"Tine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the bracelets," requested Hickey, holding out one of his hands. "Now, my tine bird, let me ...
— The Submarine Boys and the Spies - Dodging the Sharks of the Deep • Victor G. Durham
... beautiful!' murmured Coren-tine, who was also at the window. 'How nice M. Paul must ...
— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
... a philosopher like Signor Riccabocca," said my uncle, "was not himself very tapetzon tine—what d' ye call it?—and a good healthy English wife, that poor affectionate Jemima, was thrown ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... standing at the house door, was gazing out, at the yellow February sun sinking pale and watery into the livid horizon tine, as the baronet ran down-stairs, drawing on his gloves. He paused, with his usual courtesy, to speak to his ...
— The Baronet's Bride • May Agnes Fleming
... it happened, this parting salute couldn't have been worse timed. Within four doors Dr. Thornton, the principal, was sauntering slowly along. He heard tine hubbub, of course, and looked up, to see Dick Prescott coming out alone, a pleased look on his ...
— The High School Freshmen - Dick & Co.'s First Year Pranks and Sports • H. Irving Hancock
... called, a fancy ball is certainly, for the first half-hour at all events, an amusing scene. Willingham and myself stood a little inside the doorway for some moments, he enjoying the admiring glances which his tine figure and picturesque costume were well calculated to call forth, and I vainly endeavouring to make out Clara's figure amidst the gay dresses, and well-grown proportions, of the pretty Cambrians who flitted past. Sounds of expostulation and entreaty, mingled with a laugh which we knew to be Branling's, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various
... It was just that something had stopped the instant it dawned on him that his little girl had offered to save the home for her parents not out of love for them, but because she longed to get away and go out in tine world. But this he would not ...
— The Emperor of Portugalia • Selma Lagerlof |
