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Don't forget, my dear," the elder Elizabeth drily remarked, "you have to reign all afternoon.

“It was, to say the least, an ambitious idea,” Gates comments drily.

In Northern Ireland, the conflict was drily referred to as "The Troubles."

"I am not mad, Padre, and I will trouble you not to employ such language toward me," the prisoner replied drily.

"I quite believe in your wife's disregard for the feelings of the tradespeople," answered Minnie drily.

"That might depend on circumstances," the admiral answered, a little drily.

"Sir Wycherly does not attend to his cases," put in Atwood, drily.

"And also her reverses, my dear M. Fourier," remarked the Comte drily.