"Drily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 ...
— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard
... may presume, kept some copies himself," remarked Aunt Barbara drily. "Really, for childish simplicity the English are ...
— Michael • E. F. Benson
... "I answered very drily, that to-day my fantasies had all gone a wool-gathering; and, while we are talking about it, a devil, in the shape of a dandy, with two waistcoats, had smelt out Bach's Variations, which were lying under ...
— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... retorted drily. "But please ask yourself this question: (it is where, to my thinking, the social and the personal elements join) if this marriage is broken off, is Dick ...
— Witness For The Defense • A.E.W. Mason
... said the guide drily; "and it is bad work to kick Gros. He is a very clever animal, and can kick much harder than a man. I remember Pierre kicking him once, and he kicked back and nearly broke the ...
— The Crystal Hunters - A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps • George Manville Fenn
... concealed great clear-headedness and decisiveness. Howard always said that it was a comfort to talk to her, because she always knew what her own opinion was, and did what she intended to do. He found her alone and at tea. She welcomed him drily but warmly. Presently he said, "I want your advice, Monnie; I want you to make up my mind for me. I have a feeling that I need a change. I don't mean a little change, but a big one. I am suddenly aware that I am a little stale, and I wish ...
— Watersprings • Arthur Christopher Benson
... be," the cripple said drily. "But you know him now, and that satisfies me. Now, listen. You see what I have in my hand. Perhaps you are acquainted with weapons of ...
— The Mystery of the Four Fingers • Fred M. White
... her surprise. 'You deserve forgiveness then at any rate, child,' she said, in a sort of drily-kind tone. 'However, I am afraid you do not suit me, as I am looking for an elderly person. You see, I want an experienced maid who knows all the usual duties of the office.' She was going to add, 'Though I like your appearance,' but the words seemed offensive to apply to the ...
— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy
... and although the pontiff accepted the volume, he did not forbear a severity of remark which could not fall unheeded by the modern poet; for on this occasion, repeating some verses of Metastasio, his holiness drily added, "No one now-a-days writes like that great poet." Never was this to be erased from memory: the stifled resentment of MONTI vehemently broke forth at the moment the French carried off Pius VI. from Rome. Then the long indignant secretary poured forth an invective more severe ...
— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli
... the brooch and the toothpick, which wear not now. Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek. And your virginity, your old virginity, is like one of our French withered pears; it looks ill, it eats drily; marry, 'tis a wither'd pear; it was formerly better; marry, yet 'tis a wither'd pear. Will you anything ...
— All's Well That Ends Well • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... might have another idea," I remarked, drily. "Permit me to introduce myself." I gave him my name, and saw ...
— They Call Me Carpenter • Upton Sinclair
... responded drily; "but you remember that the rent was for the month, and you paid her two pounds five shillings ...
— Penelope's Irish Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... Monnier who, meeting him another time on the Place de la Bourse, and having had to listen to another of such mirific demonstrations about a scheme from which both were to derive millions, answered drily: ...
— Balzac • Frederick Lawton
... not so bad," she answered, drily. She was secretly pleased at her son's praise of the house and garden that to her ...
— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef
... highly explosive gas a copper vessel had burst and a part of it had been thrown with great violence into the back of the bench where a row of students were sitting, but fortunately the student who sat in that place was absent that day and nobody was hurt. He added drily: "The President sent for me and told me I must be more careful. He said I should feel very badly indeed if I had killed one of the students. ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
... seed ye keepin' well to looard!" said Hiram drily. "But, ez I wer a sayin', the skipper agrees to call in at the fust port we fetches, an' we've b'en close in to Bahia, when we near ran ashore, an' Rio an' Buenos Ayres; an' he's never ...
— The Island Treasure • John Conroy Hutcheson
... up, thank you, on this and all other matters concerning which I have given you instructions," was the calm reply. "I have had plenty of time for consideration," he added drily. ...
— The Malefactor • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... not yet 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 you as your ...
— The Albert Gate Mystery - Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective • Louis Tracy
... on before, shaking his curly-lock'd head Calmly and drily Minerva looks down, and Hermes ...
— The Poems of Goethe • Goethe
... get above it," suggested the manager, drily. "You've got to climb; I want you in ...
— The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm - or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays • Laura Lee Hope
... figures in recent fiction have been; a genuinely great though repellent personality—a man whom it would have been at once an event to have met and a pleasure to have kicked. Mr. MAUGHAM has certainly done nothing better than this book about him; the drily sardonic humour of his method makes the picture not only credible but compelling. I liked especially the characteristic touch that shows Strickland escaping, not so much from the dull routine of stockbroking (genius has done that often enough ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 7, 1919. • Various
... all know that," returned Malcolm drily. "Now, will you answer my question—what brings you up to Lincoln's Inn in this ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... in your perverted opinion," observed the professor drily. "We will move no further in this matter until your uncle arrives. Foreman, I wish to have a word ...
— The Boys of Bellwood School • Frank V. Webster
... people to follow up, then," remarked Mr. Lindsey drily. "If you're going to follow every tourist that got on a train next morning between Berwick and Wooler, and Berwick and Kelso, and Berwick and Burnmouth, and Berwick and Blyth, you'll have your ...
— Dead Men's Money • J. S. Fletcher
... "Thirty-four." He laughed drily. "We know one another when we meet," he said. He drew his waxed thread between his finger and thumb, held it up to the light, then looked askance at the gossoons about him, to whom what he said was gibberish. They knew ...
— The Wild Geese • Stanley John Weyman
... to be a more popular form of entertainment," Douglas answered drily. He was beginning to feel that there were many tricks in the entertainment trade which he had not mastered. And, after all, what was his preaching but an effort at entertainment? If he failed to hold his congregation by what he was saying, his listeners grew drowsy, ...
— Polly of the Circus • Margaret Mayo
... 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 ...
— Morale - A Story of the War of 1941-43 • Murray Leinster
... was prejudiced in favour of Logan, and his two sovereigns, which now need not be expended in advertisements, was alarmed by the hostile attitude of Miss Blowser. 'There's your cat,' she said drily; 'it ain't stealing a cat to leave it, with money for its board, and to pay for advertisements, in a well-conducted charitable institution, with a duchess for president. And he even left five shillings ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang
... 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 affection of ...
— History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 • F. A. M. Mignet
... soul and body, no," answered Wemmick, very drily. "But he is accused of it. So might you or I be. Either of us might be ...
— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens
... great happiness to have such a boy," said Frau Rupius very drily, after a short interval ...
— Bertha Garlan • Arthur Schnitzler
... 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 a neck ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, July 24, 1841 • Various
... drily, "I managed to be of some slight use. Pardon my mentioning it. If I hadn't been there, you'd be carrying eight inches of cold steel, between your shoulders. And—pardon me, again—if you'd had the sense to stay out of the squabble a second or so longer, the man who ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune
... not for me to upbraid or to openly say that I had realised she had attempted to escape, and so I contented myself by remarking drily that the plain beyond was unsafe, and that there was better ground on the ...
— Orrain - A Romance • S. Levett-Yeats
... tremor ran around the storekeeper's mouth. His nostrils swelled, and he wrinkled his forehead. "Sorry," he said drily, "but it's ...
— The Plow-Woman • Eleanor Gates
... often happy, as when seeing Mr. Ponsonby, the Speaker of the Irish Parliament, parting freely with bank-notes at Newmarket, he remarked, "How easily the Speaker passes the money bills," or, as when Lord Foley crossed the Channel to avoid his creditors, he drily observed that it was "a passover not much relished by the Jews," yet their repetition ...
— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue
... the captain, drily, after he had recovered the bowl, not only without the other's consent, but, in some degree, against his will; "this bowl is as precious in my eyes as if it were made of my ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper
... were dashed when Mr Desertis turned round drily to his wife: "Then it cannot possibly be my father, as you suggested. His hair was white, ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates
... the kid stays till he wears out all them clothes, we'll just about have to give him a share in the company," he said drily. ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower
... led off to instant execution." The Welshman doubted if that could be warranted by law. And when I hinted at the 10th of Edward III., chap. 15, for regulating the precedency of coaches, as being probably the statute relied on for the capital punishment of such offences, he replied drily—that if the attempt to pass a mail was really treasonable, it was a pity that the Tallyho appeared to have so imperfect an ...
— Miscellaneous Essays • Thomas de Quincey
... to the captain about that," replied Mr Mackay drily, turning aft and giving some whispered instructions to Tim Rooney to let the stowaway have some more food later on and give him a shake- down in the forecastle for the night, so that he might be in better fettle for his audience with Captain Gillespie on the morrow. "You can stop here ...
— Afloat at Last - A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson
... no idea that the official police undertook espionage of that sort," he said rather drily. "But it is true, sir, that I went to Limoges—my last post before I was appointed to Vierzon—to take a final farewell to a lady. But since you are so accurately informed about all this, since you even know what ...
— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre
... you," said Ernest Wilton drily; "but you see, old man, elk and wapiti—which are the only species of deer we are likely to meet with here, I think—can be better stalked than run down, as you suggest. However, the mules may come in handy for you, Mr Seth, ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... and neck became red with the colour which leaped to his face. With apologetic eyes he glanced at Lubov, and said to her father drily: ...
— Foma Gordyeff - (The Man Who Was Afraid) • Maxim Gorky
... minutes together alone," Julian replied drily. "I see to that. Then my mother, you know, has the knack of getting interesting people together. The Bishop is coming, amongst others. And, Furley, I wanted to ask you—do you know anything of a young woman—she is half Russian, I believe—who ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... the man drily,—"pictures of dreams. I don't know how you're going to see them. Perhaps the moon will do ...
— The Ghost Ship • Richard Middleton
... glad to hear it," said the Captain, drily. "And how about Hawkehurst, now? Do you think it was a real love-match, his marriage with Miss Halliday? No arriere pensee—no looking out for the main chance at the bottom of his romantic attachment, ...
— Charlotte's Inheritance • M. E. Braddon
... Wyllard drily. "I would engage to give him a fair start if it was necessary. You wouldn't have had that woman landed in Montreal, helpless and alone, while the man was sent back again to starve ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... him that does, lad," commented Mr. Chapple, drily, "caan't say you've got any call to be better pleased. Go you back an' do the job, like a ...
— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts
... drily to Smithers, who had expressed his doubts. "Jacaro had somebody sneak up and talk to him through the walls, or maybe through a bored hole. While there's a hope of finding out what he wants to know through Von Holtz, Jacaro won't try ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various
... far as 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 your ...
— Elsie at Home • Martha Finley
... 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
... transformed, 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. ...
— Helen • Maria Edgeworth
... fond of work as ye be of fightin', Marty," returned Mr. Day, drily, "you sartin sure'd be a ...
— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long
... "What!" said the doctor drily. "More of an appetite, eh? I never noticed that you two wanted that. Gracious, how much do ...
— Hunting the Skipper - The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop • George Manville Fenn
... 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
... like the Maggie's," Mr. Gibney retorted drily, "we wouldn't need to worry none. Not wishin' to change the conversation, Scraggsy, but referrin' to them eggs you slipped me and Bart for supper, all I gotta say is that the next time you go marketin' in ancient Egypt, me an' Mac's goin' to tell the real story o' the S.S. Maggie ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... interrupted. "Perhaps," he said, drily. "In fact, I agree with you. The graveyard is a ridiculous place for anybody to be, but I shall be there—and soon. But I am not going to let it interfere with my plans concerning the Fair Harbor. Lobelia Seymour I've known since she was a little girl, and ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... 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 ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac
... was begun immediately, and was the delight of Ellen's life. Mrs. Lindsay and her daughter wished to put a stop to it; but Mr. Lindsay drily said that Mr. Humphreys had frankly spoken of it before him, and as he had made no objection ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner
... drily said, 'Get Magny to play; never mind his paying: take his notes of hand. The more he owes the better; but, above ...
— Barry Lyndon • William Makepeace Thackeray
... imagine that to be the reason," he said, drily. "If Mr. E. Holliday Kendrick does indulge I guess likely—that is, I presume he would not find it necessary to buy his—er—beverages here. He meant public spirit, of course. He asked me who our leading ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Kaiser's Christmas greeting to his loving followers," observed Wagstaffe drily, "I think he might safely have left it to ...
— All In It K(1) Carries On - A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand • John Hay Beith (AKA: Ian Hay)
... garrulity was getting on his nerves. "As you say, I know the Leridans' house. I have had cause to send children there myself. Children of aristos or of fat bourgeois, whom it was our duty to turn into good citizens. They are not pampered there, I imagine," he went on drily; "and if citizen Marat sent his—er—adopted son there, it was not with a view to having him brought up as ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... commented Dr. Holiday drily. "Come on over here, one of you twinnies, if Phil must go. See you to-night, my boy?" he turned to his namesake to ask as Charley accepted the invitation and clambered over the back of the seat while the doctor took her brother's ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper
... here for Swain," he added, with a gesture toward some garments he carried over one arm; "also a bracer to be administered to him," and he drew a flask from his pocket and handed it to me. "Maybe you need one, yourself," he added, smiling drily, "since you've taken ...
— The Gloved Hand • Burton E. Stevenson
... said Roger drily, "it will matter little whether Europe talks or not; but in any case Coligny is staking everything on one throw. If we get beaten, he cannot expect ...
— For The Admiral • W.J. Marx
... 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, Guys evokes vital horses ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker
... said Lord Maxwell, drily, "if there were violence. Once let it come to any real attack on property, and you will see where all these Socialist theories will be. And of course it will not be we—not the landowners or the capitalists—who will put it down. It will be the hundreds and thousands of people with something ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... joke has been perpetrated before, sir, in garrison towns at the time of the Empire; but nowadays it is exceedingly bad form," said Raphael drily. ...
— The Magic Skin • Honore de Balzac
... of boyish daring," said Dalrymple, somewhat drily. "I presume he did not return by the ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
... watch," said the fool drily. "I tell you that a company of men-at-arms some twenty strong went last night ...
— Love-at-Arms • Raphael Sabatini
... heaved himself up. Haney's voice cut through what the Chief was about to say. Haney said drily: "Sally, if Joe hadn't kissed you for thinking that up, I would. Makes ...
— Space Tug • Murray Leinster
... his sister did," McQueen answered, drily, "and with reason, for he was her breadwinner, and ...
— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie
... no 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
... you what it is, Harry,' said Lord Monmouth, very drily, 'members of this family may think as they like, but they must act as I please. You must go down on Friday to Darlford and declare yourself a candidate for the town, or I shall reconsider our mutual positions. I would say, ...
— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli
... Ingamells drily. "You know all about that, don't you?" Clearly she resented that he knew all ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... the lawyer, drily. "Still, the house can't run away, and I suppose will aways let for fifty or ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander
... extent of your peril, Mr. Smart," she said drily. "Of course, I have no desire to put you in jeopardy, ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... "Thank you," 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
... practitioner wishing upon one occasion, in the court of king's-bench, to convince Lord Ellenborough of his importance, said, "My lord, I sometimes employ myself as a doctor."—"Very likely, sir," said his lordship drily; "but is any body else fool enough to employ you in ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 10, No. 272, Saturday, September 8, 1827 • Various
... mother and sister starve," put in the blind man, drily. Then, as the fire of Archie's passion suddenly sank at the cold, incisive words, and he remained silent and abashed, he went on, in quiet, even tones, while his red eyes were focussed upon his visitor's face with disconcerting directness, "No, ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... ye go to the Queen,' he said drily. 'If the Queen say, "Yea," ye ha' gained all; if "Nay" ye ha' lost naught, for ye may alway change your mind. And a true and steadfast cause, a large and godly innocence is a thing that gaineth men's hearts and voices.' He paused for a moment. 'Ye ha' need o' ...
— Privy Seal - His Last Venture • Ford Madox Ford
... the father and mother had entirely cleared; but Lady Price coughed drily, saying, 'And you did ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... your fortune," Trent said drily. "I had to have the money, and you ground a share out of me which is worth a quarter ...
— A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... 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
... impatient. He plunged right into the subject and said drily: "Then it is you who are going to ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... rather drily; 'but I reckon you wouldn't see many beauties till you had a log shanty up, at all events. Now that young man'—he had caught Robert Wynn's eye on him again—'is the very build for emigration. Strong, active, healthy, wide awake: no offence, young gentleman, ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... 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 Pension Beaurepas • Henry James
... "Well," said Pagett, drily, "it has not yet occurred to me to worship his Lordship, although I believe he is a very worthy man, and I am not sure that England owes quite all the things you name to the House of Commons. You see, my ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... it upon the spot 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
... hardly expect you to wear mine," said April drily. "No, as you rightly suspect, it isn't for the clothes, though they fascinate and lure me. And it isn't for the honour and glory of being Lady Diana, though that is fascinating too, and it will ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... "Yes," said Tim drily. "It's an occasion for showing respect to me. I'll do as I am, not having had time to go to the tailor's ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Various
... I did not keep it," the magnate retorted a little drily. "It was by the merest, most fortunate chance that the letter itself came to light. However, I cannot see at this late date what difference it could possibly make when the letter was mailed, since it establishes beyond any possibility ...
— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
... 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 a separate haycock, ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... give us trouble," said Cornelius, drily; "they have given us trouble, and they will give us more. The Samnites gave us trouble, and our friends of Carthage here, and Jugurtha, and Mithridates; trouble, yes, that is the long and the short of it; they will ...
— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman
... other lost writings little need be said. In youth, like most of his contemporaries, he wrote poems, including a tragedy, of which Tacitus drily observes that they were not better than those of Cicero. A grammatical treatise, De Analogia, was composed by him during one of his long journeys between Northern Italy and the headquarters of his army in Gaul during his proconsulate. A work on astronomy, apparently written ...
— Latin Literature • J. W. Mackail
... 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 shall ...
— Erewhon Revisited • Samuel Butler
... illness," drily replied the Field-marshal, amid general laughter, "if it's kept him abroad all ...
— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... uncomfortably, it is true, in the infamous inn of that nest of savages up there," said the one-eyed cuirassier, drily. "We arrived in your parts an hour ago on post horses. He's awaiting our return with impatience. There is hurry, you know. The General has broken the ministerial order to obtain from you the satisfaction he's entitled to by the laws of honour, and naturally he's anxious to have it ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad
... offending.' 'Second night of its appearance, the admired Farce of ——, by ——, Esq.' Away posts the Author to the Manager.—'Good Heavens! Sir, my farce again! was it not thoroughly damned last night?'—'Thoroughly damned!' quoth the Manager, drily; 'we reproduce it, Sir—we reproduce it (with a knowing wink,) that the world, enraged at our audacity, may come here to damn it again.' So it is, you see! the love of money is the contempt of man: there's an aphorism ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 19, Issue 529, January 14, 1832 • Various
... was in the army, but I sold out nearly a dozen years ago," answered Ducie, drily. "Does this fellow expect me to imitate his candour?" thought the Captain. "Would he like to know all about my grandfather and grandmother, and that I have a cousin who is an earl? If so, I am ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 • Various
... be some clever folk like that," said Mrs Hankworth, drily. "The difference that anyone can see if they use their eyes is, that she'll have a child to keep and they won't. She's no idea where she'll ...
— Women of the Country • Gertrude Bone
... "Thankye," said Ike drily; "much obliged. It's my belief, though, that the wicked old walking scaffold was fast asleep, and ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn
... hoofin' 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
... to your fame, monsieur," Louise answered drily, somewhat taken aback by the turn of a phrase by which Lucien deliberately tried to ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac
... 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 a ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... a different breed," Benton observed drily. "Or perhaps only the same breed manifesting under different conditions. He isn't servile. ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... face, his steel-blue, inquiring eyes behind the glasses, his gray felt hat, his lank, tense figure in its gray, became a familiar feature. They threw remarks to him, to which he replied briefly and drily. When anything interesting was going on, somebody told him about it. Then he hurried to the spot, no matter how distant it might be. He used always the river trail; he never attempted ...
— The Riverman • Stewart Edward White
... way to give things up once I've put my hand to them," he observed drily. "And you seem to forget that you put ...
— December Love • Robert Hichens
... good country," said the Canadian, rather drily. "It's going to be a great country. Is this your ...
— Lady Merton, Colonist • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... I come back to England I find that you talk more and greater nonsense, Dick,' returned Alec drily. ...
— The Explorer • W. Somerset Maugham
... he had a hold of the father's hand just at this time," drily observed Thorward, who was not gifted with much of a ...
— The Norsemen in the West • R.M. Ballantyne
... my young friend," said the veteran traveller drily, "they'll reimburse me. At all events, I know them better than you do, and I don't intend to let you bear all the risk." The lieutenant argued, but the elder was firm. As the men shuffled back to the train with full stomachs and brightened ...
— Ray's Daughter - A Story of Manila • Charles King
... 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 ...
— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt
... Ribiera," he said 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
... is driving at," he answered drily. "But as to his mother she is not as volatile as all that. I suspect it was business. It may have been a deep plot to get a picture out of Allegre for somebody. My cousin as likely as not. Or simply to discover what he had. The Blunts lost all their property and in Paris there are various ...
— The Arrow of Gold - a story between two notes • Joseph Conrad
... 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
... his quid again and again, and at last feeling scant interest in the ragged little sister who led her little brother about by the hand, and stood between him and peril as she kept their liberty—drily answered, along with his fellows, as follows: "Some said an old Indian that died had her; but I don't know. Forty-nine knows most about her. When he's short of grub, and that's pretty often now, I guess, why she has to do the ...
— Shadows of Shasta • Joaquin Miller
... he 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 ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... wireless shock you've had today, Anderson," said Harry Squires, drily, and slowly ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... answered the apostle drily; "and, just for that reason, I don't intend to undertake it: though I should like, Brother Holt, to see you gathered into the fold. I know our great High Priest would make much of a man like you. The Saints have many enemies; and need strong arms and stout hearts such ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid
... 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 ...
— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson
... 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
... 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 ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev
... with several superfluous people and a girl," said Malcourt drily. Then he glanced at the blond companion of the count who continued crumbling bread between her brilliantly ringed fingers as though she had never before seen Louis Malcourt. The price of diamonds varies. Sometimes it is merely fastidious observance of ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers
... a third," said Sir John drily, "though God save me from his arrows! This Grey Dick," he added to the Count, "is a wild, homeless half-wit whom they call Hugh de Cressi's shadow, but the finest archer in Suffolk, with Norfolk thrown in; one who can put a shaft through every button on your ...
— Red Eve • H. Rider Haggard
... call the place by that name, lady," answered Nehushta, drily, "though perhaps, in contrast with the hell that we have left, some might think it so. Drink!" and she held the water to ...
— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard
... person's word for it but his own," answered Butler, drily; "but undoubtedly he best ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... 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 as my ...
— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various
... noticed in what a serious and sedate manner she narrated her story, and none ventured to pass any further remarks, but waited anxiously for her to go on, when they became aware that she coldly and drily came to a stop. ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... drily that he thought that was only natural, and turned his attention to the more congenial task of passing a cart of hay; it was a matter of some difficulty, for the road was narrow, and there was a ditch on ...
— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... had concluded did Lord Lilburne change his position or open his lips; and then, turning to his brother-in-law his calm face, he said drily,— ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 4 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... head, but was more than half-disarmed by her friend's bitter weeping. Whether she gave any hint to Mr. Fellowes Anne did not know, but his manner remained drily courteous, and as Anne had to ride on a pillion behind a servant she was left in a state of isolation as to companionship, which made her feel herself in disgrace, and almost spoilt the joy of dear familiar ...
— A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge
... bailiffs arrived; which would be surprisingly soon, I should imagine!" said Uncle Bernard drily. "You have not much idea of the responsibility of wealth, my dear. I prefer not to discuss the point, however. My own views, which are peculiar, are set forth in the Will which is lying in the desk ...
— The Fortunes of the Farrells • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... drily; "the remark is sound and applies to most things. At present, however, I think that she is worse; also I hate the sight of her fat red face. But bother the cook, why do you think so much about her; I ...
— Stella Fregelius • H. Rider Haggard
... shortly after the death of Mrs. ——, the wife of a 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 ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 14, Issue 380, July 11, 1829 • Various |
