"Drily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 ...
— Cousin Pons • Honore de Balzac
... 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 ...
— The Pocket R.L.S. - Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson
... I am at liberty to give you upon that point," said Mr. Barrister drily, "is that contained in your father's will. Would you care to examine a ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester
... McQueen answered, drily, "and with reason, for he was her breadwinner, and now she ...
— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie
... 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 have tumbled ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... remarked 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
... little tipsy. He toasted your lovely sister a dozen times, at which we all laughed," says the bishop, "admiring so much fraternal affection.—Where is that charming nymph, and why doth she not adorn your ladyship's tea-table with her bright eyes?" Her ladyship said, drily, that Beatrix was not at home that morning; my lord bishop was too busy with great affairs to trouble himself much about the presence or absence of any lady, ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... in the opinion of the author of the Illustrations, for the literary thefts of the preacher than for those of the novelist; since in sermons, Dr. Ferriar observes drily, "the principal matter must consist ...
— Sterne • H.D. Traill
... that same moon saved you nothing of a cracked pate the hour of fortune when we first met," observed Padre Vicente drily.—"Maids or matrons on the journey would have caused broken heads in the desert as handily as ...
— The Flute of the Gods • Marah Ellis Ryan
... the worse for a little new blood," said Marilla drily, "and if this boy is anything like his father he'll be all right. Steve Irving was the nicest boy that was ever raised in these parts, though some people did call him proud. I should think Mrs. Irving would ...
— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... to bring Varia with him; but Nastasia had not even asked after her, though no sooner had he arrived than she had reminded him of the episode between himself and the prince. The general, who had heard nothing of it before, began to listen with some interest, while Gania, drily, but with perfect candour, went through the whole history, including the fact of his apology to the prince. He finished by declaring that the prince was a most extraordinary man, and goodness knows why he ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... "Yes," Pinkey agreed, drily, "you'll be needin' a portable bath-tub something desperate. I wisht I had one. The last good wash I took was in Crystal Lake the other side of the Bear-tooth Mountain. When I was done I stood out till the sun dried me, then brushed the mud off with ...
— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart
... remarked Tarboe drily; and then he told his schemes to Joan, letting Bissonnette hang up the "The Demoiselle with the Scarlet Hose," and begin "The Coming of the Gay Cavalier." She entered into his plans with spirit, and together they speculated what ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... said Scott, drily. "We've made a haul and we're bringing it in. Suppose you wait for that horse of mine, will you, Tom, and see that he gets home all right? Thanks to this gentleman and his friends we've only got three head of cattle left, so we'd best ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... 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 medical authorities ...
— The Secret House • Edgar Wallace
... drily. "Henry G.'s present, ain't he? Humph! Well, I'd ought to have known that anything Henry would GIVE away was likely to be remarkable in all sorts of ways. All right! that's one Henry's got on me. Tomorrow afternoon me and Job take a trip back to Eastboro, and one of us stays there. ...
— The Woman-Haters • Joseph C. Lincoln
... said the secretary drily. "The question is, who furnished it. Lord Pilgrimstone, I am authorized to say, has not permitted his note of the agreement to pass out of his possession—even up to ...
— Stories of Modern French Novels • Julian Hawthorne
... 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
... answered drily; 'only mind, whatever you do, for Heaven's sake don't go and stumble and pull ME down on the top of you. It's the clear duty of a good citizen to respect the lives of the other men who are roped together with him on the side of ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... answered Marzio drily. "It is the same as if you had told me," he added ironically, as he turned and led the ...
— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford
... drily; "Mr. Darcy is uncommonly kind to Mr. Bingley, and takes a prodigious deal of care ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... as he could the scheme in which he was the most guiltless of accessories after the fact, and Mark kept in the background and said as little as possible; he felt distinctly uncomfortable, however, when Mr. Chilton drily inquired whether the same mystification attached to 'Sweet Bells Jangled,' and on being reassured as to this, observed that it was a little unfortunate that the matter had not been explained before the latter book had been brought out. 'If you think ...
— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey
... Hungerford is a tall, thin girl about thirty, with curious 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
... 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
... 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 ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... where I was going, sir," said the Parson drily, for he was much offended at that vague and ungrammatical remark applicable to his horsemanship, that "he ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various
... SIR PATRICK [drily] It's a little hard on a lad to be killed because his wife has too high an opinion of him. Fortunately few of us are ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma • George Bernard Shaw
... knight heard him, 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 ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... gulf indeed," commented Roger de Conde, drily. "Not even gratitude could lead a king's niece to receive Norman of Torn ...
— The Outlaw of Torn • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... not think that need deter you," remarked one of the young officers drily. "We are all pretty ...
— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees
... 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
... some special meteor-orbits," he said drily, "might lead to finding out when the Fifth Planet blew itself up.—According to Bode's Law there ought to be a planet like ours between Mars and Jupiter. If there was, it blew itself to pieces, or maybe the people on it had ...
— Long Ago, Far Away • William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
... the French drily, for they did not relish an Englishman's interference, 'it is not from that quarter that danger is most ...
— The Boy Crusaders - A Story of the Days of Louis IX. • John G. Edgar
... 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 ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln
... said the stranger, drily, "you must take that for granted at present; pester me with no inquiries; you can discover nothing more about me than I choose to make known. You shall have sufficient security for my respectability—my word, if you are honourable: if you ...
— J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
... your seat,' returned the other drily, 'I know the way. So, waving his hand slightly, and putting on his hat as he turned upon his heel, he went clanking out as he had come, shut the door behind him, and tramped down the ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens
... think 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 your wife ...
— Wessex Tales • Thomas Hardy
... along the streets, as in other Southern villages, but he was chiefly attracted by an unfinished square marble shaft, half-a-mile below, and he walked down to inspect it before breakfast. His aunt drily remarked that, at this rate, he would soon get through all the sights; but she could not guess — having lived always in Washington — how little the sights of Washington had ...
— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams
... replied drily, "we are rather stronger than one regiment and not quite so strong as two; still, if things go on like this we shall ere very long have mounted up to the strength of a brigade; but even a brigade, Ronald, does nor go very far towards the conquest of a kingdom, ...
— Bonnie Prince Charlie - A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden • G. A. Henty
... to stake my pile on that," observed the Girl, drily. She blew up each glove as it came off and likewise carefully laid them away ...
— The Girl of the Golden West • David Belasco
... 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 for ...
— Helen • Maria Edgeworth
... "To-night," said Brice, 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 ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune
... father and mother had entirely cleared; but Lady Price coughed drily, saying, 'And you did not ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... 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 ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
... drily, "perhaps they've heard the news up there, and some of their boys have started out to see about earning that hundred dollars reward. It might have been telephoned up, ...
— Fred Fenton on the Track - or, The Athletes of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... wealthy miller yet, His double chin, his portly size, And who that knew him could forget The busy wrinkles round his eyes? The slow wise smile that, round about His dusty forehead drily curl'd, Seem'd half-within and half-without, And full ...
— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson
... said the other drily, and would have continued his lecture had not the two ladies, who had been in the hall laughing and smiling around the bar door, now appeared boldly on the scene, and Ringfield made his escape, not before he ...
— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison
... it satisfies you," she answered, drily. "It is of a piece with the rest of the reasoning of the royal pedant, whom Master Potts styles ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... little cakes, Julia," said Miss Ronder drily. She, unlike her nephew, bothered about very few people indeed. ...
— The Cathedral • Hugh Walpole
... 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, and your ...
— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman
... drily. "Is it very astonishing? You see, we don't spend half our time on horseback here. You didn't expect to find me ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... though, of course, without surprise, that he had been unfaithful to their love times without number. But she looked into his eyes and found them bereaved as her heart was. She turned aside and sobbed once, drily. After that, they spoke softly, as if one they had both loved lay dead somewhere close at hand. He told her that Peacey had set up for himself in an inn, and that a widowed sister of his, named Susan Rodney, who also had been in the Torques' service, ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West
... on taking risks just to show off before the girls," observed Thad, drily, "I rather guess he won't grow up at all, but die young. But I'll leave you here, Hugh, as I have a date with some one for ...
— The Chums of Scranton High - Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight • Donald Ferguson
... said, nodding drily, while the Marquis stood aside, frowning and baffled. 'Permit me ...
— Under the Red Robe • Stanley Weyman
... a lamp had been sneering drily at me, like some Mephistopheles: and that tiniest sneer had screened off this infinite light of joy issuing forth from the deep love which is in all the world. What, forsooth, had I been looking for in the empty wordiness of the book? There was the very thing itself, filling the skies, ...
— Glimpses of Bengal • Sir Rabindranath Tagore
... see much 'theory' in that," I observed drily. Somehow I could not shake off the feeling of irritability that my quarrel with Dulcie during the afternoon ...
— The Four Faces - A Mystery • William le Queux
... 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 ...
— Merely Mary Ann • Israel Zangwill
... "No," said 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 ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... will," said the inspector drily. "Well, if you didn't murder Sir Horace yourself when did you first hear that he ...
— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson
... knew!" she assented drily. "But we are wandering from the point. I am still wondering what has brought you here. Have you come direct ...
— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... "Not so," Malespini responded drily. "You may thank friends nearer at hand, for the Grand Duke knows as little of your existence as your English friends apparently care ...
— Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) • Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney
... dreamed it, if you like," I responded drily. "I have very remarkable dreams sometimes, and learn a great deal ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward
... that, Captain Hatteraick,' said Glossin, drily;' because you would probably find a-'dozen'redcoats at the custom-house, whom it must be my business, if we agree about this matter, to have removed. Come, come, I will be as liberal as I can, but you ...
— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... to state his case to them, 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 ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... grace thinks so," replied the Earl, drily; "for under those circumstances I fear that your escape from the Tower will ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... great moderation and goodness of heart: the style is not very striking, and has some vulgarisms, and In a work of that bulk I should rather have taken more pains to digest and connect it into a flowing narrative, than drily give it as a diary: yet I dare promise it ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole
... cautious enough," 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 ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
... 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 ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... ours," answered Dalrymple, in the correct phrase, but with his peculiar accent. "I suppose you heard my daughter's screams," he added drily. "She was explaining to us how a ...
— Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) • F. Marion Crawford
... I could find the south if you told me which was the north," said the master drily. "Well, we must do the best we can. Let's strike along here. I seem to feel that this ...
— Cutlass and Cudgel • George Manville Fenn
... you, young man," said the doctor, drily. "Suppose we settle money matters first of all. ...
— The Young Outlaw - or, Adrift in the Streets • Horatio Alger
... 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
... "Twilight" in S. Lorenzo: it is clear that in the former Michael Angelo painted what he would have been well pleased to carve. A sculptor's genius was needed for the modelling of those many figures; it was, moreover, not a painter's part to deal thus drily with colour. ...
— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds
... curve. "I am not referring to the facts of generation," she said drily, and her smile broadened, her eyebrows lifted humorously. "I am quite aware that the—the advantages of a country life include an early arrival at that kind of knowledge. Besides, you were fortunate in your brothers. And then there were ...
— Moor Fires • E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
... lack subjects," replied Milton drily. "But—well, I have an idea you came out here looking for something. There are lines around your eyes that say that. So I just thought I'd hand on ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow
... 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 the Place de Greve. ...
— Melmoth Reconciled • Honore de Balzac
... have been fortunate in our associate, Melchior," he said drily, turning without ceremony from the man whose modest, quiet mien had lately interested him so much, but whose manner he now took to be assumed,—few pausing to investigate the motives of those who are condemned of opinion:—"here has been much ...
— The Headsman - The Abbaye des Vignerons • James Fenimore Cooper
... incidents in the recent history of human confidence and human expectation! Another friend, Mr George Lynch, whose name occurred in one of his letters in a passage curiously characteristic of Steevens's drily incisive humour, writes about the days that must immediately have preceded his illness: "He was as fit and well as possible when I left Ladysmith last month." (The letter is dated from Durban, January 11.) "We were drawing rations like the soldiers, but had some '74 port and a plum-pudding which ...
— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens
... Gillian when next she went to Lily Giles. She had never succeeded in taking real interest in the girl, who seemed to her to be so silly and sentimental that an impulse to answer drily instantly closed up all inclination to effusions of confidence. Gillian had not yet learnt breadth of charity enough to understand that everybody does not feel, or express feeling, after the same pattern; that gush is not always ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge
... that I ran up the bank for my book, remembering to have seen the word, and I then found that einer meant a gin, or female, as will appear on referring to the vocabulary I obtained at Wallamoul.* The translation of this word produced a hearty laugh among our men, and Finch drily observed that some would then be very serviceable. I was in doubt whether they meant to inquire, by frequently pointing up to our tents, if we had any, or whether they wished to accommodate us with wives. At length they rather suddenly drew together ...
— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 1 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell
... 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. This hint ...
— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones
... guess, then, you'll have to fire; for I can't spare either officer or men," replied Captain Williams drily. ...
— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames
... said Delecresse, rather drily. "I do not wish to have more to do with the Devil and his ...
— Earl Hubert's Daughter - The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century • Emily Sarah Holt
... force of character when she's within thirty miles of them," said Sir Tancred drily; and then he went on with more emphasis: "But the banker streak comes out in her; she thinks too much of money. She doesn't understand that money's a thing you spend on things that amuse you; she's always making shows with it—dull shows. So it was part of her scheme ...
— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson
... 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 ...
— The Pension Beaurepas • Henry James
... 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 ...
— His Big Opportunity • Amy Le Feuvre
... said Aileen drily. "Although not all. But let that pass. I'd like to know where you expect to find the opposite lead, as they say on the stage. Our men are not such a bad sort, even the richest—with a few exceptions, of course. They may hit it up at week-ends, generally at the country ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton
... 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 as to whether I could reach the boats, and ...
— The Mistress of Shenstone • Florence L. Barclay
... the sensible man I took you for," replied Darvil, drily; "and I should like to talk to ...
— Ernest Maltravers, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... delights, and perhaps, dear Uncle, you might like to know which books in that line I am now reading. In my lessons with the Dean of Chester,[13] I am reading Russell's Modern Europe,[14] which is very interesting, and Clarendon's History of the Rebellion. It is drily written, but is full of instruction. I like reading different authors, of different opinions, by which means I learn not to lean on one particular side. Besides my lessons, I read Jones'[15] account of the wars in Spain, Portugal and the South of France, ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) • Queen Victoria
... asked the older man drily. "You love the girl, and he's in the running with you. ...
— The Half-Hearted • John Buchan
... its own fashion," said Piers drily. "Rousseau teaches liberty and fraternity; France learns the ...
— The Crown of Life • George Gissing
... the novelist said drily. And his voice had lost its brotherly, affectionate tone when he added: "Very well, then, if you two have settled it between you, I will not presume to interfere, I was going down to the city to-morrow to see about reservations; if Dryden means it—of ...
— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris
... discovery about the silencer is responsible for the deputation waiting in the courtyard," he said drily. ...
— The Yellow Streak • Williams, Valentine
... about the Cortes, and when Lord John told him that many of the members made good speeches on abstract questions, but they failed when any practical debate on finance or war took place, Napoleon drily remarked: 'Oui, faute de l'habitude de gouverner.' Presently the talk drifted to Wellington, or rather Napoleon adroitly led it thither. He described the man who had driven the French out of Spain as a 'grand chasseur,' and asked if Wellington liked Paris. Lord John replied ...
— Lord John Russell • Stuart J. Reid
... at present, very 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 ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad
... into Grell's face as the superintendent drily recounted his movements. It was succeeded by a flash of fury at the last words. "Be careful, sir," he said tensely. "You need not ...
— The Grell Mystery • Frank Froest
... 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 ...
— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt
... inmates 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
... Mr. Gray admitted drily. "The other half's Austrian all right, though. I can't tell you anything more about her, my dear fellow. All I can say is that she is in my book, and so long as she is there, you know it's better for you youngsters to keep away. Be off now. I am decoding ...
— The Double Traitor • E. Phillips Oppenheim |
