Reoites, ia a plaintive, yetSbandyaA kind of drollery, tbe hard caie. From Wordnik.com. [The Monthly Review] Reference
There was a kind of drollery about Mrs Freke, which, with some people, made the odd things she said pass for wit. From Wordnik.com. [Belinda] Reference
There was a kind of drollery about Mrs. Freke, which, with some people, made the odd things she said pass for wit. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 03] Reference
But all yield in grim drollery to the last given. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
"You must have your drollery," he said, unsteadily, at length. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Grave as a pastor, Skinner revelled in drollery as a versifier. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Folk Rhymes is their good-natured drollery and sparkling nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study] Reference
I have said that these illustrations are full of point and drollery. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Once, in a moment of drollery, he entered a jocose memorandum in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Action rhymes, by reason of their practical drollery, never fail to amuse. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
A similar mixture of drollery and defiance appears in the justly celebrated. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Her whole air had at times a gloomy sort of drollery which impressed one strangely. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
With what solemn drollery he would afterwards dwell on the feats of Clown and Pantaloon!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference
The bird "magpie", originally "maggoty-pie," was so called on account of its whimsical drollery. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850] Reference
The general tendency of his Muse was drollery, but some of his lyrics are sufficiently touching. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
Yes, dead perhaps, and all his fun and drollery suddenly fallen into silence and buried with him. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Minds Her Business] Reference
Clement promised himself not a little amusement from the curiously sedate drollery of the venerable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference
It had cradled his own pith here in the Palace since the day he had first shaken his bauble in drollery. From Wordnik.com. [Knell Quarternion] Reference
Jeanne was full of high spirits, while Felix was simply overflowing with wit and good-humoured drollery. From Wordnik.com. [For The Admiral] Reference
His sympathetic brogue, smooth and soft and instinct with drollery, held for her a never-ending fascination. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
It was a boisterous election speech, full of merciless caricaturing, and delivered with inimitable drollery. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
I could not avoid laughing at the drollery of this accident, or I should have given him the look he deserved. From Wordnik.com. [Barford Abbey] Reference
His poetical characteristics are simplicity and pathos, combined with considerable power of satirical drollery. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
A pleasant prose writer, he will be remembered for his inimitable drollery in the adventures of "Mansie Wauch.". From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Sunday school stories are not inferior to those of the week-day seminary in their irresistible fun and drollery. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
The drollery of Costner's performance is his dare that we will fall for this brooding lout, which of course we do. From Wordnik.com. ['Waterworld': It Floats] Reference
In his countenance there was a mixture of goodness, solemnity, and drollery, which fixed every eye that beheld it. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference
Obama allowed himself a bit of drollery, remarking, "Well, Hillary, I'm looking forward to you advising me as well.". From Wordnik.com. [How He Did It] Reference
In part, because McCurry is revered by the normally hostile press corps for his drollery and self-deprecating candor. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton's 'Human Pinata'] Reference
"And you meanwhile prefer the drollery of these madcaps to the attentions of our courtiers?" said Francis, more gently. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
She told a variety of anecdotes with infinite drollery, and after dinner sang a broadly comic song of Father Prout's. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
The fair, such as we understand by the name, commenced in the afternoon, and was a scene of much noise and some drollery. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
He skipped and danced and sang; he went through all the drollery and tomfoolery, all the old comic business he could recall. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
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