"Impatience" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... well directed, and went straight to the tree; but Jim, in his impatience to help his friends, fell a victim to his good intentions. Making a frantic grab at a branch, he raised himself off the log, which was swept from under him by the raging waters and he soon joined the other victims upon ...
— The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln • Wayne Whipple
... of which Denver's was the last, but when Meacham and his partner were announced as the next contestants his impatience would not brook further delay. With his own precious drills tied securely in a bundle and Owen and the coach behind him he fought his way to the base of the platform and sat down where he could watch every blow. They came ...
— Silver and Gold - A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp • Dane Coolidge
... had, in fact, been viewing the proceedings with hardly concealed impatience, and he now rose with evident relief that they ...
— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman
... witnesses, who got into town just as the Court opened. So he had to put them on and examine them at a venture. The first one he called was a grave-looking citizen. Mr. Bacon asked him a good many questions, but could get no answer which tended to help his case, and at last he said, with some impatience: "Mr. Witness, can you tell me any single fact which tends to show that his ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
... which were listened to with some impatience, I explained that things had reached a critical state at Low Heath. It was the duty of everybody to back up Tempest and make it hot for Jarman. (Cries of "Why don't you?" "What's the use of you?") We didn't intend to be interfered with by anybody, and if ...
— Tom, Dick and Harry • Talbot Baines Reed
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