"I'm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... time to play the Nicodemite. It is the hour for public confession. I'm off to the dead Admiral to avenge ...
— The Path of the King • John Buchan
... matter with you? Which one of the lost tribes did you spring from—you're like none of your race—drinking yourself stupid like a good Christian. I've got a thousand on the Titan, and if I'm to pay it I want to know why. You've got the heaviest risk and the brain to fight for it—you've got to do it. Go home, straighten up, and attend to this. We'll watch Rowland till you ...
— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson
... however, and exclaimed eagerly: "By Jiminy, Monty. I'm glad to find you—it would have been my luck after this day, to ...
— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball
... "Well, now, I'm glad the crathur's home," said Mrs. Kilfoyle. "It's lonesome in a manner to think of the little ould bein' rovin' about the world like a wisp of hay gathered up on the win'; for all, tubbe sure, it's her own fancy ...
— Strangers at Lisconnel • Barlow Jane
... eyes looked up in mild astonishment. "No, sir, I didn't hear any bell. I was so absorbed in my studying, sir—" He shut the book and placed it back with the others. "I'm sorry, sir. I'm willing ...
— Runaway • William Morrison
... "I'm going to draw a picture of it for Mother," Gerda announced, and she sat still for a long time, making first one sketch and then another,—a seal on a cake of ice, a lighthouse, a ship being dashed against the rocks, and a steam-launch cutting through the ...
— Gerda in Sweden • Etta Blaisdell McDonald
... into your master's dressing-room, and put them in the drawer where his clean shirts are, because they must be kept nice and dry. Shake hands, Mrs. Blyth: it does one good to see you laugh like that, you look so much the better for it. And how is Madonna? I'm afraid she's been sitting before the fire, and trying to spoil her pretty complexion. Why, what's the matter with her? Poor little darling, her hands are ...
— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins
... "Well, I'm afraid he's trying to set up some kind of a scheme for the complete nationalization of all farms, factories, transport facilities, and other means of ...
— A Slave is a Slave • Henry Beam Piper
... in from the balcony and took it from my dresser in the night. Of course, it was to frighten me; all of the girls told me not to leave it there. But I—I cannot make them give it back, and papa is so particular about this jewel that I'm afraid to go home. Won't you tell them it's no joke, and see that I get it again. I won't ...
— The Golden Slipper • Anna Katharine Green
... Mr. Swift, you may think it all a sort of dream, and imagine that I don't know what I'm talking about; but I do! If you'll consent to finance this expedition to the extent of, say, ten thousand dollars, I'll practically guarantee to give you back ...
— Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon - or, The Longest Shots on Record • Victor Appleton
... never min'. Gin she disna want to see me, I'm sure I needna want to see her. I'll awa doon the toon," said Margaret, her face growing very red ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald
... your hand, Georgie," she said, "and look at me. I'm going to read your thoughts. Think of what you ...
— Queen Lucia • E. F. Benson
... refinements of it yet then," said Raut, laughing artificially again. "By Jove! I'm black and blue." Horrocks offered no apology. They stood now near the bottom of the hill, close to the fence that bordered the railway. The ironworks had grown larger and spread out with their approach. They looked up to the blast furnaces now instead ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells
... he said at length, extending his hand. "The violence of your feeling stunned me for the moment. I'm obliged to you for speaking. I like a plain-spoken man. I am sorry to learn of the stupidity of the former military ...
— The Clansman - An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan • Thomas Dixon
... "I'm much obliged to you for saying so, Mr. Bullsom," the young man answered. "Of course the work is strange to me, but it is very interesting, and I don't mean to make a mess ...
— A Prince of Sinners • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... excitement that makes me shiver. I'm thinking of Ourieda and Manoeel. I've been thinking of them instead of sleeping. But I'm not tired. I feel all keyed up; as if something wonderful were going to happen to ...
— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson
... nimble steps to Norfolk none forbeare, I'm confident thou shalt be welcom'd there, Where that thy autor hee was bred and borne, Though to Parnassus Girles was ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850 • Various
... "I'm delighted to hear it," said Mr. Pickwick, rubbing his hands. "I like to see sturdy patriotism, on whatever side it is called forth;—and so it's a ...
— The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick - A Lecture • Frank Lockwood
... sure,' put in the evil looking mute, 'that this nigger will fight like a devil. But as for the galoot that goes with him, I'm sure there's no sand in him. Easy,' the fellow exclaimed, 'I hear hoofs now; and ...
— The Four Canadian Highwaymen • Joseph Edmund Collins
... Terry; but since you wanted to be with your friend, he has consented to your transfer to B Company. The matter has been arranged through the adjutant, and my first sergeant will notify you of your transfer when you return to your former squad room. I'm very glad, Terry, to have so good a soldier as yourself in B Company, even if I do ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock
... a voice said, "you've been following me ever since I left Bittermeads, and I'm going to give you a lesson you won't forget ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon
... kisses on his cheek within the second, and then stopped, and, drawing back, burst into a laugh, exclaiming: 'Why, how very black and cross you look! and how—how funny and grim! But that's because I'm used ...
— Emily Bront • A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson
... at last, mates, My longest voyage is past, And I must watch the sunset, Must see it fade, at last. My steps are not so light, mates, As they were, years ago; And sometimes, when I'm tired, My head droops kind of low— Yet, though I'm old and—weary, The waves that dance so free, Keep callin' to my soul, mates, And thrill ...
— Cross Roads • Margaret E. Sangster
... "I'm not sure what I thought," replied Annie smiling through her tears. "Oh, I was so frightened! You can't think, papa, how very dreadful it is to see the water boiling all round, and sometimes over you; and such awful thumping of the ship, and then the masts breaking; but ...
— Saved by the Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne
... you will not misunderstand me, but, you see, I protect the forest, the streams, and the game; I help the settler in time of trouble; I am a kind of all-round big brother to everybody who needs help in the forest. In fact, I'm paid for protecting things that can't protect themselves, and so"—here he tried to lend his voice the accent of humor—"why shouldn't I be the protector of a girl like you, alone—worse ...
— Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger - A Romance of the Mountain West • Hamlin Garland
... so am I in haste. My will is your horse, sir. Oh, I'm no robber. I'll pay you for it, and handsomely. But have it I must. 'Twill be no great discomfort for you to walk to Norwich. You may do ...
— The Tavern Knight • Rafael Sabatini
... "Of course—I'm dreaming," cried Spinrobin, half aloud, half to the figure before him. He searched behind him with one hand for solid support. "You're a dream thing. It's some ...
— The Human Chord • Algernon Blackwood
... I'm—I'm an investigator—I am engaged in a scientific research. I live—" he paused and seemed to think. "Just over there," he said, and pointed suddenly dangerously near my eye. "The house with white chimneys you see just over the trees. And my circumstances are abnormal—abnormal. ...
— The First Men In The Moon • H. G. Wells
... there; I'm told—and he's never been known to desert St. John's except on the rarest occasions. But oh, Mr. Hodder, I must congratulate you on your influence with Alison. When she has been out here before she never used to come to ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... days! Change thy ways, Change thy ways; Let the sweaty laborers file A little while, A little while, Where Art and Nature sing and smile. Trade! is thy heart all dead, all dead? And hast thou nothing but a head? I'm all for heart," the flute-voice said, And into sudden silence fled, Like as a blush that while 'tis red Dies to a still, ...
— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier
... That I, an insect of to-day, outsoar The reverend worm, nobility! Wouldst shame me With my poor parentage!—Sir, I'm the son Of him who kept a sordid hostelry In the Jews' quarter—my good mother cleansed Linen for honest ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 12, No. 338, Saturday, November 1, 1828. • Various
... then those who see the explosion despise me, and I hate myself for days afterwards . . . I have just received your epistle and what accompanied it. I can't tell what should induce you and your sisters to waste your kindness on such a one as me. I'm obliged to them, and I hope you'll tell them so. I'm obliged to you also, more for your note than for your present. The first gave me pleasure, the ...
— The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 • Elizabeth Gaskell
... Hurra! my boy! I'm going down, While you toil up; but never frown; The far hill-top you soon will gain, And then, with ...
— Gems of Poetry, for Girls and Boys • Unknown
... "I'm looking round for a likely boy; don't you think this Ben would suit me? I want just such a lively sort ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12 • Various
... in all your ranging, I have found you kind and true; More than man—and now I'm changing, And will soon be ...
— The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians • Henry R. Schoolcraft
... brown owl's nest was," muttered the lad. "Bound to say there's one this year. S'pose I'm getting too old for birds'-nesting and climbing. Don't see why I ...
— The Black Tor - A Tale of the Reign of James the First • George Manville Fenn
... went on the young man lightly. "They're getting up a company in Leicesterburg, and I'm to be Captain. I got a letter about it a week ago, and I've been ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... particular friend. I felt no wish for any thing but a poodle dog, which they kindly gave me. Now, for a man of my courses not even to have coveted, is a sign of great amendment. Pray pardon all this nonsense, and don't "snub me when I'm in spirits." [3] ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron
... name? How strange that you question so, When I'm sure I have told it o'er and o'er, And why should you care to ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 11, - No. 22, January, 1873 • Various
... does your honoured brother-in-law reside? and what is his official capacity? But I fear I'm too coarse in my manner, and could not presume to ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... I declare I had forgotten that," said the skipper; "I'm losing my head, I think, at the thought of the loss of my ship!" He spoke these words so sadly that ...
— On Board the Esmeralda - Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story • John Conroy Hutcheson
... to raise Queer ladies in the olden days. Either the type had not been fixed, Or else Zoology got mixed. I envy not primeval man This female on the feathered plan. We only have, I'm glad to say, Two kinds of human bird to-day— Women and warriors, who still Wear feathers when dressed ...
— The Mythological Zoo • Oliver Herford
... way," flustered Dawson pitifully. "I'm wet through, and I don't know where I am." Even as he spoke the rain was cutting through his clothes like blades. "Please let me in;" he concluded. "Please ...
— The Second Class Passenger • Perceval Gibbon
... again to bring to mind How porous a body all things have—a fact Made manifest in my first canto, too. For, truly, though to know this doth import For many things, yet for this very thing On which straightway I'm going to discourse, 'Tis needful most of all to make it sure That naught's at hand but body mixed with void. A first ensample: in grottos, rocks o'erhead Sweat moisture and distil the oozy drops; Likewise, from all our body seeps the sweat; There grows the beard, and along ...
— Of The Nature of Things • [Titus Lucretius Carus] Lucretius
... twinkled as he shook his head. "I'm afraid they won't," he said. "You see, I've put the screw on them rather ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... yere on Plunkett's Hill. She up an' jined one of dese newfandangle' lodges w'ich didn't have nothin' to it but a fancy name an' a fancy strange nigger man runnin' it, an' right on top of dat she up an' died 'thout a cent to her back. An' you know whut happen den? Well, I'm gwine tell you. Dat pore chile laid round de house daid fur gwine on three days an' den she jes' natchelly had to git out to de cemetery de bes' way she could. Not fur me, honey, not fur me. Dey got to have de money in de bank waitin' an' ready to bury de fus' member dat passes frum dis life before ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... (kneeling at Adrian's feet). O God, I erred; forgive! I rise not from thy feet Till thou absolve me. My zeal blinded me. I'm clay before thee; shape me as thou wilt, A vessel apt to glory or ...
— Modern Italian Poets • W. D. Howells
... daughter and I'm no fit company for a good, sweet maid—nor ever shall be for that matter!" So saying, I dropped his hand and turning, strode away down the road, his dinner beneath my arm; and when at last I glanced back I saw him standing where I had left him, staring ...
— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol
... I couldn't get into the camp, 'cause I'm too big. The very first fellow I saw looked at me with s'picion painted all over him. So I had to keep back in the darkness. But I saw it was a mighty big army. It can do a lot of ...
— The Texan Scouts - A Story of the Alamo and Goliad • Joseph A. Altsheler
... "I'm glad the appointment has had time to soak in; it didn't take long, did it?" Wilbur flushed a little, and his chum, seeing this, went on laughingly: "Don't mind my roasting, old man, only you were 'way up in ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... if I were a pickpocket, you have," he went on, "just because I want to marry you. I don't hold it against you. You're young. That young, that it's a shame this has happened to you. But after to-day perhaps you'll judge me a bit fairer. You see, I'm older than you, and I've seen a bit of the world, and I know how things are. And I knew you'd have a nasty jar like you had to-day before you were through with it. And I don't doubt you'll have a few more before you're done. It ain't too good for the little one, if you'll ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West
... George, the Olympian Jove of these parts, "passed on as if I had not been there." 'Chesterfield, they say, is to go, in great pomp, as Ambassador Extraordinary, and fetch the Princess over. And—Alas, in short, Once I was hap-hap-happy, but now I'm MEEserable! ...
— History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 7 • Thomas Carlyle
... let you kiss me, William,' she said, 'not—not for all in the world. I'm sure you wouldn't have me do what I think is ...
— Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country • Irving Bacheller
... "I'm not afraid," she declared. "He's been through the Normal School. The professors keep to their garrisons ...
— The Frontier • Maurice LeBlanc
... you would. Now take your place in the little seat next to where I'm going to sit. All start the engine and jump in. Now sit perfectly still, and, whatever you do, don't jump out. The ground's pretty hard this morning. There was ...
— Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice • Victor Appleton
... Oh! I'm quite shock'd—Susan, child! prepare a room where I may dress before I proceed ...
— Speed the Plough - A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden • Thomas Morton
... said Jessie, sweetly. "I'm not so sure that I will tell you now. It was nothing of ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... if you were better at calculating the profit on a lumber deal than diagnosing illness, because while you doctored me for influenza, it was pneumonia I had. However, I admit that you did your best and you needn't feel anxious. It seems I'm not much the worse, though I'll have to be careful for the next few months, which I'm to spend on the Pacific slope, California for choice. It's a bit of a ...
— Carmen's Messenger • Harold Bindloss
... "Well, I'm ready for it. If we can only get it off the road, and conceal it till night, we may then easily manage it. But first let's see if the fellow it belongs to may not be ...
— The Poacher - Joseph Rushbrook • Frederick Marryat
... steps, putting down her feet with the delicate fastidiousness of a cat in order not to tread on a flower. "I'm alone with you," she said shyly and ecstatically to the day. Never before had she had the Spring to herself. Always there had been the children (now on a visit) dragging plans and occupations, games, picnics, and bicycles across the pure joy of living, or her ...
— Balloons • Elizabeth Bibesco
... you Republicans had carried all the South. I am glad for Lenroot—very! ... But Phelan's defeat has about broken my heart and for Henderson and Chamberlain and Thomas I am especially grieved. Well, it will be a changed world in Washington, and I'm sorry I can't be in it and ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane
... be worrying me with your troubles!" the clerk snarled. "Go over to the Altringham yourself, if you think I'm ...
— Potash & Perlmutter - Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures • Montague Glass
... "I'm quite warm," said he, "though I have no sheep-skin coat. I've had a drop, and it runs through all my veins. I need no sheep-skins. I go along and don't worry about anything. That's the sort of man I am! What do I care? I can live without sheep-skins. ...
— What Men Live By and Other Tales • Leo Tolstoy
... to their genius sacrificed the day. Yet the nice guest's epicurean mind (Though breeding made him civil seem, and kind) Despised this country feast, and still his thought Upon the cakes and pies of London wrought. "Your bounty and civility," said he, "Which I'm surprised in these rude parts to see, Show that the gods have given you a mind Too noble for the fate which here you find. Why should a soul, so virtuous and so great, Lose itself thus in an obscure retreat? Let savage beasts lodge in a country den, You should see towns, and ...
— Cowley's Essays • Abraham Cowley
... "Mother, I'm the boy's guardian. I know what it is. He has been crammed with nonsense by that idle knave at the Four Alls. Look'ee, my man, if I catch you speaking to him again, I'll flay ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang
... think of you here alone," she remarked gently. She had intended to put her arm about Mrs. Preston's waist, but something deterred her. "I wish I could come out and stay right on. I'm going to spend the night, anyway. Father was that kind," she ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... Rasselyer," said the manager in an apologetic tone, "I'm extremely sorry. Pray let us send for them and ...
— Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy • Stephen Leacock
... come, and I'm going to risk keeping them till Friday, in case we have patients on the train. If not, I shall take them to a Sister I know at one of the ...
— Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 • Anonymous
... up the envelope and examined the postmark. "This was mailed yesterday morning," he muttered, "and Captain Hardy said he was going to Washington to-morrow. That's to-day. Maybe he's with him this afternoon. Maybe he went this morning. I'm sure he knows by this time what the result is. Oh! I wish I were with him. I'd just make ...
— The Secret Wireless - or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol • Lewis E. Theiss
... "I'm getting a bit rusty. That's what's the matter with me. I want some hard work to rub me up and put a polish on me and I can't get it here. I've never had enough to do since I left Leeds. Harker was a wise chap to stick to it. It would do ...
— The Three Sisters • May Sinclair
... Frank, if it wasn't for being cock of the roost myself, I should wish that Stewart headed this watch now. What fine times we used to have, eh?—but he has altered as well as the times—how odd he has acted by spells ever since we got that packet at Malta. I'm d—d if I don't believe he got news of the ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various
... have answered, cheerfully. "I'm no sentimentalist: only a bit tired by a hard afternoon's work and a rough ride home. Then, Balzac always depresses me a little. The next time I'll take some quinine and Dumas: he ...
— The Unknown Quantity - A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales • Henry van Dyke
... thinking, young leddy, what garred ye ask me gin the young laird, were troth plighted. And I mistrust ye must hae heard these fule stories anent his hardship, having a sweetheart at Ben Lone. There's nae truth in sic tales, me leddy. No that I'm denying she's a handsome hizzy, this Rose Cameron; but she's nae one to mak' the young laird forget his rank. Ye'll no credit sic ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... brush off our clothes," proposed Jim, "and I'm going to empty this dirty water myself." He started out with it when he met one of the servants in the hall. With many explanations, numerous gestures and much excitement, she took the pail from Jim ...
— Frontier Boys on the Coast - or in the Pirate's Power • Capt. Wyn Roosevelt
... heard the cowboy say: "I'm in," and he opened his eyes again. The Queen was pushing two ten-dollar chips toward ...
— Brain Twister • Gordon Randall Garrett
... about 'em, Should she have wealth, she must not boast Or tell of what she brought me; Content that I should rule the roost,— (That's what my father taught me.) If I can find some anxious maid Who all these charms possesses, I shall be tempted, I'm afraid, To ...
— Yorkshire Lyrics • John Hartley
... content to be sitting here. I doubt I shall do little else for the rest of my life. I must be a useless body, I'm afraid," added she, ...
— Janet's Love and Service • Margaret M Robertson
... "Say, Tom, I'm blamed tired of this! Let's go somewhere and smoke!" Which must have been a good deal of a sacrifice, for the uniform was ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... ideas of health into their minds. Henceforth they could, and must, be the pilots of their own destiny. He then requested them to repeat, under conditions which will be later defined, the phrase with which his name is associated: "Day by day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."[1] ...
— The Practice of Autosuggestion • C. Harry Brooks
... and hid her face in her mistress's lap. "Don't ask me!" she said. "I'm a miserable, degraded creature; I'm not fit to be in the same room with you!" Magdalen bent over her, and whispered a question in her ear. Louisa whispered back the one sad word ...
— No Name • Wilkie Collins
... back again,'" said the Honourable John, construing the Latin for the benefit of his cousin. "'No,' said Fred Hatherly, looking up at the hatchment; 'I'm blessed if you do, old gentleman. That would be too much of a joke; I'll take care of that.' So he got up at night, and he got some fellows with him, and they climbed up and painted out 'Resurgam,' and they painted into its place, 'Requiescat in pace;' which means, you know, 'you'd ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope
... my ship," said Arblaster, "I would 'a' been forth and safe on the high seas—I and my man Tom. But ye took my ship, gossip, and I'm a beggar; and for my man Tom, a knave fellow in russet shot him down, 'Murrain,' quoth he, and spake never again. 'Murrain' was the last of his words, and the poor spirit of him passed. 'A will never sail ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson • Walter Raleigh
... with the big things of life," he said. "Isn't it so? We haven't any quarrel with things like death and duty. Dear me, I'm ...
— Michael • E. F. Benson
... "I'm glad it was you. I loved papa better than any one in the world, and I can never forget that you saw him last and tried to help him." Then, after telling her mother and the girls their additional cause for gratitude to him, she went ...
— Six Girls - A Home Story • Fannie Belle Irving
... the youthful swell of her breasts against the soft, spun-glass material of her blouse. "Don't worry so, Johnny! I'm a big girl now. This is my eighteenth birthday. Dad's bark is much worse than his bite. I'll tell him about us on ...
— Blind Spot • Bascom Jones
... should tumble in upon me at midnight —how could I tell from what vile hole he had been coming? Landlord! I've changed my mind about that harpooneer. — I shan't sleep with him. I'll try the bench here. just as you please; i'm sorry i cant spare ye a tablecloth for a mattress, and it's a plaguy rough board here —feeling of the knots and notches. But wait a bit, Skrimshander; I've .. got a carpenter's plane there in the bar —wait, I say, and I'll make ye snug enough. So saying he procured the plane; ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville
... "I'm going along in order," answered Burchill coolly. "Well, I come to the time when Davidge there arrested Barthorpe and myself at Halfpenny and Farthing's, and when I escaped. There's no need to tell you what I did with myself," ...
— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher
... Yada," said Levendale, "I don't know who you are beyond what I'm told—your card tells me nothing except that you live— lodge, I suppose—in Gower Street. You've got mixed up in this, somehow, and you've got knowledge to dispose of. Now, I don't buy unless I know first ...
— The Orange-Yellow Diamond • J. S. Fletcher
... there's no telegraph office in miles of where he's located. I thought of it last night. There's no way to reach him that I can see, but by letter, and sometimes they lay over on the road. And I don't allow to stop at this place. I'm goin' to set out and hunt in all directions till ...
— Old Caravan Days • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... "I'm not going to spout," he said; "but boys must be boys, and there's no harm in a bit of fun, I for one have enjoyed it, and am much obliged to you for asking me; and now ...
— Eric, or Little by Little • Frederic W. Farrar
... right," said Armorer, hastily, and began to talk of the pig. Suddenly, without looking up, he dropped into the pig-pen the remark: "I'm very much obliged to you for writing ...
— Stories of a Western Town • Octave Thanet
... "I'm not going to be put off like that," said Margaret, laughing. "A collection of books is a collection of books, whether large or small, and deserves respect and the best of treatment. Now, what method is used in ...
— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr
... tubes that hold the mirror; and maybe a slash through the nitrogen tank at the back. Here, make me a bracket to fit these two things together, so I can see what I'm aiming at." He handed the theodolite telescope and the laser milling-head ...
— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond
... banks of Golo's rapid flood, Alas! too deeply tinged with patriot blood; O'er which, dejected, injur'd Freedom bends, And sighs indignant o'er all Europe sends, Behold a Corsican! In better days Eager I sought my country's fame to raise. Now when I'm exiled from my native land I come to join this classic festal band; To soothe my soul on Avon's sacred stream, And from your joy to catch ...
— James Boswell - Famous Scots Series • William Keith Leask
... homesick during those eight years when the children were little and needed so much doctoring, but I could never bring myself to feel hard toward him, and I used to pray the good Lord to keep him from harm and bring him back to us; so, of course, I'm thankful now." She passes on with a dignity which gives one a new sense ...
— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams
... to care about me," she said; "I thought perhaps you did yet; I thought perhaps"—she put well-feigned shyness into her tone—"that you weren't the sort that would turn away from us just because of what father has done. All the other folks will, of course. I'm pretty much alone." ...
— The Zeit-Geist • Lily Dougall
... d'oeil, so as to congest half the village miserably, he found the other half unoccupied and had to begin all over again. 'If you measured the floor space first, sir,' I said, 'and made a list of the houses—' 'That isn't the way I'm going to do it,' he said, fixing me with ...
— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells
... "But I'm so glad to see you, Ishmael! And so surprised! Come in, my dear, dear boy. Shoo! you greedy, troublesome creeturs. You're never satisfied! I wish the shanghais would swallow you!" cried Hannah, speaking first to Ishmael as she cast her arms ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... breeze we walked away fast from the land. At twelve o'clock the captain proposed standing inshore again, but Bramble refused. At three o'clock he became very uneasy, and expostulated with Bramble, who replied, "Well, sir, I'm doing all for the best, but ...
— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat
... away, Bill," said Breezy Jim, as he started to his feet. "I'm dog tired of this game. We're just working for tucker for the boys and nothing—not even ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield
... back your handkerchief—you tied up my head with it, you know," he said, taking it from his pocket. "I'm going away, and I wanted ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... I'm sure, has happened—tell me what— I can bear all, though you may fancy not. Madam, replied the squire, you are, I know, All sweetness—pardon me for saying so. My Master bade me say then, resumed ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson
... more than he had done twenty times before in the course of the last few days; but now it was too much for her. "William," she said, suddenly clinging to Dobbin, who was near her, "you've always been very kind to me: I'm—I'm not well. Take me home." She did not know she called him by his Christian name, as George was accustomed to do. He went away with her quickly. Her lodgings were hard by; and they threaded through the crowd without, where everything seemed to be ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV • Various
... mistaken." Hadn't supposed any such thing; hadn't, indeed, referred to the matter. Only looked at him inquiringly, as ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND, trudging stolidly through the mire, attempted to answer CHARLES RUSSELL. "If I am Irish Secretary, as TREVELYAN once said, I'm an English gentleman, and if you suppose I have any sympathy with the sort of thing that goes on at Clongorey, you're mistaken. But I am answerable for law and order, and law and order ...
— Punch, or, the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 8, 1890. • Various
... funny. That's what you don't seem to understand. I'm so funny that everything I say and do makes them laugh. It doesn't, in fact, matter what ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 146., January 14, 1914 • Various
... worse than ever then. I am a coward, sir, I'm so afraid of pain and he knew that—he knew that I was afraid of being hurt and that I'd always do what he asked of me. And because I don't like to be hurt myself I always finished ...
— The Case of The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study • Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner
... "I'm sorry you don't like it, Cornie," said his elder sister, who sat beside her mother trimming what promised to be a pretty bonnet. A concentrated effort to draw her needle through an accumulation of silken folds seemed to take ...
— Weighed and Wanting • George MacDonald
... should you wait for Nelson? I'm certain to find someone here who's going to St. Moritz and will take your things if he brings them. It's a pity to ...
— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton
... I hope you never kept yourself a bachelor so long on my account!' tittered Flora; 'but of course you never did why should you, pray don't answer, I don't know where I'm running to, oh do tell me something about the Chinese ladies whether their eyes are really so long and narrow always putting me in mind of mother-of-pearl fish at cards and do they really wear tails down their back and plaited too or is it only the men, and when they ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... invented by James More, a son of Rob Roy Macgregor. He was the leader of this party, and fell, pierced by five bullets. With undaunted courage he raised himself on his elbow, and shouted, 'Look ye, my lads, I'm not dead; by Heaven I shall see if any of you does not do his duty.' In that wild charge, none of the clansmen failed to 'do his duty.' Heedless of the rain of bullets, they rushed to close quarters with the Hanoverian infantry, who, deserted ...
— The Red True Story Book • Various
... arms. Such a nice chap! Such a dear fellow! And I was saying to myself, fiercely, hissing it between my teeth, as they say in novels—and really clenching them together: I was saying to myself: 'Now, I'm in for it and I'll really have a good time for once in my life—for once in my life!' It was in the dark, in a carriage, coming back from a hunt ball. Eleven miles we had to drive! And then suddenly the bitterness of the endless poverty, of the endless acting—it fell on me like a blight, it ...
— The Good Soldier • Ford Madox Ford |
