"I know something about how long it took," Adams observed dryly.

"I see that you do not intend to waste any time," she observed dryly.

"You intend to do it for her, I see," he observed dryly.

"Which, unfortunately, is certainly not what he's doing," Pierre observed dryly.

"He might have allowed the young man to give his opinion on the subject," Haplo observed dryly.

"You seem to have acquitted yourself pretty well nonetheless," he observed dryly.

Which made a nice change, he observed dryly to himself, because with Vicki the gloves were usually off.

"It looks like you win," he observed dryly to the dog.

"Hard to make a case for suicide," I observed dryly.

"I share my treasures with the Church, and you don't seem to object to that," he observed dryly.