"Tartly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thought you such a fool," she said, tartly; adding: "But I consider your behavior very strange. You are not yet engaged that I know of, and the bride ought to have more than three weeks to prepare ...
— Dainty's Cruel Rivals - The Fatal Birthday • Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
... table, sat down, searched for his keys, unlocked and drew out a drawer, took from it a cheque-book, and settled himself to write with deliberation, thinking all the time. When he had done—"Have the goodness to come and fetch your money," he said tartly. ...
— There & Back • George MacDonald
... is what you will get, young man," replied our governess, tartly. "What you three need is discipline at the hands of a strong man. We shall ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche
... she replied, tartly. "Thank the Lord this thing is nearly over, and we'll have a few weeks ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work • Edith Van Dyne
... Toad tartly. "I sang right in this very place last spring, and the spring before, and the spring before that. You've sat on that very bank lots of times while I was singing. The trouble with you, Peter, is that you don't use your eyes or ...
— The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad • Thornton W. Burgess
... would leave my clothes alone and tell me where you are going," Jeanne declared, a little tartly, "it would be ...
— Jeanne of the Marshes • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... well-informed, mistress," said Mr. Caryll, a thought tartly, for if his speech was tainted with a French accent it was in so slight a degree as surely to be imperceptible to ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... brother-in-law's conduct, which he did not himself vindicate; and Mr. B. was pleased to say, that my lord was always very candid to him, and kind in his allowances for the sallies of ungovernable youth. Upon which my lady said, a little tartly, "Yes, and for a very good reason, I doubt not; for who cares to ...
— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson
... on medical authority," tartly interposed Professor Brierly, "but I am not certain it is competent medical authority. I have seen too many careless autopsies made and read too many loosely written reports to have ...
— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew
... Jack tartly, 'you do,' adding, in an undertone, 'leave it to me, man, and I'll let you in for a good thing. Yes, Mr. Sponge,' continued he, addressing himself to our hero, 'Mr. Pacey fancies the chestnut ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... than be yourself, Mister Birch," interrupted Caesar tartly, dropping at the same time the covering of the ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper
... on without turning her head, and for many steps nothing further was heard from her quarter than the rustle of her dress against the heavy corn-ears. Then she resumed rather tartly— ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... Edith tartly inquired. "Deborah is living here—and before I came she ran the house. In her place I should certainly ...
— His Family • Ernest Poole
... or a license," the collector answered tartly. "It's people who want to carry firearms—people able and likely to make trouble whom we keep ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy
... to grow impatient, for he knew he was wrong, and rather tartly he answered, as he left the room, "Give her a decent burial, and present ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes
... too much," thought Mr. Brookes; and had it not been for the certain knowledge that Berkins had lately increased his income by a couple of thousands a year, he would have answered him tartly enough; but as this fact admitted of no doubt he bridled his anger and said: "If you could put my boy right it would be more to the point. He has all the method of the best clerk in London; he loves the work, he would do ...
— Spring Days • George Moore
... that you don't know that you've left the light burning in the hall, wasting our good money?" she observed tartly. ...
— The Lodger • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... put in Hannah tartly, "that last summer just about spoiled your taste for anything but the life of a pirate. If you must have somebody throwin' a bottle at your head or dumpin' ministers into the river or diggin' treasure, things have come ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple
... thing vexed me from morning till night. Every week the father would take out the stocking and drop in the money and laugh and kiss me as we tied it up together. Up with you, Hans! There you sit gaping, and the day a-wasting!" added Dame Brinker tartly, blushing to find that she had been speaking too freely to her boy. "It's high time you were ...
— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge
... there is any about," she replied tartly, and he saw with relief that her petulance had faded to dull indifference. "I was obliged to dance with somebody," she resumed after a minute, "I couldn't sit against the wall the whole evening, ...
— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow
... Islands or not—and whether Big Pony or Little Pony—clearing weather would disclose. Meantime, as Archie Armstrong somewhat tartly pointed out, the Spot Cash was to be looked to. She had gone aground at low tide, it seemed; and she was now floating at anchor, free of the bottom. The butt of her bowsprit had been driven into the forecastle; and the bowsprit itself had gone permanently out of commission. ...
— Billy Topsail & Company - A Story for Boys • Norman Duncan
... coming," began their mother tartly. "'Milyer, you're the worst of the lot when you get your nose buried in a newspaper. Boys, do keep still, though I suppose you're half starved," with a reproachful look at those ...
— A Little Girl in Old New York • Amanda Millie Douglas
... Milton," she tartly replied. "Look at the Chopin prelude. Will you contradict me if I say that in one prelude this composer crowds the experience of a lifetime? When he expands his idea into the sonata form how diffuse, ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... it at half-price, and buy a couple of good useful ones with the money?" returned she, tartly. "Better that than keep the foppish thing as a witness of your folly. Perhaps he'll be buying embroidered fronts next, if he goes into that idle, do-nothing House of Commons. I'd rather enter myself for six months at ...
— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood
... spoke tartly, rather. He was excessively annoyed at all this enthusiasm in behalf ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... according to Cheiro, either," tartly. "Hold your palm steady so that I can see more clearly. It's ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... said tartly, "I guess her man knowed why he put that on. That poor woman had three husbands and eleven children, so I guess she had fitful ...
— Patchwork - A Story of 'The Plain People' • Anna Balmer Myers
... steering any too well as it is," remarked Sylvia tartly. "Thomas! What are you thinking of? Don't you touch me!—There, ...
— The Old Gray Homestead • Frances Parkinson Keyes
... adverse report in the newspapers as to his conduct of the case, contented himself with the glare aforesaid, and, after a short speech, called Braddock. The Professor, looking more like a cross cherub than ever, gave his evidence tartly. It seemed ridiculous to his prejudiced mind that all this fuss should be made over Bolton's body, when the mummy; was still missing. However, as the discovery of the criminal would assuredly lead to the regaining of that precious Peruvian relic, ...
— The Green Mummy • Fergus Hume
... your utility," replied Hermia tartly. "I merely question your point of view. You do not see ...
— Madcap • George Gibbs
... for you to grin,' said Solomon tartly. 'We've got to bear it. You didn't take over any of his ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... Betty tartly, in reply to the first question, while she dismissed the second with an ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
... Billy," retorted Aunt Hannah, a little tartly, and with a touch of sarcasm most unlike her gentle self. "I'm sure I shouldn't wish to fill this infant's plastic mind with anything so appalling as trivial inaccuracies. May I be pardoned for suggesting, however," ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... girl!' answered her brother tartly. 'I have told you more than once or twice about that new boy at Torrington's, and now you ask me what I ...
— That Scholarship Boy • Emma Leslie
... speak to her of his mother, she attributed his reserve to a certain aristocratic arrogance, even to a lack of consideration, for her, at which the pride of the freewoman and the plebeian was up in arms. She was wont to say to him tartly: ...
— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France
... 'long!" said Mrs. Douglass; "I know all about it. Now, do you s'pose you're agoing to be any happier among all those great folks than you would be if you staid among little folks?" she added, tartly; while Catherine looked with a kind of incredulous admiration at ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell
... I, and so does Dad, and so do we all, but we can't get it," replied Beatrice rather tartly. "We have to make up our minds to go without. You're no worse off ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil
... step. The terms were fair; for with an ordinary day's work I might lay up some thousands of years' indulgence. There was but one drawback in the matter. "I don't believe in purgatory," I rejoined. "What is that to me?" said the old man, tartly, accompanying the remark with a quick shrug of the shoulders and a curl ...
— Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber - Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge • James Aitken Wylie
... that it appeared plainly he did not care whether it was done or no, and particularly as if he had a mind the captain should see it and take notice of it. Which the captain did, for perceiving how awkwardly he went about it, he spoke a little tartly to him, and asked him what was the reason he did not stir a little and furl the sail. Peterson, as if he had waited for the question, answered in a surly tone, and with a kind of disdain, So as we eat, so shall we work. This he ...
— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward
... being. And excepting his own fundamental position concerning the sensuous origin of our ideas,—to which few, since Kant, will assent,— there is hardly a theorem, in all the writings of this school, of prime and vital significance. The school is tartly, but aptly, characterized by Professor Ferrier: "Would people inquire directly into the laws of thought and of knowledge by merely looking to knowledge or to thought itself, without attending to what ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
... was not so easily appeased. When Iris left the saloon she inquired tartly: "How is it, John, that Government makes a shipowner a baronet and a Chief ...
— The Wings of the Morning • Louis Tracy
... can't help hearing when people are talking at the top of their voices," she said tartly. "Come on, for dear sake, and have your teas, the ...
— The Foolish Lovers • St. John G. Ervine
... replied tartly, and Doggie felt snubbed. "But I'm sure he agrees with everything I say." She paused and, in a different tone, went on: "Don't you think it's rather rotten to have this piffling argument when I've come all this ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke
... The coroner reproved him tartly. "Please confine your testimony to facts and not to impressions, Mr. Blanton. Do you know at what time Mr. ...
— Tangled Trails - A Western Detective Story • William MacLeod Raine
... Nell, as she tartly replied: "A war of the sex without me? It was stupid, then. The Duchess ...
— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.
... it rained; steadily, gloomily, fiercely rained. Solomon was not allowed to wear his best clothes. When, peering out of the window, he hopefully said he "guessed mebbe 't was goin' to clear," his wife invited him tartly to ...
— The Calico Cat • Charles Miner Thompson
... Mrs Swann, tartly. "I'm going to run up with them by car to Mrs Vernon's. I can slip them quietly over to Gil. They keep your hands warm better than anything. Don't I remember when I was a child! I shall leave Mrs Vernon's immediately, of course, ...
— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett
... replied Jenny tartly. "He eats nothing but insects, and he catches them flying. Now I must get back ...
— The Burgess Bird Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... never come back," he said tartly. "An Indian stake and a bloody head will be the end ...
— Salute to Adventurers • John Buchan
... be as white as yours," rejoined Mrs. McLane tartly. "But I remain a woman, and for that reason attract men to ...
— Sleeping Fires • Gertrude Atherton
... success, great benefit to Cocksmoor, and plenty of management, with credit and praise to herself; the other, downcast and irritable, with annoyance at the interference with her schemes, at the prospects of her school, and at herself for being out of temper, prone to murmur or to reply tartly, and not able to recover from her mood, but only, as she neared the house, lapsing into her other trouble, and preparing to resist any misjudged, though kind attempt of her father, to make her unsay her rebuke to Miss Bracy. Pride and temper! Ah! ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... Lewis was a very severe master, and inflicted such punishment upon us as he thought proper. However, I only remember one severe contest Mr. Lewis had with my mother. For some slight offence Mrs. Lewis became offended and was tartly and loudly reprimanding her, when Mr. L. came in and rashly felled her to the floor with his fist. But his wife was constantly pulling our ears, snapping us with her thimble, rapping us on the head and sides of it. It appeared impossible to please her. When we first ...
— The Story of Mattie J. Jackson • L. S. Thompson
... wasn't made overnight," she said tartly. "I've had this pesky thing a month. Do you know ...
— Man to Man • Jackson Gregory
... tell you right away that I am not," Aggie said tartly. "I'm not and I don't want to be. Though I can't see how biting my tongue half through is going ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... said Miss Ethel, tartly, pressing her hand to her forehead. "And I'm going to see if the men really have left ...
— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose
... other, tartly. "I'm no gambler any more. I'm a respectable gentleman with a mine and a ranch," he emptied his glass and, smacking his lips, continued, "and a beautiful young girl that loves me ... loves me. Understand?" His hand came down upon the other's ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... that is practically impossible; I can't do it." Then he said, "you've got to do it, I've spent too much time looking for you already, you've got to clerk for us." I am a little hot headed myself, and I answered him as tartly as he spoke to me. "Mr. Moore," says I, "I've got to do nothing of the sort." Then Mr. Moore cooled down and talked more like a business man and ...
— The Second William Penn - A true account of incidents that happened along the - old Santa Fe Trail • William H. Ryus
... mostly nonsense," returned the woman tartly, "a big expense and a sight of work for nothing. And ...
— Romance Island • Zona Gale
... my business, an' I can keep it to myself," said Ellen tartly. "But I'll tell you this much—I'm goin' to ...
— The Wall Between • Sara Ware Bassett
... for this, Gloriana," said Ajax, tartly. "As a member of the family you have not treated my brother and myself fairly. This mysterious work of yours is not only wearing you to skin and bone, it is consuming us ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... going if there were, do you?" she remarked in English tartly, curving her arching black brows at him; "how many are we—five? That's three too many, in my opinion. Father Rielle—I go with you in Mr. Poussette's buggy; you others there, you three messieurs—you ...
— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison
... was red-hot. Hannah had left a pan of bread to rise, Meg had worked it up early, set it on the hearth for a second rising, and forgotten it. Meg was entertaining Sallie Gardiner in the parlor, when the door flew open and a floury, crocky, flushed, and disheveled figure appeared, demanding tartly... ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... of place in the contemplation of the magnificent work I have already accomplished," said the professor tartly. "I admit that Number One leaves much to be desired—much to be desired; but Number Two shows a marked advance along certain lines, and I am sure that tomorrow will divulge in experiment Number Three such strides ...
— The Monster Men • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... to do anything at all for me," returned Janice, rather tartly. "If your own conscience doesn't tell you what course to pursue, pray remain neutral—as you are. But ...
— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long
... what happened when Sydney Smith—who, as everybody knows, was an exceedingly sensible man, and a gentleman, every inch of him—ventured to preach a sermon on the Duties of Royalty. The "Quarterly," "so savage and tartly," came down upon him in the most contemptuous style, as "a joker of jokes," a "diner-out of the first water" in one of his own phrases; sneering at him, insulting him, as nothing but a toady of a court, sneaking behind the anonymous, would ever have ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various
... master-singers' verdict then does not agree with hers, how is it to operate?"—"Let the young lady choose at once according to the inclination of her heart, and leave master-singing out of the game!" remarks Beckmesser tartly. "Not at all! Not at all!" Pogner strives to calm them, "Not in the very least! You have imperfectly understood. The maiden may refuse the one to whom you master-singers award the prize, but she may not choose another. A master-singer he must ...
— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall
... above our Margaret's cradle; for a Methodist mother in Israel, hopeful of a sympathetic response from Elsie M'Phatter (the non-churchgoing one), ventured the comment that similar events in her own brilliant maternal record had provoked no unseemly joy; to which Elsie responded tartly— ...
— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles
... daughter, and Johnson had a paralytic stroke in June. Death was sending preliminary warnings. A correspondence was kept up, which implies that the old terms were not ostensibly broken. Mrs. Thrale speaks tartly more than once; and Johnson's letters go into medical details with his customary plainness of speech, and he occasionally indulges in laments over the supposed change in her feelings. The gloom is thickening, ...
— Samuel Johnson • Leslie Stephen
... seventieth year. No matter how vigorous, Kwaiba's wine was showing on him. The two prepared for bed. O'Hana listened as the rain dashed in streams against the amado, as if trying to break its way in. She gave a little chuckle—"Who would have thought it!"—"What?" asked Iemon, perhaps a little tartly. He was nervous. O'Hana laughed—"That Iemon and this Hana should be where they now are. Their parting was on a night like this. Ah! At seeing a man weep Hana could have retired into a cave—forever. Only the fortunate accident ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... I think he ought to have helped it,' said the other tartly. 'When does he mean to come, I'd ...
— Demos • George Gissing
... of music in your old age," said Mrs. Chinnery, tartly. "But you always are late nowadays. When it isn't music it's something else. What's come over you lately ...
— Salthaven • W. W. Jacobs
... not be so unjust as to let Madame de Fleury have that dress after refusing it to me," observed Mrs. Gilmer tartly. "If she is, ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
... my heart, Captain Campbell," said Jean tartly, "but my pocket's empty. If you think the boy's neglected you have a house of your own to take him into; it would be all the better for a young one in it, and you have the money to spend that Jean Clerk has not." All this with a very brave show of spirit, but with something uncommonly moist ...
— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro
... talked thus, as we washed the dishes; the cook in a sweeter mood (having had his morning dram of brandy); I, myself, trying hard to win him to a good opinion of me. I asked him if I might clean his copper for him; it was in a sad state of dirt. "You'll have work enough 'ere, boy," he said, tartly, "without you running round for more. You mind your own business." After this little snap at my head (no thought of thanks occurred to him) he prepared breakfast for us, out of the remains of the cabin breakfast. I was much cheered by the prospect of food, ...
— Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger • John Masefield
... think that your presence is so necessary, we will convince you to the contrary by going without you," replied Mr. Brown, rather tartly. ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... about it," she said, tartly. "I'm your wife, and I am going to do my share, keeping house and helping around. And you have got to do your share, and treat me fairly. I once heard that the first Mrs. Balberry didn't get all that was coming ...
— From Farm to Fortune - or Nat Nason's Strange Experience • Horatio Alger Jr.
... "Phelps!" Annette interrupted tartly, "you needn't go into details. I don't imagine Captain and Mrs. Dott will be greatly interested. What a charming old room this is, isn't it? SO quaint! Everything looks as if it had been ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... an instant attack of hysterics, and I did wonder," rejoined Gerald, tartly. "But as I told you, women are always fools, and nervous women the worst ones, I haven't any patience with them. I was vexed enough with her for keeping me from Phebe. I don't believe she was ever hurried so ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... didn't even lift their heads from the grass when he related all that Mr. Crow had said. Those that did pause and listen to Snowball only giggled and went to feeding again. No! there was one that spoke to him. Aunt Nancy Ewe spoke up a bit tartly. ...
— The Tale of Snowball Lamb • Arthur Bailey
... you I saw nothing,' said Philip, tartly: 'this was the Italian's interpretation of the boy's gesture. It was to be by means of love, he said, and of a lady who—-he made it plain enough who she was,' added ...
— The Chaplet of Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge
... to explain why you were hiding within our lines is ample reason for my insistence," he said tartly, "and I am not accustomed to treating spies with any great consideration, even when they claim Rebel commissions. You are not the first to seek escape in that way. Was your despatch the cause of the hurried departure of Longstreet's ...
— My Lady of the North • Randall Parrish
... your swill, Mr Saucypate," tartly replied Geoffery. "And so, because you have eaten and drunk with my master, it is 'old Gabergeon;' else had it been good Master Hardpiece, or 'if you will, Master Geoffery!' Out upon such carrion, say I, that think themselves live meat when ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... "Alice," called her mother, tartly, "take your foot away from that rug. And don't annoy me about that worn breadth; you know very well I've tried everywhere to match it. And don't imagine, either, that I'm going to bundle my wedding presents out of sight ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller
... for a moment, his eyes holding sparks of indignation. "Young man," he said tartly, "you should hear Cap'n Am'zon himself tell it. You wouldn't cast no ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper
... to say about it," replied the lady rather tartly. "We escaped with our lives when the house ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin
... "That's so, Mr. Fyles," she said, almost tartly, "but I guess that lever needs to help them into your traps to ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum
... I suppose,' said Kate tartly; then, suddenly, 'Will you undertake to make this gentleman's peace with Mr. Walpole, and show how the whole was ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever
... sufficiently; and harassed with this idea, she pursued the courtier from the Court hall into the illuminated gardens, and there told him, and in language that admitted of no doubt, that she wished to marry him. The courtier was indignant, and answered her so tartly that Kate, even in reading it over a second time, could not refrain from ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore
... you'd rather have Eleanor come home by herself than bringing a strange woman and a hired girl," Albertina contributed a trifle tartly. The distinction of a hired girl in the family was one which she had long craved on ...
— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley
... in good laying condition, and there are the cherries on the tree," said Miss Fleming tartly. She did not like Jane nor any other woman, but she usually fought for her sex against men in a mannish way—for the pleasure of fighting for ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various
... quite taken aback at such frigid formality; and dear Maria's very heart was in her mouth: but the brother tartly added, "If Mr. Clements wishes to see Sir Thomas—that's his knock: he was following me close behind: I saw him; but, as I make it a point never to walk with the governor, perhaps it's as well for you two I dropped in first by way ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... she answered tartly, "so long as they don't mind eating after their betters. And as for your man Priske, I saw him twenty minutes ago escape towards Church ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... tartly, "that whenever you begin reminding me of my 'Majesty' you have always something unpleasant to spring on me! You are treating me now just as you have been treating the Bishops; you will not listen to advice; no, you will not accept amendments, you behave as though you ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... said Mrs. Smith tartly, "I don't know any Sal, and if I did I wouldn't carry messages to her for a chicken thief, and it is past midnight, and the draught on my bare feet is giving me my death of cold, and if you think this is a pink tea for me to stand around and ...
— Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler
... in bed," Littimer said, tartly. "My dear young lady, if you and I are to remain friends I must ask you to mind your own business. It is a dreadfully difficult thing for a woman to do, but you must try. ...
— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White
... insolent," she said tartly. "Better wash out your mouth before you try that on Paul Cleary. He eats wise young laboratory ...
— The Trouble with Telstar • John Berryman
... man's heart and convince yourself," suggested Clymer tartly, and the deputy marshal, dropping on one knee, did so. Detecting no heart-beat, the officer passed his hand over the dead man's unshaven chin and across his forehead, brushing back the unkempt hair. Under his none too gentle touch the wig slipped back, ...
— The Red Seal • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... tartly, "be you comin' in, or be you goin' to stand out there wagglin' that door knob ...
— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland
... lady, tartly. "That is more than the price of the whole meal if she had let us pay for it. A present of a shilling at the outside. No, a ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... heard," June said rather tartly. "And I think you're a mean pig. However, go on! Have your own way! Don't ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... the housekeeper's mouth were drawn down still lower and more tartly. "In our station all sorts of things can happen: we love for a while and then again we don't and are at peace. But with our mistresses it is different. If there is a hole in the cover of the old sofa down in my room, I don't care, and some time when I have time I mend it; but ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various
... it should, but very often it doesn't," retorted Molly, a trifle tartly, for the sermon had bored her and she looked forward with ...
— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow
... said M. Vulfran, tartly. "I may as well tell you that for a long time I have wanted someone intelligent to be near me, one who is discreet and whom I can trust. This young girl seems to have these qualities. I am sure that she is intelligent, ...
— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot
... the lady, tartly; "I think it is enough for you to take care of yourself. Recollect your Scripture proverb of 'the blind leading the blind.' I have no inclination to tumble into one of those pits," added she, ...
— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat
... that answers the treble. His wife reproaching him, he strikes her. Here we are in B flat. She laments her fate in B major. Then her husband shouts: "Be quiet, old vixen." This is given in the octaves, a genuine dialogue, the wife tartly answering: "Shan't be quiet." The gruff grumbling in the bass is heard, an imitation of the above, when suddenly the man cries out, the last eight bars of the composition: "Kitty, Kitty come—do come here, I forgive you," which is decidedly masculine ...
— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker
... one!" retorted the mayor, tartly. "I have dropped down here merely in a business way to find out what's wanted of me as the executive head ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... "Yes," I answered tartly. "But I don't understand how you can stomach this sort of existence. What is there in it? Where is the profit or satisfaction in this kind of thing, for you? Will the man in the ranks get credit for taming the Northwest when his work ...
— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... listened, afterwards reporting their impressions to the King. His Majesty therefore commanded that the monk should also be present on the occasion of the discussion between Las Casas and Quevedo. The appearance of the Franciscan, was not to Quevedo's liking, and he somewhat tartly remarked to him that the Court was no place for monks, who had much better be in their cells. As the Bishop himself was of the same Order, the monk aptly retorted that he was of the like opinion and that "all of us ...
— Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt
... I do wonder at you, John, letting him talk like this before everybody. [Turning rather tartly to Lina] Would you mind going away to the drawing-room just for a few minutes, Miss Chipenoska. This is a private family matter, if you ...
— Misalliance • George Bernard Shaw
... not steal!" said Mrs. Bangs, tartly. She looked meaningly at Jack. "I presume you and your family are very bitter against ...
— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.
... laughing at Rashe's disappointment at his solitary arrival till she said, tartly, 'You cannot wonder at our thinking you must have some reason for neither mentioning your companion's name nor ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... fiber, and classing as morbid all forms of introspection, she always so dreaded to have the conversation drift into a reflective channel that whenever she found Willie indulging in reveries she was wont to rout him out of them, tartly reproaching herself for having even indirectly been the cause of stirrin' ...
— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett
... is coming directly," June said tartly. "If you don't want to see him you'd better go. I know you ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... the Yellow Peril, instead of one of your much-vaunted steeds," I remarked tartly, "I could go at him with a wrench and have him in working order again in five minutes; as it is—" I felt that ...
— The Range Dwellers • B. M. Bower
... all right," Winnie informed him, a trifle tartly, "in fact I don't see why you didn't lug up a couple of tents and turn 'em loose inside. Rosemary is going to be blown out of the window some fine night and, to my way of thinking, it's better to start sleeping on the ground than to land there sudden like, right ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... yesterday to the Abbess of Panthemont, General Oglethorpe's niece,(1089) and no chicken. I inquired after her mother, Madame de Meziers, and I thought I might to a spiritual votary to immortality venture to say, that her mother must be very old; she interrupted me tartly, and said, no, her mother had been married extremely young. Do but think of its seeming important to a saint to sink a wrinkle of her own through an iron grate! Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if animals have any fun in them, how we ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... I understood from you he was a clerk!" said Nellie, tartly, suddenly retransformed into the shrewd matron, as soon as Mr. Marrier had profusely gone. She had conceived Marrier as a sort of Penkethman! Edward Henry had hoped to ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... replied Turbot, tartly, "I have lived in the country, and, until a few minutes ago, I was ignorant of the extent to which ...
— The Tithe-Proctor - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton
... made very happy by the invitation she had received that morning,—so happy that she had said to her elder sister, Martha Jocelyn, "To think of Marian Selwyn's inviting me. Isn't it beautiful of her?" and Martha had answered back rather tartly, "I don't see why you should put such an emphasis on 'me,' as if you were so inferior. You're ...
— A Flock of Girls and Boys • Nora Perry
... to the window and looked out again. Heavy rolled out of bed—a good deal like a barrel, her aunt said tartly. ...
— Ruth Fielding Down East - Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point • Alice B. Emerson
... said Gerry of Massachusetts, had nothing to do with slavery in the States; it had only to refrain from giving direct sanction to the system. Others opposed this whole argument, declaring, with Langdon of New Hampshire, that Congress ought to have this power, since, as Dickinson tartly remarked, "The true question was, whether the national happiness would be promoted or impeded by the importation; and this question ought to be left to the national government, not to ...
— The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America - 1638-1870 • W. E. B. Du Bois
... again eagerly interjected Mr. Snap, who was a second time tartly rebuffed by Mr. Quirk; even Mr. Gammon turning towards him with a surprised—"Really, ...
— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren
... tartly. "I'm not to blame for that. I'm not responsible for your failure. Why take it ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... know it as well as we do," interpolated Lady Arabella tartly, but smiling pridefully in spite ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler
... she said tartly. "I shan't bother myself about your concerns. I've no doubt you're able to ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... "Well," she observed rather tartly, "I'm sorry you don't know what to say, but perhaps you might begin by telling us who you are and what you mean by makin' a—er—dressin' room of a house that don't belong to you, just because you happened to find the door unlocked. After that you might explain why you didn't ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln
... a favorite of yours, Mr. Hooper, but that won't save him from going to jail," said Randolph, tartly. ...
— Struggling Upward - or Luke Larkin's Luck • Horatio Alger
... paused. His eyes were intently directed along the road by which I had come. I looked back, and there stood the stalwart Tongan where I had left him, gazing at the sixpence I had placed in his hand. There was a kind of stupefaction in his attitude. Presently the consul said somewhat tartly: "Ah, you've been to the Palace—the Crown Prince has ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... that could help it," said Gavinia, tartly, for the honour of her sex, "but she's no are o' them." To be candid, Gavinia was not one of them herself. "I'm thinking she's terrible fond o' him," she said, "and I'm nain sure that he has treated ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... orders for her beloved Paul. Madame Loisillon in her time, when sounding the praises of her apartments at the Institute, never failed to add with emphasis, 'I have entertained there even Sovereigns.' 'Yes, in the little room,' good Adelaide would answer tartly, drawing up her long neck. It was the fact that not unfrequently, after the prolonged fatigue of a Special Session, some great lady, a Royal Highness on her travels, or a leader influential in politics, would go upstairs to pay a little particular ...
— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
... through it all the voice of Lady Georgina observing, tartly, 'Why the idiots can't make braces to fit one at first passes my comprehension. But, there, my dear; the people who manufacture them are a set of born fools, and what can you expect from an imbecile?' Mr. Ashurst was Lady Georgina, veneered with a thin layer of ingratiating ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen
... needs I shall see him," said Mrs. Mowgelewsky, somewhat tartly. "I seen, already, lots from dogs. Don't you go make no foolishness mit him. Don't you go und get ...
— Short Stories of Various Types • Various
... say I'm as thankful as my neighbours, though I say less about it," said Nancy, tartly. "I dare say there's many a poor body will need all they have, and more, ...
— The Orphans of Glen Elder • Margaret Murray Robertson
... silence, during which Mrs. Ballinger, with a perfunctory hand, rearranged the skilfully grouped literature at which her distinguished guest had not so much as glanced; then Miss Van Vluyck tartly pronounced: "Well, I can't say that I consider Osric Dane's departure a ...
— Xingu - 1916 • Edith Wharton
... himself. But McClellan had a soldierly contempt for such intermeddling in matters military, and was wholly unimpressible. When Senator Wade said that an unsuccessful battle was preferable to delay, for that a defeat would easily be repaired by swarming recruits, the general tartly replied that he preferred a few recruits before a victory to a great many after a defeat. But, however cleverly and fairly the military man might counter upon the politician, there was no doubt that discontent was developing dangerously. The people had conscientiously intended to do their part ...
— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I. • John T. Morse
... nothing bad to conceal needn't be afraid of speaking out," retorted Miss Greeb tartly. "And the way in which Mr. Berwin lives is enough to make one think him a coiner, or a thief, or even a ...
— The Silent House • Fergus Hume
... deduce it," observed the town detective tartly. "In the first place, she wouldn't 'a' been standin' 'round like that if the job was over, would she? Wouldn't she 'a' been streakin' out fer home? ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon
... afternoon tea?" he asked tartly. "With six major operations this morning and a probable meningitis diagnosis ahead of me this afternoon I think I might be spared the babblings of an hysterical nurse!" Casually over his shoulder he nodded at the girl. "You're a fool!" he said, and ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... unpleasant features of the trip, they were tartly received by the owner of the ranch when they arrived there at night worn out and hungry. The proprietor was very ill natured and did not conceal his aversion to entertaining them. Boyton made several polite attempts to engage him in ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... gone over," I replied, somewhat tartly. "You'd have seen that every one of your suppositions was wrong. He's not at a smart hotel. He's living in one tiny room in the most squalid way. If he's left his home, it's not to live a gay life. He's got hardly ...
— The Moon and Sixpence • W. Somerset Maugham
... make a right," he answered tartly, "even less will an assembly of deadly dry persons make something ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... to hear you've got as far as that," she remarked rather tartly. "Your fault, Bob, is not thinking nearly enough ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
... you," I said, tartly, for I did not like his laughter. "So long as you confine your amusement to me, I am satisfied; but pray avoid using any objectionable language ...
— A Roman Singer • F. Marion Crawford
... Dominican cloister he was about to visit, he was much annoyed by the noise of a pig, which a country youth was carrying a little way before him. At length, irritated by the unmitigated noise, "Have you not learned how to quiet a pig" demanded the imperial traveller, tartly. "Noa," replied the ingenuous peasant, ignorant of the quality of his interrogator;—"noa; and I should very much like to know how to do it," changing the position of his burthen, and giving his load a surreptitious ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton |
