"Quizzically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little quizzically at the tumble-down house on the cliff above them and then at the old boat, with its tattered maroon sail, anchored below. "There's not much money in it?" ...
— Uncle William - The Man Who Was Shif'less • Jennette Lee
... me quizzically "You wouldn't believe it, Walter, would you?" he said. "Here in this twentieth century in New York, and in fact in every large city of the world - love-philtres, love-pills, and all the rest of it. And it is not among the ignorant that these things are found, either. You ...
— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve
... He laughed quizzically. 'Well, I'm a barbarian, and it's possible I may some day be a millionaire. But I'm not such a conceited cad as to imagine a woman like that would ever fall in love with ME!' His voice sank almost ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed
... softly, then added, looking a little quizzically at Mollie; "But you know I don't blame them so much when I try putting myself in their place. Of course we love Will, but suppose it had been Allen, for instance, ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point - Or a Wreck and a Rescue • Laura Lee Hope
... a kindly and contented face, cherry ripe in cheek and lips, and from a pair of deep-set blue eyes she looked out quizzically at the ...
— The Albert Gate Mystery - Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective • Louis Tracy
... grandson quizzically, seeking the cause of such heterodoxy in a northern man. "Say, you ain't been falling in love?" he hazarded. "You—you ain't going to bring one ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer
... appearance in the crisis of the fight of other gentlemen on horseback which most interested Colonel Boyce. "So they went in pursuit of the fellow who had fled and they never came back again." He looked quizzically at his son. "These ...
— The Highwayman • H.C. Bailey
... evident interest and approval, the canvas upon which the youthful artist was at work, holding his glass to his eyes; then, looking quizzically over it, remarked to his friend, "What ...
— Whistler Stories • Don C. Seitz
... down quizzically. "And I've never seen Lunnon! Never mind, my dear; 'tisn' too late to begin. There's none of this crew knows how to swim but me and Tenny here," she pointed out a boy of eleven or twelve. "We'll just row out to harbour's mouth; there's a cove where we can put the littlest ones to paddle. And after ...
— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... I can't set it," said Miss Ingate quizzically. "I was getting on so well with the high lights on that statue. I'll come along back to the studio in ...
— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett
... sir," Melissa answered, looking up at him quizzically through those pretty gray spectacles. "I'd put away quite a little sum of my own to make this trip upon. It was my only chance of seeing Europe and improving myself a piece. I knew when I started I couldn't go all the round trip with the rest of my party; but I thought I'd ...
— Stories by English Authors: The Sea • Various
... commented the fair-haired boy of seventeen, sauntering into his sister's room and taking a somewhat insecure seat upon a fancy table, where, with hands in pockets, he regarded her quizzically. "Great Scott, what a turn out! You look like a magician in the midst of a magic circle. Are you going to witch the lot into newts and toads? Whence this thusness? You won't persuade me that it's a fit of neatness and you're actually tidying. Doesn't exactly ...
— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil
... right to report yourselves here and explain your purposes," he continued gravely; "but it is impossible that you may proceed. To-morrow morning we shall give you escort and transportation back to Brussels. I anticipate"—here he glanced quizzically at our aged mare, drooping knee-sprung between the shafts of the lopsided dogcart—"I anticipate that you will return more ...
— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb
... said, "we're in the old house again until spring, anyway. I haven't been so comfortable in a year. And, say," here he looked at me quizzically, "Mary has joined the new cemetery association; you know they're trying to improve the resting places of the forefathers, and, by George, if they didn't elect her chairman at the first meeting. She's ...
— Great Possessions • David Grayson
... Deerfoot is made glad to hear the words of his brother," replied the Shawanoe, handing his paddle to the youth. Not expecting that, Victor scratched his head and looked quizzically ...
— Deerfoot in The Mountains • Edward S. Ellis
... her quizzically. "What a dear, fat old rotter of a respectability it is, to be sure," said she—and strode from the room, and ...
— The Conflict • David Graham Phillips
... little Viennese smiling wisely, but with a trace of cynicism. "The little American must not be reminded—h'm? We will go.... For you have done so much for me, you big, strange, platonic Mr. Billy!" Dazzlingly she smiled on him, her dark eyes quizzically provocative. ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley
... love lorn lady! Maestro Diego would have had the romance and the lily if he had walked ahead instead of behind me!—and he could have had the broken head as well!" Then he sniffed again at the bit of silk, and regarded the monk quizzically. ...
— The Flute of the Gods • Marah Ellis Ryan
... this fourteen-year-old boy like a ninepin. Well, to be sure, I am surprised." And the doctor eyed his niece quizzically over his spectacles. "You're quite a dangerous young person to ...
— Hunter's Marjory - A Story for Girls • Margaret Bruce Clarke
... run by storage batteries. They have a third rail, and powerful motors," and Mr. Swift looked quizzically at his son. He loved to argue with him, for he said it made Tom think, and often the two would thus thresh out some knotty point of an invention, ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout - or, The Speediest Car on the Road • Victor Appleton
... shot of mine, and also because we will need him. Yes." He turned to Larry. "You have a poonch like a mule kick, my young friend," he said. "Some time you pay me for that, too, eh?" He smiled; and the quality of the grimace was not exactly reassuring. Larry looked him over quizzically. ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt
... quizzically into his eyes to see what effect this would have, and if there was no evidence of a mist of pleasure and affection being vigorously restrained I was very much mistaken. Something seemed to hold the man in ...
— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser
... for anything," cried Margery, now awakened to the possibilities of having a sailboat of their very own. Tommy regarded her quizzically, opened her mouth to speak, ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea - Or The Loss of The Lonesome Bar • Janet Aldridge
... double-barreled?" asked Kincaid, the psychologist. He smiled quizzically. "That all this virility and nubility and glamor is ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith
... a few steps into the hall, and stamped her foot violently upon the floor. The thick Turkey carpet reduced the noise to the faintest echo, but an answering laugh sounded from behind a screen, and Jack Melland's eyes looked quizzically ...
— The Fortunes of the Farrells • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... suppose you worked at all, Dick," said Tom quizzically. "Of course whipping up and down a stream in rubber boots, over stones and all sorts of ...
— The High School Boys' Fishing Trip • H. Irving Hancock
... gingerly arrayed himself in the damp garments and when he was dressed, Tex regarded him quizzically: "Them belongin's of yourn sure do show neglect, Win." Endicott started at the word. It was the first time any one had abbreviated his name, and instantly he remembered the words of Alice Marcum: "If you keep on improving some day somebody is going to call you Win." ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx
... this going to be a hunting trip or an invasion of Africa?" inquired Billy, quizzically as Harry sorted out and Frank read off ceaselessly the apparently interminable inventory of the supplies of the Chester party. ...
— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton
... or two into her muff, then raised her eyes to find him regarding her quizzically. "Are you ...
— The Tin Soldier • Temple Bailey
... hopes in case you had made a mistake. The silence will keep 'The Evening Mail' from learning the news for a while. And I've had our forms left standing. We're all ready to run out an extra —-in case you haven't made a mistake, Prescott," added Mr. Pollock quizzically. ...
— The High School Left End - Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron • H. Irving Hancock
... pecked each other just below the eye after the manner of women and the Countess departed, while Hermia quizzically watched her graceful back until it had disappeared in the shadows of the store. The current that usually flowed between them was absent now, so Hermia let her go; for Olga Tcherny, when in this mood, wore an armor which Hermia, clever ...
— Madcap • George Gibbs
... brave man. He was both fearless and self-possessed. He paused, gazed quizzically at his little tormentor, and says he: "Billy, you got a pistol, and you want to get a pretext to shoot me, and I ain't going to give it ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson
... day after they had been in their home about a week. She had just finished looping the pretty Swiss curtains at the windows of their living room. "I really do not," she continued, stepping back, her finger tips together, her head quizzically on one side. "Nothing can be sweeter or prettier than our home. Jaffray, have you noticed how dainty the chintz furniture is and how well it goes with the walls? I think I deserve commendation for that ...
— The Little Immigrant • Eva Stern
... slowly he glanced quickly around the table. There was what he needed. An ashtray with a magnet in its base to hold it to the metal edge of the table. Jason stopped shaking the dice and looked at them quizzically, then reached over and grabbed the ashtray. He dropped the base ...
— Deathworld • Harry Harrison
... him quizzically for a moment, as she had looked at him often since he had gone to work ...
— The Efficiency Expert • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... at me quizzically. "I guess yo's on'y foolin', massa. Me? Why, I 'ain't never been borned ...
— Olympian Nights • John Kendrick Bangs
... interrupted by a lively chatter outside the tent and a loud laugh. She continued to say grace, but just as she was pronouncing the concluding words, Crazy Jane tripped into the tent. The girl paused at the entrance and surveyed her companions quizzically. ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas • Janet Aldridge
... had grown-up children of his own and could not help speaking with a touch of sarcasm—he thought it good for boys in the lunatic stage), "pray," said he, looking quizzically down at the unhappy but firm-minded George as he sat there in his chair, "is there any form of work for which you do feel ...
— On Something • H. Belloc
... at Dangerfield; and Dangerfield looked at him, quizzically, perhaps a little ashamed, in return; after ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... quizzically. "That's not manners to ask personal questions. But I don't mind telling ye all, confidentially, that I haven't my mind made yet between—a reception at the Vincent Wanderlusts'—or ...
— Seven Miles to Arden • Ruth Sawyer
... not as amicable as that just made to Worden. He talked long and arduously, but every now and then Manson's deep bass boomed out heavy with argument, and his massive fist crashed ponderously on the table. Presently Filmer drew a long breath and, stepping out on the trim gravel path, glanced up quizzically at the chief constable who looked as though enthroned ...
— The Rapids • Alan Sullivan
... that his hat was well pulled down over his face. He put his hands in his pockets and looked quizzically at the advancing Mr. Fosdike. "So far," he said, "I'm the man that locked ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Various
... to you, if I have to keep this distance?" Seguis asked, quizzically, and met her stare ...
— The Wilderness Trail • Frank Williams
... handsome—but so are heaps of women. Nice house, plenty of money, I should say, and of course she herself is well bred. Yet there is something odd about her—about her manner, rather. Looks at one queerly—almost quizzically—and yet when she smiled she looked extraordinarily sad." He turned a corner rather carelessly and a surprised motor-cyclist sounded his horn reproachfully. "I wonder—is she a widow? There was no sign of a ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... on the lawn for a lingering look around him. Returning to the veranda he eyed Wade and Bronner quizzically. ...
— Terry - A Tale of the Hill People • Charles Goff Thomson
... into her suitcase and flung herself down on her bed; the others followed her example; and when a moment later Miss Judy stepped into the tent and looked quizzically at the trio she found them apparently wrapped ...
— The Campfire Girls at Camp Keewaydin • Hildegard G. Frey
... forehead quizzically. "You should realize that we cannot allow you to go back to the surface—alive, or any other way. We intend to increase the Petrolia, spreading them to other underground, yet uninhabited ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various
... was over, Jeff waited for Anne and Lydia, to carry home their parcels. He stood for a moment beside Andrea, and Andrea regarded him with that absurd devotion he exuded for The Prisoner. Jeff smiled at him even affectionately, though quizzically. He wished he knew what picture of him was under Andrea's skull. A sudden impulse seized him to make ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... glanced quizzically at the faces of his "women-folks." At this moment Sam broke out with a ...
— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough
... that!" ordered Zeke sternly. "You're not goin' to do anything of the kind. We've got one boy lost now and that's enough. My dad used to tell me that one boy was a boy and two boys was half a boy. I don't know just how much four would be," he added quizzically, as he glanced at his young companions. "We've got troubles enough now. Just hold your horses and wait, and we'll soon find out what we all of us want ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... Peter looked at him half-quizzically, yet with a smile of benevolent approval, and conferred upon him the honour and reward of escorting the True Story Teller home in his canoe that evening, across the swirling river, where the molten gold of sunset ran ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke
... getting a monopoly of door-knobs at the Cape, I suppose?" said Louis quizzically. His cousin manufactured, among other ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... Nan, looking at him quizzically, "really Mr. John Lefever whom I've heard so many ...
— Nan of Music Mountain • Frank H. Spearman
... the bartender eyed the cowboy quizzically. "What's the big idee—pinchin' back the ...
— Prairie Flowers • James B. Hendryx
... Jim, quizzically, "she isn't quite as handsome as the barges on the lake in the park, that float up and down, looking like white swans. Yes, ...
— Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir • Mary Catherine Crowley
... said one of them, quizzically. "Ogden, have you lived all your life in every house in Crofield and in Mertonville and everywhere? You know ...
— Crowded Out o' Crofield - or, The Boy who made his Way • William O. Stoddard
... took a seat on the chair Doederlein had been sitting on. He looked into Daniel's face quizzically. "Is it true, Daniel, that you are going to get married again? That you are going to ...
— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann
... silly divine kind," he specified, now gazing at her quizzically, as if lost in a mood over which he had no control; "the sort that is as long as life and stronger. It is entirely different and ages older than the reasonable logical love, all proper and suitable ...
— Java Head • Joseph Hergesheimer
... for democracy," he said emphatically, looking quizzically at me for my assertion; "if ...
— Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens
... letter came. You must come, only—" he hesitated, "only I'm afraid you'll be a little cramped for room. A village parsonage isn't a ranch, you know. But, if you don't mind sort of—picnicking, and having to stand up in the corner to sleep—" he paused quizzically. ...
— The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch • Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
... of us in most things." Seaton glanced at the two women quizzically and turned to Crane. "And as for their being bald, this was one time, Mart, when those two phenomenal heads of hair our two little girl-friends are so proud of didn't make any kind of hit at all. They probably regard that black thatch of Peg's and Dot's auburn mop as relics of a barbarous and ...
— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith
... manners, lad,' said Mark Clay, looking at his son quizzically, as he noticed how no man, woman, or child passed the young master without ...
— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin
... said Sylvie, replying in earnest good faith to the question he asked quizzically for a cover to his real eagerness in letting her know. "I wish I could! But ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... of you or of myself to say that no boy could appreciate you. The measure of a man's manhood is his ability to understand the highest type of womanhood. As to your being worldly, that's all nonsense." He stroked her hair a few minutes in silence, and then said, half quizzically, "You might question me, if I said it, but this is what Balzac said of women like you: 'A woman who has received a man's education possesses a faculty which is the most fertile in happiness for herself and her husband; but that woman is ...
— The Master-Knot of Human Fate • Ellis Meredith
... ensnared me?" queried the lady quizzically. "It hath. As the yellow metal of the earth hath always thrown a spell over men so the red gold of thy hair hath fascinated me. I dote on thy locks, my fair page. Ay! so much so that they and I shall ne'er be parted more. ...
— In Doublet and Hose - A Story for Girls • Lucy Foster Madison
... a run up to Point View?" and Fred looked quizzically at first one and then another of ...
— The Mystery at Putnam Hall - The School Chums' Strange Discovery • Arthur M. Winfield
... that?" And he looked at me quizzically. "Have you been watching the stock's actions ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson
... uniforms, among which the purser's white was conspicuous, passed, giving them its wake; there was no sound from it, only a blaze of teeth and eyeballs. Simpson glanced over his shoulder at it. The purser was standing in the stern, clear of the awning, his head quizzically on one side and a cigarette in ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various
... thousand dollars for a keyhole one could not miss." Simpson did not reply for a moment. He thought, thought—thought deeply—and then came to him the inspiration of his life. He looked at Grampus half quizzically, but in a manner not to offend, and as if it were merely a jest over ...
— The Wolf's Long Howl • Stanley Waterloo
... 'copy' to lose, I suppose?" suggested Jimmie Dale quizzically. "Too bad, too, after working up a theatrical name like that for him—the Gray Seal—rather unique! Who ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... myself in her arms, saying I would not distress her for the world; that I would do anything she desired; that if she wished she might send Fred off, for I loved her best on earth. But after some minutes of deep thought she looked at me quizzically and replied, 'You know, dear, I always said you must choose your career for yourself.' Then seeing that I seemed hurt and ashamed, she kissed me and whispered, 'Love makes us selfish: my affection ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, April 1875, Vol. XV., No. 88 • Various
... laughed. "I've never set foot in the place before. It's a way we Irish have of putting our fingers into other people's pies! Some call it intrusion"—he glanced quizzically at the boy—"but these good creatures understand it. They're more human than the Saxon or the—" Again a glint of humor crossed his face, as he paused ...
— Max • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... know when dinner is ready, and I could not say that for some boys that I am acquainted with," replied his uncle, quizzically. ...
— Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... his wife quizzically, opened his lips to speak, and closed them. Perhaps he thought it would be unwise as well as wrong to disturb the girl's faith in ...
— The Second Latchkey • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... glanced down rather sheepishly at his costume, which was hanging in tatters, then up at the quizzically smiling ...
— The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings • Edgar B. P. Darlington
... and this evening I was particularly on my good behaviour; but, oh, it was tiresome! and I could see that the boys didn't know what to make of it,—Murray Unsworth asked if I didn't feel well, and Fee looked very quizzically at me, though I pretended I didn't see him. I was so afraid he'd say ...
— We Ten - Or, The Story of the Roses • Lyda Farrington Kraus
... in the middle watch, after the manner of hunters, trappers, and sailors, the world over. He quietly rebuilds the fire, reduces a bit of navy plug to its lowest denomination, and takes a solitary smoke—still holding down his favorite log. Quizzically and quietly he regards the sleeping youngsters, and wonders if among them all there is one who will do as he has done, i.e., relinquish all of what the world reckons as success, for the love of nature and a free forest ...
— Woodcraft • George W. Sears
... want 'em," said Mrs. Douglass quizzically. "Shut up, Fleda, I forget who sent them biscuit—somebody that calculated to make a shew for a little, I reckon.—My sakes! I believe it was Mis' Springer herself!—she didn't hear me though," said Mrs. Douglass peeping out of the half-open door. "It's a good thing the world ain't ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... little as the door opened. He regarded his wife quizzically as she walked forward with a step of native grace, now grown a trifle languid from the weight on her spirit. He did not speak, however, until she had seated herself in the chair facing his. Then, when at last she looked up, and her somber gaze ...
— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan
... are great ideas buzzing in Roger's head, which would never have been there save for the war. At present he is chiefly conscious of his clothes. His mother embraces him with cries of rapture, while Mr. Torrance surveys him quizzically over the paper; and Emma, rushing to the piano, which is of such an old-fashioned kind that it can also be used as a sideboard, plays 'See the Conquering ...
— Echoes of the War • J. M. Barrie
... captured a very curious specimen carries it off carefully to press between the leaves of his signal-book, like a flower. Another sailor, passing by, taking his small roast to the oven in a mess-bowl, looks at him quizzically and says: ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... in his bachelor apartment in the Worthington was one person, this queer fellow living in a roadside cabin is quite another," suggested Dr. Bruce Brainard quizzically. "Still, I'll warrant Miss Forrest will confess to a bit of curiosity, when she found she was ...
— The Brown Study • Grace S. Richmond
... contemplated the liquor in the glass, "I've drunk one quart already, now shall I get seventeen times drunker'n I am, or shall I stay drunk seventeen times as long?" He drank the liquor and returned the glass to the bar, "guess I'll just let Nature take her course," he opined, and glanced about him quizzically. "I mistrusted this wasn't goin' to be no prosaic jubilee, but what I'm wonderin' is, how's it goin' to come out? 'Tain't likely anyone'll get hurt, 'cause they can't hit me, an' I don't want to ...
— Prairie Flowers • James B. Hendryx
... Of her introduction to the fields of higher literature we have one reminiscence. Her spirit was so eager, she read so much and so quickly, that a friend sought to test her by lending her Sartor Resartus. She carried it home, and when next he met her he asked quizzically how she had got on with Carlyle. "It is grand!" she replied. "I sat up reading it, and was so interested that I did not know what the time was, until I heard the factory bells calling me to ...
— Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary • W. P. Livingstone
... if that is it, of course we wanted Margaret Elizabeth up at the Park; but the young people of this generation like to manage their own affairs, as we did before them." Mr. Pennington looked quizzically at his niece. "She's been getting up a bit of melodrama for our benefit, that's all. If you will pardon the suggestion, my dear, I think possibly it is you who ...
— The Little Red Chimney - Being the Love Story of a Candy Man • Mary Finley Leonard
... standing all this time. He looked at Robert very quizzically. Here was a new type of opponent, one who spoke with the utmost frankness and confidence, and yet without the least taint of braggadocio. But Peter never had been beaten in debate or argument; so he returned to the discussion with great vim ...
— Around Old Bethany • Robert Lee Berry
... Grace, "you make me impatient to be there at this very minute. There's one thing," she added quizzically, "if no other orange blossoms ever come my way, I'll at least ...
— Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach - Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves • Annie Roe Carr
... had been written they took him their first check. He looked at it quizzically, and then at the boys. Then he said simply: "Thank you." He took a pin and pinned the check to his desk. There it remained, much to the curiosity of ...
— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok
... for possible visitors," announced Gif. "You know, Glutts and Werner may call on us," he added quizzically. ...
— The Rover Boys on a Hunt - or The Mysterious House in the Woods • Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
... seaside resort for Bucharest society and during the season its plage is thronged with summer visitors dressed in the height of the Paris fashion. From atop his marble pedestal in the city's principal square a statue of the Roman poet Ovid, who lived here in exile for many years, looks quizzically down upon the ...
— The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the AEgean • Edward Alexander Powell
... good thing you had your dinner, honey, before I started this yarn," she said, looking at me quizzically over her glasses, "for I'll be a long time bringin' you to the dinner-party. But I've got to tell you all this rigmarole first, so you'll understand what's comin'. If I was to tell you about the dinner-party first you'd get a wrong ...
— Aunt Jane of Kentucky • Eliza Calvert Hall
... why not scatter some of your enthusiasm over the other camp-fires?" Dade broke in quizzically. "Go and proclaim it, then. Tell the San Vincente men, and the Las Uvas, and all the ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower
... voice to angry tones, a remarkable thing for Bill to do in business hours, but those around who heard had no blame for him. The strangers left without taking up their cigars or paying for them. Bill looked after them quizzically. ...
— The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay - The Secret of the Red Oar • Margaret Penrose
... save Don at my expense? All right, Tory," he answered quizzically in the voice and ...
— The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest • Margaret Vandercook
... surveying the exquisite "set" of the garment in such mirrors as she could procure, she said to herself quizzically: ...
— The Red Acorn • John McElroy
... yourself that he was out with the ladies when the first robbery took place. As to the others, I don't remember. Yesterday he was probably in his room, writing. I think that acquits him, eh?" Sir James looked quizzically into the broad face of the affable detective, ...
— Martin Hewitt, Investigator • Arthur Morrison
... be walked on by the Champion," Weary announced quizzically. "Mama mine! but yuh sure ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... up at his companion quizzically, then he tasted the dark, thick concoction in the ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... children that she couldn't as yet even begin to imagine. And though he confined his serious conversation to the two other men, he would ever and again show himself mindful of her and throw her some friendly enquiry, some quizzically puzzling remark. Blenker as usual treated her as if she were an only very indistinctly visible presence to whom an effusive yet inattentive politeness was due. He was clearly nervous almost to the pitch of jumpiness. He knew he was to be spoken to about the sugar business directly ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... finished," Mrs. Fielding said, looking at her hand quizzically. "You said no trump. Partner, let's ...
— Undertow • Kathleen Norris
... had a faculty for dumbness and said nothing; but a smile which approached a grin formed on his face as he stood eyeing quizzically first one and then the other. Finally, picking up the empty glasses, he left ...
— The Girl of the Golden West • David Belasco
... saw it hurt him I usen't to do it again—for a while—at least. I think that was a grand way to bring up a daughter. I've been wonderin' since I've been here if an aunt could bring a niece up the same way." And she looked quizzically ...
— Peg O' My Heart • J. Hartley Manners
... Dicksie quizzically. Her confusion was delightful. He rose, lifted her hand in his own, and, ...
— Whispering Smith • Frank H. Spearman
... quizzically, and obeyed. His left hand rested on the bunk beside him; his right hand ...
— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London
... reaches into a hip pocket and draws forth a handkerchief: the handkerchief is wetter than his hands. With a gesture of vexation he throws it away, and gives his attention to the girl. He looks at her quizzically; then, rather timidly, he kneels at her side, and lays his ear over her heart. He rises promptly with a satisfied nod, carefully removes his dripping coat, folds it neatly, and places it on the log. Again ...
— The Noble Lord - A Comedy in One Act • Percival Wilde
... she was the first of the flood, though he was mighty sorry for you both; and he said, too, that, as she was the first to strike out for the shore, Kennedy Square ought to build a triumphal arch for her," and St. George looked quizzically ...
— Kennedy Square • F. Hopkinson Smith
... Land sakes, child, don't I know it? Cap'n Eben's the salt of the earth. I'm a Regular and always have been, but I'd be glad if my own society was seasoned with a few like him. 'Twould taste better to me of a Sunday." She paused, and then added quizzically: "What d'you s'pose Cap'n Elkanah and the rest of our parish committee would say if ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln
... climbin' through ither, noo up, noo down, noo maister, noo man? Ye canna make Canadians revolutionaries. They are a' on the road to be maisters. Malcolm is a clever loon but he has a wee bee in his bonnet." The old lady smiled quizzically at ...
— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor
... know the winner of every race," he remarked, quizzically watching Joe Archer, who was blushing and as uneasy as a schoolgirl when nabbed in the ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin
... the game I like. But, then, I have to live, and, since I'm in organized baseball, I want to be at the top of the heap, the same as I would if I were a lawyer, or a doctor. That's it—the top of the heap—the New York Giants for mine—if I can reach 'em," and he smiled quizzically. ...
— Baseball Joe in the Big League - or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles • Lester Chadwick
... woman smiled quizzically. "No, Sallie —not Sue—not this time. That little rattle-brain's affections will only last the week out. Nothing very important—that is, nothing urgent. We were talking about the Tilghman portraits and the Lely that Cousin John has brought into town from Claymore Manor, and what ...
— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith
... wondering just what grade of humanity you are supposing yourself to represent just now," says Doctor Heath, eyeing him quizzically. ...
— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch
... went up, the bright brown eyes regarded me quizzically, the faint familiar smile hung maddeningly ...
— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates
... I ever hear that name?" asked Anderson, quizzically. "Bustin' bottles, hey! Wal, they'll be bustin' their heads presently.... Sit down, Dorn. You look fine, only you're ...
— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey
... ventured a diffident greeting to the elevator boy, whom he remembered. The boy looked at him quizzically and nodded with customary aloofness. Graydon found himself hoping that he would not meet Bobby Rigby. He also wondered, as the car shot up, how his father had managed to escape from the meshes that were drawn about him on ...
— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon
... his hands and surveyed her quizzically. Felix, despite his protests, was not enamoured of Delgratz, and his mercurial temperament rejoiced in the near approach of ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy
... first instance, he thought of getting out of the country on foot, he was arrested a hundred yards short of the frontier and was taken before an elderly captain. "When he asked me my name, and I said, 'I am Professor Nicolai,' he looked at me long and quizzically. I am doubtful whether he knew that I was being hunted, but I have the impression that he did know.... He advised me, in friendly fashion, not again to attempt crossing the frontier by night, for the frontier patrols were ...
— The Forerunners • Romain Rolland
... he merely regarded his trusted officer with a quizzically raised eyebrow. But the others drew around. It was so apparent that Van Rycke was pleased with himself. Which could only mean that in some fantastic way he had managed to bring their venture down in a full fin landing, that somehow he had argued the Queen out of danger into a ...
— Plague Ship • Andre Norton
... be proved, horrible guesses at my ancestry, he barked like a dog, bayed at me on all fours; finally whirling his staff over his head, he rushed at me as if to dash my brains out—then, cooling as suddenly as he had boiled over, stopped short, looked quizzically at me, blew out his cheeks and let his breath escape in a volley. "Poh!" says he, "Poh! what an old Palamone we have here," threw down his staff and came towards me ...
— The Fool Errant • Maurice Hewlett
... close to his head, and his face was transformed by soap and happiness. Redding glanced quizzically at the rest of the party—at the mother's radiant countenance beaming from the dusk of her crepe veil, at the three little girls in their composite costumes, at the carnations pinned on each bosom. Then he deliberately turned his ...
— Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch • Alice Caldwell Hegan
... looked at him quizzically. "Would you sacrifice your own life before you would the love of your sweetheart, for instance, if you ...
— Claire - The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author • Leslie Burton Blades
... the air of one who had come back after many years to see someone who would be glad to see him. He shed his swag and stood it by the wall with great deliberation; then he rested his elbow on the counter, stroked his beard, and grinned quizzically at the shopman, who smiled back ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... increase this morning, isn't it, Clara?" said Madeline quizzically. "Gest and Pant, short for Gesture and Pantomime; dark horse, short for a person like—— Girls, run in, quick. ...
— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde
... from one gift to the other quizzically. Then by way of disposing of the subject he seized his daughter in his arms and dandling her toward the ceiling cried, "If it's artistic things we must have, this is the most artistic thing which I know of in the wide world. ...
— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant
... at him quizzically as he stood pistols in hand in all the grandeur of his assumed character. The shadow of disappointment at the non-appearance of the Juel-lists which had rested on his round face, passed away, and ...
— "George Washington's" Last Duel - 1891 • Thomas Nelson Page
... of the corner building straight down upon them. Margaret MacLean dropped to one knee and laid her cheek against them. "The happy things—you can hear them laugh! I want all—all I can carry." She looked up quizzically at the flower-seller. "Now how did you ever happen ...
— The Primrose Ring • Ruth Sawyer
... once Joe Ferris looked at Roosevelt quizzically, wondering when the pleasant "four-eyed tenderfoot" would begin to worry about catching cold and admit at last that the game was too much for him. But the "tenderfoot," it happened, had a dogged streak. He made ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn
... from the Bishop's office, I was accompanied by another colored rector, who had very short legs. I am six feet, four inches in height, and he looked up at me as we walked along and asked quizzically: 'How long should a man's legs be?' I smiled and told him I thought, perhaps, every man should have legs long enough to reach to the ground. Yes, of course, we laughed at each other, but my argument won, ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration
... not all dead yet," mused Tom quizzically, as, in riding through the "tough" street again they heard hisses from open windows at which ...
— The Young Engineers in Arizona - Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand • H. Irving Hancock
... Knox—a link to seek which I really went down to Deepbrow." He stared at me quizzically, but my answering look must have been a blank one. "It is part of the tassel of one of those red cloth caps commonly called in England, ...
— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer
... Desmond, sitting in the forecastle among the men of his mess, was occupied in darning a pair of breeches for Parmiter. It was the one thing he could not do satisfactorily; and one of the men, after quizzically observing his well meant but ludicrous attempts, at last caught up the garment and held it aloft, calling his mates' attention to it with ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang
... feel it in all your bones," remarked Jim, quizzically, "because it is liable to be a long drawn out storm ...
— Frontier Boys on the Coast - or in the Pirate's Power • Capt. Wyn Roosevelt
... five hundred men had been rendered homeless for that day at least. Nevertheless, they were holding out. An hour later only one ballot had been cast at the polls in Possum Trot. The crowd thickened outside the courthouse door. Men eyed each other quizzically, morosely, some even avoided ...
— The Co-Citizens • Corra Harris
... I," assented Christie so heartily that the other looked at him quizzically, and he hastened to add, "I mean so do I wish you were there, though I trust you may be mistaken in your prophecy. In case there is any trouble, though, I hope I may reach my post before ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... effort at nonchalance, Stanton shoved his right fist into the brown hat and his left fist into the green one, and raised them quizzically ...
— Molly Make-Believe • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott |
