"So tell me, young friend," the king asked amiably.

Ned asked amiably once they were down in the cabin again.

Gildoran had sense enough to ask amiably, "Not jealous, are you?"

"You said you were formerly a lieutenant," he asked amiably.

I asked amiably, indicating the new miracle fish-attractor.

"And who," he asked amiably, "said a thing at all, at all, aboutyour letter?"

"What have they done," Thomas asked amiably, "and why haven't you paid your debt to them?"

Before leaving, he amiably asks whoever he talks to not to tell anyone or "Chop chop!"

Jaxom merely nodded and asked amiably, "Do you think this will take all morning?"

This was asked amiably by Mehran Hafsanjani, a small man who held a high rank and was a specialist in radar communications.