He drained it, put it back down, and belched fruitily.

You must imagine him answering the question in a fruitily quizzical, mostly oafish sort of way.

These are very fine cigars: very fruitily cured; and very old."

Keralaw chuckled fruitily.

Chaffee laughed fruitily.

As it disappeared into the overhanging sessile oak wood, a large and heavy corvine flew across, croaking fruitily.

"Hellow," responded the parrot fruitily.

'Singed my whiskers a little that time, Jacky,' Sloat said, and chuckled fruitily.

'Away with ye,' husked Jock Ferguson, coughing fruitily into a handkerchief. '

"This isn't EM Forster," De'Ath bawls fruitily at the screen.

Three telegrams, a telephone call from Bermuda another from Johannesburg/ Jules chuckled fruitily and winked at Samantha.

"There are some," Fullom said fruitily, "who believe the SaTrryn are already powerful enough without their scion being Prime Factor."

And once "Zeitraum" had traversed its titular space of time, succumbed to gravity and died out in a sighing exhalation, the next track opened with a burst of brass bombast followed by, of all things, a narrator, burbling fruitily over romantic film-score tones from the orchestra.

To be sure, Philip Marlowe, Chandler's shop-soiled knight errant, was noble to the point of occasional absurdity, but there is nothing in the Marlowe novels, not even "The Long Goodbye," that is as fruitily idealistic as what one finds time and again in Millar's books.