"Dryly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Carlyle a little dryly. "But if it is, as it probably is in Creake's pocket, how do you propose to ...
— Four Max Carrados Detective Stories • Ernest Bramah
... said the other dryly. "I imagine you do not believe in spiritualism at all—I mean that you think that the whole thing ...
— The Necromancers • Robert Hugh Benson
... dryly. "Texas has just been made a free an' independent republic, an' Sam Houston has been made commander-in-chief of all its mighty armies, horse, foot an' cannon. We saw all them things done back there at Washington ...
— The Texan Scouts - A Story of the Alamo and Goliad • Joseph A. Altsheler
... dryly. "That's what you said last time. I remember 'Lopa.' She's your 'control' I ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... want to call it that, must have stunk up the place pretty badly," said one of the men dryly. ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett
... botanists, and has added many a new treasure to the Flora of these isles; and one person, at least, owes him a deep debt of gratitude for first lessons in scientific accuracy and patience, - lessons taught, not dully and dryly at the book and desk, but livingly and genially, in adventurous rambles over the bleak cliffs and ferny woods of the wild Atlantic ...
— Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore • Charles Kingsley
... to give the impression of being even bigger than he was. It was like the Irish estate, of which its owner said that it had more land to the acre than any place he knew. This was the result, I suppose, of what Barthrop once dryly called the "effortless expansion" of Father Payne's personality. I suppose he was about six-foot-two in height, and he must have weighed fifteen stone or even more. He was not stout, but all his limbs ...
— Father Payne • Arthur Christopher Benson
... occasion to report," replied Dave dryly. "I am not in any way in command over Pennington. But I mean to persuade him to report himself ...
— Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis - Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" • H. Irving Hancock
... lips, without speaking, said, 'Run away, little boy,' but that your eyes said, 'Come here.' Now I think Benny did pretty well." "So I judge, since you recognized me without any difficulty," rejoined Mr. Smith, a bit dryly. "But—YOU—? You see you have the advantage of me. Benny hasn't described you to me." ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter
... Scotchman, who is not a member of any temperance society, being asked by a dealer to purchase some fine old Jamaica, dryly answered, "To tell you the truth, Mr. ——, I canna' say I'm very fond of rum; for if I tak' mair than six tum'lers, it's very apt to gi'e me ...
— The Jest Book - The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings • Mark Lemon
... you are a Frenchman," commented the Marquis dryly. "You said you came from Aumenier. I did not catch your ...
— The Eagle of the Empire - A Story of Waterloo • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... you do 'zactly like I say. Besides," she added dryly, "if it comes to the worst, ain't you ready an' ...
— Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories • Alice Hegan Rice
... not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thenardier passed in review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the gruff mien to reappear. She resumed dryly:— ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... to bring no great satisfaction to the woman to whom he addressed them, however. She thanked him dryly, as women do when their brain is dragged into ...
— Emma McChesney & Co. • Edna Ferber
... "Naturally," Ned said dryly; "but that would have been of no great consequence to me or any one else. As the country was lately about to take my life at its own expense it would not greatly disapprove of my doing so at my own, especially as the lesson to the Luddites would have been so wholesale a one that the services ...
— Through the Fray - A Tale of the Luddite Riots • G. A. Henty
... in the house. The tick-tick of the clock, very even, slow, dryly metrical, increased the silence and solitude. I put my ear to the door of the room, in hope of hearing a groan, a word, an insult, anything that would be a sign of life, that might bring back peace to my conscience; I was ready ...
— Brazilian Tales • Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
... try to reproduce or even dryly catalogue the glories poured out for eye and ear, for heart and brain, upon a bright and cool September day? The deep-glowing sumacs, the asters purple and white mixed with flaming goldenrod, in a splendid audacity ...
— The Chief End of Man • George S. Merriam
... "Thank you," he interrupted dryly, "but we shall need you ashore; in the first place to indentify this mysterious stranger, and also to help protect the ladies. Their escort, Heaven knows, is not excessive. We take the gig, and if the man fails to appear, or brings even so ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... have much on," declared the biggest brother, dryly. "That fire scooped up our Christmas gifts. The only people around here that can make presents this year were smart enough to backfire." He gave the popper such a shake that the lid swung up and let a shower of kernels fall over ...
— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates
... dryly. "But it isn't fair to play the game with one who doesn't know the rules. Besides, what will Mr. ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... professor said dryly, "write down on your visiting card all that you know, and bring ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... said he 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 ...
— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke
... fact suffices to discount everything you have said, Baron," he replied dryly. "You have twice attempted to escape from the fortress. An innocent man awaits his trial with confidence, knowing that it cannot be other than favorable. The culprit ...
— International Short Stories: French • Various
... that hermitage, set up frightful and inauspicious yells. And ugly Vartikas as of dreadful sight, having one wing, one eye, and one leg, were seen to vomit blood, facing the sun. And the wind began to blow dryly, and violently, attracting grits. And to the right all the beasts and birds began to cry. And in the rear the black crows cried, 'Go!' 'Go!' And momentarily his (Yudhishthira's) right arm began to twitch, and his chest and left leg shook (of themselves). And indicating evil his ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli
... "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 ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon
... you please, when I have more leisure than I have now," Jack retorted, dryly. "This ...
— The Submarine Boys and the Middies • Victor G. Durham
... Rose, dryly. "How much time should you say would be necessary, Clover? A hundred years? I should think it would take at ...
— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge
... returned the hunter, dryly, still stroking the horse's neck; "but Daniel's the older title, and a little the ...
— Ella Barnwell - A Historical Romance of Border Life • Emerson Bennett
... Dr. Bird dryly, "I think enough to know the futility of guesses hazarded without complete data. We are now located within the limits of the amnesia belt and we are here to find out what did happen, if anything, and not to make wild guesses about it. You have the tent ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 • Various
... she went to the window, and stood there, gazing out into the street. Brockton watched her for a moment; then, with a covert smile, he said dryly: ...
— The Easiest Way - A Story of Metropolitan Life • Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow
... light of battle, leading on his own Virginians, and trying to stay the tide of disaster. He had two horses shot under him and four bullets through his coat. The Indians thought he bore a charmed life, while his death was reported in the colonies, together with his dying speech, which, he dryly wrote to his brother, he had not ...
— George Washington, Vol. I • Henry Cabot Lodge
... done some dreaming myself," Johnny interposed dryly. "I'm awake now. Listen here, Bland. I've been playing square with you, all along. I want you to get that. I can see how you being so darn crooked yourself, you may always be looking for some one to do you, so I ain't kicking at the stand you take. You've got no call, ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... Clarke said dryly. "Still, I'd like to say that there is some reason for believing you to be a badly treated man. ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss
... hear it," replied Leveridge, dryly. "If I know anything about His Royal Highness you'll gain a fortune sooner by writing a ballad or two for this pretty songster. Make her famous as you made me with 'All in the Downs' and 'T'was ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce
... said Grant dryly as he looked about the room in which they found themselves. "It seems to me that the motto over the door of this place ought to be, 'He who enters here leaves ...
— Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat • Ross Kay
... said the poet, dryly, when Moron-val handed him the coquettish perfumed note. Then the principal grew very angry, as he saw his plans frustrated. "Why would not ...
— Jack - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
... the Doctor answered, dryly. "They always talked Latin when they had a bigger lie than common to ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various
... a foot over the threshold till I have received the amount of my salary and advances," replied the man dryly. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 • Various
... said Teacher dryly. "I really think you are afraid of soap and water. When I finish with Isaac you will all see how good it is for boys and girls to ...
— Little Citizens • Myra Kelly
... know 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 think we're ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... in no humor for joking, and begged me dryly not to make fun of him; so I translated her question and my polite offer, which had been ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... going 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 ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... to her ironically. "You are severe," he said, dryly. Then he turned to Gonzague. "There is a friend of mine at the door," he said. ...
— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... of those thousands," remarked the Professor, dryly, "it will be time enough to talk of marrying and making settlements. Meanwhile, if you and Sylvia choose to consider yourselves engaged, I won't object—only I must insist on having your promise that you won't persuade her to marry you without her ...
— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey
... said Mrs. Hamilton dryly. "However, I will tell you what I want of you. I am going down to Simpson's to-morrow to redeem the glass, and want you ...
— The Store Boy • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... it off," Jim rejoined dryly. "The trouble sometimes comes at the end. But it's rather curious how often you can make good ...
— Partners of the Out-Trail • Harold Bindloss
... a sacred character?' Rose asked dryly. 'Write to her, Caroline, and say Susan will come on the day that suits her best. You can't drag her away without warning. Let's treat her ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... the major had tried to make a careless one, curled his lip satirically as he bowed in reply. "It is the first time," he said dryly, "that I believe I have been honored with arranging a tryst for two lovers; but believe me, Mistress Thankful, I will do my best. In half an hour I will turn my prisoner ...
— Thankful Blossom • Bret Harte
... good deal of hot air in it, Lizzie," he remarked dryly. "And say, you and Mac must have been collaborating. He had that very same expression in his speech last night—'member, Mac, when you brought down the house that time when you flung something 'against the eternal heavens,' or some such disorderly ...
— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith
... count it little to save the lives of a train full of people," said the president, dryly, "but we set a slight value upon our lives and ...
— Facing the World • Horatio Alger
... be thankful for small favors," Fraser said dryly. "She figures me up a skunk, but hates to have me massacreed in her back yard. Ain't that about ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine
... thought there exists small cause for questioning the word of so fair a woman," I acknowledged dryly. "Yet to my vision, not wholly blinded by her charms, she possesses more of the Caucasian in face and manner than any other of the race. If she is not of European birth I am a poor judge, Monsieur, and 't is my belief, if she told you she ...
— Prisoners of Chance - The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, - through His Love for a Lady of France • Randall Parrish
... 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 ...
— Calvert of Strathore • Carter Goodloe
... a Postal Department for the Boompointers, General," he said dryly, "however great their influence elsewhere. It was from rather a different style of woman—Miss Faulkner. You will receive your papers later at your ...
— Clarence • Bret Harte
... it over," besought the other woman eagerly. "Think that Carol will marry, and that Clarence—" Her ardent tone dropped suddenly. There was a moment's pause. Then she added dryly, "How do, dear?" ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris
... this morning,' said Miss Abingdon dryly, 'and they were positively disappointed because Sir Nigel Christopherson could not go with them. I do not profess to understand love-affairs of ...
— Peter and Jane - or The Missing Heir • S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
... the labour of to-morrow are pretty necessary though," said his father dryly; "we must eat, in the first place. You must keep the body alive before the mind can do much — at least I have found it so ...
— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner
... manager dryly. "I only know that we are bound to follow those instructions, and can let you have but forty dollars, which is the price of a first-class ticket to New York by steamer. Moreover, as this is sailing day, and the New York steamer leaves in a couple of hours, I would advise you ...
— Under the Great Bear • Kirk Munroe
... begin, then, by a detailed account of your adventures in this house of death," dryly suggested the detective. "Your full adventures, madam, with nothing ...
— The Circular Study • Anna Katharine Green
... for a guide," retorted Schoverling dryly. A look of astonishment went over the dark face as the explorer handed him his own map. Then, in a few words, the General related how they had found Mowbray and produced the letter in proof. As he finished, Gholab came up ...
— The Rogue Elephant - The Boys' Big Game Series • Elliott Whitney
... he paraphrased dryly, "must you wreck your own life, John, to parent somebody else with skill?" The wording of this rather pleased him. ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple
... "Wake up! Is yeh're mem'ry goin', man? One av yeh're own cases last month, tu!" He tenderly pocketed the clippers. "Yes! ye shud know him!"—dryly—"lukked troo th' bottom av a ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall
... Cooper, dryly. "Was you ever troubled by their leaking, when you rolled them through the mud from ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various
... I said dryly, "that undertakers' assistants are jovial young men. A man's sense of humor seems to be in inverse proportion to the ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Mr. Richard anywhere you want him to go," I said dryly, "is to have him nailed in ...
— Where There's A Will • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... 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
... curiously at Rice and his companions, and then turned to Wells: "Nevertheless, I must look to you for instructions," he said dryly. ...
— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte
... away from you, young lady, but I ran after you, if I remember," said Horace, dryly. "I don't mean to pursue you with my attentions to-day. You seem to be able to ...
— Little Folks Astray • Sophia May (Rebecca Sophia Clarke)
... communicative in men's society than with ladies," Machiavel dryly replied: perhaps rather disappointed that the port wine had not made Jim ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... certain conditions." Paul waited an instant, then added dryly: "In fact, Dad, you're one ...
— Paul and the Printing Press • Sara Ware Bassett
... a good deal like being a woman, I reckon," returned Cynthia dryly. "There's a heap in having been born to it. Aunt Polly, have you put the irons on the fire? The first batch ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... try to make her have a pleasant evening," he suggested dryly. "And, to do that, it might be as well to remember a number of things, one of which is that she is accustomed to the ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... say you think you can do it alone,' remarked the officer dryly. He was a lenient man and often conversed ...
— The Moccasin Maker • E. Pauline Johnson
... apt to fergit it anyways soon," replied Teeters, dryly, "seein' as 'Tinhorn' riz and put it to a vote as to whether they should tar and feather you or jest naturally ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... Major Dare dryly; "if I had thought of the possibility of the ship being rammed by a whale, you'd never have put a foot on her deck. But Captain Murchison said that whales were entirely harmless, and ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... differ," said Stafford dryly. Rising with a yawn, he went on: "Half the marital troubles one hears about are the fault of the wife. She is often too exacting, too fond of meddling in her husband's affairs. A man who respects himself bends to no one—not even to his wife." With another yawn he added: "Will you two excuse ...
— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow
... who had listened calmly to the discussion, remarked dryly that until the colonel definitely ascertained whether he had any lands to sell it would be a useless waste of time to make ...
— Colonel Carter of Cartersville • F. Hopkinson Smith
... continued to vomit on the shores of the Danube. "It is true that they have conquered the river." said the Archduke Charles to his brother the Emperor Francis, standing by his side. "I allow them to pass, that I may drive them presently into its waves." "All right," said the emperor, dryly; "but do not let too many pass." Seventy thousand French already deployed in the plain. As they defiled past, the soldiers cried, "Long live the ...
— Worlds Best Histories - France Vol 7 • M. Guizot and Madame Guizot De Witt
... said Orme dryly. He was wondering whether this was some new counterfeiting dodge. How easily most persons could be induced to ...
— The Girl and The Bill - An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure • Bannister Merwin
... said the captain dryly. "He must be a terrible fellow to let Elder Bowen walk him out of the yard by the back of the neck. But your wishes shall be respected, and my boys will never mention your name in ...
— True To His Colors • Harry Castlemon
... you to keep your mouth shut about it till you get some positive proof," the sheriff said dryly. "I tell you it's no joke to accuse a member of a family like the Wingfields of helping runaway ...
— With Lee in Virginia - A Story of the American Civil War • G. A. Henty
... the earl, dryly; "perhaps you will tell me who this lady is, and why she comes home ...
— A Mad Love • Bertha M. Clay
... him to stop at your house until the race comes off, or he'll wreck his machine from weakness brought on by starvation," pronounced Mr. Rose, dryly. "One dinner won't carry him through weeks. I know ...
— From the Car Behind • Eleanor M. Ingram
... fonder of me than you were a while ago," observed the jelly-fish, dryly. "However, I forgive you. If you want to find the Crushed Strawberry Wizard, keep straight on along this road till you come to the house of the ...
— Prince Vance - The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box • Eleanor Putnam
... the same day Lieutenant Kolberg, whose mind not even the faintest suspicion of these latest developments of his intrigue had crossed, was ordered to appear forthwith before the commander. The latter, dryly and without comment, informed him that proceedings had been begun against him before the Council of Honor, and that until further notice he would ...
— A Little Garrison - A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day • Fritz von der Kyrburg
... an almost sombre look, and he replied, dryly: "Let her continue her journey." Casimir Perrier bowed his head over the paper that lay before him, in order to conceal his mirth, and minister Barthe availed himself of the opportunity to give a ...
— Queen Hortense - A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era • L. Muhlbach
... bidden by her godmother to go to bed, I happened to extol the graces and virtues of the newly wedded wife of a friend of mine, and finally, as a knockdown argument, I compared her to my own wife. "In this case," said he, dryly, "you'll catch it when you get home." It is a peculiarity they all have: not a ray of humor where the husband is concerned; to the best of them and to the last he must be and must continue ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various
... father alone could find a remedy to that."—"Where such a master carries his head!" cries Eva, in acute exasperation, "If I were to come to your house, should I so much as be made at home?" Somewhat dryly he takes up her words, as before, to steer the conversation from these dubious borders; and by some hazard, or intuition, turns it upon the subject nearest her heart. "Ah, yes, you are right! My head is in a state of confusion. I have had much care and bother to-day. Something of it clings very ...
— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall
... a matter of opinion," said Captain Dresser dryly, his experiences of the fickle element not having, perhaps, always been pleasant ones; but, before he could explain this, the train, with a piercing shriek of warning from the steam-whistle of the engine, glided into ...
— Bob Strong's Holidays - Adrift in the Channel • John Conroy Hutcheson
... have," Dick answered dryly. "An indirect sort of way. What about our gasoline? Heard ...
— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... Dick, dryly. "Acton's putting in a lot of work over the slackest house that ever disgraced the old school, and this is how he's treated. ...
— Acton's Feud - A Public School Story • Frederick Swainson
... heard of them securities all this time they've been lyin' forgotten in the bank, it's safe he won't hear of 'em now unless you tell him," retorted his shrewder half, dryly. "Of course, if he's lived straight, as he has for near twenty years as far as we know, and he finds it out, he'll grab everything for himself. Why shouldn't he? But s'pose the bulls are after him for somethin', and the bank's hood-winked as well as us, where are we if ...
— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
... as well as Jim," said Frank dryly, with a twinkle in his eye. "The buffs are in good shape an' can get along without me for ...
— The Last of the Plainsmen • Zane Grey
... bargains in politics, marm," he stated, dryly, "that takes more'n two to put 'em through when the pinch comes." He enjoyed the discomfiture that her artless confession brought to the Duke. The old man looked him up and down. That this Niles whom he himself ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day
... looked at him and spoke dryly. "I reckon the skunk's been out of Arizona quite some time. He's in greaser land now, and I never heard tell that Pasquale was so darned particular what his men did. Just tie a knot in this: if Harrison reaches the insurrecto camp with yore sister, ...
— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine
... stay a fourth in that house. Accordingly, on the fourth morning I summoned the woman who kept the house and attended on us, and told her that the rooms did not quite suit us, and we would not stay out our week. She said dryly, 'I know why; you have stayed longer than any other lodger. Few ever stayed a second night; none before you a third. But I take it they have been ...
— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.
... we had a time of it generally. In the midst of it all, Uncle David said dryly, "Well, Nanny, I suppose you may hand me over that bundle ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various
... dryly. "Here in the northwest we call such sons remittance men. They are paid generous allowances, sometimes, to come to America ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... with the cat if there is no one else by," her sister had once said dryly, "and will argue with Death when he comes ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... to himself and to others," remarked the stranger dryly. "I have met his sort before, and I find that the only way to deal with such people is to leave them very severely alone. He seems to be a bit of a bully, so far as I can make out, but he will have to mind his p's and q's while he is on board this ship, or he will be ...
— Harry Escombe - A Tale of Adventure in Peru • Harry Collingwood
... said the painter dryly, and looked in annoyance from the priest to the picture, and from the picture ...
— A Foregone Conclusion • W. D. Howells
... out the sentence dryly. "All right. I'm willing to play that way till I find out more about you. We'll try your scheme out. It ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower
... a little dryly—"yes, perhaps. I don't want to seem critical, but isn't your figure ...
— Jason • Justus Miles Forman
... placed," Captain Truck dryly remarked as he witnessed this manoeuvre. "Were this island only out of the way, now, we might stand on as we head, and leave those man-of-war's men to amuse themselves all night with backing and filling in the roads ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper
... that and other things," said Allott dryly. "Perhaps I have spoken plainly enough; ...
— The Lure of the North • Harold Bindloss
... to earn their bread can't lie around and go to school," remarked Aunt Nan dryly, ...
— The Girl from Montana • Grace Livingston Hill
... canon of the Church, Olaf, which forbids intermarriage between a god-parent and his or her god-child," she replied dryly. "Whether this canon has come to the Augusta's memory or not, I cannot ...
— The Wanderer's Necklace • H. Rider Haggard
... so too it might be to better purpose," observed Grahame, dryly. Then he emptied his glass, flicked the ashes from his cigar, and, sitting erect in his chair, said, "See here, Marche, you and I are accustomed to this sort of thing, we've seen campaigns and we have learned ...
— Lorraine - A romance • Robert W. Chambers
... Mr. Payne, 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
... "Yes," he laughed dryly. "Don't be afraid. It's only I. But, by Jove! how very charming you look in that gown! I'd love to get a snapshot of you just as you ...
— The House of Whispers • William Le Queux
... thought of that. You always were original, Dickie," commented Haines, dryly. "By the way, what ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise
... at him. Then he smiled faintly. The dark man came back, zipping up an indoor warmth-garment. Redfeather dryly brought him up to date by repeating what Bordman had just said. Chuka grinned and sprawled comfortably in ...
— Sand Doom • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... "We seem to have escaped arrest by something like five minutes," he remarked dryly. "Were you able to bring the ...
— The Other Likeness • James H. Schmitz
... miss 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 isn't ...
— On Land And Sea At The Dardanelles • Thomas Charles Bridges
... shook his head. "No-o," he drawled dryly, "I'm afraid not, son. I admit that don't seem scarcely possible, but ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln
... materially," dryly. "The case is perplexing. You round up a burglar sought by the police of two continents, and listlessly ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... 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
... "Well," said Young, dryly, when I had briefly explained these several matters, "I guess he won't pull th' wool over nobody's eyes any more! An' now you an' me 'll do some prospectin'. We must go back upstairs, before we pull out for good, an' bag what there is there that's worth carryin' off; but th' first ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... painter, dryly. "When you New Yorkers have learned what these barbarians already know, the control of your over-sensitized risibles and a courtesy deeper than your shirt-fronts —maybe I'll let you have a look. Meantime, I'm much too fond of all ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck
... native policemen, carried the canes with which they control the movements of the people. From the shaded doorway of a large house a native sergeant of police stepped out as we approached, and saluted Allen. Over the closed door, a large, dryly smiling, ancient crocodile hung. ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
... don't know—many things. I'm not so precious a capture," the girl a little dryly explained. "No one has ever wanted to ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 • Henry James
... brush against anything. It did not prevent her going to the stove and looking at the dishes, and even tasting them. When she raised her hand a little, her sleeve fell back, and her arm was bare to the elbow. Jean-Christophe thought this ugly and improper. How dryly and abruptly she spoke to Louisa! And how humbly Louisa replied! Jean-Christophe hated it. He hid away in his corner, so as not to be observed, but it was no use. The lady asked who the little boy might ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland
... forward and induced to try his parental rhetoric 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 ...
— 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
... answered dryly, "one shouldn't let any preconceived hypothesis stand between him and the truth. I've made a guess at the whole thing already. It may or it may not be right. Anyhow she will fit into it. And if it's not right, I've got ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... what we eat down here," Alban rejoined dryly; "it's a good plan as you would discover if you tried ...
— Aladdin of London - or Lodestar • Sir Max Pemberton
... swore 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 plain and ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873. • Various
... of that," said Rooke, dryly, "and I have felt more than half constrained to remonstrate with you as to the confinement of Private Brannan. He left the hospital in good condition, and with the expectation of returning to his detachment ...
— Under Fire • Charles King
... happier about her looks if she'd marry somebody," Mrs. Klein said dryly. "Seems to ...
— The Mighty Dead • William Campbell Gault
... trifle dryly, "I suppose there are. However, I shall probably have gone away when ...
— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss
... Sam Hupp, a little dryly. "Let me tell you something, young 'un. I've got what you might call a thirty-horse-power mind. I keep it running on high all the time, with the muffler cut out, and you can hear me coming for miles. But the Old Man,"—he leaned forward impressively,—"the Old Man, boy, has the ...
— Personality Plus - Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock • Edna Ferber
... Benedict, dryly, "learn that Sir John Franklin made a scruple of killing the smallest insect, be it a mosquito, whose attacks are otherwise formidable as those of a flea; and meanwhile you will not hesitate to allow, that Sir John Franklin was a seaman who was as ...
— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne
... "No," dryly; "it isn't in the Evans case. It's a case of a girl." The judge scowled at his gaiters and pushed his hat askew. "Hang it, I don't know anything ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham
... the premises, I fancy," said Mr. Wilcox, dryly. When all argument failed he had still a chastened delight in ...
— The Tysons - (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) • May Sinclair
... better move on," said the Parson dryly, "or we shall be having the whole village here presently, gazing on the lord of the manor in the same predicament as that from which we have just extricated the Doctor. Now pray, what is the matter with Lenny ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various
... forms to the 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 ...
— The Man Who Staked the Stars • Charles Dye
... "You will probably not find it so crude, although I daresay some of its customs may jar on you," he remarked, dryly. "Still, I would recommend you to take your best gowns along. And it is not a case of not being able to live there. It is a case of not being able to live here. If you take my advice you should die of old age, so far, at least, as your present ailment is concerned. If you ...
— The Cow Puncher • Robert J. C. Stead
... the lad dryly. He glanced at the others, Colonel Edwards, Stubbs, Nikol, Ivan and Chester, and muttered hurriedly: "After this we must do all our talking ...
— The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign - The Struggle to Save a Nation • Clair W. Hayes
... the reverend gentleman, dryly—"I think that this is one of those cases of which I just spoke to you. I judge from the general appearance of the party that they are about to ascend, as they call it here, ...
— Shapes that Haunt the Dusk • Various
... a very uncommunicative old bird," remarked Jim, dryly, as they trudged over the wet, heavy sand ...
— Frontier Boys in Frisco • Wyn Roosevelt
... dryly, because nobody could have helped notice their change of attitude: "I was made prisoner by Arabs and carried off. That's more than three years ago. The war's over. Grim tells me all Australians have been sent home and ...
— Affair in Araby • Talbot Mundy
... force belief," he said, dryly. "You will give me up? Poor child! You cannot, Theodora!"—smoothing her head with ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various
... said gently; "I did not understand that you were ill. You must tell me where you are lodging, and I will take you back." Then, as though he anticipated her hesitation, a tribute to her old ambiguity, become so useless, he added dryly: "You can tell me your address; you have no reason to hide ...
— A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore
... dryly, and when Sigmund has contributed the artless remark that all the ladies laughed at us and looked at us, and has been told by his father not to be so self-conceited, for that no one can possibly wish to look at us, we arrive at home, and ...
— The First Violin - A Novel • Jessie Fothergill
... that tape-measure," said Mrs. Baines, dryly, as Mr. Povey dragged open the side-door. The ends of the forgotten tape-measure were dangling beneath coat ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett
... at the Stores to order groceries, must you look as if you were going to elope?' she asked dryly. 'In an ordinary motorveil you have the air of hastening to some ...
— Love's Shadow • Ada Leverson
... to give tongue," said John, dryly. "In short, a public orator. In the House, or out ...
— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... actin' as librarian," returned Cupples dryly. "And I'm thinkin'," he added, "that the buiks are beginnin' to ken by this time what they're aboot; for sic a throuither disjaskit midden o' lere, I never saw. Ye micht hae taicklet it wi' a graip" (a three-pronged fork, a sort of agricultural ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald
... smiled dryly. "We have great ambitions at twenty-six," he said. "I remember that at twenty-six I was rather determined on making the Supreme bench. You can see for yourself how far I missed it. I do not say that we never realize our ambitions," he added quickly as he saw a flash ...
— The Coming of the Law • Charles Alden Seltzer
... observation and prompt action upon it: a captain of one of the great liners between Hamburg and New York told me that when his ship was ready to sail the Emperor came on board, looked it over, and after approving various arrangements said dryly, "Captain, I should think you were too old a sailor to let people give square corners to your tables." The captain quietly acted upon this hint; and when, many months later, the Kaiser revisited the ship, he said, "Well, ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White |
