"Icily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fifty feet over the water, we could see the sides stretching back as they descended, and losing themselves in the clear water, which looked, from the intensity of its blue, both deep and treacherous to an unlimited extent. The water, too, was so intensely, icily cold, that an attempt to swim across it would have been a dangerous undertaking, and neither F. nor I could summon courage to jump in. We, however, bathed in the stream which ran out of the inexhaustible reservoir, and its effect we found very similar to that of hot water, so that a little ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight
... no prescriptions from you!" he said icily. He looked at Trigger as he turned to walk out of the cabin. "Or drinks from you either, Trigger Argee!" he growled. "Who in the great spiraling galaxy ...
— Legacy • James H Schmitz
... hear that," said Mrs Patrick, rather icily, for this last observation had seemed to her a little rude. "Very," ...
— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed
... he finally asked icily, "that you ever placed any shares of stock in my hand, or even so, that they were not delivered to you again? Of course you can show my name at the bottom of a receipt if that ...
— The Boy Scouts of Lenox - Or The Hike Over Big Bear Mountain • Frank V. Webster
... way to open country, softly swelling fields, willow copses, and clear running streams. In the crystal air the mountain walls seemed near at hand, above shone Orion, icily brilliant. The lawyer from a dim old house in a grove of oaks and the school-teacher from Thunder Run went on in silence for a time; ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston
... icily, "is no one's affair but my own. I am not wholly ignorant of the ways of the world. And I know whom ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... said his sister icily, "that you might have a little regard for the decorums of society. Don't, I beg of you, give utterance to such heresies before the girls. And I wish you would not call it my Bible. I did not ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... this, his family physician will be happy to remove it. Nothing is more certain than that the dancing girls of oriental countries themselves feel nothing of what they have the skill to simulate, and the ballet dancer of our own stage is icily unconcerned while kicking together the smouldering embers in the heart of the wigged and corseted old beau below her, and playing the duse's delight with the disobedient imagination of the he Prude posted in the nooks and shadows thoughtfully provided for him. ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 - Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales • Ambrose Bierce
... icily. "You were in Paris last night. You had an appointment at the Hotel de Brissac. You entered by a window. Being surprised by the ...
— The Grey Cloak • Harold MacGrath
... it no longer. "Don't trouble, Mr. Marbolt," he said icily. "It is no use your offering rewards. The man who has gone after Anton will find him. And you can rest satisfied he'll take nothing from you on that score. You may not know ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... between you and your intended," she answered icily. "Neither shall I permit the circumstances which you have described ...
— The Substitute Prisoner • Max Marcin
... have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me at last, and looked a return—the sweetest of all imaginable looks. And what did I do? I confess it with shame—shrunk icily into myself, like a snail; at every glance retired colder and farther; till finally the poor innocent was led to doubt her own senses, and, overwhelmed with confusion at her supposed mistake, persuaded her mamma to decamp. By ...
— Wuthering Heights • Emily Bronte
... come of my own volition," she said icily. "And I will not bother you if you want to go to ...
— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs
... now safe," he said icily. "My presence is no longer necessary. Take the third turning on the left, the second on the right and the fifth on the left, and then ask again. Before I leave I ought perhaps to congratulate you upon your approaching marriage to your—er—amiable cousin;" and without ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 • Various
... of your own invention, Sergeant Fitzroy," said Ennis icily, "no one of which you'll ever prove. Have you any warrant for this man?"—this ...
— Lanier of the Cavalry - or, A Week's Arrest • Charles King
... messages to her she trembled behind the screen with joy. She rested but little; and when the cold night wind blew flakes of snow through the loose blinds onto her warm face, when her own breath, frozen on the pillow, touched icily throat, chin and bosom, she was happy in the thought that she was allowed to suffer something for him who had suffered all for her. In those nights sacred love conquered earthly love in her; out of the pain of sweet, disappointed desire which yearned to possess, arose his image surrounded ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various
... road we walked into the dark night, the wind blowing cold and bitter, and the clouds chasing one another across the sky. In front, I could see nothing but the porter hurrying along, bent down under the weight of my bag, and the wind blew icily. I buttoned up my coat. And then I regretted the warmth of the carriage, the comfort of my corner and my rug; I wished I had peacefully continued my journey to Madrid—I was on the verge of turning back as I heard the whistling ...
— Orientations • William Somerset Maugham
... are experiencing increasing qualms of alternate hope and fear as the moment draws near when they shall put their fortune to the test, and win or lose it all. As they furtively glance over at the girls, how formidable they look, how superior to common affections, how serenely and icily indifferent, as if the existence of youth of the other sex in their vicinity at that moment was the thought furthest from their minds! How presumptuous, how audacious, to those youth themselves now appears the design, a little while ago so jauntily entertained, of accompanying these dainty beings ...
— Dr. Heidenhoff's Process • Edward Bellamy
... your pardon," said the editor icily. "Then, having failed to find the other girl, he has speedily ...
— Jennie Baxter, Journalist • Robert Barr
... angry. "I am sure I beg your pardon, Miss Thurston," she rejoined icily, before she moved away. "I meant nothing by my harmless inquiry. I can assure you I am not unduly interested in your protegee. If you wish to keep the gypsy girl's hiding place a secret, ...
— The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires - The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail • Laura Dent Crane
... through which we came, though it was George Eliot's country; and I half expected something to happen as soon as we arrived; Sir Lionel perhaps turning on me at last, and saying icily: "I know everything, but don't want a scandal. ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... said Goil icily. "You and he came here together. Even applied and were accepted for this ...
— Jack of No Trades • Charles Cottrell
... no consideration of any kind from men who have come to despoil our country and ruin its people," she said icily. ...
— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler
... name, was protesting eloquently against any derogation from the principles of liberty of the Gallican Church and of the Parliaments. "Where did you find such maxims laid down?" asked the chancellor, angrily. "In the pleadings of the late Chancellor d'Aguesseau," answered the councillor, icily. D'Aguesseau gave in his resignation to the Regent; the Parliament did not leave for Blois; after sitting some weeks at Pontoise, it enregistered the formal declaration of the Bull, and at last returned to Paris on the, 20th of ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume VI. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... "Bunk!" said he icily, in the grand manner he sometimes assumed at the Quebec Club for the benefit of a too familiar member. "And pray, ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... maintain that his features are 'faultily faultless,'" quoted Roger, "but we do insist that they're 'icily regular.'" ...
— Ethel Morton's Enterprise • Mabell S.C. Smith
... danced Down the rocky ledges, All the summer long, Past the flowered sedges, Under the green rafters, With their leafy laughters, Murmuring your song: Strangely still and tranced, All your singing ended, Wizardly suspended, Icily adream; When the new buds thicken, Can this crystal quicken, Now so strangely sleeping, Once more go a-leaping Down the rocky ledges, All the summer ...
— A Jongleur Strayed - Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane • Richard Le Gallienne
... are millions in this town who, etc., etc.' And so the thing will go on until one day he asks, 'Have you no fuel at all?' when I can hear myself replying, 'Only two chairs and one wardrobe,' and he will reply icily, 'You are lucky to have that. Everybody else is dead because they had ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 26, 1919 • Various
... the Prime Minister urged how small and accidental was the omission, his Majesty remarked that it was one of many; and when he argued how any delay might have proved dangerous, the point at which delay had begun was again icily indicated. More pressingly still did he invite the King to consider in what light, if unexplained, this resignation would be popularly regarded; would it not be taken as an admission of blame by the head of the Home Department for the occurrence of ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... the tale of the prince's identity passed swiftly from mouth to mouth. The whole ship's company was agog with interest, an interest which increased during the next two days. Sir John Barraclough expressed to me his opinion of Day's behaviour very roundly, for the captain had icily withdrawn into himself, and spoke as little as ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson
... am not thinking of a flirtation," she said icily, "but if I were, I should as certainly be unaffected by the rank of my victim. In America we aren't quite so strong for pedigrees and families ...
— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace
... her trembling hands grew icily quiet. All the Past rose before her in mute, overwhelming reproach. She took up the lines which her own hand had written hardly a minute since, and looked at the ink, still wet on the letters, ...
— No Name • Wilkie Collins
... stormy night. The rain beat ceaselessly against the curtained windows; the wild spring wind shrieked through the city streets, icily cold; a bad, ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... "Oh," said Dick icily, when they came up to him. "So that's where you were. Uncle Jack"—for now he saw he had just cause for anger—"I'll thank you to let ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown
... the mountains, they seem to live in the flux of death, the last, strange, overshadowed units of life. Big shadows wave over them, there is the eternal noise of water falling icily downwards from the ...
— Twilight in Italy • D.H. Lawrence
... like!" Susan said icily. But presently, in a more softened tone, she added, "I do feel badly about Thorny! I oughtn't to have left her. It was all so quick! And she DID have a date, at least I know a crowd of people were coming to their house to dinner. And I was so ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... our journey was punctuated by frequent pauses. The donkeys were tired; everybody was cross; the calm indifference of the glorious night was as irritating as must have been the "icily regular, splendidly null" perfection ...
— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... is all you have to say to me, permit me to say good-morning," she returned icily, turning to leave ...
— Kidnapped at the Altar - or, The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain • Laura Jean Libbey
... have the care of a child," said Mrs Westonley, icily; "from his conversation I should imagine he would be a most ...
— Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke
... that a week afterwards Grizel was reinstalled in her old rooms. Every morning when Tommy came to see her she asked him, icily how Alice was. She seemed to think that Alice, as she called her, was his wife. He always replied, "You mean Elspeth," and she assented, but only, it was obvious, because she feared to contradict him. To Corp and Gavinia ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... this reminder that before the world he had been nothing to the loved one, that before the world the squire, who had been nothing to her, had been everything, Winton said icily: ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... in her chair, frigidly, icily, disgustedly erect. Beside her Mrs. Brackett sat, scorn and mental nausea plain upon her countenance. Every one looked angry and disgusted except Mrs. Chase, who was eagerly whispering questions to her next neighbor, and Mrs. Tidditt, ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... was placed between Sergeant Schultz at his table and Sergeant Schneider by the door. Birnier watched zu Pfeiffer intently, but zu Pfeiffer regarded him icily as if he were a piece of furniture. Without a word Birnier reached out and lifted a chair. Sergeant Schneider started forward, evidently fearing that the prisoner was about to attack his officer. Birnier said acidly: "I merely ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... asked icily, "that Frank's mother would actually refuse him so small a thing as a puppy, if it meant the merest chance of his ...
— Old Mr. Wiley • Fanny Greye La Spina
... don't see anything the matter with him for yourself," George responded, icily, "I don't think pointing it out would help you. ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... his feet now and he was smiling icily. "One or the other of us will be ruined, and then perhaps we can resort to those methods which both of us would enjoy using. Of the two, I believe I am the more primitive, for the mere act of killing does not satisfy me. I've come a long way to sink my teeth into you. Now that ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... utterly overwhelmed and dumfounded, stood staring at him in blank silence. Then she icily uttered a few words. His reasons,—might ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various
... T. Thayer, gents," said the president, icily, "and seein' that he is field-secretary of the enforcement league, and knows his duty when he sees it clear, he will talk to you for your own good, and if it don't do you good, I warn you that there will be something said from ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... obliged, you see, children, to speak," icily responded the lady he had sworn to love and cherish. "Hints are thrown away. I must suffer the indignity for your sakes, of saying to your father, I shall want some money for the purchases your mother wants to make for you. It is not the least use going to this Grande Occasion, ...
— The Cockaynes in Paris - 'Gone abroad' • Blanchard Jerrold
... my first expedition of the kind; and now that my goal was actually in sight I became conscious of a sort of exultation hard to describe. My companion, on the contrary, seemed to have become icily cool. When next she spoke, her voice had a businesslike ring, which revealed the fact that she was no amateur ...
— The Quest of the Sacred Slipper • Sax Rohmer
... much experience," remarked the canteen matron icily. She thought Miss Gibbs "bossy" and interfering, and considered that she knew her own business best, ...
— The Madcap of the School • Angela Brazil
... town until both Mr. Gwynn and his house were established. When he did appear, it was difficult for the public to fix him in his proper place. He was reserved and icily taciturn, and that did not blandly set his moderate years; with no friends and few acquaintances, he seemed to prefer his own society to that of whomsoever came ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis
... Rajcik said icily. "And if I computed my courses the way you maintain your engines, we'd be ...
— Death Wish • Robert Sheckley
... from my intention, Mr. Gratton," she told him icily, "than to marry you. Now or ever. Please let us consider the matter closed once ...
— The Everlasting Whisper • Jackson Gregory
... question caused the instructor's lips to tighten. "You have not answered my question, Miss Harlowe," she said icily. ...
— Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... no intention of neglecting any one of you four," she says, icily. "Edward Percy, I told you last night that I would burn certain papers in your presence. I am quite ready to keep my word. There will be no use for them after to-night. But I shall not stifle the testimony of living witnesses ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch
... not aware," that one said, icily, "that the authenticity of this painting is a material question. Nor have I any need of the opinion of this gentleman, whatever his qualifications. I have bid four thousand guineas, and insist that the sale proceed. If there are no further bids, ...
— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance
... this conversation off in a loud whisper, Ida seemed turning into stone, but at its close she said icily: ...
— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe
... say," he remarked icily, "it is none of your business. It's none of your business whether I get shot as a deserter, ...
— The Lost Road • Richard Harding Davis
... leaped within me at that 'Oliver.' True, it was the familiarity of one born to command, one who had last night icily desired my services in the morning, and, womanlike, knew that she could queen it over me as she listed, but still, and this was the main thing, it was familiar and friendly, and seemed to lift me ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... of the dinner passed off well enough, as the subject was changed. Lord George began to talk of racing, and Hay responded. Mrs. Krill alone seemed shocked. "I don't believe in gambling," she said icily. ...
— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume
... breed yon bestial brood Three-fold thrice over, if bent to bind, As the healthy in chains with the sick, Unto despot usage our issuing mind. It signifies battle or death's dull knell. Precedents icily written on high Challenge the Tentatives hot to rebel. Our Mother, who speeds her bloomful quick For the march, reads which the impediment well. She smiles when of sapience is their boast. O loose of the tug between blood run dry And blood running flame may our offspring run! May brain democratic ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... monsieur," the adventurer replied icily, without removing his attention from the captain. "What else, ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph
... flush crimsoned the young woman's brow, but she restrained herself, and said icily: "Thaat's very ...
— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade
... cold with fury, reached the door before her and stood blocking the passageway. "Miss McGuire, I'll trouble you to be more careful in addressing my guests," he said icily. ...
— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs
... seizure of Portugal, and finally in the occupation of Spain by French troops. Declaring that more had been lost than gained by the events which occurred at Bayonne, Talleyrand says that on one occasion he icily observed to Napoleon that society would pardon much to a man of the world, but cheating at cards never. If this be true, it was a stinging rebuke and one which touched the heart ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane
... Molly Herold put out for Foam Island under summer skies, and with a soft wind filling the sail; and in all the water-world there was no visible sign of winter, save the dead reeds on muddy islands and the far and wintry menace of the Atlantic crashing icily beyond ...
— Blue-Bird Weather • Robert W. Chambers
... no real girl—is inflexible when there is a wedding in the air, and your letter only proves you are a real girl—which I always thought you to be. And I'm awfully glad you are! Only think how icily unhuman you would seem if you could hold yourself superior even to a wedding, and especially to one so romantic as this of Miss Hurd's promises to be, with all the melodramatic settings of a possible elopement, a distracted mother, and the ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble
... has got one to give her, gathered and arranged by himself, and greatly to my amusement, he is always cunningly provided with a duplicate, composed of exactly the same flowers, grouped in exactly the same way, to appease his icily jealous wife before she can so much as think herself aggrieved. His management of the Countess (in public) is a sight to see. He bows to her, he habitually addresses her as "my angel," he carries his canaries to pay her little ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins
... gradually freshened into a tremendous "nor'-wester," right in our teeth all the rest of our way. The poor horses bent their heads as low as possible and pulled bravely at their collars, up hill the whole time. Among the mountains the wind rushed with redoubled fury down the narrow gorges, and became icily cold as we neared the snowy ranges. It was impossible to see the hills for the thick mist, though I knew we must have a magnificent view before us. We took refuge for an hour just to rest the horses, ...
— Station Life in New Zealand • Lady Barker
... nothing to forgive," she said, smiling icily. "I came for a variety entertainment and I have not been disappointed. Good-bye. Perhaps Mr. Pasquale will be so kind as to put me into ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke
... "'Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null,'" scoffed little Mrs. Ermsted upon whose cheeks there bloomed ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... what might he must see her. But he returned a few minutes after, breathing hard and with his teeth set. He had taken her hand, had tried to tell her all a loving heart could find to say; but how sharply, how icily had he been repulsed, with what an air of intolerable scorn had she turned her back upon him! And now that he was in their midst again he scarcely heard his father express his regrets that so painful a scene should have occurred under his roof, while the Arab said that he could quite understand ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... throw it away," she said, icily. "I didn't say I didn't want it, nor that I wouldn't wear it. I only said ...
— Old Rose and Silver • Myrtle Reed
... was sure of that—had rolled up, touched him icily if slightly, and receded, like a wave on the beach, without his knowing in the least what had energized it in his direction. During lulls, for years to come, Ling Foo's consciousness would strive to press behind ...
— The Pagan Madonna • Harold MacGrath
... not so soon softened, nor are natural antipathies so readily eradicated. Mrs. Reed took her hand away, and, turning her face rather from me, she remarked that the night was warm. Again she regarded me so icily, I felt at once that her opinion of me—her feeling towards me—was unchanged and unchangeable. I knew by her stony eye—opaque to tenderness, indissoluble to tears—that she was resolved to consider me bad to the last; because to believe me good would give her no generous pleasure: ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte
... flushed. Then it paled icily under its tan. His brain was struggling to grasp something which seemed to be slowly enveloping him, but which his honest heart would not let him believe. He stared stupidly at Vada's dirty face. Then, as the child withdrew to her play, he suddenly crossed the room to the curtained ...
— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum
... in Farnum, icily. "They haven't tried to run anything. But any workman is entitled to complain when he's expected to perform ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham
... interposed icily, "is not necessary. Monsieur Eloin, at my command, brought the American here. You ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... must be confessed, Lionel was thoroughly dead-beat: he was wet through, icily cold, and miserable to the verge of despair. The afternoon was well advanced; they had seen no sign of a stag anywhere; the gloomy evening threatened to bring darkness on prematurely; and but for very shame's sake, he ...
— Prince Fortunatus • William Black
... it," said Jessie, icily, though there was a twinkle in her eye. "Not having a mirror, I'm afraid I can't ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... water which once had been his heart trickled vaguely and icily through the wrong veins, upsetting ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson |
