"Obviously in real life I wasn't very successful at it," she observed drily.

"And yet, y' know," he observed drily, "no woman could possibly have done it."

'I can see you are going to be a nuisance,' he observed drily.

"Which is why you gave the sword to the jetti," Sevajee observed drily.

"Of course, that also means they have no idea of what to guard against either," Hakiem observed drily.

A commodity which was staked and lost many years ago, Zouga observed drily.

'Your time-keeping, if nothing else, is perfect,' he observed drily.

'I believe thai was the intention,' he observed drily.

"You were in a mighty big hurry to head those fellows off," he observed drily.

I hear the chatter of old women at a beer drink, Mbejane observed drily.