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  • (Dryly, pointing to crumpled photograph on floor.)

    THEFT 2010

  • Dryly, Caitlin said, "Anything you want me to ask her?"

    Hunting Fear Hooper, Kay 2004

  • Dryly and briefly he recapitulated all the captain's misdeeds; his drunkenness, his lying, his squandering of the money meant for Marya Timofyevna, his having taken her from the nunnery, his insolent letters threatening to publish the secret, the way he had behaved about Darya Pavlovna, and so on, and so on.

    The Possessed 2003

  • Dryly, briefly, and courteously he informed Ichmenyev that he, Prince Valkovsky, was not bound to give any account to anyone of what he had said to the lawyer, that though he felt great sympathy with Ichmenyev for the loss of his case, he could not feel it just for the man who had lost a case to be entitled to challenge his rival to a duel by way of revenge.

    The Insulted and the Injured 2003

  • Dryly, he added, "If he does, he's obviously discovered how to correct it."

    Tender Rebel Lindsey, Johanna 1988

  •           Dryly: "I wouldn't expect a bonus for them."

    Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970

  • MRS.L. [Dryly] Ah! -- Yu'um gwine to be very busy, that's sartin.

    The Foundations John Galsworthy 1900

  • [Dryly] I won't trouble you further then, gentlemen.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • MRS.L. [Dryly] Ah! -- Yu'um gwine to be very busy, that's sartin.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • [Dryly] I won't trouble you further then, gentlemen.

    Justice John Galsworthy 1900

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