"Tartly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... niece,(1089) and no chicken. I inquired after her mother, Madame de Meziers, and I thought I might to a spiritual votary to immortality venture to say, that her mother must be very old; she interrupted me tartly, and said, no, her mother had been married extremely young. Do but think of its seeming important to a saint to sink a wrinkle of her own through an iron grate! Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if animals have any fun in them, how we must ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... that I have never seen equalled. I always reproached him with having added nothing to his inheritance—no glory—no achievement—'I have spent,' he would say, shrugging his shoulders. 'Wasted,' I retorted tartly. 'If you like. I have never admitted my past or my future as barriers—or even frontiers—to my actions. I have lived without forethought or arriere pensee—without the weakness of regrets or the stinginess of precautions,' and then he turned to me—his eyes were half shut and his voice ...
— Balloons • Elizabeth Bibesco
... 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 I ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... to the King. His Majesty therefore commanded that the monk should also be present on the occasion of the discussion between Las Casas and Quevedo. The appearance of the Franciscan, was not to Quevedo's liking, and he somewhat tartly remarked to him that the Court was no place for monks, who had much better be in their cells. As the Bishop himself was of the same Order, the monk aptly retorted that he was of the like opinion and that "all of us monks would be better off ...
— Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt
... Santa Fe and go up to their store and clerk for them. I answered, "Mr. Moore, that is practically impossible; I can't do it." Then he said, "you've got to do it, I've spent too much time looking for you already, you've got to clerk for us." I am a little hot headed myself, and I answered him as tartly as he spoke to me. "Mr. Moore," says I, "I've got to do nothing of the sort." Then Mr. Moore cooled down and talked more like a business man and less ...
— The Second William Penn - A true account of incidents that happened along the - old Santa Fe Trail • William H. Ryus
... well-informed, mistress," said Mr. Caryll, a thought tartly, for if his speech was tainted with a French accent it was in so slight a degree as surely to be imperceptible ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... you to do anything at all for me," returned Janice, rather tartly. "If your own conscience doesn't tell you what course to pursue, pray remain neutral—as you are. But ...
— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long
... Griselda, rather tartly; "though when you know quite well what I mean, I don't see that you need be so very particular. Well, as I was saying, I tried and tried, but still they were fearful. ...
— The Cuckoo Clock • Mrs. Molesworth
... Miss Sommerton answered tartly, "I have no opinion whatever of you." Then, with womanly inconsistency, she proceeded to deliver her opinion, saying, "A man who would smoke here would smoke in ...
— One Day's Courtship - The Heralds Of Fame • Robert Barr
... what happened when Sydney Smith—who, as everybody knows, was an exceedingly sensible man, and a gentleman, every inch of him—ventured to preach a sermon on the Duties of Royalty. The "Quarterly," "so savage and tartly," came down upon him in the most contemptuous style, as "a joker of jokes," a "diner-out of the first water" in one of his own phrases; sneering at him, insulting him, as nothing but a toady of a court, sneaking behind the anonymous, would ever have been mean enough to do to a man of ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various
... Thompson returned tartly. "Is there anything strange about that? A good many men have gone. A good many more will have to go before this ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... 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 the future ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell
... 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 her rebuke to Miss Bracy. Pride and temper! Ah! ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... you will not quote Cicero to me," replied the elder man, a little tartly. "He will soon be back from Cilicia, and will be prodding and wearying us in the Senate quite enough, with his rhetoric and sophistries. But I must be more precise. I have found out how much you owe Phormio. I thought your dead ...
— A Friend of Caesar - A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. • William Stearns Davis
... it on medical authority," tartly interposed Professor Brierly, "but I am not certain it is competent medical authority. I have seen too many careless autopsies made and read too many loosely written reports to have abiding ...
— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew
... no doubt, 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
... he was ever known to exhibit. The servant, who was really disappointed, having hoped for holiday times, feasting and debauchery with impunity during the rejoicings which would have accompanied a christening, turned tartly upon the little valet, telling him that he should let Sir Robert know how he had received the tidings which should have filled any faithful servant with sorrow; and having once broken the ice, he was proceeding with increasing fluency, when his harangue was cut short and ...
— The Purcell Papers - Volume I. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
... been a round one above a short jacket, but was not, I observed felicitously that I had come to say good-bye, being ready to go off to sea that very night with the Tremolino. Our hostess, slightly panting yet, and just a shade dishevelled, turned tartly upon J. M. K. B., desiring to know when HE would be ready to go off by the Tremolino, or in any other way, in order to join the royal headquarters. Did he intend, she asked ironically, to wait for the very eve of the entry into Madrid? Thus by a judicious exercise ...
— The Mirror of the Sea • Joseph Conrad
... be so well to-night, I expect," answered the nurse, tartly. "There's been a great noise and disturbance outside, and he's heard something of it, and it's made him restless and curious. He is asking questions about it all the time, and he won't be satisfied. He keeps asking ...
— The Wharf by the Docks - A Novel • Florence Warden
... it, but moved so carelessly and heavily that it appeared plainly he did not care whether it was done or no, and particularly as if he had a mind the captain should see it and take notice of it. Which the captain did, for perceiving how awkwardly he went about it, he spoke a little tartly to him, and asked him what was the reason he did not stir a little and furl the sail. Peterson, as if he had waited for the question, answered in a surly tone, and with a kind of disdain, So as we eat, so shall we work. This he ...
— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward
... said rather tartly. "And I think you're a mean pig. However, go on! Have your own ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... my compliments upon the acuteness of your perception," answered La Boulaye tartly. "You are right. There is to be ...
— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini
... seemed indifferent and again the porter called attention to the budding great man. After persistent efforts to rouse his interest, the tourist, much nettled, said tartly: ...
— The War After the War • Isaac Frederick Marcosson
... 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
... 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 knew ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... Temple, still rather tartly, "because if it is, I beg to offer you, in the name of these ...
— The Incomplete Amorist • E. Nesbit
... tartly inquired. "Deborah is living here—and before I came she ran the house. In her place I should ...
— His Family • Ernest Poole
... replied tartly. "I'm not to blame for that. I'm not responsible for your failure. Why ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... the old gentleman tartly; "the girl shouldn't have been such a fool. I will pay one hundred pounds into the bank for her, and she shall not have another penny." Geoffrey thought himself well out of the scrape, but before the incident closed there were words between the brothers that neither ever forgot. Peter ...
— The Rhodesian • Gertrude Page
... Cappy interrupted tartly. "I wouldn't give two hoots in hell for a satisfied man, unless he's his own man—understand. You should have a more vital interest in the Ricks Lumber and Logging Company and the Blue Star Navigation Company. We always make our skippers own a piece of the vessels ...
— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne
... than be yourself, Mister Birch," interrupted Caesar tartly, dropping at the same time the covering of the goods in ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper
... States; it had only to refrain from giving direct sanction to the system. Others opposed this whole argument, declaring, with Langdon of New Hampshire, that Congress ought to have this power, since, as Dickinson tartly remarked, "The true question was, whether the national happiness would be promoted or impeded by the importation; and this question ought to be left to the national government, not to the ...
— The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America - 1638-1870 • W. E. B. Du Bois
... come. I looked back, and there stood the stalwart Tongan where I had left him, gazing at the sixpence I had placed in his hand. There was a kind of stupefaction in his attitude. Presently the consul said somewhat tartly: "Ah, you've been to the Palace—the Crown Prince ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... Billy," retorted Aunt Hannah, a little tartly, and with a touch of sarcasm most unlike her gentle self. "I'm sure I shouldn't wish to fill this infant's plastic mind with anything so appalling as trivial inaccuracies. May I be pardoned for suggesting, however," she went on as the ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... you had gone over," I replied, somewhat tartly. "You'd have seen that every one of your suppositions was wrong. He's not at a smart hotel. He's living in one tiny room in the most squalid way. If he's left his home, it's not to live a gay life. He's got hardly ...
— The Moon and Sixpence • W. Somerset Maugham
... get along well enough with them," I suggested tartly, remembering Mother Borton's ...
— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott
... you to grin,' said Solomon tartly. 'We've got to bear it. You didn't take over any of ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... nearly to death," said another of the ladies, tartly; and then the carriage went on and was soon lost to sight on ...
— The Rover Boys in the Air - From College Campus to the Clouds • Edward Stratemeyer
... nothing but 'suppose'," said M. Vulfran, tartly. "I may as well tell you that for a long time I have wanted someone intelligent to be near me, one who is discreet and whom I can trust. This young girl seems to have these qualities. I am sure that ...
— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot
... drew out a drawer, took from it a cheque-book, and settled himself to write with deliberation, thinking all the time. When he had done—"Have the goodness to come and fetch your money," he said tartly. ...
— There & Back • George MacDonald
... cried the captain's maid, tartly. "Master's temper's bad enough to drive anyone away, and now you're beginning too. I don't know what we're ...
— The Lost Middy - Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap • George Manville Fenn
... says you're as obstinate as a mule, and she's about right!" she remarked tartly, as she banged the door and locked it noisily behind her. Gipsy was not hungry, so the plentiful supply of meat and vegetables was quite sufficient for her needs, and the lack of pudding was no grievance. Helen's severe censure hurt her desperately. Had the girls all ...
— The Leader of the Lower School - A Tale of School Life • Angela Brazil
... tea?" he asked tartly. "With six major operations this morning and a probable meningitis diagnosis ahead of me this afternoon I think I might be spared the babblings of an hysterical nurse!" Casually over his shoulder he nodded at the ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... that we need it, at any rate," said Miss Belcher, tartly, "if we are to be favoured just now ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... opposition," rejoined Lady Montfort, somewhat tartly. "For a real opposition there must be a great policy. If your friend, Lord Roehampton, when he was settling the Levant, had only seized upon Egypt, we should have been somewhere. Now, we are the party who wanted to give, not even ...
— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli
... you the ring and letters if you like,' said Bell, tartly, 'but I don't see why you should be so surprised. I'm good enough for him, ...
— The Bishop's Secret • Fergus Hume
... tartly, "that you have still your old trick of asking questions. I wish that you would try to get the better of it; it is very disadvantageous to you, and very trying to ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... Fyles," she said, almost tartly, "but I guess that lever needs to help them into your traps to do ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum
... about "force of habit" as he led the way down towards the door, and I responded tartly enough about the unpleasantness of his begging customs. "If it were not for your sort and your customs, the Priests' Clan would not be ...
— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
... according to Cheiro, either," tartly. "Hold your palm steady so that I can see more clearly. It's a ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... agree with you young ones none too well. I reckon we won't have them very often," Father Jenkins remarked tartly. His own eyes smarted from ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... 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 we ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy
... harassed with this idea, she pursued the courtier from the Court hall into the illuminated gardens, and there told him, and in language that admitted of no doubt, that she wished to marry him. The courtier was indignant, and answered her so tartly that Kate, even in reading it over a second time, could not ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore
... smooth wind makes an easy rudder.' Not a thing vexed me from morning till night. Every week the father would take out the stocking and drop in the money and laugh and kiss me as we tied it up together. Up with you, Hans! There you sit gaping, and the day a-wasting!" added Dame Brinker tartly, blushing to find that she had been speaking too freely to her boy. "It's high time you ...
— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge
... 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 ...
— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad
... girl! 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 Dragon to ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... the Islands," said Miss Gabriel, tartly, feeling the roadway with the edge of her shoe, for her sole had just encountered turf; "and this is one. My dear Charlotte, if you could refrain from bumping into me at the precise moment when I am ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... get one!" retorted the mayor, tartly. "I have dropped down here merely in a business way to find out what's wanted of me as the ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... 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 the ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... know how I am, but I know how I shall be," said Esther tartly. "I shall be late, and ...
— The Carroll Girls • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... 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 old man evidently ...
— Samuel Johnson • Leslie Stephen
... came, it rained; steadily, gloomily, fiercely rained. Solomon was not allowed to wear his best clothes. When, peering out of the window, he hopefully said he "guessed mebbe 't was goin' to clear," his wife invited him tartly ...
— The Calico Cat • Charles Miner Thompson
... said, tartly. "We can't go about the grounds in a cab, and I'm not going to slop about in the wet to please anybody. We must go another time. It's hard luck, but ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... between them and Kunitz that to her extreme discomfort she had felt herself completely at home. Even the presence of the Countess Disthal had not been wanting. She therefore regarded this as not seeing England at all, and said so. Fritzing remarked tartly that it was a way of seeing it most English people would envy her; and she was so unable to believe him ...
— The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight • Elizabeth von Arnim
... the scheme," he said tartly, "if you get the sole contract for building these premises of mine, and a fat commission ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown
... 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 need a ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... no especial 'dragging' that I am aware of; and I don't know why you should be sorry for Barrett," I returned rather tartly. ...
— Branded • Francis Lynde
... 'ee what it is, Mister Gore," said he, tartly; "you may think yourself an oncommon hard walker, but Obadiah Stiff is not the man to cave in to any white man alive. I don't care to go trampin' over the country day after day, like the Wandering Jew, after a redskin, as, I'll go bound, ain't no better than the rest o' his kind; ...
— Silver Lake • R.M. Ballantyne
... officer," she 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
... I'd be going if there were, do you?" she remarked in English tartly, curving her arching black brows at him; "how many are we—five? That's three too many, in my opinion. Father Rielle—I go with you in Mr. Poussette's buggy; you others there, you three messieurs—you can go ...
— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison
... returned 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 ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham
... 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 ...
— Xingu - 1916 • Edith Wharton
... on without turning her head, and for many steps nothing further was heard from her quarter than the rustle of her dress against the heavy corn-ears. Then she resumed rather tartly— ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... too late. You should have been here with Great-Aunt Sophronisba," Alicia told him, tartly. "You'd have been ideal companions, both of you beware-of-the-doggy, ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler
... keep a country store than it is to hoe your own potatoes, barefoot," she responded tartly. "Besides, what ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray
... congratulate your sherry; it is about to be appreciated," said the deserted beauty, tartly, as the men ...
— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay
... way there, if I'm to judge by last night,' Elsie answered rather tartly. 'You know, Mildred, I don't believe all ...
— Celibates • George Moore
... which was at the rate of a year's indulgence for every step. The terms were fair; for with an ordinary day's work I might lay up some thousands of years' indulgence. There was but one drawback in the matter. "I don't believe in purgatory," I rejoined. "What is that to me?" said the old man, tartly, accompanying the remark with a quick shrug of the shoulders and a ...
— Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber - Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge • James Aitken Wylie
... poet tartly, "do people still think me too romantic? Are there, I wonder, any brigands ...
— The Wisdom of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... nothing bad to conceal needn't be afraid of speaking out," retorted Miss Greeb tartly. "And the way in which Mr. Berwin lives is enough to make one think him a coiner, or a thief, or even a murderer—that ...
— The Silent House • Fergus Hume
... nonsense," returned the woman tartly, "a big expense and a sight of work for nothing. And now permit ...
— Romance Island • Zona Gale
... 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 ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... tartly, "I fail to see any humor in the situation. Since I came here, one man has been shot, and another one has died from shock. There have been intruders in the house, and strange noises. If that is funny, there is something wrong with my sense ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... looked at 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
... in union with and in action on being. And excepting his own fundamental position concerning the sensuous origin of our ideas,—to which few, since Kant, will assent,— there is hardly a theorem, in all the writings of this school, of prime and vital significance. The school is tartly, but aptly, characterized by Professor Ferrier: "Would people inquire directly into the laws of thought and of knowledge by merely looking to knowledge or to thought itself, without attending to what is known or what is thought of? Psychology usually goes to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
... said, tartly, "be you comin' in, or be you goin' to stand out there wagglin' that ...
— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland
... thought; "Charlotte Oliver, eh?" I responded tartly that I had that very morning met four ladies the poetry of whose actual, visible loveliness had abundantly illustrated to me the needlessness and impertinence of fiction! By the way, did he not think feminine beauty was always in ...
— The Cavalier • George Washington Cable
... interrupted tartly, "you needn't go into details. I don't imagine Captain and Mrs. Dott will be greatly interested. What a charming old room this is, isn't it? SO quaint! Everything looks as if it had been here ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... 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 Street ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... You haven't said anything yet, as far as I can see," returned Mrs. Richards tartly. "Don't be ...
— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith
... 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 nobly, ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... him tartly. "I believe we would never get hence at all if we listened to you. It is time to be off, and I can delay no ...
— The Poor Gentleman • Hendrik Conscience
... Winnie informed him, a trifle tartly, "in fact I don't see why you didn't lug up a couple of tents and turn 'em loose inside. Rosemary is going to be blown out of the window some fine night and, to my way of thinking, it's better to ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... in the show business thirty years, you needn't feel called on to post me on fakes," said Hiram, tartly. "But the bigger the fake is the better it catches the crowd. If she'd simply been an old scandal-monger at a quiltin'-bee and started a story about us, we could run down the story and run old scandal-grabber up a tree. But when a woman ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... "Of course," replied Jenny tartly. "He eats nothing but insects, and he catches them flying. Now I must get back to my duties ...
— The Burgess Bird Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... 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
... turn up as we want them," said Reginald, tartly. "Look here, Horace, you surely don't suppose I prefer to go to Liverpool to ...
— Reginald Cruden - A Tale of City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... Betty tartly, in reply to the first question, while she dismissed the second with ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
... you up to, man?" shouted Silas, tartly, trying to make a stand against the staggering blow dealt amid ...
— The Knights of the White Shield - Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play • Edward A. Rand
... 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, would go upstairs to pay a little particular visit to the wife of the Permanent ...
— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
... never coming," said Miss Kybird, tartly, as she led the way to the back room and took her seat ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... she said tartly. "I shan't bother myself about your concerns. I've no doubt you're able to ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... 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 what I ...
— That Scholarship Boy • Emma Leslie
... 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 colonial ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... your salary for 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
... dear brother-in-law's conduct, which he did not himself vindicate; and Mr. B. was pleased to say, that my lord was always very candid to him, and kind in his allowances for the sallies of ungovernable youth. Upon which my lady said, a little tartly, "Yes, and for a very good reason, I doubt not; for who cares to ...
— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson
... tartly. "But I don't understand how you can stomach this sort of existence. What is there in it? Where is the profit or satisfaction in this kind of thing, for you? Will the man in the ranks get credit for taming the Northwest when his work is done? Why the devil don't you quit the job? Cut loose and ...
— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... trifle tartly. "How can I? Granting that my voice is worth the trouble, would you like me to go and study in the East or abroad? Would you be willing to bear the expense of such an undertaking? To have me leave Jack to nursemaids and you ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... lady? If the master-singers' verdict then does not agree with hers, how is it to operate?"—"Let the young lady choose at once according to the inclination of her heart, and leave master-singing out of the game!" remarks Beckmesser tartly. "Not at all! Not at all!" Pogner strives to calm them, "Not in the very least! You have imperfectly understood. The maiden may refuse the one to whom you master-singers award the prize, but she may not choose another. ...
— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall
... of you, but remember the lesson you've got,' said the doctor, tartly, and away he plunged into a sharp trot, with a cling-clang and a cloud of dust. And Puddock followed that ungracious leech, with a stare of gratitude and admiration, almost with a benediction. And his anxiety relieved, he and his principal prepared ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... at the law-courts," the deputy public prosecutor replied tartly; "and besides, we ...
— The Collection of Antiquities • Honore de Balzac
... head, just because you've lost your temper!" she said tartly, in a guarded whisper. "The door into the hall is still ...
— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard
... up to think a fire was for warmth, not for looks," said Sylvia, tartly. She had lost the odd expression which Henry had dimly perceived several days before, or she was able to successfully keep it in abeyance; still, there was no doubt that a strange and subtle change had ...
— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... at all, soldier,' he answered, more tartly. 'The water is warm, and you can bathe your hurt and afterwards I will plaster it.' While I laved my temple with the edge of the towel, between the dip of the water I heard his voice in broken sentences: 'To no use at all. . . . Would a man ask the sun to what use it danced? . . . or ...
— Corporal Sam and Other Stories • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... can be expected," answered Mrs. Swinton, tartly. "It is about money-matters I have come to you, Mr. Jevons. I want to know if it is possible by any means to raise the ...
— The Scarlet Feather • Houghton Townley
... other lady, tartly. "That is more than the price of the whole meal if she had let us pay for it. A present of a shilling at the outside. No, ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... always say, when anything is out," answered Mrs. Walcott rather tartly. "The barrel of flour is gone also; but I suppose you have done your part, with the rest, ...
— The Wedding Guest • T.S. Arthur
... Agatha," said I just a bit tartly, "to the time I've given myself. I'm sorry for you, but I think you ought to be ...
— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke
... hearing when people are talking at the top of their voices," she said tartly. "Come on, for dear sake, and have your teas, ...
— The Foolish Lovers • St. John G. Ervine
... right here," said the captain, tartly. "I never have any business that's got to be whispered behind corners." He scowled when his mate gave him a wink, both suggestive and imploring. ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... anything in his life," said his mother tartly. "Those trunks ought to be here before I ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... said Mrs Swann, tartly. "I'm going to run up with them by car to Mrs Vernon's. I can slip them quietly over to Gil. They keep your hands warm better than anything. Don't I remember when I was a child! I shall leave Mrs Vernon's immediately, of course, ...
— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett
... them just as well if they always stayed there, and did n't come down to get all crumbs and grease in the sink," returned the other tartly. ...
— The Tangled Threads • Eleanor H. Porter
... you'd 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 little peace ...
— Five Little Peppers Abroad • Margaret Sidney
... as a great discovery, that the curtains were drawn back; upon which, Mother Sub-Prioress, exclaiming, tartly, that that had been long ago observed from the garden below, pushed the stool in her anger, and sent Sister Mary ...
— The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century • Florence L. Barclay
... an end, not without laughter on the part of the ladies, of the story of Fra Puccio, the queen with a commanding air bade Elisa follow on. She, rather tartly than otherwise, not out of malice, but of old habit, began to speak thus, "Many folk, knowing much, imagine that others know nothing, and so ofttimes, what while they think to overreach others, find, after the event, that they themselves ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio
... man's heart 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 slipped back, revealing to his ...
— The Red Seal • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... to," he answered, tartly. "If they asked me I'd decline. I simply don't enjoy that ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben
... 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 hook I am afraid he will ...
— Spring Days • George Moore
... annoyed by the noise of a pig, which a country youth was carrying a little way before him. At length, irritated by the unmitigated noise, "Have you not learned how to quiet a pig" demanded the imperial traveller, tartly. "Noa," replied the ingenuous peasant, ignorant of the quality of his interrogator;—"noa; and I should very much like to know how to do it," changing the position of his burthen, and giving his load a surreptitious pinch of the ear, which ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton
... relied tartly that no, she had not got a headache. The Mad Hatter appeared to be absorbed in tracing rude verses on her rough notebook ...
— Superseded • May Sinclair
... you," replied the burgomaster, tartly, "that if the people of Quiquendone do not profit by this occasion to vindicate their rights, they will ...
— A Winter Amid the Ice - and Other Thrilling Stories • Jules Verne
... way I deduce it," observed the town detective tartly. "In the first place, she wouldn't 'a' been standin' 'round like that if the job was over, would she? Wouldn't she 'a' been streakin' out fer home? 'Course ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon
... to oblige you," I said, tartly, for I did not like his laughter. "So long as you confine your amusement to me, I am satisfied; but pray avoid using any objectionable ...
— A Roman Singer • F. Marion Crawford
... exclamation—"Good Lord, Thackeray! I hope you didn't present the child with your own mug!" And still less was he flattered when he heard that, on its being reported in the Punch office that he was "turning Roman," simply because he defended Doyle's secession, Jerrold tartly remarked that "he'd best begin with his nose." (Jerrold, by the way, uses the same conceit in a letter to Sir Charles Dilke when repeating a rumour of the attempted conversion of the novelist by "Lady ——.") These and many more sardonic thrusts would amply account ...
— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann
... please," rapped 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
... can't see how naughty you are sometimes," said Miss Henny tartly, not having recovered her temper even after ...
— A Garland for Girls • Louisa May Alcott
... is 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 to ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... the other, tartly. "I'm no gambler any more. I'm a respectable gentleman with a mine and a ranch," he emptied his glass and, smacking his lips, continued, "and a beautiful young girl that loves me ... loves me. Understand?" ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... girl in your position afford preferences?" he inquired, tartly. Thus far the banker had fully lived up to ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... studio,' I answered, fully as tartly. 'Go up there and trade keys; and don't bring any more of your friends ...
— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson
... wear coats of a hevening nowadays?" asked Miss Sellars, tartly, of the lank young man. "New fashion ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... 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
... want to do it and you know it!" I said tartly. "But when the Lord sends want and ...
— Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... been acting for the last ten days?' asked Mrs. Brown- Smith, rather tartly. 'You must settle your excuse ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang
... abolished the British Constitution," I remarked tartly, "what do you propose to substitute for ...
— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay
... learnedly explain to Maggie, could not be connected, in the brain of a reasonable person, with currents of fresh air. Maggie mutely disdained his science. This, too, fretted him. Occasionally she would somewhat tartly assert that he was a regular old maid. The accusation made no impression on him at all. But when, more than ordinarily exacerbated, she sang out that he was 'exactly like his ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... it," replied the Doctor tartly. He thought he had shaken off his unpleasant visitor, and his return ...
— Sevenoaks • J. G. Holland
... answered Widow Matson, tartly. "Mrs. Nugeon says that you've been to see her neighbor Wait's girl—she that 's sick with the measles—half a dozen times, and never so much as left a spoonful of medicine; and she should like to know what a doctor's good for ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... the queen replied, tartly, "if I were to waste my time, as you are urging me to do, in marching my troops from Bohemia to the Rhine, and from the Rhine to the Netherlands. But as for my troops, I have not a single general who would condescend to command such merely machinery armies. As for ...
— The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power • John S. C. Abbott
... "'Play'!" she echoed tartly. "I should think you wouldn't talk much about 'playin',' the way you're teasing those ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... fiber, and classing as morbid all forms of introspection, she always so dreaded to have the conversation drift into a reflective channel that whenever she found Willie indulging in reveries she was wont to rout him out of them, tartly reproaching herself for having even indirectly been the cause of stirrin' ...
— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett
... in a free and easy attitude as though perfectly 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 naturally much prefer. Edward Blake's outward bearing ...
— The Day of Sir John Macdonald - A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion • Joseph Pope
... Marrier! I understood from you he was a clerk!" said Nellie, tartly, suddenly retransformed into the shrewd matron, as soon as Mr. Marrier had profusely gone. She had conceived Marrier as a sort of Penkethman! Edward Henry had hoped ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... Mildmay devoted a large share of the wealth which he had gained in the public service to the erection and endowment of a college;—that of Emanuel at Cambridge,—an action little agreeable it seems to her majesty,—for, on his coming to court after the completion of this noble undertaking, she said tartly to him; "Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a puritan foundation." "No, Madam," replied he; "far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which, when it comes to ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin
... strange,' said she, tartly. 'He was always very stupid, and constantly falls into mistakes, in which he comes worse off; and it is very well he does, for he is credulous and cowardly fellow. Not at all strange! If you will'—turning to her husband, so that I hardly heard her words, until I caught—'Then ...
— Curious, if True - Strange Tales • Elizabeth Gaskell
... something to say about that. It was said tartly enough, of course, and Rhoda had to take it before a good-sized party ...
— Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch • Annie Roe Carr
... to hear 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 coming to her—that she had to wear the same dress and bonnet for years. Now, I want to ...
— From Farm to Fortune - or Nat Nason's Strange Experience • Horatio Alger Jr.
... him tartly. "Please confine your testimony to facts and not to impressions, Mr. Blanton. Do you know at what time Mr. Cunningham left the ...
— Tangled Trails - A Western Detective Story • William MacLeod Raine
... were going to see, so that he would know some of the ground of our suspicion. Mrs. Ralston supported that; and when Mr. Portlethorpe remarked that we were going too fast, and were working up all the elements of a fine scandal, she tartly remarked that if more care had been taken at the beginning, all ...
— Dead Men's Money • J. S. Fletcher
... observed Georgy tartly. "She is too pale, and her eyes are too big: then she is such a solemn little thing. Don't you like golden ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various
... the unpleasant features of the trip, they were tartly received by the owner of the ranch when they arrived there at night worn out and hungry. The proprietor was very ill natured and did not conceal his aversion to entertaining them. Boyton made several polite attempts to engage him in conversation; but was answered with frowns and ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... ta dana"— "Oh dear me"—and rumbles in the bass in a figure that answers the treble. His wife reproaching him, he strikes her. Here we are in B flat. She laments her fate in B major. Then her husband shouts: "Be quiet, old vixen." This is given in the octaves, a genuine dialogue, the wife tartly answering: "Shan't be quiet." The gruff grumbling in the bass is heard, an imitation of the above, when suddenly the man cries out, the last eight bars of the composition: "Kitty, Kitty come—do come here, I forgive you," which is decidedly ...
— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker
... be a 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
... nothing of the kind," said Lady Linden tartly. "I mean that Miss Meredyth has for some very considerable time been Mrs. Hugh Alston. They were married, if you want to know—and I don't see why it should any longer be kept a secret—three years ago, in June, nineteen eighteen at Marlbury, Dorset, where ...
— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper
... commissary's way. So he began to question abruptly, in very bad Portuguese, as to the state of her larder, the elder woman, who, ugly and blear-eyed, with ragged, scanty dress, and bare feet, yet wore a necklace of beads and earrings of gold. She answered tartly, that it being a fast-day, there was no flesh in the house. They had bacalhao and sardinhas, and garlic, and pepper, and onions, and oil; and everything that Christians wanted on a fast-day. She forgot to say that the house ...
— The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters • Sue Petigru Bowen
... cried Captain Stitt, rather tartly, "am I goin' to finish that yarn of mine or don't ...
— The Depot Master • Joseph C. Lincoln
... 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 |
