"Dryly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... proclivities were 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
... 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
... it was," said Farnham, dryly; "I have heard her spoken of as a lady of excellent ...
— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay
... forearms, 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 ...
— Partners of Chance • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... one point," Batley objected dryly. "I'm acquainted with your temperament—it's not one that would lead you into avoidable difficulties. Well, you came through and your cousin died, but you failed to pay me off when you ...
— The Long Portage • Harold Bindloss
... dryly. "I have not done so ill by her hitherto, by thine own showing, that I should not be trusted with her for ...
— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge
... to rig the other derrick to bear on the situation. Little Jim dropped to the ground and managed to grip his father's hand, protruding from under the debris. But the boy could not speak. He only sobbed dryly and clung desperately to the ...
— Still Jim • Honore Willsie Morrow
... 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, ...
— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne
... face was inscrutable. "I think nothing, sire," he said dryly. "It is for your Majesty and your council to think. It is enough for me that it is the ...
— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman
... "Quite marvellous," said Salemina dryly; "or at least the state in which it comes back is marvellous. I am not a stickler for dates, as you know, but if you could only contrive to fix a few periods in your minds, girls, just in a general way, you would not be ...
— Penelope's Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... in the morning; and then write to the doctor, I presume, as Mr. Merton's hand is too lame for him to write. It will be as he thinks best," answered Seabrooke, dryly. "I do not wish to talk about ...
— Bessie Bradford's Prize • Joanna H. Mathews
... press was now becoming a power in Europe, diffusing intelligence and giving freedom to thought and expression. The diet, after listening patiently to the arguments of the emperor and the requests of the pontiff, dryly replied— ...
— The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power • John S. C. Abbott
... does not appear to retain its usual influence in this part of Canada," he said dryly. "Possibly, however, the man was too embarrassed by your evident ...
— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss
... safe," he said dryly, and pushed him gently towards the door with a few words in rapid Arabic. He stood some time after Gaston had gone to his own quarters looking out into the night, and when he came in, lingered unusually over closing the flap. Diana stood hesitating. ...
— The Sheik - A Novel • E. M. Hull
... only a step to the development of a humor of his own, doubling, as it were, their sportive resources. He found himself discovering a new droll aspect in men and things; his phraseology took on a dryly playful form, fittingly to present conceits which danced up, unabashed, quite into the presence of lofty and majestic truths. He got from this nothing but satisfaction; it obviously involved increased claims to popularity among his parishioners, and consequently magnified ...
— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic
... Oriental imagination he swore positively to the finding of the chariot-wheels, and added the jewelry of Pharaoh's household. He was so earnest and so exact in the matter of the golden wheel, set with precious stones, that, though the captain dryly asked if he did not meet King Pharaoh himself, taking a moist throne and keeping court with the fishes, he none the less had the line attached and drew up—the rude wheel of a Tartar wagon, transformed under water, but plain ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873. • Various
... 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 these philosophic ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck
... he overheard Captain Robins ask Dow what the day's cut had been. "Well, Bill cut down fifty-three," answered Dow. "I cut forty-nine, and the boss," he added dryly, not realizing that Roosevelt was within hearing—"the ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn
... "Thanks," commented Tom dryly. "But there are several things to be worked out before we can start. I've got to devise some scheme for carrying a sufficient quantity of chemicals, and invent some way of releasing them from an airship over the blaze. But that last part ought to ...
— Tom Swift among the Fire Fighters - or, Battling with Flames from the Air • Victor Appleton
... again," said the porter, dryly, "after he had something to eat, for we are short-handed in the off-season, and I stopped up myself to see he got it. I didn't see him come ...
— The Shadow of the Rope • E. W. Hornung
... any overt sign of being impressed. 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 ...
— This World Must Die! • Horace Brown Fyfe
... you didn't do that," said Calhoun dryly. "Besides, you'd get deadly bored if we were stuck in a derelict waiting for our air and ...
— This World Is Taboo • Murray Leinster
... by no means as much delighted at these fine things as her daughter had expected; and Mr. Learning dryly observed, "I see that you have troubled Mr. Arithmetic, the ironmonger, as little as Mr. History, the carpet manufacturer; and however pretty your fancy articles may be, I must just venture to remark that a poker is more useful than porcelain, a mat than a gilded French mirror, and that, ...
— The Crown of Success • Charlotte Maria Tucker
... where, under David's superintendence, a couple of labouring men had a long task to cut up old wood and wheel it away, to be stacked in the coach-house and a shed. The great millstones were left—for ornament, Uncle Richard said; and as for the old iron, he said dryly to Tom, as ...
— The Vast Abyss - The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam • George Manville Fenn
... manageable ward," said the guardian, dryly, and with, perhaps, a shade of distrust in ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... dryly, "that that gentleman was of some very noble kin; and I will surely tell him all that has befallen here as soon as I return ...
— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley
... new idea in the application of science to crime!" he remarked, dryly. "Just suppose it ...
— The Film Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve
... deserve these praises, have the goodness to dispense with them," said the notary, dryly, with difficulty concealing his anger. "To the Lord alone belongs the appreciation of good and evil; I am only a ...
— Mysteries of Paris, V3 • Eugene Sue
... of the Budget said dryly: "We all know what would happen. President Folsom XXV would take office. No; we've got to keep plugging as before. Nothing short of the invincible ...
— The Adventurer • Cyril M. Kornbluth
... as though Corrigan had considered that phase of the matter," dryly observed Judge Graney. "The case doesn't look very hopeful. However, I shall take it before the Circuit Court of ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer
... a mortal hurry, seeing that Saint Peter has hung so long undisturbed in Delgratz," said Felix dryly. "Moreover, it will clear the air if I tell you that the lady is not in Paris, so I cannot possibly give you her answer before ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy
... growing gray and sickly. He stared at the stern eyes before him, and could make no answer. His lips moved dryly, but ...
— From the Ranks • Charles King
... Dr. Mayhew dryly. "That's very unfortunate too, for," continued he, taking out his watch, "I haven't time to explain myself just now. I have an appointment four miles away in half an hour's time. I am late as it is. Williams will get you some lunch. Tell Fairman I shall see him before night. Make ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843 • Various
... Royce dryly. "I'd hurry if I was you, Steve. But, say!" He slapped his leg and jerked up his head. "How about the old Indian Valley, Drop Off Valley, as they call ...
— Man to Man • Jackson Gregory
... see," Aunt Emmy remarked dryly, adding: "But that can wait for the moment. What was this ridiculous wager all about, and how did you get into ...
— Anything Once • Douglas Grant
... dryly, helping himself to the coveted cakes and passing the plate over Hippy's head to Mrs. Gray, "I prefer to do my ...
— Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... I'm not so precious a capture," the girl a little dryly explained. "No one has ever wanted to keep ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 • Henry James
... be afraid of his catching cold; it is better to catch cold than to be reckless. Never complain of the inconvenience he causes you, but let him feel it first. At last you will have the windows mended without saying anything. He breaks them again; then change your plan; tell him dryly and without anger, "The windows are mine, I took pains to have them put in, and I mean to keep them safe." Then you will shut him up in a dark place without a window. At this unexpected proceeding he cries and howls; ...
— Emile • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
... for a few moments after Mr. Thornton had finished reading the letter. He folded the paper and then said dryly: ...
— Drusilla with a Million • Elizabeth Cooper
... the girl now." Grant spoke dryly. "I don't want to. If I'd held a tomahawk in one hand and her flowing locks in the other, and was just letting a war-whoop outa me, she'd look at me—the way she did look." He snorted in contemptuous amusement, and gave a little, writhing twist of his slim body into his trousers. ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower
... commented dryly. "In other words, Hawkins was in Miss Jeremy's house when, at the second sitting, she told ...
— Sight Unseen • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... reddish, flaked stain. Phlegmatically he wetted his finger tip on his tongue, rubbed the stain and held up his finger for Lone to see. "That's a damn funny place for blood, when a man is dragging on the ground," he commented dryly. "And something else is ...
— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower
... 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
... he had to endure the patronage of the young soda-clerks. They were as damply friendly as Miss Sonntag was dryly hostile. They called him "Old Georgie" and shouted, "Come on now, sport; shake a leg" . . . boys in belted coats, pimply boys, as young as Ted and as flabby as chorus-men, but powerful to dance and to mind the phonograph and smoke cigarettes and patronize Tanis. He tried to be one of them; ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... is my law, sir," said Mercy, dryly, and retired to the window-seat; that was the first obvious preliminary. Then she fiddled with her apron, and hemmed, and waited in hopes a reprieve might come; but a peevish, relentless voice ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various
... said the reverend gentleman, dryly—"I think that this is one of those cases of which I just spoke to you. I judge from the general appearance of the party that they are about to ascend, as they call it here, to a ...
— Shapes that Haunt the Dusk • Various
... word Heron began to walk very fast. Justin kept at his side, but did not speak until they had nearly reached the car which contained Clo. Then he warned Heron hastily that the girl had had an accident. "That is," he corrected himself, dryly, "she was shot by the leader of the band that's after you. If you want to tell her here and now what you think you are to each other, I don't forbid it. Happy news seldom hurts. (By the by, she explained to me that she came over to America because she thought ...
— The Lion's Mouse • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... laughed dryly. 'Will you believe me or not?' he continued. 'Look here, I swear by the cross'—he crossed himself spaciously, bowing to the images of the saints—that fellow's eyes became glassy... his jaws chattered as in a fever. ...
— Selected Polish Tales • Various
... said King Pluto, rather dryly. "But I can see plainly enough, that you think my palace a dusky prison, and me the iron-hearted keeper of it. And an iron heart I should surely have, if I could detain you here any longer, my poor child, when ...
— Tanglewood Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... secure her money. His acquaintance with White, who is on the verge of ruin, enabled him to get to know the girl. He persuaded her to come here and a flat was found for her. Partly," said the lawyer dryly, "because this block of flats happens to be her own property and the lady who is supposed to be the landlady ...
— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace
... steak off him, that's certain," remarked Dale, dryly. "An' maybe none off any deer, ...
— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey
... said he, dryly, "that Monsieur the Judge has so little confidence in me that he thinks it necessary to ...
— The Mystery of Orcival • Emile Gaboriau
... Hilbrook stopped, and swallowed dryly. Ewbert noticed how he had dropped more and more into the vernacular, in these reminiscences; in their controversies he had used the language of books and had spoken like a cultivated man, but now he was ...
— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells
... a little dryly—"yes, perhaps. I don't want to seem critical, but isn't your figure somewhat ...
— Jason • Justus Miles Forman
... make the scientific world gape in a much easier way," Leonard replied, dryly. "Well, Amy, if you are as fond of honey as I am, you will think a swarm of bees a very nice present. Fancy buckwheat cakes eaten with honey made from buckwheat blossoms! There's a conjunction that gives to winter ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... theories," I put in dryly. "When they are wrong they mislead you, and when they are right they are ...
— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone
... dryly, "you speak Italian as though it were French. Italian is too delicate a language ...
— Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service - or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty • H. Irving Hancock
... idea," replied the manager dryly. "I only know that we are bound to follow those instructions, and can let you have but forty dollars, which is the price of a first-class ticket to New York by steamer. Moreover, as this is sailing day, and the New York steamer leaves in a couple of hours, I would advise you to engage ...
— Under the Great Bear • Kirk Munroe
... said dryly, "thee has considerable untamed human nature." Then added, smiling, "I'll trust him with thee, nevertheless. I'm inclined to think that for her sake thee'd do more for him than for any man living. Now ...
— A Day Of Fate • E. P. Roe
... I was forced to do," answered Philip Bartlett, dryly. "But you will not be so badly off, Mr. Bangs. Your stock is worth at least ...
— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.
... I illustrate, Mrs. Morgan," she said dryly. "The real brigands of life come in the shape of lawyers' clerks with writs and summonses. It's a relief from those mad fashion plates I draw, anyway. Do you know, Mrs. Morgan, that the sight of a dressmaker's shop window makes me ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... glad to use the word in my sketch of Mr. Bassett," remarked Dan dryly. "It will lend ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson
... present, it is your duty to attend to those socks of Ralph and Arthur's," put in Pamela, dryly. "Perhaps you had better see to it at once, as tea will be ready soon, and you will have to ...
— Theo - A Sprightly Love Story • Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett
... Blackhawk, I should prefer that you not tell me or anyone else aboard the method you will use; and that you make your method as difficult as possible to discover. This I shall leave," he added dryly, "to your rather ... ...
— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond
... each other. It is a well-known anecdote that Sir Joshua, at a dinner, gave the health of Gainsborough, adding "the greatest landscape painter of the age," to which Wilson, at whom the words were supposed to be aimed, dryly added, "and the greatest portrait painter too." We can, especially under circumstances, for there had been a coolness between the President and Gainsborough, pardon the too favourable view taken of Gainsborough's landscape pictures. He was unquestionably much greater as a portrait painter. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. • Various
... wanting to go on shore," he observed dryly; "one would suppose you were born on shore. However, as you conduct yourselves well, you may have the leave your friend asks for, and may return by the ...
— Paddy Finn • W. H. G. Kingston
... paper," said Janet, dryly. "Figures are no' dollars. And if your folk have been thinking that the minister and his family hae been living only on the bits o' things written down on your paper you are mistaken. The gude money that has ...
— Janet's Love and Service • Margaret M Robertson
... the privileges of rank, Carew," the Captain observed as dryly as if he had not risen from his warm bed to swim the river and walk a mile in the darkness and the downpour, in order to see how the new boys ...
— On the Firing Line • Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller
... know nothing of such things," he rather dryly allowed. "You're too sound a sleeper to hear the ...
— A Passionate Pilgrim • Henry James
... Frank said dryly, "that the fetishes of the black man have any effect upon the white men. A fetish has power when it is believed in. A man who knows that his enemy has made a fetish against him is afraid. His blood becomes like water and he dies. But the whites do not believe in ...
— By Sheer Pluck - A Tale of the Ashanti War • G. A. Henty
... musicians 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 ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 7, May, 1858 • Various
... answered dryly, and for an instant there was a twinkle in his eyes. Yet he added, "To make a correct diagnosis it is important to know all ...
— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant
... up painting entirely," he answered dryly. Her unjust flattery was as apparent to him to-day as was her age, which she attempted to conceal. Try as he would, he could not force ...
— The Awakening - The Resurrection • Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
... give the 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 that he ...
— Father Payne • Arthur Christopher Benson
... pigeons?" she asked, dryly, jerking her head toward the two birds, which she had seen drop from her Eden skies a short ...
— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker
... it?' said Simon dryly. 'Klaus is King of the Dwarfs, is he? Then if that's the case, he shall perform a trick for us directly. Now I give you all warning, young and old, not to stop his pipe, or fill his glass again, till he fiddles himself into a fit, and glass and ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Vol. 56, No. 346, August, 1844 • Various
... from their elevation, and took part in an intricate maze of dance, the Polish spectators remarked, in the excess of their admiration, that the French ballet was something that could be imitated by none of the kings of the earth. "I would rather," dryly adds a contemporary historian, "that they had said ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird
... Sir Walter laughed dryly. 'The selection of Alloa shows their acumen. Which of us was likely to speak to him about tonight? Or was he likely ...
— The Thirty-nine Steps • John Buchan
... 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
... a gesture. "I can depend upon you because it is to your advantage to serve me well," he said dryly. "Also, because if you didn't—" He left the sentence unfinished but Francois understood; in that part of the Czar's kingdom where the prince came from, life was held cheap. Besides, the lad had heard tales from his father—a garrulous Gascon—of his excellency's ...
— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham
... 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
... be thankful for small favors," Fraser said dryly. "She figures me up a skunk, but hates to have me massacreed in her back yard. Ain't that about ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine
... murdered Thomas a Becket.' For, 'the Pope banning, cursing, and excommunicating,' a 'Miraculous Penance' was imposed on the Tracys, 'that whether they go by Land or Water, the Wind is ever in their faces.' Fuller, who gives this information, concludes dryly: 'If this was so, it was a Favour in a hot Summer to the Females of that Family, and would spare them the use of a Fan.' On William de Tracy himself fell the special curse, that ever after his death he should be compelled to wander at night—some ...
— Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts • Rosalind Northcote
... that address," said Raymond, dryly. It was from Jacob, and filled with good wishes for us both. He listened to it in silence. I said how glad I was to find that at last he looked upon me merely as a friend. "You little know how to read between the lines," was his sober comment. ...
— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis
... 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
... sunk in Havana Harbor," rejoined the American Admiral, dryly. "That incident sent two nations to war. Might not something like the 'Maine' affair be attempted ...
— Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service - or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty • H. Irving Hancock
... Mr. Payne, dryly, "nobody challenged the will, and so it was probated. I should, myself, doubt the good sense of a man who would fasten such an ugly name upon a boy whom he had never seen, and who never did him ...
— Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long
... were already in the field, running down among the corn rows. Over them waved the highest blades of the corn, still rustling dryly in ...
— The Border Watch - A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand • Joseph A. Altsheler
... I reckon the parsons are responsible for floating 'Im, and that they made a precious good thing out of bearin' stock in Heaven until the purchasers began to ask for delivery, and after that...." He chuckled dryly. "I've lived with one or two of 'em, and, if I may say so, sir—I know ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... seems," said the earl, dryly; "perhaps you will tell me who this lady is, and why she ...
— A Mad Love • Bertha M. Clay
... with confident ease. "He has every reason for supposing me in California at this moment; besides, he does not know me well enough to be able to recognize me under a good disguise; our acquaintance," he added dryly, "has been somewhat one sided, with the advantage so far on my side. When I told you that I knew Mr. Belknap well, I did not intend to imply that he knew ...
— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch
... sooner the quicker," said Miss Gibbons dryly. "You came all at once and I guess it's just as well you should go the same way. I guess neither of us is sorry you came, and I hope you'll never be sorry ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster
... had tried to make a careless one, curled his lip satirically as he bowed in reply. "It is the first time," he said dryly, "that I believe I have been honored with arranging a tryst for two lovers; but believe me, Mistress Thankful, I will do my best. In half an hour I will turn my prisoner over ...
— Thankful Blossom • Bret Harte
... discovered that some one had drawn up her window shades. Carley promptly pulled them down and settled herself comfortably. Then she heard a woman speak, not particularly low: "I thought people traveled west to see the country." And a man replied, rather dryly. "Wal, not always." His companion went on: "If that girl was mine I'd let down her skirt." The man laughed and replied: "Martha, you're shore behind the times. Look at the ...
— The Call of the Canyon • Zane Grey
... met him when he came to our office in the State House to look up the land grant papers. We became friendly and I asked him to call because we own the old Valdes house, and I thought he would like to see it." She added, rather dryly: "You ...
— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine
... at the dam for hours: but he never throwed himself in. Since he took to bed, we keep him up with broth and sech as we have,—Sally an' me. Sir? Afford it? Hum! We're not as well off as we have been," dryly; "but I'm not a beast to see a man starvin' under my roof. Oh, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 • Various
... it myself," he said, dryly. "But it left me with a little less conceit and a little more sympathy with the hallucinations of others ...
— The Spectre In The Cart - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page
... within about four inches of his feet. The latter were encased in raw-hide boots, into the top of which, most of the time, his pantaloons were stuffed. He wore a soft felt hat which had at one time been black, but now, as its owner dryly remarked, 'it had been sunburned until it ...
— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell
... dryly, as his left drove in a blow that sent the young Indian to his back on the turf. Frightened screams came from some of the young Indian girls, who gazed dismayed at the human whirlwind into which Stacy ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon - The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch • Frank Gee Patchin
... very complimentary to the police," said Venner, dryly. "I marvel that such distinguished scoundrels ...
— With Links of Steel • Nicholas Carter
... nothing for the wheels and pulleys," dryly interrupted the man, with a critical look at her flushing and ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 • Various
... Euripides's day is the conception of the 'galante Ritter' setting out in search of ladies that want rescuing." He might have brought out the humor of the matter by quoting the characteristically Greek version of the Perseus story given by Apollodorus, who relates dryly (II., chap. 4) that Cepheus, in obedience to an oracle, bound his daughter to a rock to be devoured by a sea monster. "Perseus saw her, fell in love with her, and promised Cepheus to slaughter the monster if he would promise to give him the rescued daughter to marry. The contract ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... at a loss," said the old man, dryly, "to understand where the assumption comes in, in view of the fact that I have ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... dreaming myself," Johnny interposed dryly. "I'm awake now. Listen here, Bland. I've been playing square with you, all along. I want you to get that. I can see how you being so darn crooked yourself, you may always be looking for some one to do you, so I ain't kicking at the stand you take. You've got ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... know her can alone imagine the satire contained in that remark, dryly said in a tone which meant, "I should ...
— The Lily of the Valley • Honore de Balzac
... to take," rejoined Monck dryly. "I applied for leave instead. In any case it is due to me, but Dacre had his turn first. The Chief didn't want to grant it, but he gave way in the end. You boys will have to work a little harder than usual, ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... dryly. "You are paid for your cobbling; you are better off than I am. I haven't a rap, and am in debt besides. I was going to ask you if you couldn't lend me a franc. You ...
— Veronica And Other Friends - Two Stories For Children • Johanna (Heusser) Spyri
... with his raised eyebrows; then he said simply and rather dryly—"Ah!" After this he remarked to Mrs. Penniman that if she walked so slowly she would attract notice, and he succeeded, after a fashion, in hurrying her back to the domicile of which her ...
— Washington Square • Henry James
... his comrade dryly, "I'm thinking Captain Lawton will count the noses of what are left ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper
... much sleep," I said dryly. For he looked horrible. There were lines around his eyes, which were red, and his lips ...
— The Case of Jennie Brice • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... comfortable where they are," responded Rebecca dryly. "I can't stop to measure insteps on algebra days; I've noticed your habit of keeping a foot in the aisle ever since you had those new shoes, so I don't ...
— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... not," he said, dryly. "Well, I've been busy with men—with plans. Things are working out to my satisfaction. Red Pearce got around Gulden. There's been no split. Besides, Gulden rode off. Someone said he went after a little girl named Brander. I hope he ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey
... nothing of finger-prints," said Malcolm Sage dryly. He never could resist a sly dig at Scotland Yard's faith in finger-prints as clues ...
— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins
... which I trust you will imitate in yours, captain," Cappy Ricks snapped dryly. "Is Reardon ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... fortunate," grunted the Honorable Milton, dryly. "Seems to me you are allowing your imagination to run away with you, young man. Advise ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse
... at Kilby. "We seem to have escaped arrest by something like five minutes," he remarked dryly. "Were you able to bring ...
— The Other Likeness • James H. Schmitz
... 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 has exposed his hand. ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon
... captain, dryly. "That's why she went scurrying off as though she had got a train to catch, and he stood there all that time looking after her. And, besides, every time he sees me, in some odd fashion your name ...
— Salthaven • W. W. Jacobs
... little dryly, "I was not aware of that. Thank you for the information. I am sorry you ...
— Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... returned from Macassar with another officer, and that they would come on board and dine with me. When dinner was over, I asked Le Cerf, among other conversation, while we were taking our wine, what was become of his expedition to Bally; to which he answered dryly, that it was laid aside, without saying any thing more upon the subject. On the 23d, he returned to Macassar by sea, and the other officer, who was also an ensign, remained to take the command of the soldiers that were ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr
... argument ferro et igni. Bismarck's policy in 1859 would have been neutrality, with a certain leaning towards Napoleon. This advice, given by every post from St. Petersburg to Berlin, caused him to be accused of selling his soul to the devil, on which he dryly remarked that, if it were so, the devil was ...
— Cavour • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
... we advanced some distance toward the enemy. Skirmishers were thrown forward, but no serious fighting took place. As the skirmishers were going out, Chaplain Delo dryly inquired if he might not accompany them, giving as his reason that he would like to get Captain Coder's horse killed if it could be done conveniently. He had charge of a horse belonging to the captain, who had displeased him about something in connection with the ...
— In The Ranks - From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House • R. E. McBride
... never apologetic," Osborn said dryly. "As a rule, they're not truculent, but they're ...
— The Buccaneer Farmer - Published In England Under The Title "Askew's Victory" • Harold Bindloss
... said Pat, 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 have been like, ...
— The Witness • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
... and dashed out of the room with his characteristic impetuosity. When he had gone, Thorndyke turned to the detective, and remarked dryly: ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman
... moral values of our mutual behavior," Odal said dryly, "it is evident that there is no longer any use in calling on telepathically-guided assistants, I shall face the Watchman alone during the second half ...
— The Dueling Machine • Benjamin William Bova
... you do 'zactly like I say. Besides," she added dryly, "if it comes to the worst, ain't you ready an' waitin' ...
— Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories • Alice Hegan Rice
... 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 keep ...
— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner
... dryly and sarcastically, after a pause of astonishment; "and may I ask where the three hundred guineas are to come from? for I suppose the borrowed horse will have ...
— Amos Huntingdon • T.P. Wilson
... no great satisfaction to the woman to whom he addressed them, however. She thanked him dryly, as women do when their brain is dragged into an ...
— Emma McChesney & Co. • Edna Ferber
... so," commented Merrill, dryly, though privately interested and fascinated, for Mrs. Hand had always seemed very attractive to him. "I ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... well friended by many ladies, some of account, and some of none at all, by what I hear," said the friar, rather dryly ...
— The Forest Lovers • Maurice Hewlett
... Professor Ashmore, whose well-known work on "Hieratic Writings" is so widely accepted an authority on that fascinating subject, looked across to Simpkins, who for some minutes had been sitting quietly in a corner of his study, and observed dryly: ...
— The False Gods • George Horace Lorimer
... sure," remarked Ransford dryly. "They all like to shift the blame from one to another! But," he added, looking searchingly at her, "you don't know ...
— The Paradise Mystery • J. S. Fletcher
... you'll have to do without the services of Dave Barret though, sir," commented Connel dryly. "He's got a previous engagement on a prison asteroid and it's going to take him ...
— Sabotage in Space • Carey Rockwell
... fellows who may be shot would be unable to come to life again," observed the skipper dryly. "To my mind it's not fair to send men on ...
— The Three Lieutenants • W.H.G. Kingston
... the Provost uncomfortable. "Ay," he said dryly in his throat; "verra good, baker, verra good!—Who's yellow doag's that? I never saw the beast about ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown
... with her in sport, and thereby causing her to drink more than usual—which he also pretended to do. Upon rising from the table the King, seeing the Princesse de Conti look extremely serious, said, dryly, that her gravity did not accommodate itself to their drunkenness. The Princess, piqued, allowed the King to pass without saying anything; and then, turning to Madame de Chatillon, said, in the midst of the noise, whilst ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon
... the price of the ticket to Chicago? You know we haven't more than a dollar between us?" suggested Eleanor, dryly. ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... "Well," said Quatermain, dryly, and with something like a twinkle in his brown eyes, "it is very hard fortune for a man to have to follow on Good's 'spoor.' Indeed if it were not for that running giraffe which, as you will remember, ...
— Maiwa's Revenge - The War of the Little Hand • H. Rider Haggard
... pine-trees behind her, and find herself once more steaming back to London, carrying in her hand a fine blue and white travelling-bag, worked for her by her two little friends, but at which Lady Barbara had coughed rather dryly. In the bag were a great many small white shells done up in twists of paper, that pretty story "The Blue Ribbons," and a small blank book, in which, whenever the train stopped, Kate wrote with all her might. For Kate had a desire to convince Sylvia Joanna that one was much happier without being ...
— Countess Kate • Charlotte M. Yonge
... letter that he had been toying with. "Better cancel," he announced, dryly. "It's a good excuse, and I'm a little pressed for money. It will delay a ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie
... made that statement just now through exasperation with us and the questions we put to you, which you consider trivial, though they are, in fact, essential," the prosecutor remarked dryly in reply. ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... shall never become a horseman," said the professor dryly, and with a little half smile, visible in the moonlight. "But I can ride ...
— The Boy Ranchers - or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X • Willard F. Baker
... dryly and said: "I can't give you any definite instructions except, generally, to keep away from the fleet—especially at night. You may approach and hail us in the daytime if you have occasion to do so, but if you come within five miles ...
— Campaigning in Cuba • George Kennan
... when they've been proven guilty, according to the laws of this city; and not before," answered the sheriff dryly. "We'd give a dog a fair trial in this town before we'd hang him. Come, you can tell your stories to the alcalde," and, still keeping a tight grip on the collars of Thure and Bud, he started down the street toward the office of the alcalde, ...
— The Cave of Gold - A Tale of California in '49 • Everett McNeil
... fortunate," commented Cyrus dryly, "for I don't believe Susan would give a red cent for what I'd think if she once took a fancy. She'd as soon elope with that wild-eyed scamp as eat her dinner, if ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow
... Sommers replied dryly, pointing to the huddle of tents and pine sheds that formed ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... what's in it first," he remarked dryly. And he adjusted the box upon its side, and with some blows of an axe burst the lock open. I threw myself beside him, as he replaced the box on its bottom and removed the lid. I cannot tell what I expected; a million's worth of diamonds might ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... to the Cigarette, "They must have a curious idea of how English servants behave," says he, dryly, "for you treated me like a brute beast ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 1 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... you know' (a nod from Brown, who looked grave and anxious), 'and he and you will put that back. You needn't be in the least alarmed; it's perfectly safe in the daytime. You know what I mean. It lies on the step, you know, where—where we put it.' (Brown swallowed dryly once or twice, and, failing to speak, bowed.) 'And—yes, that's all. Only this one other word, my dear Gregory. If you can manage to keep from questioning Brown about this matter, I shall be still more bound to you. Tomorrow evening, at latest, if all goes ...
— Ghost Stories of an Antiquary • Montague Rhodes James
... "It ought," he dryly replied, and he jerked up the head of his pawing horse. "Here, you! I guess it's high time we were starting in, ma'am. Kid may think he's to lay over at the ranch until morning. We want to get him out here before dusk. I don't reckon there's any show ...
— Out of the Depths - A Romance of Reclamation • Robert Ames Bennet
... it over," besought the other woman eagerly. "Think that Carol will marry, and that Clarence—" Her ardent tone dropped suddenly. There was a moment's pause. Then she added dryly, ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris
... it you want?" asked the mistress of the house dryly; she had followed her visitor in, and planted herself in front of him to examine ...
— The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales • Various
... informed me that after consultation they had concluded that it was foolhardy to follow the Confederates into the gorge we were travelling, and that unless I could show them satisfactory reasons for changing their opinion they would not lead their commands further into it. I dryly asked if he was quite sure he understood the nature of his communication. There was something probably in the tone of my question which was not altogether expected, and his companions began to look a little uneasy. He then protested that none of them meant ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox |
