"Tartly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Do?" she retorted tartly. "What would I do in a boarding-house? Look for rooms for us, of course, and inquire about the other lodgers to be sure it's respectable for a decent, middle-aged, married couple. Do you think I'm goin' lookin' for a long-lost son? The life must be gettin' ...
— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
... up my mind," said Marilla rather tartly. "I don't rush into things in your headlong way, Anne. Third cousinship is a pretty slim claim. And it will be a fearful responsibility to have two children of six years to look after . . . ...
— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... swords that flashed above our Margaret's cradle; for a Methodist mother in Israel, hopeful of a sympathetic response from Elsie M'Phatter (the non-churchgoing one), ventured the comment that similar events in her own brilliant maternal record had provoked no unseemly joy; to which Elsie responded tartly— ...
— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles
... Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON. 'I have looked into it.' 'What, (said Elphinston,) have you not read it through?' Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, 'No, Sir, do ...
— Life of Johnson - Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood • James Boswell
... it's mostly nonsense," returned the woman tartly, "a big expense and a sight of work for nothing. And now permit me ...
— Romance Island • Zona Gale
... the bold-eyed young man with disfavour. "Well, you're not expecting her to come out to you, are you?" she retorted tartly. ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... clown in the ring, but not in the dressing room," said he, tartly. "I want my pay, or I ...
— The Rover Boys on the River - The Search for the Missing Houseboat • Arthur Winfield
... was the Yellow Peril, instead of one of your much-vaunted steeds," I remarked tartly, "I could go at him with a wrench and have him in working order again in five minutes; as it is—" I felt that ...
— The Range Dwellers • B. M. Bower
... he began!" said the old lady, tartly. "He couldn't foresee that she was going to be, could he? If he had he might have asked your permission. She preferred George Jaquith, naturally. Women mostly prefer a handsome scamp. Not that Homer ever looked like anything but a sheep. ...
— Mrs. Tree • Laura E. Richards
... my story when we are beyond danger," I returned tartly, annoyed by his awkwardness. "If you utter another word before we are around yonder headland, I will have De Noyan ...
— Prisoners of Chance - The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, - through His Love for a Lady of France • Randall Parrish
... that piquant employment of juxtaposition and contrast which made every issue of "A Line-o'-Type or Two" a work of art in its way. But no arrangement of items from that source could becloud the essential nature of its Conductor: though "The So-Called Human Race" sometimes plays rather tartly and impatiently with men's follies and shortcomings, it clearly and constantly exhibits a sunny, alert and airy spirit to whom all things human made their ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... applied for guns or a license," the collector answered tartly. "It's people who want to carry firearms—people able and likely to make trouble whom ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy
... prepared for bed. O'Hana listened as the rain dashed in streams against the amado, as if trying to break its way in. She gave a little chuckle—"Who would have thought it!"—"What?" asked Iemon, perhaps a little tartly. He was nervous. O'Hana laughed—"That Iemon and this Hana should be where they now are. Their parting was on a night like this. Ah! At seeing a man weep Hana could have retired into a cave—forever. Only the fortunate accident ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... would not steal!" said Mrs. Bangs, tartly. She looked meaningly at Jack. "I presume you and your family are very bitter against us now," she ...
— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.
... tossed her head. "No," she added tartly, a trifle ruffled by what the low-spoken exclamation so plainly implied. "If you must know, it fell out ...
— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... to Cheiro, either," tartly. "Hold your palm steady so that I can see more clearly. It's ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... tartly, leaving his seat. "I'll do it. I know I'm a liar, I guess, but that won't hurt ...
— From the Car Behind • Eleanor M. Ingram
... replied Jack tartly, 'you do,' adding, in an undertone, 'leave it to me, man, and I'll let you in for a good thing. Yes, Mr. Sponge,' continued he, addressing himself to our hero, 'Mr. Pacey fancies the chestnut and ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... for both the friends. Mrs. Thrale lost a younger daughter, and Johnson had a paralytic stroke in June. Death was sending preliminary warnings. A correspondence was kept up, which implies that the old terms were not ostensibly broken. Mrs. Thrale speaks tartly more than once; and Johnson's letters go into medical details with his customary plainness of speech, and he occasionally indulges in laments over the supposed change in her feelings. The gloom is thickening, and the old playful gallantry has died out. The ...
— Samuel Johnson • Leslie Stephen
... does Dad, and so do we all, but we can't get it," replied Beatrice rather tartly. "We have to make up our minds to go without. You're no worse off than ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil
... then, this section should have a little enterprise shaken into it," said Whittaker, tartly. This promised opposition promptly fired his ...
— The Rainy Day Railroad War • Holman Day
... a trifle tartly, for after the vicissitudes of her life it was but natural that she should hesitate to regard so stable an institution as the Dinwiddie Bank as something to be "stood." "Why, I thought a young man couldn't do better than get a place in the bank. Jinny's father ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... tartly. "When I marry Athalia, I intend to have an old-fashioned home and a Black Age family. I don't relish ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... an ugly word," tartly cried Mrs. Goddard, who began to find the tax upon her patience almost greater than ...
— The Masked Bridal • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... and again complained to his wife. Laughing at his irritability she observed tartly that he evidently did not know how to keep up his own dignity; and that with her, anyway, "the boy" had never permitted himself any undue familiarity, "he was naive and fresh indeed, though not regardful of the conventions of society." Von Lembke sulked. ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... what is more strange still, is that he from the first seemed to know it; and despite a caution which I could see he always kept uppermost in his thoughts, he could not help speaking tartly to ...
— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest
... at home, to say, 'Well, mon cher collegue' (here Blake would visibly writhe, to the equally apparent delight of the intruder), 'I have called for you to come for a walk with me.' 'My good sir,' Blake would tartly reply, 'I have work here that will keep me for the next two hours.' 'But it will be dark then,' objected the caller. 'Well, my good {106} sir,' was the retort, 'we can walk in the dark, I suppose'—which Blake would ...
— The Day of Sir John Macdonald - A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion • Joseph Pope
... to head-quarters," he replied rather tartly; "and you may thank the good God that it is so; for, whatever may be your mode of death, you may accept my assurance that it will not be anything like so protracted or unpleasant as that which awaited you ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood
... really too much," thought Mr. Brookes; and had it not been for the certain knowledge that Berkins had lately increased his income by a couple of thousands a year, he would have answered him tartly enough; but as this fact admitted of no doubt he bridled his anger and said: "If you could put my boy right it would be more to the point. He has all the method of the best clerk in London; he loves the work, he would do honour to any office, but on his own ...
— Spring Days • George Moore
... a silence, during which Mrs. Ballinger, with a perfunctory hand, rearranged the skilfully grouped literature at which her distinguished guest had not so much as glanced; then Miss Van Vluyck tartly pronounced: "Well, I can't say that I consider Osric Dane's departure a ...
— Xingu - 1916 • Edith Wharton
... "It's me," responded Betty tartly, in reply to the first question, while she dismissed the second with an equally curt ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
... fencing, or afraid, perhaps, that I might be deceived by his suavity, the girl cut in tartly: ...
— The Pirate of Panama - A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure • William MacLeod Raine
... up in another guess way," said Nicholas, tartly, "than wi' scraps and scrapings fro' gallipots, ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... replied tartly, and Doggie felt snubbed. "But I'm sure he agrees with everything I say." She paused and, in a different tone, went on: "Don't you think it's rather rotten to have this piffling argument when I've come all this long ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke
... who have neither feeling nor imagination enough to care for anything not transmutable into dollars, perhaps it has," I rejoined, somewhat tartly. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... Angy somewhat tartly retorted, that during the last week she had spent even more time upon Father's wardrobe than she had upon her own; while Abe inwardly rejoiced to think that for seven days to come—seven whole days—he and Angy would be free from the surveillance ...
— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund
... your sherry; it is about to be appreciated," said the deserted beauty, tartly, as ...
— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay
... woman, tartly. "Them Days never did have right good sense—yer uncle an' aunt, I mean. When I was a gal we wouldn't have been allowed to have so much freedom where the young ...
— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long
... said Mrs. Hardy, tartly. "I have no relish for them. And as for your defence of cow punchers, I prefer gentlemen. Why Irene should wish to throw herself away when there are ...
— The Cow Puncher • Robert J. C. Stead
... thought that this was an innuendo reflecting upon any portion of her own life, I cannot tell; but she replied very tartly. ...
— Percival Keene • Frederick Marryat
... let me get back to my book, Louisa," exclaimed Mr. Griswold, tartly, at the mention of the word "novel," beginning to look longingly at his deserted steamer chair, "for it's precious little time I get to read on shore. Seems as if I might have a ...
— Five Little Peppers Abroad • Margaret Sidney
... that Mr. de Barral was his cousin. He hastened to add that he had not seen his cousin for many years, while he looked upon Fyne (who received him alone) with so much distrust that Fyne felt hurt (the person actually refusing at first the chair offered to him) and retorted tartly that he, for his part, had never seen Mr. de Barral, in his life, and that, since the visitor did not want to sit down, he, Fyne, begged him to state his business as shortly as possible. The man in black sat down then with a faint ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... wear coats of a hevening nowadays?" asked Miss Sellars, tartly, of the lank young man. "New ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... 'long!" said Mrs. Douglass, "I know all about it. Now do you s'pose you're agoing to be any happier among all those great folks than you would be if you staid among little folks?" she added tartly; while Catherine looked with a kind of incredulous admiration at ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... his Will to the offices of the New Colliery Company, and sat down in the empty Board Room to read it through. He answered 'Down-by-the-starn' Hemmings so tartly when the latter, seeing his Chairman seated there, entered with the new Superintendent's first report, that the Secretary withdrew with regretful dignity; and sending for the transfer clerk, blew him up till the poor youth ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... at him for a moment, his eyes holding sparks of indignation. "Young man," he said tartly, "you should hear Cap'n Am'zon himself tell it. You wouldn't cast no doubts upon ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper
... never saw ye, then," said his wife tartly. "And to imagine that a lady like Miss Plinlimmon would concern herself with your deboshes! But you'd lower the King on ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... to do is to look at yourself now," retorted Mr. Button somewhat tartly. "You're soaked, you're dripping from your head ...
— Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat • Ross Kay
... the law-courts," the deputy public prosecutor replied tartly; "and besides, we know ...
— The Collection of Antiquities • Honore de Balzac
... that I was not called Diogenes?" I asked tartly, suspecting, perhaps not without cause, that Ayesha was amusing herself ...
— Ayesha - The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed • H. Rider Haggard
... that may be seen,' said he, patting her, and wheezed up from his chair to waddle across to the Dragon. But Aunt Lisbeth tartly turned the ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... disposed of, the lady again sat down upon her stool, and ordered her slave to open the gate. Upon her husband's entering the room he was surprised at beholding things set out for an entertainment, and inquired who had been with her; when she replied tartly, "A lover." "And where is he now?" angrily replied the officer. "In yonder chamber, and if you please you may sacrifice him to your fury, and myself afterwards." The officer demanded the key, which she gave him; but while this was ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments vol. 4 • Anon.
... to reply tartly, but I remembered how my irritation with Capito had affected me and recalled Galen's injunction that I must avoid all causes of excitement and emotion. I held ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White
... forward to success, great benefit to Cocksmoor, and plenty of management, with credit and praise to herself; the other, downcast and irritable, with annoyance at the interference with her schemes, at the prospects of her school, and at herself for being out of temper, prone to murmur or to reply tartly, and not able to recover from her mood, but only, as she neared the house, lapsing into her other trouble, and preparing to resist any misjudged, though kind attempt of her father, to make her unsay ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... know," Sarah rejoined, a bit tartly. Truth to tell, the secretary was haunted by a grim suspicion that she herself was not quite the lady of her dreams, and never would be able to acquire the graces of the Vere De Vere. For Sarah, while a most efficient secretary, was not in her person of that slender elegance ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... liked to," reflected Nell, as she tartly replied: "A war of the sex without me? It was stupid, then. The Duchess missed ...
— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.
... thinking were true, you'd have a right to be," I replied tartly. "And I want to tell you I'D be ...
— The Metal Monster • A. Merritt
... business, and make your own bargains," returned the old woman, tartly. "The devil himself could not deal with you, for I guess he would have the worst of it. What do you say, sir?" and she fixed her keen eyes upon my husband, as if she would read his thoughts. "Will ...
— Roughing it in the Bush • Susanna Moodie
... will bear me out in the statement, sir, though I am quite willing that my word should stand by itself," retorted the commissary, tartly. "Nor am I in the habit of having it questioned by ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... remembered anything in his life," said his mother tartly. "Those trunks ought to be here before I leave ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... said Miss Ethel, tartly, pressing her hand to her forehead. "And I'm going to see if the men really have left ...
— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose
... very often it doesn't," retorted Molly, a trifle tartly, for the sermon had bored her and she looked forward with dread ...
— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow
... sir," she answered tartly, "so long as they don't mind eating after their betters. And as for your man Priske, I saw him twenty minutes ago escape towards Church ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... something to be done," said Fred tartly. "We've got to do something. You don't know where Soc and Zeke are and I don't know where String and Pete may be. We've got ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... Unyanyembe for trade. Ibrahim was inconsolable, and he kept lamenting his loss daily in such lugubrious tones that the people, instead of sympathizing, laughed at him. I asked him why he purchased such a slave, and, while he was with him, why he did not feed him? Replied he, tartly, "Was he not my slave? Was not the cloth with which I bought him mine? If the cloth was my own, could I not purchase what I liked? Why do you ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley
... woman that could help it," said Gavinia, tartly, for the honour of her sex, "but she's no are o' them." To be candid, Gavinia was not one of them herself. "I'm thinking she's terrible fond o' him," she said, "and I'm nain sure that he ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... about it," she said, tartly. "I'm your wife, and I am going to do my share, keeping house and helping around. And you have got to do your share, and treat me fairly. I once heard that the first Mrs. Balberry didn't get all that was ...
— From Farm to Fortune - or Nat Nason's Strange Experience • Horatio Alger Jr.
... its solution," Mr. Minturn said tartly. "Work on the theory I outlined; if it fails after a fair test, we'll try another. Those boys have got to be saved. They are handsome little chaps with fine bodies and good ancestry. What ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... an instant attack of hysterics, and I did wonder," rejoined Gerald, tartly. "But as I told you, women are always fools, and nervous women the worst ones, I haven't any patience with them. I was vexed enough with her for keeping me from Phebe. I don't believe she was ever hurried so out ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... get over it; there will very likely be nothing to get over," Delaine reflected tartly, as he made his way to his room. "A new country like this can't be too particular." He was thankful, at any rate, that he would have an opportunity before long—for he was going straight home and to Cumberland—of putting Mrs. Gaddesden on her ...
— Lady Merton, Colonist • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the young rascal intimating her interest in him was greater than in the others. She was about to reply tartly, but Frank awkwardly took her hand and squeezed it, then hurriedly released it again. Demonstrations of affection were not frequent between these two, yet they had a pretty good understanding. They walked ...
— The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards • Gerald Breckenridge
... very kind, but the tone seemed to Mary one of tolerance. She fancied Louise meant to patronize her, making allowance for her short-comings, and she could not brook that in her present mood, so she answered, somewhat tartly: ...
— The Four Canadian Highwaymen • Joseph Edmund Collins
... Lady Trevlyn dismissed the boy with a gracious gesture and led her little daughter away. Paul stood watching her, as if forgetful of his companion, till she said, rather tartly, "Young man, you'd better have thanked my lady while she was here than stare after her now it's too late. If you want to see Parks, you'd best come, ...
— The Mysterious Key And What It Opened • Louisa May Alcott
... of his mother, she attributed his reserve to a certain aristocratic arrogance, even to a lack of consideration, for her, at which the pride of the freewoman and the plebeian was up in arms. She was wont to say to him tartly: ...
— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France
... tartly. I was by no means satisfied with so half-hearted a vindication; nor did I care to owe my immunity to a patronizing lie on Mr. Van Blarcom's part. "You have accused me of spying. Do you think I'll let it go at that? I insist ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti
... so particularly valuable in procuring orders for her beloved Paul. Madame Loisillon in her time, when sounding the praises of her apartments at the Institute, never failed to add with emphasis, 'I have entertained there even Sovereigns.' 'Yes, in the little room,' good Adelaide would answer tartly, drawing up her long neck. It was the fact that not unfrequently, after the prolonged fatigue of a Special Session, some great lady, a Royal Highness on her travels, or a leader influential in politics, ...
— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
... told me that, too," interjected Madelene, tartly, "but that wouldn't make him mix her name up with mine, would it, and make him get mad every time ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... and convince yourself," suggested Clymer tartly, and the deputy marshal, dropping on one knee, did so. Detecting no heart-beat, the officer passed his hand over the dead man's unshaven chin and across his forehead, brushing back the unkempt hair. Under his none too gentle touch the wig ...
— The Red Seal • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... Chartres was at that time enamoured of Mademoiselle de Sary, maid of honour to Madame, and carried on his suit in the most open and flagrant manner. The King took this for his theme, and very stiffly reproached Monsieur for the conduct of his son. Monsieur, who needed little to exasperate him, tartly replied, that fathers who had led certain lives had little authority over their children, and little right to blame them. The King, who felt the point of the answer, fell back on the patience of his daughter, and said that at least she ought not to be ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon
... with her," I answered, rather tartly perhaps; "but she seemed unusually silent and unlike herself last night: and, as you seem pretty deep in her confidence, I thought you ...
— For Treasure Bound • Harry Collingwood
... beginning, hot-footing it, as Belle termed it, between the barn and the cottage trying to straighten things out. In the end he gave over and told Belle she could starve if she wanted to. Whereupon she said tartly that she did want to; and McAlpin snatching off his baseball cap, as he did when greatly moved, and twirling it in his hand asked for his money—which ...
— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman
... call it a portrait if an original didn't exist?" demanded the young man tartly. "Since you want to know so much, you may as well come to the gypsy encampment on the verge of the wood and satisfy yourself." He threw on a Panama hat, with a cross look. "Since when have you come to the conclusion that I ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... a girl!' answered her brother tartly. 'I have told you more than once or twice about that new boy at Torrington's, and now you ask me ...
— That Scholarship Boy • Emma Leslie
... had cast his eyes towards the portrait, twisted himself about again, and again found himself the subject of the same look and smile. 'Yes, Mr Blandois,' he replied tartly. 'It was his, and his uncle's before him, and Lord knows who before him; and that's all I can ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... search party reached the bed-chamber of the hotel-keeper and his wife Gerald Burton drew back, but Madame Poulain gave him a smart tap on the arm. "Go in, go in!" she said tartly, but he saw there were tears in her eyes. "We have nothing to hide, Monsieur Gerald! This is my room of memories; the room where our beloved Virginie was born. Little did I think it would ever be dishonoured by the presence ...
— The End of Her Honeymoon • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... don't," said Cyril tartly. "And I'm not unkind, I'm only truthful. And I say it was utter rot breaking the water-jug; and as for the missionary-box, I believe it's a treason-crime, and I shouldn't wonder if you could be hanged for it, if any of ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... acquit her," said Mrs. Ballinger tartly. "A more cold-blooded and unattractive man I've ...
— Sleeping Fires • Gertrude Atherton
... good sir," returned the count somewhat tartly, "I assure you that what you say is quite impossible. I repeat, I have known the man all his life, and I have done him nothing but good. I have befriended him in a thousand ways, and I know he would lay down his life rather than bring harm ...
— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood
... as white as yours," rejoined Mrs. McLane tartly. "But I remain a woman, and for that reason attract men to ...
— Sleeping Fires • Gertrude Atherton
... the physician tartly, turning upon their following. "Will someone send for the police and ring up Scotland Yard? This is ...
— The Sins of Severac Bablon • Sax Rohmer
... said rather tartly. "And I think you're a mean pig. However, go on! Have your own way! ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... be yourself, Mister Birch," interrupted Caesar tartly, dropping at the same time the covering of the ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper
... Aunt Mary asked tartly. "Of course if you ain't intendin' to go I'd be glad to know it; 'n while you're gone, Lucinda, I wish you'd get me the handle to the ice-cream freezer an' lay it where I can see it; it'll help me ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner
... I said tartly. "When Tish is up to some mischief, she generally reads an extra chapter ...
— Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Susan and the sailor, I am sure," said Mrs. Cosham, rather tartly. "My sister-in-law," she continued, "has laid her burdens upon Providence at every crisis in her life, and Providence, I must confess, has responded ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... Country Wife (1675), of Florio and Artall in Crowne's City Politics (1683), and many another beside. As for the cavilling crew who carped at her during her life Mrs. Behn has answered them and she was thoroughly competent so to do. Indeed, as she somewhat tartly remarked to Otway on the occasion of certain prudish dames pleasing to take offence at The Soldier's Fortune, she wondered at the impudence of any of her sex that would pretend to understand the thing called bawdy. A clique were shocked at her; it was not her salaciousness ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn
... Miss Lacey somewhat tartly, "if I say I don't believe it; and I don't blame you, either. You know very well that there was no more love lost between my brother and me than there was between your brother-in-law and you. Sam didn't make your sister Laura happy, to my shame and sorrow. I'm the one that owes you condolences, ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham
... observed rather tartly, "I'm sorry you don't know what to say, but perhaps you might begin by telling us who you are and what you mean by makin' a—er—dressin' room of a house that don't belong to you, just because you happened to find the ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln
... are dim," said the voice tartly, and Bart found himself looking down, as his eyes adjusted to the new light ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... was doing up a glove which possessed more buttons than his own waistcoat, looked up and eyed him calmly. "New clothes—and not before they wanted'em," she replied, tartly. ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs |
