“That was the worst of Dr Reilly. You never knew whether he was joking or not. He always said things in the same slow melancholy way — but half the time there was a twinkle underneath it.”
Amy Leatheran
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
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In Search of the Miraculous (1949)

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“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“Later," Fang said to Ella and Dr. Martinez in that gushy, hyperemotional, overdramatic way he has.”
Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 17 “The Sisters in Charge, and the Trickster in Trouble” (p. 134)

Recalling a conversation with unidentified generals at the Pentagon "about ten days after 9/11" (circa September 21, 2001).
Real Time with Bill Maher [2.22] (episode 42), October 29, 2004; panel discussion with Maher, Kevin Costner, and Richard Belzer.