"Incredulously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mrs. Preston, incredulously. "He only wants to make a favorable impression upon you—perhaps to get more out ...
— Only An Irish Boy - Andy Burke's Fortunes • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... accompanied with sensations that steeped my whole being in unutterable rapture. I was encompassed by a sea of light, through which played the pure, harmonious colors that are born of light. While endeavoring, in broken expressions, to describe my feelings to my friends, who sat looking upon me incredulously—not yet having been affected by the drug—I suddenly found myself at the foot of the great Pyramid of Cheops. The tapering courses of yellow limestone gleamed like gold in the sun, and the pile rose so ...
— The Lands of the Saracen - Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain • Bayard Taylor
... Billali?" I answered incredulously. "And now, I would ask you to take me to some place where I ...
— She and Allan • H. Rider Haggard
... to the lips with surprise and chagrin, looked incredulously in the face of the fair girl by whose side he was seated. He was completely staggered. The idea of his being indifferent to his cousin had never for a single instant occurred to him. He had won for himself the reputation of being quite a "lady-killer;" and now ...
— The Voyage of the Aurora • Harry Collingwood
... incredulously and said nothing. Yourii was silent also. For some reason or other he felt embarrassed by those clear, blue eyes, though he tried to ...
— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef
... a lot of faith in me, didn't you?" he said, incredulously. "You believed in a man you'd ...
— The Boss of the Lazy Y • Charles Alden Seltzer
... got the biggest scheme that ever came north, backed by the biggest men in Washington," continued the politician. "Look here!" He displayed a type-written sheet bearing parallel lists of names and figures. Struve gasped incredulously. ...
— The Spoilers • Rex Beach
... no praise could fill The depths of her desire to please, Though dull to others as a Will To them that have no legacies. The more I praised the more she shone, Her eyes incredulously bright, And all her happy beauty blown Beneath the beams of my delight. Sweet rivalry was thus begot; By turns, my speech, in passion's style, With flatteries the truth o'ershot, And she ...
— The Angel in the House • Coventry Patmore
... her incredulously. "But you can't ask him to play for you! You'd hate asking him a favour after—after his refusal to ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler
... toward the group just outside the Med Ship. There was a sudden howl of a siren by the spaceport gate. A second car leaped as if to intercept the first. Its siren screamed again. Then bright sparks appeared near the first car's windows. Blasters rasped. Incredulously, Calhoun saw the blue-white of blaster bolts darting toward him. The men about him clawed for weapons. The grid operator ...
— The Hate Disease • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... on the pillow and gazed at Robinette incredulously; it wasn't possible that such a solution had come to all her troubles. For seventy odd years she had worked and struggled and sometimes very nearly starved and here was some one assuring her that these struggles were over forever, that she needn't work hard any more, or ever ...
— Robinetta • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... incredulously at his counter and banged it against the side of the station wagon. Still the needle held in the normal zone. He banged it harder and suddenly the needle dropped to zero as Hetty and her ranch hands peered over the AEC man's shoulder ...
— Make Mine Homogenized • Rick Raphael
... office to Nisi Prius court Richie Goulding carrying the costbag of Goulding, Collis and Ward and heard rustling from the admiralty division of king's bench to the court of appeal an elderly female with false teeth smiling incredulously and a black silk ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... boy incredulously; "a manager, like Fenton, who lives in that big house on the hill! Why, he's ...
— Facing Death - The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines • G. A. Henty
... opponent blandly. "Mine's hearts—all in a row, with the jack at the top." One by one he laid them down—a straight flush. South Bend stared incredulously ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx
... seem that the harsh experience would be wanting, for the morning was well advanced when he reached his place of work, and he received a severe reprimand from the foreman for being so late. His explanation, that he had received permission to be absent, was incredulously received. It also seemed that gibes, taunts, and sneers were flung at him with increasing venom by his ill-natured associates, who were vexed that they had not been able to drive him ...
— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe
... have faith in witchcraft?" he ejaculated, incredulously. "Why, girl, that's positively ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... incredulously, but Tom bravely kept his word. For the next few weeks Tom was at his post bright and early, and the garden was never kept in better order. And every morning Tiger and Tom stood faithfully in the market-place with their baskets, and never gave ...
— Choice Readings for the Home Circle • Anonymous
... much mutilated by the Muhammadans. 'They are quite a different thing from the others', said a respectable old landholder; 'they are a conversion of real flesh and blood into stone, and no human hands can either imitate or hurt them.' She smiled incredulously, while he looked very grave, and appealed to the whole crowd of spectators assembled, who all testified to the truth of what he had said; and added that 'at no distant day the figures would be all restored to life again, the deities would all come back ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman
... incredulously to my tale of a wolf pack one look at Bob and Danny told him it was true. They had had all they wanted, and we spent an hour working over them. The wagon was a wreck; why the spliced pole had hung together ...
— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones
... "When?" she demanded incredulously, then turned in the saddle, repeating: "Where? Did she pass? How perfectly stupid of me! And was she the—the ...
— The Tracer of Lost Persons • Robert W. Chambers
... that he seemed to dance with fury as he entered the orb of glow from a street-lamp. At each step he brandished his stick and brought it down with a crash. His glasses on their broad pretentious ribbon banged against his stomach. Babbitt incredulously saw that it was ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... Falkenberg smiled incredulously, but he said nothing. Madame Christophor had found her way once more to the window. She stood there, looking down into the car. The boy was still asleep. She gripped the window-curtains with both her hands. He was so pale, so tired, and how he ...
— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... echoed incredulously. For the "Junior Cotillion" was quite the most exclusive and desirable of the city's winter dances for the ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... head, still incredulously. To her it seemed preposterous that these young men and their great leader, all of them rich, probably wellborn, and young, should for no other motive than sport, run the terrible risks, which she knew ...
— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... my dear? ... feeling faint?" asked Mahony incredulously. "If so, you had better wait for the buggy. It won't be long now; you ordered it for ...
— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson
... and equally sombre words were more than Harry could stand, and leaning his head against the giant's shoulder, he laughed incredulously. ...
— A Lover in Homespun - And Other Stories • F. Clifford Smith
... a man that would force him to compromise with his intellect, his education and environment. Then she turned her attention to Eileen, and the shock she received was informing. She studied her an instant incredulously, then she went to her ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter
... Himes and Buckheath drew back and regarded this scene with angry derision. In the carriage below Lydia Sessions, who could hear nothing that was said, stared incredulously, and moved as though to ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke
... up and stared incredulously at Doeninger; but his wife rose, uttering low lamentations, ...
— Andreas Hofer • Lousia Muhlbach
... my room; she's writing to him at this minute——" She broke off, drawing in her breath hard. "Oh, Micky, are you quite, quite sure? I can't believe it." She stared at him for a moment, then she laughed incredulously. "Why, it's only three days ago he sent her that fur coat—and the collar for Charlie. Oh, ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... a clairvoyante at Paris had told Natalie, "Your Majesty is cherishing in your bosom a poisonous snake, which one day will give you a mortal wound." She had smiled incredulously at the warning, but she was soon to learn what truth it held. Certainly Draga Maschin was the last person she would have suspected of being a source of danger—a woman many years older than her son, the penniless widow of a drunken engineer—a woman, moreover, of whose life, before ...
— Love affairs of the Courts of Europe • Thornton Hall
... declaring it would be his duty to act on the part of Augustus, should Augustus be pleased to accept his services. But Mr. Scarborough, almost with tears, implored him to change his purpose. "Why should you set two brothers by the ears?" At this Mr. Grey only shook his head incredulously. "And why ruin the ...
— Mr. Scarborough's Family • Anthony Trollope
... feet, and looked round her incredulously, as if doubting whether she had rightly heard and rightly interpreted my last words. Before I could speak again, she suddenly faced me, and struck her open hand on the table with a passionate resolution which I now saw in her for the ...
— The Two Destinies • Wilkie Collins
... the quarries, he held, whence Solomon derived the gold for the walls of the house of his God, his drinking vessels and his lion throne, but Colonel Gordon, when afterwards told of his scheme, smiled incredulously. As the hot season necessitated a delay of six months, Burton returned to Trieste, where life seemed hum-drum enough after so many excitement, and spangled visions. He spent the time writing a book The Gold Mines ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright
... her hand across her brow and stared at me incredulously. I turned half aside and glanced around the table. Every face but three showed blank amazement. Of those three, the Princess's wore a tolerant smile; Lotzen's a frown; but Courtney's was set in almost a sneer. And, at it, I marvelled. Later, I understood; he had, by some ...
— The Colonel of the Red Huzzars • John Reed Scott
... well open your eyes, and shake your little heads incredulously, but nevertheless it is a positive fact, that Venice, the fair Queen of the Adriatic, sends forth every year no less than three thousand tons of glass beads, for the adornment of your sisters big and little in all the four ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... a moment, watching the setter, then her glance moved back incredulously to me. 'Then ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... smiled incredulously. 'I don't know that I do, quite,' he answered languidly. 'I confess I attach more importance than you do to the mere question of race and family. A thoroughbred differs from a cart-horse, and a greyhound from a vulgar mongrel, in mind and character ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... notion incredulously; for though Kinlay knew the coast very well, yet the idea of his starting with his limited experience as an Orkney pilot was droll to one who, like my uncle, had been all his life at the work, and knew ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton
... Newman have had reasons for his course? we may incredulously ask. And here I revert to my particular state of mind years ago. The question for me was, holding as I did that in Jesus, God had spoken to the world, and that under God he was the Lord, and Saviour, and Judge of men, could I remain standing in such a position? It ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 • Various
... has happened to us," said Mrs. Billette, as the girls stared incredulously. "We've been robbed of some things that money never can replace. Oh-oh-oh, if I had only put it in a safer place! How could I have been such a fool! Oh! oh!" and Mrs. Billette, poor woman, was fast verging on another ...
— The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island - Or, A Cave and What It Contained • Laura Lee Hope
... Trigger's gaze shifted incredulously from the signature to the two words, and back. They'd taken the trouble to get that signature transmitted from Evalee just to make it clear that there were no heads left to be gone over in the matter. Precol was not transferring ...
— Legacy • James H Schmitz
... Personally, I refuse to discuss the matter. Mere dull, stubborn prejudice; bigotry, if you like. I will only remark just this—that Mrs Lawford and I, in our inmost hearts, know. You, my dear Danton, forgive the freedom, merely incredulously grope. Faith versus Reason—that prehistoric Armageddon. Some day, and a day not far distant either, Lawford will come back to us. This—this shutter will be taken down as abruptly as by some inconceivably drowsy ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare
... course, I was such a kid, but it was awfully interesting to hear him and Godfather go on about morals, and the universe, and the future of man, and such—I never heard such talk before or after—but it can't be that one!" Lydia broke off to marvel incredulously at the possibility. "He was—why, he was awfully nice!" she fell back on reiteration ...
— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield
... the squire, incredulously, yet with a wrath in his voice that went far to show that conviction rather than disbelief was his true state of mind. "'T is impossible that British regulars will thieve ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... his eye. A bit of string. He stared at it incredulously. The end was tied into a curious and an individual knot, which looked like it might be the pastime of a sailor, and which looked like it ought to be fairly easy to tie. But it was one of those knots which wandering men sometimes tie absent mindedly in the presence of stirring events. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 • Various
... Rushing forward, he exclaimed: "Dear Queen and lady, I am Horn, thine own true love. Dost thou not recognise me? I am Childe Horn of Westernesse. Take me in thy arms, dear love, and kiss me welcome home." As Rymenhild stared incredulously at him, letting the dagger fall from her trembling hand, he hurriedly cast away his disguise, brushed off the disfiguring stain he had put on his cheeks, and stood up straight and strong, her own noble knight and ...
— Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race • Maud Isabel Ebbutt
... with no fish, stealthily held up one finger in his turn. Trumble replied with a wink, Tappingham nodded, but Crailey slightly shook his head. Marsh and the General started with surprise, and stared incredulously. That Crailey should shake his head! If the signal had been for a church-meeting they ...
— The Two Vanrevels • Booth Tarkington
... "Nine days!" he exclaimed, incredulously. But another look at her assured him that she meant what she said. "I've been sick all the ...
— The Lone Star Ranger • Zane Grey
... at the paper incredulously, then he did something he had never permitted himself before; he wrote in expostulation to ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White
... really mean that there is no charge?" demanded Madge, incredulously, with her purse in ...
— The Great K. & A. Robbery • Paul Liechester Ford
... The chickens chirped incredulously, and passed on. The insulted bird reddened in the wattles with indignation, and strutting up to the patriarch of the entire barn-yard, repeated his assertion. The patriarch nodded gravely, as if the feat were an every-day ...
— Cobwebs From an Empty Skull • Ambrose Bierce (AKA: Dod Grile)
... Te Deum, they had been told that that act was intended to consecrate the surrender of the religion of their ancestors, and the commencement of a frightful revolution, which would end in the destruction of their national existence, almost of their very race, they would have incredulously laughed to scorn the ...
— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud
... side of love, of beauty, of holiness, was now to have its full chance, and that, if either were better, it was better now to be a woman; for even the slightest achievement of good was furthering an especial work of our time. He smiled incredulously. 'She makes the best she can of it,' thought he. 'Let Jews believe the pride of Jewry, but I am of the ...
— Woman in the Ninteenth Century - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition - and Duties, of Woman. • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... smiled incredulously; and as I had nothing particular to do for a couple of hours, I resolved to remain and see the issue. In a few minutes, the sea—breeze came thundering down, in half a gale of wind, singing through the rigging of the ships alongside of the ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
... had crystallized as he talked to Mariel. Shandor's mind was whirling as he walked down toward the thoroughfare. Incredulously, he tried to piece the picture together. He had known Dartmouth Bearing was big—but that big? Mariel might have been talking nonsense, or he might have been reading the Gospel. Shandor hailed a cab, ...
— Bear Trap • Alan Edward Nourse
... he told the story to his mother, who smiled incredulously and said she did not believe it, bidding him say nothing of it to Maude, who was not as well as usual that day. Then he told his father, who started at once for the cottage, where Mrs. Crawford refused to let ...
— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes
... together again," she reflected. "This meeting also will happen, as everything else has happened, and a new period will definitely have begun." And she sat and stared at the closed eyes of the desiccated Sarah Gailey, and waited for the instant of arrival apprehensively and as it were incredulously—not with fear, not with pleasure, but with the foreboding of adventure and a curious idea that the instant of ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett
... the child was not a day over seventeen. I couldn't believe it when she came into the room, with her hair tumbled about her shoulders, and began to read to me the first chapter of 'Zaros.' 'Did she write that?' I asked her mother, incredulously. 'Certainly,' she replied. 'Without aid from any one?' 'Absolutely alone.' My hair stood on end. I could not keep it down for the next week with a brush. You know the story. We printed it, and it sold well, and that is all that C. & S. cared about it; but I never understood how that infant could ...
— A Black Adonis • Linn Boyd Porter
... anything to eat?" said Fillmore incredulously. He supposed in a vague sort of way that there were eccentric people of this sort, but it was hard to realize that he had met ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse
... that you do not intend to give me up?" asked the crumpled man incredulously. He raised his head ...
— Captain Pott's Minister • Francis L. Cooper
... a beam of sun in his eyes. He sat up, staring incredulously around him, and could hardly believe that several hours had passed. The sun was shining into the old ruin through the hanging door. Merry looked over toward the spot where he had last seen his chum, and found that Clancy was ...
— Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail - or, The Fugitive Professor • Burt L. Standish
... looked incredulously down for a moment; then noticing the confiding, whole-hearted air of the child, she sighed and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various
... become of Miss Valery? said the bride, her eyes wandering restlessly around. Other eyes followed hers—Major Harper's. Incredulously these rested on the silent lady in the background, whose whole mien, figure, and attire, in the plain dark dress, and close morning cap, marked her a woman undeniably ...
— Agatha's Husband - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)
... for a moment incredulously. "Dick in love—in love with Viviette?" Then he broke into a peal of laughter. "My dear Katherine! Why, it's absurd! It's ...
— Viviette • William J. Locke
... James asked, incredulously. "Pass the coffee-pot around again, Brownie. If that character there said what I heard him say, this'll make your hair stand straight ...
— The Galaxy Primes • Edward Elmer Smith
... if we remember aright, has smiled incredulously at (p. 132) the story of the fox-skin cap, the belt, and the broadsword. But of the latter appendage this is not the only record. Burns himself mentions it as a frequent accompaniment of his when he ...
— Robert Burns • Principal Shairp
... myself that had come over me when I had seen the other battery. If I could only play my part! If I could fire even a single shot—if I, with my own hands, could do that much against those who had killed my boy! And then, incredulously, I heard the words in my ear. ...
— A Minstrel In France • Harry Lauder
... to go to the theater with you without a chaperone?" inquired Rex incredulously. "This ...
— A Good Samaritan • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
... incredulously. It sounded like a deer. It did not sound in the least like a squirrel. An experienced Indian had pronounced it a deer. Nevertheless it was ...
— The Forest • Stewart Edward White
... estoient entachez, je les vouldrois immoler." Voltaire (Hist. du parlement de Paris, i. 118), citing the substance of this atrocious sentiment from Maimbourg and Daniel, who themselves take it from Mezeray, says incredulously: "Je ne sais ou ces auteurs ont trouve que Francois premier avait prononce ce discours abominable." M. Poirson answers by giving as authority Theodore de Beze (Hist. eccles., i. 13). But on referring to the documentary records ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... incredulously. "Your tale is quite interesting and rather romantic. I presume you yet carry the papers with you as ...
— My Lady of the North • Randall Parrish
... looked closer. Next, to make certain that he was not mistaken, he pinned the picture with a calloused forefinger. "A—a kettle?" he asked incredulously. "Scouts wear ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... "Bunkum!" she remarked incredulously. "Don't try to rag me, Lennie Browne, for it won't come off. As it happens, I asked Toddlekins half an hour ago, and she said there were ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... the commodore incredulously. "It is probably a tattoo mark, the same as all sailors like to deface ...
— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson
... The foreign-looking officer smiled incredulously when this explanation was given, and watched them for some time with obvious suspicion. But the men seemed not to be plotting together, and to be thinking only of their work. If the English were fools enough to do more than they were made to do ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey
... scrawl, one cherished miniature, one faded floweret, etc., etc.? I can't believe it, Cousin," and he shook his head incredulously. ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... did on waking was to look at his watch. He had a dull feeling that he must have slept through the whole night and even the following day. He peered at the hands incredulously and held the watch to his ear to convince himself it had not stopped. No, it was still running. Consequently, since his last waking, only six or, at the utmost, ...
— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann
... "Not in her?" incredulously repeated Bascomb—"Not in her? Then what a plague do the Dons mean by coming off to us at all? Surely I made it plain enough to them all that the surrender of our Captain was the very first article of our ...
— Two Gallant Sons of Devon - A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood
... each other, at Mildrid, at him. "Do you mean her to go home with you?" the father asked incredulously, ...
— The Bridal March; One Day • Bjornstjerne Bjornson
... He heard the incredulously joyful half-whisper, and he felt the pang that comes to all fathers at such a moment. Nell was not going to be only his ever again. He had been enough for her once on a time; yet, here she was, come to womanhood, breaking her ...
— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan
... commissioners had never heard of the first profanation of the ancient reservoir; as a crime, consequently, this repetition was to them original in all its aspects, and they addressed themselves to the inquiry incredulously; but after listening to Sergius, and to the details the little Jewess was able to give them, the occurrence forced itself on their comprehension as more than a crime at law—it took on the proportions and color of a conspiracy against society and religion. Then its ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace
... of astonishment, looked incredulously for a moment at Ned, and then with a cry of delight ...
— By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic • G.A. Henty
... mean by it? All the money there was in the bank, or what?" he asked incredulously, but ready not to be surprised at anything in the ...
— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad
... herself eclipsed at Madame Raynor's soiree by some more brilliant belle—no, no, none of these surmises are true, plausible as they appear! Then what is it? Perhaps—but you will never guess, and you will laugh incredulously when I tell you that poor, poor dear darling Ursula ...
— Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 • Various
... his life. Some gentlemen, whom he frequently met in business relations, knew that he had purchased a young slave, whom he had placed with a French woman to be educated; but had he told them the true state of the case, they would have smiled incredulously. Occasionally, they uttered some joke about the fascination which made him so indifferent to cards and horses; but the reserve with which he received such jests checked conversation on the subject, and all, except ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 7, May, 1858 • Various
... the other with some peevishness in his accents. The violinist looked at him incredulously, while he suffered the point of the fiddle-bow to sink on a line with the floor; then, after a moment's pause, he approached his companion, wearing in his face the while, an appearance of the most grave inquiry, and when sufficiently nigh, he ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms
... ejaculated Lane, incredulously. "Why, mother, she was only a child. Thirteen years old when I left! She'll miss her education. I'll ...
— The Day of the Beast • Zane Grey
... in the calmest voice, the two captains caught their breath and stared at each other. Captain Runacles was the first to recover. He laughed incredulously. ...
— The Blue Pavilions • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... time with a sneering remark, which in her eagerness she didn't notice, or didn't understand. But when he had finished what he had to do, he gave vent to his feelings in a way she did understand,—he laughed incredulously. ...
— The Pilot and his Wife • Jonas Lie
... me to do that?" Max asked, almost incredulously. "And yet—she's your own child, ...
— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson
... too fathomless for words, he knelt there motionless and aghast. She did not speak. And, passing his hand across his eyes as if he felt himself the prey to some delusion, he rose slowly, asking, half incredulously, half imploringly, "Pauline, this ...
— Pauline's Passion and Punishment • Louisa May Alcott
... a baby," said Mr. Lasher, incredulously, as though that were a thing that he never possibly could have been, "my ...
— The Golden Scarecrow • Hugh Walpole
... go to sleep," I said, speaking distinctly and authoritatively; wondering at the time how much power my will would have over her. Did I possess any of that magnetic, tranquillizing influence about which Jack Senior and I had so often laughed incredulously at Guy's? Her lips moved fast; for now my eyes had grown used to the dim light I could see her face plainly, but I could not catch a syllable of what she was whispering so busily ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma • Hesba Stretton
... it be possible to get that many potatoes out of seven acres of ground, Bob?" asked his uncle incredulously. ...
— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson
... effect said every man there, each gently questioned by Carver, and each speaking his mind without fear or force, until at the end the governor turned to the grim old sea-dog who stood looking incredulously on, and with a cheek tinged by ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
... the river bank, pointed out my sled loaded with corn on the ice, and explained to them it had to be brought up the bank. They asked incredulously, "An' kin ye haul that thar slide ...
— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler
... she fiercely, "it can't be." "Why?" "You are the only man who has spent in me for years." "What," said I incredulously, "no one had you?" "No one has spent in me but you for years,—no one." I was staggered, but returned to the subject. "Nonsense Louisa,—how can you tell?" "I've told you why." "Why if you've a husband, and if you have a friend who ...
— My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. - 1888 Edition • Anonymous
... him half incredulously. The very last letter she had received from Sypher had been full of the lust of battle. Septimus ...
— Septimus • William J. Locke |
