Laura Lee Hope > Quotes

“worse,”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins at School

“Lake”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island

“very”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins MEGAPACK ®: 15 Classic Children's Novels

“The Bobbsey twins were very busy that morning. They were all seated around the dining-room table, making houses and furnishing them. The houses were being made out of pasteboard shoe boxes, and had square holes cut in them for doors, and other long holes for windows, and had pasteboard chairs and tables, and bits of dress goods for carpets and rugs, and bits of tissue paper stuck up to the windows for lace curtains. Three of the houses were long and low, but Bert had placed his box on one end and divided it into five stories, and Flossie said it looked exactly like a “department” house in New York.”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins MEGAPACK ®: 15 Classic Children's Novels

“has gone on. The fat lady is with that, so one of the men said." "And, very likely, she has carried off our silver cup," exclaimed Mrs. Bobbsey. "Oh dear! Can you find her later, Richard?" "I think so. But it will take some time. The circus is going to Danville—that's a hundred miles from here. But I will write to the managers there, and ask them to get our cup from the fat lady." "But where is Snoop?" asked Freddie, with much anxiety. "I don't know, my dear," answered Mr. Bobbsey. "I asked the circus men if they had seen him, but they were too busy to remember. He may be running around some where. But we can't wait any longer. We must get home. I'll speak to one of the switchmen, who stay around here, and if they see Snoop I'll have them keep him for us. We'll come back to-morrow and inquire." "But we want Snoop now!" exclaimed Freddie, fretfully. "I'm afraid we can't get him," said Mrs. Bobbsey, gently. "Come, children, let's go home now, and leave it to papa. Oh, to think of your lovely silver cup being gone!" "Snoop is worse," said Flossie, almost crying. "I—I'm sorry I let the fat lady take the cup," spoke Freddie. "Oh, you meant all right, my dear," said his mamma, "and it was very kind of you. But we really ought to start. We may miss a trolley. Come, Dinah,”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins at School

“when the train stopped with such a jerk," explained Flossie.”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins at School

“through”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins MEGAPACK ®: 15 Classic Children's Novels

“envelope”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins at Home

“Stratemeyer Syndicate”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins MEGAPACK ®: 15 Classic Children's Novels

“Very frequently, yes. You see Cape Hatteras is a point of land of North Carolina, sticking out into the ocean. In the ocean are currents of water, and when one rushes one way and one the other, and they come together, it makes a rough sea, especially when there is a strong wind, as there is now. We are in this rough part of the ocean, and in the midst of a storm, too. But we will soon be out of it.”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins MEGAPACK ®: 15 Classic Children's Novels

“And so we nearly ran into an elephant; eh?”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins at School

“Flossie.”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins at School

“Sa good-byes”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins at School

“watering”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins at School

“wife,”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins at School

“suspecting that Dorothy had put it there purposely. By and by everything was quiet again, when another gong went off.”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins MEGAPACK ®: 15 Classic Children's Novels

“wife”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins at School

“Well, all's well that ends well, so they say," remarked Mr. Bobbsey,”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair

“happy”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins MEGAPACK ®: 15 Classic Children's Novels

“when”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins at School

“Well, anyhow, I’m a boy,”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins MEGAPACK ®: 15 Classic Children's Novels

“keeps”
― Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins MEGAPACK ®: 15 Classic Children's Novels