"Dryly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nothing to her status," said I, dryly. "She is a Pinckney and a Pemberton besides being a Tallafferr, with two fs, ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... there is plenty of room for that," she said dryly; "but you don't see many ruined castles or historic battlefields en route. And the dust, oh, la, la! And the steam coils under your seat—and the air—and the ...
— A Woman's Will • Anne Warner
... 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 ...
— The Long Portage • Harold Bindloss
... dryly, "this does not require much daring, but it may cause trouble—it may also take up valuable time. I do not ask for any risks, but rather for the employment of the most ordinary qualities. Patience and perseverance will do all that I wish to ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... to say the least of it," answered her uncle, adding, dryly, that he thought she troubled herself altogether too much about Anna, who ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes
... replied Coictier dryly. Then, addressing the archdeacon: "You are clever at your trade, Dom Claude, and you are no more at a loss over Hippocrates than a monkey is over a nut. Medicine a dream! I suspect that the pharmacopolists and the master physicians would insist upon stoning you if they were here. So you deny ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo
... proposition was. But seems to me if it had been mine I'd have found time to yell: 'All right—coming as soon as I can!' as I passed the open window," Nick remarked dryly. "Mrs. May'll think ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... to mind noo, mistress," said Tammas dryly. "Weel, the nicht afore last I gaed to the Hilltap to see Tibby, an' as usual there was a lad or twa in the kitchen, an' the crack was gaun screevin' roond. But I can tak' my share in that," continued Tammas modestly, "so we fell on to ...
— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett
... dryly returned the principal, as he rose and made for his private room. There was a handbowl in there, with hot and cold water, and the principal of the Central Grammar School of Gridley was soon ...
— The Grammar School Boys of Gridley - or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving • H. Irving Hancock
... forgot," she replied. "Boys, this is Laurel—Wild Laurel if you like. Laurel, these are the boys, including my brother. You can easily tell who he is," she added dryly. "More ...
— The Motor Girls On Cedar Lake - The Hermit of Fern Island • Margaret Penrose
... opened his eyes wide and remained gaping, not comprehending the merchant's meaning. Finally he stammered: "You say—are you sure?" The other replied dryly: "You can search elsewhere and see if anyone will offer you more. I consider it worth fifteen thousand at the most. Come back here if you cannot ...
— Selected Writings of Guy de Maupassant • Guy de Maupassant
... the 'adopted' was her will at an early age," said Tatho dryly, "and she learnt early to have her wishes carried into fact. It was notorious that before she had grown to fifteen years she ruled not only the women of the household, but Zaemon also, and the province that ...
— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
... "Well," said Young, dryly, when I had briefly explained these several matters, "I guess he won't pull th' wool over nobody's eyes any more! An' now you an' me 'll do some prospectin'. We must go back upstairs, before we pull out for good, an' bag what there is there ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... "Drake says," Dundee answered dryly, "that Nita told him it was 'back alimony' which she had succeeded in collecting from her former husband. Unfortunately, she did not say who or where the ...
— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin
... that were clipped as even as Mr. Pennock's hedge; and that your lips, without speaking, said, 'Run away, little boy,' but that your eyes said, 'Come here.' Now I think Benny did pretty well." "So I judge, since you recognized me without any difficulty," rejoined Mr. Smith, a bit dryly. "But—YOU—? You see you have the advantage of me. Benny hasn't described you to me." ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter
... part," replied the Earl, somewhat dryly; "but if he be such as you have described him, I agree with Emily in thinking he must be invaluable. And now, John, with respect to another affair—but perhaps this interview may be injurious to your health. Talking much, and the excitement ...
— The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... Bill dryly. "Young man, I'm powerful glad to see you. It's rather chilly out here. I'll take your horse and we'll gather in the dugout and talk over what's happened since we last met. Brick, don't you begin on anything ...
— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis
... her hand. "You bewilder me a little," she said. "You make me feel as if I were in a high wind. You did when we were at school, I remember. Well, don't bother to thank me for having got up this party." She added this a little dryly. ...
— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton
... what other reason she could have for insisting on a personal interview," her brother agreed, dryly. He retired into the Transcript as a Trappist withdraws into his vows. A chastened client of Mr. Fowler's once observed that a half-hour's encounter with him resulted in a rueful of ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various
... 'I was with Davies in the boat just now, but I don't think he introduced me. And now he has forgotten again,' I added, dryly, turning towards Davies, who, having presented himself to Frulein Dollmann, was looking feebly from her to von Brning, the picture of tongue-tied awkwardness. (The commander nodded to me and ...
— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers
... Sir John, dryly. "But I fear my wife is rather tired now, for she has just been very thoroughly examined by this young gentleman. I think we will let it stop at that for the present; though, of course, as you have had the trouble of ...
— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle
... for a book which lay on the table where the tundra daisies were heaped. It was a book written around the early phases of pioneer life in Alaska, taken from his own library, a volume of statistical worth, dryly but carefully written—and she had been reading it. It struck him as a symbol of the fight she was making, of her courage, and of her desire to triumph in the face of tremendous odds that must have beset her. He still could not associate her completely with John ...
— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood
... the cupboard," that person dryly assured me, noting without doubt how my eyes went travelling about the room in my anxiety and impatience. "We are not absolutely sure that she is anywhere. But word has come to us that a girl's face believed to be Hannah's has been seen at the upper window of a certain house in—don't start—R——, ...
— The Leavenworth Case • Anna Katharine Green
... pets," answered Tom dryly, "they are material for use in my experiments. But you may amuse yourself with them ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... not two Cesars," said the stud-groom dryly. "I was ten years at Franconi's and I have seen plenty of horses in my time. Well, there are not two Cesars. And he's ...
— The Phantom of the Opera • Gaston Leroux
... 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. ...
— A Day Of Fate • E. P. Roe
... justice, I believe that the cold-blooded hound has no other wish than to 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 is a ...
— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace
... 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 it ...
— Tanglewood Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... sorry to say that I can't help feeling prejudiced against you," returned the president dryly; "but I won't allow this feeling to injure you if, upon inquiring, I find that you are otherwise an ...
— The Errand Boy • Horatio Alger
... cost, but late in the afternoon reported failure. "I couldn't get one, though I looked in every tent in the other companies." Then he missed our new bench. "Where has it gone?" he demanded. Corder answered dryly, "Back to its original owners, I suppose." But the lantern works better tonight, as the fellows all remark, avoiding mention of the fact that it ...
— At Plattsburg • Allen French
... to stop at your house until the race comes off, or he'll wreck his machine from weakness brought on by starvation," pronounced Mr. Rose, dryly. "One dinner won't carry him through weeks. I ...
— From the Car Behind • Eleanor M. Ingram
... so!" rejoined the potter, dryly; "but since he won't trust us with his precious secret, I think it much more interesting to watch the people crossing the square. The procession must be gathering outside the Dipylon Gate. Yonder rides Themistocles ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... proclivities were somewhat different from mine," said the old detective dryly. "You needn't explain. Every man must live his own life. But tell ...
— The Golf Course Mystery • Chester K. Steele
... 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 any disrespect, but that as ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... at her, smiling dryly. "Pets are strictly against the rules in Shamrock House," she ...
— To Love • Margaret Peterson
... a justifiable risk, even if you had," Forth said dryly. "Jay, I've got the whole story on tape, just as you told it to me. You might not like having a blank spot in your memory. Want to hear ...
— The Planet Savers • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... its being old," the Princess answered dryly, "but whatever else it is it's not euphonious," she went on, isolating the word euphonious as though between inverted commas, a little affectation to which the Guermantes set ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust
... said at the time," observed Madeline, dryly. "It does make me not so bad," she admitted, inspecting herself with a critical air. "I really don't believe you could help it. I ought not to have been so hard on you, poor boy. There! there! I didn't mean that. ...
— Dr. Heidenhoff's Process • Edward Bellamy
... in the house. The tick-tick of the clock, very even, slow, dryly metrical, increased the silence and solitude. I put my ear to the door of the room, in hope of hearing a groan, a word, an insult, anything that would be a sign of life, that might bring back peace to my conscience; I was ready to let myself be struck ten, twenty, a hundred times, ...
— Brazilian Tales • Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
... he interrupted dryly, "but we shall need you ashore; in the first place to indentify this mysterious stranger, and also to help protect the ladies. Their escort, Heaven knows, is not excessive. We take the gig, and if the man fails to appear, or brings even so much as one companion, ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... now, father," said the aide dryly. "Perhaps, upon my return to Frederick I may call ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston
... baker's dozen. Accordingly, when a young enthusiast rushes to tell Tithonus that a surprising genius has turned up, that venerable and cautious being either puts his hand behind his ear and absconds into an extemporary deafness, or says dryly, "American kind, I suppose?" This coolness of our wary senior is infectious, and we confess ourselves so far disenchanted by it, that, when we go into a library, the lettering on the backs of nine-tenths of the volumes contrives to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various
... move on," said the Parson dryly, "or we shall be having the whole village here presently, gazing on the lord of the manor in the same predicament as that from which we have just extricated the Doctor. Now pray, what is the matter with Lenny Fairfield? I can't understand a word of what has passed. You don't ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various
... "Yes," he laughed dryly. "Don't be afraid. It's only I. But, by Jove! how very charming you look in that gown! I'd love to get a snapshot of you just as ...
— The House of Whispers • William Le Queux
... was a night-watchman," she said dryly. She snapped off a thread with a vicious little gesture. "He was a drunken brute," she added vehemently. "We were all glad when he died. Were you ...
— The Beggar Man • Ruby Mildred Ayres
... little chagrined. "So be it," he said dryly. "But at least introduce me to him. I'll ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
... belief," he said, dryly. "You will give me up? Poor child! You cannot, Theodora!"—smoothing her ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various
... Parks, his high school Latin teacher, was there, too. Old J. John Reynolds appeared at the final moment to smile dryly and to flap a ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun
... not going 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 ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... a marquis,' dryly responded Monsieur de Lessay; 'and I mean simply that Bonaparte would have been very well suited had he married one of those cannibal women described by Captain Cook in his voyages—naked, tattooed, with a ring in her nose—devouring ...
— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard • Anatole France
... I ever saw the doctor come down from the clouds enough for that," observed Mr. Barlow dryly; "but I hope his little great-niece—am I right in the pedigree, Oscar?—will set us to rights, and bring in the age of ...
— The Heiress of Wyvern Court • Emilie Searchfield
... relish my questions," he dryly observed. "Perhaps you would rather tell your story without interruption. If so, I beg you to be as explicit as possible. The circumstances are serious enough for perfect ...
— The House of the Whispering Pines • Anna Katharine Green
... to wake up occasionally and you wouldn't be so far behind the times," replied Chuck, rather dryly. "The class is going to Sweet Potato Gulch for a business meeting and wiener-bake. Be sure to be on hand, every ...
— Buffalo Roost • F. H. Cheley
... you might have well afforded to lose the experience of being held up in a dull little town that couldn't possibly be of the slightest interest to you," she said dryly, with the obvious idea of ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill
... the painter dryly, and looked in annoyance from the priest to the picture, and from the picture to ...
— A Foregone Conclusion • W. D. Howells
... very little to my credit," Mr. Carne said, dryly, as he took the offered chair, but kept his eyes still upon Cheeseman's; "but among that little is a bond from you, given nearly twenty years agone, and of which you will retain, no doubt, ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... "Very," said he dryly. And the next thing I knew was that she was sitting beside him on the front seat, and I was tucked in beside Mrs. James, with Basil Norman opposite. Their motor, it seemed, was not behaving well, and Aline was nervous, ...
— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... 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 ...
— In The Ranks - From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House • R. E. McBride
... your misfortune then," he remarked dryly, "that you may not be judged by one with but ...
— At the Earth's Core • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... to be seen," said Grant dryly as he looked about the room in which they found themselves. "It seems to me that the motto over the door of this place ought to be, 'He who ...
— Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat • Ross Kay
... "Myself," Dick said dryly, and had no time for more, for on the second a shiver shook the ship, throwing Mrs. Hayter forcibly against him, and the air was suddenly clamorous with shrill whistles, cries, and the quick throb of ...
— To Love • Margaret Peterson
... the poet, dryly, when Moron-val handed him the coquettish perfumed note. Then the principal grew very angry, as he saw his plans frustrated. "Why would not ...
— Jack - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
... on the right of that hermitage, set up frightful and inauspicious yells. And ugly Vartikas as of dreadful sight, having one wing, one eye, and one leg, were seen to vomit blood, facing the sun. And the wind began to blow dryly, and violently, attracting grits. And to the right all the beasts and birds began to cry. And in the rear the black crows cried, 'Go!' 'Go!' And momentarily his (Yudhishthira's) right arm began to twitch, and his chest and left leg shook (of themselves). ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli
... honorable retirement, but spurned and scourged away like a troublesome dog. He had been in the habit of sending six copies of his journal on fine paper daily to the Tuileries. Instead of receiving the thanks and praises which he expected, he was dryly told that the great man had ordered five copies to be sent back. Still he toiled on; still he cherished a hope that at last Napoleon would relent, and that at last some share in the honors of the state would reward so much assiduity and so much obsequiousness. He was bitterly ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... 'Naturally,' said von Brning, dryly; the joke had apparently ceased to amuse him. 'But you haven't much time then, have you?' he added, 'unless you leave your skipper in the lurch. It's a long way to England, and the season is late ...
— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers
... ask what the joke is?" I said rather dryly (for it is surprising how touchy one can be over one's personal appearance, even at my time of life). He looked up for an instant at me, and then gasped and hid his face again. Slim went up to him and kicked ...
— The Five Jars • Montague Rhodes James
... to bring 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 ...
— Emma McChesney & Co. • Edna Ferber
... replied the lawyer, dryly. "Basset didn't know it, though, nor Jerome, nor scarcely a soul in ...
— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... sometimes called colonel," returned the hunter, dryly, still stroking the horse's neck; "but Daniel's the older title, and a little the ...
— Ella Barnwell - A Historical Romance of Border Life • Emerson Bennett
... Shandon, dryly; "but meanwhile the wind's freshening, and there's no use risking our ...
— The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne
... small baby; he was rightly named Squealer," added Uncle Squeaky dryly. "Well, one stormy night when the snow was packed against the windows so you couldn't even peep out, their old uncle made them a visit. He reminded them that once again it was New Year's ...
— The Graymouse Family • Nellie M. Leonard
... a fourth in that house. Accordingly, on the fourth morning I summoned the woman who kept the house and attended on us, and told her that the rooms did not quite suit us, and we would not stay out our week. She said dryly, 'I know why; you have stayed longer than any other lodger. Few ever stayed a second night; none before you a third. But I take it they have been very kind ...
— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.
... dryly, "What a misfortune to be so passionate! A deep-seated, and, I fear, incurable one, Amy; for of course you have used your utmost endeavors, both by precept and example, ...
— A Grandmother's Recollections • Ella Rodman
... may,' said Theodora, dryly. He began to study the portrait, and saw some likeness, but was distressed by something in the drawing ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... got fingers enough," Uncle Bill said dryly, "and my toes is under cover. It's prob'ly slipped your mind that I was down in south'rn Oregon when you left between two suns; but tain't that"—his old eyes gleamed—"it's what you done last winter—goin' down there deliberate to jump Bruce ...
— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart
... narrowly, but she did not grow pale like a woman whose lover is threatened with mortal peril. She said dryly:— ...
— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke
... sit up if you want to," replied her husband dryly, "but I shall go to bed. Most of these things have been here nigh on to twenty years, an' I guess they'll last the night through." And he marched solemnly upstairs to the big east chamber, meekly followed by ...
— Across the Years • Eleanor H. Porter
... he expressed no surprise and asked her no questions. As a matter of fact, the gossip of the Cook's guide had partly prepared him for Nina's revelation about her aunt's fortune, and he had his own theories about Scorpa. "Quite likely," he answered dryly, "but it is also quite likely that we shall get the better of him——" Then, with a sudden change in his manner he looked at her steadily. "But perhaps you don't want us to get the better ...
— The Title Market • Emily Post
... dryly. "For my own part I am not at all sure that we could not dispense with the musket, which is a heavy, cumbersome thing to carry, and we may never need it. Still, I suppose we may as well take one apiece; we can always throw them away if we find them ...
— Two Gallant Sons of Devon - A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood
... not care to risk having his words carried through the town by the little slave girl Minna, now clattering the breakfast dishes as she moved about the kitchen. "Does Peter Stuyvesant ever need a reason for his follies?" he asked dryly. "His head is as hard as his wooden leg and never a new idea has pierced his brain since the day he was born. He hates our people with as much reason as our black Minna fears witches and the evil eye. It is said that he has written to the directors at Amsterdam, begging ...
— The New Land - Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country • Elma Ehrlich Levinger
... she dryly, "and are now at the Austin Convent. To- morrow, perhaps, we may hear of them ...
— Kilgorman - A Story of Ireland in 1798 • Talbot Baines Reed
... feet of snow now," answered the boy dryly, as 'Merican Joe departed to get their own ax and ...
— Connie Morgan in the Fur Country • James B. Hendryx
... seventy-five; ten are worth an even hundred; seven of the Red Duke stock are good for a hundred and a quarter; the other four Red Dukes and the three Robert the Devils are worth a hundred and fifty a head. The whole bunch, an easy fifty-seven hundred little iron men. Which," he continued dryly, "is considerable more than the thirty-six hundred you're talking about. And, give me six months, and I'll boost that fifty-seven hundred. Lord, man, that chestnut out of Black Babe by Hazard, is a real ...
— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory
... tea—easy enough if you've been brought up that way. I think I'd make more money catchin' codfish, myself," commented the Captain dryly. ...
— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... children!" said the Khoja dryly, "it is good to be provided against everything. I may come ...
— Miscellanea • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... general dryly. "He is an Austrian, and attached to the Austrian embassy here. Of course there has as yet been no formal declaration of war between Italy and Austria, but it has been known for days that war was sure to come. Colonel Fuesco here has been entrusted with important documents relating to ...
— The Boy Allies in Great Peril • Clair W. Hayes
... as much, dryly and quietly, and found himself involved in a discussion, with Joan and Tudor siding against him, in which a more astounding charge than ever he had dreamed of was made against the very English control and reserve of ...
— Adventure • Jack London
... subject-matter of my own modest addresses in this, my maiden campaign. I had the sense to see myself in perspective; to recognize that not for me, a dignified and substantial lawyer of affairs, were the rhetorical flights of the Hon. Joseph Mecklin. I spoke with a certain restraint. Not too dryly, I hope. But I sought to curb my sentiments, my indignation, at the manner in which the working-man had been treated; to appeal to the common sense rather than to the passions of my audiences. Here were the statistics! (drawn, by the way, from the Republican Campaign book). Unscrupulous ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... humor for joking, and begged me dryly not to make fun of him; so I translated her question and my polite offer, which had ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... enough—for a woman," dryly. "But I never heard McCall credited with exceptional ability ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XI, No. 27, June, 1873 • Various
... unpleasantly impressed with her cold, dryly practical manner. He had never seen his benefactor but once, but he could not speak ...
— Trent's Trust and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... the nurse replied dryly. She looked another woman from the nervous, sobbing creature on ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... I'm not so precious a capture," the girl a little dryly explained. "No one has ever wanted to ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 • Henry James
... was so mad as all that," said Mrs Machin, dryly. "This is the most sensible kind of a house I've ...
— The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns • Arnold Bennett
... said the other dryly, "that we've already made that discovery, Tunis. Trouble is, we ain't fixed right to increase the pay roll. I'd like to know who you'd think would want to sign up on this craft that even ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... said Hawks dryly. He walked over from his desk. "I hated to give them the license to operate, but I had to, since I had no valid reason to turn them down. They ...
— On the Trail of the Space Pirates • Carey Rockwell
... her nephew so suddenly while I was strapped by etiquette in my chair, with my face to the window, and two pair of most disconcerting eyes, at least, opposite. I was angry with myself—generally angry—refused more tea rather dryly, and was laconic to Lord Ilbury, all which, of course, was very cross and foolish; and afterwards, from my bed-room window, I saw Cousin Monica and Lady Mary among the flowers, under the drawing-room window, talking, as I instinctively knew, of that ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... presbytery of Edinburgh to present to the Earl of Middleton a petition upon this subject. Middleton told Mr. Dickson "he was mistaken if he thought to terrify him with papers,—he was no coward." Mr. Dickson dryly replied, "They knew well he was no coward ever since the bridge of Dee." This was a skirmish which took place on the 19th of June, 1638, in which Middleton had displayed great zeal for the covenant, in opposition ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning
... they are paying attention to our friend back in the valley," Thorvald said dryly, rightly reading Shann's glance to the clouds overhead. "Ought to ...
— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton
... something to be said for Mrs. Scarlett's methods," said the judge dryly. "The Lafayette Street bill-boards are the best-paying ones in Hyndsville. As to closing the lane, Miss Smith, let me remind you that Doctor Geddes, although an estimable man and a very able physician, is not at all backward in coming forward ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler
... 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
... "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, ...
— Penelope's Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... we stripped our soggy clothes off to swim a river that faced us. In no place did the water come above our knees; but what it lacked in depth, it made up for in coldness. We saw none of the humour in that, so we cursed it and stumbled on, two very tired men. We pulled handfuls of oats and chewed dryly on them as we plunged up to our waists through the crops. We reckoned that we had made thirty miles by morning and apparently had ...
— The Escape of a Princess Pat • George Pearson
... you see that man ridin' through that break on the ridge?" he asked, pointing the place out to her. She nodded, puzzled by his manner. He continued dryly. ...
— The Two-Gun Man • Charles Alden Seltzer |
