"Unwelcome guest" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... last, sharp and hard—as if the speaker were unwilling to deny a certain courtesy, even to the most unwelcome guest, in ...
— The Song Of The Blood-Red Flower • Johannes Linnankoski
... prolonged upon their ears. Then, whispering one to another that it was late,—that the moon was almost down,-that the August night was growing chill,—they hurried homewards, leaving the lime-burner and little Joe to deal as they might with their unwelcome guest. Save for these three human beings, the open space on the hill-side was a solitude, set in a vast gloom of forest. Beyond that darksome verge, the firelight glimmered on the stately trunks and almost black foliage of ...
— The Snow Image • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... not answer. Probably his mind was on his next line of inquiry. But Mr. Jeffrey did not take his silence with the calmness he had shown prior to the last attack. As no word came from his unwelcome guest, he paused in his rapid pacing and, casting aside with one impulsive gesture his hitherto imperfectly held ...
— The Filigree Ball • Anna Katharine Green
... talking in undertones, they came to the dark shack and Larry, irritated at his inability to drop Maclin, unlocked the door and went in, followed by his unwelcome guest. ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock |
