"Dryly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said White dryly, it seemed to me. There was something distinctly odd in his manner. ...
— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse
... Nesbit dryly, helping himself to the coveted cakes and passing the plate over Hippy's head to Mrs. Gray, "I prefer to do my ...
— Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... Harry dryly. "Maybe. And then when Dick made his run, pretty Dora Stanhope just put out her arms as if ...
— The Rover Boys out West • Arthur M. Winfield
... think he would," Theodore says dryly, for he has been watching, and has reluctantly owned to himself that he does not see how the movement is effected. Meantime, you, Esmeralda, have been arduously devoting yourself to maintaining a correct attitude, and ...
— In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda • Theo. Stephenson Browne
... doubt it," said Captain Barrington, dryly, "and, now, if you please, we will draw up ...
— The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash - Or - Facing Death in the Antarctic • Captain Wilbur Lawton
... with you, Ed," remarked the judge dryly, "that the mother had better look closely ...
— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt
... since I had my own way,' he remarked dryly, 'I have forgotten how it feels. Your state of serene satisfaction is unknown to me. How long do you intend to keep it up, ...
— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner
... to be thankful for small favors," Fraser said dryly. "She figures me up a skunk, but hates to have me massacreed in her back yard. Ain't that about ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine
... maybe you'd want to whip the dogs, too," Weary told him dryly; which was the nearest he came to expressing any disapproval of the incident. Weary was a peace-loving soul, whenever peace was compatible with self-respect; and it would never have occurred to him to punish strange men as summarily ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower
... M. Guillaume dryly. "And as regards Dieppe our course is very plain. I am at the rendezvous, waiting for him, by half-past six. You will also be at, or near, the rendezvous. We will settle more particularly how it is best to conduct ...
— Captain Dieppe • Anthony Hope
... the manager dryly. "I only know that we are bound to follow those instructions, and can let you have but forty dollars, which is the price of a first-class ticket to New York by steamer. Moreover, as this is sailing day, and the New York steamer leaves in a couple of hours, I would advise ...
— Under the Great Bear • Kirk Munroe
... rascal!" retorted John Pendleton, dryly. Then, with one of the curiously abrupt changes of manner peculiar to him, he said, very low: "You have your mother's eyes and smile, Pollyanna; and to me ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... "No," dryly; "it isn't in the Evans case. It's a case of a girl." The judge scowled at his gaiters and pushed his hat askew. "Hang it, I don't ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham
... it off," Jim rejoined dryly. "The trouble sometimes comes at the end. But it's rather curious how often you can make good by ...
— Partners of the Out-Trail • Harold Bindloss
... Scotchman, dryly; 'but every mickle makes a muckle, and ye ken the Lead wull hae mony sma' nuggets, which is mair paying, to my mind, than yin ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume
... certainly unprecedented," said the Judge dryly, "but unless the counsel for the plaintiff expects the jury to SING from these hymn-books, their introduction is not improper, and I cannot admit the objection. As defendant's counsel are furnished with copies also, ...
— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte
... such a prospect there was little to excite any but a morbid fancy. There were no clouds in the flinty blue heavens, and the setting of the sun was accompanied with as little ostentation as was consistent with the dryly practical atmosphere. Darkness soon followed, with a rising wind, which increased as the shadows deepened on the plain. The fringe of alder by the watercourse began to loom up as I urged my horse forward. A half-hour's ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... that passage in Faust; that is to say, they all have a passion for talking bad French, and I am altogether forgetting my English, as I have discovered to my dismay. * * * Oftentimes I feel terribly homesick, and that is to me an agreeable sadness, for otherwise I seem to myself so aged, so dryly resigned and documentary, as if I were only pasted on a piece of card-board. * * * Give your dear parents my heartfelt love, and kiss Annie's pretty hand for me, because she stays with you so sweetly-Now, ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke
... Peter dryly. "But what's the matter with Carstairs getting his rights for himself? Why doesn't he sneak up there and pull the thing off ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... seem to have escaped arrest by something like five minutes," he remarked dryly. "Were you able to bring the records ...
— The Other Likeness • James H. Schmitz
... game defined the terse, dryly humorous style since expected in text adventure games, and popularized several tag lines that have become fixtures of hacker-speak: "A huge green fierce snake bars the way!" "I see no X here" (for some ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... most incomprehensible and mysterious person I ever met in my whole lifetime!' said Herbert, dryly. 'I believe you take a positive delight in deceiving and mystifying one. Do you seriously mean to tell me you feel any interest at the present time of day in books written ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... death song likely," he remarked dryly, while the last clear, lingering note, reechoed by the cliff, died reluctantly away in softened cadence. "Beautiful old song, sergeant, and I trust hearing it again has done you good. Sang it once in a church way back in New England. But what is the trouble? Did you ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish
... the other man, a little dryly—"yes, perhaps. I don't want to seem critical, but isn't your ...
— Jason • Justus Miles Forman
... much for him. He surveyed me with covert dislike, and dryly observed "Your opportunities have exceeded mine, even with my own effects. That petty trinket which you have presumed to flaunt in my face—and of whose value I am the worst judge in the world since I have never had it in my hand—descended to me with the rest ...
— The Filigree Ball • Anna Katharine Green
... in the philanthropy business!" remarked the manager dryly. "I order you all to start work ...
— Mother • Maxim Gorky
... get good coffee at the claim," Van assured her dryly. "But near-coffee would lure ...
— The Furnace of Gold • Philip Verrill Mighels
... be a frequent visitor there. But with that young pup here, I couldn't leave. I didn't dare to. He'd have disrupted routine in a single day. Look what he did in half an hour. Frankly, I owe you a debt for getting him off my hands." Mullins chuckled dryly. ...
— The Lani People • J. F. Bone
... KEITH. [Dryly] I'm trying to get at truth. If you want me to help, I must know everything. What makes you think ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... dryly, "is not improbable. They are trained as soldiers, not as sharpers. But, all the same, in spite, if you please, of their soldier training, I fancy most of these lads that quit us to-day, if brought face to face with sudden emergency, responsibility, ...
— To The Front - A Sequel to Cadet Days • Charles King
... wouldn't hurt the girls, nor you either," dryly. "Anyhow, I want you to go to this quilting, wear that pretty new dress, and be just as nice and cordial as ...
— Sara, a Princess • Fannie E. Newberry
... the gentleman's appearance," said the earl, dryly (Ned's face, to say truth, did betoken his affection for the bottle), "I should imagine that he was much more accustomed to give ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... suffices to discount everything you have said, Baron," he replied dryly. "You have twice attempted to escape from the fortress. An innocent man awaits his trial with confidence, knowing that it cannot be other than ...
— International Short Stories: French • Various
... look very much as if they had been in a shipwreck," responded Dave's uncle, dryly. "I was ...
— Dave Porter At Bear Camp - The Wild Man of Mirror Lake • Edward Stratemeyer
... got just the same," said the other dryly. Quickly she went on: "But I'm not complaining, understand—I'm not complaining. Only I did think that at such a time one woman might have held out a helping ...
— The Third Degree - A Narrative of Metropolitan Life • Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow
... Spencer," he said dryly, "when I was here last that you thought me an alarmist. I don't know that I blame you. We always think the other fellow may get it, but that we are safe. You might ...
— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... you think you can do it alone,' remarked the officer dryly. He was a lenient man and often conversed with ...
— The Moccasin Maker • E. Pauline Johnson
... nothing for the wheels and pulleys," dryly interrupted the man, with a critical look at her flushing ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 • Various
... was keenly watching and closely studying that very phenomena through all, and now he gave a queer little chuckle, as he nodded his head with vigour, before dryly speaking. ...
— The Lost City • Joseph E. Badger, Jr.
... when I have got you all at my house in the country. Mind!" he burst out, with a furtive look, which expressed his inveterate distrust of Natalie and of every one about her. "Mind! it's settled that you all come to me in Somersetshire, on Monday next." Sir Joseph answered rather dryly that it was settled. Turlington turned to leave the room—and suddenly came back. "It's understood," he went on, addressing Miss Lavinia, "that the seventh of next month is the date fixed for the marriage. Not a day ...
— Miss or Mrs.? • Wilkie Collins
... that I should do so," said la Peyrade, dryly, for he did not at all like, under this mask of simplicity, the quick intelligence that penetrated his thoughts. "Without being a thief, a woman may very well not be a Sister of Charity; there's a wide margin between ...
— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac
... The dryly sarcastic voice, the practical question brought Vardri down from the clouds to the hard facts of life. Illnesses and doctors were expensive things. He had no ...
— The Hippodrome • Rachel Hayward
... shall have to hear a good deal in a court of justice—as you say, sooner or later," interrupted Mr. Halfpenny, dryly. "So I don't think you need spare Miss Wynne. I should advise you to go on, and let us become acquainted with what you've ...
— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher
... said dryly, "I see your faces together—both together, and actually wasting sympathy on me? Tush, tush! So rich in happiness that you can waste ...
— Ronicky Doone • Max Brand
... not a marquis,' dryly responded Monsieur de Lessay; 'and I mean simply that Bonaparte would have been very well suited had he married one of those cannibal women described by Captain Cook in his voyages—naked, tattooed, with a ring in her nose—devouring ...
— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard • Anatole France
... be sold according to law," said the notary, dryly, finishing the sentence. "I can well understand, sir, that this is a painful prospect; but, as it is a decree of fate that no one can control, you have nothing to do but prepare to receive the blow. Let me offer to sell your estate as if you 'were leaving the country.' By that ...
— The Poor Gentleman • Hendrik Conscience
... is too old-fashioned," said Mrs. Leigh, and Miss Opie coughed dryly. But why need Bluebell have blushed so consciously, as she dashed into Lightning galops and Tom Tiddler quadrilles, till Trove, like a dog of taste, took his offended ears and outraged nerves off to his ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... safe," he said dryly, and pushed him gently towards the door with a few words in rapid Arabic. He stood some time after Gaston had gone to his own quarters looking out into the night, and when he came in, lingered unusually over closing the flap. ...
— The Sheik - A Novel • E. M. Hull
... hardly be minding myself either, in your opinion, by doing that,' said Ethelberta dryly. 'But it will be more tolerable than what I am doing now. Georgina, and Myrtle, and Emmeline, and Joey will not get the education I intended for them; but ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy
... splendid flowers, perfuming whole regions? Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four, only four, those nursing fathers of various beings! What a pity! Why are they not forty, four hundred, four thousand! How poor everything is, how mean and wretched! grudgingly given, dryly invented, clumsily made! Ah! the elephant and the hippopotamus, what grace! And the camel, ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Ghost Stories • Various
... "Yes," she said dryly, "thee has considerable untamed human nature." Then added, smiling, "I'll trust him with thee, nevertheless. I'm inclined to think that for her sake thee'd do more for him than for any man living. ...
— A Day Of Fate • E. P. Roe
... the costume-maker dryly, "you will have to get these things and pay for them yourself, as this is the costume ...
— My Double Life - The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt • Sarah Bernhardt
... of world, I think," answered that lady dryly, sweeping some of the picked beans into her pan. "I get ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner
... but dryly treated, as if it might be a commercially calculating or interested one. "Oh, not ...
— The Outcry • Henry James
... were criticising the painting with some warmth: the ropes were not as they should be, the braces and stays were not properly regulated, and "Whoever saw sails flying about like that!" said the more voluble of the two. The other dryly retorted, "I don't know, mister, what you think, but I want to say that I have seen them cut some d—— funny capers at times!" This very sailor-like sally both tickled the audience and convinced it that the sails were really ...
— Windjammers and Sea Tramps • Walter Runciman
... friend surely thinks so!" rejoined the potter, dryly; "but since he won't trust us with his precious secret, I think it much more interesting to watch the people crossing the square. The procession must be gathering outside the Dipylon Gate. Yonder rides ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... trifle dryly, "I suppose there are. However, I shall probably have gone away when you come ...
— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss
... familiar with the articles of war, as detailed in the pact," Joe said dryly. "And now, gentlemen, I am afraid my duty calls me." He bowed stiffly, saluted correctly. "A pleasure to make your acquaintance Colonel Majumdur, Major Kamil. Colonel Arpad, ...
— Frigid Fracas • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... for a book which lay on the table where the tundra daisies were heaped. It was a book written around the early phases of pioneer life in Alaska, taken from his own library, a volume of statistical worth, dryly but carefully written—and she had been reading it. It struck him as a symbol of the fight she was making, of her courage, and of her desire to triumph in the face of tremendous odds that must have beset her. He still could not associate her completely with John Graham. ...
— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood
... so," retorted Cooper, dryly. "Was you ever troubled by their leaking, when you rolled them through the mud from the well to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various
... observation and prompt action upon it: a captain of one of the great liners between Hamburg and New York told me that when his ship was ready to sail the Emperor came on board, looked it over, and after approving various arrangements said dryly, "Captain, I should think you were too old a sailor to let people give square corners to your tables." The captain quietly acted upon this hint; and when, many months later, the Kaiser revisited the ship, he said, "Well, ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White
... was sober," dryly. "The arrangement of the rooms is not complicated, and one floor is ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... was not running when I left the shop," answered Nathan, dryly and with some dignity, "but it will be, he assured me, perhaps by to-morrow." He could fight Billy Talbot, but he never crossed swords with Cobb, never in late years. Cobb was the one man in all the world, he once told ...
— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith
... little dryly, "the American skipper hasn't any British navy behind him, ready to take the matter up. It's a protection in case we can't outrun that sloop-of-war. The men won't care a cent, as soon as they know it's only a sea dodge to get ...
— Ahead of the Army • W. O. Stoddard
... does me a great injustice, sire, and you are wrong," replied Fouquet, dryly; "I am not child enough, nor is M. d'Herblay silly enough, to have omitted to make all these inflections; and if I had wished to make a new king, as you say, I had no occasion to have come here to force open all the gates and doors of the Bastille, ...
— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas
... Young, dryly, when I had briefly explained these several matters, "I guess he won't pull th' wool over nobody's eyes any more! An' now you an' me 'll do some prospectin'. We must go back upstairs, before we pull out for good, an' bag what there is there that's worth ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... for the extreme frankness of Dame Gillian's disposition. He thought also, that, on looking more closely at the merchant, his lineaments were not totally unknown to him; and proceeded to say to him dryly, "We have met before, friend, but I cannot call ...
— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott
... her narrowly, but she did not grow pale like a woman whose lover is threatened with mortal peril. She said dryly:— ...
— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke
... of being a servant. Well or ill, it makes no matter." She turned from the glass, and holding her hair in her left hand, leaned her head so that she might pin it. "You do look bad," she remarked dryly. ...
— Esther Waters • George Moore
... had tried to make a careless one, curled his lip satirically as he bowed in reply. "It is the first time," he said dryly, "that I believe I have been honored with arranging a tryst for two lovers; but believe me, Mistress Thankful, I will do my best. In half an hour I will turn my ...
— Thankful Blossom • Bret Harte
... presume on your escort home," she remarked dryly, trembling for fear that she had exposed herself to some contemptuous retort. One great attraction, however, in Clayton was that he never expected the conventional. It did not occur to him as particularly absurd that this woman, ten ...
— Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories • Robert Herrick
... as to your own movements at that time, but very meagre as to those of your servant," the King remarked dryly. "You left him, you say, at your castle on the morning of the abduction, and found him there, a week later, on your return. Bethink you that is any proof he remained there in ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... believe, in every way worthy of so good a man," he answered, a little dryly. "I think I heard her sing ...
— The Room in the Dragon Volant • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... have seen you with your arms around Spoons' neck, back up the trail there," said Allen dryly. "Come! Mount again, Enoch! I want to have lunch ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow
... said the other dryly, "they generally see them in pairs, and the shock to the nervous system frequently ...
— Lady of the Barge and Others, Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... was put in a very natural and almost negligent tone, Fray Damaso suddenly lost all his merriment and stopped laughing. "No!" he grunted dryly, and let himself back heavily against the back ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... Staunton on some business. He rode Traveller, and Colonel Wm. Allan rode with him. It was the time of the Augusta Agricultural Fair, and while there he visited the exhibition and was received by the people with great demonstrations of delight. A student standing by remarked dryly: ...
— Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee • Captain Robert E. Lee, His Son
... to a reader who wishes to follow the main course of the war carefully, if the chief ways in which geographical facts affected it are here summarised—necessarily somewhat dryly. Minor operations at outlying points on the coast or in the Far West will be left out of account, so also will a serious political consideration, which we shall later see caused doubt for a time as to the ...
— Abraham Lincoln • Lord Charnwood
... nothing," he said, dryly. "For his own sake Cliffe will hold his tongue and leave London. And as to the future—I can get some message conveyed to him—by a man he won't disregard. Leave it ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... indeed," I acquiesced dryly. Then the devil of mischief stirred in me to plague him. "There's all the difference of bad and a vast deal worse between them. It's a matter ...
— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine
... on," said the Parson dryly, "or we shall be having the whole village here presently, gazing on the lord of the manor in the same predicament as that from which we have just extricated the Doctor. Now pray, what is the matter with ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various
... as well as Jim," said Frank dryly, with a twinkle in his eye. "The buffs are in good shape an' can get along without ...
— The Last of the Plainsmen • Zane Grey
... foolhardy to follow the Confederates into the gorge we were travelling, and that unless I could show them satisfactory reasons for changing their opinion they would not lead their commands further into it. I dryly asked if he was quite sure he understood the nature of his communication. There was something probably in the tone of my question which was not altogether expected, and his companions began to look a little uneasy. ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... age they should not be confined to any sedentary employment for more than an hour at a time. But these relaxations might all be rendered a part of elementary education, for many things improve and amuse the senses, when introduced as a kind of show, to the principles of which dryly laid down, children would turn a deaf ear. For instance, botany, mechanics, and astronomy. Reading, writing, arithmetic, natural history, and some simple experiments in natural philosophy, might fill up the day; but these pursuits should never encroach on gymnastic ...
— A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Title: Vindication of the Rights of Women • Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin]
... add, at the same time, sir, if you please," dryly remarked Mr. Jarvis, "that it is occupied by an old man, who has been preaching and lecturing all his life; and, like others of the trade, I ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper
... that it was stained with vitriolic acid; "because," said he, "I think that is the pocket in which you said you left your ten-guinea note; then, perhaps, the note may have been stained." "Perhaps so," replied Mackenzie dryly. "And if it were, you could identify the note: you have forgotten the number; but if the note has been stained with vitriolic acid, we should certainly be able to know it again: the acid would have changed the colour of the ink." Mackenzie ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... our most illustrious painters have fallen into it. In my work you will see whiteness beneath the opacity of the broadest shadow. Unlike the crowd of ignoramuses, who fancy they draw correctly because they can paint one good vanishing line, I have not dryly outlined my figures, nor brought out superstitiously minute anatomical details; for, let me tell you, the human body does not end off with a line. In that respect sculptors get nearer to the truth of nature than we do. Nature is all curves, each wrapping or overlapping another. ...
— The Hidden Masterpiece • Honore de Balzac
... your talk 'll be more interesting than mine," he said, dryly. "I'll go see Dorn an' ...
— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey
... you see anything else that we can do," proposed Eph dryly. "Say, here's a quarter to ...
— Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock
... guess my claim's on the banks o' Sufferin' Creek. Maybe you feel better now?" He glared down the table, but finally turned again to Sandy. "You ain't pertickler busy 'bout now, so—ther's thirty dollars a week says you ken hev the job. An' I'll give you a percentage o' the gold you wash up," he added dryly. ...
— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum
... it up to the shell-loading people they would probably have been willing to postpone the blowing up indefinitely," remarked Andy dryly. ...
— The Rover Boys Under Canvas - or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine • Arthur M. Winfield
... fluttered for an instant, her lips moving dryly; but she made no sound. She came up, knelt upon the floor, pushed Muff gently away, and took her child's ...
— Men, Women, and Ghosts • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... jackals stationing themselves on the right of that hermitage, set up frightful and inauspicious yells. And ugly Vartikas as of dreadful sight, having one wing, one eye, and one leg, were seen to vomit blood, facing the sun. And the wind began to blow dryly, and violently, attracting grits. And to the right all the beasts and birds began to cry. And in the rear the black crows cried, 'Go!' 'Go!' And momentarily his (Yudhishthira's) right arm began to twitch, and his chest and left leg shook (of themselves). And indicating evil his left eye contracted ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli
... said dryly, "that undertakers' assistants are jovial young men. A man's sense of humor seems to be in inverse proportion to the ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... handle thet old arm some clumsy," said Guy Isbel, dryly. And Bill added a remark to the effect that perhaps Jean had been leading a luxurious and tame life back there in Oregon, and then added, "But I reckon he's packin' that six-shooter ...
— To the Last Man • Zane Grey
... Kate forgot it wasn't her funeral—I mean, her wedding," retorted Cyril, dryly. "Kate is never happy, you know, unless she's ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... admiral, dryly. "Very simple indeed. But, admitting this strong beam of light that, as you say, could set fire to that sealer, and be invisible in sunshine, how about the beam that is invisible by night? That is what I ...
— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson
... under Niag'ry Falls, by mistake!" said Bubble, dryly. "Let me see, now!" He rumpled up his short tow-colored hair with his favorite gesture, and meditated. "I guess I'll begin at the beginning!" he said. "Well!" (it was observable that Bubble no longer ...
— Hildegarde's Holiday - a story for girls • Laura E. Richards
... dryly. "I pride myself that I have exceptionally good eyesight, but I fail to see her. The neutral colour of the submarine is indeed excellent for ...
— The Submarine Hunters - A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War • Percy F. Westerman
... dryly, that Beatrix was not at home that morning; my Lord Bishop was too busy with great affairs to trouble himself much about the presence or absence ...
— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray
... yet stinging their eyes as they crossed open moors and the wind leaped at them. Once Ruth slipped, on a rock or a chunk of ice, and came down with an infuriating jolt. Before he could drop the skees she struggled up and said, dryly: ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis
... have to earn their bread can't lie around and go to school," remarked Aunt Nan dryly, ...
— The Girl from Montana • Grace Livingston Hill
... it a pleasure, baron," he said dryly. "From what you imply, I should judge that you were ...
— The Puppet Crown • Harold MacGrath
... which neither denied their truth nor grew indignant), should have been so solicitous for its dignity as to send the monarch, upon his approach to the city, an earnest petition that its members should not be constrained to kneel when his Majesty entered their court-room! To which the latter dryly responded, "their genuflexion would not make him any less a ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... laughed a short and rather unnatural laugh. "I thought you wouldn't be obstinate about it, when you came to think it over," said he, dryly. He folded up his spectacles and put them back in his waistcoat pocket with, unusual elaboration of manner. "So you would really like to have a change, would you? Well, I trust you will not be disappointed in your expectations of society and watering-places. At all events, ...
— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne
... and spoke dryly. "I reckon the skunk's been out of Arizona quite some time. He's in greaser land now, and I never heard tell that Pasquale was so darned particular what his men did. Just tie a knot in this: if Harrison reaches the insurrecto ...
— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine
... about her looks if she'd marry somebody," Mrs. Klein said dryly. "Seems to me they're ...
— The Mighty Dead • William Campbell Gault
... to be hitting the right nail on the head tonight," commented Rosanne dryly. "First, my mother; now, you. I wonder who'll be the third. All good things ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... Doctor answered, dryly. "They always talked Latin when they had a bigger lie than common to get ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various
... Tom told him, dryly. "If you tried that you'd get a worse shock than any chicken thief will get that tries to ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Locomotive - or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails • Victor Appleton
... however, made the Provost uncomfortable. "Ay," he said dryly in his throat; "verra good, baker, verra good!—Who's yellow doag's that? I never saw the beast ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown
... to add, because I knew from past experience there would be little of it to hoard, even in a ginger-jar. James Early was not as prompt a payer as collector," dryly. "No, I took back my baby because we all missed her so, especially Leon, who had wailed all day and half the night, calling on 'Doyce! Doyce!' even in his dreams, poor little man! It was the end of the second day when Mr. Early, looking ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... little to my credit," Mr. Carne said, dryly, as he took the offered chair, but kept his eyes still upon Cheeseman's; "but among that little is a bond from you, given nearly twenty years agone, and of which you will retain, ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... shook his head. "No-o," he drawled dryly, "I'm afraid not, son. I admit that don't seem scarcely possible, but I am afraid ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln
... be," said the cattleman dryly, in spite of the best intentions to be generous to his successful rival. "But I reckon I know why yore grand-stand friend in chaps pulled such a play. In Arizona you can't square such things with money. So far as I can make out the ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine
... the painter dryly, and looked in annoyance from the priest to the picture, and from the ...
— A Foregone Conclusion • W. D. Howells
... certainly a most manageable ward," said the guardian, dryly, and with, perhaps, a shade of distrust ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... introduced, went to the second reading, and then Senator Mullens spoke for it dryly, tediously, and at length. Senator Kinney then arose, and the welkin seized the bellrope preparatory to ringing. Oratory was at that time a living thing; the world had not quite come to measure its questions by geometry and the multiplication table. It was the day ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... grumble," Tom said dryly. "But they willunt stop, for aw the dirt peat maks an' they canna get ovens hot. I reckon Bell has mair coal coming in than he can get shut of. When I was at station last t' yards was ...
— The Buccaneer Farmer - Published In England Under The Title "Askew's Victory" • Harold Bindloss
... premature, are you not, Hawke?" dryly said the civilian, opening a silver cheroot box, once the property of a Royal Prince of Oude. Hugh Johnstone motioned his visitor to be seated, and keenly watched ...
— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage
... be thought that this young man would play the cynic. He is superbly the optimist, though now again he struck a note of almost cynic whimsicality. 'Of course our art is in its infancy—' He waited for my nod of agreement, then dryly added, 'We must, I think, consider it the Peter Pan of the arts. And I dare say you recall the outstanding biological freakishness of Peter.' But a smile—that slow, almost puzzled smile ...
— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson
... that that would be likely to mend matters," the doctor said dryly; "in fact it would lessen the one chance that exists of ever setting the matter straight. As I have told him, though these children are very much alike at present—and indeed most babies are—it is probable that as they grow up there will no longer be any resemblance whatever, and that his ...
— The Dash for Khartoum - A Tale of Nile Expedition • George Alfred Henty
... strong desire to punish the South, that you are not in the field," Irving said, a little dryly, for though not a sympathizer with the rebellion, he was a Baltimorean, and not yet quite as much aroused as Hugh, ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes
... Captain Truck dryly remarked as he witnessed this manoeuvre. "Were this island only out of the way, now, we might stand on as we head, and leave those man-of-war's men to amuse themselves all night with backing and filling ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper
... Congress, were produced at the breakfast table. But speech-making was not the order of the day. Too many thundering addresses had been delivered in the Salle de St. Cecile, to allow the company to sit and hear dryly written and worse ...
— Three Years in Europe - Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met • William Wells Brown
... that faced us. In no place did the water come above our knees; but what it lacked in depth, it made up for in coldness. We saw none of the humour in that, so we cursed it and stumbled on, two very tired men. We pulled handfuls of oats and chewed dryly on them as we plunged up to our waists through the crops. We reckoned that we had made thirty miles by morning and apparently had outdistanced ...
— The Escape of a Princess Pat • George Pearson
... morning with a grim, ugly suggestion in it of the coming winter. Jeffrey Whiting and his men drew wearily out to their posts, munching dryly at the last of the stores which they had taken from the construction depots along the line which they had destroyed. This was the end. It was not far from the mind of each man that this would probably ...
— The Shepherd of the North • Richard Aumerle Maher
... not attempt the impossible," explained Dr. Magnus, dryly. "Our failures must be inherent in the man, not in ...
— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen
... the fine arts? Shall we be such crawling creatures as to seek to lay by the heels a Muse of Murder? Are we a generation of detectives, that we should do this thing?" "So my friend put it to me," said the Critic dryly, "not quite so eloquently, but to that effect. Between ourselves, though, I believe he was influenced more by consideration of his personal safety than by admiration for murder as a fine art. He remembered the fate of the ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery - Riddle Stories • Various
... leave, gentlemen," said Father Francis, dryly, "I will be the next to pay my respects to her." With this he opened ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various
... so, indeed," said Pulfennius dryly. "I am grateful to you for warning me; I promise not to misjudge her because of any childish freakishness. And now it seems to me that we should make the young lady herself a party of this conference and bring the matter to ...
— The Unwilling Vestal • Edward Lucas White
... it?' said Simon dryly. 'Klaus is King of the Dwarfs, is he? Then if that's the case, he shall perform a trick for us directly. Now I give you all warning, young and old, not to stop his pipe, or fill his glass again, till he fiddles himself into a fit, and glass and ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Vol. 56, No. 346, August, 1844 • Various
... native spoke dryly. "But what ye says sounds unthoughted ter me. Ef a man's mean enough ter foller murderin' somebody over a gal, he's more like ter do hit afore ther feller gits his holt on her then a'tterwards. When ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck
... who sat uneasily at her own board clutching at a thin fragment of cold dry toast that hung cheerlessly awry in the silver rack, like the last brown leaf to a frosty tree, while she crunched the toast, spoke dryly of the poor; of how 'interesting many of them are;' how when you take the trouble to understand them, you no longer lump them all together in a featureless misery, you realize how significant and varied ...
— The Convert • Elizabeth Robins
... he interrupted dryly, "but we shall need you ashore; in the first place to indentify this mysterious stranger, and also to help protect the ladies. Their escort, Heaven knows, is not excessive. We take the gig, and if the man fails ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... dear sir!" he exclaimed, dryly; "Alan did not take the money—neither did you. Cass took it, and you wasted a day of the bank's time ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... go up and down this realm of England and ride us with iron bridles.' The old man laughed dryly and bitterly. 'His servant? See how we are held—we dare not shut our doors upon him since he is Cromwell's servant, yet if he come in he shall ruin us, take our money that we dare not refuse, deflower our virgins.... What then is ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford
... came forward, and, with a friendly tone of voice, bade them good-evening in a manner which seemed to indicate a desire to be upon a footing of the most amiable sort with them. The old man answered dryly, with some show of sarcastic ...
— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms
... understand anything but facts," replied Mr. Simms, dryly. "I know the man. He's a hard-headed truth-seeker. You see, Rhinds, when I received your telegram, I hurried over to the Navy Department to say what I could for you. The Secretary told me that of course he didn't want you injured by any ...
— The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise - The Young Kings of the Deep • Victor G. Durham
... a fool," he admitted dryly. "The turn that things have taken is the best possible one for me. But I'm not quite prepared to thank Miss Seldon yet for ...
— The Highgrader • William MacLeod Raine
... dryly, as if the lemonade had failed to cool her parched throat, "that depends on how ...
— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
... no surprise and asked her no questions. As a matter of fact, the gossip of the Cook's guide had partly prepared him for Nina's revelation about her aunt's fortune, and he had his own theories about Scorpa. "Quite likely," he answered dryly, "but it is also quite likely that we shall get the better of him——" Then, with a sudden change in his manner he looked at her steadily. "But perhaps you don't want us to get the ...
— The Title Market • Emily Post
... not have to go to the club to hear politics," replied Madame d'Azay, dryly. "It has required all my authority to restrain these gentlemen this evening from discussing such subjects. Indeed, I think Monsieur Jefferson and Monsieur de Lafayette, in spite of my defense, which I now remove, have had a political debate," and she snapped her bright eyes and nodded ...
— Calvert of Strathore • Carter Goodloe |
