"Gruffly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... details, but in reality to see Louise, for any servant possessed sufficient intelligence to acquit himself of such a commission. Imagine my surprise and disappointment at finding instead of Madame Taverneau a strange face, who gruffly announced that the post-mistress had gone away for a few days with Madame Louise Guerin. The dove had flown, leaving to mark its passage a few white feathers in its mossy nest, a faint perfume of ...
— The Cross of Berny • Emile de Girardin
... something of a character; and a story ran that one of the subalterns had found himself at the start unable to appear in some detail of uniform, his trunks having gone astray. "A good soldier never separates from his baggage," said the colonel, gruffly, on hearing the excuse. After various adventures, common to missing personal effects, the lieutenant's trunks turned up at Port Royal. He looked sympathetically at the colonel's shorn plumes and meagre array, and said, reproachfully, "Colonel, where are your trunks? A ...
— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan
... the sense of grievance which is the almost inevitable sequel to groundless fears. "There's no answer," he told the boy gruffly. The urchin sidled away and Joel stood rigid, regarding the slip in his hand. His first move was to count the words. Seventeen! Joel groaned. What extravagance. If she had said "unnecessary" instead of "not necessary" there would have been a saving ...
— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith
... gruffly, "I am as dirty a rogue as you are. Yes! I have done a scurrilous thing. The fiend take you! Our soldiers will eat carrion for ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
... before her hurt, that both hounds began to notice that Bill was undergoing a change of some sort. He never talked to them now. He took not the smallest notice of Finn, and but rarely looked at Jess. When she approached him of an evening he would gruffly bid her lie down, and once he thrust her from him with his foot when she had nosed close up to him beside the fire. Jess had vague recollections of similar changes in her man having occurred before this time, and she had vague, uncomfortable stirrings which told her that further change ...
— Finn The Wolfhound • A. J. Dawson
... letter to Gurth, who shook his head gruffly, and passed it to Wamba. The Jester looked at each of the four corners of the paper with such a grin of affected intelligence as a monkey is apt to assume upon similar occasions, then cut a caper, and gave ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... of a man whose appearance was by no means prepossessing, and who was apparently very much disconcerted by Mrs. Jernam's arrival. Mrs. Jernam immediately proposed to go away and return on another occasion, but the man, who did not hear her name mentioned, said, gruffly: ...
— Run to Earth - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... turned away, while Zashue called the lad to him. But Shyuote protested, saying that only his father was to hear his communication, and Zashue at last went where the boy was standing. It vexed him, and he inquired rather gruffly what he had to say. Shyuote made a very wise and important face, placed a finger to ...
— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier
... known on what pretext, to receive the communication of this decree on the same day on which it was voted by the Parliament. When President Lemaitre presented it to him the next day before a large attendance, Mayenne kept his temper, and confined himself to replying gruffly, "My first care has always been to defend the Catholic religion and maintain the laws of the realm. It seems now that I am no longer necessary to the state, and that it will be easy to do without me. I could have wished, considering my position, that the Parliament had not decided anything ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... matter?" he demanded, gruffly enough. "You've got what you wanted, haven't you? What are you going to do now? What are you going to do with me? Tell ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 • Various
... deal with you, master,' began one of the others rather gruffly, for he thought Mark Clay was treating ...
— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin
... shrunk back, instantly silenced. She had not spoken to him again until Oliver Rose called, to remind them of the tennis, and then, hating herself while she did it, Nancy had forced herself to speak to Bert, and Bert had somewhat gruffly replied. Once at the club, all signs of the storm must be quickly brushed aside, but the lingering clouds lay over her heart now, and she felt desolate and troubled. She did not want to excuse herself and go home, she did not want to go out and watch more ...
— Undertow • Kathleen Norris
... the chaffing look went, like a candle-flame blown out; and a coppery flush spread over it. For some seconds he did not speak, then, jerking his head towards the picture, he muttered gruffly: ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... ordered gruffly, and began to devour ravenously the food he found in it, tearing at sandwiches and gulping them down like a ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine
... distingue, that it seemed placed there expressly to continually mock and scoff at that wicked red nose. The portrait so closely resembled one of my old class-mates, that I could not refrain from questioning the old miser about it. He then gruffly informed me that the original was his sister, Madame de Saint-Herem, who died some years since. But you would have died laughing had you seen them when I asked if ...
— A Cardinal Sin • Eugene Sue
... Romerberg, and down directly to the river, reaching the spot where the huge Saalhof faced its flood. Roland saw that triple guards surrounded the Emperor's Palace. The mob had been cleared away, but no one was allowed to linger in its precincts, and the youth was gruffly ordered to take himself elsewhere, which he promptly did, walking up the Saalgasse, and past the Cathedral, until he came once more into the Fahrgasse, down which he proceeded, pausing for another glance at Goebel's house, until he came to the bridge, where he stood with arms resting on ...
— The Sword Maker • Robert Barr
... to any more of Mary's caresses, and feeling infinitely small and mean over the realization that he had already permitted her to carry her affection too far, he frowned at her when he went into the kitchen after washing the next morning, gruffly replying when she wished him a cheery, "Good morning," and grasping her arms when ...
— Square Deal Sanderson • Charles Alden Seltzer
... "Well," he demanded gruffly, "what's the matter? Did Mr. Clay stand you in a corner the first day or did the handsome ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... it, then," said the admiral gruffly. "Don't catch me at it. Myra hasn't suggested such ...
— Witness to the Deed • George Manville Fenn
... him long and searchingly. Something in the lad's face must have impressed him, for he said gruffly: ...
— The Boy Allies in the Trenches - Midst Shot and Shell Along the Aisne • Clair Wallace Hayes
... shall pull the chestnuts out of the fire for me with her pretty fingers, until she burn them," remarked Bigot, gruffly. ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... the bolts and answer gruffly, in a few words, through the interstice of a grudging door, what seemed to be inquiries made in a voice that was not the voice of a peasant. Marie rose and went to the gate. In a few minutes they returned, and Juliette drew back from ...
— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman
... She hears rapid steps on the stairs. When Cinette went out she had locked the door of her room. The porter to be sure had another key. When some one knocked at the porter's lodge he was not yet up, and answered gruffly that the Marquise had not come in and the old woman could not move. There were several rapid knocks ...
— The Son of Monte Cristo • Jules Lermina
... come in already, Sohn-stein," said Gottlieb, gruffly. "Open for him, but lock the door again. ...
— A Romance Of Tompkins Square - 1891 • Thomas A. Janvier
... he was aroused from a deeptoned and laborious stertoration, by a figure that shook him as he lay, in a somewhat unceremonious fashion. The intruder was wrapped in a thick cloak or tunic, and he stood gruffly erect by the straw couch, whereon the prisoner's night-dreams had nestled in ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... a couple of days ago," said the Doctor, gruffly. "She asked my advice about you. I told her to take you if she wanted you, and she said she didn't know whether ...
— The Lilac Girl • Ralph Henry Barbour
... man, gruffly; "get out o' here. I never did nothin' for a Yank, an' I never will. I'd like to see yer all drove from the country. Get out o' here, I tell yer," he shouted, seeing that the sailors did not move, "or I'll let my dogs loose ...
— Frank on a Gun-Boat • Harry Castlemon
... these pleasing dreams vanish! On my return the waiters (who, from my appearance, too probably expected but a trifling reward for their attentions to me) received me gruffly, and as if they were sorry to see me again. This was not all; I had the additional mortification to be again roughly accosted by the cross maid who had before shown me to the bed-chamber, and who, dropping a kind of half courtesy, with a suppressed laugh, ...
— Travels in England in 1782 • Charles P. Moritz
... bandaged eyes and the twilight gloom the doctor prescribed. So much so in fact, that they nearly defeated the object of their visit, which was to cheer Ernest up. Indeed they were so stiff and sympathetic that Ernest gruffly requested them to drop that and tell him about school. Tongues limbered up immediately at this, for each boy ...
— Chicken Little Jane • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... reached Berlin earlier than you did," said the king, gruffly. "How does that happen? Have the French quicker horses or ...
— NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER • L. Muhlbach
... the captain answered gruffly. "The glass was well under thirty when I come up, and it is fallin' fast. I've been about here before at this time o' year in a calm, with a ground swell and a sinkin' glass. No good ever came of it. Look there at the norrard. What d'ye make o' ...
— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... what I want to know," answered Pearl gruffly. "You see, I don't believe that a boy like you—for you don't look like the son of a gentleman—came over here from Burlington to buy that boat. If anybody over there had wanted her, he wouldn't have sent a boy over here ...
— All Adrift - or The Goldwing Club • Oliver Optic
... whole person, by resting his elbow on his knee and his brow on his hand, as he put a strong force on himself that he might hear Louis out without betraying himself. Louis paused in ardent contemplation of the image he had called up, and poor James gruffly whispered, 'Go on: ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the front-door bell. Failing of any response, he next tried a side door and finally the extreme rear. He had begun to feel discouraged when, as he approached the front entrance for a second assault, he saw a light flash beyond the dark blinds. The door opened cautiously, and a voice gruffly bade him begone. ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson
... of it any longer, Natalie," Coolidge insisted rather gruffly. "They are all right now. I shall telephone for a doctor as soon as we get back, and attend to the rent the first ...
— The Case and The Girl • Randall Parrish
... him justice to believe he acted in affection. The gay ribbons that laced his cuirass, the red and blue embroidery that edged his "taxiarch's" cloak, were from the needle of his daughter. Hermione kissed him as she stood with her mother in the aula. He coughed gruffly when he answered their "farewell." The house door closed behind him, and Hermione and Lysistra ran into one another's arms. They had given to Hellas their best, and now ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... long overcoat, buttoned to his chin, with the collar turned up. A slouch hat pulled well down over his eyes so far concealed his face that his features were scarcely visible. He came over to my desk and gruffly asked, "What time is there ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... daylight," said Captain gruffly. Anger came slowly to him, and its trace was even slower ...
— Pardners • Rex Beach
... eyes. At sight of the fire made up, and two strangers eyeing him keenly, he stared, and there was a severe and pretty successful effort to be calm; still a perceptible tremor ran all over him. Soon he manned himself, and said gruffly. "Good morrow. But at the very moment of saying it he missed his axe, and saw how Gerard was sitting upon it, with his own laid ready to his hand. He lost countenance again directly. Denys smiled grimly at this ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... sitting over their meal when the little corporal brought in another recruit, a tall overgrown lad with a pink and white boyish face, apparently several years younger than the rest. The corporal spoke less gruffly to him, and showed him his locker with something like politeness. Apparently there was something special about this Frielinghausen, as he was called; even the uniform he wore was rather less patched and threadbare than those of the others. However, the new ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... hamper?" he asked gruffly. That was when he was making a professional call. "Ye're a sentimental fule, Jamie Lowden, and I'd hae no hand in helpin' ye! But if so be there was some beef extract in the hamper, 'tis so I'd hae ye mak' it—as I'm tellin' ye, mind, not as it ...
— Between You and Me • Sir Harry Lauder
... going to Norway, after all," said Paul—he spoke gruffly to try to conceal the sob in his throat,—"and I call it beastly hard lines. It isn't as though it would cost so very much more than any other holiday, and father knows we have never been so far before, and how we were looking forward to it, and ...
— Paul the Courageous • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... some breakfast—and take care of yourself," replied Pepper, gruffly. "Damn me if I'm not sorry I gave Swann's ...
— The Day of the Beast • Zane Grey
... the fence and gazed, a forlorn Tantalus, at these unattainable dainties; now and then a muttered low escaped his lips. Nobody noticed him or sympathized with him, except perhaps the little girl, who had come out in her sun-bonnet to help her brother bring in the fuel. He gruffly accepted her company, a little ashamed of her because she was a girl; since, however, there was no other boy by to laugh, he permitted her the delusion that she was ...
— The Riddle Of The Rocks - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)
... go if you're so set on it," said Amos gruffly. He rose and left the room, stopping in the hall to get a bucket of buttermilk for the hogs. Nicholas went over to the window and joined Sarah Jane, who was shelling the peanuts, carefully separating the outer hulls from the inner pink skins, ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... said gruffly, "and do abandon that tragical aspect. The creature was not worth all this agitation. He lived like a dog, ...
— The Betrayal • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... radiance cast through the doorway by the lamp in his own cabin. Maybe the proper thing would be to give them a kiss apiece? He could not be sure, being a childless man. He ended by saying good-night so gruffly that Myra fancied he must be in a ...
— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... gruffly told him to go home. "If the man dies we'll come after you," he added, with ...
— They of the High Trails • Hamlin Garland
... is empty," replied his lordship, gruffly, as if reproaching his host for not being aware of the fact, and having another ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald
... means to remove blemishes of any kind or source." Iemon looked up quickly. The connection puzzled and did not please him. Perhaps he noted a puffiness about O'Iwa's face, remembered a repulsion toward marital usages. The women should leave the men to play their own game. He said gruffly—"Suian! A dealer in cosmetics and charms. Have naught to do with his plasters and potions; as cheats or something worse. As for O'Iwa, she is black as a farm hand from Ryu[u]kyu[u] (Loo-choo). O'Hana is fair as ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... that day, to be greeted gruffly in every instance except one. One man encouraged him slightly ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... your beefin'," Big Medicine advised gruffly. "A feller with a hole in his lung yuh could throw a calf through sideways ain't got no business statin' his views on nothin', ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower
... their black unlit windows, reminded him of a noiseless procession of skulls. The driver beside him was a silent man, or stricken into silence by the conditions of his journey. He answered Redwood's brief questions in monosyllables, and gruffly. Athwart the southern sky the beams of searchlights waved noiseless passes; the sole strange evidences of life they seemed in all that derelict world about the ...
— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells
... 'twas you," he observed gruffly, "I shouldn't have been so quick about getting down out of ...
— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow
... to lead," said Holman gruffly. "Then if one of us topples over a precipice the other has a chance to save himself. I'll take first try at it, and if I find that I have pushed my foot into a hole I'll ...
— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer
... been pardoned a half wistful belief that this first success was the entering wedge and would lead swiftly to that standing with his neighbours lacking which he was helpless. Yet the sons of the house replied but gruffly to his greeting, and, as though his coming had been a signal, the younger group promptly disappeared in the ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan
... need a few pounds. If it was only a question of needing it—! [Already occupied in counting out another weaver's money, gruffly.] It's Mr. Dreissiger who settles about pay ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume I • Gerhart Hauptmann
... impulsive movement of impatience. "I never pretended you were," he said gruffly. "But you were crying, weren't you? Why ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... knows that," replied Griffin gruffly. "If Leighton had any stuff in her, she'd have spoken up. I was just going to when I saw you begin to crumple. It wasn't etiquette for me to speak, but I'd have given ...
— Miss Pat at School • Pemberton Ginther
... know anything about it," said he, gruffly. "But have no fear; I should hesitate to soil an innocent leaden ...
— Arms and the Woman • Harold MacGrath
... in, come in," he replied gruffly. And as he spoke he sped from the window, where he was drumming on the pane, to the hearthrug, so that he should have the air of not having moved since Maggie's previous visit. He knew not why he made this manoeuvre, unless it was that he thought vaguely that Maggie's impression of the ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... thousand years until she got home again. Then giving a cake to her daughter, she sent her for water to the fountain, where Puccia found the same old woman. And when the old woman asked her for a little piece of cake she answered gruffly, "Have I nothing to do, forsooth, but to give you cake? Do you take me to be so foolish as to give you what belongs to me? Look ye, charity begins at home." And so saying she swallowed the cake in four pieces, making the old woman's mouth water, who when she saw the last morsel disappear and her ...
— Stories from Pentamerone • Giambattista Basile
... zouave uniform, at the door, would have me wait standing in the corridor outside; for his Excellency is at dinner. And Excellency, as affable as his zabtie, hearing the parley without, growls behind the scene and orders me gruffly to go to the court. 'This is not the place to make a complaint,' he adds. But the stranger at thy door, O gracious Excellency, complains not against any one in this world; and if he did, assure thee, ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani
... to listen to the landlady's babble about the Cronins, for he was going to spend the evening with them; he had been introduced to her father, a tall, thin, taciturn man, who had somewhat gruffly, but not unkindly, asked him to come to spend the evening with them, saying that some friends were coming in, and ...
— The Untilled Field • George Moore
... talking in low tones. They had noticed me, but evidently thought I was one of their own number. Divining the situation in a moment, I walked carelessly on until near the crest of the hill, where I suddenly came upon a dozen more Indians, crawling along on their hands and knees. One of them gruffly ordered me down, and I am sure I lost no time in dropping into the grass. Crawling carefully along, for I knew it would not do to stop, I still managed to keep a good way behind and off to one side. We at last reached ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... in this," he said gruffly to Pauline. "If you don't keep quiet I'll kill you. I mean what ...
— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard
... he said, gruffly. "This digestion of mine sets my head spinning sometimes. That doctor says I shall upset completely unless I rest. I told him he was a fool and I intend to prove it. Let me be. I can walk, I should hope. When I can't I'll call the ambulance—or the hearse. I'll find the ...
— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln
... you mean—massify!" demanded Doug, gruffly. Johnny might be half-witted, but his remarks were curiously ...
— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie
... better," he said to Mrs. Procter. "I didn't suppose you wanted its neck to be broken," he ended gruffly. ...
— Suzanna Stirs the Fire • Emily Calvin Blake
... hotheads!" some one commanded gruffly. "Hold your man, Tolston, until I get at the reason for this fighting. Who are you? Oh, Grant! What's the trouble now? ...
— My Lady of Doubt • Randall Parrish
... first offering my son ever made me,' he said, and he drew a pocket purse from his breast to lay them in. 'Please God he shall yet lay at my feet a province or two of our heritage of France.' He touched his cap at the Deity's name, and called gruffly at his son: 'See you, forget not ever that we be Kings of France too, you and I,' and the little boy ...
— Privy Seal - His Last Venture • Ford Madox Ford
... One day, as the father was reading the papers, the boy came to him and put his hand on his shoulder and said: "Why don't you praise God? Why don't you sing about Christ? Why don't you go down to these meetings that are being held?" The father opened his eyes, and looked at him and said, gruffly: "I am not carried away with any of these doctrines. I am established." A few days after they were getting out a load of wood. They put it on the cart. The father and the boy got on lop of the load, and tried to get the horse to go. They used ...
— Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations - Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangilist • Dwight L. Moody
... unmitigated ruffianism. The French were knocked about, and pushed about. Never were negro slaves treated with more contempt and brutality than they were by their conquerors. I could not stand on any spot for two minutes without being gruffly ordered to stand on another by some officer. Twice two soldiers raised their muskets with a general notion of staving in my skull "pour passer le temps." Frenchmen, whatever may be their faults, are always extremely courteous in ...
— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere
... would provide us with a meal, and, assenting gruffly, he left us alone. The food was some time in coming, and we stood at the window, peering through our prison bars. Our high spirits were dashed by the unfriendly reception; my island should have been more gracious, ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 • Various
... still sleeping!" they replied gruffly. "Don't you know that they sacked the convent ...
— Friars and Filipinos - An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, - 'Noli Me Tangere.' • Jose Rizal
... the day waned without his making the slightest discovery that would avail him at all in his pursuit. At length, however, as night was falling, he encountered a saloon-keeper, who in answer to his inquiries gruffly informed him, that a person answering Duncan's description and mounted upon a pony resembling his, had stopped in his saloon a few days before, and had gone away in the direction of ...
— The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives • Allan Pinkerton
... here," said Mr. Bennett gruffly—but not quite so assuredly. "He left last week and hired with a ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... a pinch of snuff together very solemnly. Then he snapped his box, rubbed Sultan's velvet nose, shook my hand, said good-bye gruffly, and strode back townward. I cantered on into the open road ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... waked from his thoughts by a knock and a voice at the door. He answered gruffly, and as he looked up he saw Katherine standing in the open doorway, letting in a stream of light from the lamp she carried in ...
— Audrey Craven • May Sinclair
... a name," he answered gruffly. "None of your business if I had." He saw that I was hurt by his rudeness, for his face changed: "I'll tell you," he added quickly; "but don't you say it about here. Gorsuch is my ...
— Jim Davis • John Masefield
... see through your game," he said gruffly. "Here is the family record. Look into it at your leisure. And if you are right, let me know. But don't you tell me that that scare about the glacier wasn't all humbug. If it is your right of entail you want to look up, I sha'n't ...
— Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... know," the older man returned, rather gruffly. "And I'm pretty sure you never will, because the less I talk or think about that person the better for me. That part of the story has nothing to do with the case. There's only this queer impression of mine. And I had a weird feeling as if it were my bounden ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... to eat their meal in comfort," ordered a sergeant gruffly. "Have you forgotten the day, Fowler, when you were the greenest rook that ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock
... not a light showed anywhere and the door was fast shut, which was nothing strange, for the hour was late. Stepping up to the door I knocked loudly thereon with my cudgel, at first without effect, but having repeated the summons, a voice from within hailed me gruffly: ...
— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol
... he answered gruffly. "I do not make the law; I have only to support it. Every good ...
— The Rome Express • Arthur Griffiths
... I gruffly, taking no notice of his attempts to be funny. "We'd better make straight for the mountains ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens
... said the black fellow, gruffly. Tom shrunk back, but too late. He had left his little Bible at the bottom of his coat pocket, and his big Bible on the desk buried under the mortgage he was about to foreclose: never was sinner taken more unawares. The black man whisked him like a child ...
— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving
... lads and lassies as hailed him in the waning light he replied gruffly, explaining that he had 'a sair hoast,' that is, a bad cough, from which he had observed that young Bower was suffering. He was soon outside of the village, and walking at top speed towards the station. Several times he paused, in shadowy corners of the hedges, and listened. There was no sound ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang
... invited them to empty their rifles on you," said the doctor, gruffly; but as he spoke he wiped his eyes on a roll ...
— Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... had a date down-town," he said, gruffly, and would have opened the door, but she caught his ...
— Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington
... He wondered for which flag she died. Ruth was teaching her to write. Ruth! Some old pain hurt him just then, nearer than even the blood of the old man or the girl crying to God from the ground. The sergeant mistook the look. "They'll be buried," he said, gruffly. "Ye brought it on yerselves." And so led him ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various
... interfered somewhat with his popularity. A student once said to me, "If Mr. Cornell would simply stand upon his pedestal as our 'Honored Founder,' and let us hurrah for him, that would please us mightily; but when he comes into the laboratory and asks us gruffly, 'What are you wasting your time at now?' we don't like him so well.'' The fact on which this remark was based was that Mr. Cornell liked greatly to walk quietly through the laboratories and drafting-rooms, to note the work. Now and then, ...
— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White
... barrel. "Anyone that tries to dispossess us'll soon find out," he returned gruffly, and, turning his back on the visitors, he strode ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... luggage obtruded themselves. A porter had put her portmanteau and bag on board, but the two trunks she had never seen. No one seemed to attend to her till one man gruffly replied,—"That if they were properly addressed, they would be put into the hold all right." And Bluebell took comfort in the remembrance of the labels plentifully nailed on by Aunt Jane, that she had then thought looked so ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... Dick said gruffly, taking the pipe from his mouth. "Directly as we got back to camp, and I found she had gone, it seemed to me as I had got to follow her; and my eye lighting on the loose horse, I soon managed to catch the critter, and, shifting my saddle to it, I started. As you may guess, there war no difficulty ...
— Captain Bayley's Heir: - A Tale of the Gold Fields of California • G. A. Henty
... Underwood, gruffly; "he'll get whatever he needs, you can depend on that. You gentlemen assist him out of the car; I'll go and despatch a messenger to the house to have everything in readiness for ...
— At the Time Appointed • A. Maynard Barbour
... then he fumbled uncertainly for a cigar. When he had it lighted he said, gruffly, "Well, it made a man of me; ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... said gruffly, "and I cannot take in strangers. You will find some dry hay in that out-house, and I will bring you some food there. When you have eaten and drunk ...
— By England's Aid • G. A. Henty
... countenance. I asked him in Welsh if I was in the right direction for Wrexham, he answered in a surly manner in English, that I was. I again spoke to him in Welsh, making some indifferent observation on the weather, and he answered in English yet more gruffly than before. For the third time I spoke to him in Welsh, whereupon looking at me with a grin of savage contempt, and showing a set of teeth like those of a mastiff, he said, "How's this? why you haven't a word of English? A pretty fellow you, with a long coat on your ...
— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow
... gruffly. "I'll see you to the stage. There it stands yonder—and a jolly old scarecrow of ...
— Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall - or Solving the Campus Mystery • Alice B. Emerson
... his whip and said gruffly, "Come on!" as though the animal had shaken its load loose on purpose. The little caravan started ...
— Men Called Him Master • Elwyn Allen Smith
... tremulously above my head and peering out into the darkness. The feeble glimmer played upon the apparition of a gigantic horseman, mounted on a steed of a size worthy of such a rider— colossal, motionless, like images cut out of the solid night. The strange visitant gruffly saluted me; and, after making several ineffectual efforts to urge his horse in at the door, dismounted and followed me into the room, evidently enjoying the terror which his huge presence excited. Announcing himself as the great Indian doctor, he ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... this way, Mr. Garvey will see you presently," said the Jew gruffly, crossing the floor and shielding the taper with a bony hand. He never once raised his eyes above the level of the visitor's waistcoat, and, to Shorthouse, he somehow suggested a figure from the dead rather than a man of flesh ...
— The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... growled Allison gruffly when at last the unwelcome guest had departed hastily to a class, with many praises for his dinner and a promise to call to see them in the near future. "Old pill! Now we'll never dare to come here again as long as he's around. Bother ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... rank may have flattered his vanity, while unlike Diderot and his old literary friends in Paris, they entered into no competition with him in the peculiar sphere of his own genius. Madame de Boufflers, indeed, wrote a tragedy, but he told her gruffly enough that it was a plagiarism from Southerne's Oroonoko.[16] That Rousseau was thoroughly capable of this pitiful emotion of sensitive literary jealousy is proved, if by nothing else, by his readiness to suspect that other authors were jealous ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley
... adopt the sisters"; he spoke almost gruffly. "I allers did think young 'uns would be the most comfort tew ...
— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund
... after this defection of Fenton, the circle could never be perfect again. They did not discuss the matter now, but in the interval of silence each acknowledged to himself that to disband was best; and briefly each gave his assent; all soberly, some almost gruffly. ...
— The Pagans • Arlo Bates
... no reward,' I said gruffly. 'We are not Germans or Germany's slaves. But so long as she fights against England ...
— Greenmantle • John Buchan
... head, and looked at her from under drawn brows. "Yes, you are," he said gruffly. "You're going to beat me with ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... "Well," said Pen, gruffly, "if that beast doesn't want to die in a dog's skin, he'd better hurry and turn into a man; for, on my word, ...
— The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne
... of harmless chaff by jerking some remark over his shoulder. "Looks like a guxe," he said gruffly. ...
— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy
... "Yes," said the Duke gruffly; "then and there—before everybody—when the swords are drawn. And you and I have to do it while he is leaving ...
— The Wisdom of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton |
