| 单词 | drollery |
| 例句 | But Jared’s unforced drollery and naive aperçus resemble nothing so much as late-period Vonnegut. Review | Simon Stephenson’s hilarious ‘Set My Heart to Five’ follows a robot with Hollywood aspirations 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z “Yellow Submarine” started out as a lament — “In the place where I was born/No one cared,” Lennon sang at first — but turned into sound effects-laden drollery. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s a dandy plot, and it unfolds with Finch’s signature drollery. Review | Five new thrillers and mysteries to help escape reality — or see it in another light 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Bailey's narration was soporific – his dry delivery suits drollery and, as there was none here, it remained simply flat and unaffecting. Unreported World: Sex Lies and Black Magic (Channel 4), Baboons with Bill Bailey (ITV) 2011-04-09T08:00:02Z This is an ironic maneuver, given the institution of slavery, but it's not performed with the winking postmodern drollery of "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," another musical improbably inspired from the pages of American history. Through 'Hamilton,' the Founding Fathers might once again make history 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s kind of jarring to learn that “Losing My Edge,” LCD’s breakout single, in which Murphy elaborates on the title condition, was born out of genuine desperation rather than ironic drollery. ‘Meet Me in the Bathroom’ Review: New York’s Last Rock Renaissance 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z But drollery is one of Mr. Shannon’s strong suits. London Men’s Wear: Burberry, McQueen and Others Puncture the Fashion Bubble 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Whether it truly gels as a novel, and whether it achieves the right balance between arch drollery and moral seriousness, I don't know. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z Dupieux pulls off this bizarre procedural in a lean running time while hitting the notes of darkness and drollery just right. ‘Keep an Eye Out’ Review: A Crime Procedural That Goes Off the Rails 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z But mostly when aiming for drollery, the songwriters overshoot and wind up at operetta. ‘Bad Cinderella’ Review: The Title Warned Us 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z With his drollery, suavity and immaculate dress sense, George Sanders cuts an elegant figure in Joseph Mankiewicz’s black comedy All About Eve, from 1950. Who is the best Oscar-winning supporting actor of all time? 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z He imagines it sounding like a lofty “Hee-hee-hee!,” which, as he pronounced it, was an airy la-di-da sound that evoked brandy snifters and drollery. Hahaha vs. Hehehe 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z These white-collar arenas are timeless, yet somehow this seems to be the right season for the artist’s drollery. In the galleries: Rustic landscapes with just a touch of menace 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z His drollery tended toward the observational, and his enemies were typically along the lines of dachshunds or babies or “people from Dubuque.” The Smart Set Sneered, but the Play Won the Day 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z It is notable for its drolleries of language and image, occasional descents into outright corniness and flat-footed insistence on randomness, coincidence or uninflected information as the artist’s main compositional options. Art Review: Tweaking Tradition, Even In Its Temple 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z All of which is very funny — if that kind of quirkiness and drollery is your cup of tea. ‘Fall River Fishing’ Review: So She Dated an Axe Murderer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z The beast, designed this year by Sophie Dickens, who carves the sections of her models in wood, looks like a three-dimensional interpretation of early Cubist paintings with a modicum of Surrealist drollery. Showcasing Modern Masters 2010-10-15T13:30:00Z “Oh look, there’s my Drama Desk nomination!” she joked with faux diva drollery, showing me the certificate that rested near an open bottle of wine. The secret to Tony Awards nominee Laurie Metcalf's success? Brilliance and a whole lot of hard work 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z He speaks rapidly, mutteringly, in great long paragraphs full of observation and introspection and drollery and doubt, generally frowning at the floor while he does so. Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z He brings flamboyant drollery to the part of the pedant Holofernes, breaking into Latin at every ill-judged opportunity and flipping his hair triumphantly after employing the adjective “thrasonical.” Shakespeare's 'Love's Labor's Lost': Kathleen Marshall directs a winner at the Old Globe 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Stephen Fry brings his own brand of English drollery to a selection of Greek myths in his new book Mythos. Can lessons from Watergate prepare us for Trump? – best podcasts of the week 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z We just sit in the chairs and have tea with them,” she said, all drollery and flounce. 2010-02-11T06:20:00Z The device doesn’t just reveal his thoughts to us, it allows us to feel the experience of being worked by him–the drollery, the charisma, the dry but courtly menace. Review: House of Cards Sinks Its Sharp Teeth into Washington 2013-01-31T15:00:10Z Grover Gardner delivers a truly inspired performance in reading this tale of adventure, suspense and drollery, some parts so funny as to make the listener laugh out loud. Best audiobooks of 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z And, as he so often does and gets nary enough credit for, he delivered it with perfectly timed drollery. Obama Understood the Power of Art. And He Wanted You to Get It, Too. 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Frank Corrado lends his stentorian voice and drollery as the narrating Shepard. Review: 'A Christmas Story' on stage will please fans of the movie 2010-12-10T22:43:00Z But for all the drollery, the performance seems carved in a marble of suffering. Unhappiness made Oscar Levant a laugh riot. Sean Hayes carves a portrayal in a marble of suffering 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Having unburdened herself, she has freed herself to get on with the drollery of living. At Ace Hotel, being Hannah Gadsby has never been funnier 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z She has a fine sense of drollery, her timing is exquisite, and her manner gentle and touching when the plot darkens and calamity looms. Review | Best audiobooks to kick off your summer 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Breasts come in for their share of drollery as well in a play that sets up two superannuated choruses, one droopily male, the other saggingly female. Review: Liza plus Aristophanes equals the bedazzling camp of 'Lizastrata' at the Getty Villa 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Pig Iron’s unhurried performance style can be a source of delicious deadpan humor, but it’s not easy to duplicate the insider drollery online. Commentary: Theaters nobly fill the COVID void, but screens make me miss the stage even more 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z He acknowledged his absences with the kind of drollery that characterized his parenting style. Perspective | My father made me laugh, and now I have a problem 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Though at times eclipsed by his fondness for drollery, Mr. Tillis’s early artistic reputation rested on the decidedly sober material he wrote for honky-tonk singers like Mr. Pierce and Ray Price. Mel Tillis, Country Star Known for His Songs and His Stutter, Dies at 85 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Though at times eclipsed by his fondness for drollery, Mr. Tillis’ early artistic reputation rested on the decidedly sober material he wrote for honky-tonk singers like Pierce and Ray Price. Mel Tillis dies: Country legend known for his songs and stutter 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z “Midlife” combines acuity, frankness and drollery in a style that melds Aristotle with Kurt Vonnegut. The consolations of philosophy for the middle-aged 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Indeed, in acknowledging victory, he deployed some deft drollery, at his own expense. Ken Macintosh chosen as Holyrood presiding officer - BBC News 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Reagan tossed off criticism of his napping on the job with drollery. Behind the Ronald Reagan myth: “No one had ever entered the White House so grossly ill informed” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z With comparable drollery, I was informed, gently, that the SNP would not be asserting UDI today. The SNP's gradual approach begins - BBC News 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Dana Milbank overstepped the line from drollery to denigration in his March 18 op-ed column, “A fanciful GOP budget,” when he used St. Patrick’s Day as a prop to lampoon House Republicans. Instead of respect, St. Patrick gets ridicule 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z There’s an over-all drollery, but what the joke may be, and whom it’s on, defies comprehension. A Painting a Day 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z In this episode, the Haggler abandons his usual droll introduction, despite knowing how much readers appreciate a little lead-in drollery. A Memorial to Her Son, Until the Bank Got in the Way 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z "These Olympics had Sydney's vibrancy, Athens's panache, Beijing's efficiency, and added British know-how and drollery," wrote Greg Baum, in the Sydney Morning Herald. London 2012: verdict from around the world 2012-08-13T12:40:54Z And DeLillo's highly charged language, when parcelled up into film dialogue, is cumbersome and self-conscious without the original speck of deadpan drollery. Cosmopolis – review 2012-06-14T14:31:00Z "Don't you hope Captain Stapylton may not have forgotten his appointment, papa?" said she, with a quick drollery, which sparkled in her eye, but brought no smile to her lips. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z If he were not, the delightful drollery of the piece would, of course, be destroyed. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z Laura laughed and colored a little--what would offend in a commoner is in a peer pure drollery; and, as it happened, at this moment the rector came in. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z "Mr. Boyesen's stories possess a sweetness, a tenderness, and a drollery that are fascinating, and yet they are no more attractive than they are strong." The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z His eye alone, small and with lids contracted into an habitual look of drollery, betrayed the bent of his genius. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z What tons of baggage to be loaded! what irritations! what drollery! what delay! Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z And never were wit, drollery, humor, irony, and sarcasm, rained down upon a bad cause in greater variety or rarer quality. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z From there we could watch the play of the children on the grass plot, and some of the drolleries of the little negroes.... Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z It was in one of these papers that Grattan, with an audacious drollery, drew his celebrated character of Lord Chatham, as a privileged extract from a manuscript copy of Robertson’s forthcoming “History of America.” The Commercial Restraints of Ireland 2012-02-13T03:00:20.483Z Mr. Kelly was in a mood to be charmed by everything strange and eccentric, and the presence of this bloodsmeared executioner at a masquerade seemed to him a piece of the most delicate drollery. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z For wit and shrewd satire and for pure drollery both in situations and descriptions, it is unsurpassed. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z The wit of Hall, when in full play, approached to drollery, and his sarcasm cut to the bone. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Much, indeed, that is considered comic in music possesses the same sort of drollery that belongs in comic writing to grammatical errors, or to mistakes in spelling. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z A short man, with roguish eyes and a laughing mouth, rose up and looked round him with an expression of drollery that made everybody begin to feel good-natured. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z In back of the drollery he offered would be a desperation, in fact, sometimes a sense of fury. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z After this we glide politely from women as they blossom in the drollery of Cruikshank. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z The eminent actor, who sustained this scene alone, kept the audience in one roar of laughter by his exquisite burlesque and natural drollery. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z But up and down this little book, too, there are some drolleries of spelling. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z You want to see him walk, you want to see him skip—oh, the incomparable drollery of that demure little step!—you want to hear him talk, you want to hear him laugh. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z This man kept a country store, and his attitude toward his customers, and 'trade' in general, was delicious in its drollery. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z It was the humorous side of life, even of the tragedies of life, that appealed to him, and he reflected it back with an incisive drollery which was irresistible. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z Some of the lines taken singly are excellent:— "And bells make Catholic the trembling air"; and, "Sad as the twilight, all his clothes ill-girt"; and again "Mournful professor of high drollery." Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z He was so cleanly in his habits, so brave and knightly, so very polite, and had a happy mixture of drollery and decorum about him which was quite charming! Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z And when he plays Bach's gavottes, gigues, etc., in the English Suites, a laughing, roguish look comes over his face, and he puts the most indescribable drollery and originality into them. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z Characterized by a delicious drollery; ... beneath the surface play of words lies a tragi-comedy of life.... Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z Belle Marshall, with her drollery, was not likely to be dismayed by Wheaton's years and poverty of small talk. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z The Seraph was not there, but I found the polyglot Culling explaining for Gartside's benefit certain of the more obvious drolleries of the current "Vie Parisienne." The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z They are lively, inartistic tales, full of broad fun and drollery. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z Her manner changes from bitter drollery to a lonely timidness and from timidness to something akin to sulkiness. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z The general was completely unhorsed by the desperate drollery of the old farmer, and rolled on the ground. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z These antics were repeated all the while the observation lasted, and had a very funny effect in proving that drollery is practised, if not understood, in the rotatorial world. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z "Hans," says the critic, "tells his tale like a convivial burgher, fond of his can, and still fonder of his drollery." Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z The Irish do not conceal that they are our enemies, and ruin every English movement in which they mingle, yet who have such brightness, drollery of imagination as they? Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z Mr. Gordon Browne's illustrations are as good a treat as the story; they realise every thought and intention of the writer, and, are full of a sly and characteristic drollery all the artist's own.'—World. National Rhymes of the Nursery 2011-07-12T02:00:29.700Z "So there is!" answered Cora, with a world of drollery in her young eyes, "I wonder how long before it will grow to be as big as the rest of them!" The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Notwithstanding his talent for drollery, he was subject to a deep melancholy, which at times bordered on madness. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Hope filled each pause, concluded every description with rich drollery and mimicry, while Livingston's quiet attentiveness betokened the deepest compassion. Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z More swiftly did laughter and weeping, death and drollery, love and wantonness, spring over into each other; moral poison makes the tongue as light as physical makes it heavy. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z The humor and drollery of her rare character was changed into quaint sarcasm. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z He acts the character of a buffoon; he talks the language of drollery; he even mints a coinage of his own, to deepen the colours of his extravagance—and all this was for the people! Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Her sister, Mollie, was fair, with lovely curling blond hair, and a quaint drollery of speech that won her many friends. The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade 2011-06-01T02:00:25.733Z But what can a descendant of Dante, for instance, ever know of the drolleries of Sam Weller? The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z That man is dull who will not laugh At the drolleries of Falstaff, And few that could not shed a tear At sorrows of poor old King Lear. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z Victor was indignant at Flamin's laughter; he loved drollery, but not bantering. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z A humorous satire of this kind has stolen down to us in that exquisite piece of drollery and grotesque invention, “The Land of Cokaigne.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z “The book is one of rare drollery, and the verses and pictures are capital of their kind.” The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India 2011-05-07T02:00:31.307Z Saturday Review.—“The book is one of rare drollery, and the verses and pictures are capital of their kind.” The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z His humour is of a quieter kind, more aphoristically comic, than the fun and drollery of the “delicious Artemus,” as Charles Reade styles the Showman. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z This bachelor, though his name was Samson, was none of the biggest in body, but a very great man at all manner of drollery; he had a pale complexion, but good sense. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z Who shall say that tumbleweed is useless, since it contributes a rare note of drollery to the tragic desolation of the western plains? Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z There was no persiflage of speech, or exchange of light drolleries, as in that conclave enlivened by the conversation of the English viscount. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Dr. Heriot gave her an inscrutable look in which drollery came uppermost. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Three years later they reached the summit of their achievement in “The Real Charlotte,” which still remains their masterpiece, though easily eclipsed in popularity by the irresistible drollery of “Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.” Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z Perhaps my drollery in the M'Caskey legend is just as ingeniously wrapped up, and that nothing can find it. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z How remarkable that I should feel inclined to laugh at her drollery! The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z How ready each to take the jest against himself, and even heighten its flavor by some new touch of drollery. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z Plautus has very frequently single plots, which he was enabled to support by the force of drollery. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Among the methods of conciliation and prepossession, humour and drollery are particularly mentioned. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z It is strange fact that what the world regards as the inferior organisation—the temperament for drollery—is infinitely the most difficult to imitate. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z The old diplomatist's eyes sparkled with a wicked drollery, and his mouth curved into a half-malicious smile, when Sir Gervais quietly said, "She means, why not marry?" Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z "How the major is going it!" lisped the ensign, while his goggle eyes rolled fearfully, and the others seemed struggling to control their enjoyment of such drollery. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z He was very good-looking and good-hearted, and his natural drollery made him a most entertaining companion. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z It was a question which was the greater, the severity of his visage or the drollery of his disposition. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z All the rest must be what the doctors call 'vehicle,' and drollery be administered in drop doses. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z "Ah! if you would but be the sorceress, Lady Vyner," exclaimed he, with a mingled seriousness and drollery. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z Here Freney gave a low cunning laugh, while his eyes twinkled with malignant drollery. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z On the contrary, he is gentle, low-voiced, and dreamy,—a little too dreamy,—if I must say it, and not sufficiently alive to the rattling drolleries of Lord George and James, who torment him unceasingly. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z The racy old bitterness of party spirit is dying out, and all the spicy drollery and epigrammatic fun of former days gone with it. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z How I chuckled when I saw that he broke down in his attempt at drollery. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Mr. M'Kinlay appeared the better of his very email drollery, and drank off a bumper of claret, which also seemed to do him good. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z Unhappily the author was enmeshed in the fatal drolleries of the English party system, and Lothair is virtually a confession of abandoned ideals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z There is an Irishman's love of drollery,—that passion for what gives him a hearty laugh, even though he come in for his share of the ridicule, which repays him for every misadventure. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Even our drollery is not as dry as our neighbors'. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z His letters are better drollery than any of us can do, and full of caricature illustrations far and away beyond the best things in 'Punch.' Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z "Maybe so, if the fences are not too big for me;" and a very malicious drollery twinkled in his gray eye. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z And we dutifully replied that it certainly seemed the height of drollery. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z And with a gesture half menace and half drollery, she left the room as the attorney entered it. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z The predominating expression of his face was a mixture of indolence and drollery; and as he lay there, with his half closed eyes, he looked the very picture of the dolce far niente. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z Here is a specimen of General Porter's drollery—a portrait of an old typical Puritan, given at a "New England" dinner. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z You and Tom appear to have fallen upon a mine of drollery. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z No stanza of the poem is more replete than this with a vein of painfully sarcastic drollery. A Cursory History of Swearing "Was the bathing any use to my Lady, miss?" asked Catty, but in a tone that combined a kind of half drollery with earnest. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z "Oh, yes, I can," said I; for there seemed to be many more lines on the simple, eager countenance; the drollery had gone out of it, and its heightened colouring had an unhealthy, bluish tinge. Witching Hill With a strong mind, an open and honest heart, a benevolent and manly disposition—he united great conviviality and amusing drollery—yet so discreet and chaste as not to offend the most modest ear. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution This drollery has all the more hold over you, because it is natural. Friend Mac Donald And this added immensely to the drollery of the thing. Barbarossa and Other Tales A light of suppressed drollery glinted into the eyes of the man whose ruddy face remained otherwise unsmiling. The Tempering And the Commodore had to wipe his eyes, with the laughter at his drollery. Tony Butler Indeed, it is worthy of Molière; for if it has not his drollery and peculiar turn of expression, neither has it his exaggeration. The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern Their drollery lies in the dialect and the combination of ideas. Friend Mac Donald "Then I shall invite him to dinner, and beg both of you gentlemen to meet him," said she, with a voice wherein a tone of malicious drollery mingled. The Fortunes Of Glencore Touchstone spoke his lines with the proper combination of drollery and impertinence, yet there was no suggestion of real wit or merriment. The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines And he laughed at his own drollery till his eyes ran over. Tony Butler How thoroughly she remembered all his drollery on that first night at the party in London,—and all his keen sayings at the theatre;—and the way he had insisted that she should hunt! Ayala's Angel No drollery, for love sake: "Facetious fancies are the least profane." 1st Boy. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 Just before, when he spoke with more drollery than he knew, it had left Fleda serious; but now his own clear gravity had the effect of exciting her mirth. The Spoils of Poynton No one has equaled her in her presentation of his character, with its dependence and childlike drollery. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women I declare I don't know," said she, hesitatingly, for the spirit of drollery had got the better even of the deep interest of the moment,—"I declare I don't know, Mr. Maitland. Tony Butler This hateful piece of drollery was noised over the whole town, and put that poor innocent se�or in a most ridiculous light. Maximina He told her of the dry drollery of the Milanese. Shadows of Flames A Novel Each of these men could boast of perfect practice in their art, readiness of wit, grace, fertility of ideas, variety of sallies, bye-play, drollery, naturalness, and some philosophy. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second The bird looked up in his face with an arch drollery that almost disconcerted the teacher. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) The malicious drollery with which she poured out all this had heightened her color and given increased brilliancy to her eyes. Tony Butler Judith was mostly silent, in sheer amazement, although occasionally she could not resist a smile at his drolleries. Thirty But Tyne's native kindliness outweighed his love of drollery this time. Shadows of Flames A Novel Collected together at one end of the board, the whole party were roaring with laughter at some story of a strange, melancholy-looking man, whose whining voice added indescribable ridicule to the drollery of his narrative. Jack Hinton The Guardsman He avoided the companionship of those who were in the habit of seeking him out to enjoy his drolleries; and various rumours flew about as to the cause of his apparent troubles. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction That it is a mistake, who would recognize more quickly than Dolly herself; and with what humorous drollery—a drollery all her own—would she not treat it! Tony Butler Indeed, a few years later he indulged in a scoff at Shakspere’s “servant-monster” and at “those who beget tales, tempests, and such like drolleries.” How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest The drollery which aroused his mirth, was that, if a name might be inherited, why might not Margaret Grath have bequeathed hers to him? A Modern Wizard But the drollery did not end here: you might sell your luck and put up your hand to auction. Jack Hinton The Guardsman He said of himself, with some drollery, that he was one of the scavengers of society, and he declared that the job was important enough to command a good salary. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction It was the compelling drollery of those comedy hands. Interpreters The enclosure was from the hand of his friend Tom Radwell, but whose peculiar drollery it was to correspond in the form of a mock despatch. One Of Them And the other replied, "Yes, I see a little of how you feel"; but he continued with something of his old drollery: "I would like to know a little of how she feels." Fairfax and His Pride There was a lurking drollery in his eye, as he said these last few words, that left me to the full as much puzzled about the accident as his worthy diocesan. Jack Hinton The Guardsman "I know," said she, shaking her head and laughing, with a sort of wicked drollery. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance “Stop a minute, Cæsar,” said the peddler, with a drollery that at times formed part of his manner, “till we get on the wool.” The Spy Condensed for use in schools And he gave a knowing wink and look of mingled drollery and cunning. One Of Them But there was a fineness in the lines of his mouth, a drollery and wit in his eyes, and he was thoroughly agreeable. Fairfax and His Pride Cutbill lifted his glass to his lips, but scarcely in time to hide the smile of incredulous drollery which curled them, and which the other's quick glance detected. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly No; she was ready for the ring and the sawdust, and the drolleries of the men with chalk on their faces, but she would not accept high life on any terms. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Soon her wit had effaced the impression of her personal unattractiveness; "and the eyes, which were so plain at first, swam with fun and drolleries, and the very tides of joy and superabundant life." Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) "Isn't he polite?—isn't he a young man of charming manners and elegant address?" said O'Shea, with a strange mixture of drollery and displeasure. One Of Them I affected to see drollery in cruelties that deserved the gallows, and laughed till the tears came at horrors that nearly made me faint. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands "I don't see that—there is even drollery in the mouth." The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Here the captain stopped, and gave me a most significant look: it was at once an appreciation and an expression of drollery. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance The sly drollery of his eye, as he spoke, almost extorted a half-smile from Davis. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day To him the adventure was full of drollery. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago Jolly-hearted old Josh Billings, With his wisdom and his wit, And his gravity of presence, And the drollery of it! The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches If from the unbridled drollery and serious moral of the drama we endeavor to reach conclusions regarding the Woman Question, they will be found to be about as follows. Greek Women I must be in good spirits, easy, affable, full of sallies, drollery, and folly. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 "Wouldn't even open a telegraphic message which came to his hands this morning," said Lady Augusta, with a malicious drollery in her glance towards him. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Who but the Autocrat himself could have given literary form to the exquisite pathos of The Last Leaf, the delicious quaintness of Dorothy Q, or the solemn drollery of The Katy Did? Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 The unconscious drollery of the old man's literary style gave piquancy to the account. When the Cock Crows The number was so large that the comic poets Alexis and Cratinus the Younger, who, like most Athenians, had a genuine contempt for blue-stockings, made them the object of much drollery and ridicule. Greek Women "Isn't my Lady the least taste in life of a humbug, Kitty?" whispered Dalton, as his eyes twinkled with malicious drollery. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life The "wits by profession" were not only less natural than the smart people of society, but they wearied you by the exactions of their drollery. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Our orderly, J.G.S., a harum-scarum young attorney, is a singular mixture of discipline and drollery. Eleven days in the militia during the war of the rebellion A journal of the 'Emergency' campaign of 1862 Thus went round the merry joke, and we were all laughing heartily at poor Pat's bulls and drollery, when a whisper was heard running the lines, "Fall in, storming-party!" Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment Another seemed by his wit and drollery to be the charm of the company; but I could detect marks of intoxication. The Lamplighter He had a strange fever for painting life as he saw it, for indicating it with exact portraits of itself, strange, grim presentations of its vagaries, futilities, commonplaces, drolleries, brutalities. The "Genius" The Padre looked at me without speaking; but the sly drollery of his eye showed that he would have had no objection to bandy a jest with me, were the time and place more fitting. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Glasses, glasses is the only drinking, and for thy walls a pretty slight drollery, or the story of the Prodigal, or a German Hunting in water-work, is worth a thousand of these fly-bitten tapestries. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries His drollery evidently consisted in hiring a cripple as guide. The Silent Barrier "What can it be?" said Mara, with a quiet kind of arch drollery which suffused her face, as she bent over her painting. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine Susan colored also; but, perceiving the confusion of our hero, her countenance assumed an expression of mischievous drollery, which, helped on by the titter of her companions, added not a little to his confusion. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings A rude burst of laughter stopped me, and the flannel man actually shook with the drollery of his own thoughts. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas You hear no strains of country drollery, and no characters of curious or eccentric humor; all is dull, plodding, and lumpish. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 But it was curious to observe how by a common instinct everything like coarseness and drollery was avoided. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 It was a part of his quiet interior store of amusement to look at these bits of Byzantine embroidery round the room, which affected him always with a subtle sense of drollery. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine His new companion was a tall boy of fourteen, with small, cunning, gray eyes, to which a slight cast gave an additional expression of shrewdness and drollery. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings The drollery of Alfred! the fun of Sir Thomas More in the Tower! the farce of his daughter begging the dead head, and clasping it in her coffin, on her bosom! English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. The physician wrote out his prescription, and took his leave, laughing heartily at the amiable confusion in which Helen's drollery had left her aunt. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches While much given to reverie, and somewhat shy, he had a great fund of humor, drollery, and effervescent wit, which made his society much liked by all fortunate enough to be acquainted with him. Home Life of Great Authors He took on himself to enliven the feast with jokes and drollery, and they all listened willingly; it kept off dulness, and the disagreeable thoughts that assailed them. Jena or Sedan? He sat hours and hours laughing at his stories—sometimes obscene, sometimes profane, but always so full of life, drollery, and mimicry that a more steady head than Fred's was needed to withstand the contagion. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings With all this drollery Lane kept himself well out of mischief, and was moreover, in days when young and old were more or less inclined to be topers, a strictly temperate man. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Miss Tewksbury was uncertain whether her niece was giving a new turn to her drollery, so she merely stared at her; but the young lady seemed to be serious enough. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches Cox’s “drolleries,” 287; petitions against the drama, 289; the player’s petition in favour of, ib.; secretly acted at Holland House, 291; the suppression of the drama caused the publication of many MS. plays, ib. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 "No, no—thou'rt quite used to dead folk—'tis quite in thy line!" replied Pumpkin—and, after a little faint drollery, silence ensued for some moments. Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. "His stories are characterized by the oddity and drollery which distinguish Mr. Stockton's from that of the ordinary humorists." Mrs. Cliff's Yacht I stood a moment petrified, and then, struck by the drollery of the incident, gave way to peals of laughter. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) The special and reportable sallies of Sydney Smith have been, of course, often repeated, but the fanciful fun and inexhaustible humorous drollery of his conversation among his intimates can never be adequately rendered or reproduced. Records of Later Life Alexander is surprisingly good as Dr. Bill, and the serious earnestness with which he invests the part intensifies the drollery of the complications. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 5, 1890 More drolleries are uttered unintentionally than by premeditation. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches But nobody has described more vigorously all the meaner forms of selfishness, stupidity, and sycophancy engendered under 'that fatal drollery,' as Tancred describes it, 'called a parliamentary government.' Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) But an expedient offers, a mirthful one,—Take your choice Falstaff, a point of honour, or a point of drollery.—It could not be a question;—Falstaff falls, Douglas is cheated, and the world laughs. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Lady Morley's great vivacity of manner and very peculiar voice added not a little to the drollery of her sallies. Records of Later Life All their preaching is mere stage-playing, and their delivery the very transports of ridicule and drollery. In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts To one who can read between the lines, this arraignment of the Americans for their lack of docility to the teachings of the Priest's Prayer Book is not devoid of drollery. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer When he spoke of her crying, or laughing, or sneezing, she liked the little attempt at drollery. Is He Popenjoy? But his thoughts were on the celebration going on at Amesbury, and they took the form of drollery. Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. Marshaled by disorder, armed with drollery and divers-hued banners, they marched to the Castle of Chaos, where the wise are fools, the old are young and topsy-turvy is the order of the day. The Strollers Nay, so far is he from the affectation of being accounted wise, that he is content, all the rights of devotion which are paid unto him should consist of apishness and drollery. In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts Landon was a prince of good fellows, always bubbling over with fun, drollery, and wit; and, withal, a fine vocalist, with a rich bass voice. Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War “Item: it was the happiest hour in the life of Madame La Marquise,” commented Dumaresque, with an attempt at drollery, and an accompaniment of a sigh. The Bondwoman Whittier's play on this fact is in the best vein of his drollery. Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. His forced drollery was more obnoxious than his ill-humor, and, awakening her impatience, restored in a measure her courage. The Strollers The incessant play of wit and drollery then animating the Irish capital has perhaps never had a parallel in any society. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 They discussed many other things, not forgetting Sancho, whom his master praised for his drollery and criticised for being a booby. The Story of Don Quixote The learned 11 professions are all tinged with drollery. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue Many of the experiences, that had been hard and dangerous enough when she was passing through them, were full of drollery when they came to be told, and there was much quiet amusement over them. Dr. Sevier Rough fellows, much given to fighting, and drunkenness, and ribaldry, with a genius for coarse drollery and stinging repartee. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo I cannot sing the old songs now: It is not that I deem them low, But that I have forgotten how They go, wrote Calverley in his delightful drollery about the advances of old age. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 Then he read it to the Duke and the Duchess, who laughed to their heart's content at the many drolleries with which Teresa Panza had stuffed her epistle. The Story of Don Quixote He listened to her drollery, her ringing laugh, her arch sayings with some blame, but more admiration. The Wild Geese Though far from the most finished of Irving's productions, "Knickerbocker" manifests the most original power and is the most genuinely national in its quaintness and drollery. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History He leaned back in his chair and laughed at the unconscious drollery of her reply. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel "I fail to see the drollery of it." Captain Dieppe While Herbert Randolph could laugh at the drollery and peculiar street language of Bob Hunter and Tom Flannery, he nevertheless found a higher degree of pleasure in the conversation of this intelligent and refined family. The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street He wished to stand well with Flavia, and here was a rare opportunity of exhibiting at once his friendliness and his powers of drollery. The Wild Geese He explained the insane folly of this worthy pair with such irresistible drollery that everyone was eager to be one of the favoured company. Forgotten Tales of Long Ago There is a mixture in all this of earnestness and of drollery, of boasting and of laughing at what he was doing, which is inimitable in its reality. The Life of Cicero Volume II. “Oh, you absurd little goose!” exclaimed her brother, and he burst into a laugh, for the drollery of the comparison restored him to instant good humor. Not Like Other Girls There is a touch of drollery in the contrast, which the richest steeping of poetry does not disguise. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar It is not without its drollery, and, if not equal to “Old Bartlemy” in noise and rude humour, has a word to say for itself on the point of decency. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Eh me, ... sic an endless fund of humor and drollery as he had then wi' him. Lady of the Lake As they entered the room, a scene of solemn drollery presented itself, that a humorous painter might well desire to portray. The Buccaneer A Tale But in spite of his plainness he was a pleasant, well-bred young fellow, with a fund of good humor and drollery, and a pair of honest eyes that people learned to trust. Not Like Other Girls The servant was looking at the lady respectfully enough, but behind the respect lurked curiosity, for even a servant may question the drolleries and vagaries of his masters. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 The fair, such as we understand by the name, commenced in the afternoon, and was a scene of much noise and some drollery. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France "Have a care, your honor," answered the workman, with quiet drollery, "don't you think now that if I took 'em to the other place your honor would be less likely to fall over them?" A Book About Lawyers After this prolonged and elaborate education, she was recalled to Burntisland, and the results of the process she had undergone are detailed in her "Recollections" with much drollery. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville Do you think Nan and I are in such excellent spirits that we could originate such a piece of drollery? Not Like Other Girls Mark Twain's hand is full of whimsies and the drollest humours, and while you hold it the drollery changes to sympathy and championship. The World I Live In As also The loves of Hero and leander, a mock poem: together with choice poems, and rare pieces of drollery. The Library of William Congreve His resignation of the seals was announced to her on the day after his retirement from office, and in a manner which, notwithstanding its drollery, would greatly pain any woman of ordinary sensibility. A Book About Lawyers But he is no rogue, though he utters rogueries and drolleries. Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. He skipped and danced and sang; he went through all the drollery and tomfoolery, all the old comic business he could recall. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Possibly the thing which will impress the reader most in reading Negro Folk Rhymes is their good-natured drollery and sparkling nonsense. Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Nay, little comfort, never more shall I Behold thee and thy darling drollery. Laments The truth was, that Gurowski had little relish for humor, and the drollery which formed so prominent a part of Lincoln's external character was unintelligible and offensive to him. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Whether it be in the way of ingenuity, or oddity, or drollery, the humorous person must have an absurd side, or be placed in an absurd situation. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Louis was charmed by this exquisite exhibition of drollery and diablerie, and three weeks later she was brought to dance at Versailles. Terribly Intimate Portraits Instinctively she had fallen into the posture of the poster, her hands behind her, her head bent slightly forward, her chin uplifted, her eyes bright with the drollery of the song. Anna the Adventuress Of all the drolleries of controversy none is more amusing than the manner in which those who provoke a combat expect to lay down the laws of retaliation. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II A sudden sweep of his huge apelike arm in an angular gesture, and the drollery and carelessness of his voice were riven from it as by a bolt of lightning. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Bradley arose after Milton's speech, which pleased the farmers with its shrewdness and drollery, feeling at a great disadvantage. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West I have said that these illustrations are full of point and drollery. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 His eyes were twinkling, and his lips occasionally relaxed into a smile as he considered the details of this piece of drollery. Grey Town An Australian Story Certainly it is admirably acted here, and, as has been intimated, its quiet drollery and its polite maneuvering make it a relief. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing A sort of drollery of a contagious kind haunted it. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Somehow Noah's look of drollery always put him in a good humour. The Desert Fiddler It is a combination of drollery with romance which requires a great deal of pains and a perfect throwing away of points that might be amplified; but I hope it is very good. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 There was a ballet afterwards, on the same scale, and we really came away quite enchanted with the delicate drollery of the thing. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Mike was at his best, and kept all laughing by his drollery. The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters Rusty rolled those chalky optics, with an expression of mingled drollery, apprehension, and confidence in his master's ability to lead the battle. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play The most confirmed humorist could hardly be expected to indulge in drolleries in the presence of a girl who stuck her nose in the air and put on enough side for six. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions As he took his seat he glanced at her frankly, a shade of drollery in his eye, as if he were quite aware of her disapproval, and was amused by it. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters I saw a little Drama enacted yesterday week, the drollery of which was perfect. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete The drollery of a dead husband acting match-maker made him smile. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel An odd dinner, not agreeable, though Lord Stanhope is amusing, so strange in his appearance, so ultra-Tory and anti-Liberal in his politics, full of information and a good deal of drollery. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I The drollery of the driver did not, however, enliven the dejected countenances of his flock. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 In Shakespeare it is the mere generalities of sex, mere words for the most part, seldom or never distinct images, all head-work, and fancy drolleries; there is no sensation supposed in the speaker. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher The Performers came to the contest for fame, among whom a Buffoon, well known for his drollery, said that he had a kind of entertainment which had never yet been brought out at any theatre. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes I know not what drollery there was in this but it was unexpected and it made me laugh. A London Life and Other Tales "Now, o' my faith," said Harry Cheetham, whose skill in dancing and drollery had been conspicuous throughout the evening, "yon barbarians be come from the Grand Turk, with his kerchief, recruiting for the seraglio." Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 But they ate their breakfast with a relish just the same, and the captain entertained them with tales of the sea that made them alternately laugh at his drollery or wonder at his daring. A Voyage with Captain Dynamite Listen to the mocking, railing drollery of "There cam' a young man," the sly humor of the "Laird o' Cockpen," or "Hey, Johnnie Cope!" and you may understand one side of Scottish character. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Upon its grizzled expanse there would pass in amazing succession the whole range of canine passion, rage, love, urbanity, shame, drollery, ennui, and, most frequent of all, curiosity. Tutors' Lane One of the under-carpenters is stepson of the chief comic who was formerly a fruit seller and is a little fellow of inexhaustible drollery with a flavour of Dan Leno in his method. Diversions in Sicily He describes him as a man of great gravity and deliberation in speaking, and, after exciting extraordinary mirth by his wit and drollery, gently smiling and saying, ‘I am glad you are pleased.’ The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) Eh me," says Shortreed, "sic an endless fund o' humor and drollery as he then had wi' him! Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) It was enough for the boys that Troy Gilbert was doing the act; they whooped at every figure, and whooped again at Troy's unaccustomed drollery. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) She liked his drollery and his strength, she admired his poise and self-reliance; and she had the greatest respect for his teaching ability, of which she had received direct proof. Tutors' Lane The self-same rhymes and drollery which amused Dr. Chambers as a child are amusing and engaging the minds and exercising the faculties of children over all the land even now. Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk It was a rambling, desultory reference to his travels and adventures in fluent and sometimes eloquent language, and not without an occasional dash of humour and drollery. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) He was a fellow of infinite drollery; his knowledge of individuals was curious and extensive, few people passing his stall with whose names, character, and history he was not acquainted. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure If caricature is drollery, and not humour, as Carlyle says it is, Mr. May is above all things a humorist, and not at all a droll. The History of "Punch" And then she would add, with a delicate drollery that was all her own, that whenever he got tired of waiting he might hire a whole horse-car all to himself and ride right away. A Romance Of Tompkins Square 1891 Sunday school stories are not inferior to those of the week-day seminary in their irresistible fun and drollery. Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk By adroit devices in instrumentation, their tiny band toots a minute national hymn of irresistible drollery. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions "And you meanwhile prefer the drollery of these madcaps to the attentions of our courtiers?" said Francis, more gently. Under the Rose No one was more amused, or indeed, more pleased, at these “mistakes of a night” than Mr. Gibson, who always tells the story with infinite drollery. Pickwickian Studies Such was this most remarkable Whig campaign, with its monster meetings and music, its infinite drolleries, its rollicking fun, and its strong flavor of political lunacy. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 Action rhymes, by reason of their practical drollery, never fail to amuse. Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Once, in the old town of Canterbury, I stood in the street, under the Old Woman with the Clock, one of the quaintest pieces of drollery ever imagined during the Middle Ages. The Gypsies "You must have your drollery," he said, unsteadily, at length. Under the Rose He was a man of great drollery, and it would almost make you laugh to look at him. The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln "I am under orders," she would say, with a pitiful attempt at her old drollery; but only Olivia, who loved and understood her, ever guessed at the sadness of those days of convalescence. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient About twenty natives soon joined them: one, who was conspicuously deformed, amused them by the drollery of his gestures, and the seeming humour of his speeches. The History of Tasmania , Volume II What more painfully remote from drollery than his efforts to be droll? The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays The Civil Service clerk so famous for his drollery was entering the office doors at half-past ten in the morning, or exactly sixty minutes past the appointed time. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 He fails to show one trait which belongs to human nature as truly as Hotspur's courage or Falstaff's drollery. The Chief End of Man Then Dr. Luttrell, who had been much amused by his wife's drollery, gravely considered the point. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient Everybody knows the merits of that story, its inexhaustible fertility of comparison, its dialectic ingenuity, its jovialty, its drollery, its Rabelaisian laughter. Irish Books and Irish People "Ain't this fun?" whispered Jimmy's next neighbor, taking advantage of a general burst of laughter, as the inimitable little bumboat woman advertised her wares with captivating drollery. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5 Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc. Grave as a pastor, Skinner revelled in drollery as a versifier; Macneill loved sweetness and simplicity; Mayne, with a perception of the ludicrous, was plaintive and sentimental; Gall was patriotic and graceful. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century He missed them all sorely, Merrihew with his cheery laugh, Kitty with her bright eyes, and O'Mally with his harmless drolleries. The Lure of the Mask And all had some story to tell of the Duke!—some little trait of kindness, or some of those drolleries in which he would occasionally indulge, but ever without loss of dignity. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century To return to the services of him of mightier renown, whose genial drolleries led to these notices. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author But as Burckhardt says it was the drollery and playfulness, even the quarrelsomeness and stealth, and above all the lusty health and animal vigour of young life that was depicted. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics In rather less than an hour we reached Mezra’ah—the journey much enlivened by the drollery and songs of Hadj ’Abdallah. Byeways in Palestine Rader, who drove the lead-horses at my gun almost throughout the war, is mentioned elsewhere, but his record, as well as his pranks and drollery, coupled with his taciturnity, were interesting. The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Who associates himself with our sufferings, and winces under our pain, and as suddenly rallies as we grow better, and joins in our little sickbed drolleries? Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Within five minutes the Baron was shaking with spasmodic laughter, and Charles Dickens's drollery was as irresistible as ever. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890 This famous fool enlivened the Christmas festivities at the Court of Henry the Eighth, and many quaint stories are told of his drolleries and witticisms. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries None the less, at the same time, perversely and rudely, I became aware of a certain drollery in our discussion of such alternatives. Embarrassments I perceive, sir," said the stranger, constitutionally obtuse to the pleasant drollery, "that your notion, of what is called a Great Medicine, needs correction. The Confidence-Man Hang him, say I.” Stubbs was a very emphatic little man, but his emphasis only roused the idea of drollery in the minds of those whom he addressed, and rather influenced them towards leniency. The Crew of the Water Wagtail Come here, you little wag, I must give you a kiss for your drollery.” Rattlin the Reefer The vendors shriek at the top of their voice, praising themselves and their goods, and then, with merry peals of laughter, exhibit with Neapolitan drollery all the arts of their trade. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries If she didn't know then how little my charity was worth she is at least enlightened about it to-day, and this is just the circumstance that makes the drollery of her visit. Embarrassments In one sense it merits all you say, and more," rejoined the other with wonted mildness, "but, for a kind of drollery in it, charity might, perhaps, overlook something of the wickedness. The Confidence-Man There is drollery even in his malice, and, if we cannot get clear of him, we must take the best of him.” Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer The Dominie was grave and irascible, but he possessed a fund of drollery and the kindest heart. Jacob Faithful It was equally distinctive of his peculiarities as a Reader, that the especial charm of his drollery was often conveyed by the merest aside. Charles Dickens as a Reader Hers was light, sparkling, brilliant; and one could see that she possessed a fund of native drollery within herself, despite her demure looks and downcast eyes. She and I, Volume 1 The knight and squire are discomfited in broadly comic adventures, hardly removed from the rough, physical drolleries of a pantomime or a circus. Brief History of English and American Literature In considering the racial characteristics of humor, we should pay tribute to the Spanish in the person of Cervantes, for Don Quixote is a mine of drollery. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers There were certain American student-songs which he was wont to sing with a quiet and inimitable drollery, very refreshing to hear, and which those who heard them are not likely readily to forget. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 In its combination of simple pathos and genial drollery, however, it was a story that no other could by possibility have told than the great English Humorist. Charles Dickens as a Reader His muscles swelled tense and rigid—the sweat poured from his face; but he laughed when Lincoln, with reckless drollery, began to shout a few nautical words. Short Stories of Various Types While the thoughtless multitude were immensely tickled with Jack's mad antics and drolleries. The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe “Back to my parish again,” he said to himself, smiling broadly at the drollery of the idea. The Lunatic at Large With Edrige, the associate miniature-painter, and two other artists, he was once at a fair in the country where strong ale was abounding, and much fun, and drollery, and din. Art in England Notes and Studies The drollery of this notion was of a kind that Mr. Adams could appreciate, though to most manifestations of humor he was utterly impervious. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series This was because in foreign countries actresses were not admitted into drawing-rooms: that was a pure English drollery, ministering equally little to real histrionics and to the higher tone of these resorts. The Tragic Muse Then one or two began to laugh and utter some poor drolleries; presently the sound spread, and within three minutes the whole pit was full of chatter and uproar. The Blue Pavilions The drolleries are very funny, and the other illuminations very instructive and curious. Illuminated Manuscripts Again, in the 'Toy Symphony,' he shows a child-like appreciation of drollery in producing genuine music out of such toy instruments as tin whistles, jew's-harps, toy trumpets, etc. Story-Lives of Great Musicians We quickly uncovered Walter, a lad who had kept us laughing at his drollery on many a rainy night. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army She was full of gossip and anecdote and drollery; she had exactly the air he would have wished her to have—that of thinking of no end of things to tell him. The Tragic Muse His poetical characteristics are simplicity and pathos, combined with considerable power of satirical drollery. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century How we laughed at the natural drollery of the man, the deliberate utterance, the unsophisticated air. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems So, too, did this dear Mrs. So-and-so, who could so kindly understand how one in deep sorrow may go on seeing the drollery of things. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi In his countenance there was a mixture of goodness, solemnity, and drollery, which fixed every eye that beheld it. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell And with such drollery did he recite this story that the Major laughed at him, which meant, of course, that his tenure of the old plantation was not to be disturbed. An Arkansas Planter She told a variety of anecdotes with infinite drollery, and after dinner sang a broadly comic song of Father Prout's— The night before Larry was stretched, The boys they all paid him a visit. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. And there, on the sidewalk, was Chillis, carrying a basket, with his hat stuck full of flowers, and as regardless as a child of the drollery of his appearance. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems In such communities live poets with lyres attuned to drollery. The Starbucks At Nisi Prius, he turned his mingled talent for abuse and drollery to great effect. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell With such drollery, such supreme defiance, 10 Swore strange oath to the gods the naughty wanton. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus His refined quaintness and unconscious drollery capture all hearts. Shadows of the Stage He had a great fund of humor and drollery. Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match There is a series of ballet scenes, in which "Flore et Zephyr" are the two chief performers, which for expression and drollery exceed anything that I know of the kind. Thackeray He had come with Jemmy Spiller, and with a stout man from whose broad red face a look of drollery was rarely absent. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' He was such a merry fellow, was this bold seadog, and I could make breezy, "robust" Britons laugh for hours by my narratives of his drolleries. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary His gentleness, his simplicity, his modesty, his affectionate fidelity, his ready sympathy, his inexhaustibly patience, his fine talents—all those attributes united with his spontaneous drollery to enshrine him in tender affection. Shadows of the Stage The drollery in the voice was more touching than amusing. The Place Beyond the Winds No writer ever had a stronger proclivity towards parody than Thackeray; and we may, I think, confess that there is no form of literary drollery more dangerous. Thackeray The sketches in Vanity Fair and in Punch, especially the minor thumb-nail drolleries, are delightful—true caricatures—real portraits of character. Studies in Early Victorian Literature But we want something more than wits and drolleries, and even public performances, to complete our idea of Comedy. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour With what solemn drollery he would afterwards dwell on the feats of Clown and Pantaloon! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 At various periods in the world's history, men have been amused by strange and differing forms of drollery; what seemed excruciatingly funny to our grandparents does not strike us as being at all entertaining. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance In each some little point is made in excellent language, so as to charm by its neatness, incision, and drollery. Thackeray The short juvenile drolleries of his restless youth are the least defective as works of art; and, being brief and simple jeux d'esprit of a rare order, they are entirely successful and infinitely amusing. Studies in Early Victorian Literature And you noble wits are so full of shamming and drollery, one knows not where to have you seriously. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Some of his happiest efforts have been made in little one-act drolleries for two performers; such as Passé Minuit, where he is ably seconded by Bardou. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 He has a stock of drollery in reserve, too. Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton But the virtue of the memoir does not consist in the lessons, but in the general drollery of the letters. Thackeray None but the very greatest can maintain for long one incessant outpour of drollery, much less of extravagance. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Terence has not the rough power and drollery of Plautus; his whole attraction lies in the subtlety of his amorous intrigues. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Eh me," said Mr. Shortreed, his companion in all these Liddesdale raids, "sic an endless fund of humour and drollery as he had then wi' him. Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) He had thought of turning it off with some jest or affectation of drollery, but had failed. Phineas Finn The Irish Member I wrote him a long letter in return, as full of drollery as I knew how to make it. Thackeray But its originality, its irrepressible drolleries, its substantial human nature, and its intense vitality, place it quite in a class by itself. Studies in Early Victorian Literature It was strange how the sound of violins and trumpets accorded with the drolleries of the wit from Prague. The Best Ghost Stories His dry drollery, and frankness of communication, made me regret that he could not accompany us--at least as far as the first stage Plochingen;--especially as the weather was beautiful, and the road excellent. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three He liked that even better, and delighted to cap her gaiety with his own queer, whimsical drolleries. The Stolen Singer In playing Fidalma the drollery of her tone and manner, the richness and originality of her comic humor, were incomparable. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens There was a truly pathetic drollery in his violent passion for certain enjoyments—hunting, whist, and the smoking-room of his club. Studies in Early Victorian Literature His notion of constructing a novel was to take equal parts of wooden melodrama and low comedy and stick them boldly together in a paste of impertinent drollery and serious but entirely irrelevant moralizing. Adventures in Criticism I am not sure that I have seen any thing which equals the drolleries--for their variety, finish, and exquisite condition. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three There was in the town one Geordy, a butcher, blind of one eye, a fellow of much wit and drollery. Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 Whitelocke, in drollery, asked him why he would discover these things to a stranger, which turn so much to the prejudice of his own country. A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. It is often wildly droll, but it is rather the drollery of the stage than of the book. Studies in Early Victorian Literature "If ye would like, it won't be a bit of trouble to show ye George Washington's room; or"—with inimitable Irish drollery—"I can tell ye that he dined in this very room." Hearts and Masks Ill as I was, I could scarcely refrain from laughing at the drollery of the idea. Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels Then he would sing and get them all laughing with some curious bit of drollery. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy The volume is full of illuminations, and the first leaf exhibits a fair good specimen of those drolleries which are so frequently seen in illuminated MSS. of that period. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two There are, however, some places in which one is moved to doubt whether the extravagance is the product of pure simplicity, and without the least tinge of drollery. Anglo-Saxon Literature The exigencies of his vocation compel him to be relentlessly droll from his first page to his last, and this accumulated drollery weighs like lead. Americans and Others For with them, all the wit and drollery were retained, while they helped, by their example, to banish the buffoonery that used to characterise the "Stage Irishman." The Life Story of an Old Rebel His cast-iron features puckered into a smile of the richest drollery, and his eyes twinkled with the wickedest fun; but no undignified giggle escaped the portal of those majestic lips. All Around the Moon The race of this nobility of drollery, and this legitimate king of all hoaxing and quizzing, like mightier dynasties, has ceased to exist. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 The little pieces in which all the leading topics of the day are reviewed are full of drolleries that make you laugh at each instant. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Jack was in excellent spirits; and by his wit, drollery and agreeable demeanour, speedily became a great favourite with the turnkey, who allowed him every indulgence consistent with his situation. Jack Sheppard A Romance But he seeks to make himself out such a very great fool—-" "He cloaks each generous instinct with a laughing drollery. Diane of the Green Van That little country-girl had, besides her innocence and her good looks, a vein of drollery, which made her a very entertaining companion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 There was a suspicion of drollery in his reproachful tones. The Grey Cloak But a French crowd is always gay, full of quick turns and drolleries; most amusing when most petulant, it represents what is so agreeable in the character of the nation. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe His sympathetic brogue, smooth and soft and instinct with drollery, held for her a never-ending fascination. Kenny The priest was at home; a truly benevolent man, but like the worthies of his day, not over-burdened with learning, though brimful of kindness and hospitality mixed up with drollery and simple cunning. The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three She was twisting cigarettes; she had just placed the bottle of chartreuse near her, and had begun to empty it, looking the while very flushed, and lapsing once more to her low street drollery. His Masterpiece A thousand anecdotes might be related of the peculiar wit, sarcasm, and drollery of this remarkable man. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest That of Venice I had understood somewhat, and could enter into the drollery and naïveté of the gondoliers, who, as a class, have an unusual share of character. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe If people, like the Vicar of Wakefield, will sometimes "allow themselves to be happy," they can hardly fail to have a hearty laugh at the drolleries of the Fantoccini. Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met The farce is supremely funny in essentials, and yet I cannot laugh at it, for I know that the drolleries are played out amid sombre surroundings that should make the heart quake. Side Lights The whole scene had been acted so quickly, and with such jaunty drollery, that the two sergeants who sat nearby, good-natured fellows both of them, almost died of laughter as they shuffled their cards afresh. His Masterpiece Their light-hearted drollery sometimes found vent in caricature. Ancient Egypt The gleam of humour was still in his eyes and the drollery in his expressive voice. One Man in His Time His deep-set eyes, his flat nose, his mouth set in a thousand fine wrinkles, the whole aspect of him, breathed a sly and impish drollery. A Woman Named Smith They let her exhibit herself in all her drollery or her hatefulness, but they act in somewhat lordly fashion by leaving us to frame our definition from the picturesque data which they supply. Side Lights He had a fund of small wit and drollery that was sufficient, at least, for a single dinner; and, as it was quaint and fresh, the guests were not only amused, but pleased. Sevenoaks A certain drollery characterizes all his letters to him. Beethoven The doors of the state courts swing inward to any Hoosier citizen of good moral character who wants to practice law,—a drollery of the Hoosier constitution still tolerated. A Hoosier Chronicle While the elder De Ferrier shed nervous tears, the younger looked on with eyes which had seen the drollery of the French Revolution. Lazarre We have then another instance of Arab drollery. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 His natural drollery took on a very amusing form during his sickness, and the men found him a source of pleasure rather than an incumbrance. Sevenoaks He was astonished, after all his self-reproach, to realize how happy; to find himself smiling with her in some girlish drollery such as used to come so readily to her lips. Different Girls The scout seemed at a loss to understand the meaning of his companion, whose waggery and drollery cropped out at such unexpected times that no one knew when to expect it. The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne But all yield in grim drollery to the last given:— 'There are no fans in hell.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 There was a pleasant drollery about her conduct, and about the intense delight of the child, and her hearty enjoyment of the feast, which for the time effectually dissipated my fears and my melancholy thoughts. The Doctor's Dilemma Nevertheless, there was still room for excitement and drollery in the perennial question of the seats. Sketches in the House (1893) They had the drollery of a bit of infernal mimicry. The Street Called Straight This, indeed, is the American beauty of ranch humour, a flower of imperishable fragrance handed to the visitor—who does the lifting with guarded drollery or triumphant snicker, as may be. Somewhere in Red Gap There was a grotesque drollery about him that was very diverting, and it was almost impossible to resist him. The Magician She sang for her stepfather's customers, danced for them, charmed them with her ready wit, and sent them into fits of laughter by her childish drolleries. Love Romances of the Aristocracy A look of gentle drollery and cunning came into his eyes, and he chuckled. Widdershins He remembered the drolleries and fantasies that the worthy Miss Deacon used to write to him, and how he had grinned at her words of reproof, admonition, and advice. The Hill of Dreams He would teach her that he was more than a mere butt for her drollery. Charles Rex The mounting, simple as it was, was admirably planned; the stage-pictures full of explicit drollery. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory "The author knows how to make them real and how to carry them through moving and thrilling scenes with unconscious heroism and often with equally unconscious dry drollery." Wide Courses Once a wag came to court, and amused every one by his drolleries. The Talking Beasts This satire on the azure-pedalled coteries of Washington Square has perhaps received more publicity than any other of Marquis's writings, but of all Don's drolleries I reserve my chief affection for Archy. Shandygaff His careless drollery, his two-edged ironies, were nought to her; but his silence was a barrier unknown that she could not pass. Charles Rex Being stone-deaf," returned Feller, with a trace of drollery in his voice, "I hear very well—at times. The Last Shot And nothing could eclipse in drollery the occasional lapses from the polished behavior of well-bred children to the outrageous freaks of young savages. A Love Episode But what distinguishes the drolleries in this book is the inventiveness shown in the conception and the characteristic ingenuity of the details. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Lincoln could hardly have chosen surroundings more favorable to the highest development of the art of story-telling, and he had not been there long before his reputation for drollery was established. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 They joined the two on the terrace, and presently they were all laughing together at Saltash's drolleries. Charles Rex Weak and faint as he was, he put a touch of drollery into the question which made her laugh, her eyes sparkling through a moist haze. The Last Shot Within the drawing-room the piano was sending forth its loudest strains, and from end to end of the floor swept the ball with its charming drolleries. A Love Episode I recall a curious imported flower with twisted inner tube which the natives call, with a characteristic touch of daring drollery, "the intestines of the clergyman." The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai It was a very delicate piece of drollery, no doubt. Clementina She winked, and there was an irresistible drollery in the grimace that made his lips twitch. The Dark House Everybody felt better for this touch of drollery except the captain. The Last Shot Boldness, drollery, dramatic spirit, force, and spontaneous satire characterize both artists. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 The bird "magpie", originally "maggoty-pie," was so called on account of its whimsical drollery. Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850 Much Ado about Nothing has a large variety of interest, now running into grotesque drollery, now bordering upon the sphere of tragic elevation, now revelling in the most sparkling brilliancy. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England You are far too hard," he wrote in answer, "on the very harmless drolleries of the young men. Robert Browning The Wanderoo is too grave and melancholy to be trained to these drolleries. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon It was a boisterous election speech, full of merciless caricaturing, and delivered with inimitable drollery. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 And no blight could have withered that perennial fountain of jollity, drollery, and light-heartedness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Who but Shakespeare or Nature could have so interfused the lyrical spirit, not only with, but into and through a series or cluster of the most irregular and fantastic drolleries? Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England We can recall one very bright, brilliant youth, now high in the Indian civil service, whose drollery when bullying was irresistible, even to those who knew their turn might come next. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 The old man suddenly smiled at him, all quaint drollery again. Hillsboro People He was frequently invited to Mr. Webster's Saturday breakfasts, where his stories were highly relished for their originality and drollery. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 He joined in their pranks, and contributed to their amusement with his ready good-humour and unflagging drollery. The Life of John Ruskin In the last two Acts we have a most artful interchange and blending of romantic beauty and comic drollery. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Yes, dead perhaps, and all his fun and drollery suddenly fallen into silence and buried with him. Mary Minds Her Business Indian fiction abounds in stories of simpletons, and probably the oldest extant drolleries of the Gothamite type are found in the J�takas, or Buddhist Birth-stories. The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies They, of course, fell in with Field's story, and upon being assured that she was in error the madame's anger relaxed, and she was soon holding her sides from laughter at Field's drolleries. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 Heir I most impart a drollery which happened a little before in Poictiers. Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 A mixture of conceit and drollery, and hugely wrapped up in self, he is by no means a commonplace buffoon, but stands firm in his sufficiency of original stock. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England The piccolo, in highest treble, inverts the second melody, in impertinent drollery. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies The strangest questions were asked by the venerable board, and often strange answers elicited,—no matter how remote from the purpose, provided there was wit or drollery. A Collection of College Words and Customs And in all these scenes one does not know which is the most irresistible, the most inimitable—the mere drollery or the dramatic truth of gesture and facial expression. Social Pictorial Satire She liked to feel the flame of her own fairness as she stood there waiting for the audience to guffaw its fill of Hattie's drolleries; a narcissus swaying reedily beside a black crocodile. The Vertical City And as for the episode of the funeral march on the Pianisto, really, really, the tiresome little thing ought to have better appreciated his whimsical drollery! The Regent He was at first reserved and silent: but his forte was humour and drollery. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 Lloyd had no drollery in his nature; White seemed to have nothing else. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) The habit of arching up one or other of the eyebrows, in surprise or interrogation, gave a drollery to the otherwise nonchalant sweetness of the countenance. The Three Brides But the grey eye and even the little snub nose were full of drollery and humour, and the lines about the generally somewhat closely shut mouth indicated unmistakable intellectual power. What I Remember, Volume 2 There’s a fund of excellent humour and drollery in those queer eyes of his! A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago "What does Lincoln mean?" he would blankly exclaim, impervious alike to the drollery and to the keen prod concealed within it. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe It would almost seem as if there were a certain drollery of art which leads men who think they are doing one thing to do another and very different one. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 It is justly famed," he adds, "for wit, learning, good sense, and ingenious drollery, and, in accordance with the new criticism, is absolutely without obscurity. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge The mincing drollery with which she used this fine phrase brought another peal of laughter. The Grandissimes But in the collection known as The Purcell Papers will be found three short stories which for exuberant drollery and "diversion" have never been excelled. The Glories of Ireland Lamar, the prisoner, watched him with a lazy drollery in his sluggish black eyes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 Banter, burlesque, drollery, humor, jest, raillery, wit, witticism. Composition-Rhetoric It has been long observed, that drollery and ridicule is the most easy kind of wit: let it be added that contempt and arrogance is the easiest philosophy. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler Marvel, whose talent consisted in drollery, more than in serious reasoning, took his own method of exposing those opinions. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV Belgium stared its inhospitality, its contempt, its cynical drolleries at the invader. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form But to secure their reception, they borrowed from comedy all its drollery, wildness, grossness, and licentiousness. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces While Charlie, well attended, went on up and in they paused on the wide stair and in mingled distress and drollery asked each other, "Are we back to stay, or not?" Kincaid's Battery "I see: it was some other man who told you all these drolleries about the eternal importance of mankind," the head observed, with an unaccountable slackening of interest. Figures of Earth The knight and the squire are discomfited in broadly comic adventures, hardly removed from the rough physical drolleries of a pantomime or circus. From Chaucer to Tennyson We have never seen the drollery of a genuine Yankee to more advantage than in "Say and Seal." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 She got on much better with Mars Brown, exchanging comments with him upon the affairs of her friends and his, discussing the last party and the next wedding, or laughing at his drollery. Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 "Miss Anna"--he gestured with his cap, his eyes kindling with a strange mixture of worship and drollery though his brow grew darker--"I'm gone now!" Kincaid's Battery He undertakes anything, but rejoices in cheating those who employ him; he parodies proverbs, rejoices in mischief, and is brimful of pranks and drolleries. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook I have endeavoured sometimes to divert, and sometimes to elevate; but have imagined it an useless attempt to disturb merriment by solemnity, or interrupt seriousness by drollery. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II He seemed to have a naïve spirit of drollery, and he related quite amusingly an experience of his railway journey. Through the Wall "To think of my Bob being Number Three!" murmured Catherine, with that plaintive drollery of hers which I had found irresistible in the days of old. No Hero It is true the fellow told this in a kind of drollery and mirth; but the fact, for all that, is certainly true; and that they have abundance of wives by that very means. Tour through Eastern Counties of England, 1722 Think of a Comic History of England, the drollery of Alfred, the fun of Sir Thomas More, the farce of his daughter begging the dead head and clasping it in her coffin on her bosom. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Two more I discarded at the second visit for obscene allusions; and five for drollery on religion. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II |
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