"Inly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... kind of a choke, an' Dick he bust right out, an' Lize looked at him as if she c'd eat him. Dick said the dominie didn't say anythin' fer a minute or two, an' then he says to Am, 'I suppose you c'n find somebody that'll marry you, but I cert'inly won't, an' what possesses you to commit such a piece o' folly,' he says, 'passes my understandin'. What earthly reason have you fer wantin' to marry? On your own showin',' he says, 'neither one on you 's got a cent o' money or any ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott
... framed for the loftiest hall of a rich man Shows, when the bolts are undrawn and the balancing valves are expanded, Such unto either extreme was the stretch of his wings as he darted Clear from the right, oversweeping the city: and gazing upon him, Comforted inly were they, ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 • Various
... eyes, too, now that the hair was suffered to lie around the face, instead of being stretched back as tightly as possible. One good result had come from the wood-shed catastrophe: the high comb had been shattered into irretrievable fragments. I inly determined that none like it should ever take ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 • Various
... that are not used in prose, or are used but seldom; as, oft, haply, inly, blithely, cheerily, deftly, felly, ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... a-wing; To Thee, if men were trees, would forests bow In all our land, as under a new wind; To Thee, if trees were men, would forests sing Lifting autumnal crowns and bending low, Rising and falling again as inly chidden, Singing and hushing again as inly bidden. To Thee, Most Holy, men being men upraise Bright eyes and ...
— Poems New and Old • John Freeman
... thou done to me!—I would have soul, Before I knew thee, Love, a captive held By flesh. Now, inly delighted with desire, My body knows itself to be nought else But thy heart's worship of me; and my soul Therein is sunlight held by warm gold air. Nay, all my body is become a song Upon the breath of ...
— Emblems Of Love • Lascelles Abercrombie
... intestine, intestinal; inland; subcutaneous; abdominal, coeliac, endomorphic [Physio.]; interstitial &c (interjacent) 228 [Obs.]; inwrought &c (intrinsic) 5; inclosed &c v.. home, domestic, indoor, intramural, vernacular; endemic. Adv. internally &c adj.; inwards, within, in, inly^; here in, there in, where in; ab intra, withinside^; in doors, within doors; at home, in the ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... friends. One of the colonels of the staff, with plumed hat and a sword, came and was introduced to her. In a sense she made a conquest of him, for he tried clumsily to pay his court to her, but not seriously. Nothing that yet had happened in her little life had enraged Miss Mercedes as did this. She inly vowed that some day she would remember the man, to cut him. And so she ...
— Pirate Gold • Frederic Jesup Stimson
... the Golden City tremble At voices which are heard about the streets; The ministers of fraud can scarce dissemble The lies of their own heart, but when one meets Another at the shrine, he inly weets, 1535 Though he says nothing, that the truth is known; Murderers are pale upon the judgement-seats, And gold grows vile even to the wealthy crone, And laughter fills the Fane, and ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... consult him. He was rarely to be found; he turned sullenly from the Egyptian—nay, he fled when he perceived him in the distance. Arbaces was one of those haughty and powerful spirits accustomed to master others; he chafed at the notion that one once his own should ever elude his grasp. He swore inly that Apaecides ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
... honour, virtue, truth, and love, For Don Alfonso; and she inly swore, By all the vows below to powers above, She never would disgrace the ring she wore, Nor leave a wish which wisdom might reprove; And while she ponder'd this, besides much more, One hand on Juan's carelessly was thrown, Quite by mistake—she ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron
... was a furtive look of anxiety in her eyes as she regarded them, inly wondering what had transpired in ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... missions forever. Suffice it to say, then, that my pantomime kept pace and time with Mr. Hinman's system of punctuation until the last line was sobbed and whacked out. I groped my bewildered way to my seat through a mist of tears and sat down gingerly and sideways, inly wondering why an inscrutable providence had given to the rugged rhinoceros the hide which the eternal fitness of things had plainly prepared ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) • Various
... that the fete was holden, as of yore, in the grounds. Grace was there and helped, and so were Letitia and Rose Ferguson; and all passed off better than could be expected. But John did not enjoy it. He felt all the while that he was dragging Lillie as a thousand-pound weight after him; and he inly resolved that, once out of that day's festival, he would never try ...
— Pink and White Tyranny - A Society Novel • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... And inly to thyself take heed, Oft prove your heart, its pages read,— Self-knowledge will, in time of need, Your wants supply; Who knows himself, from dangers ...
— Cottage Poems • Patrick Bronte
... standard flew, And the green grass was dyed to sanguine hue. High on his pointed lance his pennon bore His Cretan fight, the conquered Minotaur: The soldiers shout around with generous rage, And in that victory their own presage. He praised their ardour, inly pleased to see His host, the flower of Grecian chivalry. All day he marched, and all the ensuing night, And saw the city with returning light. The process of the war I need not tell, How Theseus conquered, and how Creon fell; ...
— Palamon and Arcite • John Dryden
... flood Gaz'd for St. Elmo; [Footnote 1] while another cried "Once more good morrow!" and sate down and sigh'd. Day, when it came, came only with its light. Tho' long invok'd, 'twas sadder than the night! Look where He would, for ever as He turn'd, He met the eye of one that inly mourn'd. Then sunk his generous spirit, and He wept. The friend, the father rose; the hero slept. PALOS, thy port, with many a pang resign' d, Fill'd with its busy scenes his lonely mind; The solemn march, the vows in concert ...
— Poems • Samuel Rogers
... forth, I could no less, Another light unwot of fall'n on me, And rare elation and high happiness Some mighty power set hands of mastery Among my heartstrings, and they did confess With wild throbs inly sweet, that minstrelsy A nightingale might dream so rich a strain, And pine to change her song ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. • Jean Ingelow
... the side of this Knight rode a lovely Lady upon a snow- white ass. Her dress, too, was snow-white, but over it she wore a black cloak, "as one that inly mourned," and it "seemed in her heart some hidden care ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall
... fame had then reached the wide heaven, namely, the quarrel between Odysseus and Achilles, son of Peleus; how once on a time they contended in fierce words at a rich festival of the gods, but Agamemnon, king of men, was inly glad when the noblest of the Achaeans fell at variance. For so Phoebus Apollo in his soothsaying had told him that it must be, in goodly Pytho, what time he crossed the threshold of stone, to seek to the oracle. For in those days the first wave of woe was rolling on Trojans ...
— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.
... men is feasted. He, ready to accomplish what she will'd, Stole some from Hebe (Hebe Jove's cup fill'd), And gave it to his simple rustic love: Which being known,—as what is hid from Jove?— He inly storm'd, and wax'd more furious Than for the fire filch'd by Prometheus; And thrusts him down from heaven. He, wandering here, In mournful terms, with sad and heavy cheer, 440 Complain'd to Cupid: ...
— The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Christopher Marlowe
... subjects—weather, gossip, politics—what not. They bowed and they smiled; but, all the while, each was watching, plumbing the other's heart; each measuring his strength with his companion; each inly saying, "This is a very remarkable rascal; am I a match for him?" It was at dinner they met; and, following the English fashion, Madame di Negra left them alone ...
— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various
... the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, 65 Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, ...
— Select Poems of Thomas Gray • Thomas Gray
... still his boast. Was no friend nigh? Alas! what friend had he? All men he scorned; Knew truly none. In each, the best and sweetest Near him had ever pined, like stunted growth Dwarfed by some glacier nigh. The fifth day dawned: And inly thus he muttered, darkly pale: "Five days; in three the messengers returned: In three—in two—the Accursed will be here, Or blacken yonder Sleemish with his crew Descending. Then those idiots, kerne and slave - The mighty flame ...
— The Legends of Saint Patrick • Aubrey de Vere
... Gonza. I've inly wept, Or should have spoke ere this.—Look down, you gods, And on this couple drop a blessed crown! For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way Which brought ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester
... Abdalla shuddered inly, when he this sickness felt, And called upon his barons, his pillow to come nigh; "Rise up," he said, "my liegemen," as round his bed they knelt, "And take this Christian lady, else certainly I die; Let gold be in your girdles, and precious stones beside, ...
— Woman in the Ninteenth Century - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition - and Duties, of Woman. • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... back—they will both come," she said, inly, checking her tears. "I will make up her bed, and find something for Isabel to eat; she had no breakfast, and did not relish the bread last night. If they find everything snug and tidy it will ...
— The Old Homestead • Ann S. Stephens
... gracious heart well pleased I for my citizens do grant Fulfilment of this covenant: And here, their wrath at length appeased, These mighty deities shall stay, For theirs it is by right to sway The lot that rules our mortal day, And he who hath not inly felt Their stern decree, ere long on him, Not knowing why and whence, the grim Life-crushing blow is dealt. The father's sin upon the child Descends, and sin is silent death, And leads him on the downward path, By stealth beguiled, Unto the Furies: though his state On ...
— The House of Atreus • AEschylus
... it all; and something inly said That all was true. The daily toil and press Had crowded out my hopes of holiness. Still, my old self rose, reasoning: How can you, With strenuous work to do— Real slogging work—say, how can you keep pace With leisured folks? Why, you could grow in grace If you had time ...
— The Verse-Book Of A Homely Woman • Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, AKA Fay Inchfawn
... cannot men say of thee, thou noble Earl," said his lady, as the cloak dropped on the floor, and showed him dressed as princes when they ride abroad; "thou art the good and well-tried steel, whose inly worth deserves, yet disdains, its outward ornaments. Do not think Amy can love thee better in this glorious garb than she did when she gave her heart to him who wore the russet-brown cloak ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott
... who were brought to hear The awful Tale from far and near Were much impressed, and inly swore They never more would slam the Door. —As often they had ...
— Cautionary Tales for Children • Hilaire Belloc
... fear; At least to try, and teach the erring soul, Not wilfully misdoing, but unware Misled; the stubborn only to subdue. These growing thoughts my mother soon perceiving, By words at times cast forth, inly rejoiced, And said to me apart, 'High are thy thoughts, O Son! but nourish them, and let them soar 230 To what highth sacred virtue and true worth Can raise them, though above example high; By matchless deeds express thy matchless Sire. For know, thou ...
— Paradise Regained • John Milton
... everlasting has their strange grace given thee, Even hers whom thou wast wont to sing and serve With eyes, but not with song, too swift to swerve; Yet might not even thine eyes estranged estrange her, Who seeing thee too, but inly, burn and bleed Like that pale princess-priest of Priam's seed, For stranger service gave thee guerdon stranger; If this indeed be guerdon, this indeed Her mercy, this thy meed— That thou, being more than all we born, being higher Than all heads crowned of ...
— Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode - Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles - Swinburne—Vol. III • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... on't. I should re'ly like to know what business you have to think you know better than other folks about it;" and, though he would cavil most courageously at all George's explanations, yet you might perceive, through all, that he was inly uplifted to hear ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... as thou shalt thinke it best, Let thy knowledge be thy guide, Liue thou in my constant breast, Whatsoeuer shall betide. He her Letter hauing red, Puts it in his Scrip againe, Looking like a man halfe dead, By her kindenesse strangely slaine; And as one who inly knew, Her distressed present state, 90 And to her had still been true, Thus doth with himselfe debate. I will not thy face admire, Admirable though it bee, Nor thine eyes whose subtile fire So much wonder winne in me: But my maruell ...
— Minor Poems of Michael Drayton • Michael Drayton
... who yet inly wore A wrinkled heart foreboding his near fall; 130 Who saw him alway wished to know him more, As if he were some fate's defiant thrall And nursed a dreaded secret at his core; Little he loved, but power the most of all, And that he seemed to scorn, as one who ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... inly bleeds Has naught to fear from outward blow; Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares ...
— The Brother Clerks - A Tale of New-Orleans • Xariffa
... pale orb, that silent shines, While care-untroubled mortals sleep! Thou seest a wretch who inly pines, And wanders here to wail and weep! With woe I nightly vigils keep, Beneath thy wan, unwarming beam, And mourn in lamentation deep How life and love ...
— Cupid's Middleman • Edward B. Lent
... beauties, Go, away. But if thy whimpering looks do ask me why, Then know that nature bids thee go, not I. 'Tis her erroneous self has made a brain Uncapable of such a sovereign As is thy powerful self. Prithee not smile, Or smile more inly, lest thy looks beguile My vows denounc'd in zeal, which thus much show thee That I have sworn but by thy looks to know thee. Let others drink thee freely, and desire Thee and their lips espous'd, while I admire And love thee, ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
... "No, no; cert'inly not," ses Joseph, patting 'im on the shoulder; "but couldn't you do it just for once? 'Ave a dream that me and Emily are killed a few days arter the wedding. Don't say in wot way, 'cos she might think we could avoid it; just dream we are killed. Bill's always been a superstitious man, and since ...
— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs
... flush'd: her eager look Beam'd eloquent in slumber! Inly wrought, 10 Imperfect sounds her moving lips forsook, And her bent forehead work'd with troubled thought. ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... fierce defiance Greece astonish'd heard, Blush'd to refuse, and to accept it fear'd. Stern Menelaus first the silence broke, And, inly groaning, thus opprobrious spoke: ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer
... Though inly chafed at this delay, Lord Marmion bears it as he may. The Palmer, his mysterious guide, Beholding thus his place supplied, Sought to take leave in vain: Strict was the Lion-King's command, That none, who rode in Marmion's band Should sever from the train: "England has here enow of spies ...
— Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field • Walter Scott |
