archly

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• "Sufficient guarantee," said her father, smiling archly as he looked up to his son, whose fair face had coloured deep red.

• When they walked down to the shore she smiled archly at Mayo from under the brim of a very fetching straw poke.

• Ah, you profess to love Scotland very much,” said Bertha archly, “but your brother evidently loves it more than you do.

• Whereat Miss Tripp laughed archly and playfully shook a daintily gloved finger at him.

• Nick intimated that he himself was not eager for more people, whereupon Mrs. Gresham rather archly smiled.