"Cursedly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... too much," said Danforth. "Didn't want to keep her; she's too cursedly extravagant. It's jolly to have this sort of concern on hand; but I'd rather Seymour'd pay her bills ...
— Pink and White Tyranny - A Society Novel • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... rage, but stood there beside him on the pavement, tapping my shoe with my walking-cane and considering. At last I looked up, and said I, 'Your Grace must forgive my offering a suggestion; for 'tis a cursedly awkward fix your Grace is in, and one to excuse boldness in a friend, however humble.' 'Don't put it so, I beg,' said he. 'My dear Noy, if you can only tell me how to get quits with you, I'll be your ...
— Two Sides of the Face - Midwinter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... to believe—that you had been taken ill; that there was good reason for my child being once more exposed to a cruel public shame that must make her the byword of society. I ask you for an explanation, and in this cursedly cool way you say you have none to offer. You are not ill; you have not, as we feared, been attacked for your money, for there it lies on the table. There is nothing wrong, then, with you, ...
— Witness to the Deed • George Manville Fenn
... lounging across to the window, "if it's possible once a year to ask a simple question of any inmate of this cursedly dreary old place without ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm - Novelised From the Play • David Belasco
... remind you how cursedly bad Our affairs were all looking, when Father went mad;[2] A strait waistcoat on him and restrictions on me, A more limited Monarchy could not well be. I was called upon then, in that moment of puzzle. To choose ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... consider our great repentance and low submission, and grant us forgiveness of our outrageous trespass and offence; for well we know, that your liberal grace and mercy stretch them farther into goodness, than do our outrageous guilt and trespass into wickedness; albeit that cursedly [wickedly] and damnably we have aguilt [incurred guilt] against your high lordship." Then Meliboeus took them up from the ground full benignly, and received their obligations and their bonds, by ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer |
