"You said it" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you were cooking that rooster out in my woods, Steve Daly, your companion, said he heard somebody in the bushes and you said it was only a dog?" ...
— Dick in the Everglades • A. W. Dimock
... talk, he took off his coat and sat down astride a chair. "Well, Mr. Grady, when you came here before you said it was to warn me, but the next time you came you were going to begin to act. ...
— Calumet 'K' • Samuel Merwin
... for he could feel that the others knew more than he did. "What might it be? I never finished my words. You said it was a bullock." ...
— The Second Jungle Book • Rudyard Kipling
... two reasons for sending you this fable; one is, that in a letter you wrote me you said something about my being "clever"; and the other is that, when you wrote again you said it again! And each time I thought, "Really, I must write and ask her not to say such things; it is not wholesome ...
— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll • Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
... repeated the sympathizing landlady. "It's as near boiling as it ever will be, sir; give me the tea-pot. Only one! Ah, it comes heavier (don't it?) when it's an only child? You said it was an only child, I think, ...
— Armadale • Wilkie Collins
... "You said it!" exclaimed Bud. "I should let Buck Tooth tell it, instead of keeping him gassing away about the past. ...
— The Boy Ranchers on the Trail • Willard F. Baker
... ISABEL. But you said it was the shape that made things be crystals; therefore, oughtn't their shape to be their ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin
... you said it? Didn't know you had such a reputation." Sissy was recovering. "Never mind, Split," she added, heavily sarcastic and assuming a comforting air that maddened Irene, who desired nothing more than to impress her new suitor with the elegant gentility of her manner, her family's, and all ...
— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson
... "You said it!" shouted Slim Degnan, and Babe added his voice to the din, the while starting one of the verses of his ...
— The Boy Ranchers - or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X • Willard F. Baker
... But you said it was your mother—that must have been my Aunt Jessie! And you are my cousin, then? I have heard grandpapa speak of you. But you don't look bad, and he said——" and there she suddenly stopped, while Owen's face flushed angrily with a sudden wave ...
— Canoe Mates in Canada - Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan • St. George Rathborne
... "I remember how you said it was your job to take the chance because I, being an officer, was worth more to the cause and because the loss of a private ...
— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright
... the sand up from its center. As you said it would, the sand swept air with it. It made a whirlwind, bringing more sand from outside the grid into its field. It was a whirlwind with fifteen megakilowatts of power to drive it. Some of the sand went twenty miles high. Then it made a mushroom-head and the winds up yonder blew ...
— Sand Doom • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... you the reason Harry gave for not choosing to speak when he was asked, and you said it was a good one; and you like him for his courage, don't ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... could. . . . And that is all I can say. Oh, I know what it costs you to be mixed up in such contemptible complications. I, for my part, can scarcely bear to have you know so much about me—and what I am come to. That is my real punishment, Phil—not what you said it was. ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... beginning. You said it to me more with your looks than with your words; for I saw that, somehow, you were in the secret, and had yourself what you offered to me. That I could not forget. I had never ...
— Nobody • Susan Warner
... it? If you said it was a fool he was, I'd have laid a mighty oath he was the likeness of my wandering son (uneasily, putting his hand to his head.) Faith, I'm thinking I'll go walking for to view ...
— The Playboy of the Western World • J. M. Synge
... try to behave nicely, Mr. Ulfheim. [Breaking off.] But what has become of that hunting-castle of yours, that you boasted so much of? You said it lay ...
— When We Dead Awaken • Henrik Ibsen
... for me; and there was no writing inside the letter, but there was fifty dollars. That's all, sir. It gave me a great shock, sir; and I couldn't think who sent it, only when you came to-night, I thought it was you; but you said it wasn't, and I never shall know who it was, now. It seems as if the hand of God was in it, sir, for it came when everything was darkest, and I ...
— The Ghost • William. D. O'Connor
... lose nothing of being one of the best gentlemen in the world, if your heart fail you not." "How, Lady!" said he, "say you this truly, as my lady?" And she said, "Yes, without fail." "Lady," said he, "blessed be you of God, that you said it to me so soon [or as soon as you have said it]. For to that will you make me come which I never thought to attain. Nor had I so much desire of anything as ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
... 'You said it nicely, simply, without being ashamed or making a boast of it. By the way, I imagine there must always be something special, a kind of pride of a sort in the feeling of any man, who knows and says he ...
— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
... increases—though that would seem to be almost an impossibility. Why should I not become a fatalist? Remember how, on the third day that we ascended the Shlangenberg, I was moved to whisper in your ear: 'Say but the word, and I will leap into the abyss.' Had you said it, I should have leapt. Do you ...
— The Gambler • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... afraid of Sir Dugald's Vandalism, if we have no fear of ourselves, and, considering, as you so very justly observed, that it is quite impossible for us to be silly, and vain, and presuming toward each other. I think we must be quite safe. I believe you said it would be ...
— Theo - A Sprightly Love Story • Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett
... purity to a bad eminence," Keith would remark. "What did you say about the book I lent you the other day? You said it was morbid and indecent; you said that no clean-minded person would car to read it. And yet, after an unnecessary amount of arguing, you were forced to admit that the subject was interesting and that the writer dealt with it in an interesting manner. What more can you expect from an author? ...
— South Wind • Norman Douglas
... you, you said it was 'just a fancy name for being hypocritical.' But it isn't, a bit. Can't you try ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm - Novelised From the Play • David Belasco
... the hands of the clock had moved! You said it had stopped, and I looked up. Then the next time I looked, the hands had moved around—two ...
— The Boy Scouts on the Trail • George Durston
... isn't that true! How well you said it. (with a glare for this appreciation, HARRY opens the door. It blows away from him) Please ...
— Plays • Susan Glaspell
... not falling away swiftly as the air does. It is following the projectile! It is not gathering any air about it as you said it would. It does not quite keep up with us; but considering our speed, it is doing ...
— Pharaoh's Broker - Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner • Ellsworth Douglass
... the bird, Nat, that you saw in the cedar tree, where you said it was 'sitting about ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
... tells yer! Is dis yer thanks fur all I'se done? Who got ye de run ob de house, I'd like to know; who sot ye up for selling better fish than anybody in de neighborhood; who nebber said nothin' when de soap-fat all disappeared, and you said it had melted in de sun; who fixed up ...
— A Noble Woman • Ann S. Stephens
... you so terrified? You asked God to take care of you. When you said it you believed He would. Why not believe it now? Now, when you are tried, is the time to show if you do mean what you say. I am sure God will take care of us. Now try, dear, to be reasonable, and I will get up and ...
— Grandmother Dear - A Book for Boys and Girls • Mrs. Molesworth
... be. John here," this was to Jimmy, "has been gloating ever since he came home with the paper. And you ... Did you mean me by that snippy little thing you said about the 'I-knew-her-when' club? Oh, it was fair enough. I'm glad you said it. Because some people we know have been downright catty about her. But you both know perfectly well that I've stood up for her ever since last fall when we came ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster
... right, Bubbles," said the legless man after a pause. "It hits hard, but it's all right. And whether you said it or not, it was coming to me, and I knew it. Do you mind if I send you books and things now and then? There was a book I had when I was a boy. I'd like you to have it. Don't know what reminds me of it—unless ...
— The Penalty • Gouverneur Morris
... "You said it might be he, as though there were a doubt about it; don't you know for certain? You've seen Captain Pringle; did you see him after you recovered consciousness, that is, ...
— All for a Scrap of Paper - A Romance of the Present War • Joseph Hocking
... uncontroverted. carried, agreed, nem[abbr]. con. &c. adv[abbr: nemine contradicente].; unanimous; agreed on all hands, carried by acclamation. affirmative &c. 535. Adv. yes, yea, ay, aye, true; good; well; very well, very true; well and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure, "thou hast said", you said it, you said a mouthful; truly, exactly, precisely, that's just it, indeed, certainly, you bet, certes[Lat], ex concesso[Lat]; of course, unquestionably, assuredly, no doubt, doubtless; naturally, natch. be it so; so be it, so let it be; amen; willingly &c. 602. affirmatively, in the affirmative. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... "You said it!" agreed Tom. "That sort are so busy riding hobbies over here that they have no interest in what is going on in Europe unless it may be in Russia. Well, thank heaven, there are comparatively few nuts compared with ...
— Ruth Fielding Down East - Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point • Alice B. Emerson
... answered, "you said it was time you grew up. For the present I will tell you this: Several months before I met you, I made a speech in which I named some of the organised forces of evil in the city. One was Tammany Hall, and another was the Traction Trust, and another was the Trinity Church Corporation, ...
— Sylvia's Marriage • Upton Sinclair
... "You said it," yawned the stout man, supporting himself against the rough pine counter. "Things is liable to brisk up in a hour or two, though, when the boys begin to drift in. Stranger around these parts, ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... say, Daddy, you said we should have an Indian game after tea. You said it when you wanted us to be so quiet after breakfast. ...
— Danger! and Other Stories • Arthur Conan Doyle
... Mr. Henry, still glancing on his letter, "but I remember your expression. You said it was very fresh." ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) - The Master of Ballantrae • Robert Louis Stevenson
... want to know," he said. "Which of those two chaps killed my father? You said it was accident—but was it? I want to know about that! Are you saying it was accident just to let things down a bit? Don't! I ...
— The Paradise Mystery • J. S. Fletcher
... you said it. He kin build up a man's thoughts just like you or me kin pile oop lumber. 'Tis that deep ...
— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint
... exclaimed. "I am not generous to her this minute! I couldn't help, when you said it, being satisfied—that you should see. I don't know whether it is mean or true in me, that I always do want ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... Arthur's father was a poor, irresolute, frightened chap, who had had everything but his orphan life scared out of him when he was young, and that he had no voice in the choice of his wife even, but his uncle chose her. There she sits! I heerd it in my dreams, and you said it to ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... she said, "you told me that before, and you said it was so hard to know what to say if you didn't know a rhinoceros from a hippopotamus. And now you ...
— Daisy's Aunt • E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
... it. You said it. Did I ever tell you about the Navajo squaw that some of the women up here, stopping over at Albuquerque, ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... you said it wasn't true, Mr. Glover," she said, and there was a reproach in her tone for which she ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... "You said it, only I wish I could have just one more helping of sausages and maybe a little more potatoes; I think I'd feel entirely satisfied then," said fat Babe ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters • Irving Crump
... "You said it; and I've got pioneering, pathfinding, athletics, and then come the ten that I selected myself; angling, bugling, carpentry, conservation or whatever you call it, and cycling and firemanship and music hath charms, not, and seamanship and signaling. And two-thirds of the ...
— Tom Slade on Mystery Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... not that wonderful? You said the truth when you said it was a blessed woman that ...
— Poets and Dreamers - Studies and translations from the Irish • Lady Augusta Gregory and Others
... "Newton Forster" (one of Hewson's gifts) and I find that when I read I can't write, so that must be my excuse for the shortness of my notes. My head is full of ships, sea fights, and love making to the exclusion of everything else. I heard you—you said it was a good job, as it prevented me writing ...
— Three Months of My Life • J. F. Foster
... "Hey, you said it's got scanning and decision-making elements. That means your tickler thinks, even by your fancy standards. And if it ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... mustn't be so politic with me," she said; "I'm not a campaign club. I know that sentiment you have just expressed is lofty and noble, and ought to be true, and I know we used to think it was true—three weeks ago I believed it when you said it; but this is now, dear. This is to-night, not three weeks ago, and I have ...
— The Booming of Acre Hill - And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life • John Kendrick Bangs
... as he again faced the range. Overland heard and smiled. "You said it all," he muttered. "You said it ...
— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... young lady, there was a great deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important, Lord Illingworth would tell us. The only point where I thought you were a little hard was about Lady Caroline's brother, about poor Lord Henry. He ...
— A Woman of No Importance • Oscar Wilde
... You all differed in opinion, in spite of your wonderful eyes. My father said it moved. You said it stood still. Oscar said it was a man. Mrs. Finch said it was a calf. Nugent ran off, and examined this amazing object at close quarters. And what did it turn out to be? A stump of an old tree blown across the road in the night! Why am I to envy people the possession ...
— Poor Miss Finch • Wilkie Collins
... the renegade, assuming his composure, "with surprise. But you said it was to my good offices you stood indebted for your success. Now would you favour me with the particulars of such ...
— Gomez Arias - The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. • Joaquin Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio
... "I like 'cheri' ever so much better. I like it better than 'mon cousin' or any name, because, do you know," he added, dropping his voice a little, "I remember now, though I had forgotten till you said it—that was the ...
— The Tapestry Room - A Child's Romance • Mrs. Molesworth
... strode forward and stood before the painting with legs apart, in a properly critical manner. "What? Why, you said it ...
— The Third Violet • Stephen Crane
... the way you talked about it," Lone assured her. "It's because you were sick, I reckon. I wish you'd tell me as close as you can where you left that grip of yours. You said it was under a bush where a rabbit was sitting. I'd like to find the grip—but I'm afraid ...
— The Quirt • B.M. Bower
... that I was Thomas Preston. I merely asked you if I was the man you wished arrested. You answered that you did not want me arrested; under the circumstances I am certain you spoke the truth. And in explaining your hesitation to the lieutenant, when you said it was due to your utter amazement at the grotesqueness of the situation, I am certain you there also ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott
... settled it long ago, and you said it should be as soon as I became a partner. So, dear, you must not mind a plain man wanting a plain ...
— The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid • Thomas Hardy
... you forget your engagement," Miss Westlake gaily boasted, "for you said it was to be at ten, and now ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester
... odd!" she cried. "I shall never call myself that—why, people might know I must be something connected with this castle, and they would be questioning, and I couldn't have a scrap of fun! You have got another name—you said it just now, 'Michael Howard Arranstoun'—that will do. I shall be Mrs. Howard! It is quite ordinary—and shall I be a widow? I've never thought of all this yet. Oh! it ...
— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn
... moved, and was about to speak; but she held up her hand beseechingly, and said, "Let me go on—let me go on. You said it costs me little to act as I proposed to act. Think, Sherbrooke, think what it does really cost me. Even were I all selfishness, how bitter is the part that I have assigned myself to play! To pass my time in solitude, without the pleasures of youth and gaiety; debarring ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... truthfully say I am cured by the use of your truss. I believe it is the best truss ever invented by man. It did for me just what you said it would. My truss is now hanging up in a closet in my house, and I don't have to use it at all. Anyone can write to me if they don't believe what you say. So give this to the suffering people of this land, for why should it not do for thousands of ...
— Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured • Chas. Cluthe & Sons
... always say that," exclaimed Eustace, her twin of fourteen. "You said it yesterday coming through the scrub because you were tired; and the day before when mother made you sew for an hour instead of ...
— Queensland Cousins • Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
... "'You said it was an empty sleeve?' he said. 'Certainly,' I said. At staring and saying nothing a barefaced man, unspectacled, starts scratch. Then very quietly he pulled his sleeve out of his pocket again, and raised his arm towards me ...
— The Invisible Man • H. G. Wells
... often I have heard you say that whenever you feel a particular friendship for any one. I recollect perfectly that after we had known each other a little while, you said it seemed to you as if we had been intimately acquainted some ...
— Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country • Johanna Spyri
... that convinces me that the name Algernon was produced by your way of saying it. It was hypnotic suggestion! I assure you that, however strange you may think it, every time you repeat the name Gerry, it seems more familiar to me. If you said it often enough, I have no doubt I should soon be believing in the diminutive as devoutly as I believe in the name itself. Because I am quite convinced of Algernon Fenwick. Continually signing per-pro's has driven it home." He didn't seem quite in earnest over his ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... slip of your tongue. But you said, 'Mother'; you said it without the 'step' added on. You don't know —not that it matters now—but you won't never know how that 'stepmother' hardened my heart ...
— The Children's Pilgrimage • L. T. Meade
... it was those sixteen townships of red cedar—that crown grant in British Columbia in which you induced me to invest four hundred thousand dollars. You will remember that you purchased that timber for me from the Caribou Timber Company, Limited. You said it was an unparalleled investment. Quite recently I learned—no matter how—that you were the principal owner of the Caribou Timber Company, Limited! Smart as you are, somebody swindled you with that red ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... his thoughts back. "There was something you told me about Lord Dawn; you said it explained him. How did it go? I think you said that he hated his wife as men hate God, because they love Him so much and yet He won't come down. Well, out there it wasn't like that. Dawn climbed up to her; yes, and perhaps beyond her. Out there he didn't need to pretend to hate her; he could afford ...
— The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel • Coningsby Dawson
... its way in an explosive laugh: but seeing that Deronda looked gravely offended, he checked himself to say, "Excuse my laughing, Deronda. You never gave me an advantage over you before. If it had been about anything but my own pictures, I should have swallowed every word because you said it. And so you actually believe that I should get my five pictures hung on the line in a conspicuous position, and carefully studied by the public? Zounds, man! cider-cup and conceit never gave me half such a beautiful dream. My pictures are likely to remain as private as the utmost ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... you said it yourself—hers is the call that no man has the choice of refusing. A woman who loves you and whose love is all for you, will be calling calling, calling, as you read this, from out ...
— Sonnie-Boy's People • James B. Connolly
... am glad you said it," she declared lightly enough, although her lips quivered for a moment. "And they have put exactly the right quantity of Maraschino in my grapefruit. I feel that I am on the way to happiness. I am going to enjoy my luncheon.—Tell me ...
— The Great Prince Shan • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... letter. He stooped to recover the missive, but she was quick to forestall him. With a little gasp she pounced upon it and, like a child proceeded to hold it behind her back. He stiffened. "I remember that you said it was from ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... spoke to-day against him. Three more counsel are to be heard, and next week the cause will be determined. I send you the Informations, or Cases, on each side, which I hope you will read. You said to me when we were under Sir Allan's hospitable roof, "I will help him with my pen." You said it with a generous glow; and though his Grace of Argyle did afterwards mount you upon an excellent horse, upon which "you looked like a Bishop[296]," you must not swerve from your purpose at Inchkenneth. I wish you may understand the points at issue, amidst ...
— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell
... did not, and you were not. I am very glad you said it, and glad you like me," said Kate; and just then the party called the girl, and she hurried away, and I joined Kate. "Then you heard it all. That was worth having!" said she. "She was such an honest little soul, and I mean to look for her ...
— Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett
... because you spoke?" said Bennett. "I knew that you loved me and you knew that I loved you. What does it matter if you said it or did not say it? We know each other, you and I. We understand. You knew that I loved you. You think that I have been strong and determined, and have done the things I set out to do; what I am is what you made me. What I have done I have done because I thought you ...
— A Man's Woman • Frank Norris
... "You said it!" declared Bob fervently. "If I was only on the paper now I could write a front page story, instead of a miserable little 'stick' about a runaway horse. Oh, but this was ...
— The Khaki Boys Over the Top - Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam • Gordon Bates
... her husband. So you need have no fear on that score. But I wont remain her husband. You said just now that I knew what was going to happen; that I intended it to happen, wanted it to happen, and am glad it happened. There is more truth in that than you thought when you said it. For some time past Marian has been staying with me as a matter of custom and convenience only, using me as a cover for her philandering with Douglas, and paying me by keeping the house very nicely for me. I had asked myself once or twice how long this was to ...
— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw
... her house. "Well," said she, "one day you came along after we had got through dinner, and we had eaten up everything, and I could give you nothing but a bowl of bread and milk; you ate it, and when you got up you said it was good enough for the President of the United States." The good woman, remembering the remark, had come in from the country, making a journey of eight or ten miles, to relate to Lincoln this incident, which in her mind had doubtless taken the form ...
— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne
... "You said it all," muttered Pete, turning swiftly and trudging down the road. He would have liked to howl himself. Montoya's kindliness at parting—and his gift—had touched Pete deeply, but he had fought his emotion then, too ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... me leave, Jasper dear. You said it would be a relief to you to have her pardon as ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... don't want to, mate; but it's all in yer day's work, yer know. I thought you said it was ...
— Fire Island - Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track • G. Manville Fenn
... did you sell? You said it wan't a question of price at all. You made your brags that it wan't! To me, over and over, you made 'em. And then you ...
— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln
... of the team answered. "Normally we wouldn't answer, Mr. Cornell, unless you said it aloud. But we don't mind letting you know which of us is the telepath this time. To answer, you are the last person to have received ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith
... to comfort me—I tell you my dolly is dead! There's no use in saying she isn't, with a crack like that in her head. It's just like you said it wouldn't hurt much to have my tooth out, that day; And then, when the man 'most pulled my head off, you hadn't a ...
— Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories - The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 • Various
... "That's exactly it! See? You said it a minute ago. It's just as if yesterday wild horses couldn't keep me from seeing Pollyanna; and now, to-day, when I know she's coming—they couldn't ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... "You said it, brother." Hilton was bending over a group in bronze. "If I didn't know better, I'd swear this is the original deHaven 'Dance of ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith
... to be told that he's a baby Don Juan, to be called a male vampire in knee-pants—especially by the woman he's going to marry." Disregarding her attempt to speak, he went on: "What you said about other women—the way you said it—sounded almost as if— well, as if you expected there would be such, and didn't greatly care. You didn't mean it that way, I hope. You do care, don't you, dear? You do love me?" The face Phillips turned upon the ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach
... unanimous; agreed on all hands, carried by acclamation. affirmative &c 535. Adv. yes, yea, ay, aye, true; good; well; very well, very true; well and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure, 'thou hast said', you said it, you said a mouthful; truly, exactly, precisely, that's just it, indeed, certainly, you bet, certes [Lat.], ex concesso [Lat.]; of course, unquestionably, assuredly, no doubt, doubtless; naturally, natch. be it so; so be it, so let it be; amen; willingly &c 602. affirmatively, in ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... "You said it!" replied Dave. "That's why he's took this scarlet rash of socialism and holy rolling that's going the rounds. Of course there are plenty that are holy rollers through and through, but not this boy. It's only ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... matter with that? You said it yourself. And look out how you go peddlin' names around here. You think nobody knows anything but you! You're the little boy that invented flyin'—got the idea from yore own head, by thunder, when it swelled up like a balloon with self-conceit! That there ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... I admitted. "It was some one from Austria anyway—come to fuss about the old Dun Vorlees place! You said it was! You said that's who it was!—It's the only Strange Lady ...
— Fairy Prince and Other Stories • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... said the money was in the soil, not on top of it. I remember you looked like a prophet when you said it," Cyrus Bennington declared. "But I was wild to get rich quick and let my soil go. I never look at Aydelot's spreading acres of wheat increasing in area every year without wondering why the Lord let me be ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter
... caught you at the gate. You said, 'I had rather have one of those dumb brutes for company than thee, Walter Evesham.' You said it in the fiercest little voice. Even the 'thee' sounded ...
— In Exile and Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
... him while he telegraphs," said Nita with finality. "We can't understudy a monkey. Josephine Boyd, come here and go through your long speech. I want to be sure that you get it right. It didn't make sense the way you said it yesterday." ...
— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde
... as she drew a long white glove over her elbow, her face shadowed by her plumy hat, "you remember you said it might be worse, and I insisted it couldn't be? You were right, it ...
— The Little Red Chimney - Being the Love Story of a Candy Man • Mary Finley Leonard
... calm again now. When people die at Mota, you know they make a great shouting, but soon forget the dead person. But I am able to be quiet and calm now, as you talk to me about God and Jesus Christ. Yes, He rose again. Death is not the end. I know you said it is for those who repent and believe in Christ the Door to enter into life eternal. How different it all ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... that I knew what sort of a man you were. I knew you had been really kind and gentle, and I knew you had dug out something that I did not know was there—that no one else had found. And I remembered how you called me Sister. I mean the way you said it. And I wanted to hear it again. I wanted you to ...
— The Red Cross Girl • Richard Harding Davis
... "You said it belonged to the Marny family," continued the ex-ambassador. "Juliette Marny is in England. I might meet her. I cannot tell what may happen: but I feel that the historic necklace might prove useful. Just as you please," he added with renewed indifference. ...
— The Elusive Pimpernel • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... disturbed and happy to find that the value he placed upon them was the value they would have in the eyes of a young girl—not a girl of the shy, mother-obeying, man-worshipping English type, but a girl such as Miss Cameron seemed to be, a girl who could understand what you were trying to say before you said it, who could take an interest in rates of exchange and preside at a dinner table, who was charmingly feminine and clever, and who was respectful of herself and of others. In fact, he decided, with a flush, ...
— The Lion and the Unicorn and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... And you said it was a place most joyous, All our poor imaginings above, With the winged cherubim for playmates, And the good God ...
— Poems • Victor Hugo
... to them," he said cheerfully. "It's no light thing to sit through a bad play. But how is that, Jasper? You said it would run." ...
— Adrien Leroy • Charles Garvice
... this side the water. When you came here years ago and got Jeff into difficulties you brought another necklace, a spurious one, paste, stage jewels, I daresay, and none of us were clever enough to know the difference. You said it was the Beattie necklace, and Esther was ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... lad, and that's the worst of it. You said it in a passion on purpose to sting him, and he's as thin-skinned as a silkworm. He has gone yonder thinking you despise him and consider he's no better than a monkey, and if you'd set to for six hundred years trying to think out the nastiest thing you could invent to hurt his feelings you ...
— Rob Harlow's Adventures - A Story of the Grand Chaco • George Manville Fenn
... timidly, as if to refer to the matter at all was cruel of her—"you spoke as if I was disgracing you because I could not conceal my love. You said it was hard on you." She pressed her hands together. "Yes, that is what ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... I am so terribly worn out that I must go very slowly. You said it was the best for you that we should undertake this journey alone, through the woods. What did you mean by ...
— The Riflemen of the Miami • Edward S. Ellis
... we can't escape, but what of yourself, Weber? We're alone in the forest and I hold the whip hand. The score that I owe you is large. You may have wrecked the life of Mademoiselle Julie and perhaps you will destroy my own, but you said it would be three hours before the detachment arrived, and I need only a ...
— The Hosts of the Air • Joseph A. Altsheler
... remember the day you bought that, Annabel? You were about the most homesick person in Boston. You said it looked like your own 'Lady Jane Grey' at home, and you cuddled it half the night. I don't see how you can ...
— Blue Bonnet in Boston - or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's • Caroline E. Jacobs |
