"Drily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... know a good deal more about the tendencies of the modern drama than I do," said Katherine drily, "if you're in as deep as all that." She slid off the couch with a jerk. "Good-bye, Betty. Are you sure ...
— Betty Wales, Sophomore • Margaret Warde
... from the pile of books which he and Marcia had been dusting, and sat down in a chair on the other side of the stove. He pushed back his hat from his forehead, and asked drily, ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... Trent said drily. "I had to have the money, and you ground a share out of me which is worth a quarter ...
— A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... same invariable manner. He, therefore, is the man of genuine Eloquence, who can adapt his language to what is most suitable to each. By doing this, he will be sure to say every thing as it ought to be said. He will neither speak drily upon copious subjects, nor without dignity and spirit upon things of importance; but his language will always be proportioned, and equal to his subject. His introduction will be modest,—not flaming with all the glare ...
— Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. • Marcus Tullius Cicero
... "Superstitious damsel, this." Of Miss Beaver he asked drily as he deposited his fair burden distastefully in the big chair where the old gentleman had been sitting on his nightly visits: "My dear Miss Beaver, are you very certain old Mr. Wiley has been ...
— Old Mr. Wiley • Fanny Greye La Spina
... said, drily. "In fact, I agree with you. The graveyard is a ridiculous place for anybody to be, but I shall be there—and soon. But I am not going to let it interfere with my plans concerning the Fair Harbor. Lobelia ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... 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 with the flavour of wine, the beauty of the dawn, the ...
— Memories and Portraits • Robert Louis Stevenson
... favoured Gillian when next she went to Lily Giles. She had never succeeded in taking real interest in the girl, who seemed to her to be so silly and sentimental that an impulse to answer drily instantly closed up all inclination to effusions of confidence. Gillian had not yet learnt breadth of charity enough to understand that everybody does not feel, or express feeling, after the same pattern; that gush is not always either ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge
... people rather well in times like these," said Jim, drily; but William's face was serene as ever, and even as she prophesied, Scott did ...
— The Day's Work, Volume 1 • Rudyard Kipling
... of Harrod's game-keepers," said the girl drily, "it only means a summons and a fine for me. And if it's a State Trooper, who is prowling in the woods yonder hunting crooks, he'll find nobody here but a trespasser. Keep quiet. I'll ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers
... admitted Penelope, "though a trifle idealistic for the twentieth century. Most men," she added drily, "Regard coaling up the fire as a damned nuisance rather than ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... "They," said Lockley drily, "would hardly make a surprise landing. They'd have parked on the moon and squeaked at us until we got curious, and then they'd arrange to land, or to meet men in orbit, or something. But they didn't. They made a surprise landing, and cleared a big space of humans, keeping themselves ...
— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... be the same thing," said Monsieur de Bourmont, drily. "And remember whom you are quoting, my dear Cesar. A dangerous ...
— Angelot - A Story of the First Empire • Eleanor Price
... artificer of dissimulation, nor no such commanded 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 ...
— The Advancement of Learning • Francis Bacon
... friend," the fellow, drily observed, though with an eye that threatened volumes, "and sometimes it is a safe one, which says, ...
— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper
... Ridgwell; but from your description I should imagine the conversation will be a little one-sided. However," remarked Father drily, "perhaps he can be persuaded to smoke, ...
— The Tale of Lal - A Fantasy • Raymond Paton
... you what I admire," he answered drily. "I admire the transports of delight with which you hail my unexpected home-coming. The last you knew, I was in California; and here I might have tumbled ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... "Well," said Pagett, drily, "it has not yet occurred to me to worship his Lordship, although I believe he is a very worthy man, and I am not sure that England owes quite all the things you name to the House of Commons. You see, my young friend, the growth ...
— Under the Deodars • Rudyard Kipling
... at Budiabad, living in great squalor and discomfort. For the whole party there were but five rooms, each of which was occupied by from five to ten officers and ladies, the few soldiers and non-commissioned officers, who were mostly wounded, being quartered in sheds and cellars. Mackenzie drily remarks that the hardships of the common lot, and the close intimacy of prison life, brought into full relief good and evil qualities; 'conventional polish was a good deal rubbed off and replaced by a plainness of speech quite unheard of in good society.' Ladies and gentlemen ...
— The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 • Archibald Forbes
... feel inclined to bring such a suit, Mr. Hoskins, I shall not combat it," said Mr. Bingle drily. "They may take judgment by default. They are used to waiting by this time, so it won't be anything new for them to wait a million years for what they'd get if they sued me. By carefully hoarding a couple of dollars a year for a million years, I fancy I could in the end be able to take care of ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... you, my young friend," said the veteran traveller drily, "they'll reimburse me. At all events, I know them better than you do, and I don't intend to let you bear all the risk." The lieutenant argued, but the elder was firm. As the men shuffled back to the train with full stomachs ...
— Ray's Daughter - A Story of Manila • Charles King
... permission, sir," said the captain, drily, after he had recovered the bowl, not only without the other's consent, but, in some degree, against his will; "this bowl is as precious in my eyes as if it were made ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper
... again to hear about them. The book is written with great 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 ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole
... the brooch and the toothpick, which wear not now. Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek. And your virginity, your old virginity, is like one of our French withered pears; it looks ill, it eats drily; marry, 'tis a wither'd pear; it was formerly better; marry, yet 'tis a wither'd pear. Will ...
— All's Well That Ends Well • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... awnly him that does, lad," commented Mr. Chapple, drily, "caan't say you've got any call to be better pleased. Go you back an' do the job, like a ...
— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts
... the king, who 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 to support the government, ...
— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt
... taken aback, but he pulled himself together and asked drily what made anyone think that ...
— Clerambault - The Story Of An Independent Spirit During The War • Rolland, Romain
... 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 to ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... first important address of the day, lasting an hour and a half, or even longer. It had many 'notes,' and displayed The General in many moods. He was apt to be facetious and drily humorous at first. He had racy stories to tell—and none can tell a story for the hundredth time with fresh zest than he—in illustration of the old and bitter prejudices against The Army. A typical one was that of an old woman, arrested for the hundredth time for being drunk and ...
— The Authoritative Life of General William Booth • George Scott Railton
... fifty foot tunnel into a ledge of antimony over on the Skookumchuck it looked like somethin' good." Uncle Bill added drily: "I ain't excited." ...
— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart
... animals to have at times," said the professor, drily. "Wait a bit, Miss Riggs!" he added sharply. "First come, first served, if you please. You are ...
— Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays • Annie Roe Carr
... idea that the official police undertook espionage of that sort," he said rather drily. "But it is true, sir, that I went to Limoges—my last post before I was appointed to Vierzon—to take a final farewell to a lady. But since you are so accurately informed about all this, since you even know what train I went by, ...
— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre
... father and mother had entirely cleared; but Lady Price coughed drily, saying, 'And you did not know of ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... that act, for its teeth have been drawn by so many decisions against it, that it is worth nothing." Still the counsel argued on, and insisted on its authority; after listening to which for a good hour, his lordship drily remarked, "I do believe all the teeth of this act have been drawn, for there is nothing left but the ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 19, No. - 537, March 10, 1832 • Various
... 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 ...
— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace
... "I can 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 ...
— The Woman-Haters • Joseph C. Lincoln
... he doubted alike the good tidings and their relevancy; but the tones were so hearty and the arbalestrier's face, notwithstanding a formidable beard, was so gay and genial, that he smiled, and after a pause said drily, "Il a bien faite avec l'eau et linge du pays on allait le noircir ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... not 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
... care of that myself, when the time comes," the man answered drily. "Right now, I've got something else in mind. They're dividing my baggage train, as you said. Now, I don't mind that, seeing as most of it belonged to them in the first place. I don't mind it for this year, that ...
— The Barbarians • John Sentry
... not envy him his ride if it would have been anything like mine," said Mr Rogers drily. "Hark, boys! ...
— Off to the Wilds - Being the Adventures of Two Brothers • George Manville Fenn
... 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
... imagine Sarah let loose on a farm," he said drily. "They'd better tie up the pigs and nail down the cows—I wouldn't trust that girl within ten feet of a ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... Gilbert," suggested Jerry, drily, "my first job would be to hire some caddy with a heavy foot to kick me good and hard. Then I'd set out to get a new sweater and another supply of golf balls. Later on I'd make it a point to head back this way and hunt you up, to apologize ...
— The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point - or The Golden Cup Mystery • Quincy Allen
... his father drily, apparently not much influenced by this inducement, "but you won't have the chance. If it has a secret, I will find it out for myself" (he little knew how literally he was to be taken at his word), "and, by the way, there's ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... good advice," replied Lousteau drily, knowing the passionate disclaimer that Dinah expected, and indeed begged for ...
— Parisians in the Country - The Illustrious Gaudissart, and The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac
... say you do not," returned the other drily, "but they were black and white storks, and you know that as well as I do. Still, they have caught on, and they are in the altar-piece, prancing and curvetting magnificently, so I ...
— Erewhon Revisited • Samuel Butler
... gravel-pits of a deserted Syrian city. Here and there low wooden houses were scattered along the streets, as in other Southern villages, but he was chiefly attracted by an unfinished square marble shaft, half-a-mile below, and he walked down to inspect it before breakfast. His aunt drily remarked that, at this rate, he would soon get through all the sights; but she could not guess — having lived always in Washington — how little the sights of Washington had to ...
— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams
... an answer," said the count drily. "What objection can you make to my proposal? Is it not fair and natural? Am I to be deprived of the consolations vouchsafed to the neediest and most wretched? You know I have acted towards you openly ...
— The Man-Wolf and Other Tales • Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian
... quid again and again, and at last feeling scant interest in the ragged little sister who led her little brother about by the hand, and stood between him and peril as she kept their liberty—drily answered, along with his fellows, as follows: "Some said an old Indian that died had her; but I don't know. Forty-nine knows most about her. When he's short of grub, and that's pretty often now, I guess, why she has to do the ...
— Shadows of Shasta • Joaquin Miller
... the storekeeper's mouth. His nostrils swelled, and he wrinkled his forehead. "Sorry," he said drily, "but it's ...
— The Plow-Woman • Eleanor Gates
... well make an early start," he remarked, drily. "Since things have turned out the way they have, we couldn't make any use of you. But before you go, ...
— At Whispering Pine Lodge • Lawrence J. Leslie
... subjects," replied Milton drily. "But—well, I have an idea you came out here looking for something. There are lines around your eyes that say that. So I just thought I'd hand on to you ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow
... Newcastle would not admit the validity of this reasoning of his colleagues. He waited on Bute, and declared his intention to resign, unless a subsidy of L2,000,000 was paid, and the continental war continued. Bute answered drily, "that if the money were granted, peace might be retarded;" but he never requested him to continue in office, nor said a civil word to the aged politician. Accordingly, the Duke repaired from the minister to his ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... "What!" said the doctor drily. "More of an appetite, eh? I never noticed that you two wanted that. Gracious, how much ...
— Hunting the Skipper - The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop • George Manville Fenn
... 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 ...
— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... kid stays till he wears out all them clothes, we'll just about have to give him a share in the company," he said drily. ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower
... knocked up,' said John drily. 'These late nights don't suit her. So you reckon Mr. Twemlow's a good ...
— Leonora • Arnold Bennett
... girl drily. "Is it very astonishing? You see, we don't spend half our time on horseback here. You didn't expect to find me a ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... 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 of the world for ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... a little and went away, and I think that a bunch of heather which lay on the coffin must have come from her. Anyway, that is all I know about the Loafer, and he may now tell his story of the Pink Tom Cat in his own way. You observe how drily circumstantial he is. ...
— The Chequers - Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in - a Loafer's Diary • James Runciman
... is alive as few figures in recent fiction 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 ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 7, 1919. • Various
... memory," I commented drily, as I essayed a moment to drape my shoulders with the new sable cloak ere I tossed it to Pons to put aside. He shook his ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London
... me, too," replied Green, drily; "and I will join you there in ten minutes with any ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... will be," returned Colston drily. "None of us expect to get out of this business alive if it does not succeed. Now that is all I have to say for the present. It is for you to bring the ladies here as your prisoners, to see us out of the town before daybreak, ...
— The Angel of the Revolution - A Tale of the Coming Terror • George Griffith
... of boyish daring," said Dalrymple, somewhat drily. "I presume he did not return by the ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
... drily; "so far as the horses are concerned, I reckon our old friend Havasupai will go a long way on foot before he ever tries to steal a promising looking pony again. As long as he lives he'll remember how it feels ...
— The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon - or The Hermit of the Cave • James Carson
... elephant to a bird in the air. One of the younger brethren, indeed, declared that we were forerunners of good, and that if the Gerad harmed a hair of our heads, he would slaughter every Girhi under the sun. We had, however, learned properly to appreciate such vaunts, and the End of Time drily answered that their sayings were honey but their doings myrrh. Being a low-caste and a shameless tribe, they did not reply to our reproaches. At last, a manoeuvre was successful: Beuh and his brethren, who squatted like sulky children in different places, were dismissed with thanks,—we ...
— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton
... a little, but Mackenzie, looking straight before him did not notice it. "Sounds a capital arrangement," he said drily. ...
— The Squire's Daughter - Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons • Archibald Marshall
... with vegetables to sell. The pilot beckoned to them to come on board; at the same time giving Captain Hills to understand, that he might take his choice of them; and when Captain Hills rejected the proposal with indignation, the pilot seemed perfectly at a loss to account for his warmth; and drily observed, that the slave-captains would not have been so scrupulous. Again, when General Rooke commanded at Goree, a number of the natives, men, women, and children, came to pay him a friendly visit. All was gaiety and merriment. It ...
— The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the - Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) • Thomas Clarkson
... TANNER. [drily] Get married and try. You may find it delightful for a while: you certainly won't find it ennobling. The greatest common measure of a man and a woman is not necessarily greater ...
— Man And Superman • George Bernard Shaw
... She chuckled drily. "Yes, you is—everybody's 'feared of old Elspeth; but she won't hurt you—you's got the spell;" and wheeling again, she ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois
... to understand," said Miss Greeby, drily and feeling in her pocket. "He wants to get twenty-five thousand pounds for this." She produced a sheet of paper dramatically. "However, I made the little animal give it to me for nothing. Never mind what arguments I used. I got it out of him, and ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... in Eve's house," answered Peter, drily, "for the reason that we wished to have a chat with her. That is, Jim and I. Doc Crombie came because we'd a notion we were sorry for Eve, and didn't want her to die on our hands. That's why ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum
... satisfies you," she answered, drily. "It is of a piece with the rest of the reasoning of the royal pedant, whom Master Potts ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... the High Ridge end of the bridge with the point of his bayonet. "As long as you live in High Ridge I'll see you part way home," he added drily. ...
— Bob Cook and the German Spy • Tomlinson, Paul Greene
... drily, and in so icy a tone, that Monsieur de Granville made no reply, and proceeded to ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
... 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! ...
— My Sword's My Fortune - A Story of Old France • Herbert Hayens
... Delancy commented drily, "if you'd only work for the far-off heathen, you'd find it much more satisfactory. You might not do any good, to be sure; but, anyhow, the bad ...
— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan
... said she drily. "And now if you particularly wish to speak to me, I will walk with you, but only a short way. Harry ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... to!" the novelist said drily. And his voice had lost its brotherly, affectionate tone when he added: "Very well, then, if you two have settled it between you, I will not presume to interfere, I was going down to the city to-morrow to see about reservations; if Dryden means it—of course it alters the entire ...
— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris
... and make up your mind for yourself," said Nash drily, for they topped a hill, and below them saw a mighty yellow flood pouring down the valley. It went leaping and shouting as if it rejoiced in some destruction it had worked and was still working, and the muddy torrent was threaded with many a ridge of ...
— Trailin'! • Max Brand
... cabin those folks have," he said drily. "Don't recollect seeing anything like that up ...
— Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance • Frances Cavanah
... engaged in entertaining the Duke, a page happened to leave the wardrobe, and at the same moment Bandinello entered. When the Duke saw him, his countenance contracted, and he asked him drily: "What are you about here?" Bandinello, without answering, cast a glance upon the box, where the statue lay uncovered. Then breaking into one of his malignant laughs and wagging his head, he turned to the Duke and said: "My lord, this exactly illustrates the truth of what I have so often told your ...
— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini
... once before," said Mr. Mac-Morlan, drily. But something worse was in store for Glossin than the cold shoulder from his fellow-justices. In his search through the documents found upon Hatteraick, Pleydell had come upon three slips of paper, being bills which had been drawn and signed by Hatteraick on the very day of the Kennedy murder, ...
— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... doubt that you would have had a more lively evening," said Holmes drily. "By the way, I don't suppose you appreciate that we have been mourning over you ...
— Hound of the Baskervilles • Authur Conan Doyle
... ma'am," said the storekeeper rather drily, for he did not know but Daisy was thinking ...
— Melbourne House, Volume 1 • Susan Warner
... it. Gradually the men got used to him, and ceased to treat him as an outsider. His thin, eager face, his steel-blue, inquiring eyes behind the glasses, his gray felt hat, his lank, tense figure in its gray, became a familiar feature. They threw remarks to him, to which he replied briefly and drily. When anything interesting was going on, somebody told him about it. Then he hurried to the spot, no matter how distant it might be. He used always the river trail; he never attempted ...
— The Riverman • Stewart Edward White
... say I dreamed it, if you like," I responded drily. "I have very remarkable dreams sometimes, and learn a great ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward
... the most violent and far-fetched theory of the mystery. Nothing but our desperate need of an elucidation could excuse its being put forward," said Captain Pendleton, drily. Then he spoke more earnestly: "Berners, whatever may be the true explanation of all that we have experienced here, one thing seems certain: that your retreat here is known to at least one person, who may or may not be inimical to your interests. Now my advice ...
— Cruel As The Grave • Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth
... 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 afraid he ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 • Various
... send?" asked the captain drily; and for the first time Ida realised how far they were from all society, and that by the same time next night they would be ...
— The Dingo Boys - The Squatters of Wallaby Range • G. Manville Fenn
... about the home report of him, eh?" said Mr. Byrne, drily. "There's two sides to most things, and I've rather a weakness for seeing both. Never mind about that just now. I never take up impressions hastily. Don't be afraid. I'll see Master Geoff for myself. Let's talk of other ...
— Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth
... partially closed as the door opened. But at the noise he sprang up, nearly oversetting the doctor. "Who's that?—How dare you!" he exclaimed, in a voice of great anger. Then recognizing Randal, he changed color, bit his lip, and muttered drily, "I beg pardon for my abruptness: what do you want, ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various
... not for me to upbraid or to openly say that I had realised she had attempted to escape, and so I contented myself by remarking drily that the plain beyond was unsafe, and that there was better ground on the road to ...
— Orrain - A Romance • S. Levett-Yeats
... on the Riviera, in retreat, in a place he is fond of," Mount Dunstan said drily. "He took a companion with him. A new infatuation. He ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... I had an acre for every good thrashing I got when I was a boy," he commented drily. "But in those days a father who demanded obedience ...
— Dust • Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
... desperately exciting," said Charlotte drily. "Now I call this luxury," she added, dropping down on the fur rug. "Just imagine having a place like this where you can be absolutely alone with books and pictures and fire. ...
— Glenloch Girls • Grace M. Remick
... you any politer, I can see that," he remarked drily. "You're not exactly in a happy frame of mind, which does not surprise me. Yes, that's the way it is. The poor people must give up their sound flesh and bone so that the enemy should not deprive the rich of ...
— Men in War • Andreas Latzko
... marquise ruled as a queen, said what she thought, was gracious or the reverse as occasion demanded, admonishing, restoring to favor, congratulating whenever she saw fit. So when Jeanne came to see her, this lady, after a few chilling remarks, said drily: "Society is divided into two classes: those who believe in God and those who do not believe in Him. The former, even the humblest, are our friends, our equals; the latter are nothing ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... weren't bad," said Mr. Grew drily. "But I'll tell you one thing, Ronny," he added suddenly. Ronald raised his head with a quick glance, and Mr. Grew continued: "I'll tell you where the best of those letters is—it's in you. If it hadn't been for that one look at life I couldn't have made you what you are. Oh, I know you've done ...
— Tales Of Men And Ghosts • Edith Wharton
... sir," answered Chevrial, drily, "when a girl goes about boasting that her father is more powerful than the Czar or Kaiser! Suppose she had stopped there, any hearer would have concluded that he was an anarchist, and therefore to be watched. But she went further: ...
— The Destroyer - A Tale of International Intrigue • Burton Egbert Stevenson
... 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 ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley
... friend wavering over her fitness for a piece of projected work, he said drily, "There is only one way to do a thing, and that is to do it." Late in life, the summation of this creed of action seemed to come when he confessed, "I cannot get over the feeling that we are here ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane
... your expedition,' he replied drily, no little amused, but evidently somewhat accustomed ...
— The Roof of France • Matilda Betham-Edwards
... 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
... am concerned, at least," returned Keith drily; "seeing I am already some ten or a dozen years older than you were at the time of your first ...
— Elsie at Home • Martha Finley
... he saw it, with a phlegm more British and German than French. Though he had no Dutch blood in his veins, he was, like Huysmans, more the man of Amsterdam than the man of Paris. He noted the changing and shocking scenes of hospital life, and sympathy without sentimentality drops from his pen. He is drily humorous as he shows us some plumaged General peacocking on foot, or swelling with Napoleonic pride as he caracoles by on his horse. And such horses! Without a hint of the photographic realism of a Muybridge and his ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker
... said Sir Charles drily. "But, my young friend, I can remember a time when Resilda desired of all things to be a horse. There was something hopeful because more human in her wish to be a boy, ...
— Ensign Knightley and Other Stories • A. E. W. Mason
... should give, not sell; or at least that he should not sell to any friend. On another occasion I gave my boat's crew a luncheon of chocolate and biscuits. I had sinned, I could never learn how, against some point of observance; and though I was drily thanked, my offerings were left upon the beach. But our worst mistake was a slight we put on Toma, Hoka's adoptive father, and in his own eyes the rightful chief of Anaho. In the first place, we did not call upon him, as perhaps we should, in his fine new European house, the only one in the ...
— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson
... will be business, sir," replied the housekeeper drily, measuring his distance off to him by an ...
— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson
... my way," he said drily. "As for money, I might have had plenty by this time, if I had not run away from home when I was a boy, because I preferred being a poor musician to a rich merchant. Money is not the only nor the best thing in the world, ...
— My Little Lady • Eleanor Frances Poynter
... best possible judge of his verses' merit," Guido estimated, drily. "But I shall never understand how any singer at all came to be locked in such a prison. I fancy that at times the paradox puzzles ...
— The Certain Hour • James Branch Cabell
... to resist the damping influence as long as she could. She rattled off lively French airs at the piano, and challenged her father to chess; but he only drily remarked "that after having passed the day in wet clothes, she had better take some ordinary precautions and go to bed." Indeed, her slightly feverish manner perhaps ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... Paaker, hardly and drily, "you broke your bethrothal vows, and became the wife of the charioteer Mena. I know it all; of what ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... continued YORICK, drily, "if it were also the source inexhausted of more that is quick in our sympathy, and practical in our beneficence. It is scarcely in the columns of the daily news-sheet that Sensibility usually seeks ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 10, 1892 • Various
... wouldn't!' drily said the Baron. 'Now let us drop into the dance at once; some of the people here, you see, ...
— The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid • Thomas Hardy
... Lockwood exclaimed angrily, "that a man who would attempt a thing like that should go unpunished." "Show me how to trace him and I'll guarantee the punishment," rejoined Craig drily. ...
— The Gold of the Gods • Arthur B. Reeve
... meditation 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 ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... you think it, do you?" said the major, drily. "Then the stores are to walk up to Fort ...
— For Fortune and Glory - A Story of the Soudan War • Lewis Hough
... not right?" answered Pyotr Dmitritch drily and not at once. "We all have our personal life, every one of us, and we are ...
— The Party and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... the old sailor, drily; "but you'll find it too stiff for you to-night, anyhow. Howsomdever, if you should reach t'other side, take an old feller's advice, and don't be foolhardy ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth
... fair friend, peradventure," said Chisenhall drily; "but, on the word of a soldier, I may be known, and little care I, save that it may be dangerous to be found in my company. In the last siege yonder, at Lathom, I have beaten off more rogues than flies from my trencher; and I would we had but had ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... up the blue paper on which his notes were written in a tiny, clear hand. The leaves rustled drily in accompaniment to his sharp, ...
— Tongues of Conscience • Robert Smythe Hichens
... of those vague reports which chief constables are in the habit of furnishing," he said, drily. "Apparently the owner is an American, an invalid, and is eccentric. More than this—and this will surprise you—he has been certified by competent medical authorities ...
— The Secret House • Edgar Wallace
... has 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
... I," said the Colonel drily. "I was about to tax her with it. Hence her masterly retreat. But she was not deliberately eavesdropping or she would not have given herself away so openly. I quite agree with you, my dear. A match between her and Sir Eustace would not be suitable. And I also think Sir Eustace would be the first ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... Dunning drily, "I'm not in the habit of obeying orders until I know that he who gives 'em has a right to do so. But 'tis a pity to waste time talking about such trifles when the craft you are in search of is not very far away ...
— The Red Eric • R.M. Ballantyne
... the friends of liberty," said the Colonel, drily, "to tell me how that state of things is to be mended. I find no enthusiasm for the Orleanists, none for a Republic; people sneer at religion; no belief in a cause, no adherence to an opinion. But the worst of it is that, like all people who are blases, the Parisians ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... I hain't likely to have no sech feelin's a-holdin' o' me back," Uncle Dick remarked, drily. "Hit's my foolishness bailin' 'im out got us in the pizen mess. I 'low I'll cancel the bond. But, fust, I'd have to take the skunk to the jail-house, dead er alive. He'll ...
— Heart of the Blue Ridge • Waldron Baily
... I've got a change here for Swain," he added, with a gesture toward some garments he carried over one arm; "also a bracer to be administered to him," and he drew a flask from his pocket and handed it to me. "Maybe you need one, yourself," he added, smiling drily, "since you've taken ...
— The Gloved Hand • Burton E. Stevenson
... it hadn't occurred to you that this is a spring tide?" he said drily. "In another hour or so there'll be six feet of water ...
— The Splendid Folly • Margaret Pedler
... said Mrs. Montagu, drily, "it is not in verse? I can read anything in prose, but I have a great dread of ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay
... intercepted and cut off by one to whom he has rendered himself obnoxious, he does not inform him in plain and explicit terms of the danger he runs by pursuing the track near which the enemy lies in wait for him, but he drily asks him which way he is going that day, and, having received his answer, with the same indifference tells him that he has been informed that a dog lies near the spot, which might probably do him a ...
— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones
... take that to heart," said Daniel drily, and bent still lower over the score on which he ...
— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann
... expect you would of tore the earth up all round him," Tom interrupted drily. "You boys shore are fighty, all right—with your faces. What I'm interested in, is whereabouts you and Mel hunted. That hide wouldn't show up like the Devil's Tooth—understand. And Scotty was ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower
... lay an' ferget about him, I reckon," drily observed the parson. "Anyhow atter a spell Old Man McGivins had another bornin' at his dwellin-house an' thet time hit proved out to be a boy. His woman sought ter rechristen ther gal Lizzie or Lake Erie or somethin' else ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck
... Sheffield knives, Master," replied Fawkes a little drily: "and by the same token, our next neighbour is selling his coals, and looks not unlike ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... gentleman, drily, yet flushing a little, too, "I can see very clearly that I shall hereafter have very mediocre recitations from the girls of Central High. They will no ...
— The Girls of Central High in Camp - The Old Professor's Secret • Gertrude W. Morrison
... 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. For to-morrow you will ...
— Casanova's Homecoming • Arthur Schnitzler
... two men on the boat who could have explained, if they had cared to do so," I answered drily. "I mean Kirby and Carver; they were the ...
— The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War • Randall Parrish
... went out that night to beat the woods for this human tiger. My heart smouldered within me like a coal, and I went forward under the impulse of a will that was half my own, half some more malignant power's. My throat throbbed drily, but water nor whiskey would not have quenched my thirst. The thought has come to me since that now I could interpret the panther's desire for blood and sympathise with it, but then I thought nothing. I simply ...
— The heart of happy hollow - A collection of stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... Burton very drily. "You figure that it'll be pleasanter for us to move into a palace somewhere, an' have a dozen or two servants waitin' on us. All right, where's the ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... 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 matter to fill a heart ...
— The Silent Isle • Arthur Christopher Benson
... law in this clachan to-day," said Maclachlan simply, still tapping away with his pistol. Hearing the parson behind, he turned round and added drily, "And the gospel." Hereupon the parson's face took on the appearance of ill-made, ill-risen dough, and he turned and slipped off with creeping, noiseless steps, ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... apothecary, drily, and with meaning. "The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but ...
— In Kings' Byways • Stanley J. Weyman
... knight heard him, and answered drily—"Since such are your sentiments, I wonder that you have ever resided long enough within the hearing of the French language to learn to speak it as you do. I would have thought some of the sentiments of the chivalry of the nation, since you are neither a monk ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... must have her way," Jim said drily. "Come along, Sartoris; the governor's hack can jump well enough if you don't hurry him." And the two men promptly followed their ...
— Belles and Ringers • Hawley Smart
... straw hat, boy? Well, I don't say that," said Serge, drily, "because it do weigh a tidy bit. But that helmet of yours, as I took care should be just right for a boy, ...
— Marcus: the Young Centurion • George Manville Fenn
... luncheon, was pressed by the squire—"who, on any other occasion would never waste time in smoking, and only filled his short clay pipe at the end of his day's work"—to come to his smoking-room. As regards this room the professor drily remarked—"I thought I had noticed that even the key-hole was stopped up, in order to preserve the ladies' delicate nerves from every disagreeable sensation." After dinner, again, when the ladies had left the table, "the gentlemen ...
— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson
... presents itself to me," said Thorndyke drily. "He may have taken the diamonds or he may not. I have no means of judging until I have sifted the evidence and acquired a few more facts. This I hope to do in the course of the next day or two, and I suggest that we postpone the consideration ...
— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman
... enough," the Major said, drily. "She is older than you, my poor boy;" and then he apologised with the utmost frankness and humility, and flung himself upon Pen's good feelings, begging the lad to excuse a fond old uncle, who had only his family's ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
... lot of people to follow up, then," remarked Mr. Lindsey drily. "If you're going to follow every tourist that got on a train next morning between Berwick and Wooler, and Berwick and Kelso, and Berwick and Burnmouth, and Berwick and Blyth, you'll have your work ...
— Dead Men's Money • J. S. Fletcher
... handy thing to have about," said Mr. Smith drily, as he looked out of the corner of his eye and remarked the two men behind him. They ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon
... man enjoys a sounding name, and an empty coffer," observed the Alderman, drily. "To me it seems that a petition to the admiral to send so meritorious an officer on service where he may distinguish himself, should deserve his thanks. The freebooters are playing the devil's game with the sugar trade, and even the French are ...
— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper
... on the same terms another day. The Countess is fond of play, and she wins from most people," said the Colonel, drily. "Why don't you bet her ladyship five thousand on a bishopric, parson? I have heard of a clergyman who made such a bet, and who lost it, and who paid it, and who got ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray
... John was begun immediately, and was the delight of Ellen's life. Mrs. Lindsay and her daughter wished to put a stop to it; but Mr. Lindsay drily said that Mr. Humphreys had frankly spoken of it before him, and as he had made no objection then, ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner
... faather's alive?" A.—"Hout, na; he's deed." Q.—"Deed! What did he dee o'? was it fever?" A.—"Na, it wasna fever." Q.—"Was it cholera?" A.—"Na." The question being pressed, the stranger drily said, "Sheep," and then he accompanied the ominous word by delicately and significantly pointing to the jugular under his ear. The man had been hanged ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... I am at liberty to give you upon that point," said Mr. Barrister drily, "is that contained in your father's will. Would you care to examine a copy of that ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester
... he was," said the general, drily. "He had plenty of dash and go, but no moral courage. He came home after the wars were over, and broke his mother's heart by becoming a drunkard and a gambler; and he died an early death from drink ...
— His Big Opportunity • Amy Le Feuvre
... sorry your grace thinks so," replied the Earl, drily; "for under those circumstances I fear that your escape from the Tower will be found ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... replied Jim Airth, drily, "if a boat were to be had. But, unfortunately, we are two miles from the hamlet, and this is not a time when boats pass in and out; nor would they come this way. When I saw you, from the top of the cliff, I calculated ...
— The Mistress of Shenstone • Florence L. Barclay
... handing out the usual platitudes, and holding forth on the example of Christian fortitude exhibited by a very wealthy lady in the neighbourhood, who had also been recently widowed. 'That's all very well, ma'am,' said my old woman drily, 'but fat sorrow's a deal easier to bear than lean sorrow.' And though it may sound unromantic, it's the raw truth—only very few people are sincere ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler |
