"Dearie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the matter with you, dearie?" ejaculated Pigott, whose watchful eye detected a change she could not define; ...
— Dawn • H. Rider Haggard
... "No, you haven't, dearie," said one of the men, who from a superior neatness of apparel might have been a clerk. "You've come the right road, for you've met us. And now you're not going away." And he came ...
— The Half-Hearted • John Buchan
... "Hush, dearie! The birds never cry, nor the beavers, nor the great, bold eagle! My own little warrior must never cry! All the birds and the beasts and the warriors are asleep! What does Eric say before ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... that I got cold, honey, sitting here waiting—the surprise and all. Run, honey, and get me a drink. Crack some ice, dearie, and then run up-stairs in the third floor back and see if there's some brandy up there. Be sure to look for—the ...
— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst
... "No, dearie, no. I'm sorry I wrote you what I did, but I only said I felt like it. I don't now. I envied those Royal Street boys, who could do that with a splendid conscience. I—I can't. I can't go killing men, even murderers, for a remote personal reason. I must wait till my own country ...
— The Flower of the Chapdelaines • George W. Cable
... "Yes, dearie," I hastened to say. "You may have a small bottle of champagne—or perhaps Apollinaris water would be better, it sparkles just the same, and if it flew in the goats' eyes it wouldn't make them smart, and the ...
— At Home with the Jardines • Lilian Bell
... heard Brenda say in a softly shrill excited voice; 'oh, my dearie dears! We are so pleased to see you. I'm only a poor little faithful doggy; I'm not clever, you know, but my affectionate nature makes me almost mad with joy to see my dear master ...
— The Magic City • Edith Nesbit
... dearie," responded Aunt Ruth doubtfully. "White linen you ought to get anywhere; but lavender—you might try at Artwell & Chatford's. We'll go past Benson's, but it's no use looking there any more. Everybody's expecting poor Hugh to fail ...
— The Twenty-Fourth of June • Grace S. Richmond
... Granny," she said; and the old lady, as she walked with her to the door, answered, "I have had my way for nearly eighty years, dearie, and I've found it a very good way. I'm not likely to ...
— The Man Between • Amelia E. Barr
... and surveyed his grease-stained uniform coveralls and filthy hands. "Your nose is smudged, too, dearie," ...
— Code Three • Rick Raphael
... "Sure, dearie," said Mr. Hartley to his daughter, laughingly, when at last he had his charges all in the car, "this is a little worse than trying to corral a ...
— The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch • Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
... Now look sharp, Cooklet, and peel the apples, for the head cook will be here in half a minute, and the Princess, too, to give the final stir-about; and if things aren't ready for her, we shall have our heads chopped off. Oh, dearie, dearie, dearie, dear! (Takes apples from Cooklet and ...
— Christmas Entertainments • Alice Maude Kellogg
... There, dearie! I know! I know! It's hard! I felt just that way when Susie went. There! cry right on my shoulder—it'll do you good. There, dearie! Pretty soon I'll tell ...
— Polly of Lady Gay Cottage • Emma C. Dowd
... Lizzie, Lizzie, bonny hizzie! Ye've turned the daylicht dreary. Ye're straucht and rare, ye're fause and fair— Hech! auld John Armstrong's dearie!" ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald
... "Dearie me," said Mrs. Mayberry, as she rinsed her hands in the wash-pan on the shelf under tin cedar bucket, "Tom is just as helpless with the chickens at setting time as a presiding elder is at a sewing circle; can't use a needle, too stiff to jine ...
— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess
... vulgar beside such remote tranquillity, while she was telling Barbara that a little bunch of heather in the better half of a soap-dish on the window-sill had come from Wales, because, as she explained: "My mother was born in Stirling, dearie; so I likes a bit of heather, though I never been out ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... about love!" retorted Priscilla, shaking her head—"That's fancy rubbish! You know naught about it, dearie! On the stage indeed! Poor little hussy! She'll be on the street in a year or ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli
... feel, dearie," said the old lady, softly, turning her sightless eyes toward the girl, hearing her ...
— Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden
... Romany chi ke laki dye "Miry dearie dye mi shom cambri!" "And savo kair'd tute cambri, Miry ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow
... are, dearie! And so dark it's grown—and cold. Your poor little hands are blue. Why, what have you here, hidin' under your shawl? Beryl Lynch! Dear love us—a doll!" With a laugh that was like a tinkling of ...
— Red-Robin • Jane Abbott
... that, dearie, and anyway I was only joking, because I knew I was going to spring this surprise on you in a few minutes. I have arranged, of course, to be away from my business for nearly a month, and have planned to spend the greater part of May taking this motor trip. We will go to Grandma Sherwood's ...
— Marjorie's Maytime • Carolyn Wells
... to give you one piece of advice, dearie," said she, the night before the ceremony. Mary, wrapped in all the mysterious thoughts of that unreal time, winced inwardly. This was all so new, so sacred, so inexpressible to her that she felt Mamma couldn't understand it. Of course she had been ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... efforts at persuasion. "Now, dearie," she said, "I wish you'd go get shaved and wash up a bit. I don't wish baby to see ...
— Baby Mine • Margaret Mayo
... any in town," said Dixon, with sudden thoughtfulness. "It isn't the season for tramps. Oh!" he added, carelessly, as the child continued to look in his face, "some worthless old vagabond, I suppose, dearie. Don't fret your little heart about him. He'll find a warm nest in somebody's hay-mow, no doubt." But ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 • Various
... this grand!" she exclaimed. Then to Gwendolyn: "You don't mind, do you, dearie, if Jane has a taste of gum as ...
— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates
... dearie, you'd better let nurse keep the goodies for you? See here, dears," said nurse to the two little girls, "we'll put both boxes up on the high chest of drawers, where they'll be quite safe, and you shall have some every day. Shall we finish Miss Flop's ...
— A Christmas Posy • Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth
... the yowes to the knowes, Ca' them where the heather grows, Ca' them where the burnie rows, My bonnie dearie. ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... don't play any more to-night. For God's sake, let me shut up this piano that is making a ghost of you! You will get so stirred up you can't close your eyes,—you know you will; and then I shall cry till day-break. If you don't care for yourself, dearie, do try to care a little for the old woman who loves you better than her life, and who never can sleep till she knows your precious head is on its pillow. My pretty darling, you are killing me by inches, and ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson
... dearie, I am sure. Nobody ever cared to claim kin with Mother Sereda before this," ...
— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell
... mind the tribulations you can't help, dearie. Just wake up and be the brightest, happiest, sweetest thing you know how to be, and the world will-be that ...
— Happiness and Marriage • Elizabeth (Jones) Towne
... a theological work. I thought from it——" Elizabeth's heart was touched by the expression on Mother MacAllister's face. It had grown very sad. She glanced at the book and shook her head. "No, no, dearie," she said, and there was a quiver in her voice that made the girl's heart contract. "I am afraid it is books like that one that will be keeping young ...
— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith
... like smiling at Marjorie's naive confession, but she said very seriously: "That's the trouble, dearie, you DO forget and you must be made to remember. I hope it won't be necessary, but if it is, ...
— Marjorie's Vacation • Carolyn Wells
... "Good-night, dearie," she said; "go to sleep without a bother on your mind, and remember that after this Nan will see to it that you shall have other times to study than ...
— Patty's Summer Days • Carolyn Wells
... distance was silent, Ratcliffe for the first time addressed her, and it was in that cold sarcastic indifferent tone familiar to habitual depravity, whose crimes are instigated by custom rather than by passion. "This is a braw night for ye, dearie," he said, attempting to pass his arm across her shoulder, "to be on the green hill wi' your jo." Jeanie extricated herself from his grasp, but did not make ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... bobbed down behind the counter and popped back up with an armload of magazines and newspapers. "Just happened to have some free time last thing yesterday. It's already charged out to you, so you just go right ahead and take it, dearie." ...
— The Sound of Silence • Barbara Constant
... this, my pretty princess? How comes so great a lady into the hands of Mother Tontaine? But I will not harm you, my beauty, my pretty, my little one. Oh, no, no, I will not trouble you, dearie. No, trust to me;" and she held out one skinny claw, and looked the other way. The Countess did ...
— The Rome Express • Arthur Griffiths
... Phoebe exclaimed, briskly, stepping to a high, carved wardrobe beside her bed, "this merry-making habit wearies me. Let us don a fitter attire. Come—lend a hand, dearie—be quick!" ...
— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye
... bate the nesty Rooshians, dearie—I meant for to say the Prooshians, Christina—an' ye'll come marchin' hame a conductor or an inspector, or whatever they ca' it, wi' medals on yer breist an' ...
— Wee Macgreegor Enlists • J. J. Bell
... the ground. But the old rotten rope had parted. Soeren, unsteady on his feet, had probably fallen backwards and hurt himself. Maren knotted the rope together again and went towards the little one. "Come along, dearie," said she, "we'll go home and make a nice cup of coffee for Grandad." But suddenly she stood transfixed. Was it not a cross the child had plaited of grass, and set among the pansies? Quietly Maren took the child by the hand and went in. Now ...
— Ditte: Girl Alive! • Martin Andersen Nexo
... my bairnie, my bonnie wee dearie; Sleep! come and close the een, heavie and wearie; Closed are the wearie een, rest ye are takin', Soun' be your sleepin', ...
— Rhymes Old and New • M.E.S. Wright
... "Oh, dearie me!" said the old lady. "To think now that that dear child should be among such dreadful ways. I do wonder now—and, indeed, my lady and Miss Nora, I've been thinking a deal about him, with his blue eyes and curly ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... Dearie me, I can't describe it. All its lilt and rhythm and color and humanness as well. And ladies walking along with huge white balloons from the White House as though they had been blowing bubbles from some great ...
— Vignettes of San Francisco • Almira Bailey
... can't you, Daddy?' The flicker in ole Doc's eyes steadied. I reckon any call of Mary-Clare's could halt him, short of the other side of Jordan. 'Then, dearie Dad, listen.' Just like that she said it. I remember every word. 'You want me to marry Larry—now? It would make you—happy?' The steady look seemed to kinder freeze. I called it a listening look more than an understanding ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock
... thee, dearie, Will I, will I, Sail the sounding sea, dearie, Will I, will I, 'Neath the starred or starless sky, Heaven is where the heart beats high, With a love that cannot die; So we wander, you and ...
— Soldier Songs and Love Songs • A.H. Laidlaw
... cry, dearie,' Mrs. Banks said, holding Henrietta to the bosom of her greasy dress. 'It's a lucky ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... Good-by, dearie," said Charles-Norton, and hung up the receiver, and with a bad conscience and a soaring heart, went off to dinner. No shearing to-night—gee! He ordered a dinner which made the red-headed waitress gasp. "Must have got a raise, eh?" ...
— The Trimming of Goosie • James Hopper
... said the landlady, gently. "You are at Dalton Inn But don't speak, dearie—you are ...
— The Living Link • James De Mille
... know what an awful struggle it has been to keep up appearances. I—I'm sick of it all, too. Only—only, I must think, that's all. I must be perfectly sure—that I really care—for Mr. Thornton. Don't say anything more now, dearie," she pleaded, as her mother started to make some reply. "I'm going off to think." And, kissing her mother tenderly, this strange little creature of varying moods and tenses went up to her own room to have it out with herself. It was the one place where ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... a bad character you'd be afther givin' your own niece," Beth blarneyed; and then she turned up her naughty eyes to the ceiling and chanted softly: "What will Jimmie-wimmie give his duckie-dearie to be ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand
... in the gloaming, nae younkers are roaming 'Bout stacks wi' the lasses at bogle to play; But ilk ane sits drearie, lamenting her dearie— The Flowers of ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... bed, and stooping down gave me the only kiss with which she has honored me—her show kiss, I call it—saying, 'My darling' (how soft she said it, too, with a little trilling cadence upon the sweet old word!)—'My darling, you are not to speak, or even look, save this once: now I must cover up my dearie's eyes;' and she laid her cool hand over my eyes and held it there while they stayed. 'These are some kind New York friends, Mr. Rollins and his good wife'—and a faint pressure on my face emphasized the joke—'who are come to see you. I cannot understand all they mean, except that ...
— Not Pretty, But Precious • John Hay, et al.
... should have asked for them, dearie," said mother; "but never mind now, to-morrow I will walk over with you, and we will explain everything, and ...
— Little Folks (December 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... "I hope not, dearie; I think not if she will be content to take me for her teacher," Violet said, with a half-suppressed sigh, for she felt that she might be pledging herself to a most trying work; Lulu would dare much more in the way of disregarding her authority than ...
— The Two Elsies - A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket, Book 10 • Martha Finley
... would be telling us all, if we behaved ourselves in our several stations the way your faither does in his high office; and let me hear no more of any such disrespectful and undutiful questions! No that you meant to be undutiful, my lamb; your mother kens that—she kens it well, dearie!" And so slid off to safer topics, and left on the mind of the child an obscure but ineradicable ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) - The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson
... Henry; it's a saloon, not a salon; and Art is the petrified sandwich. Fix me a very, ve-ry high one, dearie, because little sunshine ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers
... are drinking, Trying to look gay-like, crazy with the blues; Halting in a doorway, shuddering and shrinking (Oh, my draggled feather and my thin, wet shoes). Here's a drunken drover: "Hullo, there, old dearie!" No, he only curses, can't be got to talk. . . . On and on till daylight, famished, wet and weary, God in Heaven help me ...
— Ballads of a Bohemian • Robert W. Service
... they were to move, very sudden, and the garden just planted and all, and worst of all, Essie had lost her heart to a corporal and was to stay behind. At the time I blamed her sorely and wrote her a bitter letter, but, dearie me, life is life for all of us, and Miss Lisbet wasn't her treasure as she was mine. We made it up later, ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... "No, you're not late, dearie," laughed Rachel, pulling Betty's hat straight, "or rather the train is late, too. Where ...
— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde
... dearie, good-bye till next I see you, and don't be doleful in that big house by yourself. Your uncle will soon be well, and nurse will be better able to see after you. I don't know what all those servants are after that they can't ...
— Probable Sons • Amy Le Feuvre
... well look after 'imself," said Mrs. Briggs austerely. "And I'm not a-goin' to leave you like this, my dearie. But I'll tell you what I will do. I'll go down to the kitchen and make them lazy hussies stir themselves and get you ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... do you sit in the churchyard weeping? Why do you cling to the dear old graves, When the dim, drear mists of the dusk are creeping Out of the marshes in wan, white waves? Darling, I know you're a slave to sorrow; Dearie, I know that the world is cruel; But you'll be in bed with a cold to-morrow, I shall be running ...
— Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses • John Kendall (AKA Dum-Dum)
... soon, dearie; the doctor's fair beside himself thinkin' he might lose ye, an' he can scarce compose himself long enough to mix his own medicines. He's a lonely man; can't ye see ...
— Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road • R. Henry Mainer
... no security, and you know, dearie, what that will mean for me if papa cannot meet them. Oh, ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... they've got quite a lot of others playing it down there, and THEY'RE getting still others. So you see, dear, there's no telling where that glad game of yours is going to stop. I wanted you to know. I thought it might help—even you to play the game sometimes; for don't think I don't understand, dearie, that it IS hard for you to play ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... Saint Leger staggered like one struck and he sprang to her assistance—"sit you down, mother, and let Dyer here tell us his story. I have only just heard the barest outline of it. Perhaps when we have heard it all it may not seem so bad. And don't you fear for Hubert, dearie; 'tis true that the Spaniards have got him, but they won't dare to hurt him, be you assured of that; and likely enough he will have escaped by this time. Now, Dyer, come to an anchor, man, and tell ...
— The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer • Harry Collingwood
... but I thought you would be weary, so I brought you lip some bread and coffee. Sit up, like a dearie, and take it." ...
— The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle
... off at arm's length, he looked at her and said, "I think, dearie, that I am going ...
— Charred Wood • Myles Muredach
... hostess with greatly mingled feelings; but old Bill entertained but one sentiment for her,—that of unqualified admiration. As we only 'wrought' at the stranded schooner on the high water,—some five hours out of the twenty-four,—he had plenty of opportunity to dangle after his dearie, and did so unremittingly. While the rest of us were either napping, dancing the lively 'straight four,' hunting herns' eggs among the sand-hills, and so on, according to our inclination, he, in far more romantic mood, seized all possible opportunities to quickly gather fire-wood for ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. I., No. IV., April, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... the happy days I spent wi' you, my dearie, And now what lands between us lie, How can ...
— A Selection From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick • Robert Herrick
... on the wall: it seems to me that there are no such sunsets now as there were then. When the sunsets were notably splendid and unusual, if I was not in the room, aunt Bertha, who never missed one, would call out hastily: "Dearie! Dearie! Come quickly!" From any corner of the house I heard that call and understood it, and I went swift as a hurricane and mounted the stairs four steps at a time. I mounted the more rapidly because the stairway had already ...
— The Story of a Child • Pierre Loti
... such there had been, could not have done more to comfort me, nor half so much, for aught I know. There is no picking and choosing among the females, as God gives them. But he has given you for a blessing and saving to my old age, my dearie." ...
— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore
... "Well, dearie, dearie me, the sight of you is good for tired eyes, Charlotte," she bumbled in her rich, deep old voice. As she spoke she tucked a white wisp of a curl back into place beneath the second water wave that protruded from under the little white widow's ...
— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess
... On my dearie's wedding morning I wakened early and went to her room. Long and long ago she had made me promise that I would be the one to wake her on the ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... down openly and let her tears run fast. "No, no! You mustn't say it or think it, my dearie!" she wept. "It might call down a blight on it. You a young thing like a garden flower! And someone—somewhere—God bless him—that some day'll glory in it—and you'll glory too. Somewhere ...
— The Head of the House of Coombe • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... and forgot to be cynical. "I know what you'd like to have me, dearie, but this is my moment of emancipation." She crossed the room and looked down at the tiny bit of humanity curled like a kitten in the curve of her daughter's arm. "I'm not going to be your grandmother, yet, midget," she announced, with decision. Then, "Cecily, I think when ...
— The Gay Cockade • Temple Bailey
... and 'e broke Sir Anthony's heart. There isn't even a grandchild, and the Gloster family's done— The only one you left me, O mother, the only one! Harrer an' Trinity College! Me slavin' early an' late, An' he thinks I'm dyin' crazy, and you're in Macassar Strait! Flesh o' my flesh, my dearie, for ever an' ever amen, That first stroke come for a warning; I ought to ha' gone to you then, But—cheap repairs for a cheap 'un—the doctors said I'd do: Mary, why didn't you warn me? I've allus heeded to you, Excep'—I know—about women; but you are a spirit ...
— The Seven Seas • Rudyard Kipling
... thankful! It seems quite providential! O, dearie, dearie, sonny dearie! I'm so glad ...
— Cudjo's Cave • J. T. Trowbridge
... hit hain't a lady! Hain't yo' done tol' her to git off an' come in? Looks like yer manners, what little yo' ever hed of 'em, fell in the crick an' got drownded. Jest yo' climb right down offen thet cayuse, dearie, an' come on in the house. John, yo' oncinch thet saddle, an' then, Horatius Ezek'l, yo' an' David Golieth, taken the hoss to the barn an' see't he's hayed an' watered 'fore yo' come back. Microby Dandeline, yo' git ...
— The Gold Girl • James B. Hendryx
... dearie?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey, leaning forward and smoothing out her daughter's hair with her hand. "If you would like to sit with me and put your head in my lap, papa can ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope
... surely—but no, so patience." The only males of the party were the doctor of the district, two Kingston gentlemen, and Colonel B——of the Guards; the ladies at dinner being my aunt, Mary, and her younger sister. We sat down all in high glee; I was sitting opposite my dearie. "Deuced strange—neither does she take any notice of my two epaulets;" and I glanced my eye, to be sure that they were both really there. I then, with some small misgiving, stole a look towards the Colonel—a ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
... "No, dearie, no! I—I have something to tell you," she answered, drawing the child to her and smoothing back the disordered hair. "What would you rather have—more than anything else in the world?" she asked; then, unable to keep her secret longer, she ...
— The Tangled Threads • Eleanor H. Porter
... the easy chair above the fire; places a footstool under her feet.] You have your cry out, dearie, it ...
— The Master of Mrs. Chilvers • Jerome K. Jerome
... "Dearie," I said, trying my level best to get a mist over my lamps so as to give her the teardrop gaze, "something keeps whispering to me, 'Sidestep that cave in the wilderness!' Something keeps telling ...
— Back to the Woods • Hugh McHugh
... "Nothing, dearie," said the hoarse voice of the crone. "You'll be all right soon. You're just going to stay with me a little while—you and your friend. You won't suffer a bit of harm, if you tell us what we want to know. You'll be ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View - Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand • Laura Lee Hope
... lying about neither, dearie? Come now, think if you picked it up and threw it in the fire. I won't be angry if you ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... so fast; listen, dearie, I, too, Feel that Summer again. A young mother like you, I am holding my baby all close to my breast, And with the old ...
— Grandma's Memories • Mary D. Brine
... "But, dearie child," Harriet said, in her friendliest manner, "I don't believe you had better do that! You're all pretty young, in case ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris
... dearie, you surely are not proposing to invite company to dine in the kitchen, are you? And who'd cook the dinner, not to ...
— Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales • Ruth McEnery Stuart
... nurse, for Sibyl had never been remarkable for any religious tendency, "to be sure, my darling," she answered. "I never go from home without my precious Bible. It is the one my mother gave me when I was a little girl. I'll fetch it for you, dearie." ...
— Daddy's Girl • L. T. Meade
... families that my school ought to draw from," she began. "Six years ago when I took this school some of them surely did need help. Dearie me! The things they didn't know about comfort and decency would fix up a whole neighborhood for life. They wore stockings till they dropped off. Some of the girls put on sweaters in October, wore ...
— The New Education - A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) • Scott Nearing
... Dearie," Doris's mama said, "but it's bad enough to have wasted one dollar without crying about it, too. When you and I go out, we'll try to get such good things for the next dollar, that it will make up for our mistake about this one." ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) - Fun and Thought for Little Folk • Various
... fairy-taley or mythological," she declared. "It was worth it, though, to see those girls' faces. Thank you, Giovanni! I'm ever so much obliged. Sorry if I've spoilt your bed of violets. Is that Delia calling us? Coming, dearie. Where are the rest of the Camellia Buds? I may as well tell my story to the whole bunch of you together. Then you'll see the sort of thing we're up against. They've taken our idea, and they're trying to beat us on our own ground. That's what it's ...
— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil
... "All right, dearie," I says, finally, "I'm game! Believe me, though, while your family is all aces to me on account of bein' related to you, I often find myself wishin' that ...
— Alex the Great • H. C. Witwer
... Mother said, 'Of course, dearie,' and Anthea started swimming through a sea of x's and y's and z's. Mother was sitting at ...
— The Phoenix and the Carpet • E. Nesbit
... sure to change thy mind t' second time; for I tell thee, Craven is as innocent as thee or me; and though t' devil and t' lawyers hev all t' evidence on their side, I'll lay thee twenty sovereigns that right'll win. What dost ta say, Phyllis, dearie?" ...
— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr
... loon, was off by the mail train that night, and naething wad serve him but to come in and bid good-bye to his sister just as I had gotten her off into something more like a sleep. It startled her up, and she went off her head again, poor dearie, and began to talk about prison and disgrace, and what not, till she fainted again; and when she came to, I was fain to call the other lad to pacify her, for I could see the trouble in her puir een, though she could scarce win ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge
... hand—my left hand, of course—to see you coming and going, eating your meals, and screwing bargains out of dealers as usual. If I had had a child of my own, I think I should have loved it as I love you, eh! There, take a drink, dearie; come now, empty the glass. Drink it off, monsieur, I tell you! The first thing Dr. Poulain said was, 'If M. Pons has no mind to go to Pere Lachaise, he ought to drink as many buckets full of water in a day as an Auvergnat will sell.' ...
— Cousin Pons • Honore de Balzac
... "But, dearie, that's so barbarous like!" exclaimed the dismayed Samaritan. "There ought to be some one to say some prayers an' sing a ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne
... dearie," her mother said, comfortingly, and Briskow agreed. He assured her that all would ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... weren't horrid a bit. You looked lovely and behaved like a little lady. Your nerves are overwrought, and I don't wonder. Just tumble into bed, dearie, and forget everything in all the world, except that you're among ...
— Patty's Success • Carolyn Wells
... MacLean fled from Ward C. If she had stayed long enough to watch the little gray wisp of a woman move quietly from cot to cot, patting each small hand and asking, tenderly, "And what is your name, dearie?" she might have carried with her a happier feeling. At the door of the board-room she ran into the ...
— The Primrose Ring • Ruth Sawyer
... person in all the world, and that's you." She smiled at him and continued: "The rest of us, dear, are just flesh and blood. So we make mistakes. Molly knows she should; she told me so the other day. And she hates herself for not doing it. But, dearie—don't you see she thinks if she does, her father and mother will lose the big house, and Bob will be involved in some kind of trouble? They keep that before her all of the time. She says that John is always insisting that she be nice to ...
— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White
... you about the wall papers, dearie; Henry thought mebbe you'd like to see me, seeing I don't forget so easy's some. This room was done in a real pretty striped paper in two shades of buff. There's a little of it left behind that door. Mrs. Bolton was a great hand to want things cheerful. She said it looked kind of sunshiny, ...
— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
... "Yes, you will, dearie," said the old woman. "But don't let us talk about it now. After all, you are not in so evil a plight as Psyche was when she lost her husband, Cupid. Now, listen, while I tell ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I • Various
... eyes and pursed her lips. A reassuring light dawned on her bewilderment. "Oh, say, dearie, I wasn't speakin' of your Mister Jim. I ...
— Hidden Creek • Katharine Newlin Burt
... dear, think what you are saying; what are you thinking of? God have mercy on you!" she stammered at last. "Lie down, my darling, sleep a little, all this comes from sleeplessness, my dearie." ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev
... And where, in simple grandeur, The daisy decks the plain. Peace and joy our hours shall measure; Come, oh! come, my soul's best treasure! Then how sweet, and then how cheerie, Raven's braes will be, my dearie. ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... "and, Oh, dearie, I'll work so hard, so awful hard to get in more wood, and tell me, tell me when, Lafe; when is he coming ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White
... 'e. Cock your li'l nose high, an' be peart an' gay. An' let un buy you what he will,—'t is no odds; we can send his rubbish back again arter, when he knaws you'm another man's wife. Gude-bye, Phoebe dearie; I've done what 'peared to me a gert deed for love of 'e; but the sight of 'e brings it down into ...
— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts
... pieces of calico, nails, curtain-rings, buttons, spools and fragments of china—all of which are very dear to her heart. And why should they not be? For with them she creates a fairy world, wherein are only joy, and peace, and harmony, and light—quite an improvement on this! Yes, dearie, quite. ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 4 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters • Elbert Hubbard
... be over to the kindergarten with the Sisters, an' I thought I'd clane go out of me mind if I couldn't have a word wid you before Jim gets home—Och, Aileen, dearie, me home I'm so proud of—" She choked, and Billy immediately repudiated his gumdrop upon Aileen's clean linen skirt; his eyes were reading the signs of the times in his ...
— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller
... He was suddenly just a baby who had been made to suffer for her grown-up disturbances. "But, dearie, what will you ...
— The Visioning • Susan Glaspell
... woman said, in a gentle, caressing tone, placing her other hand over Ailleen's, "it's very kind of you to say that, very kind of you. There's many a one said far worse and never given a thought whether it hurt me or not. Come, sit ye down, dearie, and tell me all about ...
— Colonial Born - A tale of the Queensland bush • G. Firth Scott
... parent can proudly boast that his son of four will recognize the picture of Thomas Paine or Ingersoll, or that he knows that the idea of God is stupid. Or that the Social Democratic father can point to his little girl of six and say, "Who wrote the Capital, dearie?" "Karl Marx, pa!" Or that the Anarchistic mother can make it known that her daughter's name is Louise Michel, Sophia Perovskaya, or that she can recite the revolutionary poems of Herwegh, Freiligrath, or Shelley, and that she will point out the faces of Spencer, ...
— Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 - Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature • Various
... "Don't 'ee go, dearie, don't 'ee. Jim 'ere'll go," but I pushed her away. Why should she try and stop me, what right had anyone to come between me and my love? Then the crowd parted, and I saw a little procession come towards me. What was that borne ...
— The Moving Finger • Mary Gaunt
... be just as well, dearie, for you to wear a plainer dress when you apply for the place, and I believe—in fact I am quite sure—Cousin Lucretia would rather ...
— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice
... Don't try to. Please don't see it! Just let me go on helping you. That's all I ask. (she draws MADELINE to her) Ah, dearie, I held you when you were a little baby without your mother. All those years count for something, Madeline. There's just nothing to life if years of love don't count for something. (listening) I think I hear them. And here are we, weeping like two idiots. (MADELINE brushes ...
— Plays • Susan Glaspell
... patent—good and strong. (It'll need to be strong to hold you up, won't it, dearie?) Now, please take your tea like a good girl, to brace up your courage. Or would you like ...
— A Woman who went to Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan
... "Sure, dearie. As I say, don't never git your ear full of other folks's troubles—and secrets." She went out, with a backward look at once ...
— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... calls me dearie and lives to tell the tale," Jimmie remarked almost dreamily as he squared off. "How'll you ...
— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley
... "Yes, dearie, you see how much you have to be thankful for, even if it is two months before you can get out of doors again by yourself. Until now, Sadie never knew what flowers looked like growing in the ground. I sent her a pot of your hyacinths ...
— Heart of Gold • Ruth Alberta Brown
... ourselves in moderately dirty blue dressing-gowns. Away from the formality of the other room we sang little songs, and made the worst jokes in the world—being continually interrupted by an irritable sergeant, whom we called "dearie." One or two men were feverishly arguing whether certain physical deficiencies would be passed. Nobody said a word of his reason for enlisting except the sign-writer, whose wages had ...
— Adventures of a Despatch Rider • W. H. L. Watson
... 'Pink Animals I Have Met' and flew to the rescue. When I got to the cot there was Edward's cherubic mug peeping out from under about four miles of nice clean bandages and an attendant sitting daintily on his chest. When he saw me he calmed down and dismissed the menagerie for the nonce. 'Dearie,' he said, taking my shrinking little hand in his, 'it was awful. It's only by mere chance that you find me custodian of this Reptile Bazar instead of one of these "mangled remains" things. It was this way. I had ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey
... "Dearie me! It must be a 'blow-out'! Is that the trouble, Jo? Yes? Well, come, girls; we may as well step out." There was forced resignation in Mrs. Pitt's voice; she was trying not ...
— John and Betty's History Visit • Margaret Williamson
... "Run, dearie, run! Run!" She was scuffling with her feet, clattering the chair, as she wrenched the door open. And then, in her own voice: "Nan, I won't! I won't let you stand for ...
— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard
... the hotel here," she explained. "You come right in an' I'll fix up a nice room for you, my dearie. You can wash up after yore ride and you'll feel a lot better. I'll have Chung Lung cook you both a bit of supper soon as he comes back to the kitchen. A good steak an' some nice French frys, say. With some of the mince pie left from dinner and a good cup of coffee." ...
— The Fighting Edge • William MacLeod Raine
... "Yes, dearie," she confided to some one at the other end of the telephone. "We had the grandest time. He's a swell feller, all right, and opened nothing but wine all evening. Yes, I had my charmeuse gown—the one with the ...
— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball
... whatever," he says. He's taken a rouble for it. "Can't sell it for less," he says. Because it's no easy matter to get 'em, you know. I paid him, dearie, out of my own money. If she takes them, thinks I, it's all right; if she don't, I can let old Michael's daughter ...
— Redemption and Two Other Plays • Leo Tolstoy et al
... Teddy. Her hat is upstairs. Her flowers are in the hall. She left her ulster on my bed, and her books are on the window-sill," said mamma. She wouldn't look at me. "Remember, dearie, your medicines are all labelled, and I put needles in your work-box all threaded. Don't sit in draughts and don't read in a dim light. Have a good time and study hard and come back soon. Good—bye, my ...
— As Seen By Me • Lilian Bell
... human element that counted, everyone would stay at the brassworks forever. I feel like a snake in the grass, walking off "on them" when they all were so nice. Nor was it for a moment the "dearie" kind of niceness that made you feel it was orders from above. From our floor boss down, they were people who were born to treat a body square. All the handicaps against them—the work itself, the surroundings, ...
— Working With the Working Woman • Cornelia Stratton Parker
... sharp way, Melody," said Miss Rejoice; "but she meant no unkindness, I think. The rose is very sweet," she added; "there are no other roses so sweet, to my mind. And how are the hens this morning, dearie?" ...
— Melody - The Story of a Child • Laura E. Richards
... you're inconsiderate," she began, glancing solicitously at her sister. "Under the circumstances, it seems to me you might have made your announcement more gently—to Lydia, anyhow. Never mind, dearie—there's nothing in ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke
... your head with arrant nonsense. What do you know about engagements and—and disappointments, and dreams what proves but early mists of the morning? what do you know of fickleness and broken promises? There, child, you won't get any of that bad sort of knowledge out of me. Now you run away, dearie. There's someone been talking about what they oughtn't to, and you has no call to listen, my pet. There's some weddings happy, and there's some that aint, and that's all I can say. Run away ...
— A Young Mutineer • Mrs. L. T. Meade
... will give you what money you need, and if at any time you should want more than your ordinary allowance, for presents or any special purpose, just tell her about it, and she will understand. You can have anything in reason; I want you to be happy. Don't fret, dearie. I shall be with father, and the time will pass. In three years I shall be back again, and then, Peg, then, how happy we shall be! Only ...
— About Peggy Saville • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... a bit of you, dearie. You'll stay here till Florrie wants to go back. You'd get her into no end of a scrape if you were to leave her now. You must stick to her, my love. It would be unkind to desert poor Florrie in that fashion. I thought Maisie had left you with Fanny ...
— The Children of Wilton Chase • Mrs. L. T. Meade
... "Oh, dearie me!" sighed Mrs Gaff, beginning for the first time to realise in a small degree the anxieties and troubles inseparable from wealth; "can't ye tell me what it's ...
— Shifting Winds - A Tough Yarn • R.M. Ballantyne
... you destroyed the book, Bobby," sighed Mother Blossom, "but as it can not be positively proved, you are to go to school as usual. I am sorrier than words can tell you that this has happened. But, dearie, I'm afraid you are ...
— Four Little Blossoms at Oak Hill School • Mabel C. Hawley
... soon get some flesh on your bones and drive the sad look out of thee eyes." In moments of emotion and excitement Jessie forgot the schooling Ida had given her, and lapsed into semi-Westmoreland. "You've missed the moorland air, dearie, and the cream and the milk—I've 'eard it's all chalk and water in London—and I suppose there wasn't room to ride in them crowded streets; and the food, too, I'm told it ain't fit for ordinary humans, leave alone a dainty maid like ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice
... dearie. You know that all the beautiful things which the people who do nothing have are made by the people ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... to Mary Bell's tea, dearie, and I wanted just to look in at the Athenaeum—" Mrs. Salisbury began, a little inconsequently. "How soon do you expect to be home?" she broke off ...
— The Treasure • Kathleen Norris
... darling," laughed her mother as she picked up the child and kissed her, "and its fleece was white as snow, too, for the song says so; but it wasn't a Tartary lamb, dearie. It was ...
— Carl and the Cotton Gin • Sara Ware Bassett
... "There—there, dearie," Mrs. Morton whispered in a soothing voice. "You need not sleep there. You can lie right here, for the rest of the night, and I will stay with you and see that no ...
— The Film of Fear • Arnold Fredericks |
