The fellow replied with a single word, apparently of negation.

"She won't go," Vetch replied, with some heat, and yet sure of himself.

Oatmeal with blueberries, replied the man - special of the house.

"I don't think so," Daren replied, in a kind of grim satisfaction at finally having something to fight.

Everyone appreciates double-chocolate cake, he replied, in control of himself again.

Rather, I replied, of a time which is as nothing in comparison with eternity.

If the parties would instantly reply "of course" the term is apt for implication.

"I am being real with you," he replied, defensively, a hint of an edge in his voice.

"I am," Nancy replied firmly, "for a particular reason of my own."

Well, it answered itself, because I wouldn't have replied, of course.