"Acidly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... concentrated his attention on his plate. "How deceptive are appearances," thought Mr. Lavender; "one would say an intellectual, not to say a spiritual type, and yet he eats like a savage, and lies like a trooper!" And the pinchings of his hunger again attacking him, he said rather acidly: ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... shelves of machines, duly boxed and equipped with Mahon units, but not yet activated. Activation meant turning them on and giving them a sort of basic training in the tasks they were designed to do. But also there were machines which had broken down—invariably through misuse, said Sergeant Bellews acidly—and had been sent to the Rehab Shop to be re-trained in their ...
— The Machine That Saved The World • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... positive that Lady Simpson will change her mind when she hears that Pericault's cousins are going," said Mrs. Blithers acidly. ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... humour is in the main kindly, he does not spare the French colonial administration of the time. His treatment of the subject is acidly satirical. It may be said that Daudet seems to know little about firearms, less about lions and nothing about camels, but he is not striving for verisimilitude. After all, the adventures of James Bond do not mirror the reality of international espionage, nor do the exploits of Bertie Wooster ...
— Tartarin de Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet
... acidly; "for then they foam at the mouth, or drool. I never knew he had anything the matter with ...
— Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long |
