Davies calmly and cuttingly observed, "It is much more like silliness than madness!"

To which he cuttingly replied "And ye, are ye canonists of the better, the ancient time?"

"We were speaking, Westley, of the gentle functions of diplomacy," remarked Solon, cuttingly.

" "Thank you," she responded cuttingly and swung about, angry and hurtonly to have a fresh scare from the drunken cook, who came reeling forward.

Turning to my grandmother, I said distinctly and cuttingly: "Grannie, I did not intentionally disobey you.

" Harold's voice fell clearly, calmly, cuttingly on the silence.

Clear and cuttingly keen as they are, Roger's eyes do not read my soul aright.

One day, when the two queens were sitting together, Brunhild, weary of hearing Kriemhild's constant praise of her husband, who she declared was without a peer in the world, cuttingly remarked that since he was Gunther's vassal he must necessarily be his inferior.