"Dryly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... minds as exclusively a glorifier of mutinous emotion and the apologist of lawless love, must have been taken aback by these pages, in which she had devoted her most fervent energies to tracing the spiritual history, peu recreatif, as she dryly observes, of a monk who, in the days of the decadence of the monastic orders, retained earnestness and sincerity; whose mind, revolted by the hypocrisy and worldliness around him, passes through the successive stages of heresy and philosophic ...
— Famous Women: George Sand • Bertha Thomas
... but dryly treated, as if it might be a commercially calculating or interested one. "Oh, ...
— The Outcry • Henry James
... to the left." Bryce said dryly, "Put away that needle gun and buy something legal that kills." He handed back a sheaf of letters, memos and graphs. "Read these and learn." For some ...
— The Man Who Staked the Stars • Charles Dye
... San Juan," Sommers replied dryly, pointing to the huddle of tents and pine sheds that formed the ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... retorted Tom, dryly, not feeling guilty of a lie since he was certain the other would ...
— The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless - The Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise • H. Irving Hancock
... Kit said dryly. "You are going, anyhow. If you deliver the letter I'll give you to some people in Mobile, they'll find you a job. The rest will depend ...
— The Buccaneer Farmer - Published In England Under The Title "Askew's Victory" • Harold Bindloss
... him when the proceedings are over," retorted the old lawyer, dryly. "They daren't touch him while he's giving evidence and that's all we want. Perhaps he won't come?—Oh he'll come all right if we make it worth his while. A month in Norcaster gaol will mean nothing to him if he knows there's a chance of that reward or something substantial out of it at the ...
— Scarhaven Keep • J. S. Fletcher
... friend, you are continually doctoring that clock, and yet it never goes well. Now if I were to treat my patients in such a way, I should lose all my credit. What can the reason be that you mistake so egregiously?" The man dryly replied, "The reason why you and I, Sir, are not upon a par is plain enough—the sun discovers all my blunders, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 12, No. 336 Saturday, October 18, 1828 • Various
... you are a Frenchman," commented the Marquis dryly. "You said you came from Aumenier. I did ...
— The Eagle of the Empire - A Story of Waterloo • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... think that's just where you ought to be," said Mangan, dryly, "instead of in this town of London, at the present moment. I declare you've quite bewildered me. If you had told me you were engaged to that tall salmon-fishing girl—you used to talk about her a good ...
— Prince Fortunatus • William Black
... said Thirlwell dryly. "There is nothing else to do. In the meantime, if I can't be useful, ...
— The Lure of the North • Harold Bindloss
... but he contrived to 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 ...
— Father Payne • Arthur Christopher Benson
... the Gilbert and Sullivan operas is treated with cruel levity. Turn, by the way, to another great social satirist, Moliere; one finds again that love sometimes is ignored, and when handled at all often treated dryly, or as a matter of little moment. Our most popular comedy, The School for Scandal, though it has a reconciliation business, is quite independent of any sentimental matter of importance. In several of the works ...
— Our Stage and Its Critics • "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
... he said, dryly. "You will give me up? Poor child! You cannot, Theodora!"—smoothing her head ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various
... bring a duke home." It was too dark for Fitzgerald to see the twinkle in the eyes of his future father-in-law. "If worst comes to worst, why, you can be my private secretary. The job is open at present," dryly. "I've been watching you; and I'm not afraid of your father's son. Where's ...
— A Splendid Hazard • Harold MacGrath
... trifle dryly. The little nurse was revealing more than she dreamed. There was romantic admiration in every note in her voice. I was not quite sure that I ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... he has no need of additional stimulants," said Mrs. Aylett, dryly, again resorting to her smelling-bottle. "From what the gentlemen say, I judge that he had laid in a supply of caloric sufficient to last through the night. And the first use he would make of fire ...
— At Last • Marion Harland
... they don't," replied Whittaker dryly. "What did you pay, Jerrard, for having your canoe and ...
— The Rainy Day Railroad War • Holman Day
... said dryly. "You came within an inch of having a bronze plaque erected to your memory as one who fell in ...
— Smugglers' Reef • John Blaine
... dryly. "Was you ever troubled by their leaking, when you rolled them through the mud from the well ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various
... patience. He had within him the violent irritability of the negro blood, which he did not acknowledge, but which slightly tinted his complexion. The manner of Madame Steno's former lover seemed to him so outrageous that he replied very dryly, as he opened the door, in order to oblige ...
— Cosmopolis, Complete • Paul Bourget
... acute and persevering botanists, and has added many a new treasure to the Flora of these isles; and one person, at least, owes him a deep debt of gratitude for first lessons in scientific accuracy and patience, - lessons taught, not dully and dryly at the book and desk, but livingly and genially, in adventurous rambles over the bleak cliffs and ferny woods of the wild ...
— Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore • Charles Kingsley
... when it comes to that," Hitty said dryly. "They won't take a hint, but the harder you kick 'em the better for all concerned. Don't you go sticking up for that low-down loon. He ain't ...
— Outside Inn • Ethel M. Kelley
... anything drop!" Starr told him dryly. "You're into something deeper than county work now, ole-timer. This is Federal business, remember. Come on back and stall around some more, and let me go on about my own business. You can get word to me at the Palacia if you want me at the ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower
... 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 ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill
... thousand or not ten hundred either," answered John dryly. "He may have a thousand or two about him by this time. If you take my advice you will go back home and not risk your necks by ...
— Roger Willoughby - A Story of the Times of Benbow • William H. G. Kingston
... roused from his absorption. He immediately noticed Blake's expression, and dryly ...
— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet
... I said dryly, "that undertakers' assistants are jovial young men. A man's sense of humor seems to be in inverse proportion to the gravity of ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... recovered from the effects of it. Lady Arthur convinced herself that it was not merely the effects of cold she was suffering from, and talked the case over with Miss Adamson, but that lady stoutly rejected Lady Arthur's idea. "Miss Garscube has got over that long ago, and so has Mr. Eildon," she said dryly. "Alice has far more sense than to nurse a feeling for a man evidently indifferent to her." These two ladies had exchanged opinions exactly. George Eildon had only called once, and on a day when they were all from home: he had written several times ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, - No. 97, January, 1876 • Various
... oppressed with nightmare, and I could scarcely withdraw my eyes from the sofa where my wife was sitting. She was talking now to Professor Black, who had just been introduced to her; and I felt a sudden fury in my heart as I thought that he was perhaps dryly, coldly, studying her, little knowing what issues—far-reaching, it might be, in their consequences—hung upon the truth or falsehood of his strange theory. They were talking earnestly, and presently ...
— The Return Of The Soul - 1896 • Robert S. Hichens
... been at her too," he said dryly. "She had a fainting-fit just now in His Majesty's presence; and they have been ...
— Oddsfish! • Robert Hugh Benson
... dryly, "I guess likely we'd better go, hadn't we? If it is as bad as all that I should say we had, sure and certain. Primmie Cash, I'm ashamed of you. Mr. Cabot, we'll finish our talk when we come back. What under the sun you can possibly mean I declare I don't ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln
... 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
... 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 attending it, may ...
— The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... soon be a right smart settlement up near the headwaters of the creeks, I shouldn't wonder. The cow business is getting to be a mighty profitable one when you don't own any," Buck said dryly. ...
— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine
... not go quite so far as that," said Madame de Nailles, dryly. "It is enough for me that she produced an illusion of such beauty upon you. Now ...
— Jacqueline, v1 • Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc)
... Tullia had pronounced his verses bad, replies dryly:) Yes, your countrymen who boasted of having made themselves masters of the world, had scarce conquered the twentieth part of it. We have at this moment, at the further end of Europe, an empire larger ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, - Issue 566, September 15, 1832 • Various
... you do 'zactly like I say. Besides," she added dryly, "if it comes to the worst, ain't you ready ...
— Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories • Alice Hegan Rice
... at Kilby. "We seem to have escaped arrest by something like five minutes," he remarked dryly. "Were you able to bring the ...
— The Other Likeness • James H. Schmitz
... didn't approve of their plans at all, so the only thing left for me to do was to say what I thought about it. It is news to me that being indignant and expressing yourself rather—well, rather forcibly, is noble and generous. Though," dryly, "I'm rather glad it is so, for it will be easy for me to ...
— Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall • Jean K. Baird
... former's library. Nothing had been said during their walk down the hill, and nothing seemed likely to proceed from Frederick now, though his father waited with great and growing agitation for some explanation that would relieve the immense strain on his heart. At last he himself spoke, dryly, as we all speak when the heart is fullest and we fear to reveal ...
— Agatha Webb • Anna Katharine Green
... 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
... young man dryly, "I will let you have your head, so to speak, as long as you go the ...
— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... longer what it has been," said the young Consul dryly, closing the thick ledger. He then held out his hand to Morten over the table, and said, "Best ...
— Garman and Worse - A Norwegian Novel • Alexander Lange Kielland
... so special, if so be as it means that!' rejoined Goody dryly. 'It don't mention any sort in pertikler. It just says "thy father an' thy mother"; and that's all you and I've got to do with it. Let's look to our part, and perform it. But folks is always in such a hurry to settle other people's ...
— The Captain's Bunk - A Story for Boys • M. B. Manwell
... just so," Miss Joliffe said dryly, feeling a little hurt at what seemed like any lack of ...
— The Nebuly Coat • John Meade Falkner
... elegant gill-branches, and reopen them as soon as they had righted themselves." Such are some of the animated charms of Paul and Virginia's island. Of Bernardin Saint Pierre's romance as an illustration of the spot, Mr. Pike dryly observes that writers when about to draw largely on their imaginations should be careful to conceal the actual whereabouts of their stories: we live in an age of exploration that is sure to "display their ridiculous side when reduced to fact." There was, however, a ...
— Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. • Various
... 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 ...
— Thankful Blossom • Bret Harte
... much hope," he replied dryly. "I've been riding around this eternal grass for nigh a week. God knows where I haven't been during that time. Nobody ever did brag about the ideas I've got in my head, not even my mother, and any I have got have just been chewed right up to death till there isn't a blamed thing ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum
... lawless rascals in England can devise, and to keep pace with every such invention that comes out. In the Courts of Justice, the materials of thousands of such stories as we have narrated - often elevated into the marvellous and romantic, by the circumstances of the case - are dryly compressed into the set phrase, 'in consequence of information I received, I did so and so.' Suspicion was to be directed, by careful inference and deduction, upon the right person; the right person was to be taken, ...
— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens
... justice, which has its roots in constitutional liberty and means equal rights and opportunities.... I claim no right or privilege for myself that I would not give to my mother, wife and sister and to every law-abiding citizen." When he had finished his mother rose and said dryly: "That, dear women from the north, east, south and west, is one of Mrs. Duniway's ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper
... my dear Selina," said he, dryly—how Hilary started to hear the stranger use the household name—"but I can't see that it's my business to interfere. I marry you, I don't ...
— Mistress and Maid • Dinah Craik (aka: Miss Mulock)
... knew something of it since he had become acquainted with her in London. The Countess spoke not till the King asked her, and then owned dryly, that she had necessarily some habitual means of intercourse with one who had been immediately about her person for so ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott
... Ibrahim dryly. The word means "very well." The tone implied that when the emergency should come we should do well not to depend on him, for ...
— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy
... a goin' 'long with yer, Cap," he acknowledged, dryly. "I never wus no quitter, but this yere trip don't look so damned easy ter me, fer all thet. Howsumever I reckon we'll pull through som'how, on fut, er hossback. I'll wake up thet dark gurl ...
— The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War • Randall Parrish
... were produced at the breakfast table. But speech-making was not the order of the day. Too many thundering addresses had been delivered in the Salle de St. Cecile, to allow the company to sit and hear dryly written and worse ...
— Three Years in Europe - Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met • William Wells Brown
... village of Vodna can have the quality of hot white plush of enormous nap, so dryly thick it packs into the angles where fences cross, sealing up the windward sides of houses, rippling in great seas across open places, flaming in brilliancy against the boles of ever so occasional trees, and tucking in the houses up to the sills and ...
— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst
... Mr. Bickford dryly. "It reminds me of a little incident in my own life. I'll tell you about it, if ...
— Joe's Luck - Always Wide Awake • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... game defined the terse, dryly humorous style since expected in text adventure games, and popularized several tag lines that have become fixtures of hacker-speak: "A huge green fierce snake bars the way!" "I see no X here" (for some noun X). "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." "You are in a little ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... terms it, reached the ears of George II. "He would not say so," observed the king, dryly, "if he had been used to hear many." [Footnote: This anecdote has hitherto rested on the authority of Horace Walpole, who gives it in his memoirs of George II., and in his correspondence. He cites the rodomontade as contained in the express despatched ...
— The Life of George Washington, Volume I • Washington Irving
... guess you'd be, too, Urner, if you could get such a nice girl to notice you," returned Tom dryly. And then he added: "You must remember we ...
— The Rover Boys In The Mountains • Arthur M. Winfield
... more communicative in men's society than with ladies," Machiavel dryly replied: perhaps rather disappointed that the port wine had not made ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... find myself attacked by footpads I'll just look up Mr. James Brown," I told him dryly with intent ...
— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine
... then, if you please, when I have more leisure than I have now," Jack retorted, dryly. "This ...
— The Submarine Boys and the Middies • Victor G. Durham
... ain't so thrillin' you need to go into a thousand pieces over it," commented the Cape Codder dryly. "Some friend of Mr. Crowninshield's 'pears to be comin' down here on the afternoon train bringin' with him his wife—either ...
— Walter and the Wireless • Sara Ware Bassett
... 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 ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various
... said he dryly; "but as there is no insanity in my family or in yours that I'm aware of, Mrs. Minchin's case is not much to ...
— Six to Sixteen - A Story for Girls • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... 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
... 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 ...
— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham
... prompt action upon it: a captain of one of the great liners between Hamburg and New York told me that when his ship was ready to sail the Emperor came on board, looked it over, and after approving various arrangements said dryly, "Captain, I should think you were too old a sailor to let people give square corners to your tables." The captain quietly acted upon this hint; and when, many months later, the Kaiser revisited the ship, he said, "Well, captain, I am glad to see that you have rounded the ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White
... to endure it all very well to-night," said her companion dryly. "Shall I get you an ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney
... canon of the Church, Olaf, which forbids intermarriage between a god-parent and his or her god-child," she replied dryly. "Whether this canon has come to the Augusta's memory or not, I cannot ...
— The Wanderer's Necklace • H. Rider Haggard
... Benedict, 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, that Sir John Franklin was a seaman who was as ...
— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne
... are always 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 first boat ...
— Paddy Finn • W. H. G. Kingston
... can't count her in with this select aggregation," Vera said dryly. "Helen's gone, too, but her going ...
— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester
... the blarney stone, Mr. O'Connor," returned the revolutionist dryly. "Well, then, what do you want me ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine
... her husband! The anxiety for his welfare that she had shown just now quite touched a soft spot in Mr. Ridgett's dryly official heart. ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... Bohemia in a cab?" laughed Afra dryly. "People have been known to drive out in their own carriages, but they always make their first appearance there on foot, or at best ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various
... said Mrs. Prentiss dryly. She added, holding out her hand with a charming smile: "But later, I was so proud to have known Gisela Doering, that personal curiosity seemed impertinent. How we have missed your ...
— The White Morning • Gertrude Atherton
... head, and the officers started back with an "Ah!" of surprise. The Doctor called them as they turned away, and asked for a pass for the young ladies. They came back bowing and smiling, said they would write one in the house, but they were told very dryly that there were no writing accommodations there. They tried the fascinating, and were much mortified by the coldness they met. Dear me! "Why wasn't I born old and ugly?" Suppose I should unconsciously entrap some magnificent Yankee! What an awful ...
— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson
... 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 ...
— Countess Kate • Charlotte M. Yonge
... 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
... of that statement will occur to you in a while," he said dryly. "And truth is a defense against a claim of libel. But to get back to purpose. Our second purpose tonight is to get it through your thick head, Mr. Robertson, that the Lodge insists on its right to control your actions insofar as they involve ...
— Card Trick • Walter Bupp AKA Randall Garrett
... am in a nest of conspirators," he remarked, dryly. "There is no longer any doubt about it. I do not know, Baron Domiloff, what magic you use to pervert honest men, but your success is certainly astounding. ...
— The Traitors • E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
... dryly. "And now, Mr. Smithers, I'm going to do for you what this paper has never done even to its most popular author in ...
— The Booming of Acre Hill - And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life • John Kendrick Bangs
... the premises, I fancy," said Mr. Wilcox, dryly. When all argument failed he had still a chastened delight in mystifying ...
— The Tysons - (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) • May Sinclair
... advice and don't," Brooks answered, dryly. "They might be reminded of the people who clamoured for bread and were offered a stone. Do your duty here. Keep your pledges. Speak in the House with the same passion and the same eloquence as when you sowed hope in the heart of those suffering thousands. Some ...
— A Prince of Sinners • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... caused to be served up; and not only did he call upon the Herr Administrator to join him in his encomiums, but he also asked him pointedly what he thought of various ways of dressing dishes. The Herr Administrator replied somewhat dryly that he was a temperate and abstemious man, accustomed from his youth up to the greatest frugality. At noon, for dinner, he was satisfied with a spoonful or two of soup and a little piece of beef, but ...
— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann
... Shandon, dryly; "but meanwhile the wind's freshening, and there's no use risking our ...
— The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne
... understand," said Sharpe dryly. "By the way, next Tuesday I am to be voted upon in the Idlers'. You are on the board of governors up there, ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester
... of Lady Theobald, as any ordinary man would," he had said dryly to Barold, on their return to his house. "But my awe of her is not so great yet that I shall allow it to interfere ...
— A Fair Barbarian • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... their social tete-a-tete over the luncheon-table. There was small danger that this heady wine of woman's praise would make him betray himself; there was no sign of gratified authorship in his voice as he quietly laid down the paper and said dryly: "I am afraid I can't help you. You know ...
— A First Family of Tasajara • Bret Harte
... in Oglethorpe's face. The young Englishman, looking straight at the prince, and smiling, said, "My prince, that is only a part of the joke as the English know it: I will show you the whole of it." With that he threw a glassful of wine in the prince's face. An old general who sat by laughed dryly, and remarked, "He did well, my ...
— Stories Of Georgia - 1896 • Joel Chandler Harris
... 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 ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 7, May, 1858 • Various
... 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, "How do, dear?" ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris
... satisfaction you'd better try to learn them scholars an' not the trustees," he said dryly. "The Dennison boys is hard, but ...
— Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page
... The editor smiled dryly. "He does, but he is finding some difficulty in digesting some of yours, Jim, and ...
— The Spoilers of the Valley • Robert Watson
... of you do well to hold your tongues," remarked Claiborne dryly. "One of these officers understands French, and I assure you they can not be bought or frightened. If you try to bolt, they will certainly shoot you. If you make a row about going on board your boat at Baltimore, remember ...
— The Port of Missing Men • Meredith Nicholson
... he said dryly. His gaze passed his son to glimpse the crowd at the gate, frantic now with excitement, all looking forward toward some point on the platform just beyond where the man and boy were standing. "These United States of ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... Scotchman, dryly; 'but every mickle makes a muckle, and ye ken the Lead wull hae mony sma' nuggets, which is mair paying, to my mind, than ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume
... 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 was ...
— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell
... Scott dryly. "In any case, he is more disposed to smile than frown, and as Eustace wasn't there to see ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... dryly. "Here in the northwest we call such sons remittance men. They are paid generous allowances, sometimes, to come ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... had listened in tense silence. Now he started forward, his hand on his sword, but his arms were caught by two of Lord Grimsby's men. "You will admit, my Lord Farquhart, that the matter demands explanation," said the councillor, dryly. "How came you by the jewels and rose? Can you tell us? And ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... 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
... "We'll try," said Milligan dryly. "I ain't much of a man myself"—there were dark rumors about Milligan's past and the crowd chuckled at this modesty—"but I'll try my hand agin' him with a bit of backing. And first I want to tell you boys that they ain't any danger of him having aimed at Andy's hand. I tell you, it ain't possible, ...
— Gunman's Reckoning • Max Brand
... dryly, "you are very young now—and very rich; every one is crowding to give you pleasure, to show his admiration. You are a very fortunate girl. But later, these things which some man has done because he loved you, and which you call foolish, will grow large in your life, and shine out strongly, ...
— The Exiles and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... answered the detective dryly, "but he is also in prison, and unless we do something he is apt to ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett
... go," replied Victor, dryly; "but not for thy bidding or mine. The man is that far pleased already that he shifteth as if the very chair were hot beneath him. A most dutiful niece thou hast, ...
— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson
... 'I fancy he is as interested in one of his fellow-creatures as in the science of astronomy,' observed the cynic dryly. ...
— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy
... 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 ...
— The Long Portage • Harold Bindloss
... Mexico rested on the hands of the President"; Mr. Clingman challenging the House with the broad statement that "it is a misnomer to speak of our institution at the South as peculiar; ours is the general system of the world, and the free system is the peculiar one," and Mr. Palfrey dryly responding that slavery was natural just as barbarism was, just as fig-leaves and bare skins were a natural dress. When the time arrived, however, for leaving off grimacing and posturing, and the House went to voting, the advocates of ...
— Abraham Lincoln: A History V1 • John G. Nicolay and John Hay
... them," responded Yancy, a little dryly. There was no reason for it, but he was becoming ...
— The Prodigal Judge • Vaughan Kester
... Featherstone dryly. "For all that, I think I'll start east, and then get on to a west-bound train at a station down the line. The folks at the Crossing know I'm going home, and I don't want to put Daly on my track." He smoked in silence for a few moments, and then added: "I wonder whether Austin ...
— Carmen's Messenger • Harold Bindloss
... Wentz replied dryly, as he glanced through the window where the falling snowflakes all but obscured the opposite side of the street. Then, emphatically: "I tell you, Neifkins, you Old ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... can contrive that it shall," said the visitor dryly. "I shall bring or send some trusty men. There, I have seen all I want ...
— Nic Revel - A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land • George Manville Fenn
... with your strong desire to punish the South, that you are not in the field," Irving said, a little dryly, for though not a sympathizer with the rebellion, he was a Baltimorean, and not yet quite as much aroused as Hugh, who replied ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes
... on the counter, and looked up with eyes that sparkled very joyously he thought. He examined it a moment, and said rather dryly— ...
— Macaria • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... think so," said Lucile, dryly, in response to Jessie's question. "If I look the way I feel I must be a very ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... that blunder, though many of our most illustrious painters have fallen into it. In my work you will see whiteness beneath the opacity of the broadest shadow. Unlike the crowd of ignoramuses, who fancy they draw correctly because they can paint one good vanishing line, I have not dryly outlined my figures, nor brought out superstitiously minute anatomical details; for, let me tell you, the human body does not end off with a line. In that respect sculptors get nearer to the truth of nature than we do. Nature is all curves, each wrapping or overlapping another. To speak rigorously, ...
— The Hidden Masterpiece • Honore de Balzac
... 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
... Glossin," answered Mr. Corsand dryly, composing his countenance regis ad exemplar, that is to say, after the fashion ...
— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott
... good deal on the local power of Satan," answered the old lawyer dryly. "Sometimes they became even more prolific and destructive than they were before, and sometimes they promptly died. All the leeches were prosecuted at Lausanne in 1451. A few selected representatives were brought into court, tried, convicted and ordered to depart within ...
— Tutt and Mr. Tutt • Arthur Train
... 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 ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... should n't gossip," said Mrs. Light dryly. "Such information should come from me. The prince is pining, as I say; he 's consumed, he 's devoured. It 's a real Italian passion; I know what that means!" And the lady gave a speaking glance, which seemed ...
— Roderick Hudson • Henry James
... until your trusty right hand is healed before you try garroting anybody," she suggested dryly. "Suppose you cool off, Mr. Pepper-pot, and tell me ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne
... end his days in contentment and in peace," said Ancyrus, the elder, dryly, "in a villa on the island of Capraea. No harm shall come to him. We here present do pledge thee ...
— "Unto Caesar" • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... of seasoned veteran, Bub," admitted Pike dryly, "but in adopting a family it might be as well to begin with a he mascot instead of what you've picked. A young filly ...
— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan
... know—many things. I'm not so precious a capture," the girl a little dryly explained. "No one has ever wanted ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 • Henry James
... up in the air?" MacRae inquired dryly. "I shall try to come down behind my own lines, and ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... said Sure Pop, dryly. "I see, Bob, but you didn't. How do you suppose a wee chap like me ever gets across the ...
— Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts • Roy Rutherford Bailey
... you, Flynn," said Peter easily. "You've come back." And then to the crowd, "I don't think Flynn is likely to be disappointed if he's looking for trouble," he said dryly. "Trouble is one of the few things in this world a man can find ...
— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs
... strange twist. There was self-contempt in it, and some other very peculiar and contradictory emotion. But when this semblance of a smile had passed, it was no longer Oliver's father she saw before her, but the county's judge. Even his tone partook of the change as he dryly remarked: ...
— Dark Hollow • Anna Katharine Green
... few sane Yankees," replied Mr. Hopper, dryly. A remark which made Eugenie laugh outright, and Virginia could not ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... here are human beasts," said Tom, "and their names are Merrick, Sobber, Cuffer and Shelley," and he said this so dryly ...
— The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle - or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht. • Edward Stratemeyer (AKA Arthur M. Winfield) |
