"Huskily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... enemy are due here now," he said huskily. "On camels they could traverse the sixty miles in from fifteen to twenty hours. It is already dark," and he pointed out ...
— The River of Darkness - Under Africa • William Murray Graydon
... attributed it to that. But early one evening he came in with a sheaf of roses in his arms, and when she had exclaimed at them and breathed deep of their dewy fragrance, Joe bent over and kissed her, and said a little huskily: ...
— His Second Wife • Ernest Poole
... appeared before him dressed in a single garment which seemed to have been roughly made from some sort of sacking. He expected to see her snatch at the coin with all the eagerness of the ordinary hardy street-arab; but she showed her jagged brown teeth, and said huskily, "No! Big money!" A lady, divining with the rapid feminine instinct what was meant by the enigmatic muttering, explained, "She does not know the sixpence. She has had coppers to spend before." And so it ...
— Side Lights • James Runciman
... "Madelon," Burr said, huskily, "I have been double-faced and false to you, but, as God is my witness, I'm glad I've got the chance to suffer in ...
— Madelon - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... "Look!" whispered Ike huskily, leaning over the glass bottom and staring; "for the love o' Mike, look what's goin' ...
— Owen Clancy's Happy Trail - or, The Motor Wizard in California • Burt L. Standish
... the skipper huskily, "that is just about the sum and substance of it. But don't you trouble about us, or about your sister and the rest of them either for that matter. We shall be all right, never fear. The island yonder, though it is but a small strip of a place, is not exactly a desert ...
— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood
... frightened. I just had to tell you to-day. I could not have held it back another hour. I should have gone mad if I had tried to keep it up any longer." He waited breathlessly for her to speak. She sat silent and rigid, looking straight before her. "Is it hopeless?" he went on at last, huskily. "Must I ask your forgiveness for my presumption and —and go away ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon
... know what to think about her," said he huskily. "I can hardly believe she was in the conspiracy to ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce
... to go along the beaten track," he said huskily. "I wanted to choose a wife according to the dictates of my heart; but it seems this was not to be. Farewell, fond dream!" He made Lisa a profound bow, and went back into ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev
... didn't care anything about that—it was the interests he was down on. Herman Vielhaber, melding eighty kings, said it was a good rich-man's country, but also a good poor-man's country, because where could you find one half as good—not in all Europe—and he now laid down forty jacks, which he huskily ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... quickly up to his face. Cicely darted to his side with a frightened cry, and caught his hand away. He tried to smile, but it was a ghastly attempt. "Tush, tush! little one; 'twas something stung me!" said he, huskily, "Sing, Nicholas, I beg ...
— Master Skylark • John Bennett
... not know life, nor men, nor women," he said huskily and clutched her hands in his. "If life cheats and injures you, you have a right to snatch what joy you can. It's not only what you do to love, but what you do to yourself, that counts. For real ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock
... grew still, for a sun-browned, bearded man had crossed the threshold, and thrown a paper into her lap, saying huskily:— ...
— A Princess in Calico • Edith Ferguson Black
... if I must be dreaming!" whispered Jack huskily. "Tell me, is that man in there really Carl Potzfeldt, the good-for-nothing guardian of little ...
— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach
... frightened," Saxon quavered huskily, with a half-sob of nervousness. "You frighten me. I am very foolish, and I know so little, that I had never ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London
... his shoulders and inspired deeply, eyes lightening; and stepped into the study, resolved. "Miss—" he called huskily; and stopped, reminded that not yet did he even know ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... his feet despite Nott's restraining hand. "To leave Mademoiselle and leave the ship?" he said huskily, "is it not?" ...
— By Shore and Sedge • Bret Harte
... Philippa huskily. "But to any who could love me in return—" and she paused again, leaving her sentence unended as before. "No, I never could ...
— The Well in the Desert - An Old Legend of the House of Arundel • Emily Sarah Holt
... stood in with the bond firm's messenger; that's the only way in which I could account for it," said Kenleigh huskily. "And I've no right to say that God knows I've no wish to get an innocent man into trouble. I've no proof—but I can't see any other solution." Kenleigh's voice broke. He seemed to steady himself with an effort. "I'm an insurance broker with an office on Wall Street, ...
— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... laboring hard to get to the end of it, but long after the bridal party was in position the faint, jerky sounds still wavered on, now vanishing altogether in a dumb show, now, just as the people were hopefully thinking the ordeal over, becoming huskily audible. There seemed enough of the thing, Mrs. Long said afterward, to give Arabella time to walk over to the next concession ...
— Treasure Valley • Marian Keith
... Ulysses, the first man in America to roll the lapels of his coat, were much more vivid. After Henrietta Lebrune Patch had "joined another choir," as her widower huskily remarked from time to time, father and son lived up at grampa's in Tarrytown, and Ulysses came daily to Anthony's nursery and expelled pleasant, thick-smelling words for sometimes as much as an hour. He was continually promising Anthony hunting trips and fishing trips ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... a great warrior and a mighty chief!" he said huskily. "But Red Arrow's medicine is weak because it has not been fed. Only blood will make it strong. Let this man die before we break our camp." And he stirred me with ...
— A Virginia Scout • Hugh Pendexter
... "Yes," said the man huskily. "She said she'd let me know, one way or another, when it is safe to do so. Don't cry, Ruby. They're better off. They couldn't 'ave stayed on, God knows. And God will ...
— The Rose in the Ring • George Barr McCutcheon
... old man," he began, rather huskily—"in there, you know." He indicated the direction of the consulting-room as he spoke. "We ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan
... said Perez, huskily, carried beyond himself, scarcely knowing what he said, for if he had realized ...
— The Duke of Stockbridge • Edward Bellamy
... voice, in that silent crowd, was hers, Her light snickering laugh, as she stood there Pausing, scanning the sawdust at her feet. Then she switcht round and faced the positive man Whose strong 'She cannot do it!' all still felt Huskily ...
— Georgian Poetry 1918-19 • Various
... "Insomnia," said Pearce, huskily. "I can't sleep. Suppose you saw me at work through the window?" There was almost an eager haste in ...
— Flower of the North • James Oliver Curwood
... one could ever tempt me from my faith to you, Wallace," she huskily murmured. "Oh!" she cried, with a sudden start, as a warning whistle blew, "does that mean ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... said Ned huskily. "I can see plain enough, but it isn't natural. It's all alive, and the roots are twisting and twining about as if the tree ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn
... his hand: "I think any one could be proud to spend their last hours with one of your kind," he said huskily. "I believe we will all win through—but, if worse comes to ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx
... I beg you," said Villari huskily. "Here, girl, take this, and give it to your mistress when you go below," and he placed a loaded Colt's pistol in the girl's hand. "No one shall enter the cabin till to-morrow morning. You can shoot the first man who puts his foot on ...
— John Frewen, South Sea Whaler - 1904 • Louis Becke
... to debate some moral issue inwardly for a moment. And then, speaking this time out of the right corner of his mouth, which was now nearer Cleggett, without disturbing the left half of his face, he pointed towards the oblong box and murmured huskily: "That's my job." He went and sat ...
— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis
... Red Beadle huskily. "Much the English Jews care about ideas! Did they even acknowledge your book in their journals? But probably they couldn't read it," he added with a laugh. "A fat lot of Hebrew little Sampson knows! You know little Sampson—he came to report the boot-strike for The Flag of Judah. ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... Frances," I said huskily, as the door swung wide and a shaft of light fell upon a figure moving rapidly. Mabel was going down the corridor. Beyond her, in the shadows on the staircase, a second figure ...
— The Damned • Algernon Blackwood
... good deal I've wanted to say to ye fer a long time, but I hev kept a-puttin' hit off until I'm afeard maybe hit air too late. But I'm a-goin' to say hit now, and I want ye to listen." He cleared his throat huskily. " Do ye know, Easter, what folks ...
— A Mountain Europa • John Fox Jr.
... coughed huskily, but not seeing any reasonable objection to the proposal, and afraid of rousing the sleeping hyaena of Lord ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 5 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... fingers that shook, turned his pockets out one by one, then looked into the Wolf's yellow eyes with a gaze pleading yet sullen. "They are gone," he said huskily. ...
— The Boy Scouts on a Submarine • Captain John Blaine
... Mr Ramo," he said huskily. "Fifteen years you and me's been together, and if we haven't hit it as we might, well, it was only natural, me being an Englishman and you almost a black; but it's this as brings us all together, natives and furreners, and all. He was a good master, ...
— The Dark House - A Knot Unravelled • George Manville Fenn
... little girl in the world, Billy!" he whispered, huskily. "She says she's lonely for me. She tells me to hurry— hurry down there to her. She says that if I don't come soon she'll come up ...
— Isobel • James Oliver Curwood
... Miss Nicholson," he commenced huskily, "that I let my temper get the better of me. I was greatly upset. In the matter of your services I was—er—doubtless hasty. It ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn
... garden. With a swallow-tail coat over his night-shirt and his nightcap tipped over one ear, he was an enthralling figure. As he strode toward me his slippers flapped weirdly upon the brick walk. "There's somebody in the garden, sir," he whispered huskily. "The troops has it surrounded." No general in all history, reporting in some critical hour the disposition of his army, could have ...
— Lady Larkspur • Meredith Nicholson
... sympathetic they were with her. What was the cry she gave? Was it some international password or a gipsy note of universal import? Had she called them friend in a tongue they knew? Now she began speaking, huskily at first, with tumultuous syllables and wide open vowels, and at the first pause they cheered. The inky multitude that had kept silence, by preconcerted plan, while Weedon Moore talked to them, lost control ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... "Bessie," Neil began, huskily, and in a voice choked with passion, "this is the drop too much. I knew you had some low instincts, but never dreamed you could stoop to this degradation, which affects me as much as it does you. But it is not too late to change, and you ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes
... to know," he went on, huskily, "that I appreciate your standing by me, and if we get out of this alive, you and I, with our discharge papers, I promise I'll be your partner in this new enterprise—the quest for treasure; that is, if you'll take ...
— Lost In The Air • Roy J. Snell
... it you wish, madame?" the Secretary inquired a trifle huskily; his throat was becoming somewhat parched by ...
— The Cab of the Sleeping Horse • John Reed Scott
... mallet at the end of the blow. The carpenter's mouth was open in amazement. Neddie Benson, the first to move or break the silence, had spread his hands as if he were about to clutch at a butterfly or a beetle; dropping them to his side, he gasped huskily, "She said there'd be a light man ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes
... the boyishness in Peter's tone. James Thorold wheeled around until he faced him. "Peter," he said huskily, "there's something you'll have to know before I go to Forsland—if ever I go to Forsland. You'll have to decide." The boy shrank from the ominous cadence of the words. "Why, I can't judge for you, dad," he said awkwardly. "Our children ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... "Yes," answered Cora, huskily. "Oh, has anything happened? Have you heard any news? Tell me! Oh!" and she clutched at ...
— The Motor Girls on Waters Blue - Or The Strange Cruise of The Tartar • Margaret Penrose
... 'Go home.'" His skull-cap drawn forward, and his face set and threatening, he leaned forward with his powerful arms on the table and spoke in his usual low, unemphatic way, and with his deliberate, huskily-musical voice. Field laughed: his right arm was back upon the arm of his chair, and his fingers under his coat played with ...
— Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. • Various
... made no answer, and his eyes had a strained and exultant expression. After a long silence, he cried huskily: ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... flinched, but repeated that what he had said was only the truth. "I don't understand; it was all beyond me," he added huskily. ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington
... Bartley knew nothing about the prices that city papers paid; he feared to ask too much, but he also feared to cheapen his wares by asking too little. "Twenty-five dollars," he said, huskily. ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... of it to feel her cheek soft against his, her head trustfully on his shoulder. He said huskily, ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... not changed,' he said huskily. 'You need not reproach me with that. You know nothing about the struggle it is for me here, nor what I have to fight against. It was you who taught me first to be discontented with my lot, to strive after something higher. I sometimes wish now ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... Dempsey, huskily sweet, "O'Sullivans in this district know one another. You escorted one of our lady members here, and we want a chance to make good. If you've got a family tree let's see a few historical O'Sullivan buds ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry
... yacht near, Ned?" said Jack huskily. "What's that to you?" cried the man fiercely. "You mind your lesson. Ought to know better than that. I want to see you swim well, and you were doing beautiful before you began to talk. No, you ain't getting tired. If you was, as I told you, I'd ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn
... passion and sleeplessness, like a cane-brake in the Western Indies over which a tornado has passed. He did not appear to notice her words or her offered hand, but spoke in a strange, broken voice, after clearing his parched throat once or twice, huskily: ...
— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence
... leave bygones alone," he answered, a little huskily. "I never minded your tandrums, knowing there was a good heart at the bottom. I only wished I was not such a dry old fellow, and that you could have been fonder of me. Perhaps you will understand me better some day, and——" Here he ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. • Various
... on the final notes; there was silence save for the tinkle of water and the flower bugles. Dan said, "Galatea—" and paused. The girl was again somber-eyed, tearful. He said huskily, "That's a sad song, Galatea. Why was your mother sad? You said everyone was ...
— Pygmalion's Spectacles • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
... huskily. "I've been thinking about you all this time; and this is the end of it. Well, I was a fool to come...." She sat up straight, away from the back of the settee; but she did not look at Keith. She was looking at nothing. Only in her mind was going on the ...
— Nocturne • Frank Swinnerton
... met all sorts of people, had all sorts to come and see you. A trained nurse who is with a sick friend of her aunt's told her she'd heard you let a—let a bad woman come in your house." Kitty's voice trailed huskily. "She said it would ruin you if things like that got out. I told her it was ...
— People Like That • Kate Langley Bosher
... not reply. His eyes were fixed on the ground, and his face flushed with agitation. At last he said huskily,— ...
— Hetty's Strange History • Helen Jackson
... from the depths of a personal experience. Her eyes glowed with the light of excitement and her face was radiant. Max turned to her and saw all this beauty. Then he gently took her hand and said huskily:— ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... old man huskily as he drew his child to his breast; "and am I to feel that it is quite right, and that you ...
— Witness to the Deed • George Manville Fenn
... deserted at last by the Count Muffat and the deputy, came up in a fury. Drops of perspiration stood on his forehead, and he grumbled huskily: ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
... huskily, "who am accustomed to such denials. Then I demand this, for know that if once you pass your word I may trust it: that you will not marry ...
— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard
... gentleman stared round the carriage. In his eyes you could read the question, "What in the devil's name does the child mean?" The robust woman read it there, and answered him huskily— ...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... all in the room knew that the ship was lost, but it was terrible to hear it again. The lad's face broke into lines of grief, and he spoke huskily. ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson
... kind-hearted and readily interested in strangers." Was this sarcastic? I wondered. Perhaps; but he said it quite courteously. "I am a solitary and unfortunate man. Before I accept your kindness, will you permit me to tell you the nature of the journey I am making? It is a strange one." He spoke huskily, and with evident effort. I assented eagerly. The following, recounted in broken sentences, and with many abrupt pauses, is the story to which I listened: Mr St Aubyn was a widower. His only child, a boy twelve years of age, had been ...
— Dreams and Dream Stories • Anna (Bonus) Kingsford
... glanced about the room, at the far, closed doors where it was not inconceivable that old Miriam was lurking, and strode over to her and began talking very jerkily and huskily, over ...
— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley
... minutes, which embraced an agony of suspense, passed in the same fashion; then a shadowy form grew, phantomesque, out of the gloom; a moment more, and I distinctly heard the heavy breathing of a man nearly spent, and saw my friend scrambling up toward the black embrasure in the tower. His voice came huskily, pantingly: ...
— The Devil Doctor • Sax Rohmer
... "He was," he answered huskily. "He was. But he's made his last trip. I wasn't three hundred miles off, but I never thought of Dave Weatherbee's needing help; it took Tisdale, clear off in Nome, over a thousand miles, to sense something was wrong. But he started to mush it, ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... an instant, changing colour. Then: "Are you sure you'd better have me?" he asked, a trifle huskily. ...
— Red Pepper Burns • Grace S. Richmond
... he demanded huskily, in such a queer, breathless way that Richard thought his day of reckoning had come. His sin had found him out. He looked ...
— Georgina of the Rainbows • Annie Fellows Johnston
... clear to the old man, he laid his hand upon the head of the young girl and whispered huskily, "I cannot thank you as I would, or tell you what's in my heart, God bless you, ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes
... place," she whispered, huskily. "And they say he comes here. Poor boy! He isn't what he used ...
— Ten Nights in a Bar Room • T. S. Arthur
... the port rail to show them where the green head of Cape Henlopen stood, abeam. There was moisture in the corners of his eyes as he pointed to it. "Thank God, Bob, my lad, you're here to see the Delaware again!" he said huskily. ...
— The Black Buccaneer • Stephen W. Meader
... a beastly interloper," he growled huskily. "Accept my apologies, Margaret, and you, Miss Layton. I will call in the morning. Mr. Brett, if you still hold to your offer, I will await you at the lodge, or any other place ...
— The Stowmarket Mystery - Or, A Legacy of Hate • Louis Tracy
... steps thrust ripening straw, all alive with little brown grasshoppers. The clock, in its wooden case, made a whirring noise, as though it were some consumptive trying to clear his throat, and then huskily struck half-past six. ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola
... then, Jo," said Hiram huskily. "I never dreamed I'd ever have such a chance. And I'll work, too—I'll study night and day. But why—why are ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
... born for great things," he said huskily. "For great passions, for great accomplishments. Will you find your destiny, I wonder, or will you go through life like so many others—a wanderer, knocking ever at empty doors, homeless to the last? Oh, if one could but find the way ...
— Anna the Adventuress • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... only ruined him, it had frightened him, and he was evidently going through his remnant of life on tiptoe, for fear of waking up the hostile fates. If this strange gentleman was saying anything improper to his daughter, M. Nioche would entreat him huskily, as a particular favor, to forbear; but he would admit at the same time that he was very presumptuous ...
— The American • Henry James
... be detained by the sick bed, or the death bed, of some sufferer who has sent for her," replied the duke, huskily, trying to ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... father," said Ned huskily, as he went and stood behind his father with his hands ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn
... a real pleasure," she said a little huskily. She had to accept a little chorus of thanks from the other members of the family before, blushing very much and smiling, too, she went back to ...
— The Treasure • Kathleen Norris
... no man's charity, not even my brother's," he said huskily, as he stood still for a moment on the threshold. ...
— The Windy Hill • Cornelia Meigs
... at the touch. "Tell her, sir," he said huskily, but with slow deliberation, "that I 'am up' and leaving this place with my ward, Miss Stannard. Good-morning." He lifted Pansy with infinite courtesy from her chair, took her hand, strolled to the ...
— Trent's Trust and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... She broke off huskily, and Noel, out of pity for her, got up and walked to the other end of the little room. When he got back she had recovered, ...
— A Beautiful Alien • Julia Magruder
... old boy!" he said, huskily. "I am the one who has erred, and if you have it in your heart to forgive me, try and do so. I do not expect much quarter in this world, you know. There is Anita; take her, if she will come to you, and may God shower his eternal blessings ...
— Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road - or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills • Edward L. Wheeler
... running straight or not," he said huskily; "but let me tell you, young man, it'll pay you to keep in with me, and if you've ...
— Jacqueline of Golden River • H. M. Egbert
... followed by the smiles and curtesies of Mrs. Gunter, but not till the latter had found time to whisper huskily, "Aren't they sweet girls, 'm, and do you wonder it breaks me in pieces to lose 'm?" ...
— All Aboard - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... milestones had loitered past, he overtook a boy who was stooping to light a cigarette. He wore no overcoat, and looked unspeakably fragile against the snow, "Are you on the road, guv'nor?" asked the boy huskily as he passed. ...
— The Ghost Ship • Richard Middleton
... cleared her throat huskily. "Good advice, Monsieur le Duc," she approved him. "He will be wise to follow it." Her voice strained, almost threatening. "But in this matter I doubt wisdom and he ...
— The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series • Rafael Sabatini
... the lips of her pretty mouth twitched. "Look here, Tobe," she said, huskily. "You've hurt my feelings. I love you and Annie and Robby, and it is wrong for you to talk this way when I'm so worried about the baby. You are not a cold-blooded murderer, are you? Well, you will make yourself out one if you let silly false pride stand between you and that sweet young ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben
... girl," he said huskily. "Maybe we'll meet someday again. I'll have my wife call—write to you so you can visit us before we have ...
— Cerebrum • Albert Teichner
... says somewhat huskily, taking his cheque out of his pouch. "You take this, mate. Whoever comes along this road, ask 'em what they'll have, and tell them it's my shout. Let me know when the ...
— The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle
... a moment, looking down at her. Then again he stooped and kissed her. "Good-bye, my darling," he said huskily, ...
— The Way of an Eagle • Ethel M. Dell
... toward the door; but ere he had reached it Janice had overtaken him and seized his hand in both of hers. "You deserve to love a better maid," she said huskily, "and I wish you might; but perhaps 't will be some comfort to you to know that dadda holds to his promise, and—and that I am less wilful and more obedient, I ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... clasp her patience gave out, she could not eat with dirty messy things, and she would not. With a face like a thunder-cloud she laid down both again, "I don't think I will have any, thank you," she said huskily. "I—I——" She was so thoroughly put out she could scarcely speak, for she really was very hungry and ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... repeated huskily, as though some one had doubted the statement. "Evans is my name and I'm not ashamed ...
— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson
... Did you ever see this man before?" asked Aiken, huskily and low. "Is he the one—who came in the house that ...
— The Lone Star Ranger • Zane Grey
... narrow escape from stumbling on a Boer picket. The sentry heard if he did not see the line of crouching figures that passed him like ghosts in the darkness with stealthy steps that must have sounded weird across the night stillness. In a voice huskily vibrant, he challenged, "Wie kom dar?" Getting no reply, he called again twice in louder tones, and then fired his rifle at nothing in particular. Then, the whole picket waking, or beginning to realise that danger was near, let off a volley, ...
— Four Months Besieged - The Story of Ladysmith • H. H. S. Pearse
... leading morning paper); had he ever read it? Well, The Transcript—which, he, McClintick, hated strongly as an organ of money—nevertheless did honestly gather and publish news, as he was constrained huskily to admit. It had the Veridian story; was still running it from time to time. Therefore, if Mr. Banneker was interested, on ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... notebook, his breath cold in his constricted throat. "All right," he said, the words coming out huskily, "I'll read it. But it's not ...
— Citadel • Algirdas Jonas Budrys
... "Poor mother!" Rand said, huskily. "Uncle Phil—he was a good old scout. And I was here—buried alive—only half alive! My head—Tell me, what happened on the night before you dressed my lame foot? I remember clearly everything from the time I woke in the canoe before daylight that morning. Before that ...
— The Pathless Trail • Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel
... me to say anything to help you just now," he answered huskily, "for after this I don't dare, Bobby. I ...
— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp
... with his eyes looking the darker for his flushed face. "Gentlemen," he said huskily, "thar's only one thing to be done. A lot of us have got to ride over to Sawyer's Dam tomorrow morning and pick up as many square men as we can muster; there's a big camp meeting goin' on there, and there won't ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... abruptly from his chair. "No one ever had a truer friend than I have in you," he said, huskily. "But it seems to me that Alice may have changed with the lapse of years; she may have become easier to satisfy, better able ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... why—' An' of a sudden, his voice went hard. 'I licked him to show him I could. But, I didn't brand him—an' if anyone ever lays an iron on him, I'll kill him as sure as hell—onless the Red King beats me to it.'" The old man paused and cleared his throat huskily, and as Alice dabbed at her eyes he noticed that her lips quivered. "An' that's the way he fought the booze—open an' above board—not takin' the advantage of stayin' away from it. He carried a half-pint flask ...
— Prairie Flowers • James B. Hendryx
... said huskily; "one of you chaps, in this bar to-day, called Macquarie a scoundrel, and a loafer, and a blackguard, and—and a ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... likes!" echoed the General, laughing huskily till he coughed and choked. They both sat smiling grimly with no more sound till it seemed to the boy he must be in a dream, looking at the creations of his brain. The step of a fly could have been heard in the room almost, so sunk was it in silence, but outside, ...
— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro
... the news from the North—that my little girl was motherless—and fatherless; and then came my little girl herself. She was a very little girl then; a sad and lonely little girl; but"—Sir Peter cleared his throat, and spoke huskily and slowly—"but she brought comfort to me. There was something in life for me again—besides my work. My work I always had. I thanked God for that. I need not tell you, John, how this little girl crept into my heart, nor how her small fingers smoothed away the wrinkles ...
— Old Valentines - A Love Story • Munson Aldrich Havens
... kind little hand!" he said over it. "Such a dear, tender little hand! My hand!" he said, rather huskily. ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... was not less than that of the five. They were in the thick of it and could see what was done, but he had to lead on and wait. He counted the dusk figures as they approached him, one, two, three, four, five, and perhaps no man ever felt greater relief. He advanced toward them and said huskily: ...
— The Scouts of the Valley • Joseph A. Altsheler
... you for your grief, child, at being obliged to leave your father," Frederick said huskily. "But are you going to take off the 'Armor of God' and forget all that He has ...
— Tess of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... you remain here," said the vicomte huskily, placing himself in front of the door, "and for each note you sing I ...
— The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II (of 2) • Alexandre Dumas pere
... boss! I know it!" said Jonas huskily, as he led the way to the street. There, Enoch insisted on walking the ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow
... meet Lawler's eyes, raising his head and then lowering it again without achieving his desire. He cleared his throat, shifted his body and scuffed his feet on the floor. At last, after clearing his throat again, he spoke, huskily: ...
— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer
... can be so hard," his mother wailed, huskily. "You know why they don't run after her the way they do the other girls she goes with, Walter. It's because we're poor, and she ...
— Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington
... shoulder forcibly. "For God's sake, sir, get back to your barracks; if you fire, you must die for it!" exclaimed he, in a deep voice. Preston stared at him, hardly seeming to see him, and quivering with agitation. "Stand aside —I know what I'm about," he replied huskily. As the soldiers reached the sentinel's post and faced about in a semicircle, the crowd fell back, and there were voices calling "Home—home!" The soldiers began to load, pouring the powder and ball into the muzzles of their guns, and ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne
... knew either," said Paul, who spoke huskily, "and will most cheerfully accept your generous offer, if you will allow me to attach ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper
... who caught the other in her arms and under pretense of smoothing tumbled curls, hugged the child in motherly yearning over her; then she gave her a very clean-smelling, sudsy kiss and pushed her toward the door, crying rather huskily: ...
— A Sunny Little Lass • Evelyn Raymond
... she said huskily. 'You need not tell me; I know what you have come to say; I have no longer a sister: Susan is a saint ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... huskily. There was no doubt that he had been deeply hurt. Lucy saw tears in his eyes, and her first impulse was to put a hand on his and tell him how sorry she was. But she desisted. She did not feel at her ease ...
— Wildfire • Zane Grey
... kissed him, and, with a quick movement, he folded her to his heart an instant, then released her, murmuring huskily— ...
— Macaria • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... then downwards. "The Syndicate," he said slowly, "has not asked me to pay the debt, for the simple reason that the Syndicate does not know of it—yet." His breath caught, and he added huskily, "I have wanted to tell you this for some ...
— Till the Clock Stops • John Joy Bell
... will try," said Miss Mary huskily, and in a moment she was alone, for Mrs. Palmer was ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... affection of his friends. Young Canby had worked patiently at his manuscript, rewriting, condensing, pouring over it the sincere sweat of his brow and the light of his boarding-house lamp during most of the evenings of two years, until at last he was able to tell his confidants, rather huskily, that there was "not one single superfluous word in it," not one that could possibly be cut, nor one that could be changed without "altering the significance of ...
— Harlequin and Columbine • Booth Tarkington
... sermon," he said huskily; "I hope to get some help from that. But you!—you are making things harder for me every word you utter. You don't understand and ...
— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen
... parted his parched lips, and all the tenderness with which his soul was overflowing for this sweet young bud of humanity would have found expression in his voice but that he could only mutter huskily: ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... addressed to another fish, who seemed to have succeeded in getting his tail into his mouth, and who spoke very huskily in consequence. ...
— All the Way to Fairyland - Fairy Stories • Evelyn Sharp
... but rallied nobly and covered Honey Tone's bet with five twenties. "Roll 'em," he said huskily. ...
— Lady Luck • Hugh Wiley
... mean?" asked Jasper huskily, his fingers working over the table-cloth, under the pretense ...
— Five Little Peppers Grown Up • Margaret Sidney
... broke her heart to leave us," returned his father huskily. "Dear heart, how she prayed that we might be spared that parting; but the Divine Will ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... said David, huskily. Something rising in his throat would hardly let him say it, for the remembrance of old Tim, and that fair day, and of his father's face, and voice, and words, came back upon him with a rush, and the tears must have come if he had spoken ...
— The Inglises - How the Way Opened • Margaret Murray Robertson
... huskily, "don't you think something more might be done by one of us going down to the ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... growled. "I'll show yeh, Rogers! Worlds o' flowers! Out o' the swamps and the tide'll send 'em back again on the reefs. I'll show yeh 'em—dead, dried white like men's bones." Then he began to whisper huskily to his engineer: "It's time fer it. Five hundred fer yeh, Crump—a hundred fer the nigger, or I knock his head in. She brushes the bar, and yer oil tank goes—yeh understand?" He watched a red star ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various
... to my perch, and the horses (a bay And a brown) trotted off with a clatter; The driver look'd round in his humorous way, And said huskily, "Who is your hatter?" ...
— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll • Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
... second head both away at once. But there were two good understudies ready trained—Skystein and Dr. Mary Mudd—with Mr. Hopkins as chairman to balance their powers. Michael Shay too, came to offer gruffly and huskily his help: "If I can do anything, like puttin' up cash, or fixin' anybody that's workin' agin you, count on Mike." Then after a pause he added, a little wistfully: "I ain't got many real friends, but I want to have them know I'm real, ...
— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton
... this final sentence. Holcroft was amazed to see his wife drop on her knees beside his chair. He raised her instantly. "Don't do such a thing as that," he said huskily. ...
— He Fell in Love with His Wife • Edward P. Roe
... the other huskily, "'tis no matter, now. Mother is gone, and Thomas Hutter is gone, and the time has come when we must think and ...
— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper
... "Nev' min'," said Jim, huskily; "nev' min', honey." He had seen Ike's face when the messenger had come for him at the brickyard, and the memory of it was like a knife at ...
— The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... "I promise," Rachael said huskily, her heart beating quick with vague fright. Mrs. Gregory was in her deep armchair, she looked old and broken to-night, far older than she would look a few days later when she lay in her coffin. Rachael ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris
... the hand and pressed back the note; he could not speak for a minute; then he said, rather huskily: ...
— The Woman's Way • Charles Garvice
... where was Sarah Maud! and was it Fate that Mrs. Bird should say, at once, "Did you lay your hats in the hall?" Peter felt himself elected by circumstance the head of the family, and, casting one imploring look at tongue-tied Susan, standing next him, said huskily, "It was so very pleasant—that—that"——"That we hadn't good hats enough to go 'round," put in little Susan, bravely, to help him out, and then froze with horror that the ill-fated words had slipped off ...
— The Bird's Christmas Carol • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... he were not the victim of some practical joke, and if there were not a crowd of listeners hidden somewhere, who, after enjoying his discomfiture, would suddenly make their appearance, holding their sides. This fear restored his presence of mind. "Well, then," he replied, huskily, "this is my reason. I know nothing respecting my parents. This morning, a man with whom you are well acquainted, assured me that I was—your son. I was completely stunned at first, but after a while I recovered sufficiently to call here, and found ...
— Baron Trigault's Vengeance - Volume 2 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau
... poor boatsteerer," he said huskily to me—"that darned whale fluked us, and near cut him in half. Poor lad, he didn't suffer; for death came sudden. An' he is the only son of his mother. Can I ...
— The Call Of The South - 1908 • Louis Becke
... said Smith huskily, and rose on his knees with the assumed eagerness of a slave to ...
— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... without proper instructions—a most unprecedented case. A bookkeeper, grown gray in the service of a large mercantile house, picked up his receiver wearily. It rang the new girl's bell, and like a flash, she said, 'Hello.' The bookkeeper gasped. 'Is that you, Central?' he asked huskily. 'Yes,' replied the unsophisticated maiden, pleasantly. 'What number, please?' The old man sat bolt upright and clutched the desk. 'Give me purple six double-nine,' he said, in quavering tones, and his weak form trembled as he spoke. ...
— Said the Observer • Louis J. Stellman
... Yellow Handkerchief, who mumbled it huskily to his men. He was suffering from a bad cold, which doubled him up in convulsive coughing spells and made his eyes heavy and bloodshot. This made him more evil-looking than ever, and when he glared viciously at me I remembered with ...
— Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories - Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews • Jack London
... still," he said huskily. "I'll be back in a moment to rebandage your feet and make you comfortable for ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert Chambers
... "Aye," murmured McTavish huskily. "I ken. Ye wouldna gie her a common or a public spot in which to wait for ye. An' ye'll be shuttin' down the mill an' loggin'-camps an' layin' off the hands in her ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... said huskily, while a gust of wind fanned a cloud of dust from his clothes, "is there anybody in this town can gimme a hoss to get to Stillwater, inside ...
— Ronicky Doone • Max Brand
... Lake, but a little huskily, turning about and smiling at last, 'that Mark Wylder is nothing to me. We don't correspond: we have not corresponded. I know—upon my honour and soul, Sir—nothing on earth about him—what he's doing, where he is, or what's become of him. But I can't ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... laugh afterwards, even when he reflected how unexpectedly Felicity had come into his life; he thought of her rather with affectionate regard, and pictured her as a tall, slim girl in white. When he took a tall, slim girl in white in to dinner, he could not help saying huskily: ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... I funked," he continued huskily. "But when the wife came to the head of the stairs and whispered to me: 'There it is again. What in heaven's name can it be'—I started to unbolt the door. The knocking had stopped. Everything was very still. I heard Mary—HIS widow—sobbing, upstairs; that was all. ...
— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... half lifted himself out of his chair and leaned forward. "It's the works," he whispered huskily, "are they all ...
— The Rapids • Alan Sullivan
... shrunk behind her, and beneath the gaze of the other boys his eyes were those of a little hunted animal at bay. "Bethlehem," he said, huskily. ...
— Stories Worth Rereading • Various
... playing one Saturday evening in the interval before dinner, when she became aware that somebody was listening, and turning her head, she saw through the Irish mist a man's figure standing in the conservatory. The figure was vanishing when she cried out a whit huskily, "Oh, pray, don't let me ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill
... guid lass," he whispered huskily. "Remember, then, if your canoe upsets and spills you, a wire to me will right you, and no questions asked. Good-by, my dear, and good luck ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... "Good-bye, darling," he whispered huskily; and, before she had time to stop him, he had taken her in his arms and kissed her, passionately, lingeringly. Then, with no other word, he released her and went off ...
— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
... said one ferryman huskily as he stretched himself on the straw with which the damp clay floor ...
— The Schoolmistress and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... "Win," he said huskily, "you're an angel! When you speak like that you cause all my sins and shortcomings to rise up before me, and I feel as if I were not worthy of your love and tenderness. Ah, little sister, it is little pure souls like yours that help to keep men right in this world, and guard them ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... grateful pleasure, and she began to pin the rose to his lapel. Her hands were large and red and trembled. She dropped the flower, and, saying huskily, "I don't know as I could do it right," seized violently upon a pile of dishes and hurried ...
— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington
... on to each other on the other side of the door, and trembling with anxiousness - and very hoarse with their howls. They could hardly speak, but Cyril managed to reply huskily: ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... nails cracked disagreeably, and his features worked in an extreme of agitation. He tried to fix his shifting blue eyes upon first one and then the other of the two girls, as though to ferret out what they must know. "You do bring news from there?" he said huskily. "What of Marquez? Is he coming? Shall we have the aid he ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle |
