"Important-looking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... locks for so small a boat; but that they could avoid all dispute by entering the locks at the same time with some one of the many canal-boats that were on their way north. He charged the Whitewing the enormous sum of twenty-five cents for tolls, and gave Harry an important-looking order, by which the lock-men were directed to allow the skiff Whitewing, Captain Harry Wilson, to pass through all ...
— Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... reply she was tapped lightly on the shoulder, and, turning, she beheld a young woman, tall, dark and most important-looking. ...
— Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays • Margaret Penrose
... delivered to Madge at the door. She turned it over and examined it more carefully than she generally did the old man's letters, for it was directed in a clerk-like hand, and was sealed with a big and important-looking seal, and when she came to examine this seal, she saw that it bore the words "B. and F. Bank." "So, they are at it again, are they?" she said. "The deuce take 'em, I say: though for that matter I can't exactly ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley
... Ruth's first glance was at the hall table, but there was no important-looking yellow envelope to suggest that her cablegram had arrived. Then her eye fell on the evening paper; perhaps that might tell that the "Utopia" was safely in port. She started to turn to the shipping news, but her gaze was caught by ...
— Glenloch Girls • Grace M. Remick |
