"No, I wasn't around at the time," he told them in a dry tone.

The voice was a woman's, the tone dry and almost disapproving.

Noticing the dry tone in which she delivered the question.

She could not keep the dry tone out of her voice.

It has taught me many things, he corrected in a dry tone.

Beneath his dry tone she heard an echo of her own pain.

I heard him say at last in a dry, rasping tone.

"I made it myself," she finally said in a dry tone.

She heard her own voice, its dry tone, the dismissal of it.

'It seems to have worked better than some of our other operations recently,' he added in a dry tone.