The primitive garb worn by this
droll left all his nether man exposed to the biting blasts of the mountains.
I introduced David, who offered his hand stiffly, but Joey, instead of taking it, put out his tongue and waggled it, and this was so
droll that David had again to save himself by clapping his hand over his mouth.
Sight-seeing from morning till night, stopping for nice lunches in the gay cafes, and meeting with all sorts of
droll adventures.
"As to Porthos, that is certainly
droll; but I am not the less a giddy fool.
All this, set off by the presence of that excellent prince, who was so good-natured, who invented so droll tricks against Monsieur de Chavigny and so fine jokes against Mazarin, made for La Ramee the approaching Pentecost one of the four great feasts of the year.
"A droll way of showing your affliction." The duke meant to say "affection."
Do you call that nothing?" He pronounced avenue--EVENUE, and nothing--NOTHINK, so droll; and he had a Mr.
Rebecca is a droll funny creature, to be sure; and those descriptions of the poor lady weeping for the loss of her beauty, and the gentleman "with hay-coloured whiskers and straw-coloured hair," are very smart, doubtless, and show a great knowledge of the world.
She showed it step by step and room by room and secret by secret, with
droll, delightful, childish talk about it and with the result, in half an hour, of our becoming immense friends.
He went in quest of sympathy - in quest of that
droll article that we all suppose ourselves to want when in a strait, and have agreed to call advice; and he went, besides, with vague but rather splendid expectations of relief.
In the midst of the gloom of the spiral staircase, he elbowed something which drew aside with a growl; he took it for granted that it was Quasimodo, and it struck him as so
droll that he descended the remainder of the staircase holding his sides with laughter.
"How very
droll you will look!--like a gentleman in an old fashion-book."
Along with play texts and masques written in the period, Randall examines pamphlets with dramatic touches, civic shows, puppet shows and
drolls (nebulously defined short, comic entertainments), plays translated from classical and modern continental languages, and older plays reprinted in the period.
