"Boathouse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dressed for dinner, but with tingling fingers she threw off her costly gown and put on her dark travelling suit again. She left her hair as it was and knotted a crimson scarf about her head. She would slip away quietly to the boathouse, get Davy to launch the little sailboat for her—and then for a fleet skim over the harbour before that glorious wind! She hoped not to be seen, but Mrs. Cameron met her ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... indifference at Jack MacRae, passed within six feet and walked along the path which ran around the head of the Cove. MacRae watched him. He would cross between the boathouse and the roses in MacRae's dooryard. MacRae had an impulse to stride after him, to forbid harshly any such trespass on MacRae ground. But he smiled at that childishness. It was childish, MacRae knew. But he felt that way about it, just as he often felt that he himself ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... care," snapped Tessie irritably. "I hate it!" They had often walked along the river and tasted of the spring water, but Chuck had never before waxed scientific. They took a boat at Baumann's boathouse and drifted ...
— One Basket • Edna Ferber
... It was so solitary as to be unvisited often for four-and-twenty hours by a living soul. Upon the confined beach were drawn up two or three fishing-lerrets, and a couple of smaller ones, beside them being a rough slipway for launching, and a boathouse of tarred boards. The two lovers united their strength to push the smallest of the boats down the slope, and ...
— The Well-Beloved • Thomas Hardy
... insist," replied Jack, "but it seems to me we have had more than our share of bad luck for one day. First our boat is stolen, then our clothes are locked up. Who would think that that old boathouse man would ...
— The Motor Girls On Cedar Lake - The Hermit of Fern Island • Margaret Penrose
... the mind of those who can appreciate a completely happy adaptation of text to subject and situation, is "The Political 'Mrs. Gummidge'" (May, 1885). Mr. Gladstone, as Mrs. Gummidge, sits in the Peggotty boathouse by the fire, on which a pot of Russian stew is simmering, while her knitting, marked "Egypt," has fallen from her weary hands, and, the very picture of misery, moans out: "I ain't what I could wish to be. My troubles make me contrairy. I feel my troubles, ...
— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann
... have a little boathouse over by the lily corner and make a picnic place here sometime," Thaine said as they sat by the lake in ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter
... laughing merrily. As soon as the race was ended they locked arms to show their good feeling. Then Marley came in with Sandwick at his heels. In deep disgust Peter Slade refused to finish, but circled to one side and hurried to the boathouse, there to take off his ...
— The Rover Boys on the Farm - or Last Days at Putnam Hall • Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)
... screams, they saw Carter come running down toward the boathouse. Looking across the river, he saw the four children frantically waving their hands and ...
— Marjorie's Maytime • Carolyn Wells
... Tom and his father rented a large cottage on the New Jersey seacoast, but, on returning from their treasure-quest they went back to Shopton, leaving the submarine at the boathouse of the shore cottage, which was near the city of Atlantis. That was in the fall of the year, and all that winter the young inventor had been busy on many things, not the least of which was his storage battery. It was now spring, and seeing the item in the paper, about the touring club prize for ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout - or, The Speediest Car on the Road • Victor Appleton
... school boathouse and had their canoes drawn out and put carefully away. Then they separated, for the Lockwood twins did not live on the same street ...
— The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna - or, The Crew That Won • Gertrude W. Morrison
... nine o'clock that evening, and at that hour the gay party took their way to the little boathouse, where they embarked in a small sailboat ...
— Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic • Olive Thorne Miller
... Old Boys, and here was I summoned to take charge of the rudder at the eleventh hour, which of course meant I would have to steer the boat on the occasion of the race! No wonder, then, I was half daft with excitement as I hurried down to the boathouse in obedience to the summons of Blades, the stroke of the ...
— Parkhurst Boys - And Other Stories of School Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... ourselves—and going as far as decency permitted to wash their whole bodies. I may remark by the way that the dirtier people are in their persons the more delicate is their sense of modesty. A clean man strips in a crowded boathouse; but he who is unwashed slinks in and out of bed without uncovering an inch of skin. Lastly, these very foul and malodorous Caucasians entertained the surprising illusion that it was the Chinese waggon, and that alone, which stank. I have said already that it was the exception, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 2 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... left his rowboat in charge of an old boatman named Ike Fairfield, and now he walked down to the boathouse. ...
— Joe The Hotel Boy • Horatio Alger Jr. |
