"Humph" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is a black rascal who always leads them astray. Now, king's son, give Wolf the stick; it is all he has." "Here it is to you, and I am sure you will not use it wrongly; you will try and be good, Wolf? for it will make you happy." "Humph," said Wolf, "I am happy when I get my pigs home, and Ralph does not strike me. But I must away, and see you don't tell any one you gave me money. They would rob me." And away he ran among the trees in search ...
— The Gold Thread - A Story for the Young • Norman MacLeod
... "Humph! I didn't think Grafton was the fellow to make mischief so quickly. A tale-bearer! Well, it's all for the best. I made a mistake. I do not love Beth Woodburn. ...
— Beth Woodburn • Maud Petitt
... "Hey, humph! what is the matter, Mr Lorton?"—growled old Smudge to me, as I proceeded to sign the attendance book before the fatal black line was drawn against the late comers—"Look ill, look ill! hey? Late hours, late hours, young man, young man; dissipation, and ...
— She and I, Volume 2 - A Love Story. A Life History. • John Conroy Hutcheson
... "Humph!" grunted Mr. Frayling, who scented some reproach in this remark; "if the dear fellow does not suffer from impatience, and has no feelings to conceal, it is not much marvel if he utters no complaint. I believe ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... "Humph!" said Temple, grimly, thinking he might as well take the money, though he had no intention of releasing Philip. "Have you ...
— The Tin Box - and What it Contained • Horatio Alger
... "Humph!" was Derby's retort. "You needn't think that all the appreciating of women is done in Italy, though the men at home may not put things so gracefully as these over here, who have nothing else to do but learn to turn beautiful ...
— The Title Market • Emily Post
... "Humph! Blaxham & Company!" he grunted. "'We own and offer, subject to prior sale, the following high grade investment bonds.' Oh yes! I'll take the whole bundle." He drew out the letter and looked at it, perfunctorily, before sending ...
— In Her Own Right • John Reed Scott
... Schmidt. Humph! You don't vait to hear vot I say! (he paces up and down in anger). Vot you tink of dot for nerve, hey? He comes by mine place und he hires himself to vork for me, und he don't ask if I vant him! Vell, I feed ...
— The Pot Boiler • Upton Sinclair
... "Humph," said Morcerf, "this is the second time you have refused to dine with my mother; it is evident that you wish to avoid her." Monte Cristo started. "Oh, you do not mean that," said he; "besides, here comes the confirmation ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... "My mother! Humph! Let me tell you I'm not tied to my mother's apron string. I think I'm old enough to have a will of my own. Don't talk to me about my mother," replied Thomas contemptuously. ...
— Little By Little - or, The Cruise of the Flyaway • William Taylor Adams
... "Humph! I didn't know as how a boarding school was such a jolly place," grumbled old Tom Barnstable. "They'll cane ye well if ye git into ...
— The Wizard of the Sea - A Trip Under the Ocean • Roy Rockwood
... "Humph!" ejaculated Brixton. "Much good that will do. Why, I suppose our friend Janeff down in the storeroom knows it all now. Come ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve
... "Humph! You mean a proper old glory-row like they have in novelettes, eh? Don't mean to make it up till the ...
— The Beggar Man • Ruby Mildred Ayres
... 'Humph!' said the insinuating traveller, whose manner shrunk, and whose voice dropped when he was left alone. 'If they all go to bed, why I must go. They are in a devil of a hurry. One would think the night would be long enough, in this ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... “Humph!” My friend's sketching propensities often led him into a “little adventure,” ending in a story which, I should almost have imagined, he coined for a peace-offering, but that I had chapter and verse for the main incidents. There was that story of his ...
— Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia - with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. • Thomas Forester
... "Humph! humph!" grumbled Porthos, which D'Artagnan pretended not to hear; and, changing the conversation, he said, "You seem to be living in a very solitary place here, ...
— Louise de la Valliere • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... "Humph!" said Pencroft, "these pirates! they are gentlemen who have no right to any consideration! And the captain wanted to win them by kindness! I'll send them some kindness, but in the shape ...
— The Secret of the Island • W.H.G. Kingston (translation from Jules Verne)
... "Humph!" grunted the cantankerous old agriculturist, not quite sure if he was being made fun of or if his resolution was being admired; "all I got to say is thet ef you want to ...
— The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly • Margaret Burnham
... eyes and mouth wide open, in great surprise. Yes, it was really true. The bed was gone; there it went, tramping down the middle of the street. Its pillow had fallen a little to one side, which gave it a jaunty and rakish air. 'Humph!' said Willy. 'Well, I'm glad the ugly old thing is gone. Now I shall not have to go ...
— Five Mice in a Mouse-trap - by the Man in the Moon. • Laura E. Richards
... of spirit, and weak of will, They marry early, have little skill; They herd together, all sexes and ages, And take too tamely starvation wages; And if they will do so, much to their shame, How can the Capitalist be to blame? Remedies? Humph! We really regret We don't see our way to them. People must sweat, Must stitch and starve till they almost drop; But let it be done in a lime-washed shop! To drudge in these dens is their destined fate, But keep the dens in a decent state. More inspectors, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890 • Various
... "Humph!" exclaimed he, with a sneer. "You hadn't given any one assistance when you signed, but you can do it now, and it ...
— Breaking Away - or The Fortunes of a Student • Oliver Optic
... friends, the Campbells—humph! So the Campbells are his friends, are they?" repeated he. "They were his friends," answered Mackenzie; "but Mr. Forester thought proper, nobody knows why, to run away from them, some months ago; the only reason I could ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... "Humph! business is slack," remarked a younger edition of the old gentleman, who was standing on the hearth rug, with his silk hat on the back of his head, in an ...
— The New Tenant • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... "Humph! I suppose that would scarcely do," said the Countess, in a tone which sounded as if she wished it would. "Well, then—those ornaments. She must have a silver fibula, I suppose; and a copper-gilt ...
— A Forgotten Hero - Not for Him • Emily Sarah Holt
... "Humph," muttered Mrs. Medlock, staring at her queer, unresponsive little face. She did not say any more for a few moments ...
— The Secret Garden • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... school first, eh? Then three girls running, Mary, Anne, and Fanny. Pack them off to a good school too. Never mind. Then comes William, eight—and Stephen, seven. Think I know where to place them——Just the right age. Perhaps can't do it at once, though. Humph. That's all I can take at present. The other three, Sarah, Henry, and Philip, too young. Well, my worthy Wag, you will hear about what I mean to do with them before long, and a friend of mine will call upon you some day ...
— Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 • Various
... "Humph!" said the Master Builder gently. "After luncheon you shall measure her if you like, but now I think we will go ...
— Great Britain at War • Jeffery Farnol
... "Humph!" responded the professor, shaking his head but smiling good-humouredly; "that is a mere superstition I'm afraid. It is simply an optical effect, a variety of the phenomenon called 'anthelia,' like Ulloa's Circle and the ...
— A Trip to Venus • John Munro
... "Humph!" said she, after a minute's thought, "so you want thirty-three shillings to buy clothes—to go to church in. Your mother dresses your sister in spotted muslin, and leaves you in rags; suppose you wait till ...
— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat
... "Humph!—the coincidence, I own, is sufficiently curious," returned Small, musingly; "but it would not be difficult, I think, to discover a ...
— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth
... "Humph!" snorted Bland, "Well, if a donkey can talk, and a bull can bite, and a hound can hook, why shouldn't a parrot—Judas Priest, I'm getting as crazy as the rest of you! Hurry up and get Kell downstairs so we can see who he is. There I go again! Oh, ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 • Various
... some quick motion or muttered command to summon me, as always before, into his hot little cubby-hole. Never was boy more taken aback! "Who dah knockin' at mah door?" he said again, standing within two feet of my elbow, looking past me not two inches from my nose. "Humph! Somebody knockin' at mah door better look at what dey doin' or dey gwine git into a ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes
... Fond Mother. Humph! Rather out of date, I fear! You've slight experience—lately— Next time you nurse you'll know, my dear! (She'll like that ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, June 27, 1891 • Various
... 'Humph,' George said. 'Let us hope there is no lurking Jesuitry in him. The worse for him if there is, for the Queen is employing every means to run the poor wretches to earth. The prisons are chock full of them, and the ...
— Penshurst Castle - In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney • Emma Marshall
... "Humph!" grunted Harry. "We all forgot to keep the Klaxon going while we listened to that fairy tale about the Spanish Treasure Chest. Maybe they forgot to blow their fog horn also, and there you are. Natural result of ...
— Boy Scouts in Southern Waters • G. Harvey Ralphson
... "Humph," exclaimed Miss Butterworth, dropping down upon the edge of a large chair, whose back felt no pressure from her own during the interview. The expression of Mr. Belcher's happiness in seeing her, and his kind suggestion ...
— Sevenoaks • J. G. Holland
... "Humph!" sniffed Judy. "I'd like to see the person who isn't nice to you, you old saint! The only thing I ever liked about Frances Andrews was that she got into bigger scrapes than I did and made my misdemeanors seem small in comparison. She was clever enough, I'll grant ...
— Molly Brown's Orchard Home • Nell Speed
... "Humph! We're married!" said the star, so brutally that his wife flushed painfully. "I tell you I get all it's possible to get out of the scene. You wrote it and you see a lot of imaginary values; but they're not there. I'm no superman—no god! I ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... the denouement of last summer to have been conclusive, in good faith. Undoubtedly there is some secret agent, some underwork, perhaps restraint, of which I am ignorant. I strongly suspect that she has done violence to her feelings. Shall I or shall I not investigate this point? Humph! heighho! ...
— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis
... were all assembled at the palace. But Taddeo, not wishing to detain such a rabble for the mere amusement of his wife, chose ten only of the best of the city who appeared to him most capable and eloquent. These were Bushy-haired Zeza, Bandy-legged Cecca, Wen-necked Meneca, Long-nosed Tolla, Humph-backed Popa, Bearded Antonella, Dumpy Ciulla, Blear-eyed Paola, Bald-headed Civonmetella, and Square-shouldered Jacova. Their names he wrote down on a sheet of paper; and then, dismissing the others, he arose with the Slave from under ...
— Stories from Pentamerone • Giambattista Basile
... "Humph! that's all in my eye. He'd be a long time coming to see her if you weren't there, if she was twice as great a friend. What sort of an old party is ...
— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin
... has gone to his dinner, though I told him not,' muttered Ralph, looking into the office, and pulling out his watch. 'Humph!' You had better come in here, Gride. My man's out, and the sun is hot upon my room. This is cool and in the shade, if ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... "Humph!" said the old gentleman, "that may be true; it is rash to contradict, otherwise I should say that thou wast lying, my son. However, I dare to say that 'She-who-must-be-obeyed' will meet thy ...
— She • H. Rider Haggard
... 'Humph,' responded Hiram. The last recommendation did not seem specially to take with him. Still his eyes glistened at the recital. He could not resist asking several questions about the young lady, but Mr. Bennett was firm, ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. IV. October, 1863, No. IV. - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various
... "Humph!" said the trader with a shrug of his shoulders; "it seems to me that some of us don't avail ourselves ...
— The Red Man's Revenge - A Tale of The Red River Flood • R.M. Ballantyne
... "Humph" said Marshland looking round "pretty fair, but law Miss Helen, comparing it with your father's dainty little parlour its ...
— Daisy Ashford: Her Book • Daisy Ashford
... "Humph," muttered old Vlacco, as he came into the room in the morning rubbing his eyes. "There was little use locking up these lazy Maltese, unless they are addicted to walking in their sleep. At all events they are honest, or they would not ...
— The Pirate of the Mediterranean - A Tale of the Sea • W.H.G. Kingston
... biscuits. "I am sure," he soliloquised while thus employed, "I don't know exactly what to do,—my wife ought to decide matters where the girl is concerned; a son is another affair—that's the use of a wife. Humph!" ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 4 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... "Humph! Thought there was bad blood somewhere!" he exclaimed. He took the report to his uncle, who read it gravely, and dismissed him with a short lecture on the cruelty of repeating such stories to the intentional hurt of a fellow creature. ...
— Flip's "Islands of Providence" • Annie Fellows Johnston
... "Humph!" again. Then: "Well, there's as good fish in the sea as any that were caught," he said cheerily. "Look ...
— The Second Honeymoon • Ruby M. Ayres
... you know;" and the General tried to hum a bar or two of the 'Dites lui', with ludicrous effect. "Charming! To leave her, ah! I found that very hard. I remained five days: that wasn't much, eh, Zilah? five days? But the devil! There was a Grand Duke—well—humph! younger than I, of course—and—and—the Grand Duke was jealous. Oh! there was at that time a conspiracy at Odessa! I was accused of spending my time at the theatre, instead of watching the conspirators. They even said I was in the conspiracy! Oh, Lord! Odessa! The gallows! Froloff! ...
— Prince Zilah, Complete • Jules Claretie
... "Humph! Well, that's comprehensible. And so far you're excusable. But how came it you didn't see ...
— The Free Lances - A Romance of the Mexican Valley • Mayne Reid
... "Humph! That is certainly strange," murmured Bess. "I guess those chaps will bear watching. What can they be up to, do you think—watching your house and following you ...
— Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach - Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves • Annie Roe Carr
... milk in the cocoanut. eh? Hadn't force of mind to get rid of the agent. Couldn't say no. Humph! I wondered why you, a man of sense, a man of dignity, a gentleman, should take up ...
— The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces • John Kendrick Bangs
... "Humph! They don't make much fuss about it, do they?" was all John said, while Betty was especially impressed by how very much the King ...
— John and Betty's History Visit • Margaret Williamson
... 'Humph,' he said. 'A Spanish name, or perhaps an imitation Spanish name, for I do not know it, and I have a good ...
— Montezuma's Daughter • H. Rider Haggard
... "Humph!" the captain grunted, as he gave the wheel a quick, savage turn to the right. "Say, I nearly ran through that salmon net. It's too fer out, blamed if it isn't. Yes, I know Eben's fond of drawin', an' that's the trouble. He'd fiddle around all day with a paper an' pencil ...
— Jess of the Rebel Trail • H. A. Cody
... their tummies! Right in the nose! La, la, la! But that's off—and so's that! Tell Battery C they're fifty yards over. Oh, beady-eyed gods and shiny little fishes—two smacks in the same spot! Humph! Tell Battery C that the trouble with that gun is worn rifling; that's why it's going short. Elevate it for another hundred yards—but it ought not to wear out so soon. I'd like to kick the maker or the inspector. The fellows ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer
... 'Humph! If he—I mean, of course, my dear, the party who is coming to court me when the time comes—should be THAT sort of man, he may spare himself the trouble. HE wouldn't do to be trotted about and made useful. He'd take fire and blow up while he ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... "Humph!" exclaimed Ed as he entered the store. "I wonder where he heard about my plan to take—bank stock? I wish he didn't know of it. And I also wonder who that pretty girl was?" For Ida was pretty, in spite of her reddish hair and her rather jealous disposition, ...
— The Motor Girls • Margaret Penrose
... "Humph!" snorted Curry. "Should think he would have. That boy fetched him a pretty solid lick. Glad he didn't hurt him any worse—for the boy's sake, ...
— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
... the patience of Job, Humph! Job hed nothin' to try him! Ef he'd been married to 'Bijah Brown, folks wouldn't have dared come nigh him. Trials, indeed! Now I'll tell you what—ef you want to be sick of your life, Jest come and change places with me a spell—for I'm an inventor's wife. ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various
... "Humph, that's queer, poring over that confounded document again, I'll warrant me. I will go back with you," ...
— Heiress of Haddon • William E. Doubleday
... Spiegelmeyer, dressed like a little boy and announced as an infant prodigy, played a concerto of prodigious difficulty and length. Lavin, of the tenor voice rich in poetry and prospects, humbled himself to sing, "There was a Lady Loved a Swine," with "Humph, quoth he"—s almost too realistic. Then came ...
— Aurora the Magnificent • Gertrude Hall
... "Humph!" laughed Charlie. And he shut the top of the cracker box with a bang and rose up. "You sleep over it," he said. "You'll ...
— Samuel the Seeker • Upton Sinclair
... "Not dead, eh! Humph! That does not surprise me. I expected as much. No man is dead in a war until his body is buried. So, ...
— The Scarlet Feather • Houghton Townley
... "Humph. Let me have a look at their artifacts; that'll tell what kind of people they are," Altamont said, swinging his glasses back and forth over the enclosure. "Water-power mill, water-power sawmill—building on the left side of the water ...
— The Return • H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
... Humph! Don't look so bad, now, despite the dead set That against him we've made since his very first running, Do they mean him to win after all? Artful set, That Stable! It strikes me they've been playing cunning. One wouldn't have backed him, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, June 4, 1892 • Various
... his fingers to his lips and blew on them as if to warm the ends, which were flat and stubbed from much playing on the strings: "Humph!" he said, "You are only a boy! You are talented, it is true; but what do you know of violinists? You ...
— The Black Cross • Olive M. Briggs
... "Humph!" snarled Old Tom. "I thought that 'ud be your Chopin! Go and learn exercises with the children ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand
... "Humph!" exclaimed the constable. "Don't you boys go to interferin' with the bucket brigade. I won't have it. The bucket brigade is the ...
— The Young Firemen of Lakeville - or, Herbert Dare's Pluck • Frank V. Webster
... there a minute or so without sayin' a word, and then he turns and looks 'em over deliberate. "Humph!" he ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford
... "Humph!" exclaimed the old man, and a look of suspicion flashed across his dusky face. "I want you to preach ...
— The heart of happy hollow - A collection of stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... up and down with long jerks, as the native codfishers do, when all at once he felt something strike. "This fish seems mighty heavy," said he, "and it runs around different from a cod." None the less, he kept on pulling in line, and at length saw the gleam of a fish. "Humph!" said he, "no wonder it pulls hard! I've hooked it right square in the side. It pulls harder than a foul-hooked salmon, down that deep in the water. I wonder what ...
— The Young Alaskans • Emerson Hough
... "Humph! Well, my lad, you leave the matter with me, and I will report. You can look over the yards if ...
— In Search of the Okapi - A Story of Adventure in Central Africa • Ernest Glanville
... "Humph!" muttered Victor. "Small doubt to whom the girl is kin, if a man have eyes in his head." And he would have argued the point longer with Jeanne, but he had no time left, for the riders had already turned into the courtyard, and were giving their horses in charge to the ...
— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson
... "Humph! Now, Leaftenant Lyndsay, that's a thing I never do. I always take my chance. I would rather lose my place in a boat, or a coach, than lose my money. But young fellows like you never learn wisdom. Experience is all thrown away upon you. But as we can't remedy the evil now, ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie
... "Humph," responded Mr. Mencke, bluntly; "it must be either one thing or the other. Which shall it be, Violet—Europe or Canada? We can't leave you ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... "Humph!" grunted Mr. Marshall, when he had finished with it. "So Larry's knocked out at last—always thought he would be—always expected it. Sorry, too. He was a decent fellow. ...
— Kilmeny of the Orchard • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... Pres. Humph! (Aside, to his Colleagues.) Rather an unpromising commencement. However, he may have devoted more of his time to cricket or football in the Playing Fields than to anything else. (Aloud.) I hope you have not ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, May 30, 1891 • Various
... he repeated. "Humph! Can good come out of Nazareth? I don't trust that girl much. If I knew why she hates Wrent, I'd be much more satisfied with her information. And who the deuce ...
— The Silent House • Fergus Hume
... away to sea, eh? Humph! that's just what I did when I was your age—and much good I've got by it! It was all through reading those precious sea-stories, which made me think I'd only to start to be made a captain at once. Wish I'd never ...
— Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... "Humph! tell your Aunt Agatha, Harry, not to bother me any more with her charity appeals. I am sick of them. Why, the good woman thinks that I have nothing to do but to write cheques for ...
— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde
... "Humph! Pickle and cream puffs for breakfast!" stormed Josie. "Mr. Chester Hunt I certainly hope to make you squirm. But I wish I could find out why Dink gave up the kiddies and why she destroyed ...
— Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman • Emma Speed Sampson
... "Humph! Not so sure, sir. But it's a very, very sad business, Mr Brigley, and I must be going now. Thank you. Quite refreshing, sir! Good-night; and wish you well out ...
— The Queen's Scarlet - The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne • George Manville Fenn
... "Humph!" ejaculated Barney, who seemed not quite to understand his young friend, "yer observations are remarkably thrue, and do ye great credit, for yer years. Ah! Mr. Hermit, good luck to ye! I'm glad to see that ye've got some consideration for man and baste. I'm quite ready ...
— Martin Rattler • Robert Michael Ballantyne
... from her leafy bed. "Humph! what you gwine do at de Co'te House? Answer me dat! I knows what de Lawd gwine say. He gwine say, 'Run for it, niggah!' Yaas, Lawd, I sholy gwine do what you say—I gwine run to de very aidge ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston
... bring back my stocking," declared the housekeeper. "Half a pair of stockings—humph! that's no good to anybody, unless it's a person ...
— The Corner House Girls at School • Grace Brooks Hill
... tolerable, he said; just tolerable. Getting on? No—he wasn't getting on at all. Smith of Albany "furnishes" him, and his rent is eight hundred pounds of cotton. Can't make anything at that. Why didn't he buy land! Humph! Takes money to buy land. And he turns away. Free! The most piteous thing amid all the black ruin of war-time, amid the broken fortunes of the masters, the blighted hopes of mothers and maidens, and the fall of an empire,—the most ...
— The Souls of Black Folk • W. E. B. Du Bois
... got?" said Calton, looking over the table. "Ham and eggs. Humph! Your landlady's culinary ideas are ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume
... "Humph! you were rather a queer temper in those days—a strange-looking child, too, with your white face and your big ...
— Run to Earth - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... his prisoner. The missionary approaches and beseeches him to regard the Golden Rule. "Humph!" utters the savage: "Golden Rule! what's that?" "Why" says the good man, "all that you expect or desired other Indians, in similar circumstances, do you even so to them." "Humph!" growls the warrior, with a fierce smile,—"Missionary—good: that's what I do now. ...
— Slavery Ordained of God • Rev. Fred. A. Ross, D.D.
... "Humph! This is advanced," I thought. "I wonder does he feel like Comnenus? It is a noble portrait, and well ...
— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan
... husband, who, with a complaisance peculiar to husbands, responds—sometimes by a doubtful shrug, sometimes a stupid yawn, a lazy stretch, an unthinking stare, a clownish nod, a surly no, or interrogates you with a—humph? till bed time, when, heaven defend us! you are doom'd to be snor'd out of ...
— The Politician Out-Witted • Samuel Low
... "Humph!" replied the official, shrugging his shoulders and eying the youthful speaker more closely. "Men—nor boys, for that matter—never lose situations from attention to business. You will have to ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 • Various
... weeding with his hands a bed of dwarf roses and marguerites, was indignant at seeing a horse thus traversing his sanded and nicely-raked walks. He even ventured a vigorous "Humph!" which made the cavalier turn round. Then there was a change of scene; for no sooner had he caught sight of Raoul's face, than the old man sprang up and set off in the direction of the house, amidst interrupted growlings, which appeared to be paroxysms ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... "Humph," she sniffed, "mighty funny they can't say what's up. Must be something in it. Couldn't get none o' my things, and not ...
— Violets and Other Tales • Alice Ruth Moore
... "Humph!" returned Mrs. Pennypoker uncompromisingly. "It's my belief that they'd much better go to hear good old Dr. Hornblower, and let this flummery alone. Your Nelson man is no better than a papist, with his colored windows and his chants and ...
— In Blue Creek Canon • Anna Chapin Ray
... "Humph! I should say he wouldn't squeak!" the old gentleman would remark. "You have his squeaker in upside down! That would never do for some little boy or girl to find on Christmas morning! Take the squeaker out ...
— The Story of a Nodding Donkey • Laura Lee Hope
... "Humph!" growled Ford. "It didn't occur to me that there were any differences of opinion to be reconciled. The entire board sat on ...
— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde
... "Humph! It looks to me, from what I've heard of it," growled the older prospector, "that the Double Cross would have been a heap more fittin' name for it. It's busted ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton
... "Humph!" sighed Jack. "As things have turned out, I'd sooner beat the Rhinds crowd than all the other submarine ...
— The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise - The Young Kings of the Deep • Victor G. Durham
... "Humph! Would you! Much you know about it. I fancy you'd soon be thankful to take on the babies in exchange. Well, I've only one piece of advice to give you, my boy: never be persuaded to take up a career into which you cannot throw your whole ...
— Betty Trevor • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... as he descended the stairs,—"Humph! there goes another note of a thousand livres! but I must get through as well as I can; my friend ...
— Ten Years Later • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... "Humph! And you are all going to work a year—editor, manager, publisher, artists, writers, printers, and the rest of 'em—to clear twenty-five thousand dollars?—I made that much in half a day in Moffitt once. I see it made in half a minute in Wall Street, ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... "Humph," said Aunt Cynthia. "Well, I won't entice you into telling any more fibs. And I didn't drive out here to-day in all this wind to talk sense into you concerning Max. I'm going to Halifax for two months and I want you to take charge of Fatima for me, ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... "Humph," grunted Mr. Brown, "your directions are not very plain, and you seem to be in doubt whether we will fare well or ill after we gain the farm. Why should we not ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes |
