There was a little mild waggery about the future name of Ford. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
He spoke with the Barfield drawl, and his features, which were stiffened by the frozen wind, were twisted into a look of habitual waggery. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, waggery, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
That you may discern the comicality and waggery in ill-chosen clothes, I have endeavored to hint to you in these talks some of the ways gew-gaws and garments make game of us. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
"What waggery!" exclaimed Patty, shaking her head. From Wordnik.com. [Patty's Social Season] Reference
That waggery of fate which started Clive as a writing clerk. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Native] Reference
This incident gave occasion to much waggery in the daily prints. From Wordnik.com. [Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1] Reference
Their waggery at times drove me almost crazy; for there is nothing so. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Traveller] Reference
With the waggery that cropped up at the most unexpected times, he turned to. From Wordnik.com. [Deerfoot in The Mountains] Reference
She did not smile; perhaps she felt such an approach to waggery unworthy of him. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
There was no trick, nor fraud, nor waggery which he had not at his fingers-ends. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian Days Three American Tales] Reference
Herbert, rather surprised at his own effectiveness, naturally repeated his waggery. From Wordnik.com. [Gentle Julia] Reference
The clown will laugh at a waggery, and the gentleman only at a stroke of delicate conceit. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces] Reference
But all the same, that bit of commercial-traveller's waggery was rather novel, in the circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [The Crystal Stopper] Reference
Here the veritable Americano stands forth, lacking not a waggery, a superstition, a snuffle or a wen. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
Insolence made use of it to give offence; ignorance to avoid exposing itself; and waggery to create laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
He had an eye of great quickness and vivacity, with a drollery and lurking waggery of expression that was irresistible. From Wordnik.com. [Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving] Reference
Indeed, I always observed that Tom, with all his impudence and waggery, had a great deal of consideration and kindness. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Faithful] Reference
Dolph soon became the abhorrence of all drowsy, housekeeping old citizens, who hated noise, and had no relish for waggery. From Wordnik.com. [Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists] Reference
Commercial Advertiser, has surpassed all contemporaneous letter writers in waggery, fun, invention, and sensational effect. From Wordnik.com. [Saratoga in 1901] Reference
This was the method of the age which, in the abysmal profound of waggery, engendered that portentous birth, the comic paper. From Wordnik.com. [Style] Reference
Louisa, and Ethelinda, and a dozen other fine names, changing the name every time, and chuckling amazingly at their own waggery. From Wordnik.com. [Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists] Reference
If he rambled into any fashionable coffee house, he became a mark for the insolent derision of fops and the grave waggery of Templars. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1] Reference
Their waggery at times drove me almost crazy; for there is nothing so vexatious as the hackneyed tricks and hoaxes and pleasantries of. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Traveller] Reference
If he rambled into any fashionable coffee-house, he became a mark for the insolent derision of fops, and the grave waggery of Templars. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Magic Door] Reference
Groom Porter's being full of wine and waggery, to introduce this threadbare subject, and to say something concerning a goose-pie, which. From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
And seeing by the peculiar expression of the rogue's countenance, that some mad waggery was in preparation, I awaited the morrow with anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
Harald Bergman had speaking, somewhat sharp features, in which an expression of great gravity could easily be exchanged for one of equal waggery. From Wordnik.com. [Strife and Peace] Reference
There was a touch of waggery, if not of mischief, in these verses, which happened to escape detection from the faculty, though not very artfully concealed. From Wordnik.com. [Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman] Reference
He received us with much greeting, and seemed delighted to see my young companion, who was full of merriment and waggery, drawing out his peculiarities for my amusement. From Wordnik.com. [Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey] Reference
Indeed I have likewise known him to be guilty of positive waggery; but it must be confessed that in this line his attempts were few and far between, and not always successful. From Wordnik.com. [Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman] Reference
By the way, while his name is before one, a little anecdote may be appropriately introduced, illustrative of the wild waggery prevailing in the streets of Dublin in those days. From Wordnik.com. [Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes] Reference
In the Gád el-Khuraybah, the little inlet near the Gumruk ( "custom-house"), as we called in waggery the shed of palm-fronds at the base of the eastern sandspit, lay five small. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference
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