"Drily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... attractive," said the other; and added, drily, "I suppose Ryder feels as if he owned ...
— The Moneychangers • Upton Sinclair
... the spot under the name of the gentleman from whom he received it. Mr. Lange protested warmly, demanding that his discovery should be called, after his residence, Heathfieldsayeanum. But Professor Reichenbach drily refused to consider personal questions; and really, seeing how short is life, and how long Dendrobium nobile Heathfield, &c., true philanthropists will ...
— About Orchids - A Chat • Frederick Boyle
... cuckoo drily. "I'll give you one if you like. If I took you to this side of the moon you wouldn't be yourself when ...
— The Cuckoo Clock • Mrs. Molesworth
... Riviera, in retreat, in a place he is fond of," Mount Dunstan said drily. "He took a companion with him. A new infatuation. ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... pervaded his whole exterior I detected a sarcastic smile, which fully convinced me that I was the laughing-stock of man and beast. I took my resolution, and Pere Seguin, who had followed my movements with his eye, said drily, as I was going to put a cap on, "What are you going to ...
— Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches • Henri de Crignelle
... Amy began to say drily, as though this were to be her last concession to a relationship now about to end, "I might as well tell you everything that has happened, just as I've been used to doing since I was a child—when I've done anything wrong." She gave a faithful story of the carrying off ...
— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen
... every time that I turned the great towers had grown fainter in the haze; we slid by the green flood-banks, with here and there a bunch of kingcups blazing in glory, the elbows of the bank full of white cow-parsley, comfrey, and water-dock. I heard the sedge-warbler whistle drily in the willow-patch, and a nightingale sang with infinite sweetness in a close of thorn-bushes now bursting into bloom; blue sky above, a sapphire streak of waterway ahead, green banks on either side; a little enough ...
— The Silent Isle • Arthur Christopher Benson
... replied Lousteau drily, knowing the passionate disclaimer that Dinah expected, and indeed begged for with ...
— Parisians in the Country - The Illustrious Gaudissart, and The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac
... 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 ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... But I only said, "How sweet of you!" in a nice, ladylike tone. And while he pumped the wettest and coldest water I ever felt, he drily advised me to call him "Adversity" if I found his "uses sweet," since he wasn't to be Jack for me. What if he had known that I always call him ...
— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... rather drily that I was very sorry to hear it. If I must confess the truth, I thought he had come to borrow money ...
— Stories By English Authors: Italy • Various
... guess," drily. "Henry G.'s present, ain't he? Humph! Well, I'd ought to have known that anything Henry would GIVE away was likely to be remarkable in all sorts of ways. All right! that's one Henry's got on me. Tomorrow afternoon me and Job take a trip back to Eastboro, and one of us stays there. It may be me, ...
— The Woman-Haters • Joseph C. Lincoln
... far-flung banners of the corn take on ripening tints and begin to rustle drily in the breeze. Golden ears, wrapped in tobacco-brown silk, are pushing from tanned and purplish husks. Newly-plowed fields were made possible by the rains which started the grass growing in the stubble, changing the color from amber to emerald and wrought a miracle of verdure in ...
— Some Summer Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell
... that same moon saved you nothing of a cracked pate the hour of fortune when we first met," observed Padre Vicente drily.—"Maids or matrons on the journey would have caused broken heads in the desert as handily as in the ...
— The Flute of the Gods • Marah Ellis Ryan
... just walking round. They're awfully restless. They keep saying I'm restless, but I'm as quiet as a sleeping child to them. It takes," he added in a moment, drily, "the form ...
— The Pension Beaurepas • Henry James
... is on the other foot—I understand you," I replied drily. "Chut, man!" I continued, "you don't make a cats-paw of me. I see the game. You are for sitting in Madame de Sourdis' seat, and giving your son a Hat, and your groom a Comptrollership, and ...
— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman
... 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
... people on business not here but at the office," said the director drily, on hearing ...
— The Schoolmaster and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... the brother, drily; "I remember to have got nothing from the last one, in that way. Charles and Gregory fared no better. Never mind, Wycherly, you behaved like a ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper
... for a long while. The squinting of his left eye was now very noticeable. "I consider my wife's clerk," he drily said, "to discourse of love in somewhat too much the tone of a lover." And a flush was ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... American, rather drily; 'but I reckon you wouldn't see many beauties till you had a log shanty up, at all events. Now that young man'—he had caught Robert Wynn's eye on him again—'is the very build for emigration. Strong, active, healthy, wide ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... be a more popular form of entertainment," Douglas answered drily. He was beginning to feel that there were many tricks in the entertainment trade which he had not mastered. And, after all, what was his preaching but an effort at entertainment? If he failed to hold ...
— Polly of the Circus • Margaret Mayo
... if it satisfies you," she answered, drily. "It is of a piece with the rest of the reasoning of the royal pedant, whom Master ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... he said drily to Smithers, who had expressed his doubts. "Jacaro had somebody sneak up and talk to him through the walls, or maybe through a bored hole. While there's a hope of finding out what he wants to know through Von Holtz, Jacaro won't try anything. Not anything rough, anyhow. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various
... know that,' said the old man, drily. 'It may last; I mean the sweetness, not the surprise; and it may die off. Supposing it should last, perhaps (you having feathered your nest pretty well, and I having done the same), we might have a mutual ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... some time next year," he said drily—"bound to be, as far as I can see. We shall all have plenty to do with ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. I • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... ken that, Aadam," returned old Loudon drily; "and the curiis thing is, I'm no very carin'.—See here, ma man," he continued, addressing himself to me. "A'm your grandfaither, amn't I not? Never you mind what Aadam says. A'll see ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... Uncle Jim drily. "No b'ar. And what's more, unless yo're aimin' to stop here somewhat of a spell, we'll have ...
— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White
... drily, "is, so far as I have observed, what the hale race o' weemen-kind exclusively desire and seek after in this life—juist leave to do as ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett
... "Ay," he said, drily. "I used to like a kidney, but it's more than three years ago." He stuck his lips out, and raised himself higher than ever ...
— Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) • Arnold Bennett
... was in the army, but I sold out nearly a dozen years ago," answered Ducie, drily. "Does this fellow expect me to imitate his candour?" thought the Captain. "Would he like to know all about my grandfather and grandmother, and that I have a cousin who is an earl? If so, I am ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 • Various
... fault. HIS conscience'll be clear. Land sakes! if I could clean house as easy as some folks clear their consciences I wouldn't have a backache this minute. Yes, the wages are agreed on, too. And totin' them around won't make my back ache any worse, either," she added drily. ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln
... no apprehensions, Sir," said Mr Gosport drily, "that the handkerchief would be the sooner worn out for having a ...
— Cecilia vol. 2 - Memoirs of an Heiress • Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)
... drily; "I am quite too busy to enter into these subtleties. You will find the subject very ably ...
— Cobwebs From an Empty Skull • Ambrose Bierce (AKA: Dod Grile)
... Holy Sepulchre used to burn candles, tapers, and torches, each one according to his purse or piety, and that they did this not so much to see with as to pray. "Here," he continues, "the great S. Carlo spent his evenings agreeably" (spendeva gradevolmente le notti). "Few," he concludes drily, and perhaps with a shade of the same quiet irony that led the Psalmist to say what he did about "one" day in certain courts, "can leave it without feeling devoutly thankful." About the candles Fassola ...
— Ex Voto • Samuel Butler
... blow, even if it avails you nothing," said one of them drily. "He is not an especial favorite with us. Return to your room at once. Miss Platanova, call your uncle. It is now necessary to bind the fellow's hands. They are too dangerous to be allowed to roam at large in ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... received it coldly, for George hated Fox; he did not intend to alter his government to suit the whig leaders, and he knew that they were mistaken as regards Pitt's attitude. At last Leeds spoke of the scheme to Pitt who drily told him that circumstances did not call for any alteration in the government and that no new arrangement had ever been in contemplation.[231] If the Portland whigs were to separate themselves from Fox and his friends and were ...
— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt
... while they are drowning;" but Godolphin's coldness enraged him, so that he was "almost vowing vengeance." Next day he talked treason heartily against the Whigs, their baseness and ingratitude, and went home full of schemes of revenge. "The Tories drily tell me I may make my fortune, if I please; but I do not understand them, or rather, I DO understand them." He realised that the Tories might not be more grateful than others, but he thought they were pursuing the true interests of the public, and was glad to contribute what ...
— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift
... guard informed him that the Sultan's Chaszeki Aga had arrived and wanted to speak to him, he drily replied: ...
— Halil the Pedlar - A Tale of Old Stambul • Mr Jkai
... 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 likely ...
— Witness For The Defense • A.E.W. Mason
... have been; a genuinely great though repellent personality—a man whom it would have been at once an event to have met and a pleasure to have kicked. Mr. MAUGHAM has certainly done nothing better than this book about him; the drily sardonic humour of his method makes the picture not only credible but compelling. I liked especially the characteristic touch that shows Strickland escaping, not so much from the dull routine of stockbroking (genius has done ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 7, 1919. • Various
... ter ye fer comin' thus fur with me," he observed, then supplemented drily, "an' still more fer not ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck
... inmates noticed in what a serious and sedate manner she narrated her story, and none ventured to pass any further remarks, but waited anxiously for her to go on, when they became aware that she coldly and drily came ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... solely to your fame, monsieur," Louise answered drily, somewhat taken aback by the turn of a phrase by which Lucien deliberately ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac
... drily; and then he went on, as one who knows that he must leave the sick and wounded behind without waiting to pity them. "These," unfolding the paper, "are notes of a conversation that I have just had at the German ...
— The Arbiter - A Novel • Lady F. E. E. Bell
... said the lawyer, drily. "Still, the house can't run away, and I suppose will aways let for fifty or ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander
... kirk of Scotland, and here sit my three sons, each a placed minister of the same kirk.—Confess, Luckie Buchan, you never had such a party in your house before." The question was not premised by any invitation to sit down and take a glass of wine or the like, so Mrs. B. answered drily, "Indeed, sir, I cannot just say that ever I had such a party in my house before, except once in the forty-five, when I had a Highland piper here, with his three sons, all Highland pipers; and deil a spring they could play amang them!"—Notes to ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, - Issue 368, May 2, 1829 • Various
... not always marsh, and perhaps the people were not always savage," he said drily, looking down the steep bank, for we were standing by the river. "Look there," he went on, pointing to a spot where the hurricane of the previous night had torn up one of the magnolia trees by the roots, which had grown on the extreme edge of the bank just where it sloped down to the water, ...
— She • H. Rider Haggard
... wisdom somewhere of late years, Martin, since you stopped drinking and fighting," said Dirk drily, "and for my part ...
— Lysbeth - A Tale Of The Dutch • H. Rider Haggard
... 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
... double quick time; but not before Shaykh Mohammed had visited us to propose a march to his home in the east. He was not comfortable; probably his reinforcements had still to arrive: his face was calm, as the Eastern's generally is; but his feet trembled, and his toes twitched. I drily told him of our changed plans, and he left us in high dudgeon. The tragi-comedy which followed may be divided ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... drily; "but if I undertake the matter at all, I will undertake it single-handed. Meanwhile, it is so well worth consideration that I will countermand my orders for overhauling the rigging; so, if you have nothing more to tell me at ...
— The Log of a Privateersman • Harry Collingwood
... Burke drily. "And it's about as rotten as it can be. You've put too great a strain on it all ...
— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell
... should be compromised," he added in a meaning sort of way. "Of course I have no RIGHT to order your actions, but you yourself will agree that..." As usual, he did not finish his sentence. I answered drily that I had very little money in my possession, and that, consequently, I was hardly in a position to indulge in any conspicuous play, even if I did gamble. At last, when ascending to my own room, I succeeded in handing Polina her winnings, and told her ...
— The Gambler • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... suppose," she said, drily, "when it comes right I'm to take the place of your sister in the charge of this workhouse and succeed to the keys of that safe ...
— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... 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
... a little drily, "had a more definite object. It is my duty to explain to you that the circumstances of this voyage are unprecedented. We are going to take liberties with our passengers which in normal times ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... that?" Lucy asked, but James, who didn't like his jokes to be capped, said drily, ...
— Love and Lucy • Maurice Henry Hewlett
... the method and material, not of one art only, but of all the arts. Music is but an arbitrary trifling with a few of life's majestic chords; painting is but a shadow of its pageantry of light and colour; literature does but drily indicate that wealth of incident, of moral obligation, of virtue, vice, action, rapture and agony, with which it teems. To 'compete with life,' whose sun we cannot look upon, whose passions and diseases waste and slay us—to compete ...
— The Pocket R.L.S. - Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson
... you have," he replied drily; "but is that all of you? Where's your tooth-brush and comb, ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn
... if that 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 ...
— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner
... countenance (vultus jussus), that can sever from a feigned tale some of these fashions, either a more slight and careless fashion, or more set and formal, or more tedious and wandering, or coming from a man more drily and hardly. ...
— The Advancement of Learning • Francis Bacon
... 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 he ...
— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini
... 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
... morn, two friends before the Newgate drop, To see a culprit throttled, chanced to stop: "Alas!" cried one as round in air he spun, "That miserable wretch's race is run." "True," said the other drily, "to his cost, The race is run—but, by a ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, July 24, 1841 • Various
... 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 Mazarin! Live ...
— My Sword's My Fortune - A Story of Old France • Herbert Hayens
... see 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
... he may chance to be," she answered drily. "Never mind, Henri! I shall not let you wander very far. Your supper-party has been delightful—but ...
— A Maker of History • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... wise man observes, Bray a fool in a mortar, and he'll never be wise." So saying, with a most emphatic glance directed to the broker, he rung the bell, and called for the reckoning; when, finding that he was to be the guest of Renaldo, he thanked him drily for his good cheer, and in an ...
— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett
... is surely one of the most strangely appealing incidents in the recent history of human confidence and human expectation! Another friend, Mr George Lynch, whose name occurred in one of his letters in a passage curiously characteristic of Steevens's drily incisive humour, writes about the days that must immediately have preceded his illness: "He was as fit and well as possible when I left Ladysmith last month." (The letter is dated from Durban, January ...
— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens
... watch worth twelve or fifteen pounds," remarked Zillah, drily. "And how long had you ...
— The Orange-Yellow Diamond • J. S. Fletcher
... agreed, drily, "you'll be needin' a portable bath-tub something desperate. I wisht I had one. The last good wash I took was in Crystal Lake the other side of the Bear-tooth Mountain. When I was done I stood out till the sun dried me, then brushed the mud off ...
— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart
... words einer, einer, that I ran up the bank for my book, remembering to 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 suddenly drew together on the bank, again making signs ...
— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 1 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell
... us trouble," said Cornelius, drily; "they have given us trouble, and they will give us more. The Samnites gave us trouble, and our friends of Carthage here, and Jugurtha, and Mithridates; trouble, yes, that is the long and the short of it; they will give ...
— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman
... overlook the fact that little Napoleon is a Rousseau and not a Bingle," said Mr. Bingle drily. ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... wish me to hand you over to the police at Southampton, you had better answer my questions," remarked the Prince drily. ...
— Tommy and Co. • Jerome K. Jerome
... me, too," replied Green, drily; "and I will join you there in ten minutes with any ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... growing impatient. He plunged right into the subject and said drily: "Then it is you who ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... 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 ...
— The Hound of the Baskervilles • A. Conan Doyle
... 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 ...
— The Life of Francis Marion • William Gilmore Simms
... at 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 of honour, and naturally he's anxious to have it ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad
... opinion, Mrs. Fullerton,' returned Uncle Brian drily. 'I am far too keen an observer of human nature to think we can talk sense to deaf ears with any benefit.—Ursula, my child,' turning to me with a smile that might have been kinder, but perhaps he ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... Galbraith answered drily, but with a twinkle in his eyes. "I discovered them just now in a field of mine—a hayfield—not that they were making any pretence of hiding themselves, however," he hastened to add, "for they were each sitting on the top of a separate haycock, carrying on an animated ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... some special meteor-orbits," he said drily, "might lead to finding out when the Fifth Planet blew itself up.—According to Bode's Law there ought to be a planet like ours between Mars and Jupiter. If there was, it blew itself to pieces, or maybe the people on ...
— Long Ago, Far Away • William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
... he drily said after he had watched her. 'Whenever I want to give you anything, I shall know henceforth that you would like nothing so ...
— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner
... Tom, drily, "I'm a handsome man. That's what carried me along this far. It's what I've always had to rely on—that ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... I could feel that same confidence, Mr. Roebach," said Professor Henderson, drily. "These instruments of mine, however, cannot lie. It is a simple calculation to figure that the moon, now just risen, is thousands of miles out of her course, if we are still on the earth. No, Mr. Roebach, ...
— On a Torn-Away World • Roy Rockwood
... Henry Monnier who, meeting him another time on the Place de la Bourse, and having had to listen to another of such mirific demonstrations about a scheme from which both were to derive millions, answered drily: ...
— Balzac • Frederick Lawton
... been perpetrated before, sir, in garrison towns at the time of the Empire; but nowadays it is exceedingly bad form," said Raphael drily. ...
— The Magic Skin • Honore de Balzac
... that," the magician replied. "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 ...
— Mr. Wicker's Window • Carley Dawson
... 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
... person's word for it but his own," answered Butler, drily; "but undoubtedly he best understands ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... of his virtues," said Elizabeth drily. "I grant he is perfection and therefore unlovable. All that I asked you out of sheer idle curiosity was: How is your friendship to ...
— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace
... departure, Diderot's wife saw that her husband was in bad spirits, and asked the reason. 'It is that man's want of delicacy,' he replied, 'which afflicts me; he makes me work like a slave, but I should never have found that out, if he had not so drily refused to take an interest in me for a quarter of an hour.' 'You are surprised at that,' his wife answered; 'do you not know him? He is devoured with envy; he goes wild with rage when anything fine appears that is not his own. You will see him one day commit some great crime rather than let himself ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley
... can assure you," replied the captain drily. "It could scarcely be more innocent. He wishes, in fact, to visit his ...
— The International Weekly Miscellany, Volume I. No. 9. - Of Literature, Art, and Science, August 26, 1850 • Various
... The carrier remarked drily that he thought that was only natural, and turned his attention to the more congenial task of passing a cart of hay; it was a matter of some difficulty, for the road was narrow, and there was a ditch on ...
— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... have been a changeling, and one saying of his is well known in that part of the country. When strangers visited Nant Gwrtheyrn, a thing which did not frequently happen, and when his parents asked them to their table, and pressed them to eat, he would squeak out drily: 'B'yta 'nynna b'yta'r cwbwl,' that is to say—'Eating—that means eating all.'" A changeling in Monmouthshire, described by an eye-witness at the beginning of the present century, was simply ...
— The Science of Fairy Tales - An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology • Edwin Sidney Hartland
... said the young student drily. "There, I'm busy now; I'll remember what you said, and, if I can have you ...
— The Queen's Scarlet - The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne • George Manville Fenn
... he said drily and feeling decidedly nettled at her calm assumption that nothing but the society of fashion counted. "But the people who do attend them are a long sight more distinguished in the only way that counts these days, and the women are often as ...
— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... "Just so," he said drily, "but you see there's my niece to be thought of. Look here! We're not at the frontier yet, Mr. Harz, by forty miles; it's long odds we don't get there—so, don't spoil sport!" He ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... hoofin' it from Cheslow to Grading. I heard of a job up at Grading—and I needed that job," Jerry had observed, drily. ...
— Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island - The Old Hunter's Treasure Box • Alice Emerson
... to observe how differently the objects which call forth intense admiration in some minds will affect others. The Scotch dragoon, Mackenzie, seeing me look long and intently at the distant Falls of Montmorency, drily observed,— ...
— Roughing it in the Bush • Susanna Moodie
... playing with this war,' he said drily. 'It's as much to be won here as it is over seas. Food!—that'll be the last word for everybody. And it's women's work as ...
— Elizabeth's Campaign • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... rode with him were silent for a space. Then the Native Son spoke drily: "About the biggest minutes we get now come ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower
... of arms we want,' he remarked drily, 'but a bit of science behind them. Mr. Elsmere, I ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... The Marchese laughed drily. "I am curious to know how you will manage that, Lieutenant Lorenzi. There is not a soul, in Mantua or elsewhere, who would lend you as much as ten ducats, not to speak of two thousand, especially to-day. ...
— Casanova's Homecoming • Arthur Schnitzler
... very drily, that to-day my fantasies had all gone a wool-gathering; and, while we are talking about it, a devil, in the shape of a dandy, with two waistcoats, had smelt out Bach's Variations, which were lying under my hat in the next room. He thinks they are merely little variations, such as ...
— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... to wear mine," said April drily. "No, as you rightly suspect, it isn't for the clothes, though they fascinate and lure me. And it isn't for the honour and glory of being Lady Diana, though that is fascinating too, and it will be priceless to have the joke on the rest ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... moderation and goodness of heart: the style is not very striking, and has some vulgarisms, and In a work of that bulk I should rather have taken more pains to digest and connect it into a flowing narrative, than drily give it as a diary: yet I dare promise it will amuse ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole
... life. "Nay, nay, not so," The other softly said. "Be of good cheer; Your fault was small, for all men hold life dear. We tempted you, my friend, with all our might, And proved you in good sooth a noble knight; A veritable Joseph, sir, you are!" Quoth Gawayne drily, "Thanks, Lord Potiphar! But may I ask you why you played this part?" The other said: "Ask ...
— Gawayne And The Green Knight - A Fairy Tale • Charlton Miner Lewis
... "Yes, sir!" replied drily the narrator, "her back being towards the portrait, but her eye fixed on its reflection in ...
— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving
... better, in had crawled "this yar abominable egotisk." And he raised a ponderous fist to point the polysyllables: with this aid the sarcasm would doubtless have been crushing; but Fullalove hung on the sable orator's arm, and told him drily to try and speak without gesticulating. "The darned old cuss," said Vespasian, with a pathetic sigh at not being let hit him. He resumed and told how he had followed the Hindoo stealthily, and found him with a knife uplifted over the captain—a tremor ran through all present—robbing ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... people, and tried to persuade Haj Ibrahim, the most intelligent of my companions, that there was nothing in this huge block different from the mountain range near it, being of the same stone and consistence, he replied drily, looking at both formations, "Yâkob, it's not true. You see on the Kesar Jenoun the very stones which the Demons have built up like the Castle at Tripoli. When you will be blind, how can you see? Why ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
... funeral, the mourners are uncommon jolly," said Eph, drily, as merry voices and loud laughter broke ...
— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. • Louisa M. Alcott
... answered Marzio drily. "It is the same as if you had told me," he added ironically, as he turned and led the way ...
— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford |
