For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.    From LearnThat.org.  [James Boswell (1740-1795)]

The groundwork of the pleasantry is the identity in form of the proper name with the common noun 'will.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference

The form of bicycle he rode long ago became antiquated, but in the humor of his pleasantry is a quality which does not grow old.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Is Man? and Other Essays] Reference

And, in short, pleasantry never failed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English] Reference

That pleasantry which is founded upon the knowledge of mankind has something sad at bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy] Reference

As specimens of a kind of pleasantry becoming more scarce every year, some of Sir George Rose's court witticisms are excellent.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book About Lawyers] Reference

'You have the right to indulge in this kind of pleasantry,' said the tortured Mark; 'I know that -- only be moderate if you can.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Giant's Robe] Reference

'Madame de Talmond has beauty and wit and vivacity; that turn for pleasantry which is our national inheritance seems natural to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles] Reference

It was with reference to this kind of pleasantry that he said: ” “A joke goes a great way in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sydney Smith]

There was a pathetic ring in the little pleasantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

It doesn't necessarily add to the pleasantry of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Please Don't Call Me 'Ma'am'] Reference

The time-worn little pleasantry did him service as usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea] Reference

Yet Brummell's pleasantry did not desert him even in Calais.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

My remark was an ill timed pleasantry which you must pardon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Zara] Reference

He heard your husband's pleasantry, and his mother was vexed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The artist could not help coloring at that benign pleasantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

But our pleasantry was, as may easily be imagined, rather forced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

An anecdote of his pleasantry in almsgiving reached the public ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

Chicken Little was too intent on her own ideas to notice his pleasantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

As I was little disposed to indulge in pleasantry I begged him to spare me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

 He almost never spoke, and when he did, it was only pleasantry, not oratory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroic] Reference

It was of him he wrote this epitaph, at an ale-house, in the way of pleasantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

Quitting accordingly the tone of pleasantry which she had at first adopted, she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"Boiler-plate" was finishing some elephantine pleasantry to Natica, when he saw what I saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

My new acquaintance shook his head a little seriously, as if deprecating further pleasantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

But in this is supplied to him no sufficient excuse for his obscene and blasphemous pleasantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

His manners had something of coarseness in them; his passion was music, dancing, and pleasantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

Erasmus, perhaps, came the nearest of all modern predecessors to anticipating the purified pleasantry of Pascal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Her Friend -- But apropos of this, you know that Ernestine has not forgiven him his pleasantry of the other evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

I had some difficulty in understanding the meaning of this pleasantry till I supplied the hyphen between the two words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Importance of the Proof-reader A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson] Reference

"I hope you'll never have to defend the independence of the press with arms," he said, making a small pleasantry of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

Such were seasons of great joy all around, and of some little pleasantry, although cautiously indulged in in those days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference

To the pleasantry of my greeting, they replied with the true pilferer's humor; the free baron had ordered every one searched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

At Eton, however, he was a general favourite for his pleasantry, the gentleness of his manner, and the smartness of his repartee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

They made no attempt to follow Morgan and revel in his sufferings and peril, but fell back, content to enjoy their pleasantry at ease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

Jerry felt that a good bit of his pleasantry was forced, but as there was no use in finding fault, he became quite friendly with the man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

Indeed, Cicero was by natural temper very much disposed to mirth and pleasantry, and always appeared with a smiling and serene countenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference