"Testily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... edition of the Epistle of Barnabas, repels somewhat testily the imputation of Tischendorf, who criticises him as if he supposed that the saying in St. Matthew was not directly referred to [Endnote 73:2]. This Hilgenfeld denies to be the case. In regard to the ...
— The Gospels in the Second Century - An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work - Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' • William Sanday
... the professor testily, "if there's been any damage done you can tell your superiors to send me a bill and I'll take the matter up in Washington. In the meantime, we will stay here, and if I like it here, I will stay a ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... affairs evil or unjust, my lord," asked Las Casas. The Bishop even more testily exclaimed, "What do you know, or what knowledge and learning have you that you venture to handle these affairs?" Though mindful not to annoy the Bishop of Badajoz, Las Casas let himself go somewhat, and with something of Quevedo's ...
— Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt
... want your money," said the old woman, testily, "and shall return it as soon as I have sold the other goat;"—whereupon, she took the leading-string from the "sennerin" and hobbled off with her new-found property, apparently as little ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12 • Various
... eyes of yours, Bud," he said testily. "They've got a way of boring through a man until he feels like they were scorching the furniture behind him. Well, I'll tell you. While Judith is away I am running this outfit. And if the men think ...
— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory
... do! It's enough to break the horses' necks, and knock one up for the whole day besides," he added testily; then twisted his head to look at the buggy that came on behind. "I thought Waldo was such a mad driver; they are taking it easily enough today," said Gregory. "One would think the ...
— The Story of an African Farm • (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner
... Boulaye testily. "How many coaches were there? Why, the Bellecour coach; the coach with ...
— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini
... cried Joseph testily. "Gregory, what a casuist you might have been had not nature made you a villain! You are as full of "what if s" as an egg of meat. Well what if some day he should return? I fling your ...
— The Tavern Knight • Rafael Sabatini
... matter as what?' said Eleanor very testily. 'Upon my word I don't know what this is ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... said the King testily, "some one must fetch me the Princess Mary Radiant, for if she once smiles on my back-yard it will be turned into a garden with real grass and real flowers—Canterbury bells and sunflowers—that's what I have ...
— More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme • Ada M. Marzials
... especially enjoined to distrust tears, and not to let himself be put out of countenance by haughty airs. The Viscount spent at least an hour in giving explanations and advice, to the great disgust of M. Wilkie, who, feeling that he was being treated like a child, somewhat testily declared that he was no fool, and that he knew how to take care of himself as well as any one else. Still, this did not prevent M. de Coralth from persisting in his instructions until he was persuaded that he had prepared his pupil for all possible emergencies. ...
— Baron Trigault's Vengeance - Volume 2 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau
... "Yes," said Paul testily, "on my honour. Now, perhaps, you'll let me alone. No, I won't shake hands, sir. I've had to accept your kicks, but I don't ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... me," Mandleco said testily, "that the killer was someone Carmack trusted enough to have in his home. Then you bludgeon Losch with the idea it was a person Carmack had reason to fear! It would ...
— We're Friends, Now • Henry Hasse
... selection of men for posts of command, and was shocked and alarmed when he heard that Pitt had appointed a comparatively young and untried man for the command of such an expedition as this. He once said testily to the King that Pitt's new ...
— French and English - A Story of the Struggle in America • Evelyn Everett-Green
... criticized the old gentleman, testily. "I sent you word by some black rascal three ...
— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling
... a jar and a discordance in the scheme of things. The moment I entered the schoolroom something in the air seemed to tell me that here, too, matters were strained and awry. Selina was staring listlessly out of the window, one foot curled round her leg. When I spoke to her she jerked a shoulder testily, but did not condescend to the civility of a reply. Charlotte, absolutely unoccupied, sprawled in a chair, and there were signs of sniffles about her, even at that early hour. It was but a trifling matter that had caused all this ...
— Dream Days • Kenneth Grahame
... in the doctor testily. "I am in charge of this case, and one patient at one time is all I care for. Drive back, Antoine, to Poussette's, where you will leave ma'amselle. Drive quick, too, for I wish to see the carpenter, Alexis Gagnon, next door to M. Poussette, where I think a room can be got for Mr. ...
— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison
... sport comes in!" said Archie testily, pausing at the fence of the chicken yard. "It's a long way to that camp in Michigan where we've got to take the child; and you needn't think it's going to be so easy. The old man will be hot after us. Putney's still got a nurse looking after him, but if he's traveled ...
— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson
... entertainment to be indulged in at intervals like a Drury Lane pantomime. But though I had no proof that such was the case, I knew Luke Freeman's malady to be a woman. I taxed him with it. He did not deny it. He was painting at the time, I remember, and he testily and unprofitably drew his brush across the face of a Copt woman he was working at, and bit off the end of a cigar. I asked him if it was another man's wife; he promptly said no. I asked him if there were any awkward complications ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... he desired information about the personality of Washington, and applied to the American historian Kennedy. Kennedy began to impart his knowledge in the manner that might have been expected from a historian when the Englishman interrupted rather testily, "No, no. That's not what I want. Tell me, was he a fussy old gentleman in a wig, who spilled snuff down the front of his coat?" It was in some such spirit that I applied to that old friend of the fine Italian manner, and the profound personal and inherited ...
— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice
... Peter spoke testily. He wanted Jan to marry him before he went back to India in October, and if he got the billet he hoped for, to follow him, taking the two children out, early ...
— Jan and Her Job • L. Allen Harker
... new Monarch testily, "do you believe that there should be delay in proclaiming myself? I shall feel safer with the Crown ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck
... too, I seem to feel, though with no definite reason for it, that she was perturbed and excited about something known only to herself, for she was strangely irritable on our walk, contradicted me fiercely, inquired testily who Nelson might be, then chid me for a dry old schoolmaster, when I told her, and such like flighty vagaries, inseparable, I believed, from her sex in general and her temperament in particular. If I have never taken the trouble to defend myself from the accusation ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... want to flatter you, my dear!" said the old man, testily, "but I thought it was pathetic—the way in which Ashe enjoyed your conversation. It showed he didn't get ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... said testily. "Charlie here's Prince Regent. But don't let the fancy title fool you. He got no more power than any Knight of the Realm. He's just too dern fat to do much more'n sit on a throne and eat ...
— Dream Town • Henry Slesar
... reading, the refrain had become so familiar to Alec, that he unconsciously murmured the last, changed as it was from the preceding form, aloud. Mr Cupples looked up from Gurnall uneasily, fidgeted in his chair, and said testily: ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald
... the car returned to us; but as Pyecroft stooped to gather up the rug, Hinchcliffe jerked the lever testily, and with prawn-like speed she retired backwards ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... case," said the Judge, testily, "always keep quite still, and you will in time find ...
— The Tale of Lal - A Fantasy • Raymond Paton
... them," he said testily, "consist of a great sewer away in the depths, accessible from various appointed places. Besides, nobody in his senses tries to lift earth out of a hole ...
— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay
... cheap!' retorted Ralph, testily; 'yes, and he did it well, and carries it off with a hypocritical face and a sanctified air, but you! Risk! What do you mean by risk? The certificates are all genuine, Snawley HAD another son, he HAS been married twice, his first wife IS dead, none but her ghost could tell that she didn't write ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... testily interposed Lord Hartledon. "I am at dinner, and can't see any stranger now. What ...
— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood
... corrected her mother testily. "A horse thief, no doubt. He's going to catch them ...
— Her Prairie Knight • B.M. Sinclair, AKA B. M. Bower
... the SQUIRE, testily; "there are a pair of feet left out. But you know, TOBY, how they run. The last line should be, 'Is to steal a few hours from the night, my Love.' Now, theoretically, and in accordance with order, all our observations are ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 8, 1891 • Various
... Boyce testily. "They got along in your Uncle Robert's days, and they can get along now. Charity, indeed! Why, the state of this house and the pinch for money altogether is enough, I should think, to take a man's mind. Don't you go talking to Mr. Harden in the way you do, Marcella. I don't like it, and ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... upper window. He was afraid of the anxiety that consumed him being visible to those loving eyes. She knew upon what errand he was going, but not the dangers of it. But he spoke cheerfully to Trevethick, who stood beneath the porch with moody brow, and testily found fault ...
— Bred in the Bone • James Payn
... the occasion, and complimented him with his usual gravity, until the young fellow blushed and his father somewhat testily signified to our friend that his irony was not agreeable. "I suppose," says the Colonel, with great hauteur, "that there is nothing ridiculous in an English gentleman entertaining feelings of loyalty and testifying his respect to his Queen: and I presume that Her Majesty knows best, and has ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... answered the old man, testily, "ten generations of country gentry, and the Lord only knows how many more of stout yeomen before them, is a good enough descent for us; but I like your pride, and I am glad that you spring from an ancient ...
— Dawn • H. Rider Haggard
... think I shall," he answered testily, as Aunt Pike went out of the room. "I hate mystery. Why can't we speak out and have it over? ...
— Kitty Trenire • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... against Hutchinson as to rapacious office-seeking the following extract from John Adams's diary is of curious interest. After detailing certain detractions of which he had been the victim, the diarist breaks out testily: "This is the rant of Mr. Otis concerning me. * * * But be it known to Mr. Otis I have been in the public cause as long as he, though I was never in the General Court but ...
— James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist • John Clark Ridpath
... me," said his chief testily, "that you are not so very healthy-looking yourself. What's the matter with YOUR getting inside as a dope fiend and MY ...
— The Lost House • Richard Harding Davis
... is drunk. Take him away and come back again." Several days later the couple again presented themselves, the man once more obviously intoxicated. "See here, I told you I wouldn't marry you when this man was drunk," the minister said testily. "Don't you come ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... my prospective father-in-law?" Richard demanded, almost testily. "There's an atmosphere about that house and the servants I can't ...
— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Guanche work at all," said he testily. "You ought to have known that from the talc. Great heavens, man, have you no eyes? Haven't you seen the general formation of the island? Don't you know ...
— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
... the use of going into the army, at all?" Mr. Bale said, testily. "Still, I suppose ...
— Held Fast For England - A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) • G. A. Henty
... about the child, nor whether there is a child,' Sir George answered testily. 'My uncle may be dead, unmarried, or alive and married—what ...
— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman
... been aching in every joint, his nose, his lips, and his eyes, this unjust speech might have amused him. As it was he answered testily: ...
— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson
... yourself?" cried the doctor, testily. "That is the way you women flatter the pride of ...
— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... "Rubbish!" cried he, testily. "Every young man thinks it the proper thing to talk like that, as if no girl was good enough for him. Miss Appleby is a charming girl, and she will find plenty of admirers without ...
— The Wharf by the Docks - A Novel • Florence Warden
... Father,' I said, rather testily. 'Haven't I been here hours on end with the parson's wife? Wouldn't I ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... in your place, Mary, I wouldn't be too smart,' said he testily, and then rested again upon the shovel handle. His face was flushed and heated. He breathed hard. Dead ...
— The Trail of a Sourdough - Life in Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan
... replied a little testily, "what sort of a figure should I cut in an office! No one can read my writing, and I couldn't add up a column of figures to save my life. What is it?" he added, as the door opened, and ...
— The Zeppelin's Passenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... broke in the Prince testily. "Was it with reference to Monsieur Beliani? I understood that his appointment to the Ministry of ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy
... you!" said the Lord testily, and somewhat sourly; "thou hast the choice. Have I not told thee that thou art free?" Then Ralph knelt before him, and said: "Lord, I thank thee from a full heart, in that thou wilt suffer me to depart on mine errand, for it is a great one." The scowl deepened on the Lord's face, and ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris
... principle," observed the doctor, somewhat testily, "you may say we have cause to be thankful for everything, bad as ...
— The Red Eric • R.M. Ballantyne
... king testily. "It may be from Rischenheim. Perhaps he can get here sooner. I should like to know about those dogs. Read it, ...
— Rupert of Hentzau - From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim: The Sequel to - The Prisoner of Zenda • Anthony Hope
... Queen Anne Street, he went out to Chelsea and found an eligible, little cottage by the side of the river, with a railed-in roof whence he could observe the sky. The landlady demanded references from the shabby, old man, when he testily replied, "My good woman, I'll buy the house outright." She then demanded his name—"in case, sir, any gentleman should call, you know." "Name?" said he, "what's your name?" "My name is Mrs. Booth." ...
— A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture - Painting • Clara Erskine Clement
... testily, "we understand that thoroughly. But I suppose you do not intend to cast the young lady's affections from you as if they were of ...
— The Uninhabited House • Mrs. J. H. Riddell
... said testily, "you mustn't ask those questions. All these institutions are very old institutions with habits and prejudices of their own. You mustn't ring the bell, that's all; they don't like it; you must just wait until they open; ...
— First and Last • H. Belloc
... in a lion's maw at fifty is the best we can hope for. For us, perhaps, Bozrah answered; but Jesus will go up to the cenoby among the rocks and die amongst the brethren reading the Scriptures. If the autumn rains don't make an end of him, Eliab interjected testily, as if he did not like his forecast of Jesus' death to be called into question. As I was saying, a shepherd's life is a hard one, and when the autumn rains make an end of him, the brethren will be on the look-out for another ...
— The Brook Kerith - A Syrian story • George Moore
... safe enough," he growled testily, "and so is my chain. Any one who steals from me will have to be pretty smart. I guess if this man had laid hands on my watch I'd have known it. Can't ...
— Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School - or The Parting of the Ways • Jessie Graham Flower
... Mr Pennycuick testily intimated, as before, that to be a Carey at all was enough for him. It was his excuse for these confidences, of ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... laine)"—Delane being then unjustly suspected of having been "nobbled" during his visits to my lady's salon, at the expense of the "Times," of which he was at that time the editor. Nor would you enjoy the discomfiture of a disputant of "Master Douglas" (as Thackeray rather testily named him), who, after chaffing the great wit for the unsteadiness of hand through which he broke a glass—which, he declared, he never did—received for reply an incredulous stare, and the cutting enquiry, "Yet I suppose you look into ...
— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann
... if she is? Things don't run by the clock," Danny Lynch answered testily. "You're always fussing. If it isn't ...
— Red-Robin • Jane Abbott
... opinion on that point is more valuable than mine," replied Tom, testily. "It may have been suicide. Men often get sick of life—especially if they are bored," ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill
... returned Malcolm testily; but his eyes were not quite clear, and he laid a kindly hand on the boy's shoulder. "I want no thanks, only you must promise me, on your word as an English gentleman, never to play for money as long as you ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... neither bath nor sleep!" retorted the colonel testily. "You'll go to your quarters and get into your uniform without a moment's delay. You'll be back here in fifteen minutes, or I'll order you in arrest. And you'll finish out your tour of guard duty. You'll be on duty and awake, sir, until the old guard goes off to-morrow morning. ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants - or, Handling Their First Real Commands • H. Irving Hancock
... my ways, and does all that is required," said the invalid, rather testily. "Run away, now, Louise. The housekeeper will show you to your room. It's opposite Elizabeth's, and you will do well to make her acquaintance at once. I shall expect you both to ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces • Edith Van Dyne
... 'tis naught! Here, your hand! Canst not lend a hand to help a man up in your own service?" he added testily, as stiff and dizzy he sat up and tried to rise. "You might have sent an arrow to stop his traitorous tongue; but there is no help in you!" he added, provoked at seeing a certain embarrassment about the youth. "Desert me ...
— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge
... marquis, still testily, but in a milder tone, 'I shall think my keys not safe in my pocket whilst you have so many swords by your side; nor that I have the command of my house whilst you have so many officers in it; nor that I am at my own disposal, whilst ...
— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald
... illustrious Capataz," the doctor said, testily. "You are not the only one here who can look an ugly ...
— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad
... right," said the doctor testily; "let it go at that! There's treachery, eh? You suspect it? You're sure of it—as reasonably sure as a gentleman can be of something he is not fashioned to understand? That's it, is it? All right, sir—all right! Very well—ver-y well. Now, sir, look at me! Business symptoms admitted, ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers
... the old woman testily, "it was I who saw the pictures, and I showed them to Eddo and to this white virgin. You cannot understand, but it was so, it was so. Eddo's gift of vision is small, mine is great. None have ever had it as I have it, and that is why Eddo and the others have suffered my tree ...
— The Ghost Kings • H. Rider Haggard
... you people wouldn't suggest such things," he said, a little testily. "I was just trying to get all thought of this most perilous voyage out of my mind, with the help of a novel here. From which do you seriously consider we have most to fear," he went on, "mines, submarines, or predatory vessels of ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... spread like wildfire, and soon a body of nearly 300 apprentices had assembled at Temple Bar, where they rescued their comrades and beat the city marshals. Again Gondomar complained to the mayor, who, sympathising at heart with the delinquents, testily replied that it was not to the Spanish ambassador that he had to give an account of the government of the city. The matter having reached the king's ears at Theobalds, he suddenly appeared at the Guildhall and threatened to ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume II • Reginald R. Sharpe
... a pretty color," he exclaimed testily. "How am I to know what's a pretty color? Now if it was a sack of flour or a spade—but I'll do my best, Missy," he added meekly, catching her eye in which the familiar imperiousness ...
— The Emigrant Trail • Geraldine Bonner
... was to learn he was not killed, testily insisted that a bullet had passed through him, adducing the blood on his face ...
— The Drummer Boy • John Trowbridge
... in any way discuss them. On their answering that they had no such powers, and had only to request his Majesty's Ay or No to the Propositions as they stood, "Then, but for the honour of the business," said the King testily, "an honest trumpeter might have done as much." Recovering himself, he listened to the Propositions duly read out, and then said he was sure they could not expect an immediate answer in so large a business. They told him that their instructions were not to remain in Newcastle more than ...
— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson
... asked rather testily because he did not want his attention distracted from the long thin straight boy figure ...
— The Secret Garden • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... the unfortunate Poons dropped his bow and in picking it up, knocked his music stand over. When Miss Husted glared at him, Poons grinned guiltily, and stole a glance in the direction of Jenny. Miss Husted followed this glance with her eye and rather testily suggested to her niece that the bell was ringing and there was no one to answer it. Jenny, who was glad to get out alive, hurriedly made her escape. Poons, sighing deeply, went into the alcove and looked out of the window. Miss Husted sat down, ...
— The Music Master - Novelized from the Play • Charles Klein
... you safe across the churchyard," he said; "and the vicar's servant will see you safe back." The tone in which he spoke instantly roused Sir Joseph. "I am not in my second childhood yet, Richard," he replied, testily. "I can find my way by myself." He kissed his daughter on the forehead. "No fear, Natalie. I shall be back in time for the mulled claret. No, Richard, I won't trouble you." He kissed his hand to his sister and went out into the hall for his hat: Turlington following him with a rough ...
— Miss or Mrs.? • Wilkie Collins
... your infernal priggishness," protested Ellsworth, testily. "Have we asked you to do anything but ...
— Heart's Desire • Emerson Hough
... borne;" and Delia Williams, the rival of Kate in the estimation of the school, made even more fun than Kate over her own disappointment. Some of the girls made a crown of bright papers and would have put it on Susan's head, but she testily pushed it away. ...
— Miss Ashton's New Pupil - A School Girl's Story • Mrs. S. S. Robbins
... nailin'," interrupted the economical Deacon, a little testily; "the noise don't disturb me; I can ...
— Romance of California Life • John Habberton
... bread backwards and forwards as if the fire were at fault, and when, at length, the English lady had fairly conquered the ground, and was started on a long sentence, he could bear the eclipse of his idol no longer, but, coming to the sofa where we sat, he testily said, 'Mrs. Somerville would rather talk on science than ...
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell
... long," I said, testily; "but I will just run in and say good-by, and then I want you to walk with me ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma • Hesba Stretton
... right!" I said testily. "You may be a kind of Galahad, Lawrence, outside all natural law. I don't know, but you'll forgive me if I go for a moment on my own experience—and that experience is, that you can start on as highbrow an elevation as you like, ...
— The Secret City • Hugh Walpole
... I know that," Bertie said testily. "My suggestion was that we might frighten them somehow, and I still don't see why we shouldn't be able to do it. Let us try to ...
— The Treasure of the Incas • G. A. Henty
... said Captain Pharo, making an unsuccessful attempt to light his pipe, and kicking out his left leg testily. ...
— Vesty of the Basins • Sarah P. McLean Greene
... fringe of a wreath, your small scrap of ribbon, your silly bit of lace, and calls you to account for the lot, and for each item. You are well habituated to be passed by as a shadow in Life's sunshine: it its a new thing to see one testily lifting his hand to screen his eyes, because you tease ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte
... Professor testily. "Do you think that just because I happen to have been exhibiting mesmerism to a parcel of old fossils, I am therefore too proud to associate with dear old friends like you? Come out of that chair, Spiegel my boy, for I shall preside now. Beer, ...
— The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle
... to buy it," said Mr. May, a little testily. It was with great difficulty he preserved his man-to-man ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence
... above calling it wages, man,' said Mr Boffin, testily. 'What the deuce! I never talked of any salary when I ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... man," snapped O'Meara, testily, "keep 'what we all know' until you are called on to testify. I ...
— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch
... and testily, "Sick? No, nor never was in my life. Nothin' but blind an' that's a trifle compared to sickness. What you askin' for? Didn't I eat ...
— A Sunny Little Lass • Evelyn Raymond
... Poll! Can't a man feel riled after such a wearing day and with nothing to eat, without his women-folks asking plaguey questions?" cried Mr. Brewster, testily. ...
— Polly and Eleanor • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... exclaimed Kalle testily. "I won't hear any more of that nonsense, for none of us have had to go short because of you. If you aren't good, I shall give a big party after you, for ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... Dymock?" she said testily. "I wish you would not go about like a mute at a funeral. You make me ...
— "Us" - An Old Fashioned Story • Mary Louisa S. Molesworth
... and I ain't pleased," answered Matthew, testily; "all I can say is, as I don't like so much cross-questioning. There's a sort of a lawyer chap has come down to-day with my lady, I hear, though I ain't set eyes on him yet; and I suppose he'll find ...
— Run to Earth - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... received a hint from one of his own gamekeepers that the old farmer was in a bad way, and talked of selling. So Sir Charles called on him, and asked him if he would sell "Splatchett's" now. "Why, I can't sell it twice," said the old man, testily. "You ha' got it, han't ye?" It turned out that Richard Bassett had been beforehand. The bank had pressed for their money, and threatened foreclosure; then Bassett had stepped in with a good price; and although the conveyance was not signed, a stamped agreement was, ...
— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade
... get you!" I exclaimed testily enough. "But to use your own phrase, kindly can the ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt
... Gamarra testily; "much you know about it. In half an hour you'll wish we had camped on ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens
... to her senses when she finds herself so situated, perhaps," he retorted testily; "and if she does not, it will just show ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... 'Tut, man,' retorted Ratsey testily, 'and if they waked, they would but pull the blankets tight about their ears, and say 'twas Blackbeard piping his crew of lost Mohunes to ...
— Moonfleet • J. Meade Falkner
... to public scorn for lack of a word. What word? they asked testily; but even now he could not tell. He had wanted a Scotch word that would signify how many people were in church, and it was on the tip of his tongue, but would come no farther. Puckle was nearly the word, but it did not mean so many people as he meant. ...
— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein
... was not equipped with a wireless apparatus, I suppose," Jim Barlow put in, rather testily. "She has done the best she knew how, sir, and that's ...
— Dorothy's Triumph • Evelyn Raymond
... cost me a great deal of vexation," replied Mr. Mayne very testily,—all the more that his resolution was wavering. "I do not wish to hurt your feelings, Sir Henry, but this confounded dressmaking of theirs——" But here Sir Harry stopped him by a most extraordinary facial contraction, which ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey
... his pocket. When, in order to do this, he lifted the lapel of his long zrinyi dolmany (old-fashioned Hungarian coat), I could see the butts of his pistols, which were always loaded and ready to his hands. He noticed the smile on my lips, and said testily, shrugging his shoulders, "What can I do? I have to think of my personal safety at all times. Wickedness has not died out of the world, and a poor lone old man is rather a temptation to robbers. To keep a manservant for protection would not do. He would be the ...
— Dr. Dumany's Wife • Mr Jkai
... in any case,' said his mother, a little testily, 'whoever gets it. Open the envelope at once, my boy, and don't stand looking at it like a goose in that ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... Booden, a little testily, "what did you say was the name of this place, and where away does it lay from 'Frisco?" In very choice Castilian, as Lanky declared, the priest rejoined that he did not understand the language in which Booden was ...
— Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) • Constance Fenimore Woolson
... drivers and the signallers were drinking tea, and seemed to be preparing to settle for the night in a barn whose lofty doors opened on to the road. "Look at those fellows," ejaculated the colonel testily. "They're never happy unless they can stuff themselves under a roof. Fetch 'em out, and tell 'em to pull up to the top of that hill there. As long as you keep away from villages and marked roads you can escape most of ...
— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)
... RAMSDEN. [testily] For goodness' sake, don't call him Jack under my roof [he throws the book violently down on the table, Then, somewhat relieved, he comes past the table to Octavius, and addresses him at close quarters with impressive gravity]. Now, Octavius, ...
— Man And Superman • George Bernard Shaw
... always a miracle," retorted her father testily, "A something out of the common, and an upsetting of the ordinary laws of nature. Did your uncle tell you nothing of his ...
— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli
... then, and the Mayor stepped forward as spokesman, "Name your two conditions," said he rather testily. "You own, tacitly, that you are the cause of all ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various
... testily, "you believe in nothing but what consists with your own prejudices and illusions. I remember when I was like you, ...
— Carmilla • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... you could come over. Just in time. The sherry's to your left. Yes, it's a very fine day. Yes, yes, this is Geoffrey my girl's to marry and all that.—What do I care about Father Anselm?" the old gentleman resumed testily, when his cousin Modus had shuffled off. ...
— The Dragon of Wantley - His Tale • Owen Wister
... all right," Peake said testily. "At least, I hope so," and he gave a short, grim laugh. "But they're uncommon slow payers. I sent 'em in an account for coal only last week—three hundred and fifty pound. Well, auntie, who's ...
— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett
... sharp enough, young man," replied the major testily; "but don't be sure about its being quick. If the South once gets to fighting, I know her people well enough to assure you that the Republican party can reach its ends only through seas of blood, ...
— His Sombre Rivals • E. P. Roe
... Sim," testily rejoined the aggrieved fat one, "I notice at that, though, that I am a regular scout while ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson
... this," testily, "that I am not to be instructed as to the sort of person I can ask to ...
— The Trumpeter Swan • Temple Bailey
... I'm responsible for making a fire, and nobody is responsible for what's happened to us on the way out here. It is just one of those unforeseen disturbances that come to the best regulated families," said Janus testily. ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills - The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains • Janet Aldridge
... representatives interrupted testily, "What is the point of this lengthy narrative? You can give the story to the newsmen without our official sanction, if you want to make it a heroic epic, young Steele. We have heard sufficient to prove your guilt, and that of Raynor, ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... perhaps an hour later that the ambulance, with three white-uniformed attendants, pulled out, carrying all those appurtenances necessary for the care of the insane, including the strait-jacket which Balcom had so testily suggested. ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey
... say is quite true," Phillotson continued testily. "She asked leave to go away with her lover, and I let her. Why shouldn't I? A woman of full age, it was a question of her own conscience—not for me. I was not her gaoler. I can't explain any further. I don't wish ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... Haydn to undertake the task of composing an oratorio on the subject. His old age and infirmities made him averse to the work. He was greatly annoyed by the text, and still more so by its compiler, who insisted upon changes in the music which Haydn testily declined to make. He was frequently irritated over the many imitative passages, and it was to relieve his own feelings and vary the monotony of the sentiment that he introduced the rollicking bacchanal chorus in the third part. ...
— The Standard Oratorios - Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers • George P. Upton
... anyway. But if the Boss isn't nursing a cracked wrist, it isn't my fault. I don't know what Jeems did to Red, but he, too, departed in a damaged condition. Do you have to do that?" Val demanded testily, squirming as Rupert ran his hands lightly over the boy's shoulders and down his ribs, touching every bruise ...
— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton
... all over town for you," said the lawyer testily. "Is this rumor true that you have ...
— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice
... me with an impatient wave of his hand; then he rose and paced up and down the room testily. After a pause, he spoke again. "The weak point of lethodyne is this: nobody can be trusted to say WHEN it may be used—except Nurse Wade,—which ...
— Hilda Wade - A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose • Grant Allen
... dear fellow," put in Lord Garrow, testily, "you retired from political life because your theories ...
— Robert Orange - Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange • John Oliver Hobbes
... of things in politics," broke in the chairman, testily. "But it's only the final round-up that counts. And be prepared for sudden changes, as the almanac says! I tell you, I don't know anything about this Spinney rumor—nor I don't care. But it's probably true. ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day
... remember," interposed the Doctor, testily, "that we do not wish to be compared in any way, shape, or manner with the Catholic missionaries. You might just as well compare us to the ...
— Hubert's Wife - A Story for You • Minnie Mary Lee
... said the Bishop, testily. "I have lived so long in the world, and had to do with so many crazy fools, that human vagaries no longer have power to surprise me. And, by our Lady, Sir Knight, I care not where you are, so that you have ...
— The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century • Florence L. Barclay
... verandah, and through it came His Excellency the Administrator, Sir Theophilus Shepstone, a stout man of medium height with a very clever, thoughtful face, as I have always thought, one of the greatest of African statesmen. He did not see us, but he caught sight of you and said testily— ...
— Finished • H. Rider Haggard
... rather testily. "It's not a thing she's likely to do twice! I should think she'd be frightened to go anywhere near a river again just yet. Are those clothes dry? Well, never mind, pack them as they are; we can't wait for them. And the ...
— The Princess of the School • Angela Brazil
... visions and talking with Saint Andrew in a dream. Marquis Berghen asked for the source whence he had derived such intimate acquaintance with the ideas of the Saint. The President took these remarks rather testily, and, from trifling, the company became soon earnestly engaged in a warm discussion of the agitating topics of the day. It soon became evident to Viglius that De Hammer and others of his comrades had ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... testily. "Get thee gone, I say, or I will crack thy head for thee;" and he picked up a block of wood, ...
— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle
... said testily; "I did ask your help, Mr. Challis, and I did, in a way, receive some assistance from you. That is, the child has to some extent been isolated by spending so much of his ...
— The Wonder • J. D. Beresford
... her go," he had said testily. He was on the point of falling asleep, and did not want to be disturbed any more. "Good night, darling, have a good night's rest. Now that you've come home again you'll do what ...
— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig
... it does not matter,' replied Vava testily, for she was very sorry about it all, and ...
— A City Schoolgirl - And Her Friends • May Baldwin
... his lordship rather testily. "It's perfectly simple: those people down there, whoever they are, have got some way of demagnetising us, or else they've got the R. Force too, and they're applying it against us to stop us going down. Apparently they don't want us. No, that's just to show us that they ...
— A Honeymoon in Space • George Griffith
... a nincompoop as you might suspect, madam," said I, testily, far from complimented. I dislike being called nice, and sometimes I think it a mistake to be sensible. A sensible person never gets anything out of life because he has to ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... to have more patience with the servants, father," she said, testily. "Jincy is slow enough, heaven knows, without you giving her excuses for being behind with her work. Now she will go to the kitchen and hinder the cook. If you only knew how much trouble servants are to ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben
... testily, "with what status, pray? Has your country a representative here? You must obtain a letter from your ambassador, or ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... that was written on every slip of paper that came with each six months' money," he answered, testily. "That's ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli
... became curiously condensed. "That is a mistake—it must have been some one else," he said slowly and testily, for he perceived that ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy |
