"Drily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... drily. "I would engage to give him a fair start if it was necessary. You wouldn't have had that woman landed in Montreal, helpless and alone, while the man was sent back again to ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... him were silent for a space. Then the Native Son spoke drily: "About the biggest minutes we get ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower
... 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 Giant's Robe • F. Anstey
... that?" Lucy asked, but James, who didn't like his jokes to be capped, said drily, ...
— Love and Lucy • Maurice Henry Hewlett
... richly suited, but unsuitable: just like the brooch and the toothpick, which wear not now. Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek. And your virginity, your old virginity, is like one of our French withered pears; it looks ill, it eats drily; marry, 'tis a wither'd pear; it was formerly better; marry, yet 'tis a wither'd pear. Will you ...
— All's Well That Ends Well • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... in invention, in ideas, in expressions, and in figures; displaying a thousand turns, a thousand new colours, all agreeable to their subject; but after all it is nothing more than imagination. Aristotle is hard and dry in all he says, but what he says is all reason, though it is expressed drily: his diction, pure as it is, has something uncommonly austere; and his obscurities, natural or affected, disgust and fatigue his readers. Plato is equally delicate in his thoughts and in his expressions. ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... not," he said, drily, as he looked about him. "The other morning finished up the rags on hand—but you are doing your best, with flimsy finery, to ...
— Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper • T. S. Arthur
... handy 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 ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon
... see it, I confess,' said Lady Myrtle drily, and Mrs Mildmay caught for the first time a glimpse of the cold manner the old lady could assume if not altogether well pleased. But in less than an instant Lady Myrtle seemed herself to regret it. 'I mean ...
— Robin Redbreast - A Story for Girls • Mary Louisa Molesworth
... doubt that you would have had a more lively evening," said Holmes drily. "By the way, I don't suppose you appreciate that we have been mourning over you as having broken ...
— The Hound of the Baskervilles • A. Conan Doyle
... of Brockelsby had made this somewhat lengthy, perfectly voluntary explanation of the state of affairs in a calm, quiet voice, with much dignity and perfect simplicity, but the coroner did not seem impressed by it, for he asked very drily: ...
— The Old Man in the Corner • Baroness Orczy
... crazy," said the 'copter man drily. "Crazy fools trying to run away. Roads jammed. Work stopped. It leaked out about the planes being wiped out to-day, and everybody in three states has heard those eggs going off. You're the only living man who's ...
— Morale - A Story of the War of 1941-43 • Murray Leinster
... 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
... you enjoyed your trip abroad very much," Willy said drily and punctiliously; "you were more than a year away—nearly eighteen months, ...
— Spring Days • George Moore
... an appointment with several superfluous people and a girl," said Malcourt drily. Then he glanced at the blond companion of the count who continued crumbling bread between her brilliantly ringed fingers as though she had never before seen Louis Malcourt. The price of diamonds varies. Sometimes it is merely fastidious observance of ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers
... is the Kaiser's Christmas greeting to his loving followers," observed Wagstaffe drily, "I think he might safely have left it ...
— All In It K(1) Carries On - A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand • John Hay Beith (AKA: Ian Hay)
... understand," said Sir Charles drily. "But, my young friend, I can remember a time when Resilda desired of all things to be a horse. There was something hopeful because more human in her wish to be a boy, ...
— Ensign Knightley and Other Stories • A. E. W. Mason
... been for once in his life a little tipsy. He toasted your lovely sister a dozen times, at which we all laughed," says the bishop, "admiring so much fraternal affection.—Where is that charming nymph, and why doth she not adorn your ladyship's tea-table with her bright eyes?" Her ladyship said, drily, 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 ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... go about spending much as long as you stayed up there," Ross retorted drily. "It's when a man comes down that his ...
— The Lookout Man • B. M. Bower
... 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 ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... great lords of Lower Italy is not their greatest merit," the Signor Gradenigo drily answered. "The young esteem life so endless, that they take little heed of the minutes that escape them; while we, whom age begins to menace, think chiefly of repairing the omissions of youth. In this manner, Signor Duca, does man sin and repent daily, until the opportunities ...
— The Bravo • J. Fenimore Cooper
... it is, Harry,' said Lord Monmouth, very drily, 'members of this family may think as they like, but they must act as I please. You must go down on Friday to Darlford and declare yourself a candidate for the town, or I shall reconsider our mutual positions. I ...
— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli
... doubted if that could be warranted by law. And when I hinted at the 10th of Edward III., chap. 15, for regulating the precedency of coaches, as being probably the statute relied on for the capital punishment of such offences, he replied drily—that if the attempt to pass a mail was really treasonable, it was a pity that the Tallyho appeared to have so imperfect an acquaintance ...
— Miscellaneous Essays • Thomas de Quincey
... answered somewhat drily that she could not be judge in such a cause. Time and their future deeds, she observed, could only bear witness as to their purposes. As for declarations from her, they must be satisfied with the Apostille which they ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... said Scott, drily. "We've made a haul and we're bringing it in. Suppose you wait for that horse of mine, will you, Tom, and see that he gets home all right? Thanks to this gentleman and his friends we've only got three head of cattle left, so we'd best be ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... till he wears out all them clothes, we'll just about have to give him a share in the company," he said drily. ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower
... said the latter drily. "I suppose she didn't mention, either, that my object in calling here was ...
— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... his shoulders and answered drily, "I prefer my friends to live. It is my enemies who should get themselves killed. But listen!" and from a distance came a tremendous roar of "Down with ...
— My Sword's My Fortune - A Story of Old France • Herbert Hayens
... have been fortunate in our associate, Melchior," he said drily, turning without ceremony from the man whose modest, quiet mien had lately interested him so much, but whose manner he now took to be assumed,—few pausing to investigate the motives of those who are condemned of opinion:—"here ...
— The Headsman - The Abbaye des Vignerons • James Fenimore Cooper
... best possible judge of his verses' merit," Guido estimated, drily. "But I shall never understand how any singer at all came to be locked in such a prison. I fancy that at times the ...
— The Certain Hour • James Branch Cabell
... a little and went away, and I think that a bunch of heather which lay on the coffin must have come from her. Anyway, that is all I know about the Loafer, and he may now tell his story of the Pink Tom Cat in his own way. You observe how drily ...
— The Chequers - Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in - a Loafer's Diary • James Runciman
... it," said the resident drily; "and as Ensign Long is seventeen, and my daughter twenty-three, it will be a most suitable match. But he has a ...
— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn
... ain't a good sermon," said Rupert drily; "and what's more, I can understand it, which I can't most sermons I've heard. But look here,—do you think God takes the same sort of look-out for common folks? Joseph ...
— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner
... taught the art By Doctor's bills to play the Doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, 110 Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. 115 These leave the sense, their learning to display, And those ...
— The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems • Alexander Pope
... sparkle began to assert itself in Barney's blue eyes, and he remarked drily, as he took his hat, "Yez moight wait longer than yez ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe
... arrived. Marfa Timofyevna came down from up-stairs, when the soup was already on the table. She treated Varvara Pavlovna very drily, replied in half-sentences to her civilities, and did not look at her. Varvara Pavlovna soon realised that there was nothing to be got out of this old lady, and gave up trying to talk to her. To make up for this, Marya Dmitrievna became still more cordial to her guest; her aunt's discourtesy ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev
... in his study after Gouache had gone. A sour smile distorted his thin lips, and the expression became more and more accented until the old man broke into a laugh that rang drily against the vaulted ceiling. Some one knocked at the door, and his merriment disappeared instantly. Arnoldo Meschini entered the room. There was something unusual about his appearance which attracted the prince's attention ...
— Sant' Ilario • F. Marion Crawford
... a little innocent way! "Very likely she would have dispensed with the ceremony," I answered, drily. ...
— The Diary of a Man of Fifty • Henry James
... for us;" of him "who died for our offences, and rose again for our justification;" who is even now at the "right hand of God, making intercession for us?" Who would think that the kindness and humanity, and self-denial, and patience in suffering, which we so drily commend, had been exerted towards ourselves, in acts of more than finite benevolence of which we were to derive the benefit, in condescensions and labours submitted to for our sakes, in pain and ignominy, endured ...
— A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. • William Wilberforce
... is why they don't brush their boots and trousers, it's so precious," returned Christie drily. "And have they ever translated this ...
— Devil's Ford • Bret Harte
... is a funeral, the mourners are uncommon jolly," said Eph, drily, as merry voices and loud laughter broke the white ...
— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. • Louisa M. Alcott
... Miss Ingamells drily. "You know all about that, don't you?" Clearly she resented that he knew all about ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... 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 ...
— A Desperate Character and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... was all like the Maggie's," Mr. Gibney retorted drily, "we wouldn't need to worry none. Not wishin' to change the conversation, Scraggsy, but referrin' to them eggs you slipped me and Bart for supper, all I gotta say is that the next time you go marketin' in ancient Egypt, me an' Mac's goin' to tell the real story o' the S.S. Maggie to the ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... I, as drily as I could with wet tears in the background. "And now, let's go to bed, ...
— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... lips to curve. "I am not referring to the facts of generation," she said drily, and her smile broadened, her eyebrows lifted humorously. "I am quite aware that the—the advantages of a country life include an early arrival at that kind of knowledge. Besides, you were fortunate in your brothers. And then there ...
— Moor Fires • E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
... be all right,' said Barnet drily. 'But I have a different opinion . . . No, Downe, we must look the thing in the face. Not poppy nor mandragora—however, how are ...
— Wessex Tales • Thomas Hardy
... sat round the fire eyeing each other drily, and waiting for supper. Only one among them, one of the gentlemen belonging to the party of three, made advances towards conversation. Throwing out his lines for the Chief of the important tribe, while addressing himself to his own companions, ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... hasn't made you any politer, I can see that," he remarked drily. "You're not exactly in a happy frame of mind, which does not surprise me. Yes, that's the way it is. The poor people must give up their sound flesh and bone so that the enemy should not deprive the rich of their superfluity. You may bless your stars you came out of it ...
— Men in War • Andreas Latzko
... San—"Detain that man yonder. He is to be examined." The ward officer was a little surprised—"Respectfully heard and understood. It is old Yamabayashi Yo[u]gen." Soon the man entered the guard house. Said the official drily—"Magome Dono is here to talk with Yo[u]gen. What has he been up to?" But the old fellow was confident. "Thanks are felt." With the ease of the righteous and prosperous he passed into the presence of Yaemon. The latter greeted him with a non-official genial smile. "Ah! This is Yamabayashi Yo[u]gen, ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... it,' said my mother, drily. 'Once, nearly twenty years ago, a friend of mine consulted me as to how he should deal with a daughter who had made what they call a love-match—beggared herself, and disgraced her family; and I said, without ...
— The Purcell Papers - Volume III. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
... he said, drily. "What's the good? We ain't cannibals. But I say, I wish something nice would come along. I know I could hit it. What would you like—a deer? Deer's very good ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... responded drily. "You may thank friends nearer at hand, for the Grand Duke knows as little of your existence as your English friends apparently care ...
— Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) • Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney
... home report of him, eh?" said Mr. Byrne, drily. "There's two sides to most things, and I've rather a weakness for seeing both. Never mind about that just now. I never take up impressions hastily. Don't be afraid. I'll see Master Geoff for myself. Let's talk of other things. What do these ...
— Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth
... lost writings little need be said. In youth, like most of his contemporaries, he wrote poems, including a tragedy, of which Tacitus drily observes that they were not better than those of Cicero. A grammatical treatise, De Analogia, was composed by him during one of his long journeys between Northern Italy and the headquarters of his army in Gaul during his proconsulate. ...
— Latin Literature • J. W. Mackail
... same thing quite," said Nathan Shelley drily. "She'll belong to your life then—not ours. And no matter how many young ones folks has, they don't want to lose none of 'em. But I dunno as we ought to let our feelings stand in Nora's light. She's clever, and she's ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... kind, but the manner was so patronising that Arthur felt offended. He put back the gun, and said, drily, "I shall have no occasion ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 1 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... firmly and drily. "So you have learned everything, have you? And, of course, you've censured me, as I deserve. I understand. I am guilty before you. But no, I cannot ...
— Foma Gordyeff - (The Man Who Was Afraid) • Maxim Gorky
... you no apprehensions, Sir," said Mr Gosport drily, "that the handkerchief would be the sooner worn out for having a knot ...
— Cecilia vol. 2 - Memoirs of an Heiress • Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)
... on the same terms another day. The Countess is fond of play, and she wins from most people," said the Colonel, drily. "Why don't you bet her ladyship five thousand on a bishopric, parson? I have heard of a clergyman who made such a bet, and who lost it, and who paid it, ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray
... another of your parson friends," said the Consul, drily; "then, I'll just send the coachman with the carriage for Morten and Fanny, and ask them to bring some young people with them: they might find Jacob ...
— Garman and Worse - A Norwegian Novel • Alexander Lange Kielland
... Saturius drily, "with pearls. Oh! I will be plain. Give up that necklace—and its wearer. ...
— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard
... to preach about it on Thanksgiving," Miss Jackson opined; and her hostess drily rejoined: "Oh, he means us to give thanks ...
— The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton
... that ye 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.' ...
— Privy Seal - His Last Venture • Ford Madox Ford
... old Polly! And told you shall be!... Sure you want to know?... There, there—easy does it! I'm a-telling of you." He suddenly changed his manner, and spoke quickly, collectedly, drily. "The name on your stifficate ain't the correct name. I saw to that. Only you needn't fret your kidneys about it, that I see. You're an immoral woman, you are! ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... as he looks," retorted Haig drily, as he lay back to look up resignedly into the foliage, where white now mingled ...
— The Heart of Thunder Mountain • Edfrid A. Bingham
... ye keepin' well to looard!" said Hiram drily. "But, ez I wer a sayin', the skipper agrees to call in at the fust port we fetches, an' we've b'en close in to Bahia, when we near ran ashore, an' Rio an' Buenos Ayres; an' he's never put into no ...
— The Island Treasure • John Conroy Hutcheson
... tense indeed. The bulky, round shouldered figure at the other desk was writing busily with a very scratchy pen. It was an abominable pen. Its sputtering was loud enough to be noticeable under any circumstances, but Bell was unusually alert, just now, and suddenly he added still more drily: ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 • Various
... time since we have been here, master Francois," somewhat sarcastically and drily replied Captain Blessington; "and you have not visited us quite so often latterly yourself, though well aware we were in want of fresh provisions. I give you all due credit, however, for your intention of coming to-day, but you see we have anticipated you. Still this is not the point. Where is ...
— Wacousta: A Tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy (Complete) • John Richardson
... 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
... appearance of a cannon, and, mounted upon wagon wheels, was advanced with solemnity to the attack. The affair looked sufficiently serious, and Rugely, to avoid any unnecessary effusion of blood, yielded the post. Cornwallis, drily commenting on the transaction, in a letter to Tarleton, remarks, "Rugely will not be ...
— The Life of Francis Marion • William Gilmore Simms
... habit of helping ourselves-very much," said one of the highwaymen, drily. "Pray don't apologise on that ...
— Stories by English Authors: England • Various
... "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
... 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
... a good country," said the Canadian, rather drily. "It's going to be a great country. Is ...
— Lady Merton, Colonist • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Trent said drily. "I had to have the money, and you ground a share out of me which is worth a quarter of a ...
— A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... good while to get away from a place with a name like that," said Mr. Robey drily. "Well, when he shows up, Otis, tell him to get a move on if he ...
— Left Guard Gilbert • Ralph Henry Barbour
... more to my uncertainty, by asking me, in a short way, if I called for anything? to which I replied innocently: "No." But I wished him to tell me where I might get a lodging for that night. He said he would go and speak to his mistress, who accordingly came, and told me drily, without entering in the least into the distress she saw me in, that I might have a bed for a shilling, and that, as she supposed I had some friends in town (there I fetched a deep sigh in vain!), I might provide for ...
— Memoirs Of Fanny Hill - A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) • John Cleland
... some clever folk like that," said Mrs Hankworth, drily. "The difference that anyone can see if they use their eyes is, that she'll have a child to keep and they won't. She's no idea ...
— Women of the Country • Gertrude Bone
... 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
... alluded to the assurance he believed had been made him. "I have," he said, "been expecting the medals daily since the King's return from Weymouth." St. Vincent's reply was prompt as himself. With reference to the former matter, he confined himself to drily thanking Nelson, without comment, "for communicating the letter you have judged fit to write to the Lord Mayor;" but as to the medals, he wrote a separate note, telling him that he had "given no encouragement, but on the contrary had explained ...
— The Life of Nelson, Vol. II. (of 2) - The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain • A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
... Trendon drily. He looked closely at Darrow. The man's eyes were light and dancing. From the nostrils two livid lines ran diagonally. Such lines one might make with a hard blue pencil pressed strongly into the flesh. The ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams
... Ike drily; "much obliged. It's my belief, though, that the wicked old walking scaffold was fast asleep, and has on'y just ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn
... 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 in handy for you, Mr Seth, to run down the buffalo, ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... must 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
... 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
... may consider yourself graduated, then," said Aunt Phoebe, drily, "for I'll have no such nonsense about me. I can teach you all you need to know outside of what you learn ...
— The Camp Fire Girls at School • Hildegard G. Frey
... with him," said the armourer, drily. "Thou wilt be paid gallantly at least, if not honestly. Methinks I would like to know how many purses have been emptied to fill the goat skin sporran that is to be so free to you of its gold, and whose pastures the bullocks have been calved in that are to be ...
— The Fair Maid of Perth • Sir Walter Scott
... day, when we were deep in the woods, I asked Dr. Sandford if he knew Mr. Davis of Mississippi. He answered Yes, rather drily. I ...
— Daisy • Elizabeth Wetherell
... Intendant drily; "on other days I daresay you have other fare. I would almost make a bet that there is a pasty in the cupboard which you dare not show to the Intendant of the ...
— The Children of the New Forest • Captain Marryat
... 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 ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... 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 in the Place de Greve. You are the headsman's property! ...
— Melmoth Reconciled • Honore de Balzac
... who had also risen, seemed to take in the situation at a glance. Like a well-bred gamester who knows how to lose with a good grace the old gentleman laughed drily to himself as ...
— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini
... thinks so," replied the Earl, drily; "for under those circumstances I fear that your escape from the Tower ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... 'Very good,' Herbert answered drily; 'only mind, whatever you do, for Heaven's sake don't go and stumble and pull ME down on the top of you. It's the clear duty of a good citizen to respect the lives of the other men who are roped together with him on the side ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... is quite made up, thank you, on this and all other matters concerning which I have given you instructions," was the calm reply. "I have had plenty of time for consideration," he added drily. ...
— The Malefactor • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... 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, ...
— Grandmother Dear - A Book for Boys and Girls • Mrs. Molesworth
... 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 the flag ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... Dr. Holiday drily. "Come on over here, one of you twinnies, if Phil must go. See you to-night, my boy?" he turned to his namesake to ask as Charley accepted the invitation and clambered over the back of the seat while the doctor took ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper
... way," he 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
... "Exactly," Tom said drily. "And it's some of their precious petrol that we're wanting so badly right now, and to get which you're ...
— Air Service Boys Flying for Victory - or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold • Charles Amory Beach
... drily. "Yes, you is—everybody's 'feared of old Elspeth; but she won't hurt you—you's got the spell;" and wheeling again, she was back ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois
... 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 ...
— The Destroyer - A Tale of International Intrigue • Burton Egbert Stevenson
... X. I got word last week three or four of my steers was over there. I want to see about 'em. Before," he added drily, "they get any closer to ...
— Six Feet Four • Jackson Gregory
... he never had done so, but that he would take the charge of mine if I liked. To this, however, I demurred. "I never part with my pistol to any one," I said, rather drily. But he explained that he only intended to signify that if there were danger to be encountered, he would be glad to encounter it; and I fully believed him. "We shan't have much fighting," I replied; "but if there be ...
— A Ride Across Palestine • Anthony Trollope
... 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 of shopping." ...
— The Pension Beaurepas • Henry James
... retorted drily. "But please ask yourself this question: (it is where, to my thinking, the social and the personal elements join) if this marriage is broken off, is Dick ...
— Witness For The Defense • A.E.W. Mason
... imagine Sarah let loose on a farm," he said drily. "They'd better tie up the pigs and nail down the cows—I wouldn't trust that girl within ten ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... hint premature, my dear,' he returned drily, 'and because it is not our place to warn Mr. Blake off the premises; he is not the first young man, and I do not expect he will be the last, to ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... "My friend," she said 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 its pretension ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac
... 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 Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... thirty to a horse when he has to travel back the same road," said John drily; "and your heavy swells take the toll out of horseflesh ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... hain't likely to have no sech feelin's a-holdin' o' me back," Uncle Dick remarked, drily. "Hit's my foolishness bailin' 'im out got us in the pizen mess. I 'low I'll cancel the bond. But, fust, I'd have to take the skunk to the jail-house, dead er alive. He'll ...
— Heart of the Blue Ridge • Waldron Baily
... what means do you possess such apparent influence over them?' But the 'Unknown' had already said more than he perhaps wished on the subject. He drily replied that he had more than once owed his life to gypsies, and had reason to know them well; but this was said in a tone which precluded all further queries on my part. The subject was never again broached, and we returned in silence to the fonda . . . This is a most extraordinary character, ...
— The Life of George Borrow • Herbert Jenkins
... "It's nothing!" drily replied Tchelkache, as he supported his head with his left hand and gently pulled his moustache ...
— Twenty-six and One and Other Stories • Maksim Gorky
... have seen the word, and I then found that einer meant a gin, or female, as will appear on referring to the vocabulary I obtained at Wallamoul.* The translation of this word produced a hearty laugh among our men, and Finch drily observed that some would then be very serviceable. I was in doubt whether they meant to inquire, by frequently pointing up to our tents, if we had any, or whether they wished to accommodate us with wives. At length they rather ...
— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 1 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell
... a traitor we take the right," answered Sorillo drily.—"But there is a further charge, Don Felipe Montilla, more serious still. You have been proved false to your country; I accuse you also of being ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens
... suppose it hadn't occurred to you that this is a spring tide?" he said drily. "In another hour or so there'll be six feet of water where we're ...
— The Splendid Folly • Margaret Pedler
... John was begun immediately, and was the delight of Ellen's life. Mrs. Lindsay and her daughter wished to put a stop to it; but Mr. Lindsay drily said that Mr. Humphreys had frankly spoken of it before him, and as he had made no objection then, he could ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner
... Capitol, 'those statesmen eyed us very closely, but I will wager that it was impossible after we got mixed together to tell an anti from a suffragist by her clothes. There might have been a difference, though, in the expression of the faces and the shape of the heads,' she added drily." ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various
... and far-fetched theory of the mystery. Nothing but our desperate need of an elucidation could excuse its being put forward," said Captain Pendleton, drily. Then he spoke more earnestly: "Berners, whatever may be the true explanation of all that we have experienced here, one thing seems certain: that your retreat here is known to at least one person, who may or may not be inimical to your interests. ...
— Cruel As The Grave • Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth
... gets to know people rather well in times like these," said Jim, drily; but William's face was serene as ever, and even as she prophesied, Scott did ...
— The Day's Work, Volume 1 • Rudyard Kipling
... 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 ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid
... "What would be the use of magic if it proved unable to adjust itself?" A smile played over Mr. Wicker's face. "So, all is ready," he said glancing around. "Now we must be off and lose no time, for we have much ahead of us," said Mr. Wicker drily, blowing out the candle. ...
— Mr. Wicker's Window • Carley Dawson
... mistaken," said Palla drily; "—one merely becomes one's self when once the belief in that ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers
... said Cecil drily, "that you possessed an extensive acquaintance in ecclesiastical circles ...
— His Lordship's Leopard - A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts • David Dwight Wells
... he does live?' chimed in Mrs. Jawleyford, for the suddenness of the descent had given them no time for inquiry. 'Somebody said Manchester,' observed Miss Jawleyford drily. ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... interrupted Schlesinger drily. "But we can't have any more alterations now-a-days. Who is there worthy to ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... replied drily the narrator, "her back being towards the portrait, but her eye fixed on its ...
— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving
... wish to," remarked the Bishop drily. "We don't force you to do it. We don't put the pipe between your teeth and insist upon your drugging yourselves. How many shops do you say there are—how many smoking places? Several hundred? We don't force you into them, I take it. You go of your own choice, don't you? We Europeans ...
— Civilization - Tales of the Orient • Ellen Newbold La Motte
... present, very uncomfortably, it is true, in the infamous inn of that nest of savages up there," said the one-eyed cuirassier, drily. "We arrived in your parts an hour ago on post horses. He's awaiting our return with impatience. There is hurry, you know. The General has broken the ministerial order to obtain from you the satisfaction he's entitled to by the laws ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad
... you think it, do you?" said the major, drily. "Then the stores are to walk up to Fort Baker ...
— For Fortune and Glory - A Story of the Soudan War • Lewis Hough
... not," replied the old sailor, drily; "but you'll find it too stiff for you to-night, anyhow. Howsomdever, if you should reach t'other side, take an old feller's advice, and don't be foolhardy enough to ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth
... said, drily. "In fact, I agree with you. The graveyard is a ridiculous place for anybody to be, but I shall be there—and soon. But I am not going to let it interfere with my plans concerning the Fair Harbor. Lobelia Seymour I've ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... Eastman laughed drily. "Every time I touch the circle of your acquaintance, Cavenaugh, it's a little wider. You must know New York pretty ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
... left the wood—and how loath he was to leave it, for Celia's presence seemed still to haunt it!—and returned to the inn, he found Reggie still with his writing-pad on his knee. He glanced up, as Derrick sank into the seat beside him, and said drily, ...
— The Woman's Way • Charles Garvice
... wishes," he answered drily, "but I haven't insisted upon them to her, and am not ...
— The Emancipated • George Gissing
... drily. "But we won't live to see it. Anyway, I won't. They're going to bump me off ...
— The Martian Cabal • Roman Frederick Starzl
... the amount," he added drily. "Fate—you talk so much of Fate," she replied gravely, and her eyes looked into the distance. "You make me think of it too, and I don't want to do so. I don't want to feel helpless, to be the child ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... the wealthy miller yet, His double chin, his portly size, And who that knew him could forget The busy wrinkles round his eyes? The slow wise smile that, round about His dusty forehead drily curl'd, Seem'd half-within and half-without, And full of ...
— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson
... be correct," admitted Penelope, "though a trifle idealistic for the twentieth century. Most men," she added drily, "Regard coaling up the fire as a damned nuisance rather than a ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... Claudia's thoughts," Caretto remarked drily, "but I do know that last year she refused to listen to at least a score of excellent offers for her hand, including one from a son of the doge himself, and that without any reasonable cause assigned by her, to the great wonderment of all, seeing that she does not appear ...
— A Knight of the White Cross • G.A. Henty
... make an early start," he remarked, drily. "Since things have turned out the way they have, we couldn't make any use of you. But before you go, understand one thing, ...
— At Whispering Pine Lodge • Lawrence J. Leslie
... inflate another target-globe," he ordered drily. "We could speak for the king since he was late. But we won't stay here to be killed as his proxy! Not ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... appropriate occasion to use them," commented young Master Joseph drily. "If it were not for certain portions of the psalms and the prophets, I could hardly get through the time ...
— Dulcibel - A Tale of Old Salem • Henry Peterson
... that," said Calhoun drily. "Besides, you'd get deadly bored if we were stuck in a derelict waiting for our air and food to ...
— Pariah Planet • Murray Leinster
... a frenzy of rage," remarked Dr. Dick, drily; "and he caught you a good one on the mouth. ...
— The Upas Tree - A Christmas Story for all the Year • Florence L. Barclay |
