"Dryly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dryly. He advanced into the yard, one hand in his pocket, the other in his waistcoat, his cap brim over his eyes, shading in some measure their deep dancing ray of scorn. Twelve men waited in the yard, some in their shirt-sleeves, some in blue aprons. Two figured conspicuously in the van of ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte
... looks if she'd marry somebody," Mrs. Klein said dryly. "Seems to me they're wasted ...
— The Mighty Dead • William Campbell Gault
... I might 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 years his senior, should hunt him up in this fashion. ...
— Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories • Robert Herrick
... like the business, Miss Lee." He added dryly: "But then you always were hard to please. You weren't satisfied when I ...
— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine
... odds between going forward and backward," said Master Headley, dryly. "Ha! Art hurt? Thou bleedst," he exclaimed, laying his hand on Stephen's shoulder, and drawing him to ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... Lamartine said dryly, "when such people as Louis are interested in him! However, we do no good by comparing notes when we neither of us know anything. If I should gain any ...
— The Lost Ambassador - The Search For The Missing Delora • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Mrs. Sigourney, "is one of the native dialects of love." "Love is never so blind as when it is to spy faults," says South. "Love reckons days for years," says Dryden, "and every little absence is an age." "Where love has once obtained an influence," observes Plautus dryly, "any flavoring, I believe, will please." "That is the true reason of love," says Goethe, "when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could either have loved so before us, and that no one will love in ...
— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern
... horses and a cow grazing. Here and there over the hot, dusty plain we saw shacks and makeshift houses surrounded by patches of corn or flax or dried-up garden. Why were the houses so scattered, looking as though they had been thrown down at random? "They had to be set on the claims," our locator said dryly. ...
— Land of the Burnt Thigh • Edith Eudora Kohl
... dryly in my turn, "I should be extremely anxious to be agreeable to you, but I am not at all anxious to help you win ...
— Led Astray and The Sphinx - Two Novellas In One Volume • Octave Feuillet
... 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
... Pratt dryly, rising and walking over to a fire place, into which he threw his lighted cigarette. A general laugh greeted ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants - or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers • H. Irving Hancock
... nothin'," shouted her companion dryly. "There's plenty of 'em right along this creek we're passing. They're them little trees with light green trunks and trembly leaves. They grow by creeks and ...
— Virginia of Elk Creek Valley • Mary Ellen Chase
... fragrance battered out, its hues rubbed off, its very life anatomized out of it by the battles of rival divines, till its mere skeleton is left, and all that grace means to most of us is simply and dryly a certain spiritual gift of God. Doubtless it means that; but if it meant nothing more at first, why was not the plain word Gift enough for the Apostles? Why did they use Grace? Why did they use, too, in the sense of giving and gifts, nouns and verbs derived from that root-word, CHARIS, grace, ...
— All Saints' Day and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley
... upon the conservative immobility of his son. To the letter which the Duke wrote him, Lord John merely replied that 'he would shortly see his opinions in print;' and to Ellice's warm remonstrances and entreaties he only dryly said, 'I have made up my mind.' His nephew, Lord Russell,[12] who, from some extraordinary crotchet, has thought fit to embrace republican opinions, and is an ultra-movement man, but restrained in the manifestation of his opinions from personal deference ...
— The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) - A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 - (Volume 1 of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville
... objection to its being old," the Princess answered dryly, "but whatever else it is it's not euphonious," she went on, isolating the word euphonious as though between inverted commas, a little affectation to which the Guermantes set ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust
... Ronald Black said dryly, "We may have the evidence. But we have no slightest proof at all now that that's ...
— Watch the Sky • James H. Schmitz
... White, dryly, "Shanks is a good boy, and minds what I say. Suppose they should bring him on the stand to prove I said a certain thing, Shanks would be a bad witness, because he never hears any thing ...
— The Expressman and the Detective • Allan Pinkerton
... very palace Guard. We have undermined the government's power, until when the word is passed to strike the blow, a honey-combed system will crumble under its own weight. When Karyl calls on his troops, not one man will respond. Well—" Jusseret smiled dryly—"perhaps I overstate the case. Possibly one man will. I think we will hardly convert ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck
... in Fabian," remarked Carnac dryly. "Well, I've lost it, and it never was enough. He hadn't vision, sense ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... our San Juan," Sommers replied dryly, pointing to the huddle of tents and pine sheds ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... looks as if whoever put Grimes inside the casket was familiar with it," remarked Ferguson dryly, and McIntyre bit his lip. "Guess I'll go and take a look at the casket. I'll ...
— The Red Seal • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... fulfills its promise and goes to pieces in the middle of the lake," Grace remarked dryly. "I wouldn't mind the dip in weather like this, but I would rather ...
— The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island - Or, A Cave and What It Contained • Laura Lee Hope
... my dog sleeping on the rug near me (his tail stirring whenever I made a motion to leave my place). And whether I would or no my friends came trooping into my mind. I thought of our neighbour Horace, the dryly practical and sufficient farmer, and of our much loved Scotch Preacher; I thought of the Shy Bee-man and of his boisterous double, the Bold Bee-man; I thought of the Old Maid, and how she talks, for all the world like a rabbit running in a furrow (all on the ...
— Adventures In Friendship • David Grayson
... some finding,' he said dryly, 'but I've ways and means. Now I'll not trouble ye with advice, for ye ken your job as well as me. But I'm going north myself the morn to look after some of the Ross-shire wuds, and I'll be in the way of getting telegrams ...
— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan
... sat in amaze at the odd frankness and childlike self-accusation of poor Goldsmith. When the latter had come to a pause, "All this, doctor," said he dryly, "I thought had been a secret between you and me, and I am sure I would not have said anything about it for the world." But Goldsmith had no secrets: his follies, his weaknesses, his errors were all thrown to the surface; his heart was really too guileless and innocent to seek ...
— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving
... Will, dryly, "that it might be well first to be sure that you can win past the front door of the house ...
— The Mississippi Bubble • Emerson Hough
... says Mr. Browne, dryly. "I should say, on the whole, that she disagreed with him. Tonics are ...
— April's Lady - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
... information," returned Mrs. Stanton, dryly. "It's important if true. But there's other information that's more important in my estimation just now and you don't allow me the opportunity to thank ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... Fenger glanced in toward his wife, and smiled, dryly. Fascinating Facts took his hand ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... last day before they reached the coast Tarzan caught the scent of men ahead of them—the scent of black men. He told the girl, and cautioned her to maintain silence. "There are few friends in the jungle," he remarked dryly. ...
— The Return of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... so," replied Power, dryly; "and as our countrymen would say, 'The Devil thank him for it!' That is the Prince of Orange; but see, look at him now, his features have learned another fashion." And true it was; with a smile of ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... propose to prevent the importation of ideas?" inquired the Prime Minister dryly, in a tone that tried to ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... anything to signify,' Ken answered dryly. 'There are more than a hundred thousand Turks planted on the Peninsula, and you can bet anything you've got left from the wreck that there isn't one yard of beach that ...
— On Land And Sea At The Dardanelles • Thomas Charles Bridges
... very husht and troubled in the mouth of the little cave, I knew that Mine Own sobbed dryly in the back part of the cave. And I had gone to comfort her, but that in the same moment, I saw a naked maid run very swift over the edge of the hollow, and did look over her shoulder, as she ran. And she came to the bottom, and crept in under a ledge ...
— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson
... Her ladyship said, 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 of any ...
— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray
... aid us materially," dryly. "The case is perplexing. You round up a burglar sought by the police of two continents, and listlessly permit his ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... as well go in out of the mosquitoes," the doctor suggested. "And I wish you would tell these people what you told me, young man. Don't be afraid to speak frankly; it is rather amazing but not at all impossible, as I can testify. In fact," he added dryly, "my presence here ought to settle any doubt of that. Just tell them, young man, about ...
— The Quirt • B.M. Bower
... sea and pine-trees behind her, and find herself once more steaming back to London, carrying in her hand a fine blue and white travelling-bag, worked for her by her two little friends, but at which Lady Barbara had coughed rather dryly. In the bag were a great many small white shells done up in twists of paper, that pretty story "The Blue Ribbons," and a small blank book, in which, whenever the train stopped, Kate wrote with all her might. ...
— Countess Kate • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the lady of the future some day," said David dryly. "And in spite of your scorn I venture to predict that if fate doesn't bring her before long you'll very soon start out to look for her. A word of advice, oh, son of your mother. When you go courting take your common sense ...
— Kilmeny of the Orchard • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... like a very innocent girl, if you'll remember," he said dryly, "when I first came into the box. In fact, if that fellow hadn't just come in then I believe you'd 'a' confessed the whole job.... ...
— In the Bishop's Carriage • Miriam Michelson
... girl!" the mother thought, smiling. Sofya also smiled, and Nikolay, looking tenderly into Sasha's face, laughed quietly. The girl raised her head with a stern glance for all. Then she paled, and her eyes flashed, and she said dryly, the offense she felt ...
— Mother • Maxim Gorky
... won't be," predicted Gertrude dryly. "There are a number of revolutionary spirits among the freshmen this year. That queer little West girl, who styles herself a 'newspaper woman' and looks like a wicked ...
— Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... honour of Christian VII. Count Holcke, who spoke German in its purity, asked an old Captain what he thought of his King, and if he were not proud of the honours paid to him by the English?—"I think (said the old man dryly) that with such counsellors as Count Holcke, if he escapes destruction it will be a miracle."—' Do you know Count Holcke, my friend, (said the disguised courtier) as you speak of him thus familiarly?'—"Only by report (replied the Dane); but every ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... There's never been any lack of gamblers on Ballarat," said Mahony dryly, and passed his ...
— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson
... queen, dryly, "it is always good to listen to the true account of events in which we have taken part." And without uttering a word—without even a frown, she listened to the comments on the scene at the grave of ...
— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach
... said King Pluto, rather dryly. "But I can see plainly enough, that you think my palace a dusky prison, and me the iron-hearted keeper of it. And an iron heart I should surely have, if I could detain you here any longer, my poor child, when it is now six months since you tasted food. I give you your liberty. Go with Quicksilver. ...
— Tanglewood Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... "Perhaps," agreed Dunn dryly. "But just a trifle too late to interest me for one. And I don't mean to let the dad or uncle be sacrificed if I can help it. I failed with Clive, poor fellow, but I don't mean to again, and I don't see how we can. Deede Dawson has exposed his hand. ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon
... things. I'm not so precious a capture," the girl a little dryly explained. "No one has ever ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 • Henry James
... in some parts of the world," observed Giovanni dryly. "And they are commoner everywhere. I hear that the Templars are trying to find a tame wizard who can be kept in ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey
... beset from a new direction," the old woman continued dryly, "but thou hast naught to ...
— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller
... his eyes wide and remained gaping, not comprehending the merchant's meaning. Finally he stammered: "You say—are you sure?" The other replied dryly: "You can search elsewhere and see if anyone will offer you more. I consider it worth fifteen thousand at the most. Come back here if ...
— Selected Writings of Guy de Maupassant • Guy de Maupassant
... I returned somewhat dryly. "And I notice, also, that she has swung with her head ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood
... made two trips each, in different directions, to make sure that the watch men were awake and alert. It was nearly eleven o'clock when the general manager and his engineers turned in for a night's rest—"subject to the approval of Jim Duff," as Tom dryly stated it. ...
— The Young Engineers in Arizona - Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand • H. Irving Hancock
... dryly. 'Will you believe me or not?' he continued. 'Look here, I swear by the cross'—he crossed himself spaciously, bowing to the images of the saints—that fellow's eyes became glassy... his jaws chattered as in a fever. It was ...
— Selected Polish Tales • Various
... positively to the finding of the chariot-wheels, and added the jewelry of Pharaoh's household. He was so earnest and so exact in the matter of the golden wheel, set with precious stones, that, though the captain dryly asked if he did not meet King Pharaoh himself, taking a moist throne and keeping court with the fishes, he none the less had the line attached and drew up—the rude wheel of a Tartar wagon, transformed under water, but ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873. • Various
... the impossible," explained Dr. Magnus, dryly. "Our failures must be inherent in the man, not ...
— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen
... left." Bryce said dryly, "Put away that needle gun and buy something legal that kills." He handed back a sheaf of letters, memos and graphs. "Read these and learn." For some ...
— The Man Who Staked the Stars • Charles Dye
... occasion to thank me," said Mr. Holden, dryly. "I shall pay for my dinner, and if you want any, ...
— Try and Trust • Horatio Alger
... agreed, a trifle dryly, "I suppose there are. However, I shall probably have gone away when you ...
— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss
... for you to do nothing,' replied Aunt Deborah dryly, 'while work lies ready to your hand. Take your seam indoors to your chamber, and stir not from it till supper-time. I am going to the village to see the smith's son; I hear he was sore hurt ...
— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various
... give satisfaction you'd better try to learn them scholars an' not the trustees," he said dryly. "The Dennison boys is hard, but ...
— Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page
... city," replied the Archbishop dryly, "which you can visit any time at the expense of a day's ride. Meanwhile, I shall escort the Countess thither, and endeavor to entertain her with pleasing and instructive conversation during ...
— The Sword Maker • Robert Barr
... Mrs. Fane assented, dryly. "He did acquire that. But I'm surprised to hear you commend it; aren't you, father? aren't ...
— The Street Called Straight • Basil King
... to take," rejoined Monck dryly. "I applied for leave instead. In any case it is due to me, but Dacre had his turn first. The Chief didn't want to grant it, but he gave way in the end. You boys will have to work a little harder than usual, ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... if it could be called looking at him, and said dryly, "Oh, do ye? How much am I to have ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade
... Mr. Gardner was a youngish man, high-colored and with longish hair. He was absorbed so deeply in a copy of the Louisville Journal that he did not hear Harry's step or notice his coming until the boy stood beside him. Then he looked up and said dryly: ...
— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler
... after all, we're sent to school to learn something," she remarked dryly. "I'm afraid you'll find Miss Frazer will give you plenty of work to make up for the loss of Herr Hoffmann ...
— The Manor House School • Angela Brazil
... comfortable where they are," responded Rebecca dryly. "I can't stop to measure insteps on algebra days; I've noticed your habit of keeping a foot in the aisle ever since you had those new shoes, so I don't ...
— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... sort of seasoned veteran, Bub," admitted Pike dryly, "but in adopting a family it might be as well to begin with a he mascot instead of what you've picked. A young filly like ...
— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan
... said dryly, "that undertakers' assistants are jovial young men. A man's sense of humor seems to be in inverse proportion to the gravity ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... round the room. At this point I committed the breach of etiquette of asking questions. "I wonder why they took Bill," I said. There was no answer, and I repeated, "I wonder why they took Bill." "Well," said the man with the candle, dryly, "I reckon they wanted him," and with that he blew out the candle and conversation ceased. Later I discovered that Bill in a fit of playfulness had held up the Northern Pacific train at a near-by station by shooting at the ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt
... a pity," said the Coroner dryly. "I am to take it then that you decline to say where you were at the time that Mr. Mace positively recognized you as entering the shop ...
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles • Agatha Christie
... what your proposition was. But seems to me if it had been mine I'd have found time to yell: 'All right—coming as soon as I can!' as I passed the open window," Nick remarked dryly. "Mrs. May'll ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... does 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 ...
— Calvert of Strathore • Carter Goodloe
... that he had been toying with. "Better cancel," he announced, dryly. "It's a good excuse, and I'm a little pressed for money. It ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie
... doggedly, drawing farther away as she spoke; "not unless I saw the danger with my own eyes. And in that case I should not need your warning," she added, dryly. ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch
... faculties returned to a realization of the present he saw that the girl was regarding him with an intense and wondering gaze. She had been studying him and when she saw him looking at her she turned her head. He experienced an unaccountable elation, though he kept his voice dryly sarcastic. ...
— The Boss of the Lazy Y • Charles Alden Seltzer
... I ain't ever been married—not even so much as once," he commented dryly, "but I've been told by unfortunates that have that it's the female way to do a thing and then ask whether she should do it ...
— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott
... imagine not," he said, dryly. "Well, I've been busy with men—with plans. Things are working out to my satisfaction. Red Pearce got around Gulden. There's been no split. Besides, Gulden rode off. Someone said he went after a little girl named Brander. I hope he ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey
... "Yes," said Leighton, dryly, "I don't doubt she would." He seemed to ponder over the point. "No," he said finally, "it wouldn't do. What I propose is a man's trip—good stiff walking. We could strike off through Metz and Kaiserslautern, hit the Rhine valley somewhere about Duerkheim, pass through Mannheim ...
— Through stained glass • George Agnew Chamberlain
... commented Drummond dryly. "I may as well tell you that I fear some one has been tampering with ...
— Constance Dunlap • Arthur B. Reeve
... him back when he heard I was coming back to join you. They wouldn't give him a vacation, but they would not keep him in the school after he began to have regular violent fits," said Walter, dryly. ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... of them hurt by a driver accustomed to the street, sir," said he, dryly; "I'd rather run over the richest man in New York. Why, the police would fix you quick enough if you'd run a-foul of them. It would be a month or two on the Island, and that's what ...
— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe
... was strapped by etiquette in my chair, with my face to the window, and two pair of most disconcerting eyes, at least, opposite. I was angry with myself—generally angry—refused more tea rather dryly, and was laconic to Lord Ilbury, all which, of course, was very cross and foolish; and afterwards, from my bed-room window, I saw Cousin Monica and Lady Mary among the flowers, under the drawing-room window, talking, as I instinctively knew, of that little ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... chuckle wickedly, and when his former Oxford pupil asked him with mild humor the reason of his inappropriate mirth, he answered dryly: ...
— Halcyone • Elinor Glyn
... said Parker, dryly, "I thank you for the evening's entertainment, and now that you have done your duty to Colonel Ward I suppose I may return to Sunkhaze." His heart sank as he thought of the poor Swogon weltering in ...
— The Rainy Day Railroad War • Holman Day
... dryly drawing himself up, "have been chiefly governed by the maxim of Lord Bacon; I speculate in those philosophies which come home to my business and bosom—pray, do you know of any other ...
— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville
... account of her doings in Norminster. Then, and not till then, did Bessie recollect his message to her uncle Laurence, and penitently confessed her forgetfulness, unable to confess the occasion of it. "It is of no importance; I took the precaution of writing to him this afternoon," said her grandfather dryly, and Bessie's confusion was doubled. She thought he would never have any confidence in her again. Presently he said, "This is the last evening we shall be alone for some time, Elizabeth. Mr. Cecil Burleigh and his ...
— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr
... we have ever met before. So you are his new chauffeur, eh?" he went on, now talking naturally. "It never occurred to me that 'Hargreave,' the new chauffeur, would turn out to be the Hargreave who served under me for two years!" and he laughed dryly. ...
— The Golden Face - A Great 'Crook' Romance • William Le Queux
... Consul. The Duc d'Angouleme, when, in 1815, he was paraded about the country, among the bridges, canals, and splendid roads of Languedoc, on being reminded that these fine works were formerly executed by the "Etats" of the province, dryly replied "We prefer the ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 1 (of 2)(Napoleon I.) • Hippolyte A. Taine
... as much," Jerry replied dryly. "I knew he'd keep me out if he could. Just as he will ...
— The New Boy at Hilltop • Ralph Henry Barbour
... in old Noble dryly. He inspected Goodwin with a shrewd and suspicious eye. For him, a citizen of the womanless seas, beauty, grace, femininity were no more than a merchandise. "Then, to put it straight, she didn't get yer money from ye?" ...
— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon
... Clarke said dryly. "Still, I'd like to say that there is some reason for believing you to be a badly treated man. You ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss
... said Featherstone dryly. "For all that, I think I'll start east, and then get on to a west-bound train at a station down the line. The folks at the Crossing know I'm going home, and I don't want to put Daly on my track." He smoked in silence ...
— Carmen's Messenger • Harold Bindloss
... warmer he got, the cooler she. And at last she said, mighty dryly, "This is a very dull place for the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 • Various
... dryly. Ewbert noticed how he had dropped more and more into the vernacular, in these reminiscences; in their controversies he had used the language of books and had spoken like a cultivated man, but now he was ...
— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells
... if she can't—" said Andrew. He dropped his gray head into his hands, and began to sob dryly. Fanny, after staring at him a moment, tossed her work onto the floor, went over to him, and drew his head ...
— The Portion of Labor • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... on your part," replied the Earl, somewhat dryly; "but if he be such as you have described him, I agree with Emily in thinking he must be invaluable. And now, John, with respect to another affair—but perhaps this interview may be injurious to your health. Talking much, ...
— The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... would employ me only to accompany your daughter to the Conservatoire, Madame!" said the officer's widow, dryly. "I shall be compelled to refuse your offer. I am unfortunately forced to work to support my two children, but I owe some respect to the name I bear. The Conservatoire is a place of perdition, and I am astonished," she added, "that the professor, who ...
— The Idol of Paris • Sarah Bernhardt
... none of us will have any use for it," observed Andy dryly. "When we slide down into that hole it will be all up ...
— Through Space to Mars • Roy Rockwood
... Mrs. Prentiss dryly. She added, holding out her hand with a charming smile: "But later, I was so proud to have known Gisela Doering, that personal curiosity seemed impertinent. How we have missed your writings ...
— The White Morning • Gertrude Atherton
... dryly, "we won't discuss her. But all the same, my dear Simon, I can't help being interested in her; and as you're obviously the same, it seems rather curious that you don't know where ...
— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke
... Mr Roby," said the colonel dryly. "Perhaps you would like to try some such experiment with a ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... trial had gone, and, with many expressions of gratitude, invited her and her husband to Huntercombe Hall. She told Sir Charles what she had done, and he wore a very strange look. "Might I suggest that we have them alone?" said he dryly. ...
— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade
... exactly come here to bandy compliments," replied Teresa, dryly, "and it is not necessary to sit down for the sake of the few words I have come to say. I can say them just as well standing up. For two years we have not seen each other. During that time you have placed a pretty considerable distance between us, and your mode of ...
— A Hungarian Nabob • Maurus Jokai
... said dryly that he didn't think she need worry about Blair. "He has neither industry nor humility," he said, "and you can't be an artist without both of 'em. But as for this ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland
... "Darya Alexandrovna," he said dryly, "I appreciate your confidence in me; I believe you are making a mistake. But whether I am right or wrong, that pride you so despise makes any thought of Katerina Alexandrovna out of the question for me,— you understand, utterly out ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... vexed at her slip, but she scorned to attempt any concealment. She explained dryly, with the shy, stiff embarrassment our country people have in speaking of private affairs: "Well, she is my Aunt Em'line, Mrs. Purdon is, though I don't hardly ever call her that. You see, Aunt Emma brought me up, and she and Aunt Em'line ...
— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield
... good woman set about lighting a fire in the great open fireplace, Major Potter got between two chairs, into each of which an urchin mounted, with a broom in his hand, and so belabored his jacket as to fill the room with dust. "The major is always at home in this house," dryly ejaculated the good woman, taking down her bellows and commencing ...
— The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter • "Pheleg Van Trusedale"
... the lady into a good humour at once. She laughed gaily, confessing that she was really awfully giddy she knew, but she could not help it. And Mrs. Captain Willoughby, who never encouraged Miss Annabel in her youthfulness, said very dryly that she supposed they had all been silly when they were girls but she believed there was a ...
— The End of the Rainbow • Marian Keith
... that Tullia had pronounced his verses bad, replies dryly:) Yes, your countrymen who boasted of having made themselves masters of the world, had scarce conquered the twentieth part of it. We have at this moment, at the further end of Europe, an empire larger in itself ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, - Issue 566, September 15, 1832 • Various
... Mr. Fenshawe dryly. "Mrs. Haxton is a lady who knows her own mind. She is fully qualified to take care of herself. Off you go to bed, Irene. Sufficient for the day is the excitement thereof. And, according to present Indications, we shall be kept busy ...
— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy
... years, I should judge by my feelings," replied George dryly. "I fancy it really was ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... said at last dryly, as he opened a gate for her not far from Burwood, 'that you have been making yourself agreeable to a vast number of people. In my new capacity of censor I should like to warn you that there is nothing so bad for the character ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... know something about that," returned Bell dryly. "It was talked over at headquarters. Le Gaire is rich, and Hardy hasn't much left, I reckon, and the captain filled him up with fairy tales. Some of them drifted about among the boys. There were others told also not quite so pleasant, which Hardy did not hear. You see, none of us cared to ...
— Love Under Fire • Randall Parrish
... cudgel his brains in order to remember whether he could have taken it with him when we ran out of camp that night; or, perhaps, to give another look around," suggested Frank, dryly. ...
— The Outdoor Chums - The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club • Captain Quincy Allen
... Henry dryly. "I have not done so ill by her hitherto, by thine own showing, that I should not be trusted ...
— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge
... upon her unless you talk about it, and both you and Mrs. Chisholm have sense enough to refrain from doing that," he answered dryly. "I can't flatter myself that Evelyn will grieve over me." Then his manner changed. "Now we'll get down to business. I don't purpose to call in that loan, which will, no doubt, ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss
... Sorban said dryly. "I can't imagine any Prime Portfolio in the time of Jerris I daring to act on ...
— The Unnecessary Man • Gordon Randall Garrett
... said this, Mrs. Harrowby who never failed an opportunity for moral cautery, remarked dryly, "In all probability it is as well as it is, Josephine. You would have been very uncomfortable with her, and would have been sure to have spoiled her. And, as Adelaide Birkett always says, very sensibly, she is odd enough already. She need ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XVII, No. 102. June, 1876. • Various
... not too critical, I suppose, to accept your business," said Dr. Elliot dryly. "I'm on my way there now for a visit. Well, I must ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... him when he came to our office in the State House to look up the land grant papers. We became friendly and I asked him to call because we own the old Valdes house, and I thought he would like to see it." She added, rather dryly: "You ...
— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine
... Junkins," the professor said dryly, "write down on your visiting card all that you know, and ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... were sent by the congressman from this district," Adam said dryly. "But I'm not so sure they won't grow. Have you noticed how warm it is, how very unlike what it has always been? Let us go to the stables, and see ...
— The Master-Knot of Human Fate • Ellis Meredith
... those who went before if they happen to have hammered out their cartouches and usurped their monuments," said the queen, dryly, and looking him ...
— Smith and the Pharaohs, and Other Tales • Henry Rider Haggard
... Joyeuse never mentioned his daughters. As jealous of their charms as a dragon standing guard over lovely princesses in a tower, aroused to vigilance by the fanciful imaginings of his doting affection, he replied dryly enough to his pupil's questions concerning "the young ladies," so that the young man ceased to mention them to him. He was surprised, however, that he never happened to see this "Grandmamma" whose name recurred constantly in M. Joyeuse's ...
— The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet
... dryly, "nobody challenged the will, and so it was probated. I should, myself, doubt the good sense of a man who would fasten such an ugly name upon a boy whom he had never seen, and who never did ...
— Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long
... know her can alone imagine the satire contained in that remark, dryly said in a tone which ...
— The Lily of the Valley • Honore de Balzac
... not go quite so far as that," said Madame de Nailles, dryly. "It is enough for me that she produced an illusion of such beauty upon you. Now ...
— Jacqueline, v1 • Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc)
... have you count too much upon that," the dominie said, dryly. "It is like, indeed, that he may never come back from this hare-brain adventure; and if he brings home his skin safe, he will, methinks, have had enough of burning in the ...
— Under Drake's Flag - A Tale of the Spanish Main • G. A. Henty
... Dr. Mayhew dryly. "That's very unfortunate too, for," continued he, taking out his watch, "I haven't time to explain myself just now. I have an appointment four miles away in half an hour's time. I am late as it is. Williams will get you some lunch. Tell Fairman I shall see him before night. Make ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843 • Various |
