Yes, they claim a great deal; but they want to overturn altogether too much for me to accept it," dryly observed her husband.
Jim Duff sank, to the sidewalk, groaning while the deputy sheriff dryly explained the cause of his firing.
He experienced an unaccountable elation, though he kept his voice dryly sarcastic.
They were on a wide plain near the river and what grass there was was sun-scorched and rustled dryly under the tread of their horses' hoofs.
Presently he said, dryly and abruptly, "Reding, do you know any Roman Catholics?
Ideala rejoined, somewhat dryly as it seemed to Beth.
It is essential to your plans to make the acquaintance of Mr. Clavering," he dryly replied.
She is not in the cupboard," that person dryly assured me, noting without doubt how my eyes went travelling about the room in my anxiety and impatience.
England is most inconveniently placed," Captain Truck dryly remarked as he witnessed this manoeuvre.
May I ask," that individual dryly interrogated, "why you came back to Sibley, after having left it?
I acknowledge that," dryly assented Mr. Gryce; "but it has been my experience to find that it is the preposterous things which happen.
I guess we can give you the link," he dryly remarked.
That sounds as if your surmise was true," she dryly observed.
However," dryly observes the diplomatist, "I am not over-credulous in these matters.
To which the latter dryly responded, "their genuflexion would not make him any less a king than he already was.
I said very dryly that I did not remember him at all; but he was not a man of delicate feeling, and this did not disconcert him in the least.
It was an hour later when a messenger from Graham found them in the smoking-room, and Colonel Barrington smiled dryly as he tore up the envelope handed him.
A swift glance showed him that a mounted man could scarcely make his way between them and he smiled dryly as he signed to his companion.
He crossed over to Barrington, who smiled at him dryly as he said, "It is a trifle soon to admit that I was wrong.
Varick could see, too, his jaws workdryly together.
His brows twitched as he gleamed at her from under them, and she saw his jaws work dryly together.
Lord Dennis continued very dryly and with a touch of malice: "You are not listening to me; but I can see very well that the process has begun already underneath.
Winthrop, so dryly that Rufus laughed again, and drawing to him his book sat down and left his brother to study in peace.
His eccentric host, who had appeared so dryly indifferent to his coming, seemed, on the whole, to regret his departure.
Charles reassured her, as dryly as possible: "However, they were headed toward the station, and going as fast as they could.
And now she spoke again, drylyand quite conclusively.
They'll have to stay in the country over night very often during the haying season," Franzelius dryly remarked.
I, who've grown old enough to make a wry face at the theory of perfection in art, dryly remarked that I knew spheres of life in which bungling did still more harm.
There were not many of them; for about six months after I had left him I received a letter from the authorities of my native place, in which they dryly informed me of the death of my father.
Professor Featherwit was keenly watching and closely studying that very phenomena through all, and now he gave a queer little chuckle, as he nodded his head with vigour, before dryly speaking.
To my great astonishment, but not at all to that of George Boker, I was invited to attend the course, Boker remarking dryly that he had no doubt that Dodd thanked God for having at last got an auditor who would appreciate him.
If he had known a little law, as Lord St. Leonards dryly observed, he would have known a little of everything.
Lord North remarkeddryly that the new member had spoken once already, and was consequently violating the rules of the House.
The only object that threw any light upon the character of the room's owner was a large perch, placed in the window to catch the air and sun, upon which a tame and, apparently, decrepit rook hopped dryly from side to side.
And The Imp said this so drylythat even Captain Putnam had to smile.
Better keep a still tongue in your head, Conway,” dryly replied the officer, a Captain Matthews, to whom Conway was complaining.
One of the numerous Smith family, I reckon,” dryly responded one of his men.
Can’t be helped now,” dryly remarked Sergeant Latham.
Simon Basset chuckled drylyand looked at the others with conclusive triumph.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dryly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: heavily; slowly; superficially
