137 examples of airily in sentences

"Olaf"coaxingly"do you really think I am as ugly as that?" "Pouf!" said the colonel airily; "I dare say you are well enough.

For love is free, and mutual reaction Of kindred organisms airily Subsists and ceases, as 't gives satisfaction: We change with changes of affinity. Adonis.

" "I'm good enough now," said Dandy, airily.

"It keeps Marcos quiet," she explained airily to Sarrion, and vouchsafed nothing further on the subject.

he said airily.

It was a group of gentlemen fairies, who were crowding around a lily of the valley, on the bent stem of which a tiny lady fairy was sitting, airily swaying herself to and fro, and laughing and chatting with all her admirers at once.

"Nothing, sir," he said airily.

Coo-ee!" "What is that?" asked Oh-Pshaw, pausing in her shoe lacing with one foot poised airily in space.

Let the chandelier draw in its myriad lightsfor the curious call-boy of the woods has, airily, to summon us, repeated thrice his double call

A HEN [Airily.]

" "Oh, that was nothing, Mr. Haines," she exclaimed airily, her intuition telling her of her sway over the man.

"Halloa," he said, airily, as he took a seat.

He experiences a degree of triumph in contemplating a beautiful form, which has grown more airily light and beautiful under his hands.

The trembling winged flowers hovered airily just above the earth, like a flock of alighting butterflies; and overhead poised real butterflies, of the self-same delicate tints hardly strong enough to be named as colours; silvery white, faint lilac, and a sunrise-hint of rose.

Before Wayne could carry out his unmistakable intention of saying more, Katie was airily off into a story about the cook, dragging it in with a thin hook about the late dinner, and the cook in the present case suggested a former cook in Washington whom Katie held, and sought to prove, nature had ordained for a great humorist.

" The logger rose, waved his hand airily, and turned as if to retreat down the wharf.

Florette, always dainty and pretty, had nothing to do but airily, gracefully swing, and smile.

"I'll leave you to sort 'em, ma'am," he said airily.

"By no means," said Saltash airily.

The band under the command of Agostino was posted in a ruined fortress in one of those airily perched old mountain-towns which form so picturesque and characteristic a feature of the Italian landscape.

The larger larches have a different plaything: on the bare branches, thickly studded with buds, cling airily the small, light cones of last year's growth, each crowned, with a little ball of soft snow, four times taller than itself,save where some have drooped sideways, so that each carries, poor weary Atlas, a sphere upon its back.

" Then he turned to me airily and confidently.

'Pity you had the long journey,' she said airily, 'but you ought to have stopped for a day or two when you were there.

"That is nothing," he said airily; "you should see the steamer.

The police guards popped out of their stations to salute himI can tell you that hour's journey across the city was something in the nature of a triumphal progress, what with traffic airily waved aside and sentries and soldier-police presenting arms!

137 examples of  airily  in sentences