"Dryly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Carbonari did but engender schemes in which the abler chiefs disguised new forms of despotism, and in which the revolutionary many looked forward to the overthrow of all the institutions that stand between Law and Chaos. Naturally, therefore," added L'Estrange, dryly, "when their schemes were detected, and the conspiracy foiled, it was for the silly, honest men entrapped into the league to suffer, the leaders turned king's evidence, and the common mercenaries became—banditti." Harley then proceeded ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... am a lawyer, Mr. Armadale," rejoined Pedgift Senior, dryly. "Even in moments of sentiment, under convenient trees, with a pretty girl on my arm, I can't entirely divest myself of my professional caution. Don't look distressed, sir, pray! I set things right in due course of time. Before I left Miss Milroy, I told her, in the ...
— Armadale • Wilkie Collins
... indeed—the young rascal!" retorted John Pendleton, dryly. Then, with one of the curiously abrupt changes of manner peculiar to him, he said, very low: "You have your mother's eyes and smile, Pollyanna; and ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... our folk in Rochelle are of that way of thinking," agreed Captain Parmentier dryly. "What say ...
— Days of the Discoverers • L. Lamprey
... rather in awe of Lady Theobald, as any ordinary man would," he had said dryly to Barold, on their return to his house. "But my awe of her is not so great yet that I shall allow it to interfere ...
— A Fair Barbarian • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... said dryly, "I appreciate your confidence in me; I believe you are making a mistake. But whether I am right or wrong, that pride you so despise makes any thought of Katerina Alexandrovna out of the question for me,— you understand, utterly ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... a better way," said Grant dryly. "Some of the friendlies are so afraid he'll take their guns away and leave them defenceless unless they fight us, they've sent their arms here for safekeeping. We'll keep them safe, I'll warrant." Grant smiled, showing his white teeth in a way that was not pleasant to see, and somehow reminded ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... close, but there was still something of its dreamy wonder in the air, and the hills still flamed with glorious autumn foliage. The purples, the mauves, the scarlets, the burnt oranges were a little dimmed, a little less brilliant—the leaves were rustling dryly now—but there was beauty in dying autumn, its splendor slowly fading, as there was in its first startling ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... "Oh," dryly replied Edward, "good cause for you to be willing that the Saracen captives should ...
— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge
... answered dryly, "that I don't consider myself a Mahomet or a Napoleon, nor any personage of that kind, and not being one of them I cannot tell you how I ...
— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... behind," interpolated Mr. Staggchase dryly. "She wasn't a Beauchester, you know. However, she has her ancestors safe in their graves so that they can't ...
— The Puritans • Arlo Bates
... broken," responded Bart, dryly "When we left Westminster, I thought, as much as could be, the tories were all used up; but I find 'em down here thicker than ever now, and as sarcy and spiteful as a nest of yellow jackets that, like them, have been routed in one place and got fixed in another. Blast ...
— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson
... sufficient to convince you," he returned, rather dryly, "but would weigh little before a Western court. Unfortunately, the evidence was strong against me; or would have been had the case ever come to a trial. The strange thing about it was that both warrants were sworn out ...
— Keith of the Border • Randall Parrish
... have a travelling companion," he remarked, dryly. "Our friends are not to be caught asleep. We must watch for the occupant of this special train. We shall know then against whom we have to ...
— The Traitors • E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
... smiled dryly. "We have great ambitions at twenty-six," he said. "I remember that at twenty-six I was rather determined on making the Supreme bench. You can see for yourself how far I missed it. I do not say that we never realize our ambitions," he added quickly as he saw a flash light up the young man's eyes; ...
— The Coming of the Law • Charles Alden Seltzer
... servants go up and down this realm of England and ride us with iron bridles.' The old man laughed dryly and bitterly. 'His servant? See how we are held—we dare not shut our doors upon him since he is Cromwell's servant, yet if he come in he shall ruin us, take our money that we dare not refuse, deflower our virgins.... What then is left to us between this ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford
... be seen," said Grant dryly as he looked about the room in which they found themselves. "It seems to me that the motto over the door of this place ought to be, 'He who enters here leaves ...
— Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat • Ross Kay
... imagine not," 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.... Joan, we'll ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey
... be at all necessary," returned Molly dryly. "Cousin Elsie has all the consolation she needs. She came to me for a few moments the very day Lily died, and though I could see plainly that she had been weeping, her face was perfectly calm and peaceful; and she told me that her heart ...
— Elsie's children • Martha Finley
... acquiesced Mr. Carlyle a little dryly. "But if it is, as it probably is in Creake's pocket, how do you propose ...
— Four Max Carrados Detective Stories • Ernest Bramah
... them," said Henri, dryly. "But not in Paris. They are on their way to the border, perhaps. Wherever they are, they are carrying soldiers or supplies. The government has always the right to take them all. Even at the time of the manoeuvres, some are taken, though not all. ...
— The Boy Scouts on the Trail • George Durston
... professor dryly. "I heard the clerk telling the boy where he would be most likely ...
— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr
... the room. At this point I committed the breach of etiquette of asking questions. "I wonder why they took Bill," I said. There was no answer, and I repeated, "I wonder why they took Bill." "Well," said the man with the candle, dryly, "I reckon they wanted him," and with that he blew out the candle and conversation ceased. Later I discovered that Bill in a fit of playfulness had held up the Northern Pacific train at a near-by station by shooting at the feet of the conductor to make him dance. This was purely ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt
... been times when I regarded lawyers ez bein' superfluous," stated Judge Priest dryly. "Still, in most cases litigants do have 'em round when the case ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... aware Mr. Tix that your opinion was not asked" enquired the judge dryly "Mr. Slag if you please" ...
— Daisy Ashford: Her Book • Daisy Ashford
... as librarian," returned Cupples dryly. "And I'm thinkin'," he added, "that the buiks are beginnin' to ken by this time what they're aboot; for sic a throuither disjaskit midden o' lere, I never saw. Ye micht hae taicklet it wi' a graip" (a three-pronged fork, a sort of agricultural trident). "Are ye gaun to tak' ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald
... discriminating one dryly, "but I should have liked—" Suddenly he burst into a ringing boyish laugh. "This is the rummiest ...
— The Love Affairs of Pixie • Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
... finest of the fine arts? Shall we be such crawling creatures as to seek to lay by the heels a Muse of Murder? Are we a generation of detectives, that we should do this thing?" "So my friend put it to me," said the Critic dryly, "not quite so eloquently, but to that effect. Between ourselves, though, I believe he was influenced more by consideration of his personal safety than by admiration for murder as a fine art. He remembered ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery - Riddle Stories • Various
... dryly. "When I let up she was plumb convinced. She knows now what ailed you the day she came and ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower
... 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. ...
— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey
... fond of him!" said Chatran, dryly. "She loves the ground he treads on: it is precisely for that reason she favours Noce; she is never happy but when she is procuring something pour son cher bon mari. She goes to spend a week at Noce's country-house, and writes to her husband, with a pen dipped in her blood, ...
— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... 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 ...
— Clarence • Bret Harte
... 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 is there that's worth carryin' off; but th' first ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... well friended by many ladies, some of account, and some of none at all, by what I hear," said the friar, rather dryly ...
— The Forest Lovers • Maurice Hewlett
... it, certainly," replied Enderby dryly. "A convenient view. But there are other details. Banneker is an ardent advocate of abstinence, 'Down with the Demon Rum!' The columns of The Patriot reek with whiskey ads. The ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... appeal of the emperor with the paternal commands of the holy father. But the press was now becoming a power in Europe, diffusing intelligence and giving freedom to thought and expression. The diet, after listening patiently to the arguments of the emperor and the requests of the pontiff, dryly replied— ...
— The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power • John S. C. Abbott
... don't think he would," Theodore says dryly, for he has been watching, and has reluctantly owned to himself that he does not see how the movement is effected. Meantime, you, Esmeralda, have been arduously devoting yourself to maintaining a correct ...
— In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda • Theo. Stephenson Browne
... so," said Lucile, dryly, in response to Jessie's question. "If I look the way I feel I must be ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... that. You always were original, Dickie," commented Haines, dryly. "By the way, what do you ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise
... lawyer, whom he considered too sharp a practitioner. The lawyer ungraciously put the question, "Doctor, these are members of your flock; may I ask, do you look upon them as white sheep or as black sheep?"—"I don't know," answered the divine dryly, "whether they are black or white sheep; but I know, if they are long here, they are pretty ...
— The Jest Book - The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings • Mark Lemon
... time to it!" the young woman answered dryly. And she informed him that Madame was at home, though Mademoiselle, for whom he had ...
— Confidence • Henry James
... said the young man dryly, "I will let you have your head, so to speak, as long as you go the way I want ...
— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... Georgia, where the President's father was pastor of the Presbyterian Church, when he sighted the parson, in an old alpaca coat, seated in his buggy driving a well-groomed gray mare, and called out to him, "Doctor, your horse looks better groomed than yourself." "Yes," replied Doctor Wilson dryly as he drove on, "I take care of my horse; my congregation takes ...
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty
... 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 ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... lost consciousness of everything. When an aide shook Zaidos awake, he came to himself with as much physical pain as though his body had actually felt the shock of wounds. He groaned involuntarily. Velo was sobbing dryly from ...
— Shelled by an Unseen Foe • James Fiske
... said Marilla dryly. "She does plenty of unofficial preaching as it is. Nobody has much of a chance to go wrong in Avonlea with Rachel to ...
— Anne Of Green Gables • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... not ten thousand or not ten hundred either," answered John dryly. "He may have a thousand or two about him by this time. If you take my advice you will go back home and not risk ...
— Roger Willoughby - A Story of the Times of Benbow • William H. G. Kingston
... with two words. He looked up at the white cloud, which was now floating away; sniffed the air, and said, "Gunpowder!" Then he looked down at Little, and said, "Ah!" half dryly, half sadly. Indeed several sentences of meaning condensed themselves into that simple interjection. At this moment, some men, whom curiosity had drawn to Henry's forge, came back to say the forge had been blown up, and "the bellows torn limb ...
— Put Yourself in His Place • Charles Reade
... can force belief," he said, dryly. "You will give me up? Poor child! You cannot, Theodora!"—smoothing her ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various
... spokesman, and informed me that after consultation they had concluded that it was foolhardy to follow the Confederates into the gorge we were travelling, and that unless I could show them satisfactory reasons for changing their opinion they would not lead their commands further into it. I dryly asked if he was quite sure he understood the nature of his communication. There was something probably in the tone of my question which was not altogether expected, and his companions began to look a little uneasy. He then protested that ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... behind her, and find herself once more steaming back to London, carrying in her hand a fine blue and white travelling-bag, worked for her by her two little friends, but at which Lady Barbara had coughed rather dryly. In the bag were a great many small white shells done up in twists of paper, that pretty story "The Blue Ribbons," and a small blank book, in which, whenever the train stopped, Kate wrote with all her might. For ...
— Countess Kate • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Guard. We have undermined the government's power, until when the word is passed to strike the blow, a honey-combed system will crumble under its own weight. When Karyl calls on his troops, not one man will respond. Well—" Jusseret smiled dryly—"perhaps I overstate the case. Possibly one man will. I think we will hardly ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck
... lady into a good humour at once. She laughed gaily, confessing that she was really awfully giddy she knew, but she could not help it. And Mrs. Captain Willoughby, who never encouraged Miss Annabel in her youthfulness, said very dryly that she supposed they had all been silly when they were girls but she believed there was ...
— The End of the Rainbow • Marian Keith
... Smithers, dryly. "Begging your parding, Miss, but is that there feller sawin' wood out by the chicken coop ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed
... interposed Mr. Fenshawe dryly. "Mrs. Haxton is a lady who knows her own mind. She is fully qualified to take care of herself. Off you go to bed, Irene. Sufficient for the day is the excitement thereof. And, according to present Indications, we shall ...
— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy
... talked too much—she herself having, apparently, no general conversation. It was german to the matter, at any rate, for him to observe that he believed they were to have a lecture from Mrs. Farrinder—he didn't know why she didn't begin. "Yes," said Doctor Prance, rather dryly, "I suppose that's what Miss Birdseye called me up for. She seemed to think I wouldn't want to ...
— The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) • Henry James
... Denham, dryly. "He was racing with the Anthony boys and fell, but, as you see, he's ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... us won't have much on," declared the biggest brother, dryly. "That fire scooped up our Christmas gifts. The only people around here that can make presents this year were smart enough to backfire." He gave the popper such a shake that the lid swung up and let a shower of kernels fall ...
— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates
... guest, dryly, while Cleena deposited a dish of steaming waffles upon the table with such vigor as to set ...
— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond
... majesty of the law," said Winter dryly. "Perhaps, taking one consideration with another, it's the best ...
— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy
... subservient, I know you,' he retorted dryly. 'Proud and subservient, then subservient to the proud—I know you and your love. It is a tick-tack, tick-tack, ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... 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
... 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 ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower
... as Horace Walpole 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 as contained in the express despatched by Washington, whom he pronounces a "brave braggart." ...
— The Life of George Washington, Volume I • Washington Irving
... its being old," the Princess answered dryly, "but whatever else it is it's not euphonious," she went on, isolating the word euphonious as though between inverted commas, a little affectation to which the Guermantes ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust
... will have any use for it," observed Andy dryly. "When we slide down into that hole it will ...
— Through Space to Mars • Roy Rockwood
... made two trips each, in different directions, to make sure that the watch men were awake and alert. It was nearly eleven o'clock when the general manager and his engineers turned in for a night's rest—"subject to the approval of Jim Duff," as Tom dryly stated it. ...
— The Young Engineers in Arizona - Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand • H. Irving Hancock
... 'I am very well,' she said, dryly. But Lucy's frown did not relax. This cough was a new trouble. Eleanor made light of it. But Marie sometimes spoke of it to Lucy with expressions which terrified one who had never known illness except in ...
— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Sorry you don't like the business, Miss Lee." He added dryly: "But then you always were hard to please. You weren't satisfied ...
— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine
... Stacy dryly, as his left drove in a blow that sent the young Indian to his back on the turf. Frightened screams came from some of the young Indian girls, who gazed dismayed at the human whirlwind into which Stacy ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon - The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch • Frank Gee Patchin
... sit up if you want to," replied her husband dryly, "but I shall go to bed. Most of these things have been here nigh on to twenty years, an' I guess they'll last the night through." And he marched solemnly upstairs to the big east chamber, meekly followed ...
— Across the Years • Eleanor H. Porter
... as well as Jim," said Frank dryly, with a twinkle in his eye. "The buffs are in good shape an' can get along without me ...
— The Last of the Plainsmen • Zane Grey
... sewing, and my dog sleeping on the rug near me (his tail stirring whenever I made a motion to leave my place). And whether I would or no my friends came trooping into my mind. I thought of our neighbour Horace, the dryly practical and sufficient farmer, and of our much loved Scotch Preacher; I thought of the Shy Bee-man and of his boisterous double, the Bold Bee-man; I thought of the Old Maid, and how she talks, for ...
— Adventures In Friendship • David Grayson
... two Cesars," said the stud-groom dryly. "I was ten years at Franconi's and I have seen plenty of horses in my time. Well, there are not two Cesars. And ...
— The Phantom of the Opera • Gaston Leroux
... about that," returned Bell dryly. "It was talked over at headquarters. Le Gaire is rich, and Hardy hasn't much left, I reckon, and the captain filled him up with fairy tales. Some of them drifted about among the boys. There were others told also not quite so pleasant, which Hardy did not hear. ...
— Love Under Fire • Randall Parrish
... know what your proposition was. But seems to me if it had been mine I'd have found time to yell: 'All right—coming as soon as I can!' as I passed the open window," Nick remarked dryly. "Mrs. May'll ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... "Well," she observed, dryly, "I guess likely we'd better go, hadn't we? If it is as bad as all that I should say we had, sure and certain. Primmie Cash, I'm ashamed of you. Mr. Cabot, we'll finish our talk when we come back. What under the sun you can possibly mean I declare I don't ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln
... glanced upon, it is no wonder that sometimes it amused him to put into verse the doings of a whole day: the work done in it by men of all classes and the natural objects that encompassed them; not cataloguing them dryly, but shooting through them, like rays of light, either his own fancies and thoughts, or the fancies and thoughts of some typical character whom he invented. This he has done specially in two poems: The Englishman in Italy, where the vast shell of the Sorrento plain, ...
— The Poetry Of Robert Browning • Stopford A. Brooke
... had pronounced his verses bad, replies dryly:) Yes, your countrymen who boasted of having made themselves masters of the world, had scarce conquered the twentieth part of it. We have at this moment, at the further end of Europe, an empire larger in itself than the Roman:[5] it is governed, too, by a woman, who excels ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, - Issue 566, September 15, 1832 • Various
... you do not start work, I'll order every single one of you to be discharged!" the manager announced dryly and distinctly. ...
— Mother • Maxim Gorky
... library. Nothing had been said during their walk down the hill, and nothing seemed likely to proceed from Frederick now, though his father waited with great and growing agitation for some explanation that would relieve the immense strain on his heart. At last he himself spoke, dryly, as we all speak when the heart is fullest and we fear to reveal ...
— Agatha Webb • Anna Katharine Green
... awkwardly and stood a long moment before his chair. Then he dropped back again, saying, dryly, "I don't think I ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... little melody with so much pathos that the good abbe was touched, and I became anxious. Anxiety, once felt, is apt to be constantly returning. I asked myself if he had met his palm in the Engadine, and added aloud, rather dryly: 'Is the day of your departure definitely fixed? will you not do us the favour of ...
— Samuel Brohl & Company • Victor Cherbuliez
... of choral service evolved for social use," Thayer suggested dryly. "The Gregorian tones would lend dignity even to conventionalities, and they are quite within the ...
— The Dominant Strain • Anna Chapin Ray
... Tom said dryly. "But they willunt stop, for aw the dirt peat maks an' they canna get ovens hot. I reckon Bell has mair coal coming in than he can get shut of. When I was at station last t' yards ...
— The Buccaneer Farmer - Published In England Under The Title "Askew's Victory" • Harold Bindloss
... said Blount dryly. "Here is the question I wanted to ask: There are only five days intervening before the election. How wide a swath could you cut if the evidence of wholesale corruption could be placed in ...
— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde
... Hatteraick," said Glossin dryly, "because you would probably find a dozen red-coats 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 • Sir Walter Scott
... book which lay on the table where the tundra daisies were heaped. It was a book written around the early phases of pioneer life in Alaska, taken from his own library, a volume of statistical worth, dryly but carefully written—and she had been reading it. It struck him as a symbol of the fight she was making, of her courage, and of her desire to triumph in the face of tremendous odds that must have beset her. He still could not associate ...
— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood
... piece, which he thought so superior, that he could not be content without sending for this adverse critic to hear it. When he had finished reading it, he looked to Philoxenus for a compliment; but the philosopher only turned round to the guards, and said dryly, 'Carry me back to prison.' This time Dionysius had the sense to ...
— A Book of Golden Deeds • Charlotte M. Yonge
... as you expect, we'll lose no time in seeking him there!" observed Prydale dryly. "We'd better arrange to get the ...
— The Talleyrand Maxim • J. S. Fletcher
... Droon agreed dryly. "In fact, when the statistics were published, the sporting interest in winning a Baluit cat trophy appears to have suffered a sudden and sharp decline. On the other hand, a more scientific interest in these remarkable animals was coincidingly created, and many permits for their acquisition ...
— Novice • James H. Schmitz
... a death song likely," he remarked dryly, while the last clear, lingering note, reechoed by the cliff, died reluctantly away in softened cadence. "Beautiful old song, sergeant, and I trust hearing it again has done you good. Sang it once in a church way back in New England. But what is ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish
... to," observed Tom Gray dryly. "Hippy mounted one on one side and promptly fell off on the other before getting his feet in the stirrups. It was not the pony's fault, however, but Hippy's ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert • Jessie Graham Flower
... Attorney," remarked the presiding justice dryly (which did not lessen the confusion of the young lawyer), "is this a fact? Has ...
— Courts and Criminals • Arthur Train
... General," Frank said dryly, "that the fetishes of the black man have any effect upon the white men. A fetish has power when it is believed in. A man who knows that his enemy has made a fetish against him is afraid. His blood becomes like water and he dies. But the whites ...
— By Sheer Pluck - A Tale of the Ashanti War • G. A. Henty
... was up that day at least a full hour before his regular time. At breakfast Martha looked him over suspiciously, and when he folded his napkin after eating only half his customary meal she remarked dryly, "It's three hours yet till train ...
— The Calling Of Dan Matthews • Harold Bell Wright
... he had been stifled, frustrated. What he needed was some credulous women to catch their breath at his awe-inspiring insight and gaze with fearful rapture into his eyes. The lieutenant didn't know where he could find any women like that. I told him, dryly, ...
— Sense from Thought Divide • Mark Irvin Clifton
... him to stop at your house until the race comes off, or he'll wreck his machine from weakness brought on by starvation," pronounced Mr. Rose, dryly. "One dinner won't carry him through weeks. I know ...
— From the Car Behind • Eleanor M. Ingram
... Merkle observed dryly: "He's won your thousand. I withdraw what I said about him; it requires a gigantic intelligence to outwit you." To Lorelei he added: "This will be considered a great ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... Robin, rather dryly. "Thanks to you, and to my other friends, I have at last met my kinsman, and he will scarce desire to see my face again. I begin to grow weary of a town life, sir. Will you show me ...
— The Snow Image • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... who thinks only about himself is generally safe," remarked Sir Robert dryly; and he added, with a smile, "That's why lawyers are such ...
— Half a Hero - A Novel • Anthony Hope
... too, Urner, if you could get such a nice girl to notice you," returned Tom dryly. And then he added: "You must remember we are ...
— The Rover Boys In The Mountains • Arthur M. Winfield
... Larry said dryly, "I've always wanted to myself. But I would like to know one more thing. The Movement. What was it going to do ...
— Status Quo • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... a trifle dryly, "I suppose there are. However, I shall probably have gone away when you ...
— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss
... "Possibly," answered 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
... presumed,' said Raffles, dryly. 'And something that were better said to me alone, I fancy, ...
— R. Holmes & Co. • John Kendrick Bangs
... great booby of a footman, whom I could willingly have knocked down for his officiousness. To complete my timidity, I perceived I had not the good fortune to please Madam de Breil; she not only never ordered, but even rejected, my services; and having twice found me in her antechamber, asked me, dryly, "If I had nothing to do?" I was obliged, therefore, to renounce this dear antechamber; at first it caused me some uneasiness, but other things intervening, I presently thought no more ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau
... 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 striking ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke
... the folly of those ideas," Sommers responded dryly. "He has become a bond broker, and has a neat little office in the building where White and ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... I'm not going to take," rejoined Monck dryly. "I applied for leave instead. In any case it is due to me, but Dacre had his turn first. The Chief didn't want to grant it, but he gave way in the end. You boys will have to work a little ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... not earth, my dear," said O'Gorman dryly. "Cragg was educated for the ministry or the priesthood—I can't discover whether he was Catholic or Protestant—but it seems he wasn't fitted for the church. Perhaps he already had in mind the idea of devoting his life to the land that gave him birth. Anyhow, he was a well versed ...
— Mary Louise in the Country • L. Frank Baum (AKA Edith Van Dyne)
... out," said Porthos, dryly, "when a dead body is discovered in a wood. But I promise everything, my dear friend, except the concealment of the dead body. There it is, and it must be seen, as a matter of course. It is a principle of mine, not ...
— Louise de la Valliere • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... nephew so suddenly while I was strapped by etiquette in my chair, with my face to the window, and two pair of most disconcerting eyes, at least, opposite. I was angry with myself—generally angry—refused more tea rather dryly, and was laconic to Lord Ilbury, all which, of course, was very cross and foolish; and afterwards, from my bed-room window, I saw Cousin Monica and Lady Mary among the flowers, under the drawing-room window, talking, as I instinctively knew, of that little ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu |
