"Apologetically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so cold, to Mr. Goodchild's sensations, that he shivered. He remarked lightly, and half apologetically, 'I think somebody is ...
— The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices • Charles Dickens
... good-bye," Hope said half apologetically; "and I really hadn't the heart to refuse him. Besides, I wanted to thank you again for your many kindnesses to my small boy. Mothers appreciate such things, I assure ...
— Phebe, Her Profession - A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book • Anna Chapin Ray
... sipped daintily at his glass, and then gave an embarrassed little laugh. "But I can't form what you might call an opinion," he protested, apologetically, "till I understand a bit more clearly what it is you propose to yourself. You mustn't be annoyed if I return to that—'still harping on my daughter,' you know. If I MUST ask the question—is it your wish to ...
— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic
... you might not come willingly," Porter said apologetically. "I needed a witness, and I figured you'd ...
— By Proxy • Gordon Randall Garrett
... I come in?" Jeanie Lorimer's small, delicate face peeped round the door. "I've brought my French exercise to do," she said half-apologetically. "I thought perhaps you ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... sorry about your beads!" she said, apologetically, when she looked up and saw me astonished, putting the broken pieces ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various
... he is very sorry," went on Oku apologetically, "but will hurry quick as can. He say for you to wait till he come and he tell me to say many ...
— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow
... Cooper apologetically—"I was goin' to say to Collins, before I forgit, that he can easy git over bein' a Port Philliper. Friend o' mine, out on the Macquarie, name o' Mick Shanahan, he's one too; an' when anybody calls him a Port Philliper, or a Vic., or a 'Sucker, he comes out straight: ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy
... drawing her closer as he spoke, "it's the only chance, and—" Then to the captain half-apologetically—"She'll meet it with me, as she has met danger before, in the bush, like a true English-woman! But what," indicating the convicts' deck, "what about them? It seems inhuman, yet if they were ...
— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham
... Uncle Jimpson apologetically dragged forward his left foot, upon the trouser hem of which the small dog had fastened her sharp ...
— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice
... must have walked up the hill rather too quickly,' he said apologetically, after draining a great goblet of beer. 'However, it is not to be denied that M. Selpdorf begins to take too much upon himself. The entire administration of the State is in his hands, and yet he is not satisfied with that position! No, he aims even higher; he desires to nominate the ...
— A Modern Mercenary • Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
... seemed to rise and fall like waves. Nahum Beals's strained, nervous tones were paramount. "Mr. Beals is talking about the labor question, and he gets quite excited," Ellen remarked, somewhat apologetically, as she ushered young Lloyd into ...
— The Portion of Labor • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... speak, he had dropped the reins on the horse's neck, and lifted her bodily round to the peak of the saddle before him. "I'm sorry!" he said, apologetically. "I fear it is very uncomfortable; but—I can—a—manage better, don't you see?" But to himself he was saying, "Lucky I got that done before the beggars began to shoot. Now they may fire all they like. Stupid duffer I was, not ...
— Rita • Laura E. Richards
... lifted his chin clear of the high points of his collar. "Penelope," he began, "you are fortunate—very fortunate—in having such an uncle. Mr. Blight is a prominent man, and I might say"—glancing apologetically at the guest—"a rich man." Then, meeting no contradiction, he added—"a very rich man, who can give you such advantages as would be far beyond my means, ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd
... brought a pause of discomfiture. "He's head ain't right yet," observed Mrs. Duff apologetically; "and that's why ...
— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood
... murmured the boy, apologetically. "That's a fact, ain't it! I won't say 'like pie' no more; ...
— Queen Hildegarde • Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
... Triplett, apologetically ... "we ain't got no yard-arm, but the sun's up and there's land dead ...
— The Cruise of the Kawa • Walter E. Traprock
... just before Christmas." Then, to Miller: "We—I had your things out of your bag," he said apologetically. "I thought I'd have to wear ...
— Left End Edwards • Ralph Henry Barbour
... reckon it's just as well," he said resignedly. "I sure ain't of much account." He hesitated and smiled weakly at the sheriff. "I ain't croakin'," he said apologetically; "there's the circumstantial evidence." He hesitated again, evidently battling a ponderous question. "You didn't happen to hear Mary Jane say anything about the express job?" he questioned with an expression of ...
— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various
... would be," Billy said apologetically, "this one won't go for nobody else and the other one ...
— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh
... him," said Mr. Punch to Father TIME, as the pair passed away from the Lunar precincts together, bowing courteously, and a little apologetically, to 'ARRY's late hostess, who called off her dogs, and affably responded to their parting salutation. "Fact is," pursued the Sage, "my young friend 'ARRY, though smart and fin de siecle, in his way, is a little of 'the earth, earthy,' and lacks ...
— Punch Among the Planets • Various
... sir," Kincaide greeted me apologetically, "but, considering the nature of our mission, I thought it best to have your opinion." He motioned toward the two great navigating charts, operated by super-radio reflexes, set in the surface of the ...
— Vampires of Space • Sewell Peaslee Wright
... said the woman, losing for the first time her pleasant smile. "May-be he's your's though, madam?" she said apologetically. ...
— Dawn • Mrs. Harriet A. Adams
... in weary protest, as he smiled apologetically at the court. "Darned if I didn't plumb forget one thing," he said. "We got to swear in these witnesses before they can chatter. Is there anybody got a Bible around 'em? Nope? Montana, I wished you'd ...
— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand
... said apologetically, "Jake here and me are travelling around, and the only way we can get on is to ask for a ticket to a place, and never stop travelling till we get there. We speak German all right because my parents were ...
— A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes • Harriet Julia Jephson
... said the cavalier, apologetically; "but these worthy gentlemen were ancient friends of mine, and have done me many a delicate service,—much more, perchance, than these poor sables may signify," he added, with a grim gesture toward the ...
— Legends and Tales • Bret Harte
... was merely a money payment that was demanded of him. But he was little better off, for, having but a few shillings in his pocket, to pay four pounds was as much out of his power as if it had been four hundred. He determined to appeal to the mercy of his captors. "Not got," he said, apologetically, with a vague idea that by speaking very elementary English he came somehow nearer to French, "That all," he continued, producing his little store and holding it out beseechingly to the official. "Pas assez, not enouf," growled the latter. Quelch tried again in ...
— Stories by English Authors: England • Various
... an' gents—none in th' world, s' help me true!" Having said which, he clapped fingers to mouth and whistled very shrilly. "Not by no means nowise meanin' no offence, my lords," quoth he apologetically, "but dooty is dooty—an' 'ere 'e be!" Glancing whither he pointed, I saw a man approaching, a shortish, broad-shouldered, square-faced, leisurely person in a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat and full-skirted frieze greatcoat; ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol
... stated judicially and also apologetically, for he wished to make up with Jerry for getting his circus ticket away ...
— The Circus Comes to Town • Lebbeus Mitchell
... glance at Tom which said as plain as look could speak, "Well, I must say you are making the most of your new-found relationship." He was a little put out for a moment, but then recovered himself, and said apologetically, ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes
... beauty, who had turned with relieved delight to take the arm of a new partner, looked at her poetic admirer apologetically. ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... little kiddie," they said, apologetically, as though they felt they had been caught ...
— The Congo and Coasts of Africa • Richard Harding Davis
... thought of but one way to settle a quarrel—began instantly to brighten. "I would myself do it," he said, apologetically, ...
— Old Creole Days • George Washington Cable
... be touched Thurston again, apologetically yet insistently. "Say," he drawled, "ain't your name Thurston? I'll bet a carload uh steers it is—Bud Thurston. And your home range ...
— The Lure of the Dim Trails • by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower
... laughed apologetically. "I'm very sorry; but I helped him with that revolution. I was pretty hard up at the time, and I knew something about field guns, so they ...
— People of Position • Stanley Portal Hyatt
... but wandering, his movements were abrupt or violent, heedless or feeble, as the moment decreed. He talked about the dingy, nasty fo'cas'le, the absurdity of his not being able to get around, the fine outfit of the Sea Gull, the chill of the water. He sometimes swore softly, almost apologetically, and he uttered most unchristian sentiments toward some person whom he described as wearing ...
— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
... measure," said the medic apologetically as he entered Alan's room clad in a space helmet. "We really learned our lesson when that shipload from Altair ...
— Starman's Quest • Robert Silverberg
... was this way," he said, beginning a little apologetically. "I was dying for something to read, and I figgered there'd be something on the Mail—newspapers, you know. So I stopped it, and tied up the driver, and found these. And I swear I didn't take anything else—that time. There's twenty of ...
— The Country Beyond - A Romance of the Wilderness • James Oliver Curwood
... once," responded the other, apologetically. "Still, if you're going to get along in this world, you've got to be of it. Besides, I thought"—argumentum ad hominem—"that she was entitled to show that ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller
... the very sight o' them air pesky critters," he explained half apologetically. "Thar, thar's another one," ...
— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund
... time," he observed, half apologetically. "But as I was saying—or rather, as you were saying—Donna Francesca preserves the distance. These Italians do that admirably. They know the difference between ...
— Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) • F. Marion Crawford
... the Urbane Old Gentleman was a daily visitor. He took an hour at a time at first; but after a few days, the hour lengthened out (apologetically) to an entire morning. He 'presumed to ask' my Christian name the second day, and remembered my father—'a man of excellent principles.' But he didn't care for Elsie to work for him. Fortunately for her, other work dropped in, once we had ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen
... with our brother in religion, Bernard, the coachman, for a pioneer, we started to find a church or chapel of the Latin faith. At Mount Kisco, a little town four miles distant, Bernard thought we might hear Mass, "but then it's not the sort of church you ladies are used to," he added, apologetically; "it's a small chapel, and only rough working people ...
— The Story of a Summer - Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua • Cecilia Cleveland
... to cry about," said poor Miss Jellyby apologetically, "but I am quite worn out. I was directing the new circulars till two this morning. I detest the whole thing so that that alone makes my head ache till I can't see out of my eyes. And look at that poor unfortunate child! Was there ever such a fright ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens
... in Chicago," she added apologetically. "He's one of us, and he's in the Mercenaries, and ...
— The Iron Heel • Jack London
... doubt it," said Mark apologetically. "I say: this is more sensible than for us two to ...
— The Black Tor - A Tale of the Reign of James the First • George Manville Fenn
... I were you, I shouldn't go into that matter just now, Professor," he said apologetically. "Ladies, you know, have their reasons for these little—what shall we call 'em?—peculiarities. No, I wouldn't press that point, sir. We're having a nice, straight story—quite like a printed one!—from Mr. Burchill there, and I think we'd better let him come ...
— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher
... these fragments of prayers was it made manifest that the worm was turning, apologetically, it is true, but surely. For once the prescribed defense of the Pharaoh was ignored. "It is not the fault of the Child of the Sun, but his advisers, who are evil men and full of guile." And in the odd perversity of fate for once ...
— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller
... to no purpose that you apologetically appeal to the general depravity of the man-of-war's-man. Depravity in the oppressed is no apology for the oppressor; but rather an additional stigma to him, as being, in a large degree, the effect, and not the cause and ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... the horses," returned Betty apologetically, and patiently sat down with her arm leaning in the window. There was a smile on her lips, and she stared with bright eyes at the oak trees and the children playing among ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... nice little mess, and take it round, Beth, the air will do you good," said Jo, adding apologetically, "I'd go but I ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... "Excuse me," said I, apologetically. "I have not suffered. However, in all my study of you mythologians, it has never occurred to me before this that Venus was ...
— Olympian Nights • John Kendrick Bangs
... morning," I remarked apologetically, "and I see that I am putting you to some trouble. In future, if you will have me called, I will take my meals at the usual ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner
... he does not tell many lies," said Nuna apologetically. "I think he only does it a little. Then he goes on his knees every night before lying down, and every morning when he rises, and speaks ...
— Red Rooney - The Last of the Crew • R.M. Ballantyne
... He ventured apologetically into the lift. In his private corridor a young man respectfully waited, hat in hand, the paternal red-and-black waistcoat by his side for purposes of introduction. The young man was wearing a rather shabby blue suit, but a rich and distinguished overcoat ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... in there," said Yourii half apologetically. "Only the passage does not lead very far. It has been filled up. We saw some ...
— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef
... you put up with a piece of bad temper?" he muttered, half apologetically, yet half defiantly. "God knows I got ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London
... dear! I thought just this once," murmured Mrs Connor apologetically. "Dear Ruth, how sweet you look! Is that a new coat? No, I see it is not; but it looks new, with that charming collar and vest. And your hair, dear; and Mollie's, too! So beautifully done! I suppose the maid taught you? Oh, darlings, I'm thankful to have you back, but I should never ...
— The Fortunes of the Farrells • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... exchanged as they made their way back to the club. And here the Major did a most unusual thing for him. He ordered the drinks. But he did this delicately, apologetically. ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... I, apologetically, "I'm sorry to give you such an explosive reception, but it cannot be helped. If you don't care about torpedoes, you may remain here with my mother and Bella; but if you would like to go, I shall be happy to introduce you to one or two of my naval friends. For ...
— In the Track of the Troops • R.M. Ballantyne
... I in my own house," said Miss Craven; "but," apologetically, "when one is in a boarding-house, my loves, you know one cannot control ...
— Uncle Rutherford's Nieces - A Story for Girls • Joanna H. Mathews
... Mr. Prince. "I haven't been this season yet, but I'm always meaning to." He smiled apologetically. "And I thought to-night——" Despite appearances, he was not indifferent after all to his great Viennese triumph; he had had some mild notion of his ...
— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett
... want to be a wife and not a fragile ornament kept in a glass case. He would as soon think of submitting any project of his to the judgment of a doll as to mine. If he has to explain or discuss any serious matter of business with me, he does so apologetically, as if he were ...
— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw
... goodbye, and felt agreeably fragile and soft within the embrace of his huge, rough overcoat. And she breathed winningly, delicately, apologetically into ...
— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett
... answer apologetically, 'you're really quite too hard upon young Le Breton. As far as school-work goes, he's a capital master, I assure you—so conscientious, and hard-working, and systematic. He does his very best with the boys, even with that stupid lout, Blenkinsopp major; and he has ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... restaurant, close to the alcove where the band used to play while the smart people dined. An elaborate wine-list still graced each little table, but coffee made from rye bread crusts mixed with a little chicory was the only drink that a few white-faced waiters who crept about the room like shadows could apologetically offer us. We sat there till nearly 3 A. M., and Colonel S., utterly worn out, was fast asleep with his head on the little table, and there was no sign of any car, or of any Germans, so we went to ...
— Field Hospital and Flying Column - Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia • Violetta Thurstan
... Catholics, who form the great majority of Christians, still hold to religion as a prime element in education, there are none—or only a minority so small as to be negligible—who give a thought to art in this connection. I bring forward the word, and the thing it represents, with diffidence, even apologetically: indeed, it is perhaps better to renounce the word altogether and substitute the term "beauty," for during the nineteenth century art got a bad name, not altogether undeservedly, and the disrepute lingers. So long ...
— Towards the Great Peace • Ralph Adams Cram
... of his life are as follows. He was born in the Parish of St. Michael's Cheap, in London, on the 19th of October, 1605 (the year of the Gunpowder Plot). His father, as is apologetically admitted by a granddaughter, Mrs. Littleton, "was a tradesman, a mercer, though a gentleman of a good family in Cheshire" (generosa familia, says Sir Thomas's own epitaph). That he was the parent of his son's temperament, a devout man with a leaning toward mysticism in religion, is shown ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various
... pair of horses waiting for us half-way up the hill, but they proved absolutely useless, being obviously already dead tired and quite unable to drag the carriage through any of the muddier places even with every one but the invalid on foot. So we apologetically put the gallant greys in again, poor beasties, and they took us ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne
... The Englishman had to gird up his loins considerably before he could bring himself to the point of exchanging ideas with Madame Bouclet on the subject of this Corporal and this Bebelle. But Madame Bouclet looking in apologetically one morning to remark, that, O Heaven! she was in a state of desolation because the lamp-maker had not sent home that lamp confided to him to repair, but that truly he was a lamp-maker against whom the whole world shrieked out, Mr. The ...
— Somebody's Luggage • Charles Dickens
... entered the office Howard looked appealingly and apologetically at the boy on guard at the railing and braced himself to receive the sneering frown of the City Editor and to bear the covert smiles of his fellow reporters. But he soon saw that no one had observed ...
— The Great God Success • John Graham (David Graham Phillips)
... I knew it; but I didn't think it was any thing," replied Tom, apologetically. "I knew it wouldn't do to drop down, or we should all be in Dixie ...
— The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army - A Story of the Great Rebellion • Oliver Optic
... bury him, of course, but not too deep for them to dig him up again. And they will want to ferret in all the corners of the room where he died, and make sure that his bags and boxes have not been tampered with—and then there is the child. In a way"—he spoke slowly and apologetically—"the kid and the goods are my security for getting my own back again—if ever I do. So you will inspan one of the waggons—the best if you like, with a team of six beasts, and you will trek up to Gueldersdorp—you will travel light enough with only the grub you will need, and ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... this will get on my nerves," said the man. He ripped open his greatcoat and reached under it. "I've been stoned twice, when there were women in the car," he said, apologetically, "and so now at night I carry a gun." He shifted the darkened torch to his left hand, and, moving a few yards, halted to listen. The girl, reluctant to be left alone, followed slowly. As he stood immovable there came from the leaves just beyond him the sound of a feeble struggle, ...
— The Scarlet Car • Richard Harding Davis
... that way to me," she finished apologetically. "It sounds rather silly. I always think I can tell the sort of person ...
— The Street of Seven Stars • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... little while of silence, he said he thought somebody might read a prayer. "It's the custom, sir," he added apologetically. And not long after, without another word, ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... the "Hallelujah Chorus" from the Messiah, and "He Shall Feed His Flock," he mentioned to me, almost apologetically, that he liked sacred music, and for the reason, perhaps, that for a short period, a child ashore in San Francisco, he had ...
— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London
... lay in this man's arms and felt his warm kisses on her lips, there came over her a strange sensation she had never known before. She grew dizzy and for a moment thought she would faint. All at once he released her. Almost apologetically, ...
— The Mask - A Story of Love and Adventure • Arthur Hornblow
... half-humorous, half-bitter remonstrance which Caffyn had chosen to take, and was chiefly anxious now to make the other forget his share in the matter. 'Perhaps I was too ready to put the worst construction on what I heard,' he said apologetically, 'but after what you've ...
— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey
... much of a dinner," said Bob, apologetically, "for everybody's away at Uncle Joe's wedding, but if you'll be satisfied with cold victuals, I guess I can fit ...
— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson
... when they wish it to be my birthday treat," she said rather apologetically. "The poor children would be so disappointed. We might make a clear mark-book a ...
— The Madcap of the School • Angela Brazil
... came apologetically with his big whisk broom and told Luck that they would all presently be gazing at Dry Lake, or words which carried that meaning. So Luck permitted himself to be whisked from a half dollar while his thoughts were "in the field" with his camera ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower
... took it to mean more than it actually did," said Maurice apologetically. "But anyhow it was cheering to hear it. You see, I must prove to the people at home that I was right and they were wrong. Failure was preached at me on every side. I was the only soul to ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... woman, misinterpreting the sex of her questioner from the dress that Huguette wore, began apologetically. ...
— If I Were King • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... He grinned apologetically for this strange idea, but Purvis nodded with perfect sympathy, and then turned his horse up the canyon. The sheriff rode home whistling. On ten thousand dollars more he would be able to ...
— The Untamed • Max Brand
... apologetically. "We are on our way to Italy and Austria, and may go eventually to England by the ...
— My Friend the Chauffeur • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... asked," said the Idiot, apologetically, "because I am very much interested in the subject of heredity, and you may not know it, but you and he have each a marked ...
— Coffee and Repartee • John Kendrick Bangs
... again," he smiled apologetically, "because tomorrow our journeys part, and I have shown scant consideration for ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... whimpered a little and kicked out wildly with his fat white-stockinged legs. Seen from the rear he had the appearance of a neat, if excited, package, unaccountably frilled about with embroidered flannel. Delia straightened herself, dabbed apologetically ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... difficult subject to silence, and said apologetically, as he took up the platter: "It's vary much too bad, sir, dat I'm forgot to mak her freeze out before I'm put her in de oven. But de puddin', sir,"—with a sudden revival of his old self-confidence—"no danger of de same trouble with her; I'm ...
— A Lover in Homespun - And Other Stories • F. Clifford Smith
... brats thim times," said Judy, apologetically. "For anythin' we could tell we might as well be streelin' about under the width of the sky like a string of wild duck, as stoppin' at home wid a roof over our misfort'nit heads. Ould Mrs. McClenaghan next door had a cloak the same pattern as this," ...
— Strangers at Lisconnel • Barlow Jane
... half apologetically, "it is a great deal better for one of us at least to be married and settled. Indeed I assure you. I have done it all for ...
— Mistress and Maid • Dinah Craik (aka: Miss Mulock)
... the floor that time," said Mr. Critz apologetically. "It most generally does for me, yet. I ain't got it down to perfection yet. This is the way it ought to work—oh, pshaw! there she goes onto the floor again! Went under the bed that time. Here she is! Now, the way she ought to work ...
— Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler
... had come to the surface, laughing apologetically. Surprised by the hair dangling down over her eyes, she felt for her cap. It was gone. So was her suit. Naked as a fish. She swam a couple ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith
... am going with her. I cannot allow her to travel alone. We leave by the express at six o'clock this evening," Mr. Lloyd said. "I am so very sorry to depart so suddenly, Mr. Hargreave. We were both enjoying our visit so much," he added apologetically. ...
— The Golden Face - A Great 'Crook' Romance • William Le Queux
... roadway teemed with shrieking children. Somewhere—near at hand—a pianola lost its temper and whaled the everlasting daylights out of an inoffensive melody from "The Pink Lady." Other, more diffident instruments tinkled apologetically in the distance. Intermittently, across the gaunt scaffolding of the Ninth Avenue L, at one end of the block, roaring trains flashed long chains of lights. On the other hand, Eighth Avenue buzzed resonantly in stifling clouds of incandescent dust. The air ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance
... he continued, apologetically, "I'm not used to this sort o' thing. Moreover, I've a tendency to nightmare. Don't alarm yourselves, ladies, I never do anything worse to disturb folk than give a shout or a yell or two, but occasionally I do let ...
— The Young Trawler • R.M. Ballantyne
... said the valet apologetically. "I couldn't help overhearin' what you were sayin', an' if there's any blinkin' Chinee hidden in this place I'll put a mark on him he won't forget ...
— Number Seventeen • Louis Tracy
... didn't horrify you," he said apologetically. "It seems almost as cowardly to fly out at those poor chaps as to strike a child; but they have a genius for tripping one up at ...
— Captain Desmond, V.C. • Maud Diver
... running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they give off is most repulsive, but we do not rise up and make a row about this, because we feel hopelessly in the wrong in intruding into these family scenes uninvited, and so apologetically pole ourselves along rapidly, not even singing. The pace the canoe goes down that channel would be a wonder to Henley Regatta. When out of ear-shot I ask Pagan whether there are many gorillas, elephants, or bush cows round here. "Plenty ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
... would end by giving their consent—they were so fond of Marien. Standing there, dreaming this dream, which gave her face an expression of extreme happiness, Jacqueline made a most admirable model. She had not felt in the least fatigued when Marien at last said to her, apologetically: "You must be ready to drop—I forgot you were not made of wood; we will go ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... started the next morning at six, duly invested with their swags. Before they went they found Mrs. Henniker up, with hot tea, boiled beef, and damper. 'Just one drop at starting,—for the good of the house,' said Mick, apologetically. Whereupon the whisky was brought, and Mick insisted on shouting for it out of ...
— John Caldigate • Anthony Trollope
... determined to do, General Grant found it necessary to return once more to the West. In his parting interview with Lincoln, he was urged to remain to dinner the next day and meet a brilliant party whom the lady of the White House had invited to do him special honor. The General answered, apologetically: "Mrs. Lincoln must excuse me. I must be in Tennessee at a given time." "But we can't excuse you," said the President. "Mrs. Lincoln's dinner without you would be Hamlet with Hamlet left out." "I appreciate the honor Mrs. Lincoln would ...
— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne
... it if 't warn't for her," said Aunt Hoskins apologetically. She was Prissy's aunt, holding no other close domestic relation to living thing, and so had come to be "Aunt Hoskins" in the whole region round about, so far as she was known at all. "It's the only bird she can hear sing of a morning. ...
— A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... cursory glance round the passage, looking sternly at Alyosha and Kolya as he did so. Alyosha waved from the door to the coachman, and the carriage that had brought the doctor drove up. The captain darted out after the doctor, and, bowing apologetically, stopped him to get the last word. The poor fellow looked utterly crushed; there was a scared look ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... much of the Doctor's scholarship," said the mother, apologetically. "And we are so anxious that Gus should do well when he goes ...
— Dr. Wortle's School • Anthony Trollope
... one of those beauties under the bottom now, sir," he said half-apologetically. "Nice morning, though, ain't it? Talking about hanging one's legs over the side, we might lay them up a bit to dry;" and he set the example of stretching his own out on the seat-like thwart, and sitting silently for a while gazing ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn
... of it," said Lucy apologetically, somewhat remorseful for not having treated the result of Stella's labour with more respect. "But I shouldn't have worn it all the evening, at any rate, for after tea I am going to see ...
— Lucy Raymond - Or, The Children's Watchword • Agnes Maule Machar
... last married a Churchman," said Mrs. Hankey apologetically, as if the union thus referred to were somewhat morganatic in its character, and therefore no subject ...
— The Farringdons • Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
... had more stuff," he said, half-apologetically, and then he began an attack on the food which speedily ...
— Messenger No. 48 • James Otis
... speaks, he conducts them to the other end of the gallery and opens one of the little cabins. "There you are, you see! Here is a mattress, and here you may rest, on good behaviour, as long as Mr., I ask your pardon, sir"—he refers apologetically to the card Allan has given him—"Mr. Woodcourt pleases. Don't you be alarmed if you hear shots; they'll be aimed at the target, and not you. Now, there's another thing I would recommend, sir," says the trooper, turning to his ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens
... soon as the latter had somewhat recovered himself, "beastly hole this . . . ain't it now? La! you don't mind?" he added, apologetically, as he sat down on a chair close to the table and drew the soup tureen towards him. "That fool Brogard seems to ...
— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... he turned to look at his crew. And at the turning, as if on signal, on musical cue, Tom and Frank began the pantomime of urging Louie to his feet. Louie looked at the two standing men alternately. With bloodless lips he tried to grin wryly, apologetically, for what his nervous system was doing to his body against ...
— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton
... temperance, anti-slavery, woman's rights, labor, and showed conclusively that in every one the church and the religious press, instead of being leaders, were laggards. At the close the chairman remarked apologetically that of course the speaker did not expect people in general to agree with everything she had said. The Chicago Tribune thus finished its report: "As Miss Anthony had an engagement she was obliged to leave at this point, and most of the ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper
... He hesitated, grinned apologetically at Captain Court. "I'm sermonizing again, eh, Alfred? But," he shrugged, "if I must get dramatic about it I can only say that my life's work ends ...
— Criminal Negligence • Jesse Francis McComas
... Groener cheerfully, "while the young lady gets into her finery we might have a little talk. There are a few matters—er—" He looked apologetically at the others. "You and I will meet to-morrow, M. Matthieu; I'll see what I can do ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett
... door of his cabin if the night was fine. It stood open now and a light wind blew the soft fabrics against his body and limbs, so that they seemed to fold themselves about him, to cling to him. He disengaged them reluctantly—apologetically. ...
— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen
... are confounded slippery, don't you know," he explained apologetically. "How did you manage ...
— Her Prairie Knight • B.M. Sinclair, AKA B. M. Bower
... just starting," he answered apologetically, "when I met Ives. But, as you weren't going with him—-" He paused, an inquiring look in his eyes. He was evidently asking himself why she had ...
— Comedies of Courtship • Anthony Hope
... I nearly walked you to death yesterday," he observed apologetically, "and ought to assure myself of your health this morning. You look very fresh ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... all night,' he explained half apologetically to Longstreet as he went. 'And haven't walked this ...
— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory
... can't say I'd really read it, not to understand it; but I saw it was one o' the books you were studyin', an' I thought I'd take a look at it just to know a little w'at you were studyin' w'en you got back to college,' said his mother apologetically. ...
— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin |
