"Drily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that a friend is in danger of being intercepted and cut off by one to whom he has rendered himself obnoxious, he does not inform him in plain and explicit terms of the danger he runs by pursuing the track near which the enemy lies in wait for him, but he drily asks him which way he is going that day, and, having received his answer, with the same indifference tells him that he has been informed that a dog lies near the spot, which might probably do him a mischief. ...
— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones
... popular actor, and at that time an unpopular manager. Some one at table observed that, "Mr. —— had suffered a loss in the death of his wife, which he would not soon be able to make up."—"I don't know how that may be," replied George, drily, "but to tell you the truth, I don't think he has quarrelled with his loss ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 14, Issue 380, July 11, 1829 • Various
... two friends before the Newgate drop, To see a culprit throttled, chanced to stop: "Alas!" cried one as round in air he spun, "That miserable wretch's race is run." "True," said the other drily, "to his cost, The race is run—but, by ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, July 24, 1841 • Various
... you," she answered, drily. "It is of a piece with the rest of the reasoning of the royal pedant, whom Master Potts ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... For the whole party there were but five rooms, each of which was occupied by from five to ten officers and ladies, the few soldiers and non-commissioned officers, who were mostly wounded, being quartered in sheds and cellars. Mackenzie drily remarks that the hardships of the common lot, and the close intimacy of prison life, brought into full relief good and evil qualities; 'conventional polish was a good deal rubbed off and replaced by a plainness of speech quite unheard of in good ...
— The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 • Archibald Forbes
... he does live?' chimed in Mrs. Jawleyford, for the suddenness of the descent had given them no time for inquiry. 'Somebody said Manchester,' observed Miss Jawleyford drily. ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... I can assure you," replied the captain drily. "It could scarcely be more innocent. He wishes, in fact, to visit his ...
— The International Weekly Miscellany, Volume I. No. 9. - Of Literature, Art, and Science, August 26, 1850 • Various
... replied drily; "but you had no time then to examine my appearance. Where are you ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... has of any other the better," said the great man drily. "I haven't said a word about the melody itself, which is quite out of the ordinary compass, and makes demands upon the singer's vocalisation which are not likely to make a demand for the song. What you have to remember, my dear sir, if you wish to achieve success, is that music, if it is to sell, ...
— Merely Mary Ann • Israel Zangwill
... Riviera, in retreat, in a place he is fond of," Mount Dunstan said drily. "He took a companion with him. A new infatuation. He ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... Washington, drily, "let me call your attention to the General Order of last August, relative to ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... a different breed," Benton observed drily. "Or perhaps only the same breed manifesting under different conditions. He isn't servile. He doesn't have ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... drily. "Is it very astonishing? You see, we don't spend half our time on horseback here. You didn't expect to find me a ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... the Major said, drily. "She is older than you, my poor boy;" and then he apologised with the utmost frankness and humility, and flung himself upon Pen's good feelings, begging the lad to excuse a fond old uncle, who had only his family's honour in view—for Arthur was ready to flame up in indignation ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
... said drily, "but you see there's my niece to be thought of. Look here! We're not at the frontier yet, Mr. Harz, by forty miles; it's long odds we don't get there—so, don't spoil sport!" He pointed ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... a little and went away, and I think that a bunch of heather which lay on the coffin must have come from her. Anyway, that is all I know about the Loafer, and he may now tell his story of the Pink Tom Cat in his own way. You observe how drily ...
— The Chequers - Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in - a Loafer's Diary • James Runciman
... scarce travel together," he replied, drily. "You, sir, doubtless, are well mounted, and I for the present travel on foot, or on a Highland shelty, that does not ...
— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... drily, "returned to the city last night. Present my card and say that I would like to speak ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 • Various
... replied Jim Airth, drily, "if a boat were to be had. But, unfortunately, we are two miles from the hamlet, and this is not a time when boats pass in and out; nor would they come this way. When I saw you, from the top of the cliff, I calculated the chances ...
— The Mistress of Shenstone • Florence L. Barclay
... long," commented Betty, drily. "it's only a step to the dock," answered Mollie, as she and Grace deposited their arm-loads of blankets on ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake • Laura Lee Hope
... will wager that it was impossible after we got mixed together to tell an anti from a suffragist by her clothes. There might have been a difference, though, in the expression of the faces and the shape of the heads,' she added drily." ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various
... very gauche," Lady Carey remarked drily. "In effect it is rather a blow on the cheek for you, Prince. Of course you know that the Prince is in love ...
— The Yellow Crayon • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... little cakes, Julia," said Miss Ronder drily. She, unlike her nephew, bothered about very few people indeed. "Make a ...
— The Cathedral • Hugh Walpole
... replied Caius Nepos drily, "methinks they all have a desire to become Emperor of Rome, and this being impossible, there was a vast deal of wrangling in my vestibule last night. I caught the purport of several ...
— "Unto Caesar" • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... he never had done so, but that he would take the charge of mine if I liked. To this, however, I demurred. "I never part with my pistol to any one," I said, rather drily. But he explained that he only intended to signify that if there were danger to be encountered, he would be glad to encounter it; and I fully believed him. "We shan't have much fighting," I replied; ...
— A Ride Across Palestine • Anthony Trollope
... not," returned the other drily, "but they were black and white storks, and you know that as well as I do. Still, they have caught on, and they are in the altar-piece, prancing and curvetting magnificently, so I ...
— Erewhon Revisited • Samuel Butler
... drily, "is, so far as I have observed, what the hale race o' weemen-kind exclusively desire and seek after in this life—juist leave ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett
... arrived. Marfa Timofyevna came down from up-stairs, when the soup was already on the table. She treated Varvara Pavlovna very drily, replied in half-sentences to her civilities, and did not look at her. Varvara Pavlovna soon realised that there was nothing to be got out of this old lady, and gave up trying to talk to her. To make up for this, Marya Dmitrievna became still more cordial to her guest; her aunt's ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev
... it, and continued a brisk fire till the enemy struck." Then, he continues, Warren "made up to the Invincible" and attacked her, later seconded by Montague. Anson, the commanding Admiral, he adds rather drily, was at ...
— Greenwich Village • Anna Alice Chapin
... in the habit of helping ourselves-very much," said one of the highwaymen, drily. "Pray don't apologise on ...
— Stories by English Authors: England • Various
... resented any reminder of the permanence of their relation. Therefore, in response to this little confidence, which caused the quaint figure of Miss Hunniman to present itself with a hundred small, thronging associations of the past, he only remarked drily: ...
— Peak and Prairie - From a Colorado Sketch-book • Anna Fuller
... that; A ken that, Aadam," returned old Loudon drily; "and the curiis thing is, I'm no very carin'.—See here, ma man," he continued, addressing himself to me. "A'm your grandfaither, amn't I not? Never you mind what Aadam says. A'll see justice dune ye. ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... letters which had accumulated during his absence, Morse found one, written some time previously, from a Mr. Reibart, who had published his name as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. In courteously declining this honor Morse drily adds: "There are hundreds, nay thousands, more able (not to say millions more willing) to take any office they can obtain, and perform its functions more faithfully and with more benefit to the country. While this is the case I do not feel that the country will suffer should one like myself, ...
— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume II • Samuel F. B. Morse
... will do, for this time," I said to him drily, "if it's the right one," and he subsided, turning away. But he did not go. With burning eyes, he stood and listened while I cross-examined the unwilling Chung and got apparently a straight story showing that some woman had come ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan
... audibly. Then, "But it's hardly fair—is it—to weigh a boxful of even the prettiest lies against five of even the slimmest real, true letters?" he asked drily. ...
— Molly Make-Believe • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... growing impatient. He plunged right into the subject and said drily: "Then it is you who are ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... man, and he spoke drily, with a maddening deliberation. "There was a letter—this morning," ...
— The Happy Venture • Edith Ballinger Price
... sometimes unconscious of their state," said the general, drily, his eye glancing towards the other end of the room, and lighting upon Lady Bearcroft, who was at the instant very red and very loud; and Lady Cecilia was standing, as if watchful for a moment's pause, in which to interpose her word of peace. She waited ...
— Helen • Maria Edgeworth
... Tom, drily, "I'm a handsome man. That's what carried me along this far. It's what I've always had to rely on—that and ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... of the officers of the company, smiled somewhat wearily, I thought. "We are," he replied drily. "That was precisely what I wanted ...
— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve
... British and German than French. Though he had no Dutch blood in his veins, he was, like Huysmans, more the man of Amsterdam than the man of Paris. He noted the changing and shocking scenes of hospital life, and sympathy without sentimentality drops from his pen. He is drily humorous as he shows us some plumaged General peacocking on foot, or swelling with Napoleonic pride as he caracoles by on his horse. And such horses! Without a hint of the photographic realism of a Muybridge and his successors, ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker
... as if really she wanted an answer,' remarked Agnes drily. 'Dear mother, can't you by now make up a tea party at the Thornburghs ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... "Possibly," said Agent Sanders drily. "Well, little lady, your faith in your friend is very beautiful to see, but until we find out that someone else took that letter we can't ...
— The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos • Hildegard G. Frey
... drily; "we'll make sure then, that this camp-fire dies out before we go to our blankets; because I'm bound to know just where you are, Giraffe. And now that the bear has finished his supper, and is begging for more, let's go over to the rest of ...
— The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire - or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol • Herbert Carter
... Doc Madison drily. "And don't run away with the idea that I'm joking about this—that goes. I don't expect to make a silver-tongued orator out of you, Flopper, and perhaps not even a purist—but I hope to eradicate a few minor touches of Bad Land vernacular ...
— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard
... not," replied the old sailor, drily; "but you'll find it too stiff for you to-night, anyhow. Howsomdever, if you should reach t'other side, take an old feller's advice, and don't be foolhardy enough to ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth
... coast's gone crazy," said the 'copter man drily. "Crazy fools trying to run away. Roads jammed. Work stopped. It leaked out about the planes being wiped out to-day, and everybody in three states has heard those eggs going off. You're the only living man who's seen that crawling thing and ...
— Morale - A Story of the War of 1941-43 • Murray Leinster
... were spoken so drily that La Cibot quaked. This starving limb of the law was sure to manoeuvre on his side as she herself was doing. She resolved forthwith to hurry on the sale of ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac
... leave it to chance," said Owen drily. "After all, when one gets out of an invitation to dinner, one generally sends an excuse; but ..." he broke off, and his eyes blazed suddenly "... look here, Barry, you know, and I know, that this woman has played a low-down ...
— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes
... and body, no," answered Wemmick, very drily. "But he is accused of it. So might you or I be. Either of us might be accused of ...
— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens
... banners of the corn take on ripening tints and begin to rustle drily in the breeze. Golden ears, wrapped in tobacco-brown silk, are pushing from tanned and purplish husks. Newly-plowed fields were made possible by the rains which started the grass growing in the stubble, changing the color from amber ...
— Some Summer Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell
... flat, grey eyes that are most puzzling to meet unless she is smiling, which is only seldom. I had made an apologetic reference to my utter ignorance of Ravel and all the new men, and she replied drily that I wasn't missing much. I said I felt the lack of musical knowledge when talking ...
— Aliens • William McFee
... the manner was so patronising that Arthur felt offended. He put back the gun, and said, drily, "I shall have no occasion for the ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 1 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... did," McQueen answered, drily, "and with reason, for he was her breadwinner, and now ...
— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie
... what I admire," he answered drily. "I admire the transports of delight with which you hail my unexpected home-coming. The last you knew, I was in California; and here I might ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... "Yes, sir!" replied drily the narrator, "her back being towards the portrait, but her eye fixed on its reflection ...
— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving
... it was a space ship from Mars or Venus," Clee Partridge answered drily; "searching for a couple of good Earth-men to help 'em out of some jam. You noticed the way it disappeared for a moment when it was overhead: it ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various
... may presume, kept some copies himself," remarked Aunt Barbara drily. "Really, for childish simplicity the English are the ...
— Michael • E. F. Benson
... though," said Mrs. Montagu, drily, "it is not in verse? I can read anything in prose, but I have a great dread of a long story ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay
... target-globe," he ordered drily. "We could speak for the king since he was late. But we won't stay here to be killed as his ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... my back, I pursued my onward way along a street that was fenced on either side with a tall palisade. As I proceeded, long grasses kept catching at my feet and rustling drily. And so warm was the night as to render the payment of a lodging fee superfluous; and the more so since in the neighbourhood of the cemetery, where an advanced guard of young pines had pushed forward to the cemetery wall and littered the sandy ground, with a carpet of red, dry cones, ...
— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky
... said Castanier drily. "I have no occasion to fight. I could kill you by a look if I had any mind to do it. I will tell you what it is, youngster; why should I kill you? I can see a red line round your neck—the guillotine is waiting for you. Yes, you will end in ...
— Melmoth Reconciled • Honore de Balzac
... "My friend," she said drily, "I do not understand why you decline to believe in God, for it is impossible to believe in man. Hush, do not talk like that. You have too great a nature to take up their Liberal nonsense with its pretension to ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac
... towers had grown fainter in the haze; we slid by the green flood-banks, with here and there a bunch of kingcups blazing in glory, the elbows of the bank full of white cow-parsley, comfrey, and water-dock. I heard the sedge-warbler whistle drily in the willow-patch, and a nightingale sang with infinite sweetness in a close of thorn-bushes now bursting into bloom; blue sky above, a sapphire streak of waterway ahead, green banks on either ...
— The Silent Isle • Arthur Christopher Benson
... to sleep through it all," said the old man drily. "The frogs and katydids don't keep ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... were two men on the boat who could have explained, if they had cared to do so," I answered drily. "I mean Kirby and Carver; they were the ones who threw ...
— The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War • Randall Parrish
... and tried to persuade Haj Ibrahim, the most intelligent of my companions, that there was nothing in this huge block different from the mountain range near it, being of the same stone and consistence, he replied drily, looking at both formations, "Yâkob, it's not true. You see on the Kesar Jenoun the very stones which the Demons have built up like the Castle at Tripoli. When you will be blind, how can you see? Why not believe in ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
... has then healed him," said Sovrani drily, "It is remarkable!—but if the cure is truly accomplished, we shall have to admit that the Deity does sometimes pay attention to our many prayers, though for the most part they appear to fall upon a deaf, dumb, and ...
— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli
... but for his fear of having it interpreted as an appeal for their kind aid in obtaining his master's forgiveness. Mr. Durance had very considerately promised to intercede. Skepsey dropped a hint or two of his naughty proceedings drily aware that their untutored antipathy to the manly art would ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... it from Cheslow to Grading. I heard of a job up at Grading—and I needed that job," Jerry had observed, drily. ...
— Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island - The Old Hunter's Treasure Box • Alice Emerson
... little joke," he observed drily. "It's all right, girls. Keep cool," he went on, as he saw the tears in Lenora's eyes. "Come round and see me in ...
— The Black Box • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... personal interests. He knew exactly where to address himself for support, and the right time of availing himself of it. When Talleyrand, one of his most intimate friends, heard of his death, he reflected for a few minutes, and then drily observed, "I can't for the life of me make out what interest Semonville had to serve by ...
— The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; • Various
... thing to have about," said Mr. Smith drily, as he looked out of the corner of his eye and remarked the two men behind him. They were ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon
... perhaps a little drily, "is a riddle to her best friends, and probably to herself; she does a thousand wild, imprudent, bad things if you will, but she is the greatest actress the modern world has seen, and that's something ...
— Miss Bretherton • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... doubted alike the good tidings and their relevancy; but the tones were so hearty and the arbalestrier's face, notwithstanding a formidable beard, was so gay and genial, that he smiled, and after a pause said drily, "Il a bien faite avec l'eau et linge du pays on allait le noircir a ne se ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... audiences, and he would obtain his effects by subtlety instead. He would present a slyly humorous rogue, restrained, and of a certain dignity, wearing a countenance of complete solemnity, speaking his lines drily, as if unconscious of the humour with which he intended to invest them. Thus, though it might take the audience longer to understand and discover him, they would like him all the ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini
... rashness need not be the same thing," said Monsieur de Bourmont, drily. "And remember whom you are quoting, my dear Cesar. A dangerous person, ...
— Angelot - A Story of the First Empire • Eleanor Price
... second wireless shock you've had today, Anderson," said Harry Squires, drily, and ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... said, drily. "What's the good? We ain't cannibals. But I say, I wish something nice would come along. I know I could hit it. What would you like—a deer? Deer's very good ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... right," Bat broke in drily. "I get all that. But why not marry the gal? Marry her an' quit all this darn argument. I guess this mill's goin' to hand you all you need to keep a wife on. That seems to me the natural answer to the ...
— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum
... man enjoys a sounding name, and an empty coffer," observed the Alderman, drily. "To me it seems that a petition to the admiral to send so meritorious an officer on service where he may distinguish himself, should deserve his thanks. The freebooters are playing the devil's game with the sugar trade, and even the French ...
— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper
... behaved like an escaped lunatic since early this morning, my good de Marmont," he said drily. "Don't you think that—as we shall have to mix again with our fellow-men presently—you might try to behave with ...
— The Bronze Eagle - A Story of the Hundred Days • Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
... I am concerned, at least," returned Keith drily; "seeing I am already some ten or a dozen years older than you were at the time of ...
— Elsie at Home • Martha Finley
... ter leave him lay an' ferget about him, I reckon," drily observed the parson. "Anyhow atter a spell Old Man McGivins had another bornin' at his dwellin-house an' thet time hit proved out to be a boy. His woman sought ter rechristen ther gal Lizzie or Lake Erie or somethin' else befittin petticoats. ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck
... drily, "would hardly make a surprise landing. They'd have parked on the moon and squeaked at us until we got curious, and then they'd arrange to land, or to meet men in orbit, or something. But they didn't. They made a surprise landing, and cleared ...
— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... the brother, drily; "I remember to have got nothing from the last one, in that way. Charles and Gregory fared no better. Never mind, Wycherly, you behaved like a father ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper
... one of those vague reports which chief constables are in the habit of furnishing," he said, drily. "Apparently the owner is an American, an invalid, and is eccentric. More than this—and this will surprise you—he has been certified by competent ...
— The Secret House • Edgar Wallace
... power and patronage. Leeds mentioned the idea of a coalition to the king, who received it coldly, for George hated Fox; he did not intend to alter his government to suit the whig leaders, and he knew that they were mistaken as regards Pitt's attitude. At last Leeds spoke of the scheme to Pitt who drily told him that circumstances did not call for any alteration in the government and that no new arrangement had ever been in contemplation.[231] If the Portland whigs were to separate themselves from Fox and his friends and were to support the government, they would have to support ...
— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt
... a different England from the England of yesterday," observed Miss Forsyth drily; and as the other stared at her, genuinely astonished by the strange words, "Don't you agree ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... have," Dr. Galbraith answered drily, but with a twinkle in his eyes. "I discovered them just now in a field of mine—a hayfield—not that they were making any pretence of hiding themselves, however," he hastened to add, "for they were each sitting on the top of ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... that's certain," said Larry, drily. "But," he continued, "I don't think you will let the steam on this ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 • Various
... was as fond of work as ye be of fightin', Marty," returned Mr. Day, drily, "you sartin sure'd ...
— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long
... continued YORICK, drily, "if it were also the source inexhausted of more that is quick in our sympathy, and practical in our beneficence. It is scarcely in the columns of the daily news-sheet that Sensibility usually seeks its much-sought stimulus. And yet but lately, in the corner of my paper, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 10, 1892 • Various
... any other where he may chance to be," she answered drily. "Never mind, Henri! I shall not let you wander very far. Your supper-party has been ...
— A Maker of History • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Lodovico, drily, "had better begin by reforming himself." And when the Venetian ambassador Sebastian Badoer and Benedetto Trevisano arrived at Vigevano to take counsel with the duke in this perilous state of affairs, he spoke very contemptuously of the king's ...
— Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 • Julia Mary Cartwright
... like," said the Captain, drily. "There's to be a monitors' meeting at twelve. If you like to come and resign, do so; or if you like to come and hear your name taken off ...
— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed
... big tree may be killed by a small axe," said Lingard, drily. "And, remember, my one-eyed friend, that axes are made by white hands. You will soon find that out, since you have hoisted ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... in meditation for a long while. The squinting of his left eye was now very noticeable. "I consider my wife's clerk," he drily said, "to discourse of love in somewhat too much the tone of a lover." And a ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... air of icy indifference which pervaded his whole exterior I detected a sarcastic smile, which fully convinced me that I was the laughing-stock of man and beast. I took my resolution, and Pere Seguin, who had followed my movements with his eye, said drily, as I was going to put a cap on, "What are you going to ...
— Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches • Henri de Crignelle
... a very far-away cousin," said I drily, "and I ought to tell you that I never clapped eyes upon ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... sure you won't," remarked Colon, drily; "but while I've got you held up so neat, I might as well make ...
— Fred Fenton on the Crew - or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... his lordship drily, "he is a born R. C. ecclesiastic. Religious instinct is the ruling passion of Orange. That poor young woman—with whom he is madly in love—was merely an accident of his career. She has affected his character—yes. I suppose Cardinal Manning's wife had ...
— Robert Orange - Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange • John Oliver Hobbes
... premature, my dear,' he returned drily, 'and because it is not our place to warn Mr. Blake off the premises; he is not the first young man, and I do not expect he will be ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... it will be all right,' said Barnet drily. 'But I have a different opinion . . . No, Downe, we must look the thing in the face. Not poppy nor mandragora—however, how are ...
— Wessex Tales • Thomas Hardy
... and answered drily—"Since such are your sentiments, I wonder that you have ever resided long enough within the hearing of the French language to learn to speak it as you do. I would have thought some of the sentiments of the chivalry of the nation, since you are neither a monk nor a woman, would, at the ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... said she, "that they are distant relations: for the great- grandfather of this Sir Harry Benson, who was knight of the shire in the reign of Charles the First, and one of the cavaliers of those times, was married to a daughter of the Walton family." Harley answered drily, that it might be so; but that he never troubled himself about those matters. "Indeed," said she, "you are to blame, nephew, for not knowing a little more of them: before I was near your age I had sewed the pedigree of our family in a set of chair- bottoms, ...
— The Man of Feeling • Henry Mackenzie
... it you," he answered, "with full directions. When you meet with a young lady who seems resolutely determined not to speak, or who, if compelled by a direct question to make some answer, drily gives a brief affirmative, or coldly ...
— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney
... and often am no doubt, But right or wrong with friends with foes 'twill out. Thus 'tis perhaps my fault if I complain Of trite invention and a flimsy vein, Tame characters, uninteresting, jejune, 205 And passions drily copied from [A]Le Brun. For I would rather never judge than wrong That friend of all men, generous Fenelon. But in the name of goodness, must I be 210 The dupe of charms I never yet could see? And then to flatter ...
— Essays on Taste • John Gilbert Cooper, John Armstrong, Ralph Cohen
... Diderot petrified at his behaviour. The day of his departure, Diderot's wife saw that her husband was in bad spirits, and asked the reason. 'It is that man's want of delicacy,' he replied, 'which afflicts me; he makes me work like a slave, but I should never have found that out, if he had not so drily refused to take an interest in me for a quarter of an hour.' 'You are surprised at that,' his wife answered; 'do you not know him? He is devoured with envy; he goes wild with rage when anything fine appears that is not his own. You ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley
... to assert itself in Barney's blue eyes, and he remarked drily, as he took his hat, "Yez moight wait longer than yez ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe
... are just walking round. They're awfully restless. They keep saying I'm restless, but I'm as quiet as a sleeping child to them. It takes," he added in a moment, drily, "the form of shopping." ...
— The Pension Beaurepas • Henry James
... finished," he said drily. "I imagine that Mlle. Beaucaire cannot produce a marriage certificate. She will be supplied with one, to permit her to travel with ...
— The Albert Gate Mystery - Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective • Louis Tracy
... in my dotage yet," quoth Tanty, drily; "neither am I in the habit of making unfounded assertions, nephew. I have heard what the girl has said with her own lips, I have read what she has written in her diary; she has sobbed and cried over your cruelty in these very arms—I don't ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... think he was," said the general, drily. "He had plenty of dash and go, but no moral courage. He came home after the wars were over, and broke his mother's heart by becoming a drunkard and a gambler; and he died an early death ...
— His Big Opportunity • Amy Le Feuvre
... Trent said drily. "I had to have the money, and you ground a share out of me which is worth a quarter of a million ...
— A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... under the name of the gentleman from whom he received it. Mr. Lange protested warmly, demanding that his discovery should be called, after his residence, Heathfieldsayeanum. But Professor Reichenbach drily refused to consider personal questions; and really, seeing how short is life, and how long Dendrobium nobile Heathfield, &c., true philanthropists ...
— About Orchids - A Chat • Frederick Boyle
... is established, it would seem, beyond peradventure," said Mr. Sherwood drily. "But our attempt to obtain the fortune ...
— Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp - or, The Old Lumberman's Secret • Annie Roe Carr
... She chuckled drily. "Yes, you is—everybody's 'feared of old Elspeth; but she won't hurt you—you's got the spell;" and wheeling again, she was back ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois
... said she drily. "And now if you particularly wish to speak to me, I will walk with you, but only a short way. ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Rupert, drily, 'that the Vice-chancellor is too familiar with the sight of pretty damsels in distress. I think, Mr. Hanbury, if you can produce a deed of partnership with your friends in Southampton, that would be more likely to influence the Court. On our side we agree. And of course there ...
— The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols • William Black
... them two dozen kitchen towels, Mother," Wolf suggested, drily, and Rose laughed joyously. Her own engagement present from her mother had been this extremely practical one, and Rose loved to open her lower bureau drawer, and gloat over the incredible richness of possessing twenty-four smooth, ...
— The Beloved Woman • Kathleen Norris
... Harrod's game-keepers," said the girl, drily, "it only means a summons and a fine for me. And if it's a State Trooper, who is prowling in the woods yonder hunting crooks, he'll find nobody here but a trespasser. Keep quiet. ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert Chambers
... with keen scrutiny into the face of his boyfriend, and, after a pause, said, drily,—"Plain as a pikestaff. Your relation is one of those men who, having no children, suspect and dread the attention of an heir presumptive; and what has made this sting, as you call it, keener to you is—pardon me—is in some silly words of your mother, who, in showing you the letters, ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... the prince, by means of a minister, hurt the deputation excessively. Accordingly, when the audience took place, Duchastel, who headed the deputation, said to him laconically: "Sire, the national legislative assembly is sitting; we are deputed to inform you of this." Louis XVI. replied still more drily: "I cannot visit you before Friday." This conduct of the court towards the assembly was impolitic, and little calculated to conciliate the ...
— History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 • F. A. M. Mignet
... luncheon, was pressed by the squire—"who, on any other occasion would never waste time in smoking, and only filled his short clay pipe at the end of his day's work"—to come to his smoking-room. As regards this room the professor drily remarked—"I thought I had noticed that even the key-hole was stopped up, in order to preserve the ladies' delicate nerves from every disagreeable sensation." After dinner, again, when the ladies had left ...
— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson
... cabin those folks have," he said drily. "Don't recollect seeing anything like that ...
— Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance • Frances Cavanah
... at home," replied the professor drily, "until we are in Montgomery Street, with your ...
— Godfrey Morgan - A Californian Mystery • Jules Verne
... more than the rejection. "It's of no consequence, thanks," he said drily. "Very good of you to look at it. But you print a great deal worse ...
— A Daughter of To-Day • Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes)
... and make up your mind for yourself," said Nash drily, for they topped a hill, and below them saw a mighty yellow flood pouring down the valley. It went leaping and shouting as if it rejoiced in some destruction it had worked and was still working, and the muddy torrent was threaded with many ...
— Trailin'! • Max Brand
... Squire drily. "But Hazeldean, though a very pretty village, is not Paradise. The stocks shall be mended to-morrow day, and the pound too—and the next donkey found trespassing shall go into it, as sure ...
— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various
... indeed, sir?" Field asked drily. "Mrs. Richford shall tell me herself, presently. But we are getting no nearer to the lame gentleman in ...
— The Slave of Silence • Fred M. White
... the great lords of Lower Italy is not their greatest merit," the Signor Gradenigo drily answered. "The young esteem life so endless, that they take little heed of the minutes that escape them; while we, whom age begins to menace, think chiefly of repairing the omissions of youth. In this manner, Signor Duca, does man sin and repent daily, until the opportunities of doing either are ...
— The Bravo • J. Fenimore Cooper
... not an answer," said the count drily. "What objection can you make to my proposal? Is it not fair and natural? Am I to be deprived of the consolations vouchsafed to the neediest and most wretched? You know I have acted towards you ...
— The Man-Wolf and Other Tales • Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian
... we was a-driving here, as you are going to live for the Truth and nothing but the Truth. I only mention it," added the old man drily. ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke
... down on me, with that curious baffling smile of his. "A natural and healthy curiosity, Mr. Lyndon," he said drily. "I hope to satisfy it after you have had something to eat. Till then—" he shrugged his shoulders—"well, I think you will find the Daily ...
— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges
... no use. The people she met there were too unlike her, too intelligent and up to date; they went to meetings and concerts and picture exhibitions and read books and talked about public affairs not emotionally but coolly and drily; they were mildly surprised at Mrs. Hilary's vehemence of feeling on all points, and she was strained beyond endurance by their knowledge of facts and catholicity of interests. So she returned to St. Mary's Bay, where she passed muster as an intelligent woman, ...
— Dangerous Ages • Rose Macaulay
... doubt that you would have had a more lively evening," said Holmes drily. "By the way, I don't suppose you appreciate that we have been mourning over you ...
— The Hound of the Baskervilles • A. Conan Doyle
... is on the other foot—I understand you," I replied drily. "Chut, man!" I continued, "you don't make a cats-paw of me. I see the game. You are for sitting in Madame de Sourdis' seat, and giving your son a Hat, and your groom a Comptrollership, ...
— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman
... be in no hurry to let us begin," replied Linforth drily. "There is a Resident at your father's court. Your father is willing, and yet there's not a ...
— The Broken Road • A. E. W. Mason
... well understand," said Sir Charles drily. "But, my young friend, I can remember a time when Resilda desired of all things to be a horse. There was something hopeful because more human in her wish to be a boy, had ...
— Ensign Knightley and Other Stories • A. E. W. Mason
... manifestation the method and material, not of one art only, but of all the arts. Music is but an arbitrary trifling with a few of life's majestic chords; painting is but a shadow of its pageantry of light and colour; literature does but drily indicate that wealth of incident, of moral obligation, of virtue, vice, action, rapture, and agony, with which it teems. To "compete with life," whose sun we cannot look upon, whose passions and diseases waste and slay us—to compete ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... with him," said the armourer, drily. "Thou wilt be paid gallantly at least, if not honestly. Methinks I would like to know how many purses have been emptied to fill the goat skin sporran that is to be so free to you of its gold, and whose pastures the bullocks have been ...
— The Fair Maid of Perth • Sir Walter Scott
... said Burke drily. "And it's about as rotten as it can be. You've put too great a strain on ...
— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell
... placed minister of the same kirk.—Confess, Luckie Buchan, you never had such a party in your house before." The question was not premised by any invitation to sit down and take a glass of wine or the like, so Mrs. B. answered drily, "Indeed, sir, I cannot just say that ever I had such a party in my house before, except once in the forty-five, when I had a Highland piper here, with his three sons, all Highland pipers; and deil a spring they could play amang them!"—Notes ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, - Issue 368, May 2, 1829 • Various
... worth twelve or fifteen pounds," remarked Zillah, drily. "And how long had you been ...
— The Orange-Yellow Diamond • J. S. Fletcher
... indicating the High Ridge end of the bridge with the point of his bayonet. "As long as you live in High Ridge I'll see you part way home," he added drily. ...
— Bob Cook and the German Spy • Tomlinson, Paul Greene
... tones, cocked an eye up at Bill before he deliberately peeled, from the roll he drew from his pocket, enough twenty dollar notes to equal the number of weeks Bill had worked for him. "And that's paying you darned good money for apprentice work," he informed him drily, a little hurt by Bill's lack of appreciation. For when you take a man from the streets because he is broke and hungry and homeless, and feed him and give him work and clothes and three meals a day and a warm bed to sleep in, if ...
— The Heritage of the Sioux • B.M. Bower
... The Greek general agreed drily. He said that free people were not practical people. They were always ready to die rather than cease to be free. Surely the Greeks had proved themselves ready to die. But people like the Bulgarians thought that to continue to live was the ...
— The Invaders • William Fitzgerald Jenkins |
