"Dryly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... anchored to a bit of mainland yet," said Uncle Win dryly. "Off Cape Sable they encountered a violent storm. The Duc succeeded in reaching the rendezvous, but in such a damaged condition that he felt a victory would be impossible. Conflans with several partly disabled ...
— A Little Girl in Old Boston • Amanda Millie Douglas
... sat uneasily at her own board clutching at a thin fragment of cold dry toast that hung cheerlessly awry in the silver rack, like the last brown leaf to a frosty tree, while she crunched the toast, spoke dryly of the poor; of how 'interesting many of them are;' how when you take the trouble to understand them, you no longer lump them all together in a featureless misery, you realize how significant ...
— The Convert • Elizabeth Robins
... be all right in a day or two. His appetite might not come to him at once but he would be all right in the morning. Just let him sleep, don't wake him, and when he gets out caution him to—keep away from the mule," added the doctor dryly. ...
— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field
... it's funny to somebody, and you are more than excusable," he said, dryly. "If I could get as good a joke as that on an enemy of mine I'd never kill 'im in a duel; I'd keep him ...
— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben
... There are four, only four, those nursing fathers of various beings! What a pity! Why are they not forty, four hundred, four thousand! How poor everything is, how mean and wretched! grudgingly given, dryly invented, clumsily made! Ah! the elephant and the hippopotamus, what grace! And ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Ghost Stories • Various
... up and down this realm of England and ride us with iron bridles.' The old man laughed dryly and bitterly. 'His servant? See how we are held—we dare not shut our doors upon him since he is Cromwell's servant, yet if he come in he shall ruin us, take our money that we dare not refuse, deflower our virgins.... ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford
... the lawyer answered dryly. "I am afraid that I have not expressed myself well. My client cares nothing for Morris Barnes, dead or alive. His interest begins and ends with the ...
— The Avenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... at the time," observed Madeline, dryly. "It does make me not so bad," she admitted, inspecting herself with a critical air. "I really don't believe you could help it. I ought not to have been so hard on you, poor boy. There! there! I didn't mean ...
— Dr. Heidenhoff's Process • Edward Bellamy
... fond of him!" said Chatran, dryly. "She loves the ground he treads on: it is precisely for that reason she favours Noce; she is never happy but when she is procuring something pour son cher bon mari. She goes to spend a week at Noce's country-house, and writes ...
— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... said Pratt dryly, rising and walking over to a fire place, into which he threw his lighted cigarette. A ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants - or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers • H. Irving Hancock
... 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
... I had my own way,' he remarked dryly, 'I have forgotten how it feels. Your state of serene satisfaction is unknown to me. How long do you intend to ...
— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner
... find that you have been fooled in all this," he said; "for when the war is over you will be thrown aside like a squeezed orange." "I think my fate will be a happier one than yours, unless you mend your manners," answered Ollivier dryly. Three weeks after this, however, everything was changed. The imperial armies had been beaten at Woerth and Forbach; the Ollivier cabinet had fallen amid popular execration (hardly deserved); and Gambetta, forced by circumstances into ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 • Various
... they are the names used by the ancestors of these Indians, before a white man ever saw the island,—are they not?" inquired she, somewhat dryly. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various
... some time just how close Marscorp and the government were tied together," said Goat dryly. "Obviously, if I don't do as you say, my supplies here will be cut off. So I have no choice but to discontinue this work and turn my attention to ...
— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay
... him isn't going to teach him anything except perhaps what is over the Great Divide, Doug," said Peter dryly. ...
— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie
... you weren't losing sight of the sacredness that is supposed to be attached to a soldier's appointment," said Hal dryly. ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants - or, Handling Their First Real Commands • H. Irving Hancock
... continued Simoun dryly, "only in this way are great enterprises carried out with small means. Thus were constructed the Pyramids, Lake Moeris, and the Colosseum in Rome. Entire provinces came in from the desert, bringing their tubers to feed on. Old men, youths, and boys labored in transporting stones, hewing them, and ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal
... his mighty chest and shoulders. Even Cheyenne, who was a fair-sized man, appeared like a boy beside the miner. Bartley wondered that such tremendous strength should be isolated, hidden back there behind the foothills. Yet Scott himself, easy-going and dryly humorous, was evidently content right where ...
— Partners of Chance • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... returned the old Scotchman, dryly; 'but every mickle makes a muckle, and ye ken the Lead wull hae mony sma' nuggets, which is mair paying, to my mind, than ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume
... Robert dryly, "I understand these heroics. I've heard of your sermons, Mr. Storm—your interviews with ladies, ...
— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine
... 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 ...
— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson
... 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 do them the ...
— The Vision Spendid • William MacLeod Raine
... that. You always were original, Dickie," commented Haines, dryly. "By the way, what do you ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise
... the Doctor dryly; "Somers has no coat of arms. I expected, when I asked you, to hear that the Pickergills' history was at ...
— The Morgesons • Elizabeth Stoddard
... colonel," returned the hunter, dryly, still stroking the horse's neck; "but Daniel's the older title, and a little the most ...
— Ella Barnwell - A Historical Romance of Border Life • Emerson Bennett
... was her will at an early age," said Tatho dryly, "and she learnt early to have her wishes carried into fact. It was notorious that before she had grown to fifteen years she ruled not only the women of the household, but Zaemon also, and the province that ...
— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
... said dryly, "that undertakers' assistants are jovial young men. A man's sense of humor seems to be in inverse proportion to ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... doubt it," said Captain Barrington, dryly, "and, now, if you please, we will draw ...
— The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash - Or - Facing Death in the Antarctic • Captain Wilbur Lawton
... his dignity. The waiter behind him, recognizing only the delightful mimicry of this adorable officer, was in fits of laughter. Nevertheless, the consul managed to say dryly:— ...
— Stories in Light and Shadow • Bret Harte
... but she did not grow pale like a woman whose lover is threatened with mortal peril. She said dryly:— ...
— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke
... book which lay on the table where the tundra daisies were heaped. It was a book written around the early phases of pioneer life in Alaska, taken from his own library, a volume of statistical worth, dryly but carefully written—and she had been reading it. It struck him as a symbol of the fight she was making, of her courage, and of her desire to triumph in the face of tremendous odds that must have beset her. He still could not associate ...
— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood
... then she moved, the Doctor raised his head, and the officers started back with an "Ah!" of surprise. The Doctor called them as they turned away, and asked for a pass for the young ladies. They came back bowing and smiling, said they would write one in the house, but they were told very dryly that there were no writing accommodations there. They tried the fascinating, and were much mortified by the coldness they met. Dear me! "Why wasn't I born old and ugly?" Suppose I should unconsciously entrap some magnificent Yankee! What an ...
— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson
... 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, ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... have to give nothin'," shouted her companion dryly. "There's plenty of 'em right along this creek we're passing. They're them little trees with light green trunks and trembly leaves. They grow by creeks and in ...
— Virginia of Elk Creek Valley • Mary Ellen Chase
... if that wedding is to come off so soon, perhaps I had better be saving up for a wedding present," remarked Sam, dryly, when the two brothers were ...
— The Rover Boys in Business • Arthur M. Winfield
... Falls, by mistake!" said Bubble, dryly. "Let me see, now!" He rumpled up his short tow-colored hair with his favorite gesture, and meditated. "I guess I'll begin at the beginning!" he said. "Well!" (it was observable that Bubble no longer said "Wa-al!" and that his speech had improved ...
— Hildegarde's Holiday - a story for girls • Laura E. Richards
... roots in constitutional liberty and means equal rights and opportunities.... I claim no right or privilege for myself that I would not give to my mother, wife and sister and to every law-abiding citizen." When he had finished his mother rose and said dryly: "That, dear women from the north, east, south and west, is one of Mrs. Duniway's poor, ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper
... Dunn dryly. "But just a trifle too late to interest me for one. And I don't mean to let the dad or uncle be sacrificed if I can help it. I failed with Clive, poor fellow, but I don't mean to again, and I don't see how we can. Deede Dawson ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon
... bold defender of Malaga. He was loaded with civilities and presents; and these acts of courtesy so won upon his heart, that he expressed a willingness to enter into their service. "Isabella's compliments," says the Arabian historian, dryly, "were ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott
... a further silence. Then she heard the stranger dryly say: "I expect so." It seemed as if behind everything he did say there was so ...
— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman
... believe, in every way worthy of so good a man," he answered, a little dryly. "I think I heard ...
— The Room in the Dragon Volant • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... men of your regiment are beggars to fight too," said Bracy dryly, "judging by the appearance of ...
— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn
... beginnin' to mind noo, mistress," said Tammas dryly. "Weel, the nicht afore last I gaed to the Hilltap to see Tibby, an' as usual there was a lad or twa in the kitchen, an' the crack was gaun screevin' roond. But I can tak' my share in that," continued Tammas modestly, "so we fell on ...
— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett
... with punctuation and spelling," said Hester, dryly. "I am so shaky on both myself. You had better ask the school-master. He knows all that sort of ABC better ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley
... Phillips knew that the others, like himself, were scrutinizing the old man with cold, secretive stares. They had learned through harsh experience to keep their own counsels. Varret shrugged. "Well, then," he said dryly, "I might as well call the roll. I have been supplied with ...
— This World Must Die! • Horace Brown Fyfe
... of that can might send us sparing upward a thousand feet," explained Ned dryly, "so don't cast over ballast until ...
— The Air Ship Boys • H.L. Sayler
... impression of being even bigger than he was. It was like the Irish estate, of which its owner said that it had more land to the acre than any place he knew. This was the result, I suppose, of what Barthrop once dryly called the "effortless expansion" of Father Payne's personality. I suppose he was about six-foot-two in height, and he must have weighed fifteen stone or even more. He was not stout, but all his limbs were solid, so ...
— Father Payne • Arthur Christopher Benson
... "Yes," dryly, "quite an accident. Well, I'll skip on ahead again. May run into you again before we hit Seattle. Going to take the ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis
... "Just so," said Featherstone dryly. "For all that, I think I'll start east, and then get on to a west-bound train at a station down the line. The folks at the Crossing know I'm going home, and I don't want to put Daly on my track." He smoked in silence for a few moments, and then added: "I wonder whether Austin ...
— Carmen's Messenger • Harold Bindloss
... had listened in tense silence. Now he started forward, his hand on his sword, but his arms were caught by two of Lord Grimsby's men. "You will admit, my Lord Farquhart, that the matter demands explanation," said the councillor, dryly. "How came you by the jewels and rose? Can you tell us? And what of the ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... "Ay, yes!" he answered, dryly; "you might go as assistant to a parish doctor, or get a berth on board an emigrant-ship. There are lots of chances ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma • Hesba Stretton
... may, perhaps, be pardoned. It was Charles VI., the father of Maria Theresa, a composer of canons and music for the harpsichord, who, upon being complimented by his Kapellmeister as being well able to officiate as a music-director, dryly observed, "Upon the whole, however, I like my present position better!" His daughter sang an air upon the stage of the Court Theatre in her fifth year; and in 1739, just before her accession to the imperial dignity, being in Florence, she sang a duet with Senesino—of Handelian memory—with such ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 7, May, 1858 • Various
... somewhat different from mine," said the old detective dryly. "You needn't explain. Every man must live his own life. But ...
— The Golf Course Mystery • Chester K. Steele
... doing that," observed Blanche Farrow dryly. "Our ancestors lived less comfortably than we do now, Miss Brabazon. Instead of beautiful old Persian carpets, there must have been rushes on all the floors. And as for the furniture of those days—it was probably all made ...
— From Out the Vasty Deep • Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
... rather far behind," interpolated Mr. Staggchase dryly. "She wasn't a Beauchester, you know. However, she has her ancestors safe in their graves so that they can't ...
— The Puritans • Arlo Bates
... dryly. "Still, I'd like to say that there is some reason for believing you to be a badly treated man. You have ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss
... front seat of the motor beside her, Mrs. Ericson looked grim, but she made no comment upon his truancy until she had turned her car and was retracing her revolutions along the road that ran by Olaf's big pasture. Then she remarked dryly: ...
— The Troll Garden and Selected Stories • Willa Cather
... sure you have," she returned dryly, "and you might add that I failed, since Maximilian has not yet abdicated. But Your Excellency is not one to imagine that the end can ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... curious intuitions to which the mind is open at times of profound excitement, Paul knew what her answer would be, but he asked the question. At first his voice made no sound; but he cleared his throat and spoke dryly, and in ...
— Despair's Last Journey • David Christie Murray
... dryly, looking after them. "They haven't got religion enough to carry them over till next week, the most of them, and what they'll do when they really see what kind the Lord is I can't guess! I wonder what they think that rich young man that Jesus loved would ...
— The Witness • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
... the least of it," answered her uncle, adding, dryly, that he thought she troubled herself altogether too much about Anna, who seemed happy ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes
... attributed. The case before him was one concerning the limits of certain land. The counsel having remarked with emphasis, 'We lie on this side, my lord,' and the opposing counsel with equal vehemence having interposed, 'And we lie on this side, my lord'—the Lord Chancellor dryly observed, "If you lie on both sides, whom am I to believe?" It would seem that punning was as great a power in the Law Courts of that time as it is at the present day. When Egerton as Master of the Rolls was ...
— Law and Laughter • George Alexander Morton
... merely the effects of cold she was suffering from, and talked the case over with Miss Adamson, but that lady stoutly rejected Lady Arthur's idea. "Miss Garscube has got over that long ago, and so has Mr. Eildon," she said dryly. "Alice has far more sense than to nurse a feeling for a man evidently indifferent to her." These two ladies had exchanged opinions exactly. George Eildon had only called once, and on a day when they were all from home: he had ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, - No. 97, January, 1876 • Various
... was unpleasantly impressed with her cold, dryly practical manner. He had never seen his benefactor but once, but he could not speak of him in ...
— Trent's Trust and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... other replied dryly, "but to discover one Mr. James B. Coulson, whose health I now have the pleasure ...
— The Illustrious Prince • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... "I'll wait," said Rose, dryly. "How much time should you say would be necessary, Clover? A hundred years? I should think it would take at least as ...
— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge
... Madame de la Roche-Jugan, dryly; "if this be so, I have nothing to say. But there are persons, in that case, who can accommodate their consciences to ...
— Monsieur de Camors, Complete • Octave Feuillet
... is the most thoroughgoing that the world has ever seen; for he attacks the certainty of our knowledge of both mind and matter. But he dryly remarks that his own doubts disappear when he leaves his study. He avoids a runaway horse and inquires of a friend the way to a certain house in Edinburgh, relying as much on the evidence of his eyes and on the directions of his friend as if ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck
... said he dryly; "but as there is no insanity in my family or in yours that I'm aware of, Mrs. Minchin's case is not ...
— Six to Sixteen - A Story for Girls • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... it," answered the senator dryly. "Look here," he continued with asperity, "I've refused to talk to at least two dozen reporters and correspondents to-day. The results of last night's conference will be made public by Senator Goodman and myself at the proper time and place; ...
— The New Boy at Hilltop • Ralph Henry Barbour
... onerous—dreadfully so, in fact, though I believe that the Cubans do not realize it so fully as strangers do. The government is impoverished; the war makes no progress; what becomes of the enormous revenue derived from the taxes? A rich planter said to me dryly, "They are ignorant men: they make mistakes in applying it." Hard things are openly said of all Spanish officials; and all officials, from the captain-general to the harbor pilot, are Spanish. Startling things are heard here every day in political and military discussions. The people think ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, April 1875, Vol. XV., No. 88 • Various
... said that," the Doctor answered, dryly. "They always talked Latin when they had a bigger lie than common to get ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various
... the impossible," explained Dr. Magnus, dryly. "Our failures must be inherent in the ...
— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen
... 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 ...
— Tom Swift among the Fire Fighters - or, Battling with Flames from the Air • Victor Appleton
... sister," he writes, "has sent me a Holy Virgin like the one Rose gave me. She said it was blessed by the archbishop, who said I was good to the priests. I only tell you this," adds the admiral dryly, "to show you that they did not succeed in impressing the bishop with the idea that I had robbed the church at Point Coupee." This is not the only mention of his sister during this time, and it is evident that two years' occupation of New Orleans by the Union forces had done much to mollify ...
— Admiral Farragut • A. T. Mahan
... sent by the congressman from this district," Adam said dryly. "But I'm not so sure they won't grow. Have you noticed how warm it is, how very unlike what it has always been? Let us go to the stables, and see what we ...
— The Master-Knot of Human Fate • Ellis Meredith
... Henry dryly. "I have not done so ill by her hitherto, by thine own showing, that I should not be trusted with ...
— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge
... his place in the House of Representatives; and, for the first and only time in my life, I undertook to philosophize some comfort for him—out of the fact that to the position of authority which he held in Utah a Senatorship was a descent. He replied dryly: "I understand, my son—perfectly." The fact was that he needed no comfort from me or any other human being. He seemed all—sufficient to himself, because of the abiding sense he had of the constant presence of God and his habit of communing with that Spirit, instead ...
— Under the Prophet in Utah - The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft • Frank J. Cannon and Harvey J. O'Higgins
... might have well afforded to lose the experience of being held up in a dull little town that couldn't possibly be of the slightest interest to you," she said dryly, with the obvious ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill
... indeed—the young rascal!" retorted John Pendleton, dryly. Then, with one of the curiously abrupt changes of manner peculiar to him, he said, very low: "You have your mother's eyes and smile, Pollyanna; and to ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... Accordingly, when a young enthusiast rushes to tell Tithonus that a surprising genius has turned up, that venerable and cautious being either puts his hand behind his ear and absconds into an extemporary deafness, or says dryly, "American kind, I suppose?" This coolness of our wary senior is infectious, and we confess ourselves so far disenchanted by it, that, when we go into a library, the lettering on the backs of nine-tenths of the volumes contrives to shape itself into a ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various
... Cousin Benedict, dryly, "learn that Sir John Franklin made a scruple of killing the smallest insect, be it a mosquito, whose attacks are otherwise formidable as those of a flea; and meanwhile you will not hesitate to allow, that Sir John Franklin was a seaman who was as ...
— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne
... you," said Mollie dryly, adding as she cocked one eye at the sun: "Well, let's be getting along. We'll have to hurry and make up ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point - Or a Wreck and a Rescue • Laura Lee Hope
... his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion's sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret. But Boris spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... after the third night, that it was impossible to stay a fourth in that house. Accordingly, on the fourth morning I summoned the woman who kept the house and attended on us, and told her that the rooms did not quite suit us, and we would not stay out our week." She said dryly, "I know why; you have stayed longer than any other lodger. Few ever stayed a second night; none before you a third. But I take it they have been very kind ...
— Haunted and the Haunters • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... conditions of women, I think!" rejoined my father, dryly. "I foresee that the Richmond plan will have to be carried out, after all. Governesses are kittle cattle, at the best. And we have had three of the ...
— When Grandmamma Was New - The Story of a Virginia Childhood • Marion Harland
... ask me, my dear!" said Mr. Montfort dryly. There was that in his look that made Rita blush at last. But in her present ...
— Three Margarets • Laura E. Richards
... "Madam," I replied rather dryly in my turn, "I should be extremely anxious to be agreeable to you, but I am not at all anxious to help ...
— Led Astray and The Sphinx - Two Novellas In One Volume • Octave Feuillet
... responded Mrs. Smithers, dryly. "Begging your parding, Miss, but is that there feller sawin' wood out by ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed
... Pop, dryly. "I see, Bob, but you didn't. How do you suppose a wee chap like me ever gets across ...
— Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts • Roy Rutherford Bailey
... of chocs, myself!" remarked Morvyth dryly. "Fauvette, you're interesting and pretty—when you don't cry (for goodness' sake look at your red eyes in the glass!); but you're as sentimental as an Early Victorian heroine. You ought to wear a bonnet and a crinoline, and carry a little fringed ...
— The Madcap of the School • Angela Brazil
... I stooped very husht and troubled in the mouth of the little cave, I knew that Mine Own sobbed dryly in the back part of the cave. And I had gone to comfort her, but that in the same moment, I saw a naked maid run very swift over the edge of the hollow, and did look over her shoulder, as she ran. And she came to the bottom, and crept ...
— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson
... said Grant dryly as he looked about the room in which they found themselves. "It seems to me that the motto over the door of this place ought to be, 'He who enters here leaves ...
— Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat • Ross Kay
... paternal feelings are not very strong in me," said her son, dryly, "but I have a fancy the boy is mine for all that. Haven't you a letter or a remembrance of some sort to ...
— A True Friend - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... the other dryly. Reaching around he touched Mary's cheek with the back of his finger. "Not mad at your uncle, are you, ...
— Mary Minds Her Business • George Weston
... 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 announced-Mrs. Winthrop, ...
— Stepping Heavenward • Mrs. E. Prentiss
... good deal like being a woman, I reckon," returned Cynthia dryly. "There's a heap in having been born to it. Aunt Polly, have you put the irons on the fire? The first batch ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... "We'll try," said Milligan dryly. "I ain't much of a man myself"—there were dark rumors about Milligan's past and the crowd chuckled at this modesty—"but I'll try my hand agin' him with a bit of backing. And first I want to tell you boys that they ain't any danger ...
— Gunman's Reckoning • Max Brand
... the other dryly, "that we've already made that discovery, Tunis. Trouble is, we ain't fixed right to increase the pay roll. I'd like to know who you'd think would want to sign up on this craft that ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... wonder,' said White dryly, it seemed to me. There was something distinctly odd in his manner. 'And you're ...
— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse
... beginning of the eighteenth century we find new tributaries to this rivulet of scientific thought. In 1701 Father Felix Beaugrand dismisses the Dead Sea legends and the salt statue very curtly and dryly—expressing not his belief in it, but a conventional ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... 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 ...
— The Dominant Strain • Anna Chapin Ray
... startling ovation. Not only were many people gathered about the Yacht Club landing-stage and along the route of his drive, but at one point a number of ladies pelted him with flowers. Startled though the Prince was, he kept his smile and his sense of humour. He said dryly that he had never known what it was to feel like a bride before, and he returned this volley with ...
— Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton
... enough to have a cessation of his peril, stood laughing dryly; but the singing down at the river house was swelling louder and he made another ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... dryly, "the creditors of another family, that sweepit cleaner than this poor man's, because I fancy there was less ...
— Chronicles of the Canongate • Sir Walter Scott
... better move on," said the Parson dryly, "or we shall be having the whole village here presently, gazing on the lord of the manor in the same predicament as that from which we have just extricated the Doctor. Now pray, what is the matter with Lenny Fairfield? I can't ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various
... to me more of the fox," said the physician, dryly, "being golden in colour and very cunning. I doubt you fathomed her smile, ...
— The Lion's Brood • Duffield Osborne
... 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 ...
— Selected Writings of Guy de Maupassant • Guy de Maupassant
... said Bessie, dryly. "She's always wishing for things she doesn't really want at all, because she thinks ...
— The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains - or Bessie King's Strange Adventure • Jane L. Stewart
... again," commented Mrs. Bates dryly. "They all said he'd gone to fill you up, and ...
— A Daughter of the Land • Gene Stratton-Porter
... provocation. Ted Curtis, whose grandfather was George William, did, on the occasion of his seventeenth unnecessary arrest by German guards, express his opinion of his last captor in what he thought was such pure Americanese as to be safely beyond German understanding. But when his captor dryly responded in an equally pure argot: "Thanks, old man, the same to youse," he resolved to take all the rest in silence. And it was only after the third stripping to the skin in a cold sentry post that Robert W., a college instructor, made a mild request to the ...
— Herbert Hoover - The Man and His Work • Vernon Kellogg
... 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 ...
— Under the Great Bear • Kirk Munroe
... to its being old," the Princess answered dryly, "but whatever else it is it's not euphonious," she went on, isolating the word euphonious as though between inverted commas, a little affectation to which the ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust
... Duke dryly. "'Tis always well to have a whole one, and not one with a festering sore, as on the last occasion. Oh yes," he went on, seeing Simon change colour, "you observe I have learned about the old wound, and what is more, I know exactly ...
— Doom Castle • Neil Munro
... is told of one of the druggists of a neighboring no-license town. A man came in and asked for a pint of whisky. He was asked what he wanted it for. His reply was that he wanted it to soak some roots in. He got it, and as he went out he dryly remarked, 'I should have told you that it was the roots of me tongue that ...
— Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why - What Medical Writers Say • Martha M. Allen
... inquired dryly, turning toward Taylor Stribling. But Stribling had silently melted away among the shadows of distant trees along the trail. It was Blatchley Turrentine who stood before him thrusting forward a jeering face in the uncertain half light, while three vaguely defined forms moved ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan
... him, dryly. "If you tried that you'd get a worse shock than any chicken thief will get that tries ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Locomotive - or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails • Victor Appleton
... the 'we,' but I must go alone," said Lord Bellasis dryly. "To-morrow you can settle with me for the sitting of last week. Hark! the clock is striking nine. ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke
... "You bewilder me a little," she said. "You make me feel as if I were in a high wind. You did when we were at school, I remember. Well, don't bother to thank me for having got up this party." She added this a little dryly. ...
— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton
... you would employ me only to accompany your daughter to the Conservatoire, Madame!" said the officer's widow, dryly. "I shall be compelled to refuse your offer. I am unfortunately forced to work to support my two children, but I owe some respect to the name I bear. The Conservatoire is a place of perdition, and I am astonished," she added, "that the professor, ...
— The Idol of Paris • Sarah Bernhardt
... you can't onless you want to hev them scrappin'," rejoined Stillwell, dryly. "What you've got on your hands now, Miss Majesty, is to let 'em come one by one, an' make each cowboy think you're takin' more especial pleasure in showin' him than the feller who came before him. Then mebbe we can go ...
— The Light of Western Stars • Zane Grey
... to the second clerk's elbow at the high desk, saying dryly: "They came to demand those shooting-irons and ...
— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable
... as much," Jerry replied dryly. "I knew he'd keep me out if he could. Just as he will keep me ...
— The New Boy at Hilltop • Ralph Henry Barbour
... loss," said the old man, dryly, "to understand where the assumption comes in, in view of the fact that I have stated, ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... "Marse Holton!" he repeated dryly. "Run along, now, honiest. Unc' Neb gwine be busy. I won't hab dat ar Marse Holton pryin' round dat mare. Hoodoo her fo' suah." He sidled to the stable door, and, careful to see that his bent body hid the operation from the coming visitor, turned the key in the big lock. The ...
— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey
... my credit," Mr. Carne said, dryly, as he took the offered chair, but kept his eyes still upon Cheeseman's; "but among that little is a bond from you, given nearly twenty years agone, and of which you will retain, no ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... "Ay," said Tam dryly, "we hae been diddled sae often wi' bigmoothed men on the make, that it mak's a body ay suspicious when yin hears thae stories. I heard Wiston, the coal-maister, had gien him five ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh
... camps in your day, Mrs. Arnold," retorted the doctor dryly. "Nancy was chaperoned there by Mrs. Warren. Do you ...
— The Lost Despatch • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... I fancy," said Mr. Wilcox, dryly. When all argument failed he had still a chastened delight ...
— The Tysons - (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) • May Sinclair
... the instruments, the Captain never went near Mr Dombey's house, or reported himself in any way to Florence or Miss Nipper. He even severed himself from Mr Perch, on the occasion of his next visit, by dryly informing that gentleman, that he thanked him for his company, but had cut himself adrift from all such acquaintance, as he didn't know what magazine he mightn't blow up, without meaning of it. In ...
— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens
... had been transformed into a banqueting hall, and the magistrates' bench, where habitual criminals were created and families ruined and order maintained, was hidden in flowers. Osmond Orgreave was dryly facetious about that bench. He exchanged comments with other magistrates, and they all agreed, with the same dry facetiousness, that most of the law was futile and some of it mischievous; and they all said, ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett |
