What is "dryly"

Usage examples of "dryly".

Han answered dryly, and he rose, and Chewie did, too, and when Dugo Bagy started to get up, Chewie put a huge paw on his shoulder and pushed him back down into his seat.

But a knight of the Order of the Holy Ghost, who was near the Marquise de Pompadour, dryly asked me what country I came from.

I had the strength of mind to despise his violence, and telling him dryly that I did not chaffer I turned my back on him and went my way.

Old Hoogstretter, the mathematics head, had dryly suggested that sometime, in another thirty years, young Gouf might have his place.

Charlie dryly: The Syrax turned from the opto and visited another table.

At least, she thought dryly, they could practice socia bility on each other.

He was only the fastest man with a gun in Texas, with the possible exception of Welch Mandell, Cooter thought dryly.

Yai, still staring in voyeuristic fascination, heard Mank chuckle dryly.

Chelsea dryly inquired, wondering instead if some paramour of his was about to increase her wardrobe.

Michelle Henke observed dryly, and Manfredi chuckled without much humor.

I had the strength of mind to despise his violence, and telling him dryly that I did not chaffer I turned my back on him and went my way.

He made jokes when Richardson dryly admitted that in all honesty, the construct was closer to a collaborative oil painting than it was to the real Jackson Bierley.

I did not like her, and replied dryly that I had had no hesitation in abandoning the girl to the protection of the gallant gentleman with whom I had surprised her in 'flagrante delicto'.

I said, dryly, that I would wager twenty thousand crowns he would not so much as double its force, but Madame d'Urfe would not let us bet, and after dinner she told me in private that I should have lost, as St.

As a raggedy jet-black figure came out on deck to flap crow-like sleeves at them and scream like a rabbit caught in a bobwire fence, the skipper dryly went on.