"Hoarsely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Giovanni laughed hoarsely, Spicca took a foil from the wall and played with it, looking along the thin blade, then setting the point on the carpet and bending the weapon to see whether it would spring back properly. Giovanni's eyes followed his movements, watching ...
— Sant' Ilario • F. Marion Crawford
... see the truth!" he cried hoarsely. "You belong to me—I feel that you belong to me! You are part of the great life. I have found you—you are mine! And yet . . . I feel I mustn't touch you. I don't understand. Perhaps I shall ...
— The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... had good sport?' I asked, as I covered him with both my weapons simultaneously. He jumped back in alarm, then, 'Who the devil are you?' he inquired hoarsely, and in another second recovering himself, cried to the dog, 'Sick ...
— Border Ghost Stories • Howard Pease
... by the arm, shook him violently, and whispered hoarsely in his ear: "Pietro Mostajo, remember ...
— The Amulet • Hendrik Conscience
... Vaughn, hoarsely; "buried beneath the waves, and their only requiem the moaning of an angry sea." He paused for a while, with his face buried in his ...
— Clemence - The Schoolmistress of Waveland • Retta Babcock
... said hoarsely, "surely this isn't my—my wedding day? You're not going to have the ...
— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey
... midst of the Christmas-chimes breaks the jangling of fire-bells. The count's house is on fire! The sparks pour out thicker and faster; tongues of flame leap to the sky; the bells clang hoarsely; the Christmas procession is broken into wild disorder; the wheels of the engine roll through the streets, ...
— Fairy Book • Sophie May
... "Maggie, Maggie!" hoarsely whispered Madam Conway, grasping Maggie's arm, "do you mean to insinuate—am I to understand that you believe that odious woman and hideous girl to be the mother ...
— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes
... inevitably that of a horrified coloured person hastening from a distance: "Oh, my soul!" There was a scurrying, and the girl was heard in furious yet hoarsely guarded vehemence: "Bring the clo'es prop! Bring the clo'es prop! We can poke that one down from the garage, anyway. Oh, my goodness, ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... and are not civil," raged the corporal hoarsely, "I shall beat some of you with the butt ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops - Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche • H. Irving Hancock
... hoarsely, for his throat was impeded by the fiendish rage which in that black hour possess'd him. "You are not ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman
... for letting you in for this," he said hoarsely. Then he broke out again. "I can't stand it! I must break off my engagement—whatever it costs and however she suffers. You're suffering. And I am! Good God, I should ...
— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose
... standing by the low, sunk-in door, that door through which he had come and gone hundreds, nay thousands, of times, in his life. So much was true, but everything else was as usual. "I live here," he said hoarsely. ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... beside the man's bed, her right hand upon his pulse, her watch in her left. So intent was she upon the weak movement under her slim fingers that she had forgotten all else until a voice from a far, far distance seemingly, whispered hoarsely: ...
— The Place Beyond the Winds • Harriet T. Comstock
... passed over the Annihilator; something that shook the great projectile like a leaf in the wind. And then the scream died away, and there was silence. For a moment no one spoke, and then Jack whispered hoarsely: ...
— Lost on the Moon - or In Quest Of The Field of Diamonds • Roy Rockwood
... "Quiet!" Taylor ordered hoarsely. He addressed the sentry: "See that thing? It means death to you, to all of us if it finds us. The sergeant of the guard, probably all of the other sentries are dead. Every workman in the plant is dead. Somehow we were missed. The searchlight power ...
— The Whispering Spheres • Russell Robert Winterbotham
... of your life," she continued, "is the history of mine, with the change of a few particulars. Only yours commences, and mine—" I would not let her conclude. "No, no!" said I hoarsely pressing my lips to her feet, which I embraced convulsively as if to hold her down to earth; "no, no! you will not, must not die; or, if you do, I feel two lives ...
— Raphael - Pages Of The Book Of Life At Twenty • Alphonse de Lamartine
... said hoarsely, "people like us can't get away from this sort of thing if we want to. Always hungry and thirsty and dog-tired and walking all the while. And yet if anyone offers me a nice home and work my stomach feels sick. Do I look strong? I know I'm little for my age, but I've been knocking ...
— The Ghost Ship • Richard Middleton
... offerings, and as he took up the gold, he could not but look at his son, who was waiting for him, and who flushed all over as he met his eye. 'Yes, Papa, I wanted to tell you—I did grudge it at first,' he said hoarsely. 'I knew it was the tithe; but it seemed so much away from them all. I settled that two shillings was the tenth of my own share, and I would give that to-day; and then came Mr. Harper's kindness about the van; and next, when I was thinking how I could save the tenth ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... hoarsely from the lips of Mortimer, and, with another deep groan, he threw himself on a sofa, and wrung his hands ...
— Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures • T. S. Arthur
... hoarsely, but as the foreman straightened up quickly, the amazed girl joined happily in, and his own ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish
... loudest roar of applause went up, telling the distant sky of the triumph of the earth's redemption, when the gallows made its appearance. An ill-looking fellow, however, rushed forward, and, putting himself in the path of the reformers, bellowed hoarsely, and fought with brute fury to ...
— Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... no questioning," the voice had grown louder. "No questions—just take or leave what's offered; go or stay as you please, but if that brat of yours, God's and his mother's, ever shows his face near me or mine—I'll"—she laughed hoarsely—"I'll make him a discredit to you all! Come move up and eat the food I provided and drink the sour milk ...
— A Son of the Hills • Harriet T. Comstock
... clutching Vincent Burgess by the arm, whispered hoarsely, "He's dead. I killed him. But I was drunk when I did it. And this man knows ...
— A Master's Degree • Margaret Hill McCarter
... and my affairs," Douglas said hoarsely. "I want to have nothing to do with you. I wish you no harm—only I beg that you will leave this room, and that I may never ...
— The Survivor • E.Phillips Oppenheim
... the search-light of the engine. There was still the insistent throbbing. And then he thought of his mother and her fears, and sped swiftly up the street, over deserted Lexington Avenue, and up the lamp-lit block. Already newsboys were hoarsely shouting in the night, as they waved their papers—a cry of the underworld palpitating through the hushed city: "Wuxtra! Wuxtra! ...
— The Nine-Tenths • James Oppenheim
... Though the descent was made easier by her aid, the man was well shaken by the time they laid him in the bottom of the canoe,—so well shaken that some last shreds of consciousness were aroused. He opened his eyes and whispered hoarsely, "Jacob Welse . . . despatches . . . from the Outside." He plucked feebly at his open shirt, and across his emaciated chest they saw the leather strap, to which, doubtless, the despatch-pouch ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London
... son," he said hoarsely, "has gone one step too far. His adventures have twice before ended in murder—and you have covered him. This time you can't do it. I'm not to be bought. We've stood for the Far East in London long enough. Your cub hangs this time. Get me? There'll be ...
— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer
... of the ferrymen hoarsely, as he stretched himself on the straw with which the damp, clay ...
— The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories • Anton Tchekoff
... and labor; Might to right the statue gave; Laws are in the Scythian's sabre; Where the Mede reigned—see the slave! Peace and meekness grimly routing, Prowls the war-lust, rude and wild; Eris rages, hoarsely shouting, Where ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... running. And suddenly she began to pray, not with the sounding, unctions thees and thous of the Church and Bible; not elegantly or eloquently, with well-rounded phrases, as the righteous pray, but threateningly, hoarsely, as a desperate woman prays. It was not a prayer so much as ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... nine o'clock, fixing upon a safe spot wherein to secure the vessel for the night. The cool evening hours were delicious; flocks of whistling ducks (Anas autumnalis), parrots, and hoarsely-screaming macaws, pair by pair, flew over from their feeding to their resting places, as the glowing sun plunged abruptly beneath the horizon. The brief evening chorus of animals then began, the chief performers being the howling monkeys, whose frightful unearthly roar deepened the ...
— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates
... round rather wildly, swallowed hard several times, said hoarsely: "I won't, if you'll ...
— The Conflict • David Graham Phillips
... growin' dark, Tom," she said hoarsely, "'haint it time to call the cattle home from ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill
... that we have made a beginning," he said hoarsely. "It's first blood to them, but this will take a lot of forgetting, and the rest may ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... All manner of horrible fears oppressed him. "You must tell me," he insisted hoarsely, "where it is, who has got it! This is infamous! Why, if I had ...
— The Governors • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... a full tone, jarring horribly on the theme, rose, and hoarsely trailed off into silence again. Then the accompanist glanced over his shoulder, and struck a ringing chord while he waited for a sign, and there was a curious stirring among the audience. The girl in the shimmering dress stood quite still for a moment with a spot of crimson in her cheek and a ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... Jerry hoarsely professed himself at Miss Pross's service. He had worn all his rust off long ago, but nothing would file ...
— A Tale of Two Cities - A Story of the French Revolution • Charles Dickens
... "My wife," he said hoarsely after a pause, "my wife took out my little boy this evening and deliberately left him in Westbourne Grove—just in order to spite me! Then she rang me up from some call-office and told me what she had done. Put yourself in my place," he said. "Would ...
— The Stretton Street Affair • William Le Queux
... with rifle smoke; the roar of cannonry deafens us. Dazed, we crouch behind an earthwork while the enemy creeps through the smoke. Suddenly they charge. We fire, but they surge on through the smoke. They mount the earthwork. We leap together! Men scream hoarsely! Musket butts crash! Daggers plunge into quivering flesh! ...
— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association
... her hoarsely. "Thank goodness!" Then, with sudden alarm, "I suppose you're making ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing
... do to kill one's love and live on oneself," I answered hoarsely. "We have got to go together," and I cocked both barrels ...
— Marie - An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain • H. Rider Haggard
... how the sheriff's office is run in this county." This statement was made by Talleyrand Sylvester, who came thrusting through the jam of the hall into the fore-room. "Squire," he whispered, hoarsely, "I've brought down them quedaws as you told me to. They're outside. Say the word and we'll light on that old ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day
... not come here and spy on me," she said hoarsely, all out of breath. She stood before him, breathing hard, ...
— Shallow Soil • Knut Hamsun
... was rather sleepless last night, owing to cramp from a drenched blanket, and got up about midnight and walked over to the remains of one of our niggers' fires. Crouching over the embers I found a bearded figure, which hoarsely denounced me for coming to its fire. I explained that it was our fire, but that he was welcome, and settled down to thaw. It turned out to be a sergeant of the 38th Battery. I asked something, and he began a long rambling soliloquy about things in general, in a thick voice, ...
— In the Ranks of the C.I.V. • Erskine Childers
... ones that need a jab of dope, Dominie," said Mr. Hines, hard and pink and hoarsely confidential as when I first ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... this," she whispered hoarsely. "Take it to him at once, and say I sent it. Say that I beg him to return—that my pride crumbles at the thought of his going ...
— The Motormaniacs • Lloyd Osbourne
... said Matthews hoarsely. "It's a lie! That plate was condemned in the bureau for that imperfection—condemned ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... comes, the flower laughs where lately lay the snow, O'er the breezy hill-top hoarsely calls the crow, By the flowing river the alder catkins swing, And the sweet song-sparrow cries, "Spring! ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. - Scribner's Illustrated • Various
... object of these terrible preparations, two ravens wheeled screaming round the fatal tree, and at length one of them settled on the cross-beam, and could with difficulty be dislodged by the shouts of the men, when it flew away, croaking hoarsely. Up this gentle hill, ordinarily so soft and beautiful, but now abhorrent as a Golgotha, in the eyes of the beholders, groups of rustics and monks had climbed over ground rendered slippery with moisture, and had gathered round the paling encircling the terrible apparatus, ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... bell rang vigorously, and the whistle hoarsely blew, as signal for all visitors to go ashore. Mrs. Adams gave Charley and her husband one final kiss, and Charley added to his return kiss a round hug. She was such a good woman; he wished that she was going, too. He rather wished that ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin
... "Arnold," she cried, hoarsely, "this is no business of yours! You had better leave me! Groves is here, and the servants. Slip away now, while ...
— The Lighted Way • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Tenison said unsteadily. And in a flash her drooping bright head was close to his lips, and both his big arms were about her. "You know I love you, don't you Margaret?" he said hoarsely, over and over, with a sort of fierce intensity. "You know that, don't you? ...
— Mother • Kathleen Norris
... and their teeth were like horses' tusks, and their throats were filled with flame, and they were grating in their voice: they had crooked shanks and knees, big and great behind, and distorted toes, and shrieked hoarsely with their voices, and they came with such immoderate noises and immense horror that it seemed to him that all between heaven and earth resounded with their dreadful cries. Without delay, when they were come into the house, they soon bound the holy man ...
— Folklore as an Historical Science • George Laurence Gomme
... blankly. Suddenly he sprang to his companion's side; seizing him by the arm, he whispered hoarsely: "By gosh, I thought there was somethin' queer about that gang. Have you got any of the gold here? I recollect that feller's voice, plain as day. They're after ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... women," Paul cried hoarsely, "are more to be honored than you if you consent to become his property with no love in your heart! Don't plead extenuating circumstances. There can be no extenuating circumstances in all the world ...
— One Day - A sequel to 'Three Weeks' • Anonymous
... done," he broke in hoarsely, and despite weakness, despite exhaustion and weariness, there was such a dangerous look in his hollow eyes as he leaned across the table that Chauvelin drew back a step or two, and—vaguely fearful—looked furtively towards the opening into ...
— El Dorado • Baroness Orczy
... mast was yet standing, with the rags of a rent sail, and a wild confusion of broken cordage flapping to and fro. The ship had struck once, the same boatman hoarsely said in my ear, and then lifted in and struck again. I understood him to add that she was parting amidships, and I could readily suppose so, for the rolling and beating were too tremendous for any human work to suffer long. As he spoke, there was another great cry of pity from the ...
— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens
... around as if he would have destroyed all who surrounded him; then he seemed to realize the futility of his rage, and catching his breath with a fierce sob, he asked, hoarsely,— ...
— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall
... twenty-fourth Sunday the farmer again ignored the plate, but the old beadle stretched the ladle in froat of him and, in a loud, tragic whisper, hoarsely said: ...
— Best Short Stories • Various
... hoarsely. Chilina crossed herself with her first and middle finger. A deep flush instantly replaced the deadly pallor of Colomba's face. She cast one fierce look at the Barricini dwelling, and then, with a smile, she ...
— Columba • Prosper Merimee
... "Come on!" he said hoarsely. "I don't want to travel with that man! I won't associate with a ghoul! My God, I'm ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers
... with strong practised flight through the brilliant intricacy of the Shadow Song, Clarice became aware what real applause sounded like from the stage. It shook the stage as the old favourite of two generations, wearing her set smile, waddled back to the debutante. Scores of voices hoarsely shouted 'Encore!' and 'Last Rose of Summer,' and with a proud sigh the ...
— Tales of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett
... and prepared for the final spring upon the citadel. Soult I could see quite pale on the wall; and the scoundrel Cambaceres, who had been so nearly my prisoner that day, trembled as he cheered his men. "On, boys, on!" I hoarsely exclaimed. "Hurroo!" said ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... desk on the other side of the room. "Top drawer," he whispered, hoarsely; "left-hand ...
— Madelon - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... flickering flame along the ridge-pole and eaves, like a surf of light. A surf of water broke also behind us on the Blue Rocks, sounding as if it pursued our very footsteps; and one of the men whispered hoarsely to me, that a Nantucket brig had parted her cable, and ...
— Oldport Days • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
... existence. "You mean," he cried hoarsely, "that General St. Clare hated Murray, and murdered him on ...
— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... raised the body and nursed the almost severed head. He muttered hoarsely, and his face was bent low till his own dripping wound shed its sluggish tide to mingle with the blood of ...
— In the Brooding Wild • Ridgwell Cullum
... broken, and more difficult to climb than those which had gone before. In fact the boy above me was dragging himself up, and I had settled down into a walk, helping myself on by the dirty hand-rail, and panting so hoarsely that each breath came to be a snore. My heart, too, throbbed heavily, and seemed to be beating ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn
... see that?' returned the man hoarsely, pointing to a kind of bundle on the ground. 'That's a dead child. I and five hundred other men were thrown out of work, three months ago. That is my third dead child, and last. Do you think I have charity to bestow, or a morsel ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens
... though it sounded more like a bark, as Ribiera flung himself to the ground and screamed hoarsely when the plane seemed about to pounce upon him. The shrill timbre of the shriek cut through the roaring of the motors, even through the thick padding of the big plane's cabin walls that reduced that roaring to a not ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various
... no answer. Her last resources of speech were exhausted. The strange creature looked back again straight between the pony's ears, emitted hoarsely a grunt of relief, and never more looked at me, never more spoke to me, for the rest of the journey. We drove past the banks of the canal, and I escaped immersion. We rattled, in our jingling little vehicle, ...
— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins
... said Peter, hoarsely. He felt he must speak; and he also desired, it must be confessed, to speak offensively, and relieve himself somewhat of the accumulated rage and resentment that was burning in his breast. "It's—it's simply"—he said, flushing darkly, and turning his face away from John's calm ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
... with his candle in about three seconds, and then said hoarsely, "What's this? Can you speak ...
— Say and Seal, Volume I • Susan Warner
... dying," the low voice whispered hoarsely in his ear. "Can't you see it for yourself? I shall never get better; it might be a year or two, it may be weeks. But I want to see her again and make sure. Yes, I love her! There is no sense in denying it. But it is all on my side, and I am dying, ...
— The Shadow of the Rope • E. W. Hornung
... to be from Sylvia Bailey," exclaimed Chester hoarsely, "but of course it is nothing of the sort! She never wrote a line of it. It's entirely unlike her handwriting—and then look at the absurd signature! What does it mean, Virieu? Can you give me any clue ...
— The Chink in the Armour • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... the other man hoarsely. And then, after a moment that Judson felt was crammed to the bursting point with murderous possibilities: "Get your tools and come on. We'll see who's got the yellows ...
— The Taming of Red Butte Western • Francis Lynde
... Johnny Filgee hoarsely, with bold bad recklessness. Ignoring the remark and the kick with which Rupert had resented it on the person of ...
— Cressy • Bret Harte
... whispered Axelson hoarsely. "I am dying. I know it. It is the same dreaded disease that came to the Moon at the time of my father's landing there. Three-fourths of the Moon animals died. It is mortal. The ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various
... Our guest laughed hoarsely and said: "I caught all the envoys, took away their letters and then sent them back . ...
— Beasts, Men and Gods • Ferdinand Ossendowski
... with covert hatred, and says hoarsely.] You had learned little enough of the business when you were in my employment. But that did not prevent you from setting to work—[breathing with difficulty]—and pushing your way up, and taking the wind out of my sails—mine, and so may ...
— The Master Builder • Henrik Ibsen
... and pain in her whole being was no greater than the colossal desire Dick had to comfort and shield her. He rushed toward her with his arms reached out to infold, but she pushed him back, and said hoarsely: "No! No! I sha'n't let you! It ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton
... will," he whispered hoarsely. "As soon as I get home I will go to bed at once; and I know I shall be dead in a fortnight; Botkine told me so himself last week. That is why I should like to say a few farewell words, if you will ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... whispered Dick, hoarsely. "Stand close by me and sail in when I give the word. We'll do our best to make it ...
— The Grammar School Boys Snowbound - or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports • H. Irving Hancock
... you must be excused under the circumstances for racing off with my wife in this fashion," he said hoarsely. It seemed to Mark that he had found time to drink somewhere, though, as a rule, that was not one of Richford's failings. "Where ...
— The Slave of Silence • Fred M. White
... The place was seething with potential things; the pressure of force might be felt. At a centre table a party of musicians talked excitedly, one of them, a pale young man with feline eyes, shouting hoarsely and continuously. Well-known painters were there, illustrating the fact that many a successful artist patronises a cheap tailor. There was a large blonde woman who smoked incessantly as she walked from table to table. She seemed to have an extensive circle of acquaintances. And ...
— The Orchard of Tears • Sax Rohmer
... than death," said Duncan, speaking hoarsely, and as if fretful at her importunity, "but which the presence of one who would die in your behalf ...
— The Last of the Mohicans • James Fenimore Cooper
... winds had howled loudly and the surf broke hoarsely upon the shore. The grey dawn of morning brought no comfort with it: far out to seaward nothing but broken water could be seen, and half a gale of wind blew from the south by east. The bad and insufficient food I had been compelled to eat had brought on ...
— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2) • George Grey
... Lafe bent forward and closed his hands over Peg's massive shoulder bones. Peggy coughed hoarsely ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White
... sailors. The collection, as a collection, was one gifted with the talent of making itself heard. Everyone appeared to be shrieking, or yelling, or crying aloud, if only to keep the others in voice. Sailors lying on the flat parapets shouted hoarsely to their fellows in the rigging of the ships that lay tossing in the docks; fishermen's families tossed their farewells above the hubbub to the captain-fathers launching their fishing-smacks; one shrieking infant was ...
— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd
... bravely, "they were happy in a beautiful way for a little while. Then she died! But I was left, and Cap'n Billy loved me, and cared for me. He was father, mother, playmate, everything to me!" The eyes softened, and the girl turned and faced her companion. "And," she breathed hoarsely, "you and I must keep him from ...
— Janet of the Dunes • Harriet T. Comstock
... little hoarsely, "but I think I will be about the end of my stroll now. Are you like me, Miss Christina? The house would not hold me. ...
— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson
... to talk," he said again, as he helped her into the buggy. But after a while she was able to tell him, hoarsely: ...
— The Voice • Margaret Deland
... said hoarsely, "is that you're here, and we're here with you. My men need rest and food—not too much food, at first, for we're starving. I'll give you the story—or as much of it as ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various
... you mean by coming here? What do you want?" he demanded, hoarsely. "You come here with your hands red with blood. Two men are dead.... Four others smashed under the hoofs of your police!... You're trying to starve into submission thousands of men. You're striking at them through their wives and babies.... What do you care for them or their suffering? ...
— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland
... wish you a happier fate than marriage with me might prove.' With that she was gone from the room, like a shadow; and Mr. Poole and I were left foolishly staring at each other. Presently he said hoarsely,— ...
— Andrew Golding - A Tale of the Great Plague • Anne E. Keeling
... forth his other hand, and seized the back of a chair to steady himself. "Tell me at once, Polly," he said hoarsely. "It isn't—Marian?" It was all he could do to utter ...
— Five Little Peppers Grown Up • Margaret Sidney
... this much," he said, hoarsely; "I didn't know at first but I had lost both friend and wife. But I see you know nothing. And indeed in my heart I knew all the time that you did not. Yet I had to come to you with my anger. And I remembered how you defended her. What ...
— A Mountain Woman and Others • (AKA Elia Wilkinson) Elia W. Peattie
... flare, if it was no dream, then what? Why, he must screen her from discovery, give her opportunity to slip away. This was the one vague, dim thought which took possession of the man. It obscured all else; it sent him blindly crashing over the edge of the ravine. He heard the sentry at his right cry hoarsely, he heard excited shouts from the open windows of the barracks; then his feet struck a man's body, and ...
— Molly McDonald - A Tale of the Old Frontier • Randall Parrish
... whispered. And Pete stared up at her, his great dark eyes slowly brightening under the artificial stimulant. Doris bent over him and smoothed his hair back from his forehead. "I'm the—the Ridin' Kid—from—Powder River," he whispered hoarsely. "I kin ride 'em comin' or goin'—but I don't wear no coat next journey. My hand caught in the pocket." He glanced toward the doorway. "But we fooled 'em. Ed got away, so I reckon I'll throw in with you, Spider." Pete tried to lift himself up, but the nurse pressed him gently back. Tiny beads of ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... Shrimp hoarsely, "you don't know what I have to put up with with these rookies. I have to do something to keep discipline among men who are new ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock
... by. He prayed fervently that the wind which had warned him had served also to carry away the sound of his progress. Cowering against a tree, he stood perfectly still while the voices—there seemed to be two—came nearer and nearer. One was a very deep, rough bass that laughed hoarsely between speeches. The other voice was of a totally different sort, with a cool, even tone, and a rather precise ...
— The Black Buccaneer • Stephen W. Meader
... against the grey background. Now Nellie saw herself one winter night knocking at the door of Stepan Lukitch, the district doctor. The old dog hoarsely and lazily barked behind the gate. The doctor's windows were in ...
— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... whispered Penrod hoarsely. He had nothing but contempt for Georgie Bassett. The parents, guardians, aunts, uncles, cousins, governesses, housemaids, cooks, chauffeurs and coachmen, appertaining to the members of the dancing class, all dwelt in ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington
... least touch was enough to set every nerve in his body a-tingle. "Peggy!" he said hoarsely, as the keys jangled to the floor. Then Mr. Woods drew a little nearer to her and said "Peggy, Peggy!" in a voice that trembled curiously, and appeared to have no intention of saying ...
— The Eagle's Shadow • James Branch Cabell
... the harsh scream of a parrot that hung in the sunshine in one of the loftiest windows; but the note of a peasant crying pots of pinks and roses in the campo came softened to Don Ippolito's sense, and he heard the gondoliers as they hoarsely jested together and gossiped, with the canal between them, at the ...
— A Foregone Conclusion • W. D. Howells
... my mother's heart, and changed my father for life. It did, indeed. Old Clare said, Peter looked as white as my father; and stood as still as a statue to be flogged; and my father struck hard! When my father stopped to take breath, Peter said, 'Have you done enough, sir?' quite hoarsely, and still standing quite quiet. I don't know what my father said—or if he said anything. But old Clare said, Peter turned to where the people outside the railing were, and made them a low bow, as grand and as grave as any gentleman; and then walked ...
— Cranford • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... "No," replied Cooper hoarsely; "she's somewhere at the bottom o' the Hawkesbury river; an' there's no more home. About three or four year after her accident, I was away in Sydney one time, on some business about shares; an' when I come home, Molly was gone. She'd left ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy
... declare it do!" he confided hoarsely. "But he's been here, anyway; and he expects us." He waved a hand towards the hearth. "Shall I call again? Or what d'ye say to ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... onslaught. Two of the waiters were knocked senseless and the leader's nose and teeth crushed in by the rude cudgel. The morose moon started up, a tragic hieroglyph in the passionless sky. Quell, seeing its hated disk, howled, his face aflame with exaltation. Then he leaped like a hoarsely panting animal upon the poet; a moment and they were in the grass clawing each other. And the moon foamed down upon them its magnetic beams until darkness, caused by a coarse blanket, enveloped, pinioned, smothered them. When the light shone again, they were sitting in a wagon, ...
— Visionaries • James Huneker
... time," he kept saying hoarsely, for his tongue was so swollen he could hardly speak at all, "wasting time. Don't you see they 'll be expecting us in to supper at Gerring Gerring, and I shouldn't like the crows to get there first. ...
— The Moving Finger • Mary Gaunt
... well," he assured her hoarsely. "I shall keep my word. I will set you in the path of ...
— The Pawns Count • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... hoarsely from the girl. Everybody, except Lady Margaret, sprang to his feet It was the ...
— The Yellow Streak • Williams, Valentine
... to see daylight,' said Ken hoarsely, as a pale yellow light began to dim the stars. His eyes stung with powder smoke, his mouth was sour with fatigue, and every muscle ...
— On Land And Sea At The Dardanelles • Thomas Charles Bridges
... and fair city that not one word of English was heard among the encouraging and approving shouts that were hurled at the smiling prima donna. Even the pork merchants and the grain dealers in the family circle vied with each other in hoarsely wafting Italian words of cheer at the triumphant Sembrich. French was hardly good enough, although it was utilized by a few large manufacturers and butterine merchants who sat in the parquet, and one man was put out by the ushers ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... hoarsely. 'You?' he repeated, and broke out with a furious oath. 'No, by—, Kate, you can't mean it! You can't—it's not like you . . . there, take your hand from him, or I'll slit his throat, there, as ...
— Corporal Sam and Other Stories • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... "Harrie," he said, hoarsely, grasping her hands, "I have a secret to tell you—a horrible secret of guilt and disgrace! It has blighted my life, blasted every hope, turned the whole world into a black and festering mass of corruption! And, oh! worst of all, you must bear it—your life must be darkened, ...
— The Baronet's Bride • May Agnes Fleming
... said hoarsely. "I shall never ask you for anything again—neither love nor friendship. As you have decreed, ...
— The Splendid Folly • Margaret Pedler
... hunt me down, have me arrested. But you shall not trifle with me, you shall not torture me." Suddenly his lips quivered, his eyes gleamed, and his voice, which up to that moment had been self-possessed, reached its highest diapason. "I will not permit it," he yelled hoarsely, whilst striking a violent blow on the table. "Do you hear me, Porphyrius Petrovitch, I ...
— The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales • Various
... had his usefulness here. Sometimes Rose heard the director whisper hoarsely, "For God's sake, don't let her do that! She can't do that!" and then Bertie would intervene ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster
... her bed. She rose up and put out her hand instinctively to still the child, but it was sleeping quietly, and then she started up awake, and listened for the voice which she had dreamt was calling her. There was no voice, and then there was a voice calling hoarsely, weakly, "Nancy! Nancy!" ...
— The Leatherwood God • William Dean Howells
... said Kitty, a little hoarsely, "I know it's my own fault, because you used to tell me much more. I suppose it was the way I ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... when sadly she had laid, And wip'd the brinish pearl from her bright eyes, With untun'd tongue she hoarsely call'd her maid, Whose swift obedience to her mistress hies; For fleet-wing'd duty with thought's feathers flies. Poor Lucrece' cheeks unto her maid seem so As winter meads when sun ...
— The Rape of Lucrece • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... groan, his two palms pressed against his splitting head, and hoarsely commanded the two to shut up that infernal noise. He was a sick man. He was a very sick man, and ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower
... hoarsely; "I'm too dirty." He put out a hand, and softly touched her dress. "Is it pink?" he asked, "or does it only look so in this light? It feels ...
— Four Days - The Story of a War Marriage • Hetty Hemenway
... she whispered hoarsely, but yet clinging to him with shaking hands. "It is so cold, so dark. I have ...
— The Inn at the Red Oak • Latta Griswold
... always the machines!" he cried hoarsely. "A thing which can sit in a man's head and make him do what it will against his will; it is demon sent! There are other machines ...
— The Defiant Agents • Andre Alice Norton
... over to the unconscious boy, and taking his hand, counted the pulse. "It's all right so far," he said to the mother, who did not hear him. After a time she looked up, and her low voice dragged hoarsely,—"You mustn't wait. The doctor will be here soon, and we can do ...
— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
... time, gathered around the table with anxious expectancy. With a chuckle, the now changed and brutal John Jenkins produced four pipes, and filling them with tobacco, handed one to each of his offspring and bade them smoke. "It's better than bread!" laughed the wretch hoarsely. ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... hoarsely, as he kissed her fresh young lips. "Pray for that, Amaryllis—pray for ...
— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn
... she whispered hoarsely, "now you have got to do something for me. You are not going to let the child of Verisschenzko be master of Ardayre! We are going to gain time and perhaps some day be able to do away with it. Now I have got a plan ...
— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn
... Phoebe, but only on condition that Maria was left at a boarding-house, and a responsible governess taken for Bertha. Moreover, Augusta had told Bertha herself what was impending, and the poor child had laid a clinging, trembling grasp on his arm, and hoarsely whispered that if a stranger came to hear her story, she would die. Alas! it might be easier than before. He had promised never to consent. 'But what can I do?' he said, with a hand upon either temple; 'they heed ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... take it out of my sight, I tell you. I hate it! I hate it!" he cried hoarsely and with eyes glaring, as he leaped from his bunk to ...
— The Trail of a Sourdough - Life in Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan |
