"Resignedly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... egg," she said resignedly. "I sent her out to get me one for the French toast and I suppose she forgot to give it to me. Never mind, Shirley, it's nothing to sit on an egg, dearie; the mother hen does it every day. For goodness' sake, what are you ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... said Mary resignedly. "If you want my advice, take your courage in your hands and do it. However people may carp, there is nothing they so ...
— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... the greater or less degree of tact and foresight of the corporal and his men. Amid the confusion that reigned about the stacks and tents he remarked some squads who had not been able even to start a fire, others of which the men had abandoned hope and lain themselves resignedly down for the night, while others again were ravenously devouring, no one knew what, something good, no doubt. Another thing that impressed him was the good order that prevailed in the artillery, which had its camp above him, on the hillside. The setting sun peeped ...
— The Downfall • Emile Zola
... well, my child," I had returned resignedly, "that ham could not last forever; it ...
— A Village of Vagabonds • F. Berkeley Smith
... an anxious one. David's physical condition slowly improved. The slight thickness was gone from his speech, and he sipped resignedly at the broths Lucy or the nurse brought at regular intervals. Over the entire house there hung all day the odor of stewing chicken or of beef tea in the making, and above the doorbell was a white card which said: "Don't ring. ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... kicked with his feet and pounded with his fists, and when at last Mrs. Stein succeeded in detaching him and placing him on the ground, he flung himself upon his sister's skirts, and screamed so lustily that she took him up again, saying resignedly:— ...
— Gritli's Children • Johanna Spyri
... bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest. 5 There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble not) Resemble nothing that is ours. Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky 10 The melancholy ...
— Selections From Poe • J. Montgomery Gambrill
... the matter, Ethelrida, darling," Lady Anningford said. "I have talked to Tristram for a long time to-night, and, although he was bravely trying to hide it, he was bitterly miserable; spoke recklessly of life one minute, and resignedly the next; and then asked me, with an air as if in an abstract discussion, whether Hector and Theodora were really happy—because she had been a widow. And when I said, 'Yes, ideally so,' and that they never want to be dragged away from Bracondale, he said, so awfully sadly, 'Oh, I dare-say; ...
— The Reason Why • Elinor Glyn
... previous occupation, whatever it might have been, caused a faint shadow of pain to pass across his loving eyes. He cast a glance at his wife as if mutely asking her to sit beside him, but she drew a chair to the table, and with her elbow resting on the box, resignedly awaited ...
— The Argonauts of North Liberty • Bret Harte
... he said resignedly, as if he were tolerating his own conventional politeness with his other difficulties; "unless," he added cautiously, "you're takin' on ...
— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte
... seated herself resignedly to wait for the appearance of the matron. When fifteen minutes had passed and she was still waiting, the stock of "calm courage" attributed to her by Adrienne, began to dwindle ...
— Jane Allen: Right Guard • Edith Bancroft
... was a duplicate," said the Duke, resignedly. "I sold it at Christie's last year. It brought me in ten thousand pounds—more than it was worth. I lived in comfort upon it ...
— The Reflections of Ambrosine - A Novel • Elinor Glyn
... scenes again. Could I but think I might return to them, the pang of leaving would lose one half its bitterness. I know this is a weak and perhaps sinful feeling; but in vain I have lately striven to bow resignedly to my Maker's will, even should His call meet me, as I sometimes fear it will, in a foreign land, apart from all, save one, whom ...
— The Mother's Recompense, Volume I. - A Sequel to Home Influence in Two Volumes. • Grace Aguilar
... replied Shif'less Sol resignedly. "I wuz jest tryin' to cheer you up, Jim, but a good man never gits any reward in this world, jest kicks. How I wish that rain would stop! I never knowed such a cold rain afore at this time o' ...
— The Border Watch - A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand • Joseph A. Altsheler
... marquis and himself—possibly because he wished to deprive me of the power to oppose him by taking me unawares. It would have been great imprudence on my part to broach the subject myself, and so I waited calmly and resignedly, storing up all my energy for the decisive hour. I willingly confess that I am not a heroine of romance—I do not look upon money with the contempt it deserves. I was resolved to wed solely in accordance with the dictates of my heart; ...
— The Count's Millions - Volume 1 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau
... Resignedly and with difficulty Tom removed the cigar—that is, he removed part of it, and then blew the remainder with a WHUT sound across the room, where it landed liquidly and limply in ...
— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... existing circumstances retreat had become, as he perceived, not only undignified but useless. So in his best Oxford manner—a manner ornate, at that period, and quite crushingly superior—he raised his shoulders, smiled faintly, resignedly, and disposed himself in ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet
... attention," said Richard resignedly. "If you found out its meaning, you must have seen ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... Fed up, that's about it," said the girl resignedly. "I wisht I hadn't come an' left her now, though. Her not being strong—mind you, it's all my eye to talk about consumption, but her best friend couldn't say as she was strong. Oh, dear, I do ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... bed. Through mercy, I am again able to sit up, but am very deaf. This has occasioned a train of reasoning. I have been led to inquire, whether the Lord in His providence intends to depose me from meeting His people. But in this, and in every thing else, I would resignedly say, 'Thy will be done.'—The mercy of the Lord is again repeated. The deafness, from which I have suffered, is greatly removed. Bless the Lord, who can not only make the deaf to hear, but the heart to praise.—My little Anna, after being lent to me for seventeen days, ...
— Religion in Earnest - A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York • John Lyth
... it's got to be the same thing all over again," he declared resignedly. "You'll talk to me and let me be near you—and make a fool of me all round; and then you'll go away, and heaven knows when I'll see you again. You won't let me take you home, and won't tell me where you live, or who your friends are. You do treat ...
— The Malefactor • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Capt. G. (Resignedly.) Very well, then. Don't blame me if anything happens. Play with the table and let me go on with the saddlery. (Slipping hand ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... for it," he said resignedly, "but it's dashed awkward. I'm due back at the billets now really, and another two ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
... better than a cuckoo clock," said the Goat-mother resignedly, "but let me warn you seriously never to sit down upon it! I know its ways, and though kindly meant, I should have ...
— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry
... take my castor oil like a little man, if I have to," Bobby resignedly observed. "I remember that when I was a kiddy the governor once undertook to teach me mathematics, and he never would let me see the answers. More than ever it looks like it was up to Bobby," and whistling cheerfully he walked back into ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester
... said Lord Stafford resignedly. "Do but honor the queen, and I will not inquire too ...
— In Doublet and Hose - A Story for Girls • Lucy Foster Madison
... "All right," said Bobby, resignedly. "I've kept bottled up this long; I suppose I can manage the rest of the time. What's that ...
— The Honorable Percival • Alice Hegan Rice
... must have dinner,' said her ladyship, resignedly, as if the whole thing were an infliction; and Mary ran out and interviewed the butler, begging that all things might be made particularly comfortable for the travellers. It was nine o'clock, and the servants were enjoying their ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... feeling as he felt was the normal state of men passing beyond middle age. When you were growing old you could not expect to keep much zest or personal interest in life or to enjoy things, so he had always been told; and dully, resignedly, ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... want to know," said Ruth; but as Kate slipped her hand through her arm and pulled her along, she said resignedly, "Well, if I must ...
— The Rebel of the School • Mrs. L. T. Meade
... LADY BRITOMART [resignedly] You mean that I must ask him. Very well, Stephen: It shall be as you wish. You will be glad to know that your grandfather concurs. But he thinks I ought to ask Andrew to come here and see the girls. After all, he must have ...
— Major Barbara • George Bernard Shaw
... simply knew that he should not get home alive, and he waited resignedly for the time and form of his disaster. He had a sort of peace in that. He went about his business intelligently, and from habit carefully, but it was with a mechanical action of the mind, something, he imagined, like the mechanical action of his body ...
— The Daughter of the Storage - And Other Things in Prose and Verse • William Dean Howells
... shoulders resignedly. "I submit, signora; but on one condition. If you rob me of my laugh now, I must have it out next time. When His Eminence, the irreproachable Cardinal, turns up in Florence, neither you nor your ...
— The Gadfly • E. L. Voynich
... make these ill-natured, irritating speeches to your next-door neighbour?" "Oh, bless yer," was the reply I received, "I only said 'em just to set old Sally on the hig." She knew that not to many was it given to hear resignedly the bitter word, that not to many was given in its reality the resignation affected by another of my old women, who (one of those wretched combinations of religion and rancour, "who think they're pious when they're only bilious") accosted me with the startling ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie
... resignedly, "is going to be a ghastly trip. By Jove, here comes another! Now where have I seen ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti
... pleasure camp scenes and experiences? Whatever he may have known of camp life before seems as naught to him now. It is a new sort of life he is to lead there, and he feels himself, although curious and anxious to test it, somewhat shy of entering such a place. There is no alternative. He accepts it resignedly and goes ahead. It is not always with smiling countenance that he marches out and surveys the site after reveille. Indeed, those who do have almost certainly received A highly colored sketch of camp life, and are hastening to sad disappointment, and not at ...
— Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point • Henry Ossian Flipper
... at one another in disconsolate uncertainty, and one turned his cards face downward and laid them resignedly on the table. The party was evidently in for one of the old chaplain's long stories, with a few words by way of application, and there was no decent opportunity to demur. They were the intruders in the smoking-room—not he! Here with his pipe and his paper, he was within the accommodation assigned ...
— The Lost Guidon - 1911 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)
... shoulders resignedly. "Usual thing, I suppose. Travel aimlessly, and bore myself into old age. Nothing else to do. No kick out of life these days at all, Mado, even in chasing around from planet to planet. They're ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various
... "All right!" he said, resignedly. "I have got the address of your banker's correspondent in Paris. You will have to go there for money, my dear; and you may find a letter waiting for you in the office when you least expect it. Let me hear how your husband goes on. Good-by—and ...
— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins
... "Quite sure," resignedly; "but if it were a bad two hours it would still have been worth it. It reminds me of the old days at school, Lorraine, when we used to get into scrapes on purpose, if the fun made it ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page
... "Well," said he, resignedly, "silence is at least not denial, and may be consent. My supposition is this: possibly some lady, here present, has a dear friend at home, a bed-ridden sufferer from spinal complaint. If so, what gift more appropriate to that sufferer than ...
— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville
... suppose it's some new kind of hunter's stew, do you?" said Townsend resignedly as he languidly took ...
— Pee-Wee Harris Adrift • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... particularly than I had done before, the events of the shipwreck and our escape, and what I had discovered on the island, and then made some allusion to the prospect ahead of us. To my great surprise, the Dean was not apparently in the least cast down about it. In truth, he took it much more resignedly, and had a more hopeful eye to the future, than I had. 'If,' said he, 'it is God's will that we shall live, he will furnish us the means; if not, we can but die. I wouldn't mind it half so much, if my poor mother only knew what ...
— Cast Away in the Cold - An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner • Isaac I. Hayes
... Hamilton resignedly. "Never! It is a wife's duty to submit to whatever cross Providence lays upon her, but divorce seems to me only the ...
— Six Women • Victoria Cross
... thoughts burned themselves upon the retina of my brain, as I sat planning and wondering. I want to be just before I'm generous, or I'm afraid I'll never have the chance to be generous. I sat staring like one at strife with a memory—and then he came, slowly, resignedly. His hair is quite white and there are strange, deep lines on his forehead, and marked parentheses round his mouth which can be but the foot-prints of pain and thought. He could not see us in our secluded shelter and I could not make my mouth utter his name—he ...
— Letters of a Dakota Divorcee • Jane Burr
... on her son to accompany them, she would calmly and resignedly have awaited her fate, whatever it might be; but the horror of beholding him a prisoner in the hands of his father—that father perhaps so enraged at the boy's daring opposition to his will and political opinions, that he would give him up at once to the wrath of Edward—was a ...
— The Days of Bruce Vol 1 - A Story from Scottish History • Grace Aguilar
... took him gently by the sleeve, and his voice sank with the solemnity of his subject: "I'm not going to have no old age," he said, resignedly. ...
— Captains All and Others • W.W. Jacobs
... much to depress the Emperor when, on the 14th, he drew near to Leipzig. With him came the King and Queen of Saxony, who during the last days had resignedly moved along in the tail of this comet, which had blasted their once smiling realm. Outside the city they parted, the royal pair seeking shelter under its roofs, while the Emperor pressed on to ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose
... Redwood lay resignedly, his children, one on each side of him, nestling within his arms, their heads pillowed upon his breast close together. They also held one another by the hand, joined in affectionate embrace across the breast of their father. Not many words were ...
— The Castaways • Captain Mayne Reid
... however, from time to time, to find an hour to come and sit to Nick Dormer, and he helped himself further by going to her theatre whenever he could. He was conscious Julia Dallow would probably hear of this and triumph with a fresh sense of how right she had been; but the reflexion only made him sigh resignedly, so true it struck him as being that there are some things explanation can never ...
— The Tragic Muse • Henry James
... is so," commented Pepin resignedly, but at the same time not without a hint of satisfaction in his voice; "they will do it, you know, mother. Bah! if the shameless females only knew how Pepin Quesnelle sees through their little ways, ...
— The Rising of the Red Man - A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion • John Mackie
... have outlived three queens,' he said to himself, and his round face resignedly despised his world and his times. He had forgotten what anxiety felt like because the world was so peopled with blunderers and ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford
... each sitting on the top of a separate haycock, carrying on an animated discussion in tones as elevated as their position, so that I heard them long before I saw them. They will end the discussion by demolishing my haycocks, I suppose," he concluded resignedly. ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... he felt the need of hearing his own voice, so he retreated to his house to see if any one else had arrived. Having climbed the rickety stairs he scrutinized his room resignedly, concluding that it was hopeless to attempt any more inspired decoration than class banners and tiger pictures. There was a tap at ...
— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... and lifeless. A great favour had been withdrawn from earth, God had taken from us the hand of his spouse, who had rendered testimony to, prayed, and suffered for the truth. It appeared as though it had not been without meaning, that she had resignedly laid down upon her bed the hand which was the outward expression of a particular privilege granted by Divine grace. Fearful of having the strong impression made upon me by the sight of her countenance diminished by the necessary but disturbing preparations ...
— The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ • Anna Catherine Emmerich
... intolerable character. During his bad spells, when he felt depressed from lack of opium, the doses of which Basilio was trying to reduce, he would scold, mistreat, and abuse the boy, who bore it resignedly, conscious that he was doing good to one to whom he owed so much, and yielded only in the last extremity. His vicious appetite satisfied, Capitan Tiago would fall into a good humor, become tender, and call him his son, tearfully recalling the youth's services, how well he administered ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal
... to the point. And it gave no information whatsoever. Peter Wayne shrugged resignedly, put the letter down on his bed, walked over to the phone, and ...
— The Judas Valley • Gerald Vance
... answered my question," said I resignedly. "Nor have you told me how you propose to go to work to raise this ...
— Mr. Justice Raffles • E. W. Hornung
... have been the precise cost to the Boers of their bold attempt to rush the British defences on 6th January, it was certainly heavy enough to prevent its being renewed. From this time forward they settled themselves resignedly to wait until disease and starvation in the town should have done for them what their best and bravest had failed to do, man against man. And, indeed, disease following upon many long weeks of privation, of ...
— Four Months Besieged - The Story of Ladysmith • H. H. S. Pearse
... resignedly and continued the spreading of the goods on the cutting table, while Elkan and Scheikowitz walked out ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass
... he said resignedly. "Out with you and to the castle. You've got your loot from the voyage"—he'd counted out for each of them rather more actual cash than any of them really believed in—"and I want you to take this box to Don Loris. It's ...
— The Pirates of Ersatz • Murray Leinster
... out his arms, then slowly dropped them to his side resignedly. And after a pause he ...
— A Love Episode • Emile Zola
... day with many possibilities in its hours; and each evening she dropped on to her bed, disheartened. Nothing happened. Aunt Sophia was better, Rose rode out every day, the little house on The Green stood empty, squinting disconsolately, resignedly surprised at its own loneliness. It was strange that nobody wanted a house like that; it was neglected and so was she: nobody noticed the ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... is one that cannot be disproved by denial, the count sank resignedly behind the shield of silence. His mother ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
... once or twice already, and Curtis realized that the chances were in favor of his returning after a fruitless ride. Nevertheless, his duty was plain; he had been trained to disregard fatigue and most physical weaknesses, and he went out resignedly into the ...
— Prescott of Saskatchewan • Harold Bindloss
... may as well take you on trial," replied the grand old lady, resignedly. "Now you may go to your room, Miss Moore. You will come to me here at nine to-morrow morning," she said, dismissing Bernardine with a ...
— Jolly Sally Pendleton - The Wife Who Was Not a Wife • Laura Jean Libbey
... "the indignation was great, but the consternation was greater still. Everybody foresaw the renewal of the Reign of Terror and resignedly ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose
... many do this habitually, resignedly, as a matter of course. Ask them what they think to be right and proper, and they will tell you sensibly, coherently, and quite to the point in one direction; ask them what they are going to do. Ah! that is ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... part of the line was what was left of Pickett's division, among whom I recognized and chatted with other old friends of the Virginia Military Institute as we sat resignedly waiting for the impending storm to burst. The Federal cavalry which had passed me previously in pursuit of our wagons, quartermasters, etc., was part of a squadron that had gotten in rear of Pickett's men and given General Pickett and staff a hot chase for ...
— The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson • Edward A. Moore
... said resignedly. "I'll take out Shot and we'll pot at rabbits—a long way from the house, darling. It's good to be ...
— Love of Brothers • Katharine Tynan
... head from the pillow in which it had lain buried, she turned her mournful eyes toward her lover, and said to him resignedly: ...
— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France
... Mr. Buxton resignedly, as the others looked up startled, "you are too swift for our dull rustic ears; we will begin at the end, if you please. Is it true you ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson
... show him up," I said resignedly. "You'd better put those cards away, Richey. I fancy it's the rector of the ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... respect to the state of my mind, it was an occasion of grateful admiration to me that such & poor unworthy creature as I felt myself to be, should be so favored as to have my will entirely subjected, as to become resignedly willing either to live or die; and, for a time, the prospect of not continuing long appeared to be most probable. I, however, felt no reliance upon anything that I had done or could do; my dependence was entirely upon the unmerited mercy ...
— Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel • John Yeardley
... all the rest, he gave up the brilliant idea of trying to find an unpreempted place for his precious newly ironed silk hat, and resignedly dumped it on the bed. He was a passable man, with a gentlemanly mustache and good pumps. Carl knew that fact because he was comparing his own clothes and deciding that he had none the worst of it. But he was relieved when ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis
... will happen," said Silver, resignedly. "We Silvers, you know, can't help making runs. Come on, Williams, let's have that tune, and ...
— The Head of Kay's • P. G. Wodehouse
... so confidently expected. Hawkins, being a bank clerk, was a patient and enduring man. Years of training had made him tolerant even to placidity. As he cuddled in the bed, his head almost buried in the covers, he resignedly convinced himself that warmth would come sooner or later and even as the chills ran up and down his back he was philosophic. So much for system ...
— Her Weight in Gold • George Barr McCutcheon
... arm, he looked back at me, over his shoulder. His eyes met mine. They seemed to say, "Is it you, old True-penny?" But he merely bent his head courteously and with his lips said, "Come!" I felt sure that he shrugged his shoulders resignedly, as he saw that I kept my ...
— Told in a French Garden - August, 1914 • Mildred Aldrich
... creaky little inn, facing a wet, cobbly yard and having the air of being retiring in disposition and somewhat surprised at the advent of visitors. The landlady is away, it appears, and we are received by her spouse, a mild-mannered old man who is not used to being a host in himself but resignedly assumes the burden. The lunch is promised for the near future. The horses are led off, the carriages covered to remain in the road, and the driver and the jovial guide turn to and help with the fire and stabling arrangements ...
— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix
... a matter of personal education, on coming to my room after breakfast to watch the expert manoeuvres of Britton in kneading the stiffness out of my muscles. He was looking for new ideas, he explained. I first consulted Britton and then resignedly consented to the demonstration. ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... no signs of the storm abating the order came to "Forward." We fell in resignedly and even with good humor, having by this time got pretty thoroughly soaked—every expedient of shelter failing; indeed we had given up trying to keep dry, and many of us had taken to sauntering up and down the road watching the baggage drift ...
— Our campaign around Gettysburg • John Lockwood
... condition. In certain respects it was a moment of triumph; but he experienced no exultation, only a supreme weariness, an anxiety to be done with the affair, to go. But the one point had first to be made, emphasized; to be accepted by the other violently, quietly, resignedly,—John Steele did not care what his attitude might be; what he chiefly felt was that he did not wish to waste much ...
— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham
... Nolla's appearance is not of as much consequence as yours, Bob, as she still is so young and delicate. It is different with you, however, and I'm so glad you are sensible to appreciate what a difference clothes make," said Mrs. Maynard, resignedly, as the seven trunks were packed and ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... Lady Meadowcroft rose to the height of the situation. "Oh, as long as it isn't disease," she answered, resignedly; "I'm not much afraid of anything. I should mind the plague a great deal more than I mind a set of ...
— Hilda Wade - A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose • Grant Allen
... quietly and resignedly than her aunt had feared. She was a barrister's daughter, and once or twice her father had taken her and her mother part of the way on circuit with him, and she had been in court, so that she had known from the first that if her uncle were arrested there was no choice but that she ...
— The Two Sides of the Shield • Charlotte M. Yonge
... asked, exhibiting the latter resignedly and casting a sad glance at the neat pair of brown shoes exquisitely polished and beautifully treed which he had put out for ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke
... known as "Watty Broadweight," or, more familiarly, "Watty Bothways"—turned over the Giraffe's hat in a tired, bored sort of way, dropped a quid into it, and nodded resignedly at ...
— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson
... the practical application, with these two little cormorants on my hands, was greater suffering than any I had ever been called upon to endure for principle's sake; but there was no help for it. I resignedly rapped on the table, bowed my head, said, "From what we are about to receive, the Lord make us thankful," and asked Budge whether he ate bread ...
— Helen's Babies • John Habberton
... resignedly; "I don't know a grunt when I hear it, then; that's all. She generally does grunt if I happen to mention ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... LUBIN [sitting down resignedly on the settee, but involuntarily making a movement which looks like the stifling of a yawn] With pleasure, Mr Barnabas. Of course you know that before I can adopt any new plank in the party platform, it will have to reach me through the National Liberal Federation, which you can approach through ...
— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw
... resignedly. It was no use fighting against this false fate. I don't know even if I was sure myself where the truth of the matter began. The conviction that it would end disastrously had been driven into me by all the successive shocks my sense of security had received. ...
— Falk • Joseph Conrad
... the rickety bed, while Mike took up a crutch that was standing idly in a corner. She coughed resignedly and he limped about, forlorn. They had assumed their parts which were almost to the burlesque of poverty, when the door was pushed open and Billy burst in followed by ...
— The Exploits of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve
... the rest—well, he thought resignedly, what was a hero without a quest? And what was a quest without someone ...
— Wizard • Laurence Mark Janifer (AKA Larry M. Harris)
... as William passed his plate, with a smiling nod. "Oh, well," went on Bertram, resignedly, "she stayed longer than the last one. When is ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... on every side by politicians who are in favor of secular education, but think it hopeless to work for it; who desire total prohibition, but are certain they should not demand it; who regret compulsory education, but resignedly continue it; or who want peasant proprietorship and therefore vote for something else. It is this dazed and floundering opportunism that gets in the way of everything. If our statesmen were visionaries something practical might be done. If we ask for something in the abstract we ...
— What's Wrong With The World • G.K. Chesterton
... caught Ferriss's eyes fixed upon her. He was smiling a little, but the dull, stupefied expression of his face seemed for a brief instant to give place to one of great sadness. He raised a shoulder resignedly, and Lloyd, with the suddenness of a blow, remembered that Ferriss ...
— A Man's Woman • Frank Norris
... remarked Phillida, resignedly. The exposed plate stared them in the face, a sickly yellow in the broad daylight. It was cracked across the middle, but ...
— The Camera Fiend • E.W. Hornung
... as Alcestis. "Where has either Greek or modern literature," says MAHAFFY, "produced a nobler ideal than the Alcestis of Euripides? Devoted to her husband and children, beloved and happy in her palace, she sacrifices her life calmly and resignedly—a life which is not encompassed with afflictions, but of all the worth that life can be, and of all the usefulness which makes it precious to noble natures." [Footnote: "Social Life in Greece, p. 189.] We give the following short extract from ...
— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson
... I regret that I haven't a carriage for you," said Anthony, as they descended the stairs. He got into his outer coat reluctantly. "I shall split something around my back before the evening is over," he prophesied resignedly. ...
— The Indifference of Juliet • Grace S. Richmond
... deep breath, sat down resignedly, and said: "There! I have done. I have lost my temper; so now we ...
— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw
... been domestic and resignedly shut up there, Amy,' pursued her sister, gradually beginning to patronise, 'I have been out, moving more in Society, and may have been getting proud and spirited—more than ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... for the Cause, also," said Max Graub resignedly. "What you determine upon, we shall do, shall we ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli
... "Well, the Bible's English, anyway," he said resignedly. The sound of a foreign tongue always made him feel pugnacious, and it was ever a question with him how, as a gentleman, to treat a dead language. Death was respectable, but had its own obligations; obligations which Greek ...
— Lady Good-for-Nothing • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... not stipulate, but her eyes implored them to judge leniently the irrepressibility of her beautiful one. There were cakes sufficient—a hasty glance reassured her upon that point—and Teresita was in one of her mischievous moods. The mother who had reared her sighed resignedly and poured the wine into the small glasses with a quaint design cut into their sides, perfectly unconscious of the good the ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower
... said his second resignedly. "Gentlemen, are you read—Ods blood! my lord, I had not noticed the roses upon your lordship's shoes! They are so large and have such a fall that they sweep the ground on either side your foot; you might stumble in all ...
— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston
... certain infallible proofs of constancy. Nevertheless, as the pavement of the Cloister was likely to be dry, and as the abbe had won three francs ten sous in his rubber with Madame de Listomere, he bore the rain resignedly from the middle of the place de l'Archeveche, where it began to come down in earnest. Besides, he was fondling his chimera,—a desire already twelve years old, the desire of a priest, a desire formed anew every evening and now, apparently, ...
— The Vicar of Tours • Honore de Balzac
... o'clock Thursday most of the tugboats had got away, but there were still some 15,000 people who had not been able to escape, and had to await resignedly whatever fate was in store ...
— The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 • Various
... away out of all this noise and excitement. Tears were in her eyes as she bade farewell to the old horse, giving Garland an address that would find her later—"unless it goes with the rest of the town"—she added resignedly. In the first shadowing of twilight, illumined with the fire's high glow, they watched her trudge off, the bird cage in one hand, the portrait in the other, the ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner
... said resignedly. "I cal'late you know best. I'm going to spin you a yarn about what took place round these premises last night. That is, if you're willing ...
— Captain Pott's Minister • Francis L. Cooper |
