"Drily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... leapt into Grell's face as the superintendent drily recounted his movements. It was succeeded by a flash of fury at the last words. "Be careful, sir," he said tensely. "You need ...
— The Grell Mystery • Frank Froest
... drily, "who has the honour of being the embodiment of the Earl of Essex's ideal of ...
— Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) • Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney
... remarked drily that he thought that was only natural, and turned his attention to the more congenial task of passing a cart of hay; it was a matter of some difficulty, for the road was narrow, and there was a ditch ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... long," said Mr. Quinby drily. "I've heard that talk before, but I notice that the Blues usually give a good account of themselves when it comes to an actual fight. It was so in my own college days. There'd be all sorts of discouraging rumors afloat and the ...
— Bert Wilson on the Gridiron • J. W. Duffield
... man drily. 'Well, Pitt, perhaps you are right; but for me there is this serious objection, that ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner
... said the doctor drily, "by giving the calumniated person an opportunity of denying a charge of this sort, however preposterous. I am myself perfectly satisfied to take your word that you neither had any part in the affair yourself nor have you any knowledge as to who ...
— The Master of the Shell • Talbot Baines Reed
... Harrod's game-keepers," said the girl drily, "it only means a summons and a fine for me. And if it's a State Trooper, who is prowling in the woods yonder hunting crooks, he'll find nobody here but a trespasser. Keep quiet. I'll ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers
... brought Monk better counsel, the morning's ransacking of the vessel and the examination of her crew proved more painstaking than Lanyard had expected. And the upshot was precisely as Monk had foretold, precisely negative. He reported drily to this effect at an informal conference in his quarters after luncheon. He himself had supervised the entire search and had made a good part of it in person, he said. No nook or cranny of the yacht ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance
... sometimes unconscious of their state," said the general, drily, his eye glancing towards the other end of the room, and lighting upon Lady Bearcroft, who was at the instant very red and very loud; and Lady Cecilia was standing, as if watchful for a moment's pause, in which to interpose her word of peace. She waited for some time in vain, ...
— Helen • Maria Edgeworth
... to pieces the agnihotra of him that sacrifices otherwise. Cabala is the day; Cy[a]ma is the night. He who sacrifices in the night, his agnihotra Cy[a]ma tears asunder; he who sacrifices in broad daylight, his agnihotra Cabala tears asunder." Even more drily the two dogs of Yama are correlated with the time-markers of heaven in a passage of the T[a]ittir[i]ya-Veda (v. 7. 19); here sundry parts of the sacrificial horse are assigned to four cosmic phenomena ...
— Cerberus, The Dog of Hades - The History of an Idea • Maurice Bloomfield
... expect you to wear mine," said April drily. "No, as you rightly suspect, it isn't for the clothes, though they fascinate and lure me. And it isn't for the honour and glory of being Lady Diana, though that is fascinating too, and it will be ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... should expect," answered the apostle drily; "and, just for that reason, I don't intend to undertake it: though I should like, Brother Holt, to see you gathered into the fold. I know our great High Priest would make much of a man like you. The Saints have many enemies; and need ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid
... Murdy," remarked Malcolm Sage drily, "but when you try to suppress hysteria in a young girl by sternness, it's about as effectual as putting ointment on ...
— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins
... changed a little, but Mackenzie, looking straight before him did not notice it. "Sounds a capital arrangement," he said drily. ...
— The Squire's Daughter - Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons • Archibald Marshall
... will be—one way or the other," she returned drily. "However, if we are careful, a prayer more or less won't effect much damage. It's really up to the—man in the case. If he can get away with it, we can ...
— The Cab of the Sleeping Horse • John Reed Scott
... that her husband was in bad spirits, and asked the reason. 'It is that man's want of delicacy,' he replied, 'which afflicts me; he makes me work like a slave, but I should never have found that out, if he had not so drily refused to take an interest in me for a quarter of an hour.' 'You are surprised at that,' his wife answered; 'do you not know him? He is devoured with envy; he goes wild with rage when anything fine appears that is not his own. You will see him one day commit some ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley
... the girl drily, "I know why you and my father haven't got on. Your opinions wouldn't ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... turnip, but under the air of icy indifference which pervaded his whole exterior I detected a sarcastic smile, which fully convinced me that I was the laughing-stock of man and beast. I took my resolution, and Pere Seguin, who had followed my movements with his eye, said drily, as I was going to put a cap on, "What are you going to ...
— Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches • Henri de Crignelle
... beckoned to them to come on board; at the same time giving Captain Hills to understand, that he might take his choice of them; and when Captain Hills rejected the proposal with indignation, the pilot seemed perfectly at a loss to account for his warmth; and drily observed, that the slave-captains would not have been so scrupulous. Again, when General Rooke commanded at Goree, a number of the natives, men, women, and children, came to pay him a friendly visit. All was gaiety and merriment. It was a scene ...
— The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the - Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) • Thomas Clarkson
... accident; and roaring with pain as the gods were with laughter. Dinner passed on without any more accidents, and when the ladies retired, Vulcan and Mars sat down to ecarte, at which the former proved the winner. Apollo drily remarked, (having just finished his daily journey and joined the gods) that Vulcan had netted Mars's cash as well as himself. Mars rose in a great rage, when Jupiter recommended him not to be nettled, which only made him ten times more so. A quarrel was the consequence; ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. XX. No. 556., Saturday, July 7, 1832 • Various
... "Not so," Malespini responded drily. "You may thank friends nearer at hand, for the Grand Duke knows as little of your existence as your English friends ...
— Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) • Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney
... has been perpetrated before, sir, in garrison towns at the time of the Empire; but nowadays it is exceedingly bad form," said Raphael drily. ...
— The Magic Skin • Honore de Balzac
... it was 'poor' grandmamma," commented Eugenia drily. "But Dudley won't find me after midnight." Then she regarded Miss Chris affectionately. "What a blessing that you didn't marry, Aunt Chris," she said. "You'd have prepared some man ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... be killed by a small axe," said Lingard, drily. "And, remember, my one-eyed friend, that axes are made by white hands. You will soon find that out, since you have hoisted ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... a great abundance of old war tales in my books," he would say drily. "And told with a greater ingenuity—not to mention veracity—than pertain to the legends and histories of you old campaigners. Between ourselves, I'm not for war at all, but for the far finer and ...
— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro
... BEA. [Drily.] Ay, that Was what she said.—By which I knew, you see, My dream was over,—it could not but be you. So that I said no word, but my quick blood Went suddenly quiet in my veins, and I felt Years older than Bianca. I drew her head Down to my shoulder, that she might not see my face, And she spoke ...
— The Lamp and the Bell • Edna St. Vincent Millay
... how you'd go about spending much as long as you stayed up there," Ross retorted drily. "It's when a man comes down that ...
— The Lookout Man • B. M. Bower
... hoofin' it from Cheslow to Grading. I heard of a job up at Grading—and I needed that job," Jerry had observed, drily. ...
— Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island - The Old Hunter's Treasure Box • Alice Emerson
... not be the same thing," said Monsieur de Bourmont, drily. "And remember whom you are quoting, my dear Cesar. A dangerous person, to say ...
— Angelot - A Story of the First Empire • Eleanor Price
... authorities at home gave out that one of the reasons for Burton's recall was that his life was in danger from the bullets of his enemies, but Burton commented drily: "I have been shot at, at different times, by at least forty men who fortunately could not shoot straight. Once more would not have ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright
... Mr. Grew drily. "But I'll tell you one thing, Ronny," he added suddenly. Ronald raised his head with a quick glance, and Mr. Grew continued: "I'll tell you where the best of those letters is—it's in you. If it hadn't been for that one look at life ...
— Tales Of Men And Ghosts • Edith Wharton
... the captain, drily, after he had recovered the bowl, not only without the other's consent, but, in some degree, against his will; "this bowl is as precious in my eyes as if it were made of ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper
... go to the Queen,' he said drily. 'If the Queen say, "Yea," ye ha' gained all; if "Nay" ye ha' lost naught, for ye may alway change your mind. And a true and steadfast cause, a large and godly innocence is a thing that gaineth men's hearts and voices.' He paused for a moment. 'Ye ha' ...
— Privy Seal - His Last Venture • Ford Madox Ford
... you exaggerate the extent of your peril, Mr. Smart," she said drily. "Of course, I have no desire to put you in jeopardy, but ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... said the count drily. "What objection can you make to my proposal? Is it not fair and natural? Am I to be deprived of the consolations vouchsafed to the neediest and most wretched? You know I have acted towards you ...
— The Man-Wolf and Other Tales • Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian
... that your mother gave you some introductions to rich people in New York, and they entertained you?" said the General drily. ...
— Marriage a la mode • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... he was," said the general, drily. "He had plenty of dash and go, but no moral courage. He came home after the wars were over, and broke his mother's heart by becoming a drunkard and a gambler; and he died an early death ...
— His Big Opportunity • Amy Le Feuvre
... walking round. They're awfully restless. They keep saying I'm restless, but I'm as quiet as a sleeping child to them. It takes," he added in a moment, drily, "the form ...
— The Pension Beaurepas • Henry James
... I came in," he retorted drily and kissed her. "And I'm here because I couldn't stand The Dreamerie another instant. I wanted my mother and sisters to call on you and thank you for having been so nice to me during my illness, but the idea wasn't received, ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... towers had grown fainter in the haze; we slid by the green flood-banks, with here and there a bunch of kingcups blazing in glory, the elbows of the bank full of white cow-parsley, comfrey, and water-dock. I heard the sedge-warbler whistle drily in the willow-patch, and a nightingale sang with infinite sweetness in a close of thorn-bushes now bursting into bloom; blue sky above, a sapphire streak of waterway ahead, green banks on either side; a ...
— The Silent Isle • Arthur Christopher Benson
... latter replied drily, "we are rather stronger than one regiment and not quite so strong as two; still, if things go on like this we shall ere very long have mounted up to the strength of a brigade; but even a brigade, Ronald, does ...
— Bonnie Prince Charlie - A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden • G. A. Henty
... pity," said aunty drily. "However, as you are the only gentleman of the party, and we are all dependent on you, perhaps it is just as well that you have no special fancies of your own. So to-morrow I propose that we should go a drive in the morning, to give you a general idea of Paris, returning by Notre Dame. In the ...
— Grandmother Dear - A Book for Boys and Girls • Mrs. Molesworth
... not envy him his ride if it would have been anything like mine," said Mr Rogers drily. ...
— Off to the Wilds - Being the Adventures of Two Brothers • George Manville Fenn
... before," retorted the doctor drily. "Moreover, it's not a question of making him young again. A man of our ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck
... in meditation for a long while. The squinting of his left eye was now very noticeable. "I consider my wife's clerk," he drily said, "to discourse of love in somewhat too much the tone of a lover." And ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... drily interrupted the flood. Nina gave a startled glance at the lawns and gardens of the Jay mansion already dotted with awnings and chairs, and sprinkled with the bright gowns of the first arrivals. They were early, and their hostess, a handsome, heavily built woman with corsets like armourplate ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris
... thing to have about," said Mr. Smith drily, as he looked out of the corner of his eye and remarked the two men behind him. They were ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon
... American, rather drily; 'but I reckon you wouldn't see many beauties till you had a log shanty up, at all events. Now that young man'—he had caught Robert Wynn's eye on him again—'is the very build for emigration. Strong, active, healthy, wide awake: no offence, young gentleman, ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... marsh, and perhaps the people were not always savage," he said drily, looking down the steep bank, for we were standing by the river. "Look there," he went on, pointing to a spot where the hurricane of the previous night had torn up one of the magnolia trees by the roots, which had grown on the extreme edge of the ...
— She • H. Rider Haggard
... stethoscope to his breast. Egerton's eyes were partially closed as the door opened. But at the noise he sprang up, nearly oversetting the doctor. "Who's that?—How dare you!" he exclaimed, in a voice of great anger. Then recognizing Randal, he changed color, bit his lip, and muttered drily, "I beg pardon for my abruptness: what do ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various
... promptly and a little drily remarked. "The water has not agreed with my constitution, and I have never neglected to journey by land. But then you know, Wyllys, as the consort and relict of a flag-officer, it was not seemly that I should be ignorant of ...
— The Red Rover • James Fenimore Cooper
... remarked Paradine drily. "You have such an alluring way of putting things. But the fact, is, you'll hardly believe it, but I'm remarkably well off here. I am indeed. Your son, you know, though not you (except as a mere matter of form), really makes, as they say of the marmalade in the advertisements, an admirable substitute. ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... said, drily; "so far as the horses are concerned, I reckon our old friend Havasupai will go a long way on foot before he ever tries to steal a promising looking pony again. As long as he lives he'll remember how it feels to get a pair of hoofs fairly planted against his back. So ...
— The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon - or The Hermit of the Cave • James Carson
... of this kind; but, as the wise man observes, Bray a fool in a mortar, and he'll never be wise." So saying, with a most emphatic glance directed to the broker, he rung the bell, and called for the reckoning; when, finding that he was to be the guest of Renaldo, he thanked him drily for his good cheer, and in an ...
— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett
... of you," said Ernest Wilton drily; "but you see, old man, elk and wapiti—which are the only species of deer we are likely to meet with here, I think—can be better stalked than run down, as you suggest. However, the mules may come ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... the actress drily. "Your name on the tag has been scratched out and mine, with this address, written ...
— The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance
... "Yes," said Tim drily. "It's an occasion for showing respect to me. I'll do as I am, not having had time to go to the tailor's for my dress ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors
... Brace drily. "How curious it is that a prophecy of evil always makes more impression than ...
— Gil the Gunner - The Youngest Officer in the East • George Manville Fenn
... of what is likely to happen to those architects when they begin snooping around the castle," said Gourou drily. "By the way, have you seen Miss ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... people. It was the essence of the Tudor monarchy to rely upon the masses rather than the classes, to keep the aristocracy down by expressing the popular will. So far as Henry took part in it, the Reformation was not religious at all. As Macaulay drily remarks, he was a good Catholic who preferred to be his own Pope. He knew very well that Englishmen would like him none the worse for resisting the pretensions of Rome, for insisting on the royal supremacy, for taking every possible step to secure the succession ...
— The Life of Froude • Herbert Paul
... give it you," he answered, "with full directions. When you meet with a young lady who seems resolutely determined not to speak, or who, if compelled by a direct question to make some answer, drily gives a brief affirmative, or coldly a ...
— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney
... pretty sure," replied Gilder drily, "for the trifling reason that he has gone off with twenty thousand pounds in papers that were in his master's desk. No, the only thing worth calling a difficulty is how he killed him. The skull seems broken as with some ...
— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... friend, whom he had made commandant of Warsaw, summoned the city to surrender, while the King of Prussia addressed himself in similar language to Stanislas Augustus, whose part in the historical drama of the siege was that of an inert spectator. Kosciuszko drily replied, "Warsaw is not in the necessity to be compelled to surrender." The Polish King replied, not drily, to the same effect. The fortunes of the Rising in the rest of the country were fluctuating, and in Lithuania, where Wilno fell, hopeless. ...
— Kosciuszko - A Biography • Monica Mary Gardner
... said drily, "but you see there's my niece to be thought of. Look here! We're not at the frontier yet, Mr. Harz, by forty miles; it's long odds we don't get there—so, don't spoil sport!" He pointed to ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... Christmas greeting to his loving followers," observed Wagstaffe drily, "I think he might safely have left it to ...
— All In It K(1) Carries On - A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand • John Hay Beith (AKA: Ian Hay)
... Eastman laughed drily. "Every time I touch the circle of your acquaintance, Cavenaugh, it's a little wider. You must know New York pretty well by ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
... drily, "I do not understand why you decline to believe in God, for it is impossible to believe in man. Hush, do not talk like that. You have too great a nature to take up their Liberal nonsense with ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac
... opinion, Mrs. Fullerton,' returned Uncle Brian drily. 'I am far too keen an observer of human nature to think we can talk sense to deaf ears with any benefit.—Ursula, my child,' turning to me with a smile that might have been kinder, but perhaps he meant it to be so, 'there is not a grain of sense in your scheme: in spite of Cunliffe's ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... dozen of Sheffield knives, Master," replied Fawkes a little drily: "and by the same token, our next neighbour is selling his coals, and looks not unlike to clear out ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... question whether there should be a leader and who it should be, it would be much better that either Lincoln or Herbert should assume that post, whatever share of the mere work might fall on me. I have viewed the matter very drily, and so perhaps you will think I ...
— The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 • John Morley
... "No, sir," answered he drily, "I shall not felicitate you, I shall not congratulate you, I shall not compliment you, for your action was, at the very least, superfluous; it was, I will even say, supererogatory. Already this evening I have been three times mistaken ...
— Penguin Island • Anatole France
... Gilbert," suggested Jerry, drily, "my first job would be to hire some caddy with a heavy foot to kick me good and hard. Then I'd set out to get a new sweater and another supply of golf balls. Later on I'd make it a point to head back this way and hunt you ...
— The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point - or The Golden Cup Mystery • Quincy Allen
... after luncheon, was pressed by the squire—"who, on any other occasion would never waste time in smoking, and only filled his short clay pipe at the end of his day's work"—to come to his smoking-room. As regards this room the professor drily remarked—"I thought I had noticed that even the key-hole was stopped up, in order to preserve the ladies' delicate nerves from every disagreeable sensation." After dinner, again, when the ladies had left the table, "the gentlemen passed the bottles of port, sherry, and claret, with ...
— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson
... Owen's description of a telescope of huge dimensions built by an enterprising clergyman who had taken to the study of the stars; and who was eager, said Owen, to see farther into heaven—he was going to say, than Lord Rosse; if Dickens had not drily interposed, "than his professional studies had enabled him ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
... in drily. "I get all that. But why not marry the gal? Marry her an' quit all this darn argument. I guess this mill's goin' to hand you all you need to keep a wife on. That seems to me the natural answer to ...
— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum
... drily. "I keep my promises. He can testify to that. So can you. But if I promise you this, you must ...
— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell
... "Ah," replied Willis, drily, "you did not light a fire this time to frighten the brutes away, and go to sleep when ...
— Willis the Pilot • Paul Adrien
... the head (the head conductor of this convoy of wagons), surveyed him from head to foot with a keen glance, and replied drily, "I have ...
— Cuore (Heart) - An Italian Schoolboy's Journal • Edmondo De Amicis
... said Mrs. Montagu, drily, "it is not in verse? I can read anything in prose, but I have a great dread of a long story ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay
... clear. Land sakes! if I could clean house as easy as some folks clear their consciences I wouldn't have a backache this minute. Yes, the wages are agreed on, too. And totin' them around won't make my back ache any worse, either," she added drily. ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln
... some copies himself," remarked Aunt Barbara drily. "Really, for childish simplicity the English are the biggest ...
— Michael • E. F. Benson
... Archdeacon FARRAR," responded the Sage, drily. "What a work! And what a sensation! TALLEYRAND's long-talked-of 'Memoirs' not in it! Do you know, my dear TIME, I think you had better postpone the publication—for an aeon or so at least. Your Magnum Opus might become ...
— Punch Among the Planets • Various
... he could the scheme in which he was the most guiltless of accessories after the fact, and Mark kept in the background and said as little as possible; he felt distinctly uncomfortable, however, when Mr. Chilton drily inquired whether the same mystification attached to 'Sweet Bells Jangled,' and on being reassured as to this, observed that it was a little unfortunate that the matter had not been explained before the latter book had been brought out. 'If you think you are prejudiced ...
— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey
... instructions," Mr. Dunster reminded him drily, "were to take me to Harwich. You have been forced to depart from them. I see no harm in your adopting any suggestions I may have to make concerning our altered destination. I will pay ...
— The Vanished Messenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... drily; "we'll make sure then, that this camp-fire dies out before we go to our blankets; because I'm bound to know just where you are, Giraffe. And now that the bear has finished his supper, and is begging for more, let's go over to the ...
— The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire - or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol • Herbert Carter
... 'that night'! Surely there was wisdom in that smile of mine. And I nearly tumbled into the pit! I must have looked exceedingly well... that night!"—drily. ...
— The Man on the Box • Harold MacGrath
... give us trouble," said Cornelius, drily; "they have given us trouble, and they will give us more. The Samnites gave us trouble, and our friends of Carthage here, and Jugurtha, and Mithridates; trouble, yes, that is the long and the short of it; they will give us trouble. Is trouble a new thing to Rome?" he asked, stretching ...
— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman
... answered Chevrial, drily, "when a girl goes about boasting that her father is more powerful than the Czar or Kaiser! Suppose she had stopped there, any hearer would have concluded that he was an anarchist, and therefore to be watched. But she went further: she asserted that he can blow up forts and ...
— The Destroyer - A Tale of International Intrigue • Burton Egbert Stevenson
... know a good deal more about the tendencies of the modern drama than I do," said Katherine drily, "if you're in as deep as all that." She slid off the couch with a jerk. "Good-bye, Betty. Are you sure ...
— Betty Wales, Sophomore • Margaret Warde
... As old man Brown drily remarked: "There's one satisfaction about prayin' for rain. If you keep at it long enough, you're bound to get what you're askin' for. Works the same way when you're prayin' for it to stop rainin'. My grandfather ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... said drily. "As for money, I might have had plenty by this time, if I had not run away from home when I was a boy, because I preferred being a poor musician to a rich merchant. Money is not the only nor the best thing in ...
— My Little Lady • Eleanor Frances Poynter
... drily. "And now if you particularly wish to speak to me, I will walk with you, but only a short way. Harry shall find ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... one of the officers of the company, smiled somewhat wearily, I thought. "We are," he replied drily. "That was precisely what I wanted to ...
— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve
... thinking so," said the Commandant, drily. "It had not occurred to me that Archelaus and the Treachers were ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... audibly. Then, "But it's hardly fair—is it—to weigh a boxful of even the prettiest lies against five of even the slimmest real, true letters?" he asked drily. ...
— Molly Make-Believe • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... good advice," replied Lousteau drily, knowing the passionate disclaimer that Dinah expected, and indeed begged for ...
— Parisians in the Country - The Illustrious Gaudissart, and The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac
... right?" answered Pyotr Dmitritch drily and not at once. "We all have our personal life, every one of us, and we are bound to have ...
— The Party and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... would of tore the earth up all round him," Tom interrupted drily. "You boys shore are fighty, all right—with your faces. What I'm interested in, is whereabouts you and Mel hunted. That hide wouldn't show up like the Devil's Tooth—understand. And Scotty was bawling around like a man that's been hurt ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower
... Mr. Pertell, drily. "But that won't make moving pictures. Come on, now, start your horses again," for they had, ...
— The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound - Or, The Proof on the Film • Laura Lee Hope
... said Castanier drily. "I have no occasion to fight. I could kill you by a look if I had any mind to do it. I will tell you what it is, youngster; why should I kill you? I can see a red line round your neck—the guillotine is waiting for you. Yes, you will end ...
— Melmoth Reconciled • Honore de Balzac
... being up a tree, though," said Will, drily. "Maybe she was one of the original tree-dwellers, and reverted to her ...
— The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car - The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley • Laura Lee Hope
... in no hurry to let us begin," replied Linforth drily. "There is a Resident at your father's court. Your father is willing, and yet there's not a ...
— The Broken Road • A. E. W. Mason
... and material, not of one art only, but of all the arts. Music is but an arbitrary trifling with a few of life's majestic chords; painting is but a shadow of its pageantry of light and colour; literature does but drily indicate that wealth of incident, of moral obligation, of virtue, vice, action, rapture and agony, with which it teems. To 'compete with life,' whose sun we cannot look upon, whose passions and diseases waste and ...
— The Pocket R.L.S. - Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson
... said Mrs. Selwyn, drily, "I am not romantic;-I have not the least design of doing good to either ...
— Evelina • Fanny Burney
... country; and, as sure as you hear any one boasting of the rank and consequence they possessed at home, you may be certain that it was quite the reverse. An old Dutch lady, after listening very attentively to a young Irishwoman's account of the grandeur of her father's family at home, said rather drily to the self-exalted damsel,— ...
— Life in the Clearings versus the Bush • Susanna Moodie
... what he is driving at," he answered drily. "But as to his mother she is not as volatile as all that. I suspect it was business. It may have been a deep plot to get a picture out of Allegre for somebody. My cousin as likely as not. Or simply to discover what he had. The Blunts lost all their property and ...
— The Arrow of Gold - a story between two notes • Joseph Conrad
... being intercepted and cut off by one to whom he has rendered himself obnoxious, he does not inform him in plain and explicit terms of the danger he runs by pursuing the track near which the enemy lies in wait for him, but he drily asks him which way he is going that day, and, having received his answer, with the same indifference tells him that he has been informed that a dog lies near the spot, which might probably do him a mischief. This hint ...
— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones
... laughed drily. "We know one another when we meet," he said. He drew his waxed thread between his finger and thumb, held it up to the light, then looked askance at the gossoons about him, to whom what he said was gibberish. They knew ...
— The Wild Geese • Stanley John Weyman
... to say the least," remarked Dave, drily. "I guess we've got to sleep with our eyes open, ...
— Dave Porter and His Double - The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune • Edward Stratemeyer
... take care of his personal interests. He knew exactly where to address himself for support, and the right time of availing himself of it. When Talleyrand, one of his most intimate friends, heard of his death, he reflected for a few minutes, and then drily observed, "I can't for the life of me make out what interest Semonville had to ...
— The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; • Various
... he doubted alike the good tidings and their relevancy; but the tones were so hearty and the arbalestrier's face, notwithstanding a formidable beard, was so gay and genial, that he smiled, and after a pause said drily, "Il a bien faite avec l'eau et linge du pays on allait le noircir a ne ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... did," said Anthony drily. "But we must consider what is to be done now. If you said you were going to your father, perhaps the best thing you can do is to go to him, and write to the Trents from there. I hope you didn't ...
— Jan and Her Job • L. Allen Harker
... hardly expect them to look English," Aunt Anne returned drily, and began to gather together her belongings preparatory to ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... thin and bent, his cheeks were sunken, and his thick black shock of hair was sprinkled with grey. He did not recognise me, and showed no particular pleasure when Punin mentioned my name; he did not even smile with his eyes, he barely nodded; he asked—very carelessly and drily—whether my granny were living—and that was all. 'I'm not over-delighted at a visit from a nobleman,' he seemed to say; 'I don't feel flattered by it.' The republican was a ...
— A Desperate Character and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... catalogue of his virtues," said Elizabeth drily. "I grant he is perfection and therefore unlovable. All that I asked you out of sheer idle curiosity was: How is your ...
— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace
... "Thankye," said Ike drily; "much obliged. It's my belief, though, that the wicked old walking scaffold was fast asleep, and has on'y ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn
... Henry Monnier who, meeting him another time on the Place de la Bourse, and having had to listen to another of such mirific demonstrations about a scheme from which both were to derive millions, answered drily: ...
— Balzac • Frederick Lawton
... have been a good deal older than his wife, sir, if you sailed with him when a boy," Mulford observed a little drily. ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper
... old complaint, that's all," answers Dan drily. "We'd a few words o' th' road a-coming—leastwise she had, for she got it pretty much to herself—and for th' next twelve hours or so she'll not be able to see anybody ...
— Our Little Lady - Six Hundred Years Ago • Emily Sarah Holt
... as you spoke right out," replied Miller drily. "Well, so when Hall changed his seat I went along and tried to talk to him. But he was foxy, Hall was. He wasn't going to be fooled! When it got to be train time I spun him a yarn about a harmless ...
— Left End Edwards • Ralph Henry Barbour
... it of one's self," responded Mrs Eleanor a little drily; adding, for she wished to give a turn to the conversation, "Did you hear the news Dr Saunders was telling yesterday? The Czar of Muscovy offers to treat with King George, but as ...
— The Maidens' Lodge - None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) • Emily Sarah Holt
... even if it avails you nothing," said one of them drily. "He is not an especial favorite with us. Return to your room at once. Miss Platanova, call your uncle. It is now necessary to bind the fellow's hands. They are too dangerous to be allowed to roam at large in ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... Sanders drily. "Well, little lady, your faith in your friend is very beautiful to see, but until we find out that someone else took that letter we can't take much ...
— The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos • Hildegard G. Frey
... concealed great clear-headedness and decisiveness. Howard always said that it was a comfort to talk to her, because she always knew what her own opinion was, and did what she intended to do. He found her alone and at tea. She welcomed him drily but warmly. Presently he said, "I want your advice, Monnie; I want you to make up my mind for me. I have a feeling that I need a change. I don't mean a little change, but a big one. I am suddenly aware that I am a little stale, and I ...
— Watersprings • Arthur Christopher Benson
... on the other foot—I understand you," I replied drily. "Chut, man!" I continued, "you don't make a cats-paw of me. I see the game. You are for sitting in Madame de Sourdis' seat, and giving your son a Hat, and your groom a Comptrollership, and ...
— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman
... another big strike some time next year," he said drily—"bound to be, as far as I can see. We shall all have plenty to do ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. I • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... friend; can ye tell me gin my faather's alive?" A.—"Hout, na; he's deed." Q.—"Deed! What did he dee o'? was it fever?" A.—"Na, it wasna fever." Q.—"Was it cholera?" A.—"Na." The question being pressed, the stranger drily said, "Sheep," and then he accompanied the ominous word by delicately and significantly pointing to the jugular under his ear. The man had ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... Gunderson side of it," McGinnis said drily. "It's inconsequential to the main issue. As for that, I don't know any more than you do. There's never been anything like this. Colonists have been wiped out on other planets, sure; but what happened left traces. This one is an oddball, and I'd say you're as well equipped ...
— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton
... can shave notes, you'll recollect," said uncle Ro, drily. "The calling is decided to be honourable by the highest tribunal; and no man should be above ...
— The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. - Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts • James Fenimore Cooper
... Christian Majesty," remarked Lodovico, drily, "had better begin by reforming himself." And when the Venetian ambassador Sebastian Badoer and Benedetto Trevisano arrived at Vigevano to take counsel with the duke in this perilous state of affairs, he spoke very contemptuously of the king's ...
— Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 • Julia Mary Cartwright
... such mishaps, which he rightly felt were disastrous for the authority of the School of Arts, made an angry gesture, and drily said: ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola |
