"Incredulously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... men in the crowd were more or less incredulously repeating that statement, a black-bearded individual—whom I can, at this very moment, still picture with my mind's eye, so vividly did the affair impress me—climbed on to the parapet near us, and called out, "You say ...
— My Days of Adventure - The Fall of France, 1870-71 • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
... him incredulously. "Then we're to vote the stock as they dictate, just on the strength of their telling us they'll pay par for it afterward. I'm afraid it'll be a long time afterward. How do you know they aren't ...
— The Short Line War • Merwin-Webster
... looked incredulously at his pretty sister. "Are you really in earnest, Edith?" he inquired, "or are you laughing ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... happened here?" repeated Sweetheart, incredulously, pointing up at the dark purple mountains of Screel ...
— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... a more amazed man in all Lower California when Jim Kendric rode up to him. Bruce West was out with two of his men driving a herd of young, wild-looking horses down toward the corrals beyond the house. For an instant his blue eyes stared incredulously; then they filled with shining joy. He swept off his broad hat to wave it wildly about his head; he came swooping down on Kendric as though he had a suspicion that his visitor had it in his head to whirl and make a bolt for the mountains; he ...
— Daughter of the Sun - A Tale of Adventure • Jackson Gregory
... Whitney states as the result of many years spent in the investigation of the Tertiary formation of California, that he finds evidence of the existence of man in the Pliocene Age, it is not strange that one part of the scientific world listens incredulously to his statements, and are at once ready to explain away the facts on which he relies. He may, of course, be mistaken, for it is human to err, but his proofs are sufficiently strong to convince some of the best scholars in America. We can do no more than to lay the facts before the reader ...
— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen
... incredulously. The commanding officer didn't understand. He, Rip, held the whip hand, because the lives of the Connie prisoners were in his hands. He repeated what he had ...
— Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet • Blake Savage
... be drafted into the militia?" Mr. Calvin asked incredulously. "That they can shoot us by drumhead court martial if ...
— The Iron Heel • Jack London
... 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 quarters ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... Mitchington. Then he laughed incredulously. "Can't believe it!" he continued. "Mr. ...
— The Paradise Mystery • J. S. Fletcher
... the party were engaged, on his arrival, in hewing columns, each of which was deemed sufficient work for a week; and David was asked somewhat incredulously, by the foreman, ...
— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott
... spoke stiffly, incredulously, her glance going from Worth to the well-gowned, well-groomed woman beside him. I remembered her moment of rebellion yesterday evening on the lawn, when she said so bitterly that if he asked it again, she'd do it again, ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan
... master, the 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 relative ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace
... stuck with a perfectly dandy prediction which has no bearing on the case. It is time enough to pull it after he has told you that he expects to plant peas, beans, beets, corn. Then you can interrupt him and say: "Corn?" incredulously. "You don't expect to get any corn in that soil do you? Don't you know that corn requires a large percentage of bi-carbonate of soda in the soil, and I don't think, from the looks, that there is an ounce of soda bi-carb. in your whole plot. Even ...
— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley
... usually did, and that he had thus obtained the profitable bread contract by which Brazovics usually enriched himself. But that he should have made so large a profit out of it—on that point he shook his head incredulously. Since Timar had risen in the world, and become his own master, Brazovics cultivated the friendship of his former supercargo, and invited him to his evening receptions, which Timar accepted willingly enough. He met Timea there very often, who had already learned ...
— Timar's Two Worlds • Mr Jkai
... boyish figure with wide boyish eyes and a tanned boyish face,—Canute gazed incredulously; rubbed his eyes ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... organized upon a new basis, and that under the sole auspices and moulding hands of this man and his sons will be developed a business whose transactions will be numbered in hundreds of thousands of dollars, would you not have smiled incredulously? And I have lived to see the day when the plantation has passed into new hands, and these hands once wore the fetters of slavery. Mr. Montgomery, the present proprietor by contract of between five and six thousand acres of land, has one of the most interesting families that I ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still
... 'He only smiled—incredulously and sadly,—so that I couldn't find it in my heart to tell him all my mind. I only insisted on my own perfect confidence in you.—I'm afraid I made a poor advocate, Wilfrid. Why should I mind his grey hairs where justice is concerned? ...
— Wilfrid Cumbermede • George MacDonald
... is strange, Sir Aymer, that you, who have lived under The Fell Louis, should not look deeper into the minds of men. St. John's Day is but nine days hence, yet will I wager you ten good rose nobles it brings no coronation with it. I know"—as De Lacy regarded him incredulously—"that the council has so fixed it—that the ceremonies have been arranged—that the provisions for the banquet have been ordered—and that the nobility are gathering from all England, yet none the less will I ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... course, "pretty considerably," astonished at the quality and powers of the persons who addressed him, and, rather incredulously asked if they were quite sure that they could perform all ...
— Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet • Captain Marryat
... him, half incredulously. But the look in Norton's eyes, the same look in Brocky Lane's, ...
— The Bells of San Juan • Jackson Gregory
... If you refuse to love me, I'll blow my miserable brains out." The lady may, by shaking her head incredulously, express a reasonable doubt that the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... shame in the world, the shame of a son for his father, was in that cry. The young man rose from his chair and stood looking at Simon Varr almost incredulously. "You couldn't do that! You couldn't do anything so contemptible! Do what you please to me, but take back that threat before ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston
... you so?" inquired Taquisara, incredulously. "And if any one has told you, why should you believe it? There are several millions on the one side, which Macomer wishes to possess, and there can be nothing on the other but the word of one of the interested persons. You have met her in the world ...
— Taquisara • F. Marion Crawford
... present that did not give credence to this account, but the polluted one of Lady Mar. Jealousy almost laid it bare. She smiled incredulously, and turning to the company, "Our noble friends will accept my apology, if in so delicate an investigation, I should beg that my family ...
— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter
... named the Biblical place of torment. "What yuh quittin' for, Lone?" he added incredulously. "All you boys got a raise last ...
— The Quirt • B.M. Bower
... spoken. "He is a poet," returned the grave-faced traveler; "we have both of us been beyond the sunset to see the lovely Princess who rules that wonderful country, and we left it together on a journey to this world of yours." "Beyond the sunset!" repeated the other, incredulously. "That is the land of shadows; when the world was younger they used to say the old Gods lived there." "Maybe they live there still,' said the traveler, "for the Princess is of their kith and lineage." ...
— Dreams and Dream Stories • Anna (Bonus) Kingsford
... light, dazzling, blinding, and it scared him. He fell back, a hand to his brow. "And that was why you fainted?" he asked incredulously. ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini
... roof above, two young people stood breathing heavily and happily, staring incredulously into each other's eyes. Running toward them across the roofs, stumbling and falling, were many blue-coated, helmeted angels of peace ...
— The Lost House • Richard Harding Davis
... turned round incredulously, feeling that her ears had deceived her. To her astonishment Dermot stood before her. For a few seconds she could not trust herself to reply. She felt that she had grown pale. At last she said, and her voice sounded ...
— The Elephant God • Gordon Casserly
... was as well cooked and well served as though we were seated in a Paris restaurant instead of in a besieged fortress. And the first course was fresh lobster! I told General Dubois that my friends at home would raise their eyebrows incredulously when I told them this, whereupon he took a menu—for they had menus—and across it wrote his name and "Citadel de Verdun," and the date. "Perhaps that will convince them," he said, passing it to me. By this I do ...
— Italy at War and the Allies in the West • E. Alexander Powell
... answered, smiling incredulously, "I may reign, but it shall be a reign of love over this little domestic world of mine. I want my mother and my sweetheart, and want no more. Let them arrive safely this night, and I'll hand over that dream-throne to you!" he answered, going to ...
— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
... 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 one of them. ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse
... needs. I'll take each man's note with five per cent interest and the privilege of renewing for two years if crops fail at the end of the term. I am selfish, I'll admit," he declared, as Virginia looked at him incredulously, "and I want dollar for dollar—always—sometimes more. My people are popularly known as Shylocks. But you note that my rate of usury is small, the time long, and that I want these settlers to stay. I am not trying to get ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter
... Green Farm?" Mrs. Spencer stared incredulously. "Why, I knew old Gregory Gibbs well—and a fine old fellow he was too. And Fred and Roger—why, I knew 'em both. They used to come down into t' town on market days with their dad, and a pair of jolly little lads they were ...
— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes
... story again and again, to satisfy curious questioners during the days that ensued. And when he had finished they would look significantly at one another, and chuckle incredulously. ...
— Down the Ravine • Charles Egbert Craddock (real name: Murfree, Mary Noailles)
... and every one mushy?" cried Beverly, incredulously. "I should think it would be worse than eating a pound ...
— A Dixie School Girl • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... the wood—good, sound, dryer than bones; he pointed to the threatening heavens, and declared that it would snow that night, and on the morrow I could not get wood for twice the present price; but I laughed incredulously. Then my captain took another tack, and tried to make the contract in obsolete currencies, in Austrian pounds, in Venetian pounds, but as I inexorably reduced these into familiar money, he paused desperately, ...
— Venetian Life • W. D. Howells
... Eleanor's lips formed the words incredulously. Then the mere suggestion of outwitting her grandmother and saving Papa Claude by such a master stroke of diplomacy struck her so humorously that she broke into laughter, in ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... withdrawn from the face of heaven, and the setting sun shone gloriously upon a fair and mountainous island, that seemed close at hand. The tempest-tossed mariners rubbed their eyes, and gazed almost incredulously upon this land, that had emerged so suddenly from the murky gloom; yet there it lay, spread out in lovely landscapes; enlivened by villages, and towers, and spires, while the late stormy sea rolled in peaceful billows to its shores. About a league from the sea, on the banks of a river, stood a ...
— Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies • Washington Irving
... have heard, maybe?' he asked incredulously. When I assured him that I had heard her, he pointed out her picture and told me that Vasak had broken her leg, climbing in the Austrian Alps, and would not be able to fill her engagements. He seemed delighted to find that ...
— My Antonia • Willa Cather
... incredulously, looking at the flushed face and shining eyes. "You'll never need to be jealous of anybody in your life Betty Nelson—and especially ...
— The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House • Laura Lee Hope
... I paused incredulously: Phil's lion so often turned out to be Snug the joiner. Phil was my chum at college, and in inviting me home to spend the vacation with him I thought he had fancied the resources of his village larger than they proved. In the two days since we came we had examined ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 • Various
... the duke, smiling incredulously, "and pray what may they be? you must be as expeditious as possible, for his ...
— Snarley-yow - or The Dog Fiend • Frederick Marryat
... moment he stared at me incredulously. 'Impossible! you must have been deceived,' ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... remarked his 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 at the cards. ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx
... side, the 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 better ...
— Woman in the Ninteenth Century - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition - and Duties, of Woman. • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... incredulously. Good Heavens! There was a man there. He was sitting on the edge of the hammock in a dejected attitude, his booted ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers
... said incredulously, nevertheless, turning pale. "Mr. Davenport is surely not as bad as ...
— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell
... double fruit. Avoid the evil garden where died the man with two heads." Yet, while these shameful symbolic shapes passed across the ancient mirror of his Irish soul, his Frenchified intellect was quite alert, and was watching the odd priest as closely and incredulously ...
— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... Generals Clement Thomas and Lecomte is openly regretted; but those who repeat that the Central Committee declares having had nothing to do with it, are listened to with patience. The rumour that they were shot by soldiers gains ground, and seems less incredulously received. As to the massacres of the Rue de la Paix, we are told that this event is enveloped in mystery, that the evidence is most contradictory, etc., etc.[22] There is evidently a decided reactionary movement in favour of the partizans of the Commune. Without approving their acts their ...
— Paris under the Commune • John Leighton
... asked Sir John, incredulously, "why have you never told this story before? It seems incredible that you should have ...
— Coralie • Charlotte M. Braeme
... Vicar, and drank off his coffee at a gulp, eyes steadfast on the paper, and smacked his lips incredulously. ...
— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells
... smiled incredulously. "Your tale is quite interesting and rather romantic. I presume you yet carry the papers with you ...
— My Lady of the North • Randall Parrish
... Antonina looked incredulously on the ruins of the beloved companion, which was the centre of all her happiest expectations for future days. Then, as she began to estimate the reality of her deprivation, her eyes lost all their heaven-born brightness, ...
— Antonina • Wilkie Collins
... the setter, then her glance moved back incredulously to me. 'Then what excites Jerry?' ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... heard to say incredulously, "Not at home?" Then he retired slowly, and did not leave the neighborhood. He had called at an hour when ...
— Put Yourself in His Place • Charles Reade
... incredulously, but defiantly at fate. "I would have accepted it," said he, "had I been sure life with her had been hard as millstones! My love is of the perverse kind, not to be transmuted by any ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... feet incredulously. There was a moment of waiting so tense that the very trees seemed to cease their moaning to listen. In all the room there was no sound. The struggling breath had ceased. The old physician had been correct—he had achieved the thing he had set himself to do. He had ...
— The Precipice • Elia Wilkinson Peattie
... 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 went ...
— Robert Burns • Principal Shairp
... Pharisees had brought in with the prisoner, startled by that word, sprang back, repeating incredulously, "Die!" ...
— King of the Jews - A story of Christ's last days on Earth • William T. Stead
... 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 ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 • Various
... the amazed crowd could realize what was happening, before even Hrihor could control the surprise that raised his brows incredulously, the palm in which the blade was implanted slowly retraced its course and returned to its ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various
... said incredulously. "Then how does it happen that you are here? You couldn't possibly ride to Lazette and return ...
— The Trail to Yesterday • Charles Alden Seltzer
... the astronomer, smiling incredulously. "The idea of signalling has got into people's heads through the outcry raised about it some time ago, when Mars was in 'opposition' and near the earth. I suppose you are thinking of the plan for raising and lowering ...
— A Trip to Venus • John Munro
... other folk would stare too. So for a full moment the situation rested—there stood Mrs. Mallett, resolute and unmoved, in the box, with every eye in the crowded court fixed full upon her, and Meeking still gazing at her intently—and, of set purpose, half-incredulously. There was something intentionally sceptical, cynical, in his tone when, ...
— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
... chief had listened somewhat incredulously to what Everman had been enabled to learn in the few minutes' conversation which he enjoyed with Tom Nelson, he was overwhelmed with surprise at the rapid success he had met with, and he readily proffered all the assistance in ...
— The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives • Allan Pinkerton
... 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, ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms
... Hound went first with a defiant expression about his tail. That expression cost him dear. Inside the gate there stood a large vulgar dog, without a tail to speak of. Its parting was crooked, its hair was in its eyes. All these personal disadvantages the Family had time to note, while the dog gazed incredulously at ...
— This Is the End • Stella Benson
... delighted. She had more than once fancied that there existed some sort of misunderstanding between Lutchkov and her, that he had not hitherto had a chance of revealing himself. Lutchkov mentioned the cause of Kister's absence; the parents expressed their regret, but Masha looked incredulously at Avdey, and felt faint with expectation. After dinner they were left alone; Masha did not know what to say, she sat down to the piano; her fingers flitted hurriedly and tremblingly over the keys; she was continually stopping and waiting for the first word... Lutchkov ...
— The Jew And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... incredulously,—his face crimsoned with a sudden rush of enraged blood and then paled again, and changing his former insolent tone for one both fawning ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... could look out of that dog's head than of any other I ever saw, whether of dog or man. And though you may not credit it, yet, as true as I sit here, I have seen those eyes weep as large and honest tears as ever fell in sorrow from human orbs. "Laugh, too?" You put that question incredulously, do you? Well, you needn't, for the dog could laugh. "With his tail?" No, any dog can do that, but he could laugh with his mouth. Why, sir, I have seen him sit bolt upright on his haunches there by that post, lean his back against it, and laugh so heartily that his mouth would open ...
— How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's - And Other Stories • W. H. H. Murray
... moment Brent listened incredulously, then sat back in his chair and laughed skeptically. But even Flint recognized that there was a ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey
... He looked up incredulously. I related my experiences as briefly as possible, and when I came to the part where I made my flying tackle, the gloom was swept from his face by a joyful smile. Buck's injury may have given its recipient pain, but it was certainly the cause of pleasure ...
— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse
... Blake sniffed incredulously. A messenger handed a couple of telegrams to the chief. He read them with knitted brows ...
— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen
... The Pony Express got through at last!" announced Nick, incredulously; and so saying he took up the whisky bottle and glasses which lay on the teacher's desk and dashed into the saloon. He had barely left, however, than The Pony Express, muffled up to his ears and ...
— The Girl of the Golden West • David Belasco
... 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 ...
— Mr. Scarborough's Family • Anthony Trollope
... and she leaned back against the lintel of the door, staring at him incredulously. "Charity!" she echoed, ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington
... clever!" said Redding, almost incredulously, as he examined the fence and sidewalk. "How old ...
— Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch • Alice Caldwell Hegan
... Wallis, wonderingly. "Glory! Me!" and turned incredulously toward the glass. She looked a long tune wistfully at herself, as if she could not believe it, and pulled reproachfully at the tight hair drawn away from her weather-beaten face. "I useta have purty ...
— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill
... West Point," he repeated, incredulously, "all the way to Honduras—to join me!" He turned to the two officers. "Did he tell ...
— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis
... at it curiously. "Oh, it isn't possible that you are that Miss Holland, the Miss Holland!" she said incredulously. ...
— An American Suffragette • Isaac N. Stevens
... hope that?" he laughed incredulously. "Don't hope it too fast. See here, Boy, are you real? Come here and let me see." He held out ...
— The Twenty-Fourth of June • Grace S. Richmond
... stopped to read the news on the Telegram bulletin board. I said to my friend, with surprise, 'There is the fellow I told you about—the one that beat me this morning in getting the position at Goldwin's.' He looked at me incredulously and said: 'Why, you told me he was ...
— The Boy Broker - Among the Kings of Wall Street • Frank A. Munsey
... of him!" Dickey exclaimed incredulously. Dickey was really surprised, for the old man, so far as he could judge from that distance, wore an extremely mild and kindly look. "Why do you have to ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) • Various
... "Watched?" he cried incredulously. "Oh, fool that I am! I might have known. And I have subjected you to—to—don't tell me that harsh things have been said to you, Miss ...
— Beverly of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... shook her head 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. Every morning Tiger and Tom stood faithfully in the market place with their baskets, and never gave ...
— Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys • Various
... large or small, is shocked at the first attempt to wear one of a different size; and turns from the contemplation of the image presented in the glass with any thing but self-complacency, listening incredulously to the flattering encomiums of the not disinterested marchand de modes, who avers that "Ce chapeau sied parfaitement a Madame la Comtesse, et ce bonnet lui va ...
— The Idler in France • Marguerite Gardiner
... you ought not to have asked that so incredulously,' she murmured. 'We can be near each other in spirit, when our bodies are far apart, can we not?' Her tone grew softer and she drew a little closer to his side with a slightly nestling motion, as she went on, 'May I be sure ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... dear chap?" I asked incredulously. Here was Dennis Burnham, who had put up a record for the mile in our school days, and lifted the public school's middle-weight pot, a champion swimmer, a massive young man of six-foot-two in his ...
— The Mystery of the Green Ray • William Le Queux
... shaking my head incredulously. But though at first I was unbelieving I had to yield to the evidence ...
— A Journey to the Interior of the Earth • Jules Verne
... they find how lovely and pleasant this wicked world is, and eke that men and women are God's fairest creatures. Margaret was always fair, but never to my eye so bright as now." Margaret shook her head incredulously, Gerard continued, "My mother was ever good and kind, but I noted not her exceeding comeliness ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... the listener incredulously. 'You do not know him. He is the staunchest and frankest of friends. He knows of my love; we have talked from ...
— Veranilda • George Gissing
... lean faced, spare man with bushy hair and an incisive eye, looked at him curiously and almost incredulously but without pausing. He had, somehow, in spite of himself, been impressed by the boy's peculiar eye; and now he felt, without knowing why, that the offer was probably legitimate enough, and that the boy had the money. He might be ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser
... wreck of Harman, these husks and shreds of a man, down here for Louise to see?" Ward cried incredulously. "Oh, monstrous!" ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington
... chink, chink—twenty-five chinks—a rap on the writing-table, and a grunt from the owner of the stout legs. It dawned upon Mr. Ledbetter that this chinking was the chinking of gold. He became incredulously curious as it went on. His curiosity grew. Already, if that was the case, this extraordinary man must have counted some hundreds of pounds. At last Mr. Ledbetter could resist it no longer, and he began very cautiously to fold his arms and lower his head to the level of the floor, in the ...
— Twelve Stories and a Dream • H. G. Wells
... the chase, and with our telescopes could almost distinguish the faces of those on board, when I observed Abraham Jones, the new second mate of the Foam, hurry aft to the captain with a face pale as a ghost. Hawk laughed and shook his head incredulously. Jones seemed from his manner to be insisting that he was right, for I did not hear what he said. Still we stood on till the chase was within the distance of half the range of our guns. I was again aft. "Hoist our bunting to make him show his colours," I heard Hawk say; "and give him ...
— Peter the Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston
... mind to be thought unprecedentedly stupid. Glancing over her exercise, I found that several lines had been omitted, but what was written contained very few faults; I instantly inscribed "Bon" at the bottom of the page, and returned it to her; she smiled, at first incredulously, then as if reassured, but did not lift her eyes; she could look at me, it seemed, when perplexed and bewildered, but not when gratified; ...
— The Professor • (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell
... minutes he began to haul in the net; first, the boys hauled in the rope, and then the net began to approach the surface. Flucker looked anxiously down, the other lads incredulously; suddenly they all gave a yell of triumph—an appearance of silver and lightning mixed had glanced up from the bottom; in came the first two yards of the net—there were three herrings in it. These three proved Flucker's point as well ...
— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade
... Bill, incredulously. "Don't you be scared, old man, but keep on stirring your soup and turning the meat, and I'll keep my eye ...
— Holiday Tales - Christmas in the Adirondacks • W. H. H. Murray
... say," he asked, "that you have a paper signed by the Republic agreeing to pay 300,000 francs to Kalonay? Then how are we to get it?" he demanded, incredulously. "From him?" ...
— The King's Jackal • Richard Harding Davis
... said Joe incredulously. "I know youz guys, y'll put one over, that's what y'll do. Wat'd'yer mean, constute—con—authorities? Yes yer ...
— Pee-Wee Harris Adrift • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... his eyebrows incredulously. As they left the city, the bells of all the churches were tolling for the martyred Archbishop. And not for him alone was there mourning and lamentation through the city: death and agony were everywhere; in some of the streets, each house was a hospital, and many a groan and ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... and stalked incredulously and wrathfully out, Jack and Mary behind him; and Mrs. De Peyster was left alone in the bosom of her family. Mr. Pyecroft sat silent on the foot of the bed for a space, grave but composed, gazing at a particular scale of the flaking kalsomine. Then he remarked something about its having ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott
... at her side. Presently the little wooden jetty came into view once more. It bore a curiously bare, deserted aspect, the waves riding and falling sluggishly on either side of its black, tarred planking, Sara stared at it incredulously, then an exclamation of sheer dismay burst from ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler
... exclaimed I incredulously. "No wonder that they consider the vessel capable of making her ...
— The Log of a Privateersman • Harry Collingwood
... the letters to Cecil Holsworthy. He read them through, half incredulously at first; he was too honest-natured himself to believe in the possibility of such double-dealing—that one could have innocent eyes and golden hair and yet be a trickster. He read them twice; then he compared ...
— Hilda Wade - A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose • Grant Allen
... "Nigger," he declared incredulously, "you talk foolishness! A mile away those dam Tennessee constables would be able to see a plain barrel which ain't got no paint on it at all, and now you tell me I should paint a barrel so blue as the ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... heads incredulously. The Yankee took us both by the arm, led us out of the blockhouse, and through the stockade to a grassy ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various
... again, beneath the stars. All the fear and stress of our flight through the dim passages and fissures below had fallen from us. That last fight had filled us with an enormous confidence in ourselves so far as the Selenites were concerned. We looked back almost incredulously at the black opening from which we had just emerged. Down there it was, in a blue glow that now in our memories seemed the next thing to absolute darkness, we had met with things like mad mockeries of men, helmet-headed creatures, and had ...
— The First Men In The Moon • H. G. Wells
... incredulously. Haney looked solemnly at him. The Chief regarded Joe thoughtfully out of the corner of his eye. Then Mike shouted gleefully. The Chief blinked, and a moment later grunted wrathful unintelligible syllables of Mohawk, and then tried to pound Joe on the back and because of his want of ...
— Space Tug • Murray Leinster
... would recount the adventures of my sea-faring life, which seemed to have a peculiar flavor for this child of the wilderness, who now gazed for the first time on the ocean. Among other things, I strove to convince him of the world's rotundity; but, to the last, he smiled incredulously at my daring assertion, and closed the argument by asking me to prove it from the Koran? He allowed me the honors due a traveller and "book-man;" but a mind that had swallowed, digested, and remembered every text of Mahomet's volume, was not to be deceived by such idle fantasies. He ...
— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer
... If he listened 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 to the Halfway I don't know, but it had; and I let the smell ...
— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones
... modify, improve, perfect. In this I know we are of one mind, that though the ideal we all of us hold be never reached during our lives, we shall continue to work successfully for its realisation. Utopia itself is but another word for time; and some day the masses, who now heed us not, or smile incredulously at our proceedings, will awake to our conceptions. Then our knowledge, like light rapidly conveyed from one torch to another, will bury us ...
— Hygeia, a City of Health • Benjamin Ward Richardson
... we sat under a large silk-cotton tree silently eating supper off plates of palm leaves, the old chief suddenly threw down his meat, and, with a startled expression, said, "I hear spirits!" Never having heard such ethereal visitors myself, I smiled incredulously, whereupon the old savage glared at me, and, leaving his food upon the ground went away out of the firelight into the darkness. Afraid that he might take one of the horses and return to his people, I followed to soothe him, but his offended mood did not pass until, as he said, ...
— Through Five Republics on Horseback • G. Whitfield Ray
... sidewalk in front of the Palace, the while he chewed tobacco absent-mindedly. There was something very much on his mind, so that it was by chance alone that his eye lit on a new tin sign tacked to the wall. He squinted at it incredulously. His mind digested the information it contained while ...
— The Sheriff's Son • William MacLeod Raine
... it seemed impossible that Abram should have issue through his wife Sarah, she being ninety years of age, and he ninety-nine or one hundred. The very idea of so strange a thing caused Sarah to laugh incredulously, and it is recorded in the seventeenth chapter of Genesis that Abram also fell on his face and laughed, saying in his heart, "Shall a son be born unto him that is one hundred years old?" Evidently he at ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume II • John Lord
... with them to 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 ...
— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler
... a moment; then he smiled bitterly and incredulously. It seemed too monstrous and absurd that Camilla should have betrothed herself to this forbidding, ugly, ...
— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett
... he whispered. He voiced other expletives, too, even more forcefully indicative of surprise. He was not an imaginative man; it did not occur to him to doubt his sanity or to wonder if he were awake, nevertheless he opened one of the pokes and incredulously examined its contents. "I'm dam' if it ain't!" he said, finally. "I should reckon they was ready to quit. Argentine! Why, Jack'll bust the bottom out of a boat if he takes this with him. He'll drown a lot of innocent people." Mr. Hyde shook his head and smiled pityingly. "It ain't safe ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... out of her chair and stood a moment staring coldly and contemptuously at him. Then she was gone, leaving Patten watching her departure incredulously. ...
— The Bells of San Juan • Jackson Gregory
... really think the ball has gone off well?" she asked incredulously. "It seems to me to have been an elaborate failure." She was thinking of those two whom she had surprised tete-a-tete in the balcony, and wondering what George Fairfax could have been saying to produce Clarissa's confusion. Clarissa was her protegee, and she ...
— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon
... 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 meets you, how ...
— My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. - 1888 Edition • Anonymous
... I worthy to be entrusted with such a holy undertaking?" Oomah asked incredulously, holding ...
— The Black Phantom • Leo Edward Miller
... "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
... overboard," cried Billy, incredulously. "Oh, get out, Bill! What do you think I am—an ...
— The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest • Captain Wilbur Lawton
... 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, I'm sure it's ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... be—" The fisherman checked himself and gazed at his companion as if he saw him suddenly in a new light; in fact, he had discovered many strange phases of this young man's character during the past fortnight. "Right along?" he questioned, incredulously. ...
— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach
... Hampton stared incredulously at his questioner, crushing his cigar between his teeth. Twice he started to speak, but literally choked back the bitter words burning his lips, while an uncontrollable admiration for the other's boldness began to ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish
... cried Griffin, incredulously; "I should have thought you must have made double that sum ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth
... it incredulously, when Sunnysides suddenly resolved all doubts. From behind a projecting rock the horse came out on one of the many rough ledges that had been formed by lateral cleavage of the cliff in its fall. Hesitating a moment there, he plunged down a short declivity, and landed sprawling on another shelf ...
— The Heart of Thunder Mountain • Edfrid A. Bingham
... a gentleman who had a mother and sisters, should need such a lesson from a woman like Peggy," said Harriett, incredulously. ...
— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence
... to say that quite easily, and smile incredulously at his answer; but in spite of the coquettish little rose-colored hood she wore, and which she knew was very becoming, she did not look or speak gayly, and Tom saw something in the altered face that made him say hastily, ...
— An Old-fashioned Girl • Louisa May Alcott
... will plant the corn and cut the wheat, too," said Kate, with the pluck of a true Canadian girl. "We'll soon learn to wield the sickle, though you seem to doubt it, Captain Villiers," she went on, looking archly at the gallant captain, who smiled rather incredulously. ...
— Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher • William Henry Withrow
... "Bretelles?" he repeated as incredulously as if he had possessed any but the vaguest idea of the article the word described. "Why didn't she wait until she was married, and then I'd have bought them for ...
— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow
... asked Steve incredulously. "Oh, you run away and play, Tom! What would he be doing here? Don't be ...
— Left End Edwards • Ralph Henry Barbour
... repeated the suave Whipple incredulously. "You do amaze me, Juliana! Not a girl, with those flower-like features, those starry eyes, that feminine allure? Preposterous! And yet, if he is not a girl he is, I take it, ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... incredulously. "You do not know all," he murmured. He shrank from telling her of the marks on her father's arm. "I know Thalassa," she eagerly replied. "He would tell me if he thought it ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees
... looked incredulously up, then down again, in a shamefaced, uncomfortable way, then held out her hand, and kissed Christian, while two tears—only two—gathered and ...
— Christian's Mistake • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... 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 to ...
— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield
... forgotten—Mr. Woodhams, bank manager. When he stated that Mr. Maloney, the junior counsel for the Crown, had inspected Mr. Bradlaugh's banking account, a murmur of surprise and indignation ran round the court. "Oh! Oh!" was heard from the crowd of barristers behind. The judge looked down incredulously, and for a moment the examination was stopped by the general movement. Unless Sir Hardinge Giffard is a splendid actor, he was not aware of the infamous proceeding, for he looked as startled as the rest ...
— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant
... "Enough of joking!" incredulously retorted Lichonin. "Then what compels you to pass days and nights here? Were you a writer—it would be a different matter. It's easy to find an explanation; well, you're gathering types or something ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... Hawkehurst, some evil rumour about him should float as far eastward as the Stock Exchange, who would be found to give credence to the dark report? Men would shrug their shoulders and shake their heads incredulously; and one of these wise men of the east would remark that, "A fellow in Sheldon's position doesn't do that kind of thing, you know;" while another would say, "I dined with him at Greenwich last summer, and a remarkably good dinner he gave us. Dawkins, the great shipbuilder, and M'Pherson, of M'Pherson ...
— Charlotte's Inheritance • M. E. Braddon
... anything is wrong?" Hayes asked incredulously. He was having the same trouble facing the ...
— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton
... me that people never knew about sugar until then?" inquired Van incredulously, halting in the middle ...
— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett |
