"Dryly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... inconsistencies," said Mrs. Prentiss dryly. She added, holding out her hand with a charming smile: "But later, I was so proud to have known Gisela Doering, that personal curiosity seemed impertinent. How we have missed your writings these ...
— The White Morning • Gertrude Atherton
... "No, assuredly," said Henry dryly. "I have not done so ill by her hitherto, by thine own showing, that I should not be trusted ...
— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge
... evenings later, the merchant, returning early from his club, answered Sabine's greeting dryly, and paced ...
— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag
... night, was some secret, sweet, conscious mournfulness, which usually is so gentle in the evenings between spring and summer. The indistinct noise of the city floated in, the dolorous, snuffling air of an accordeon, the mooing of cows could be heard; somebody's soles were scraping dryly and a ferruled cane rapped resoundingly on the flags of the pavement; lazily and irregularly the wheels of a cabman's victoria, rolling at a pace through Yama, would rumble by, and all these sounds mingled with a beauty and softness in the pensive drowsiness of the evening. ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... I'm not so precious a capture," the girl a little dryly explained. "No one has ever wanted to keep ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 • Henry James
... given convincing proof of his loyalty. He remarked to Clark rather dryly that he had, properly speaking, nothing to do with the temporal affairs of his flock, but that now and then he was able to give them such hints in a spiritual way as would tend to increase their devotion to ...
— The Winning of the West, Volume Two - From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 • Theodore Roosevelt
... if she might become a briery one at that moment, for this direct style of compliment, though honest, was not agreeable. Conscious of many struggles with evil, it was even painful, for it did her injustice in two aspects of the case. So she said, dryly, "What an automaton you make me out ...
— Opening a Chestnut Burr • Edward Payson Roe
... dryly. Ewbert noticed how he had dropped more and more into the vernacular, in these reminiscences; in their controversies he had used the language of books and had spoken like a cultivated man, but now he ...
— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells
... adventure of Bruensburgh has been, through life, a favorite theme with the General, and I doubt if there is living a man who ever knew the General a month, who has not heard the story repeated a dozen times." He dryly remarked: "I should have supposed the episode to that affair would have restrained him from its narration;" and ...
— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks
... a prospect there was little to excite any but a morbid fancy. There were no clouds in the flinty blue heavens, and the setting of the sun was accompanied with as little ostentation as was consistent with the dryly practical atmosphere. Darkness soon followed, with a rising wind, which increased as the shadows deepened on the plain. The fringe of alder by the watercourse began to loom up as I urged my horse forward. A half-hour's active spurring brought ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... dryly. "Then he may wait until he sends up a proper escort. Oh, here they come, I suppose," as half of Muata's body-guard detached themselves and advanced towards ...
— In Search of the Okapi - A Story of Adventure in Central Africa • Ernest Glanville
... can sit up if you want to," replied her husband dryly, "but I shall go to bed. Most of these things have been here nigh on to twenty years, an' I guess they'll last the night through." And he marched solemnly upstairs to the big east chamber, ...
— Across the Years • Eleanor H. Porter
... deal of happiness out of it," David finished dryly. "Exactly! I recognize the formula. Also its author. I think you're just whistling to keep ...
— The House of Toys • Henry Russell Miller
... dryly; "but I think we can make bold to leave that out of the calculations. The odds are piled up star-high, as it is, against Mr. Spectacles having a confidential agent here at all whom he would be inclined to trust with such a job. But when you suppose that the pair of them ...
— The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
... hadn't be anything drop!" Starr told him dryly. "You're into something deeper than county work now, ole-timer. This is Federal business, remember. Come on back and stall around some more, and let me go on about my own business. You can get word to me at the Palacia if you want me at the inquest, but don't get friendly. ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower
... had much personal experience in the 'gobbling' line, I'm afraid you'll have to explain," said Dill dryly. ...
— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower
... blunder, though many of our most illustrious painters have fallen into it. In my work you will see whiteness beneath the opacity of the broadest shadow. Unlike the crowd of ignoramuses, who fancy they draw correctly because they can paint one good vanishing line, I have not dryly outlined my figures, nor brought out superstitiously minute anatomical details; for, let me tell you, the human body does not end off with a line. In that respect sculptors get nearer to the truth of nature than we do. Nature is all curves, each ...
— The Hidden Masterpiece • Honore de Balzac
... see," said McKnight dryly, "we're exactly as far along as we were the day we met at the Carter place. We're not a step nearer to finding ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... you I am a good man," he reiterated, at a slightly different angle. "When you kick through out of that racket of hunkies and steel you've done something. Soon I'll be getting five or six thousand." He paused, and the other said dryly, "Admirable." The phrase seemed to him inadequate; it sounded in his ear as unpleasantly as a false note. Yet he was powerless to alter it, change its brusque accent. The personal tone of Polder's revelations was inherently distasteful to him. He said, rising, "If you ...
— The Three Black Pennys - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... sensible way," observed Serafima Aleksandrovna dryly. "I understand nothing of what ...
— Best Russian Short Stories • Various
... where they are," responded Rebecca dryly. "I can't stop to measure insteps on algebra days; I've noticed your habit of keeping a foot in the aisle ever since you had those new shoes, so I don't ...
— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... 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 ...
— Thankful Blossom • Bret Harte
... force belief," he said, dryly. "You will give me up? Poor child! You cannot, Theodora!"—smoothing her ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various
... "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
... 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
... 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
... human," Opdyke assented rather dryly. "For that matter, Whittenden, which one of ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray
... Mrs. Corey, a little dryly; and she permitted herself to add: "He spoke of those rocks. I suppose both you young ladies spend a great deal of your time on them when you're there. At Nahant my ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... broken," responded Bart, dryly "When we left Westminster, I thought, as much as could be, the tories were all used up; but I find 'em down here thicker than ever now, and as sarcy and spiteful as a nest of yellow jackets that, like them, have been routed in one place and got fixed in another. Blast their ...
— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson
... close, and frowzy, with half awakened passengers. There was a vacated seat on the top, which Cass climbed up to, and abstractedly threw himself beside a figure muffled in shawls and rugs. There was a slight movement among the multitudinous enwrappings, and then the figure turned to him and said dryly, "Good morning!" ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... far behind," interpolated Mr. Staggchase dryly. "She wasn't a Beauchester, you know. However, she has her ancestors safe in their graves so ...
— The Puritans • Arlo Bates
... residence farther, to The Hague itself," said Count Lesle dryly; "without doubt, because winter approaches, and it will be more comfortable for the Electoral Prince not to find it necessary to travel that long way to Doornward to see his dearly beloved one. She must be quite a pretty girl, the Princess Ludovicka ...
— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach
... 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
... dryly, "curse me if I do. Well, I did hope I had outgrown my mania, as I have done the toothache; for this time I had passed the fatal period, the three years. It is nearly four years now since I went through the established process—as ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
... 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
... hundred and a quarter; the other four Red Dukes and the three Robert the Devils are worth a hundred and fifty a head. The whole bunch, an easy fifty-seven hundred little iron men. Which," he continued dryly, "is considerable more than the thirty-six hundred you're talking about. And, give me six months, and I'll boost that fifty-seven hundred. Lord, man, that chestnut out of Black Babe by Hazard, is a real horse! ...
— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory
... he said dryly. "I see Brad and Christine and the guy you mean talking over there by the entrance. They seem to be in a ...
— The Rose in the Ring • George Barr McCutcheon
... the Salon, I imagine,' said another man beside him, dryly. He was fair, small and clean-shaven, wore spectacles, and had the look of a ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... congratulated on his memory," the bishop observed a little dryly. "And he has saved me the trouble of reading more. Now what are the inferences to which ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... costume-maker dryly, "you will have to get these things and pay for them yourself, as this is the costume ...
— My Double Life - The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt • Sarah Bernhardt
... she dryly. 'When I heard that big bell thundering away, I was so afraid to be late that I came down with one bracelet, and I have torn my ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever
... unexpected guests, whose appetites proved equal to a raid on a good many things besides bread and butter. Mrs. Fry said, after she had devoured nearly half a loaf of cake, that she would really try to eat a morsel more, which Ernest remarked, dryly, was a great triumph of mind over matter. As they talked and 'laughed and ate leisurely on, Mary stood looking the picture of despair. At last I gave her a glance that said she might go, when a new visitor was ...
— Stepping Heavenward • Mrs. E. Prentiss
... one of the party, which consisted of six persons, now came forward, and, with a friendly tone of voice, bade them good-evening in a manner which seemed to indicate a desire to be upon a footing of the most amiable sort with them. The old man answered dryly, with some show of sarcastic ...
— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms
... n't gossip," said Mrs. Light dryly. "Such information should come from me. The prince is pining, as I say; he 's consumed, he 's devoured. It 's a real Italian passion; I know what that means!" And the lady gave a speaking glance, which seemed to coquet for a moment with retrospect. ...
— Roderick Hudson • Henry James
... 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
... 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' ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... a ride 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 the ...
— Peter and Jane - or The Missing Heir • S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
... he said dryly. His gaze passed his son to glimpse the crowd at the gate, frantic now with excitement, all looking forward toward some point on the platform just beyond where the man and boy were standing. "These United States of America have grown past my thought of them," he added. The boy caught ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... itself but dryly treated, as if it might be a commercially calculating or interested one. "Oh, not ...
— The Outcry • Henry James
... now." Grant spoke dryly. "I don't want to. If I'd held a tomahawk in one hand and her flowing locks in the other, and was just letting a war-whoop outa me, she'd look at me—the way she did look." He snorted in contemptuous amusement, ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower
... 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 so ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... me more of the fox," said the physician, dryly, "being golden in colour and very cunning. I doubt you fathomed her smile, though ...
— The Lion's Brood • Duffield Osborne
... 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
... on the doctor dryly, "to examine a case in which the patient is dangerously ill—in fact, hopelessly ill, and I have found that the cause of his illness is a state of nervous expectancy on the part of the sufferer. It being obviously necessary to know the nature of the ...
— The Night Horseman • Max Brand
... usual gravity, laughed and joked very much with Madame la Duchesse, eating olives with her in sport, and thereby causing her to drink more than usual—which he also pretended to do. Upon rising from the table the King, seeing the Princesse de Conti look extremely serious, said, dryly, that her gravity did not accommodate itself to their drunkenness. The Princess, piqued, allowed the King to pass without saying anything; and then, turning to Madame de Chatillon, said, in the midst of the noise, whilst everybody was washing ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... a most manageable ward," said the guardian, dryly, and with, perhaps, a shade of distrust ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... The cabman coughed dryly, reaching around to open the door. "It's a rotten night, sir," he said, "and I'm short of petrol. Make it ...
— The Orchard of Tears • Sax Rohmer
... make it worth while," Swope said, dryly. Murphy and Gage agreed. Bell's peculiar display of emotion surprised them; they exchanged glances. "I thought there wasn't any stock outside of what's owned by ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... in open-eyed wonder. With all the hyperbole of Oriental imagination he 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 ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873. • Various
... colonel," returned the hunter, dryly, still stroking the horse's neck; "but Daniel's the older title, and a little the most familiar ...
— Ella Barnwell - A Historical Romance of Border Life • Emerson Bennett
... so far as that," said Madame de Nailles, dryly. "It is enough for me that she produced an illusion of such beauty upon you. Now I know what ...
— Jacqueline, v1 • Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc)
... do turn out as you expect, we'll lose no time in seeking him there!" observed Prydale dryly. "We'd better arrange to get the ...
— The Talleyrand Maxim • J. S. Fletcher
... among the proverbs of Solomon?" inquired David, dryly. "No need to make so many tacks, Eve. Haven't I seen your sense and profited by it—I and one or two more? Who but you has steered the house this ten years, and commanded the ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... feet of snow now," answered the boy dryly, as 'Merican Joe departed to get their own ax and ...
— Connie Morgan in the Fur Country • James B. Hendryx
... ferro et igni. Bismarck's policy in 1859 would have been neutrality, with a certain leaning towards Napoleon. This advice, given by every post from St. Petersburg to Berlin, caused him to be accused of selling his soul to the devil, on which he dryly remarked that, if it were so, the devil was Teutonic, ...
— Cavour • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
... 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
... for the information," returned Mrs. Stanton, dryly. "It's important if true. But there's other information that's more important in my estimation just now and you don't allow me the opportunity ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... your theory then," he said dryly. "You and Mr. Paredes have both been gossiping about the supernatural. When you first came you hinted dark things. You said he'd probably died what the world would call a ...
— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp
... "Most commendable," commented Hardy dryly. "But I should think it would be difficult if he ever came face to face with a situation where his hands were bound." There was the lightest touch of ...
— The Space Pioneers • Carey Rockwell
... said the old man dryly. "An' if ye ain't looking fer trouble, you'd better tell your name in these mountains, whenever you're axed. Ef enough people air backin' a custom anywhar hit goes, ...
— The Trail of the Lonesome Pine • John Fox, Jr.
... me, as he was probably still under the effect of the aguardiente he swallowed yesterday," said the Doctor, dryly. "I met him outside the tienda on the highway the other night, talking to a pair of cut-throats that I would ...
— Maruja • Bret Harte
... remember—and you must forget that too—and that we have ever met before. So you are his new chauffeur, eh?" he went on, now talking naturally. "It never occurred to me that 'Hargreave,' the new chauffeur, would turn out to be the Hargreave who served under me for two years!" and he laughed dryly. ...
— The Golden Face - A Great 'Crook' Romance • William Le Queux
... it is to me," dryly responded John, angered by this new sting from his old knowledge of her ways. It was her policy always to mystify those who had the best right to understand her. "I shall try ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable
... 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 ...
— Sand Doom • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... he said dryly, "I appreciate your confidence in me; I believe you are making a mistake. But whether I am right or wrong, that pride you so despise makes any thought of Katerina Alexandrovna out of the question for me,— you understand, ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... mark again," commented Mrs. Bates dryly. "They all said he'd gone to fill you up, and get ...
— A Daughter of the Land • Gene Stratton-Porter
... rate, it is considerably better than entering a house at night and hiding under the bed," said Browning, dryly. ...
— Luke Walton • Horatio Alger
... to be hit by it, and you'll understand," said Old Mother Nature dryly. "That is his one weapon. Whoever is hit by that tail will find himself full of those little spears and will take care never to go near Prickly Porky again. Once those little spears have entered the skin, they keep working in deeper and deeper, and more than one of his enemies has been killed by ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... as much from your description," said Betty dryly. "There's one good thing about him—we ought to be able to ...
— The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House • Laura Lee Hope
... fond of her husband! The anxiety for his welfare that she had shown just now quite touched a soft spot in Mr. Ridgett's dryly official heart. ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... remark, dryly sarcastic, mostly directed at Hardman did not help the situation, so far as Pan was concerned. It was, however, exactly what Pan wanted. Dick stared insolently and fixedly at Pan. He appeared as much puzzled as annoyed. Manifestly he was ...
— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey
... would be likely to mend matters," the doctor said dryly; "in fact it would lessen the one chance that exists of ever setting the matter straight. As I have told him, though these children are very much alike at present—and indeed most babies are—it is probable that as ...
— The Dash for Khartoum - A Tale of Nile Expedition • George Alfred Henty
... she dryly, "and are now at the Austin Convent. To- morrow, perhaps, we may hear of them ...
— Kilgorman - A Story of Ireland in 1798 • Talbot Baines Reed
... heard," 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 ...
— True To His Colors • Harry Castlemon
... 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 ...
— Calvert of Strathore • Carter Goodloe
... kissed the blarney stone, Mr. O'Connor," returned the revolutionist dryly. "Well, then, what do you ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine
... to the wrong shop," James informed him dryly. "If you want to succeed at college you've got to do the things the other fellows do and you've got to ...
— The Vision Spendid • William MacLeod Raine
... has taken him in hand already," Mr. Cathro replied dryly. "But, Aaron, I wish you would at least keep him closer to his lessons at night, for it is seldom he comes to ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... San Juan," Sommers replied dryly, pointing to the huddle of tents and pine sheds that formed the ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... Pop, dryly. "I see, Bob, but you didn't. How do you suppose a wee chap like me ever gets across the busy ...
— Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts • Roy Rutherford Bailey
... Walpole terms it, reached the ears of George II. "He would not say so," observed the king, dryly, "if he had been used to hear many." [Footnote: This anecdote has hitherto rested on the authority of Horace Walpole, who gives it in his memoirs of George II., and in his correspondence. He cites the rodomontade as contained in the express despatched ...
— The Life of George Washington, Volume I • Washington Irving
... his eyes wide and remained gaping, not comprehending the merchant's meaning. Finally he stammered: "You say—are you sure?" The other replied dryly: "You can search elsewhere and see if anyone will offer you more. I consider it worth fifteen thousand at the most. Come back here if you ...
— Selected Writings of Guy de Maupassant • Guy de Maupassant
... there have been a few things Nick knows how to do better than the rest of the bunch, you must admit that," Jack remarked, dryly. ...
— Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast - or Through Storm and Stress to Florida • Louis Arundel
... she replied. "Boys, this is Laurel—Wild Laurel if you like. Laurel, these are the boys, including my brother. You can easily tell who he is," she added dryly. ...
— The Motor Girls On Cedar Lake - The Hermit of Fern Island • Margaret Penrose
... been times when I regarded lawyers ez bein' superfluous," stated Judge Priest dryly. "Still, in most cases litigants do have 'em round when the case is ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... very interesting," said the little civilian, dryly, "but what we want is evidence to acquit him and convict somebody else of Lascelles's death. What has this ...
— Waring's Peril • Charles King
... Coictier dryly. Then, addressing the archdeacon: "You are clever at your trade, Dom Claude, and you are no more at a loss over Hippocrates than a monkey is over a nut. Medicine a dream! I suspect that the pharmacopolists and the master physicians would insist upon stoning you if they were here. So you deny ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo
... can't stamp the ground that fer away from it," said the old man dryly. "If you don't git the better of that all-fired temper o' yourn hit's goin' to git the better of you, an' then I'll have ...
— The Trail of the Lonesome Pine • John Fox, Jr.
... "Yes," said Will dryly; "they ought to have caught it, but they did not. There's Josh already in the boat. I wonder whether he thought of a line ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn
... led the way into a dull, bare dining-room, where she went on with her work of setting the table, while she put Nelly through an examination as to her qualifications. She either was, or appeared to be, dissatisfied, and after dryly expressing a hope that she would suit, she told her to follow her ...
— Lucy Raymond - Or, The Children's Watchword • Agnes Maule Machar
... consultation they had concluded that it was foolhardy to follow the Confederates into the gorge we were travelling, and that unless I could show them satisfactory reasons for changing their opinion they would not lead their commands further into it. I dryly asked if he was quite sure he understood the nature of his communication. There was something probably in the tone of my question which was not altogether expected, and his companions began to look a little uneasy. He then protested that none of them meant any disrespect, but ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... of the Budget said dryly: "We all know what would happen. President Folsom XXV would take office. No; we've got to keep plugging as before. Nothing short of the ...
— The Adventurer • Cyril M. Kornbluth
... that man ridin' through that break on the ridge?" he asked, pointing the place out to her. She nodded, puzzled by his manner. He continued dryly. ...
— The Two-Gun Man • Charles Alden Seltzer
... 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
... the compliment," said the doctor, dryly; "but I ha'e my doubts they'd think it ane, and they're crusty carls that's no' ower safe to ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... idea," replied the 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 to engage passage ...
— Under the Great Bear • Kirk Munroe
... species of choral service evolved for social use," Thayer suggested dryly. "The Gregorian tones would lend dignity even to conventionalities, and they are quite within the powers of ...
— The Dominant Strain • Anna Chapin Ray
... dryly. "I have not even this pleasure to be called 'excellency.' It would have been a slight compensation for my sad, miserable existence, and vexed many of the female friends of my youth if they had been obliged to call me 'excellency.' ...
— Old Fritz and the New Era • Louise Muhlbach
... other man, a little dryly—"yes, perhaps. I don't want to seem critical, but isn't your figure somewhat ...
— Jason • Justus Miles Forman
... said Mrs. Leigh, and Miss Opie coughed dryly. But why need Bluebell have blushed so consciously, as she dashed into Lightning galops and Tom Tiddler quadrilles, till Trove, like a dog of taste, took his offended ears and outraged nerves off to ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... retorted dryly, and proceeding, read the description of the half-basket hilt, inlaid with gold, and the broad blade, channeled near the hilt, and inlaid with ...
— Wilfrid Cumbermede • George MacDonald
... Ho! for the ship's brig, and Ho! for five days on bread and water, if you don't look out," said "Stump," dryly. ...
— A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" • Russell Doubleday
... the queen, dryly, "it is always good to listen to the true account of events in which we have taken part." And without uttering a word—without even a frown, she listened to the comments on the scene at the grave of Frederick. ...
— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach
... 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 a ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... Tisdale dryly. "Here in the northwest we call such sons remittance men. They are paid generous allowances, sometimes, to come ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... served up; and not only did he call upon the Herr Administrator to join him in his encomiums, but he also asked him pointedly what he thought of various ways of dressing dishes. The Herr Administrator replied somewhat dryly that he was a temperate and abstemious man, accustomed from his youth up to the greatest frugality. At noon, for dinner, he was satisfied with a spoonful or two of soup and a little piece of beef, but the latter must be cooked hard, since so cooked a smaller quantity sufficed to satisfy ...
— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann
... 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 ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... to be serious by the time corn was waist high. When the growing grain lost its rich color and the long blades rustled dryly in the hot air, the settlers looked anxiously for signs of coming rain. The one topic of conversation at the mill was the condition of the crops. The stories were all of past drought or tales ...
— The Shepherd of the Hills • Harold Bell Wright
... put in Henderson dryly. "Is it the custom here to allow no other man to dance with ...
— A Williams Anthology - A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 • Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park
... your duty to attend to those socks of Ralph and Arthur's," put in Pamela, dryly. "Perhaps you had better see to it at once, as tea will be ready soon, and you will have to ...
— Theo - A Sprightly Love Story • Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett
... justifiable risk, even if you had," Forth said dryly. "Jay, I've got the whole story on tape, just as you told it to me. You might not like having a blank spot in your memory. Want to hear what ...
— The Planet Savers • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... glanced in toward his wife, and smiled, dryly. Fascinating Facts took his hand out ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... dryly, "you are very kind, indeed, but I don't think you can relieve me. I have excruciating neuralgia in my eyebones and temples, and my hands are cramped again. Dinah has been, rubbing, without bettering them, for ...
— Sea and Shore - A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" • Mrs. Catharine A. Warfield
... ludicrous. Only half a word that is to the point can kindle laughter under such circumstances, and especially when it is dangerous to laugh. When at last Ole was only a few rods distant, but which seemed never to grow less, Oyvind said, dryly, in a ...
— A Happy Boy • Bjornstjerne Bjornson
... 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 to let myself be struck ten, twenty, a hundred times, by the ...
— Brazilian Tales • Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
... said she, dryly, "this does not require much daring, but it may cause trouble—it may also take up valuable time. I do not ask for any risks, but rather for the employment of the most ordinary qualities. Patience and perseverance will do all that I wish ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... think so," said the solicitor dryly. "I suggested an interview with you, but he seemed to think it quite unnecessary, if I could give him the ...
— Tales of Trail and Town • Bret Harte
... men from whom they learned So modern pothecaries taught the art By doctors bills to play the doctor's part. Bold in the practice of mistaken rules Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er spoil so much as they. Some dryly plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made These leave the sense their learning to display, And those explain ...
— An Essay on Criticism • Alexander Pope
... him, dryly. "If you tried that you'd get a worse shock than any chicken thief will get that tries to ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Locomotive - or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails • Victor Appleton
... dryly, "that Nita told him it was 'back alimony' which she had succeeded in collecting from her former husband. Unfortunately, she did not say who or where ...
— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin
... show in my face how willing I was to change the subject; and I know I tried to keep it out of my voice. But I fear I grew altogether too enthusiastic over the bit of scenery for, presently, Lady Helen remarked dryly: ...
— The Colonel of the Red Huzzars • John Reed Scott
... I met him when he came to our office in the State House to look up the land grant papers. We became friendly and I asked him to call because we own the old Valdes house, and I thought he would like to see it." She added, rather dryly: "You haven't answered ...
— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine
... dryly. "That's what you said last time. I remember 'Lopa.' She's your 'control' I think ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... are ever as beautiful as your mother was, you may thank your stars," said Susan dryly, and by the expression in her face Virginia knew that she was thinking, "If that was ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... said, dryly, "what do you want? What do you wish to ask me? What shall I tell you? Who requested ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... fear nothing," he said, dryly. "For his own sake Cliffe will hold his tongue and leave London. And as to the future—I can get some message conveyed to him—by a man he won't disregard. ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... 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
... "Possibly," answered Shandon, dryly; "but meanwhile the wind's freshening, and there's no use risking our topsails in ...
— The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne
... the weight of that can might send us sparing upward a thousand feet," explained Ned dryly, "so don't cast over ...
— The Air Ship Boys • H.L. Sayler
... "Thanks," commented Tom dryly. "But there are several things to be worked out before we can start. I've got to devise some scheme for carrying a sufficient quantity of chemicals, and invent some way of releasing them from an airship over the blaze. But that last part ought to be easy, ...
— Tom Swift among the Fire Fighters - or, Battling with Flames from the Air • Victor Appleton
... "Yes," I answered, dryly; the sparkling repartee which ought to have come to my help failed to show up. But it was impossible to be vexed with the Altrurian when he returned to me, unruffled by his bout with ...
— A Traveler from Altruria: Romance • W. D. Howells
... retirement, but spurned and scourged away like a troublesome dog. He had been in the habit of sending six copies of his journal on fine paper daily to the Tuileries. Instead of receiving the thanks and praises which he expected, he was dryly told that the great man had ordered five copies to be sent back. Still he toiled on; still he cherished a hope that at last Napoleon would relent, and that at last some share in the honors of the state would reward ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... "Perhaps," replied the doctor, dryly. "But they have no more fads than other people. Their theories seem to them not only practical, but they try to apply them to actual legislation; at any rate, they discriminate in vagaries. You would have been ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... translation of that passage in Faust; that is to say, they all have a passion for talking bad French, and I am altogether forgetting my English, as I have discovered to my dismay. * * * Oftentimes I feel terribly homesick, and that is to me an agreeable sadness, for otherwise I seem to myself so aged, so dryly resigned and documentary, as if I were only pasted on a piece of card-board. * * * Give your dear parents my heartfelt love, and kiss Annie's pretty hand for me, because she stays with you so sweetly-Now, I shall not write another word until I have a letter ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke
... you do 'zactly like I say. Besides," she added dryly, "if it comes to the worst, ain't you ready ...
— Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories • Alice Hegan Rice
... if you've been brought up that way. I think I'd make more money catchin' codfish, myself," commented the Captain dryly. ...
— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... "Dan," said Dave dryly, "you speak Italian as though it were French. Italian is too delicate a language for ...
— Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service - or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty • H. Irving Hancock
... up,' said the painter, dryly. 'And I guess living in London's dearer now than living in Italy was when Lenbach (which he pronounced ...
— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... it," returned the Demon, dryly. "These three gifts you may amuse yourself with for the next week. It seems hard to entrust such great scientific discoveries to the discretion of a mere boy; but they are quite harmless, so if you exercise ...
— The Master Key - An Electrical Fairy Tale • L. Frank Baum
... and my eyes hurt me," replied the professor dryly. "I dare say that if a dead man came to life he would feel much the ...
— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford
... you deem it a pleasure, baron," he said dryly. "From what you imply, I should judge that you were ...
— The Puppet Crown • Harold MacGrath
... got into dire financial straits once, he sent for his overseer, and advised with him as to the expediency of giving up. The overseer, who knew the world and its ways with all the good judgment of his nature, dryly remarked: "That'll never do. Never let the world know you've quit; an' let the undertaker that buries you be the fust man to find out ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore
... paraphrased dryly, "must you wreck your own life, John, to parent somebody else with skill?" The wording of this rather ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple
... guest, dryly, while Cleena deposited a dish of steaming waffles upon the table with such vigor as to ...
— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond
... Mrs Mostyn dryly. "I saw him in old Tummus's garden yesterday, and I walked across and fetched him here this morning to see what he could do in the conservatory, and really, blind as he is, he seems more clever and careful than ...
— A Life's Eclipse • George Manville Fenn
... that," said the minstrel, dryly; "but there is no doubt that shortly after this apparition King Alexander died, to the great sorrow of his people. The Maid of Norway, his heiress, speedily followed her grandfather to the grave, and our English king, ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... be a right smart settlement up near the headwaters of the creeks, I shouldn't wonder. The cow business is getting to be a mighty profitable one when you don't own any," Buck said dryly. ...
— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine
... little being even then,' he returned, somewhat dryly. 'But I believe, as usual, we are wandering from our subject. You are a most erratic talker, Audrey. What made you burst out just now ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... cattleman dryly, in spite of the best intentions to be generous to his successful rival. "But I reckon I know why yore grand-stand friend in chaps pulled such a play. In Arizona you can't square such things with money. So far as I can make out the ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine
... the parson, dryly but sincerely, "moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform." The two ...
— In Happy Valley • John Fox
... a man of long experience in steam-fitting, took the chunk of cement, examining it carefully, then picked it to pieces before he rejoined dryly: ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham
... dryly, "Shanks is a good boy, and minds what I say. Suppose they should bring him on the stand to prove I said a certain thing, Shanks would be a bad witness, because he never hears any thing I ...
— The Expressman and the Detective • Allan Pinkerton |
