"Drily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... 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
... east coast's gone crazy," said the 'copter man drily. "Crazy fools trying to run away. Roads jammed. Work stopped. It leaked out about the planes being wiped out to-day, and everybody in three states has heard those eggs going off. You're the only living man who's seen ...
— Morale - A Story of the War of 1941-43 • Murray Leinster
... doin' some tall thinkin' yourself," said Silent drily; "you guess the cowpunchers are goin' on our trail on their ...
— The Untamed • Max Brand
... BEA. [Drily.] Ay, that Was what she said.—By which I knew, you see, My dream was over,—it could not but be you. So that I said no word, but my quick blood Went suddenly quiet in my veins, and I felt Years older than ...
— The Lamp and the Bell • Edna St. Vincent Millay
... to say the least," remarked Dave, drily. "I guess we've got to sleep with our eyes open, as the ...
— Dave Porter and His Double - The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune • Edward Stratemeyer
... consider yourself graduated, then," said Aunt Phoebe, drily, "for I'll have no such nonsense about me. I can teach you all you need to know outside of what you ...
— The Camp Fire Girls at School • Hildegard G. Frey
... said, drily. "I used to like a kidney, but it's more than three years ago." He stuck his lips out, and raised himself higher than ever on ...
— Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) • Arnold Bennett
... under his breath: "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 dropping in ...
— Old Mr. Wiley • Fanny Greye La Spina
... 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
... Hermit drily. "Well that is how I tried to arrange camp, and you could be within a dozen yards of it on any side without ...
— A Little Bush Maid • Mary Grant Bruce
... actress drily. "Your name on the tag has been scratched out and mine, with this address, written ...
— The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance
... but young yet," he said drily. "After all, youth's youth, sir, and comes but once in a lifetime. And you can't make lads into wiseacres between sundown ...
— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson
... asked drily, "who has the honour of being the embodiment of the Earl of Essex's ideal of ...
— Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) • Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney
... satisfies you," she answered, drily. "It is of a piece with the rest of the reasoning of the royal pedant, whom Master Potts styles ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... rather drily interrupted the flood. Nina gave a startled glance at the lawns and gardens of the Jay mansion already dotted with awnings and chairs, and sprinkled with the bright gowns of the first arrivals. They were early, and their hostess, a handsome, heavily built woman with corsets like armourplate ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris
... silent. He had determined not to bring Varia with him; but Nastasia had not even asked after her, though no sooner had he arrived than she had reminded him of the episode between himself and the prince. The general, who had heard nothing of it before, began to listen with some interest, while Gania, drily, but with perfect candour, went through the whole history, including the fact of his apology to the prince. He finished by declaring that the prince was a most extraordinary man, and goodness knows why ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... he keeps on taking risks just to show off before the girls," observed Thad, drily, "I rather guess he won't grow up at all, but die young. But I'll leave you here, Hugh, as I have a date with some one for half-past ...
— The Chums of Scranton High - Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight • Donald Ferguson
... a beautiful song might resemble the voice of an angel," said Stephanus somewhat drily. "He who plunges into the depths ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... tried London life for a time, but it had been no use. The people she met there were too unlike her, too intelligent and up to date; they went to meetings and concerts and picture exhibitions and read books and talked about public affairs not emotionally but coolly and drily; they were mildly surprised at Mrs. Hilary's vehemence of feeling on all points, and she was strained beyond endurance by their knowledge of facts and catholicity of interests. So she returned to St. Mary's Bay, where she passed muster as an intelligent woman, gossiped ...
— Dangerous Ages • Rose Macaulay
... much," said he drily. "Now, I suppose that you wish me to exert myself in finding ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume II. • Charles Kingsley
... 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 was a scene to gladden the saddest, ...
— The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the - Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) • Thomas Clarkson
... the third of July," replied Dad drily. "So Master Jack will have to stir his stumps if he hopes to pass, for I'm afraid he's rather ...
— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson
... Madison drily. "And don't run away with the idea that I'm joking about this—that goes. I don't expect to make a silver-tongued orator out of you, Flopper, and perhaps not even a purist—but I hope to eradicate a few minor touches of Bad Land vernacular from ...
— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard
... inmates noticed in what a serious and sedate manner she narrated her story, and none ventured to pass any further remarks, but waited anxiously for her to go on, when they became aware that she coldly and drily came to ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... catalogue of his virtues," said Elizabeth drily. "I grant he is perfection and therefore unlovable. All that I asked you out of sheer idle curiosity was: How is your friendship to ...
— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace
... cheer; Your fault was small, for all men hold life dear. We tempted you, my friend, with all our might, And proved you in good sooth a noble knight; A veritable Joseph, sir, you are!" Quoth Gawayne drily, "Thanks, Lord Potiphar! But may I ask you why you played this part?" The other said: "Ask ...
— Gawayne And The Green Knight - A Fairy Tale • Charlton Miner Lewis
... 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 is. But there's something else one of ...
— The Barbarians • John Sentry
... that he does?' said Duke, drily. At which Primrose laughed. 'Have you been asleep, ...
— Wych Hazel • Susan and Anna Warner
... the same Henry Monnier who, meeting him another time on the Place de la Bourse, and having had to listen to another of such mirific demonstrations about a scheme from which both were to derive millions, answered drily: ...
— Balzac • Frederick Lawton
... I get you," Burns cut in drily. "How about that horse of yours? Would you be willing to let me have the use ...
— Jean of the Lazy A • B. M. Bower
... walking round. They're awfully restless. They keep saying I'm restless, but I'm as quiet as a sleeping child to them. It takes," he added in a moment, drily, "the form ...
— The Pension Beaurepas • Henry James
... 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 ...
— My Sword's My Fortune - A Story of Old France • Herbert Hayens
... swiftly enough, and every time that I turned the great towers had grown fainter in the haze; we slid by the green flood-banks, with here and there a bunch of kingcups blazing in glory, the elbows of the bank full of white cow-parsley, comfrey, and water-dock. I heard the sedge-warbler whistle drily in the willow-patch, and a nightingale sang with infinite sweetness in a close of thorn-bushes now bursting into bloom; blue sky above, a sapphire streak of waterway ahead, green banks on either side; a little enough matter to fill a heart with joy. Once I had a thrill when a ...
— The Silent Isle • Arthur Christopher Benson
... just a little," said Samson, drily. "Come from the same part o' Coombeland. Me and him's had many a ...
— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn
... the mourners are uncommon jolly," said Eph, drily, as merry voices and loud laughter ...
— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. • Louisa M. Alcott
... Granville drily, "he knows the value of these things, if you do not. Besides we live in a country where most dealings are in produce. But," he continued, adverting to the first remark, and without seeming to notice the flush ...
— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson
... 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
... be the reason," he said, drily. "If Mr. E. Holliday Kendrick does indulge I guess likely—that is, I presume he would not find it necessary to buy his—er—beverages here. He meant public spirit, of course. He asked me who ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln
... said Mrs. Montagu, drily, "it is not in verse? I can read anything in prose, but I have a great dread of a long ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay
... it is no use blinking the matter," said the soldier, drily. "I must cut your dress if you are ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... Ingamells drily. "You know all about that, don't you?" Clearly she resented that he knew all about that ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... captain was better, in had crawled "this yar abominable egotisk." And he raised a ponderous fist to point the polysyllables: with this aid the sarcasm would doubtless have been crushing; but Fullalove hung on the sable orator's arm, and told him drily to try and speak without gesticulating. "The darned old cuss," said Vespasian, with a pathetic sigh at not being let hit him. He resumed and told how he had followed the Hindoo stealthily, and found ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... 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 ...
— On a Torn-Away World • Roy Rockwood
... the constant attendance of a doctor," said Mrs. Ludlow drily, "which would add considerably to the expenses. I would advise the Shinnecock Hills, for instance, which are swept by sea breezes and so reminiscent of Scotland. Martin would be within a stone's throw of his favorite course, there, wouldn't ...
— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton
... "Yes," drily; "and we saw Sothern and Marlowe and had dinner at the Holland. The rest of the time we talked shop. That was the first visit. The second was more exciting still; we talked shop ALL the time and you took the six ...
— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Fred, drily, "perhaps they've heard the news up there, and some of their boys have started out to see about earning that hundred dollars reward. It might have been telephoned up, ...
— Fred Fenton on the Track - or, The Athletes of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... of bars, which was all he could accomplish, of "Tom Bowling," after which he ejaculated his favourite expression, "Bad cess to ye!" in such a faithful imitation of my friend the boatswain's manner that father smiled with the rest; although he said drily, "Your bird, Nellie, I hope will learn better language when he has been ...
— Afloat at Last - A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson
... 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 mischief. ...
— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones
... universal three-times-three. (Moniteur, Seance du 4 Octobre 1791.) In this manner they begin their Session. Unhappy mortals! For, that same day, his Majesty having received their Deputation of welcome, as seemed, rather drily, the Deputation cannot but feel slighted, cannot but lament such slight: and thereupon our cheering swearing First Parliament sees itself, on the morrow, obliged to explode into fierce retaliatory sputter, of anti-royal ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... spoken so 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 sale of ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac
... retorted drily. "But please ask yourself this question: (it is where, to my thinking, the social and the personal elements join) if this marriage is broken off, is Dick likely to ...
— Witness For The Defense • A.E.W. Mason
... right," Bat broke in drily. "I get all that. But why not marry the gal? Marry her an' quit all this darn argument. I guess this mill's goin' to hand you all you need to keep a wife on. That seems to me the natural answer to the stuff ...
— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum
... 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 nation like ...
— Under the Deodars • Rudyard Kipling
... illness," drily replied the Field-marshal, amid general laughter, "if it's kept him abroad ...
— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... he 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 Seymour I've known since she was a little girl, and whether I'm dead or ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... drily; and, shutting his teeth upon his inherent contempt for a liar, he swung away, acknowledging with a curt nod the civil "Good-arfternoon, sir," that ...
— The Bronze Bell • Louis Joseph Vance
... young student drily. "There, I'm busy now; I'll remember what you said, and, if I can have you with ...
— The Queen's Scarlet - The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne • George Manville Fenn
... enjoyed 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 to ...
— The Riverman • Stewart Edward White
... American, rather drily; 'but I reckon you wouldn't see many beauties till you had a log shanty up, at all events. Now that young man'—he had caught Robert Wynn's eye on him again—'is the very build for emigration. Strong, active, healthy, wide awake: ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... whipped if that ain't a good sermon," said Rupert drily; "and what's more, I can understand it, which I can't most sermons I've heard. But look here,—do you think God takes the same sort of look-out for common folks? Joseph ...
— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner
... 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 ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 • Various
... 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
... sensible man I took you for," replied Darvil, drily; "and I should like to talk to ...
— Ernest Maltravers, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... friend Archdeacon FARRAR," responded the Sage, drily. "What a work! And what a sensation! TALLEYRAND's long-talked-of 'Memoirs' not in it! Do you know, my dear TIME, I think you had better postpone the publication—for an aeon or so at least. Your Magnum Opus might ...
— Punch Among the Planets • Various
... Riviera, in retreat, in a place he is fond of," Mount Dunstan said drily. "He took a companion with him. A new infatuation. He will ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... in," he retorted drily and kissed her. "And I'm here because I couldn't stand The Dreamerie another instant. I wanted my mother and sisters to call on you and thank you for having been so nice to me during my illness, but the idea wasn't received, very enthusiastically. So, for the sheer sake of doing the ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... 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 things. What do these young ladies busy themselves about? ...
— Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth
... the hint premature, my dear,' he returned drily, 'and because it is not our place to warn Mr. Blake off the premises; he is not the first young man, and I do not expect he will be the ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... this man, Sylvester," Cassidy went on. "I had him on the 'phone, too. He says that his house was robbed about eight weeks ago, and among other things the silencer was stolen." Cassidy paused, and chuckled drily. "He adds the startling information that the New Haven police have not been able to recover any of the stolen property. Them ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... 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 passed the bottles of port, sherry, and claret, ...
— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson
... to you at once," he said to her, simply and almost drily, "that really I do not live here. It was only for our own sake ... that I have ... for a short while ... I deemed it prudent ... Vienna, you know, is a small town, and I didn't want to take you into my ...
— Bertha Garlan • Arthur Schnitzler
... 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
... be," the cripple said drily. "But you know him now, and that satisfies me. Now, listen. You see what I have in my hand. Perhaps you are acquainted with ...
— The Mystery of the Four Fingers • Fred M. White
... "Thirty-four." He laughed drily. "We know one another when we meet," he said. He drew his waxed thread between his finger and thumb, held it up to the light, then looked askance at the gossoons about him, to whom what he said was gibberish. They ...
— The Wild Geese • Stanley John Weyman
... little cakes, Julia," said Miss Ronder drily. She, unlike her nephew, bothered about very few people ...
— The Cathedral • Hugh Walpole
... on his face grew to something hard and round and bright. His lips tightened—"is that all?—Good-bye!" His voice sounded in the tube and was gone, and he hung up the receiver. "They make it twenty thousand—for one hour," he said drily. ...
— Mr. Achilles • Jennette Lee
... to the Louvre, sire,' Du Mornay answered drily; while I stood, silent and amazed, before this strange man, who could so suddenly change from grave to gay, and one moment spoke so sagely, and the next like any wild lad in his teens. 'Certainly,' he answered, 'if that be your choice, sire; ...
— A Gentleman of France • Stanley Weyman
... very 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
... purpose of his art, Strickland 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 has done that often enough in stories before now) as from the pseudo-artistic ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 7, 1919. • Various
... the old 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 longer ...
— The Girls of Central High in Camp - The Old Professor's Secret • Gertrude W. Morrison
... Without doubt the Duke was greatly reassured by thy testimony," said his father drily, while the mother, full of pride and exultation in her goodly firstborn son, could not but exclaim, "Daunt him not, my lord; he has done well thus to ...
— Grisly Grisell • Charlotte M. Yonge
... enjoyed your trip abroad very much," Willy said drily and punctiliously; "you were more than a year ...
— Spring Days • George Moore
... was as fond of work as ye be of fightin', Marty," returned Mr. Day, drily, "you sartin ...
— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long
... for our justification;" who is even now at the "right hand of God, making intercession for us?" Who would think that the kindness and humanity, and self-denial, and patience in suffering, which we so drily commend, had been exerted towards ourselves, in acts of more than finite benevolence of which we were to derive the benefit, in condescensions and labours submitted to for our sakes, in pain and ignominy, endured for ...
— A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. • William Wilberforce
... said Martin. "I will be back this afternoon or evening, Lady Splay." He went to the door, but was delayed by a box of Corona cigars upon a small table. "I'll take one of your cigars, Sir Chichester," he said drily. ...
— The Summons • A.E.W. Mason
... 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 ...
— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts
... rode with him were silent for a space. Then the Native Son spoke drily: "About the biggest minutes we get now come ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower
... wallet upon my back, I pursued my onward way along a street that was fenced on either side with a tall palisade. As I proceeded, long grasses kept catching at my feet and rustling drily. And so warm was the night as to render the payment of a lodging fee superfluous; and the more so since in the neighbourhood of the cemetery, where an advanced guard of young pines had pushed forward to the cemetery wall and littered the sandy ground, with a carpet of red, dry ...
— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky
... I replied drily, "that I might be a little de trop, perhaps. Roger might not care for my society ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... hasn't made 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
... what you Churchmen call conscience was the still small voice of the Deity,' replied Graham, drily; 'there is no use in being tautological, bishop. Well, ...
— The Bishop's Secret • Fergus Hume
... ignorance. She also tried to extract Monck's opinion of poor Captain Ermsted's murder. Had it been committed by a mere budmash for the sake of robbery, or did he consider that any political significance was attached to it? Monck drily expressed the opinion that something might be said for either theory. But when Lady Harriet threw discretion to the winds and desired to know if it were generally believed in official circles that the Rajah was implicated, he raised his brows in stern surprise and replied that ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... give it you," he answered, "with full directions. When you meet with a young lady who seems resolutely determined not to speak, or who, if compelled by a direct question to make some answer, drily gives a brief affirmative, or ...
— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney
... trouble," said Cornelius, drily; "they have given us trouble, and they will give us more. The Samnites gave us trouble, and our friends of Carthage here, and Jugurtha, and Mithridates; trouble, yes, that is the long and the ...
— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman
... manifestation 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 ...
— Memories and Portraits • Robert Louis Stevenson
... The clerk laughed drily. "The great Mr. Sherlock Holmes, junior!" he remarked sarcastically. "Rubbish. Run away and don't bother me with your silly detective theories," and turned ...
— The Young Railroaders - Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity • Francis Lovell Coombs
... on guard informed him that the Sultan's Chaszeki Aga had arrived and wanted to speak to him, he drily replied: ...
— Halil the Pedlar - A Tale of Old Stambul • Mr Jkai
... day, when we were deep in the woods, I asked Dr. Sandford if he knew Mr. Davis of Mississippi. He answered Yes, rather drily. I knew the doctor ...
— Daisy • Elizabeth Wetherell
... I experienced as I 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
... 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 set, ...
— Dead Men's Money • J. S. Fletcher
... pity thou art not a man, that thou mightest have had the tonsure," replied Lady Lisle drily. "Ah me, children! If this be physic, 'tis more ...
— Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt
... drawing so glorified a picture of Barbados peeps out at the end of his account, for he drily remarks that the fortifications of the island were most inadequate, and that it could easily be captured by the French; he was clearly making an appeal to ...
— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton
... not think that need deter you," remarked one of the young officers drily. "We are all pretty ...
— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees
... fortune," Trent said drily. "I had to have the money, and you ground a share out of me which is worth a quarter of a million ...
— A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Brinkley, "this soft, heavy sea air will put her to sleep." She tried to speak drily and indifferently, but she could not; she was, in fact, very much interested by the situation, and she was touched, in spite of her distaste for them both, by the evident unhappiness of mother and daughter. She knew what it came from, and she said to herself that they deserved it; but this ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... it up," Nekhludoff replied drily. The falseness of her flattery seemed as evident to him to-day as her age, which she was trying to conceal, and he could not put himself into the right state to ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy
... to a horse when he has to travel back the same road," said John drily; "and your heavy swells take the toll out of horseflesh quicker than a ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... will excuse me," interrupted His Honor, drily, "I'll judge of how I am to charge my Grand Jury. I have been in communication with the family of Mr. Purvy, and it is not their wish at the present time to bring this case before ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck
... you won't," remarked Colon, drily; "but while I've got you held up so neat, I might as well make it ...
— Fred Fenton on the Crew - or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... Jack Hopkins. Jack was at once the Hamlet and the Yorick of the whole entertainment—all-essential to it—whose very look (with his chin rather stiff in the stock), whose very words (short, sharp, and decisive) had about them a drily and all-but indescribably humorous effect. As spoken by the Novelist himself, Jack Hopkins's every syllable told to perfection. His opening report immediately on his arrival, of "rather a good accident" just brought into the casualty ward—only, it was true, ...
— Charles Dickens as a Reader • Charles Kent
... 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
... RANKIN (drily changing the subject). And how have ye been, Sir Howrrd, since our last meeting that morning nigh forty year ago down at ...
— Captain Brassbound's Conversion • George Bernard Shaw
... 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 shows with it—dull shows. So it was part of her scheme for the glory of Beauleigh, ...
— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson
... Dyke, as he rose to his feet, and put the hammer, chisel, and pincers in a leather case buckled behind his saddle, and washed his hands, drily, in sand. ...
— Diamond Dyke - The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure • George Manville Fenn
... and twenty trains daily from the Gare du Nord to Lacville," said the hotel-keeper drily. "A great many Parisians spend the evening there each day. They do not start till nine o'clock in the evening, and they are back, having spent a very pleasant, or sometimes an unpleasant, soiree, ...
— The Chink in the Armour • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... 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 that is not his own. You will see him one day commit some great crime rather ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley
... the Intendant drily; "on other days I daresay you have other fare. I would almost make a bet that there is a pasty in the cupboard which you dare not show to the Intendant of ...
— The Children of the New Forest • Captain Marryat
... captain, drily. "Hold on to the raft," he added, turning to the man who had thrown the rope ...
— Jarwin and Cuffy • R.M. Ballantyne
... man drily. 'Well, Pitt, perhaps you are right; but for me there is this serious objection, that she ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner
... drily. "Every time I touch the circle of your acquaintance, Cavenaugh, it's a little wider. You must know New York pretty well by ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
... 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 ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... 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, he ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner
... began to assert itself in Barney's blue eyes, and he remarked drily, as he took his hat, "Yez moight wait longer ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe
... she said drily, "I do not understand why you decline to believe in God, for it is impossible to believe in man. Hush, do not talk like that. You have too great a nature to take up their Liberal nonsense with its pretension ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac
... 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 ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper
... 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 ...
— The Man-Wolf and Other Tales • Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian
... said Castanier drily. "I have no occasion to fight. I could kill you by a look if I had any mind to do it. I will tell you what it is, youngster; why should I kill you? I can see a red line round your neck—the guillotine is waiting for you. Yes, you will end in the Place de Greve. You are the ...
— Melmoth Reconciled • Honore de Balzac
... long time since we have been here, master Francois," somewhat sarcastically and drily replied Captain Blessington; "and you have not visited us quite so often latterly yourself, though well aware we were in want of fresh provisions. I give you all due credit, however, for your intention of coming to-day, but you see we have anticipated ...
— Wacousta: A Tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy (Complete) • John Richardson
... undeniable," observed Mr. Wyllys, drily. "May I inquire what was the nature of that connexion?" asked the gentleman, with one of ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper
... 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 ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... 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 believe ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
... I don't take it 'tain't his fault. HIS conscience'll be clear. Land sakes! if I could clean house as easy as some folks clear their consciences I wouldn't have a backache this minute. Yes, the wages are agreed on, too. And totin' them around won't make my back ache any worse, either," she added drily. ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln
... 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 were in very ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon
... a 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 ...
— Marcus: the Young Centurion • George Manville Fenn
... labours, and of the fate of his still unpublished works. "Although my wife has more brains than I, who will support her in her solitude, she whom I have accustomed to so much love?" "Certainly," Victor Hugo remarks drily, "she was crying ...
— Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings • Mary F. Sandars
... the Field Marshal, drily, "think it's admirable, always supposing that Mr Castellan is prepared to place this mysterious invention at the ...
— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith
... said the old fellow, drily. "I'm afraid I could, and more than you could me. Now, ...
— The Young Castellan - A Tale of the English Civil War • George Manville Fenn
... 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 ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, - Issue 368, May 2, 1829 • Various
... who was prejudiced in favour of Logan, and his two sovereigns, which now need not be expended in advertisements, was alarmed by the hostile attitude of Miss Blowser. 'There's your cat,' she said drily; 'it ain't stealing a cat to leave it, with money for its board, and to pay for advertisements, in a well-conducted charitable institution, with a duchess for president. And he even left five shillings to pay for the cab of anybody as ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang
... have not done much if you haven't got farther than that," Stephen said drily. "Now, if you had spent the day talking it over with me instead of wandering about like one out of his mind, we should have got a great deal further than that by this time. However, I have been thinking for you. I know what you young ...
— By England's Aid • G. A. Henty
... 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 ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... for a joke, even at his own expense. In the Law Library one day he fell from a step- ladder, bruising himself severely and scattering an armful of books in all directions. An attendant, full of alarm, ran to assist him, but his Honor drily remarked, "That time I was ...
— Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. 1-2 - of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis • Benjamin Perley Poore
... very well know," answered Madeleine drily. "Tell me, Louise, how do you manage to ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... opponents," the old lady said, drily. It was always Lady Anne's way to seem cynical over things, even with those ...
— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan
... replied the Colonel, drily; "the remark is sound and applies to most things. At present, however, I think that she is worse; also I hate the sight of her fat red face. But bother the cook, why do you think so much about her; I ...
— Stella Fregelius • H. Rider Haggard
... responded drily. "You may thank friends nearer at hand, for the Grand Duke knows as little of your existence as your English friends apparently ...
— Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) • Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney
... what he is driving at," he answered drily. "But as to his mother she is not as volatile as all that. I suspect it was business. It may have been a deep plot to get a picture out of Allegre for somebody. My cousin as likely as not. Or simply to discover what he had. The ...
— The Arrow of Gold - a story between two notes • Joseph Conrad
... 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
... said the secretary drily. "The question is, who furnished it. Lord Pilgrimstone, I am authorized to say, has not permitted his note of the agreement to pass out of his possession—even up to ...
— Stories of Modern French Novels • Julian Hawthorne
... was not always marsh, and perhaps the people were not always savage," he said drily, looking down the steep bank, for we were standing by the river. "Look there," he went on, pointing to a spot where the hurricane of the previous night had torn up one of the magnolia trees by the roots, which had grown on the extreme edge of the bank ...
— She • H. Rider Haggard
... noticed it," said the resident drily; "and as Ensign Long is seventeen, and my daughter twenty-three, it will be a most suitable match. But he ...
— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn |
