"Acidly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cry, Themar wheeled, his small, shifting eyes black with hate. They wavered and fell beneath the level, icy stare of the American. Philip's fingers slipped viselike along the other's wrists and Philip's voice grew more acidly polite. ...
— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple
... you keep order at lessons," said Mrs. Mark Rainham acidly. "And the ink all over the cloth. Well, all I can say is, you'll pay for a ...
— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce
... we have no pistols, eh?" said Mr Burne laughing, but rather acidly. "Humph, here comes ...
— Yussuf the Guide - The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor • George Manville Fenn
... head to see them. One thing led to another with startling rapidity. Only the other day, it seemed, some one had risen and flung against the ideals of generations the discordant cry of Votes for Women. Rebukes for the unseemliness were copious and stern enough. Many spoke acidly of the lengths to which childless females would go for lack of occupation. Droll fellows of a pretty wit giggled and asked who would mind the baby while the madam went out to vote. Serious-minded persons of both sexes disposed of the whole foolishness forever by saying (and wondering why nobody ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... beginning Lil had offered to allow Ma Mandle to continue with the marketing but Mrs. Mandle had declined, acidly. "Oh, no," she had said. ...
— Half Portions • Edna Ferber
... here!" said Mr. St. Barbe acidly to Mr. Seymour Hicks. "I think you are everywhere. I suppose they will make you a baronet next. Have you seen the batch? I could not believe my eyes when I read it. I believe the government is demented. Not a single literary man among them. Not that I wanted their baronetcy. Nothing would have ...
— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli
... the Board,' said De Forest acidly, 'trying to get a little business done. As I was saying, I've picked up a ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling |
