Mrs. Tresslyn smiled aridly.
"From the Housetops"
George Barr McCutcheon
"Why," he said aridly; "I have come all the way here to see you to-day!
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy
Not to speak of his falling off in accurate observation, he inserted more and more padding in his fiction; the aridly didactic encroached upon the artist's creation; and, to make the arid portions go down with his readers, he spiced them with exciting episodes and all the stage tricks common in the serial story.
"Balzac"
Frederick Lawton