In the evenings he sat blandly upon his own stoop, smoking and chatting amiably if monosyllabically with his wife and their new-found friend, Alfred Hicks, while his indefatigable shadow glowered apparently unnoticed from the gloom of the ailanthus tree.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
He answered monosyllabically, solemnly, with his redoubtable, arresting conviction, "The style did."
"Home Fires in France"
Dorothy Canfield
The wounded man was finally induced to answer monosyllabically the questions put to him, but he did so with surly impatience.
"Hidden Gold"
Wilder Anthony