"Dryly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dryly; "they ought to have caught it, but they did not. There's Josh already in the boat. I wonder whether he thought of ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn
... couldn't have held him back when he heard I was coming back to join you. They wouldn't give him a vacation, but they would not keep him in the school after he began to have regular violent fits," said Walter, dryly. ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... "Yes," replied White, dryly, "Shanks is a good boy, and minds what I say. Suppose they should bring him on the stand to prove I said a certain thing, Shanks would be a bad witness, because he never hears any thing I don't ...
— The Expressman and the Detective • Allan Pinkerton
... sorry I have given you a shock," he said dryly. "I fear that Lucy's choice does not meet ...
— A Room With A View • E. M. Forster
... "Ah!" said the doctor, dryly, as he held his glass up to the light, "terrible descent, certainly. Wants to save life instead ...
— Syd Belton - The Boy who would not go to Sea • George Manville Fenn
... 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
... Matilda, a little dryly, "I was not aware of that. Thank you for the information. I am sorry you did ...
— Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... girl now." Grant spoke dryly. "I don't want to. If I'd held a tomahawk in one hand and her flowing locks in the other, and was just letting a war-whoop outa me, she'd look at me—the way she did look." He snorted in contemptuous amusement, and gave a little, writhing twist of his slim body ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower
... sacred character?' Rose asked dryly. 'Write to her, Caroline, and say Susan will come on the day that suits her best. You can't drag her away without warning. Let's treat ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... centralization instituted by the First Consul. The Duc d'Angouleme, when, in 1815, he was paraded about the country, among the bridges, canals, and splendid roads of Languedoc, on being reminded that these fine works were formerly executed by the "Etats" of the province, dryly replied "We prefer ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 1 (of 2)(Napoleon I.) • Hippolyte A. Taine
... exists small cause for questioning the word of so fair a woman," I acknowledged dryly. "Yet to my vision, not wholly blinded by her charms, she possesses more of the Caucasian in face and manner than any other of the race. If she is not of European birth I am a poor judge, Monsieur, and 't is my belief, if she told you she ...
— Prisoners of Chance - The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, - through His Love for a Lady of France • Randall Parrish
... 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 ...
— The Life of George Washington, Volume I • Washington Irving
... grand situation for a play," she remarked, dryly, "but 'tis a mortial poor one in real life, and I'm best out of it." She turned the knob with eager fingers and pulled the door toward her. It opened on a dumbwaiter shaft, empty and impressive. Patsy's expression would have scored ...
— Seven Miles to Arden • Ruth Sawyer
... worst of being a servant. Well or ill, it makes no matter." She turned from the glass, and holding her hair in her left hand, leaned her head so that she might pin it. "You do look bad," she remarked dryly. ...
— Esther Waters • George Moore
... 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 to coquet for a moment with retrospect. "Meanwhile, if you please, my daughter is hiding ...
— Roderick Hudson • Henry James
... give satisfaction you'd better try to learn them scholars an' not the trustees," he said dryly. "The Dennison boys ...
— Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page
... to stay 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 ...
— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.
... finger-prints," said Malcolm Sage dryly. He never could resist a sly dig at Scotland Yard's faith in finger-prints as clues ...
— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins
... the same reasoning, charitable if you had me hanged," returned the fool dryly, a pale ...
— Love-at-Arms • Raphael Sabatini
... very uncommon characters," Polly returned dryly. "And s-n-o-b spells snob, but not Betty, I hope. I wish you wouldn't think so much about 'family', Princess; I do believe we ought to judge people by what they are themselves and not by what their ancestors ...
— The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill • Margaret Vandercook
... I," replied the Grand Duke dryly. "After some of the things you have done, I would not say there ...
— The Boy Allies with the Cossacks - Or, A Wild Dash over the Carpathians • Clair W. Hayes
... some dreaming myself," Johnny interposed dryly. "I'm awake now. Listen here, Bland. I've been playing square with you, all along. I want you to get that. I can see how you being so darn crooked yourself, you may always be looking for some one to do you, so I ain't kicking at the stand you take. You've ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... of it in Boston a month afterwards," said Demorest, dryly, "but I don't think I'd have recognized you. So you were the hired man who gave me the buggy. Well, I don't suppose they discharged you ...
— The Argonauts of North Liberty • Bret Harte
... the Sea Monster dryly. "But I do like to breathe now and then. Anyway, I wasn't safe even under water. They'd drop depth charges on me. One ship even ...
— David and the Phoenix • Edward Ormondroyd
... instinctively ducked behind the log, and at that instant "whis-sh" went a bullet from the front through the upper bark of the log, right opposite where my breast was a second or two before, scattering worm-dust and fragments of bark over my neck and shoulders. "I seed him a-takin' aim," dryly remarked little Fox. "Where is he?" I quickly inquired. "Right yander," answered Fox, indicating the place by pointing. I looked and saw the fellow—he was a grown man, in a faded gray uniform, but before I could complete my hasty preparations to return his compliment ...
— The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 • Leander Stillwell
... hardly be minding myself either, in your opinion, by doing that,' said Ethelberta dryly. 'But it will be more tolerable than what I am doing now. Georgina, and Myrtle, and Emmeline, and Joey will not get the education I intended for them; but that must ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy
... him in hand already," Mr. Cathro replied dryly. "But, Aaron, I wish you would at least keep him closer to his lessons at night, for it is seldom he comes to the ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... 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 ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... said Hal dryly. "If you knew Brunnoi and Count de Reslau were the same person, why didn't ...
— The Boy Allies with the Cossacks - Or, A Wild Dash over the Carpathians • Clair W. Hayes
... pardoned. It was Charles VI., the father of Maria Theresa, a composer of canons and music for the harpsichord, who, upon being complimented by his Kapellmeister as being well able to officiate as a music-director, dryly observed, "Upon the whole, however, I like my present position better!" His daughter sang an air upon the stage of the Court Theatre in her fifth year; and in 1739, just before her accession to the imperial dignity, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 7, May, 1858 • Various
... 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 ...
— The Errand Boy • Horatio Alger
... his hands to the surface of his metal desk. "I see," he said dryly. "Where there's life, there's hope. Right? All right, I agree with you." He waved his hand around, in an all-encompassing gesture. "Somewhere out there, we may find food. But don't you see that this puts ...
— Cum Grano Salis • Gordon Randall Garrett
... of it!" Garth said quickly. "Grylls is not so simple." He stuck the letter sharply with his forefinger. "I'm a newspaper reporter," he went on dryly, "you can believe me, this is a perfect, a beautiful, a monumental bluff! I'm almost inclined to take off my hat to him! But the length of it gives them away, rather; they must have spent all day ...
— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner
... 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
... our San Juan," Sommers replied dryly, pointing to the huddle of tents and pine sheds that formed the ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... Hamilton laughed dryly. He had thought just what Helm was saying. Beverley's attentions to Alice had not ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... certainly no intention of leaving the room, but before she could say so, M. Casimir stepped forward. "I think," he dryly observed, "that ...
— The Count's Millions - Volume 1 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau
... concerning the limits of certain land. The counsel having remarked with emphasis, 'We lie on this side, my lord,' and the opposing counsel with equal vehemence having interposed, 'And we lie on this side, my lord'—the Lord Chancellor dryly observed, "If you lie on both sides, whom am I to believe?" It would seem that punning was as great a power in the Law Courts of that time as it is at the present day. When Egerton as Master of the Rolls was asked to commit a cause—refer it to a Master in Chancery—he would reply, "What ...
— Law and Laughter • George Alexander Morton
... protecting deity to all actresses, summoned me to her presence by a liveried footman. Guessing what she wanted, I called on her unceremoniously in a morning coat. She received me politely, and began to talk of the Corticelli affair with great affability; but I did not like her, and replied dryly that I had had no hesitation in abandoning the girl to the protection of the gallant gentleman with whom I had surprised her in 'flagrante delicto'. She told me I should be sorry for it, and that she would publish a little story which she had already read and ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... Sez I dryly, "You might have the holes bored through into the suller!" My tone wuz as irony as a iron tea-kettle, but ...
— Samantha at Coney Island - and a Thousand Other Islands • Marietta Holley
... Huh! I ain't ever been married—not even so much as once," he commented dryly, "but I've been told by unfortunates that have that it's the female way to do a thing and then ask whether she ...
— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott
... dryly. "Maybe. And then when Dick made his run, pretty Dora Stanhope just put out her arms as if she ...
— The Rover Boys out West • Arthur M. Winfield
... Shandon, dryly; "but meanwhile the wind's freshening, and there's no use risking our topsails in ...
— The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne
... Mr. Merton in the morning; and then write to the doctor, I presume, as Mr. Merton's hand is too lame for him to write. It will be as he thinks best," answered Seabrooke, dryly. "I do not wish to talk ...
— Bessie Bradford's Prize • Joanna H. Mathews
... anything underhanded," she said quietly. As he glanced at her quickly she added dryly: "Don't trust too much to people always acting in yo' fashion, co'nnle. And don't think too much nor too little of what yo' hear here. Yo' 're just the kind of man to make a good many silly enemies, and as many foolish friends. And I don't know ...
— Sally Dows and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... evenings later, the merchant, returning early from his club, answered Sabine's greeting dryly, and paced up ...
— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag
... stages to comprehend, then frankly to share, her amusement. From this it seemed only a step to the development of a humor of his own, doubling, as it were, their sportive resources. He found himself discovering a new droll aspect in men and things; his phraseology took on a dryly playful form, fittingly to present conceits which danced up, unabashed, quite into the presence of lofty and majestic truths. He got from this nothing but satisfaction; it obviously involved increased claims to popularity among his parishioners, and consequently magnified ...
— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic
... Junkins," the professor said dryly, "write down on your visiting card all that you know, and bring ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... not too critical, I suppose, to accept your business," said Dr. Elliot dryly. "I'm on my way there now for a visit. Well, I must get my ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... dryly. He produced a bunch of keys from the pocket of his dressing-gown. "It's the thin brass key. There's some quite decent brandy in the farthest bin on the right-hand side, if you're thinking of making a night of it down there. Take the candle; I'm ...
— A Tall Ship - On Other Naval Occasions • Sir Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie
... fool may," said the Earl, dryly. "Why, how now, thou art not a knight yet, nor anything but a raw lump of a boy. What rights do the laws of chivalry give thee, sirrah? Thou art ...
— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle
... yer injunction'd hold in law," said Jabe dryly, as he speared a thick slab of bacon from the frying-pan to his tin plate. "But fur as I'm concerned, it'll hold. An' I reckon the boys of the camp this winter'll respect it, too, when I tell 'em as how it's your ...
— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts
... much attention to roads and like-a-that," he commented dryly. "She always found her way around like the Babes in the Wood—by remembering something she had passed ...
— Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil - The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune • Alice B. Emerson
... door of a certain unfurnished room, in which we neither saw nor heard anything. 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 Boy Scouts Book of Stories • Various
... I've been hearing," assented Dave dryly. "You merely showed him up for a false alarm and kicked him into the discard. That's good, and it's bad. We know now that Meldrum won't fight you in the open. You've got him buffaloed. But he'll shoot you in the back if he can do it safely. I know the cur. After this ...
— The Sheriff's Son • William MacLeod Raine
... to save the lives of a train full of people," said the president, dryly, "but we set a slight value upon our lives and limbs. Are ...
— Facing the World • Horatio Alger
... left off guessing: Aubertin had it all his own way: he upheld Perrin as their silent benefactor, and bade them all observe that the worthy notary had never visited the chateau openly since the day the purse was left there. "Guilty conscience," said Aubertin dryly. ...
— White Lies • Charles Reade
... to hear it," said my mother, dryly. "Once, nearly twenty years ago, a friend of mine consulted me how he should deal with a daughter who had made what they call a love match, beggared herself, and disgraced her family; and I said, without hesitation, ...
— Two Ghostly Mysteries - A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family; and The Murdered Cousin • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
... any overt sign of being impressed. Phillips knew that the others, like himself, were scrutinizing the old man with cold, secretive stares. They had learned through harsh experience to keep their own counsels. Varret shrugged. "Well, then," he said dryly, "I might as well call the roll. I have been ...
— This World Must Die! • Horace Brown Fyfe
... "Hardly," answered Calton, dryly, "unless you want to see a paragraph in the society papers to the effect that Miss Madge Frettlby visited Mr. Fitzgerald in gaol—no—no—we'll get a cab. Come, my dear," and taking her arm he led ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume
... solid man, as I have said, 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 solid, ...
— Father Payne • Arthur Christopher Benson
... 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 an ...
— Emma McChesney & Co. • Edna Ferber
... chuckle wickedly, and when his former Oxford pupil asked him with mild humor the reason of his inappropriate mirth, he answered dryly: ...
— Halcyone • Elinor Glyn
... no doubt," said Calton, dryly. "I've met a good many examples of these sudden conversions, but they never last long as a rule—it's a case of 'the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be,' more than ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume
... that one of Matilda's good times was not to be to-day. Mrs. Candy and Clarissa looked on her coldly, spoke to her dryly, and made her feel that she was not in favour. Matilda could bear this down-stairs pretty well; but when she found her self in Mrs. Candy's room for her morning hours of reading and darning, it became heavy. Reading was not the first thing to-day. Mrs. Candy called Matilda to stand ...
— Opportunities • Susan Warner
... States agreeing to assume all obligations to an amount not exceeding five million dollars. De Onis demurred at stating this amount in the treaty: he would be blamed for having betrayed the honor of Spain by selling the Floridas for a paltry five millions. To which Adams replied dryly that he ought to boast of his bargain instead of being ashamed of it, since it was notorious that the Floridas had always been a burden to the Spanish exchequer. Negotiations came to a standstill again when Adams insisted that certain ...
— Jefferson and his Colleagues - A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty, Volume 15 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Allen Johnson
... is touching," retorted the visitor dryly, then he added: "I'm sorry, but I must go ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck
... "That," said the colonel, dryly, "is not improbable. They are trained as soldiers, not as sharpers. But, all the same, in spite, if you please, of their soldier training, I fancy most of these lads that quit us to-day, if brought face to face with sudden emergency, ...
— To The Front - A Sequel to Cadet Days • Charles King
... "Well," she said, dryly, "what do you want? What do you wish to ask me? What shall I tell you? Who requested you to ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... 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, ...
— Tanglewood Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... next afternoon, Mr. Thorpe discovered by the big clock overhead that he had arrived fully ten minutes too soon. This deviation from his deeply-rooted habit of catching trains at the last possible moment did not take him by surprise. He smiled dryly, aud nodded to the illuminated dial, as if they shared the secret of some quaint novelty. This getting to the station ahead of time was of a piece with what had been happening all day—merely one more token of the general upheaval in the routine of ...
— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic
... call at the Stores to order groceries, must you look as if you were going to elope?' she asked dryly. 'In an ordinary motorveil you have the air of hastening ...
— Love's Shadow • Ada Leverson
... would be a better man if he were to spend a good many more days in the same manner," said that gentleman, dryly enough. But the entrance of dinner put a stop to both laughter and questioning for a time, all of the party being ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... which busy Rettel 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, ...
— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann
... been times when I regarded lawyers ez bein' superfluous," stated Judge Priest dryly. "Still, in most cases litigants do have 'em round when ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... much obliged to him, indeed cried I, dryly; and Mr. Crutchley called out, "Thank him !-thank him! " in a voice of pride and of pique that spoke ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay
... me, as well as Jim," said Frank dryly, with a twinkle in his eye. "The buffs are in good shape an' can get along ...
— The Last of the Plainsmen • Zane Grey
... and you don't look very strong. Come in;" and she led the way into a dull, bare dining-room, where she went on with her work of setting the table, while she put Nelly through an examination as to her qualifications. She either was, or appeared to be, dissatisfied, and after dryly expressing a hope that she would suit, she told her to follow her down ...
— Lucy Raymond - Or, The Children's Watchword • Agnes Maule Machar
... "Why, sir," she answered dryly, "you may tell his Majesty that I have come to an absolute decision, which is that I will ...
— The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series • Rafael Sabatini
... His further remark, dryly sarcastic, mostly directed at Hardman did not help the situation, so far as Pan was concerned. It was, however, exactly what Pan wanted. Dick stared insolently and fixedly at Pan. He appeared as much puzzled as annoyed. Manifestly he was trying to place Pan, ...
— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey
... to," Allan said, and with a little inner smile he added dryly to himself, "He's getting ready to meddle again." But whatever amusement Baird had in this thought was concealed behind his sober gray eyes. Soon after ...
— His Family • Ernest Poole
... 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
... he was so mad as all that," said Mrs Machin, dryly. "This is the most sensible kind of a ...
— The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns • Arnold Bennett
... as good as another," said Spitz dryly. "But leave HIM to me. 'Tis the King we must protect and succor! As for that Scotch springald, before midnight I shall have him kidnaped, brought back to his master in a close carriage, and you—YOU shall take ...
— New Burlesques • Bret Harte
... he said, dryly. "Well, I've been busy with men—with plans. Things are working out to my satisfaction. Red Pearce got around Gulden. There's been no split. Besides, Gulden rode off. Someone said he went after a little girl named Brander. I hope he gets shot.... ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey
... sir, for the 'we,' but I must go alone," said Lord Bellasis dryly. "To-morrow you can settle with me for the sitting of last week. Hark! the clock is ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke
... can arrange to give it to you within a week. You see," added the outlaw dryly, "I have been prosperous in my business, and can snare that sum in return for the favor you are going to do me in giving ...
— The Young Bank Messenger • Horatio Alger
... don't mind saying that if I had thought of suggesting to anyone of you such a method of collecting interest due to you, you might have kicked some," he commented dryly. ...
— Hepsey Burke • Frank Noyes Westcott
... said, dryly. "She knows nothing about balls. She has never been to one. Pray do not put such ideas into her head, count," she added, looking ...
— The Italians • Frances Elliot
... moving narrative," commented Sampson, dryly. "Did I understand you to say that you were hit in ...
— The Calico Cat • Charles Miner Thompson
... to that if you please," said Mr Felton dryly.—"Mr Gallagher, take these men and show them the compass. It will be a lesson to ...
— Kilgorman - A Story of Ireland in 1798 • Talbot Baines Reed
... be entertained," averred Miriam dryly. "Personally, I am far from impressed with J. Elfreda. She strikes me as being entirely too fond of her own comfort. Now that she has vacated your seat, you had better take it, Grace, before she ...
— Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... a Postal Department for the Boompointers, General," he said dryly, "however great their influence elsewhere. It was from rather a different style of woman—Miss Faulkner. You will receive your papers later at your hotel, ...
— Clarence • Bret Harte
... ... the recklessness of others had driven her from a convent where she had been highly esteemed ... she had to be vindicated ... her case was well on the way to trial ... nothing should be left undone to make it a triumph. Rather dryly he promised his aid, wondering if he had really caught the true meaning of the little woman's behavior. He gave up suspicion when Judy provided ...
— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith
... gesture. "I can depend upon you because it is to your advantage to serve me well," he said dryly. "Also, because if you didn't—" He left the sentence unfinished but Francois understood; in that part of the Czar's kingdom where the prince came from, life was held cheap. Besides, the lad had heard tales from his father—a garrulous Gascon—of his excellency's ...
— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham
... the other man, a little dryly—"yes, perhaps. I don't want to seem critical, but isn't your figure ...
— Jason • Justus Miles Forman
... "Perhaps," returned the Captain dryly, "but of one thing I am certain. Few people are better prepared to speak on this matter ...
— When Dreams Come True • Ritter Brown
... the manager dryly. "I only know that we are bound to follow those instructions, and can let you have but forty dollars, which is the price of a first-class ticket to New York by steamer. Moreover, as this is sailing day, and the New York steamer leaves in a couple of hours, I would advise ...
— Under the Great Bear • Kirk Munroe
... from publisher to publisher, and at length, on a day in January—date ever memorable in Goldthorpe's life—there arrived a short letter in which a certain firm dryly intimated their approval of the story offered them, and their willingness to purchase the copyright for a sum of fifty pounds. The next morning the triumphant author travelled to London. For two or three days a violent gale had been blowing, with much damage ...
— The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories • George Gissing
... dryly. "There ain't enny one of you my equal, an' you've showed it. There ain't enny one of you, from Carlsen to Harris, who'd have the nerve to put it up to me alone. You had to band together in a pack, like a flock of sheep, with Carlsen for sheepherder. I'm talking," he went on in a ...
— A Man to His Mate • J. Allan Dunn
... 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 ...
— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst
... is the most thoroughgoing that the world has ever seen; for he attacks the certainty of our knowledge of both mind and matter. But he dryly remarks that his own doubts disappear when he leaves his study. He avoids a runaway horse and inquires of a friend the way to a certain house in Edinburgh, relying as much on the evidence of his eyes and on the directions ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck
... the contents," returned Sir Philip, dryly, "would leave you as ignorant as before of the uses to which they can be applied; but I will own to you frankly, that it is my intention to select some confidant among men of science, to whom I may safely communicate the wonderful ...
— A Strange Story, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... deal of hot air in it, Lizzie," he remarked dryly. "And say, you and Mac must have been collaborating. He had that very same expression in his speech last night—'member, Mac, when you brought down the house that time when you flung something 'against the eternal heavens,' or some such disorderly act. Here's Lizzie ...
— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith
... Mayhew dryly. "That's very unfortunate too, for," continued he, taking out his watch, "I haven't time to explain myself just now. I have an appointment four miles away in half an hour's time. I am late as it is. Williams ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843 • Various
... fine quality of wit, but wrong. He then produced a sharp click or snap, after his kind, and gave it up. His friend or patron then gave the true solution, whose transcendent humour was duly recognised by Europe, and moved Bones to an unearthly dance, dryly but decisively accompanied on his instrument. A sudden outburst of rhythmic banjo-thuds and song followed, about Old Joe, who kicked up behind and before, and a yellow girl, who kicked up behind Old Joe. Then the Company ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... a good deal like being a woman, I reckon," returned Cynthia dryly. "There's a heap in having been born to it. Aunt Polly, have you put the irons on the fire? The first batch of clothes is ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... this affair to the Cigarette, "They must have a curious idea of how English servants behave," says he, dryly, "for you treated me like a brute ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 1 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... the price, which was to be fixed at so much a pound. But the Boer would not hear of it. "No," said he, "these were my father's scales, and he was a wise man and was never cheated, and I won't use anybody else's." The storekeeper dryly remarked that he did not desire to press the matter, since he found himself a gainer by L12 in consequence ...
— South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) - From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum - of 9th Oct. 1899 • Louis Creswicke |
