"Drily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Scotland, and here sit my three sons, each a placed minister of the same kirk.—Confess, Luckie Buchan, you never had such a party in your house before." The question was not premised by any invitation to sit down and take a glass of wine or the like, so Mrs. B. answered drily, "Indeed, sir, I cannot just say that ever I had such a party in my house before, except once in the forty-five, when I had a Highland piper here, with his three sons, all Highland pipers; and deil a spring they could play amang them!"—Notes ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, - Issue 368, May 2, 1829 • Various
... is, Harry,' said Lord Monmouth, very drily, 'members of this family may think as they like, but they must act as I please. You must go down on Friday to Darlford and declare yourself a candidate for the town, or I shall reconsider our mutual positions. I would say, you must go to-morrow; ...
— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli
... expect you 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 once. It is for various subtle reasons which ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... interrupted I drily; "but if I undertake the matter at all, I will undertake it single-handed. Meanwhile, it is so well worth consideration that I will countermand my orders for overhauling the rigging; so, if you have nothing more to tell me at present, Hoard, just ask ...
— The Log of a Privateersman • Harry Collingwood
... too," replied Green, drily; "and I will join you there in ten minutes with any intelligence ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... you would have had a more lively evening," said Holmes drily. "By the way, I don't suppose you appreciate that we have been mourning over you ...
— The Hound of the Baskervilles • A. Conan Doyle
... for a long while. The squinting of his left eye was now very noticeable. "I consider my wife's clerk," he drily said, "to discourse of love in somewhat too much the tone of a lover." And a flush ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... you come and do your work here every day, and then you'd be near if he wanted anything?" asked Philip drily. ...
— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham
... 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 ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... "Just so," he said drily, "but you see there's my niece to be thought of. Look here! We're not at the frontier yet, Mr. Harz, by forty miles; it's long odds we don't get there—so, don't spoil sport!" He pointed ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... this," said Vincent drily, "that you can't be inclusive, and that you ought not to ...
— Father Payne • Arthur Christopher Benson
... Shaykh Mohammed had visited us to propose a march to his home in the east. He was not comfortable; probably his reinforcements had still to arrive: his face was calm, as the Eastern's generally is; but his feet trembled, and his toes twitched. I drily told him of our changed plans, and he left us in high dudgeon. The tragi-comedy which followed may be divided into ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... 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 its much-sought stimulus. And yet but lately, in the corner of my paper, I encountered ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 10, 1892 • Various
... may be wrong, and often am no doubt, But right or wrong with friends with foes 'twill out. Thus 'tis perhaps my fault if I complain Of trite invention and a flimsy vein, Tame characters, uninteresting, jejune, 205 And passions drily copied from [A]Le Brun. For I would rather never judge than wrong That friend of all men, generous Fenelon. But in the name of goodness, must I be 210 The dupe of charms I never yet could see? And then to flatter ...
— Essays on Taste • John Gilbert Cooper, John Armstrong, Ralph Cohen
... as he could the scheme in which he was the most guiltless of accessories after the fact, and Mark kept in the background and said as little as possible; he felt distinctly uncomfortable, however, when Mr. Chilton drily inquired whether the same mystification attached to 'Sweet Bells Jangled,' and on being reassured as to this, observed that it was a little unfortunate that the matter had not been explained before the latter book had been brought out. 'If you think you are prejudiced in any way,' Mark said, flushing ...
— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey
... 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, ...
— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts
... there was no answer to this query, the delegates looking at one another speechless. But at last Baron Beilstein shrugging his shoulder, said drily: ...
— The Strong Arm • Robert Barr
... care to say or do something or other for which I shall get clapp'd up into the Bastile, and that I shall live there a couple of months entirely at the king of France's expense.—I beg pardon, said Eugenius drily: really I ...
— A Sentimental Journey • Laurence Sterne
... me very cunningly, Jurgen, for you are a monstrous clever fellow." This it was that the voice said drily. ...
— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell
... all know that," returned Malcolm drily. "Now, will you answer my question—what brings you up to Lincoln's Inn in this ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... he answered her almost drily. "We can't lead our lives quite alone, you know—every step we take we affect some one somewhere. Your aunt doesn't want ...
— The Captives • Hugh Walpole
... rode with him were silent for a space. Then the Native Son spoke drily: "About the biggest minutes we get ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower
... tranquil manner concealed great clear-headedness and decisiveness. Howard always said that it was a comfort to talk to her, because she always knew what her own opinion was, and did what she intended to do. He found her alone and at tea. She welcomed him drily but warmly. Presently he said, "I want your advice, Monnie; I want you to make up my mind for me. I have a feeling that I need a change. I don't mean a little change, but a big one. I am suddenly aware that I am a little stale, and I wish to ...
— Watersprings • Arthur Christopher Benson
... funeral, the mourners are uncommon jolly," said Eph, drily, as merry voices and loud laughter broke the white ...
— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. • Louisa M. Alcott
... the kind, I can assure you," replied the captain, drily. "It could scarcely be more innocent. He wishes, in fact, to visit his ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 • Various
... nothing," said Nancy, drily. But suddenly, changing her tone and manner, she added, "What I have to say is this. You'll not refuse to me what I wouldna refuse to you, you that are far wiser and better than I am, or ever expect to be? What's the use ...
— The Orphans of Glen Elder • Margaret Murray Robertson
... 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, "What commenced it?" ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... the 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
... tell 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 ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... will be all right,' said Barnet drily. 'But I have a different opinion . . . No, Downe, we must look the thing in the face. Not poppy nor mandragora—however, how ...
— Wessex Tales • Thomas Hardy
... said, drily. "What's the good? We ain't cannibals. But I say, I wish something nice would come along. I know I could hit it. What would you like—a deer? Deer's very good ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... yours," said Burke drily. "And it's about as rotten as it can be. You've put too great a strain ...
— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell
... privileges, as was done in France. Afterwards Napoleon asked many questions about the Cortes, and when Lord John told him that many of the members made good speeches on abstract questions, but they failed when any practical debate on finance or war took place, Napoleon drily remarked: 'Oui, faute de l'habitude de gouverner.' Presently the talk drifted to Wellington, or rather Napoleon adroitly led it thither. He described the man who had driven the French out of Spain as a 'grand chasseur,' and asked if Wellington liked Paris. ...
— Lord John Russell • Stuart J. Reid
... no hurry to let us begin," replied Linforth drily. "There is a Resident at your father's court. Your father is willing, and yet there's not a coolie ...
— The Broken Road • A. E. W. Mason
... the habit of helping ourselves-very much," said one of the highwaymen, drily. "Pray don't apologise on ...
— Stories by English Authors: England • Various
... risen, seemed to take in the situation at a glance. Like a well-bred gamester who knows how to lose with a good grace the old gentleman laughed drily to himself ...
— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini
... dare say, another of your parson friends," said the Consul, drily; "then, I'll just send the coachman with the carriage for Morten and Fanny, and ask them to bring some young people with them: they might find Jacob ...
— Garman and Worse - A Norwegian Novel • Alexander Lange Kielland
... it, and continued a brisk fire till the enemy struck." Then, he continues, Warren "made up to the Invincible" and attacked her, later seconded by Montague. Anson, the commanding Admiral, he adds rather drily, was at ...
— Greenwich Village • Anna Alice Chapin
... little need be said. In youth, like most of his contemporaries, he wrote poems, including a tragedy, of which Tacitus drily observes that they were not better than those of Cicero. A grammatical treatise, De Analogia, was composed by him during one of his long journeys between Northern Italy and the headquarters of his army in ...
— Latin Literature • J. W. Mackail
... of your deeds," answered his sister, drily. "Make haste and busk thee, Jack; thou art wanted to ...
— The Gold that Glitters - The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender • Emily Sarah Holt
... other where he may chance to be," she answered drily. "Never mind, Henri! I shall not let you wander very far. Your supper-party has been delightful—but ...
— A Maker of History • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Captain 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 at ...
— The Red Eric • R.M. Ballantyne
... 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
... I got word last week three or four of my steers was over there. I want to see about 'em. Before," he added drily, "they get ...
— Six Feet Four • Jackson Gregory
... how about you," said the Very Young Man drily, "but I'd much rather take three days to walk down than fall down in ...
— The Girl in the Golden Atom • Raymond King Cummings
... 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 were ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon
... 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, ...
— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton
... adopts a good many," said Uncle John, drily. "It has even been thoughtless enough to ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad • Edith Van Dyne
... didn't," said Blake, drily. "'Twas just the other way. He couldn't be induced to open his head, so his friends took a hand. You got word of the outbreak through your Indian followers. You wrote to Field and sent the note by Pete, ...
— A Daughter of the Sioux - A Tale of the Indian frontier • Charles King
... The carrier remarked drily that he thought that was only natural, and turned his attention to the more congenial task of passing a cart of hay; it was a matter of some difficulty, for the road was narrow, and there was a ditch on ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... to preach about it on Thanksgiving," Miss Jackson opined; and her hostess drily rejoined: "Oh, he means us to give thanks ...
— The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton
... answered Dalrymple, in the correct phrase, but with his peculiar accent. "I suppose you heard my daughter's screams," he added drily. "She was explaining to us how a particular ...
— Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) • F. Marion Crawford
... 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 ...
— The Gloved Hand • Burton E. Stevenson
... like," said the Captain, drily. "There's to be a monitors' meeting at twelve. If you like to come and resign, do so; or if you like to come and hear your name taken off the ...
— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed
... is three miles back," replied the settler. "I guess you must have passed it without seein' it," he added drily. "If it happened to be rainin' when you come through you'd have missed seein' it fer the raindrops. Where you ...
— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon
... the Doctor had written, when I made the same observation to our people, and tried to persuade Haj Ibrahim, the most intelligent of my companions, that there was nothing in this huge block different from the mountain range near it, being of the same stone and consistence, he replied drily, looking at both formations, "Yâkob, it's not true. You see on the Kesar Jenoun the very stones which the Demons have built up like the Castle at Tripoli. When you will be blind, how can you see? Why not ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
... "Not so," Malespini responded drily. "You may thank friends nearer at hand, for the Grand Duke knows as little of your existence as your English friends apparently care ...
— Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) • Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney
... detested such mishaps, which he rightly felt were disastrous for the authority of the School of Arts, made an angry gesture, and drily said: ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola
... "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 of a ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... think it, do you?" said the major, drily. "Then the stores are to walk up to Fort Baker by ...
— For Fortune and Glory - A Story of the Soudan War • Lewis Hough
... minutes together alone," Julian replied drily. "I see to that. Then my mother, you know, has the knack of getting interesting people together. The Bishop is coming, amongst others. And, Furley, I wanted to ask you—do you know anything of a young woman—she is half Russian, I believe—who calls ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... occasion of the wedding; Delphine's present to the bride was a charming set of rubies. Isaure danced, a happy wife, a girl no longer. The little Baroness was more than ever a Shepherdess of the Alps. The ball was at its height when Malvina, the Andalouse of Musset's poem, heard du Tillet's voice drily advising her to take Desroches. Desroches, warmed to the right degree by Rastignac and Nucingen, tried to come to an understanding financially; but at the first hint of shares in the mines for the bride's portion, he broke off and went back to the Matifat's in the Rue ...
— The Firm of Nucingen • Honore de Balzac
... advice," replied Lousteau drily, knowing the passionate disclaimer that Dinah expected, and indeed begged ...
— Parisians in the Country - The Illustrious Gaudissart, and The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac
... 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 ...
— My Little Lady • Eleanor Frances Poynter
... I confess,' said Lady Myrtle drily, and Mrs Mildmay caught for the first time a glimpse of the cold manner the old lady could assume if not altogether well pleased. But in less than an instant Lady Myrtle seemed herself to regret it. 'I mean to say I see no resemblance in Jacinth to Miss Alison Mildmay. Of course I cannot judge as ...
— Robin Redbreast - A Story for Girls • Mary Louisa Molesworth
... understand," 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 ...
— Ensign Knightley and Other Stories • A. E. W. Mason
... coming in, added yet more to my uncertainty, by asking me, in a short way, if I called for anything? to which I replied innocently: "No." But I wished him to tell me where I might get a lodging for that night. He said he would go and speak to his mistress, who accordingly came, and told me drily, without entering in the least into the distress she saw me in, that I might have a bed for a shilling, and that, as she supposed I had some friends in town (there I fetched a deep sigh in vain!), I might provide for myself in ...
— Memoirs Of Fanny Hill - A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) • John Cleland
... incidents in the recent history of human confidence and human expectation! Another friend, Mr George Lynch, whose name occurred in one of his letters in a passage curiously characteristic of Steevens's drily incisive humour, writes about the days that must immediately have preceded his illness: "He was as fit and well as possible when I left Ladysmith last month." (The letter is dated from Durban, January 11.) "We were drawing rations like the soldiers, but had some '74 port and a plum-pudding which ...
— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens
... so transformed, sometimes unconscious of their state," said the general, drily, his eye glancing towards the other end of the room, and lighting upon Lady Bearcroft, who was at the instant very red and very loud; and Lady Cecilia was standing, as if watchful for a moment's pause, in which ...
— Helen • Maria Edgeworth
... said Larry, drily. "But," he continued, "I don't think you will let the steam on this time. ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 • Various
... ma'am," said the storekeeper rather drily, for he did not know but Daisy was thinking a ...
— Melbourne House, Volume 1 • Susan Warner
... of it," McGinnis said drily. "It's inconsequential to the main issue. As for that, I don't know any more than you do. There's never been anything like this. Colonists have been wiped out on other planets, sure; but what happened left traces. This one is an oddball, and I'd say you're as ...
— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton
... Washington, drily, "let me call your attention to the General Order of last August, relative to ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... friends before the Newgate drop, To see a culprit throttled, chanced to stop: "Alas!" cried one as round in air he spun, "That miserable wretch's race is run." "True," said the other drily, "to his cost, The race is run—but, by ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... 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 a ne ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... glad to see you, young man," said the doctor, drily. "Suppose we settle money matters first of all. How much ...
— The Young Outlaw - or, Adrift in the Streets • Horatio Alger
... heroines, since these were so numerous. The exhortation which accompanied these narratives was always the same: "You, too, should try to become famous; would not you, too, like to be famous?" "Oh, no!" I answered one day, drily; "I shall never do so. I care too much for the children of the future to add yet another biography ...
— Spontaneous Activity in Education • Maria Montessori
... grandfather hears of this escapade he won't be under that delusion concerning you any longer," Eleanor said rather drily. ...
— The Rebellion of Margaret • Geraldine Mockler
... abandoned 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
... Diderot petrified at his behaviour. The day of his departure, Diderot's wife saw that her husband was in bad spirits, and asked the reason. 'It is that man's want of delicacy,' he replied, 'which afflicts me; he makes me work like a slave, but I should never have found that out, if he had not so drily refused to take an interest in me for a quarter of an hour.' 'You are surprised at that,' his wife answered; 'do you not know him? He is devoured with envy; he goes wild with rage when anything fine appears ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley
... you have," he replied drily; "but is that all of you? Where's your tooth-brush and comb, ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn
... follow—except in your perverted opinion," observed the professor drily. "We will move no further in this matter until your uncle arrives. Foreman, I wish to have a ...
— The Boys of Bellwood School • Frank V. Webster
... Crossing on my rounds when your note came to Lambert. So I came right on with him." Major Egerton's glance took in Stonor's bandaged skull and dripping clothes, the woman's bound hands, and Imbrie just returning to consciousness. "I judge you've been having a strenuous time," he remarked drily. ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
... up,' said John drily. 'These late nights don't suit her. So you reckon Mr. Twemlow's a good ...
— Leonora • Arnold Bennett
... said Mrs. Selwyn, drily, "I am not romantic;-I have not the least design of doing ...
— Evelina • Fanny Burney
... 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 ...
— The Man-Wolf and Other Tales • Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian
... what my cousin had on him, and what was in his baggage, when I found him dead in his room," replied Allerdyke drily. "And what that was—was just what I should have expected to find. ...
— The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation • J. S. Fletcher
... top off a fresh turnip, but under the air of icy indifference which pervaded his whole exterior I detected a sarcastic smile, which fully convinced me that I was the laughing-stock of man and beast. I took my resolution, and Pere Seguin, who had followed my movements with his eye, said drily, as I was going to put a cap on, "What are you going ...
— Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches • Henri de Crignelle
... if it avails you nothing," said one of them drily. "He is not an especial favorite with us. Return to your room at once. Miss Platanova, call your uncle. It is now necessary to bind the fellow's hands. They are too dangerous to be allowed to roam at large ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... 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 ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... the snug coupe and stylish horses. "No, we don't seem to meet very often," she said drily. "I'm living, though, at the same place," she added, with a ...
— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant
... in the opinion of the author of the Illustrations, for the literary thefts of the preacher than for those of the novelist; since in sermons, Dr. Ferriar observes drily, "the principal matter ...
— Sterne • H.D. Traill
... time for them," said he drily. "And little inclination, I imagine, as you wake up to the sense of how much there is to be learned. Dreaming is the pastime of people who haven't the intelligence or the energy to accomplish anything. If you wish to please ...
— The Grain Of Dust - A Novel • David Graham Phillips
... been a good deal older than his wife, sir, if you sailed with him when a boy," Mulford observed a little drily. ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper
... drily that La Cibot quaked. This starving limb of the law was sure to manoeuvre on his side as she herself was doing. She resolved forthwith to hurry on the ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac
... were 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 ones who threw ...
— The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War • Randall Parrish
... of soap and water, as usual," commented Mollie, drily. "But Nanette can do nothing with them. They are clean one minute—voila! like little Arabs the next! What would you have?" and she threw herself into a tragic gesture, in imitation of the imported French maid, at which ...
— The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale • Laura Lee Hope
... asked Mr. Colquhoun, drily. "I don't believe he's got a heart, the young scamp. I found him myself in the wood, examining the bark of the tree near which the accident took place, you know, on the morning after Richard's death, as cool as a cucumber. ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... gets to know people rather well in times like these," said Jim, drily; but William's face was serene as ever, and even as she ...
— The Day's Work, Volume 1 • Rudyard Kipling
... to his purse or piety, and that they did this not so much to see with as to pray. "Here," he continues, "the great S. Carlo spent his evenings agreeably" (spendeva gradevolmente le notti). "Few," he concludes drily, and perhaps with a shade of the same quiet irony that led the Psalmist to say what he did about "one" day in certain courts, "can leave it without feeling devoutly thankful." About the candles Fassola says that there was a kind of automatic arrangement for getting them like that whereby we ...
— Ex Voto • Samuel Butler
... 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 to get a pair of hoofs fairly planted ...
— The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon - or The Hermit of the Cave • James Carson
... present, very uncomfortably, it is true, in the infamous inn of that nest of savages up there," said the one-eyed cuirassier, drily. "We arrived in your parts an hour ago on post horses. He's awaiting our return with impatience. There is hurry, you know. The General has broken the ministerial order to obtain from you the satisfaction he's entitled to by the laws of honour, and naturally he's anxious to ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad
... As old man Brown drily remarked: "There's one satisfaction about prayin' for rain. If you keep at it long enough, you're bound to get what you're askin' for. Works the same way when you're prayin' for it to stop rainin'. My grandfather once prayed for ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... I could feel that same confidence, Mr. Roebach," said Professor Henderson, drily. "These instruments of mine, however, cannot lie. It is a simple calculation to figure that the moon, now just risen, is thousands of miles out of her course, if we are still on the earth. No, Mr. Roebach, I am stating the exact truth when I say that we have been blown off ...
— On a Torn-Away World • Roy Rockwood
... RANKIN (drily changing the subject). And how have ye been, Sir Howrrd, since our last meeting that morning nigh forty year ago down at the docks ...
— Captain Brassbound's Conversion • George Bernard Shaw
... has deliberately sacrificed his best chance of success by leaving London and burying himself in the provinces," I replied drily; "and as to caring for nothing but writing, why he never gets more than two or three hours a day for it." And then I gave her a minute account ...
— Derrick Vaughan—Novelist • Edna Lyall
... 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 results ...
— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan
... thou what the opportunity may be?" returned Lucas, drily. "Thou art but a babe! Some one should have a care of thee. If I set thee to stand here all day and cry what d'ye lack? or to carry bales of books 'twixt this and Warwick Inner Ward, thou wouldst have ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge
... 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 folly or insincerity; ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge
... what will it grow to?" said Delaine, drily. "Is Winnipeg going to be interesting?—is it ...
— Lady Merton, Colonist • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... think so too," replied Mr Drummond, drily; "we have a great many pictures in England ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat
... every window shuttered; in a thoroughfare which had blossomed with bunting a few days before, not a flag was to be seen. I think that even the Germans were a little awed by the deathly silence that greeted them. As Thompson drily remarked, "It reminds me of a circus that's come to town the ...
— Fighting in Flanders • E. Alexander Powell
... tremor ran around the storekeeper's mouth. His nostrils swelled, and he wrinkled his forehead. "Sorry," he said drily, "but it's my bead." ...
— The Plow-Woman • Eleanor Gates
... I answered rather drily that I was very sorry to hear it. If I must confess the truth, I thought he had come to ...
— Stories By English Authors: Italy • Various
... indeed," commented Roger de Conde, drily. "Not even gratitude could lead a king's niece to receive Norman of Torn on ...
— The Outlaw of Torn • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... takes a good while to get away from a place with a name like that," said Mr. Robey drily. "Well, when he shows up, Otis, tell him to get a move on if he wants ...
— Left Guard Gilbert • Ralph Henry Barbour
... that the fact of your living showed you had not yet paid your debt to life," he said drily, "and I confess that I cannot see any great value in realizing these things you speak of. If they are so, they are so. Let ...
— In the Border Country • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... can assure you," replied the captain drily. "It could scarcely be more innocent. He wishes, in fact, to visit ...
— The International Weekly Miscellany, Volume I. No. 9. - Of Literature, Art, and Science, August 26, 1850 • Various
... 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, ...
— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... as little impressed with my son as I was with his daughter," said Redmond Wrandall drily. "I am forced to confess that he was the better judge. We had ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon
... you," said Ernest Wilton drily; "but you see, old man, elk and wapiti—which are the only species of deer we are likely to meet with here, I think—can be better stalked than run down, as you suggest. However, the mules may come in handy for you, Mr Seth, to run down the buffalo, when they arrive from the southern plains here, ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... the reason," said the city editor, drily. "Go and see her, and get over it. Get her views on the flapper and bobbed hair, for next Sunday. Smith would be ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... view articles of food were things that a gentleman 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, ...
— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson
... of work as ye be of fightin', Marty," returned Mr. Day, drily, "you sartin sure'd ...
— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long
... "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. ...
— The Woman-Haters • Joseph C. Lincoln
... force of character when she's within thirty miles of them," said Sir Tancred drily; and then he went on with more emphasis: "But the banker streak comes out in her; she thinks too much of money. She doesn't understand that money's a thing you spend on things that amuse you; she's always making ...
— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson
... did," McQueen answered, drily, "and with reason, for he was her breadwinner, and now ...
— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie
... 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 their superfluity. ...
— Men in War • Andreas Latzko
... caused by his conduct in the morning. By dint of lying about friendship and fatherhood, he somewhat reassured the susceptible creature, and calmed her troubled spirits. She showed him the way out, and, walking after him, took, childlike, two or three skips for joy. He said, drily, "Little fool!" ...
— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet
... drily. "You know all about that, don't you?" Clearly she resented that he knew all about that ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... tones, cocked an eye up at Bill before he deliberately peeled, from the roll he drew from his pocket, enough twenty dollar notes to equal the number of weeks Bill had worked for him. "And that's paying you darned good money for apprentice work," he informed him drily, a little hurt by Bill's lack of appreciation. For when you take a man from the streets because he is broke and hungry and homeless, and feed him and give him work and clothes and three meals a day and a warm bed to sleep ...
— The Heritage of the Sioux • B.M. Bower
... first. I believe they had to baptize him on the day he was born. What can one expect after such presumption—calling him the New Messiah, and God knows what all. Ours is the only country which did not write fulsome poems about him. "Wise English!" the Tsar Alexander said drily when ...
— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy
... certainly behaved like an escaped lunatic since early this morning, my good de Marmont," he said drily. "Don't you think that—as we shall have to mix again with our fellow-men presently—you might try to behave ...
— The Bronze Eagle - A Story of the Hundred Days • Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
... correct," 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 ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... 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 ...
— His Big Opportunity • Amy Le Feuvre
... Major, drily; "she's so prominent, ma'am, that no one can discover her at all! And it's lucky for us the newspapers know nothing of the calamity. They'd twist the thing into so many shapes that not one of us would ever again dare to look a friend ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society • Edith Van Dyne
... 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
... 'Pothecaries, taught the art By Doctor's bills to play the Doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, 110 Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. 115 These leave the sense, their learning to display, And those explain the ...
— The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems • Alexander Pope
... having it interpreted as an appeal for their kind aid in obtaining his master's forgiveness. Mr. Durance had very considerately promised to intercede. Skepsey dropped a hint or two of his naughty proceedings drily aware that their untutored antipathy to the manly art would not ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... 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
... queer kind of world, I think," answered that lady, drily, sweeping some of the picked beans into her pan: "I get ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Elizabeth Wetherell
... Godfrey drily, "that romance of mine is looking up again. Somebody was preparing for a quiet invasion of the house to-night —somebody, of ...
— The Mystery Of The Boule Cabinet - A Detective Story • Burton Egbert Stevenson
... 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 things. What do these young ladies busy themselves about? ...
— Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth
... you," Burns cut in drily. "How about that horse of yours? Would you be willing to let me have the use of ...
— Jean of the Lazy A • B. M. Bower
... 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 ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert Chambers
... the far-flung banners of the corn take on ripening tints and begin to rustle drily in the breeze. Golden ears, wrapped in tobacco-brown silk, are pushing from tanned and purplish husks. Newly-plowed fields were made possible by the rains which started the grass growing in the stubble, changing the color from amber to emerald and wrought a miracle of verdure in the pastures which ...
— Some Summer Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell
... on that score," said Richard drily. "Her faith is what my good wife taught her, and she hath constantly attended the preachings of the chaplains of Sir Amias Paulett, who be all of your own way ...
— Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland • Charlotte M. Yonge
... man who ever used Lac Tremblant, and the foreman of the Halfway stables cast a glance on me. "If it was me, I'd walk," he remarked drily. "But take your choice. The lake's a short cut right enough, only I wouldn't say where to—in my crazy old birchbark this ...
— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones
... other folk know it. I allow the Bell River folk don't figger to hand over to anybody. Maybe it's hunting grounds, maybe it's fishing. Can't say. But you see this crowd are traveling Indians, or were," he added drily. "We're within twenty miles of Bell River. If they were traveling, which the remains of their teepees make them out to have been, then I guess they weren't doing it for health. More than likely it was ...
— The Triumph of John Kars - A Story of the Yukon • Ridgwell Cullum
... when you hear the rest of the news," his wife remarked drily. "In the meantime, do present ...
— The Great Impersonation • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... knew exactly where to address himself for support, and the right time of availing himself of it. When Talleyrand, one of his most intimate friends, heard of his death, he reflected for a few minutes, and then drily observed, "I can't for the life of me make out what interest Semonville had to serve by ...
— The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; • Various
... his virtues," said Elizabeth drily. "I grant he is perfection and therefore unlovable. All that I asked you out of sheer idle curiosity was: How is your friendship to be ...
— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace
... has then healed him," said Sovrani drily, "It is remarkable!—but if the cure is truly accomplished, we shall have to admit that the Deity does sometimes pay attention to our many prayers, though for the most part they appear to fall upon a deaf, dumb, and ...
— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli
... 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, ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... 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 stand ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers
... 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 getting ...
— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper
... not say where I was going, sir," said the Parson drily, for he was much offended at that vague and ungrammatical remark applicable to his horsemanship, that "he did not look ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various
... in which this was uttered caused Captain Dan to chuckle. "'Tis strange, I'll give in," he remarked, drily. "No accountin' for taste, is there—Well," his gravity returning, "I suppose likely you realize that her mother and I think consider'ble ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... I am concerned, at least," returned Keith drily; "seeing I am already some ten or a dozen years older than you were at the time ...
— Elsie at Home • Martha Finley
... said Miss Sally, smiling drily, for she delighted in nothing so much as irritating her brother, 'that if every one of your clients is to force us to keep a clerk, whether we want to or not, you had better leave off business, strike yourself off the roll, and get taken in execution, ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens
... is why they don't brush their boots and trousers, it's so precious," returned Christie drily. "And have they ever translated this precious dirt into ...
— Devil's Ford • Bret Harte
... 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
... June drily. "From the young man, of course? Well, is he on his way home, and have you got to get a wedding dress in the next ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... a dozen of Sheffield knives, Master," replied Fawkes a little drily: "and by the same token, our next neighbour is selling his coals, and looks not unlike to clear ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... when we was a-driving here, as you are going to live for the Truth and nothing but the Truth. I only mention it," added the old man drily. ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke |
