" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Jasper, all art. They are deeper than your common English sort, and act it out better. I'll just give you an instance or two. That eldest son has been with me just now, a smart young chap, who swears he has been keeping his mother all this time—-he has written to me often enough for help to do so. On the other hand, the little sister tells me, "Mamma always wants money to send to poor Richard." Then again, Miss Mohun assures ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the rocking-chair, sat down and covering her face with her hands, uttered what to her must have been a sad lament: "Oh, she has made a coward out of me." A moment later Tom came, ...
— The Starbucks • Opie Percival Read
... of what she could do. She had refused all of O'mie's well-meant counsel, and she had been friends with envy and hatred so long that ...
— The Price of the Prairie - A Story of Kansas • Margaret Hill McCarter
... of the documents, combined with the entire absence of evidence to support the many reckless statements made in them, did much to convince Americans that the German position was not capable of honest, logical, dispassionate, manly defence. There has never at any time been any such outbreak of fury and bitterness among the English or French people. While there are individual exceptions, taken as a whole the press, pamphlets, and private letters of the English and French, dealing with the war, ...
— Plain Words From America • Douglas W. Johnson
... been asleep a long time when he was awakened by the sound of a clock in a distant tower striking the hour of 1. ...
— Everychild - A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old • Louis Dodge
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