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“I most definitely prefer your drawings to their drab and droll cousins
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But he was rather amused when he heard the man reply to Haelga’s overture with a very droll utterance of, “You intrigue me…Divines know Dibella’s my favorite…
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crackly, very droll, but with an edge that hinted at mental agility
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end?" His voice was still droll, but there was mischief in it
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men with a heavy load, dragged forward a droll little box about the
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droll stories had subsided
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so droll and funny that Granny forgot her cares and worries and laughed
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head from side to side in such a droll fashion that Gretchen laughed
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In the most droll and sarcastic tone I said, “Ohhh wow Brock finally burned someone
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Making up droll tunes to go with the Pooh “hums” or songs, my reading them aloud as songs made the children smile
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Even a couple of the men interjected their notions of droll commentary
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"In fact," Mrs Gordon continued with a droll expression, "it's probably a good idea for a young girl to avoid being alone with her at any time
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It was a droll beginning to a dialogue but I played along
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” Evan said in a droll voice as he spread out on the chaise lounge
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” Faruq's tone was dry and a bit droll
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listening to her father’s droll smile hanging across seas and continents
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wildly droll that all the dark, untidy types
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“Can't forget about when you slayed a Galactic Gobbling Groobin, armed only with your conversational routine of droll witticisms
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Linda said with a droll look on her face
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Jones,” the judge stated in a droll sleepy tone
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and in his thoughts the droll rubbed away held that same force which slaps ones
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“You should be a comedian,” Phoenix said with a droll tone in her voice
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“Get out mother,” Alicia said with a droll
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“Really?” Acid replied with a droll in her voice
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“Really,” Tynice said in a droll voice
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“Really,” Steve said droll
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'As if it were August and we'd been reaping,' said Vicki; and the big girl laughed at this, and the small girl laughed at this, with an excessiveness that would have convinced a passer-by that somebody was being very droll
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It is the odd fate of his writings to have turned by the action of time from serious to droll
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, droll, witty
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The thought of all they had dreamed life in Creeper Cottage was going to be, of all they had never doubted it was going to be, of peaceful nights passed in wholesome slumber, of days laden with fruitful works, of evenings with the poets, came into her head and made this tormented marching suddenly seem intensely droll
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He made a droll movement of the hand towards Fred’s left hip
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chistoso, —a, funny, witty, droll
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” Came Sparky’s droll commentary from somewhere
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Ha, ha, ha! He is so droll, that Samson
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The question was addressed to the wood-sawyer, who hurriedly replied in the affirmative: seizing the occasion to add that he was the most ardent of Republicans, and that he would be in effect the most desolate of Republicans, if anything prevented him from enjoying the pleasure of smoking his afternoon pipe in the contemplation of the droll national barber
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was generally regarded at first, and indeed in Spain for a long time, as little more than a queer droll book, full of laughable incidents and absurd situations, very amusing, but not entitled to much consideration or care
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WHEREIN IS RELATED THE DROLL WAY IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE HAD
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"By the orders I have received," said the curate, "since Apollo has been Apollo, and the Muses have been Muses, and poets have been poets, so droll and absurd a book as this has never been written, and in its way it is the best and the most singular of all of this species that have as yet appeared, and he who has not read it may be sure he has never read what is delightful
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WHICH TREATS OF THE DROLL DEVICE AND METHOD ADOPTED TO
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OF THE SHREWD AND DROLL CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN
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TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS
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WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE PUPPET-
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QUIXOTE'S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLL
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"Then I am off for him," said Sancho; and leaving his master he went in quest of the bachelor, with whom he returned in a short time, and, all three together, they had a very droll colloquy
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The bachelor was filled with amazement when he heard Sancho's phraseology and style of talk, for though he had read the first part of his master's history he never thought that he could be so droll as he was there described; but now, hearing him talk of a "will and codicil that could not be provoked," instead of "will and codicil that could not be revoked," he believed all he had read of him, and set him down as one of the greatest simpletons of modern times; and he said to himself that two such lunatics as master and man the world had never seen
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No wonder they laughed, for the expression of his face was droll enough to convulse a Quaker, as he stood and stared wildly from the unconscious innocents to the hilarious spectators with such dismay that Jo sat down on the floor and screamed
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But what could she do? For the old lady was in the middle of her story, and long before it was done, Jo was off again, make more droll revelations and committing still more fearful blunders
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Jo said this with such a droll imitation of May Chester's gushing style that Amy got out of the room as rapidly as possible, feeling a strong desire to laugh and cry at the same time
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It was so droll! For when we were shut in by the wooden apron, the man drove so fast that Flo was frightened, and told me to stop him
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With this the two squires withdrew to one side, and between them there passed a conversation as droll as that which passed between their masters was serious
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Fortunately the story was the 'Constant Tin Soldier', which is droll, you know, so I could laugh, and I did, though I didn't understand half he read, for I couldn't help it, he was so earnest, I so excited, and the whole thing so comical
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WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS
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In a minute a hand came down over the page, so that she could not draw, and Laurie's voice said, with a droll imitation of a penitent child, "I will be good, oh, I will be good!"
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If Beth had wanted any reward, she found it in the bright little faces always turned up to her window, with nods and smiles, and the droll little letters which came to her, full of blots and gratitude
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His bushy hair had been cut and smoothly brushed, but didn't stay in order long, for in exciting moments, he rumpled it up in the droll way he used to do, and Jo liked it rampantly erect better than flat, because she thought it gave his fine forehead a Jove-like aspect
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Very precious to Jo was the friendship of the lads, their penitent sniffs and whispers after wrongdoing, their droll or touching little confidences, their pleasant enthusiasms, hopes, and plans, even their misfortunes, for they only endeared them to her all the more
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Dost thou not see--shortsighted being that thou art, and unlucky mortal that I am!--that if they perceive thee to be a coarse clown or a dull blockhead, they will suspect me to be some impostor or swindler? Nay, nay, Sancho friend, keep clear, oh, keep clear of these stumbling-blocks; for he who falls into the way of being a chatterbox and droll, drops into a wretched buffoon the first time he trips; bridle thy tongue, consider and weigh thy words before they escape thy mouth, and bear in mind we are now in quarters whence, by God's help, and the strength of my arm, we shall come forth mightily advanced in fame and fortune
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Don Quixote, my master, if I am to believe what I hear in these parts, is a madman of some sense, and a droll blockhead, and I am no way behind him
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"That's true," said Sancho; "I am that same droll and squire you speak of, and this gentleman is my master Don Quixote of La Mancha, the same that's in the history and that they talk about
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"Faith, then," said the gentleman, "this new author does not handle you with the decency that displays itself in your person; he makes you out a heavy feeder and a fool, and not in the least droll, and a very different being from the Sancho described in the First Part of your master's history
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"Believe me," said Sancho, "the Sancho and the Don Quixote of this history must be different persons from those that appear in the one Cide Hamete Benengeli wrote, who are ourselves; my master valiant, wise, and true in love, and I simple, droll, and neither glutton nor drunkard
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Don Quixote was about to reply, but was prevented by the duke and duchess, who came in to see him, and with them there followed a long and delightful conversation, in the course of which Sancho said so many droll and saucy things that he left the duke and duchess wondering not only at his simplicity but at his sharpness
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"He had," said Don Alvaro; "but though he had the name of being very droll, I never heard him say anything that had any drollery in it
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He was more greedy than well-spoken, and more dull than droll; and I am convinced that the enchanters who persecute Don Quixote the Good have been trying to persecute me with Don Quixote the Bad
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Palmer is so droll!" said she, in a whisper, to Elinor
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"There now; you see how droll he is
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Palmer will be so happy to see you," said she; "What do you think he said when he heard of your coming with Mamma? I forget what it was now, but it was something so droll!"
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Palmer sauntered towards the Miss Dashwoods to express his surprise on seeing them in town, though Colonel Brandon had been first informed of their arrival at his house, and he had himself said something very droll on hearing that they were to come
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"It would be something remarkable, now," he continued, "something droll, if Fanny should have a brother and I a sister settling at the same time
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Linton eyed him with a droll expression---half angry, half laughing at his fastidiousness
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Droll, but true
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Droll was it to see that clumsy fat figure of her flop down on the foot
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where they made me pledge them in a glass of wine, and toast a droll
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something droll, or rather tragi-comic in it: there was now an air of sad
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I laughed in spite of myself all the time, the whole thing was so droll; and yet I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr
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"Come in, my lord," said Philip in a low tone, "and I will show you something droll
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For answer Mr Mulligan, in a gale of laughter at his smalls, smote himself bravely below the diaphragm, exclaiming with an admirable droll mimic of Mother Grogan (the most excellent creature of her sex though 'tis pity she's a trollop): There's a belly that never bore a bastard
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Dry, droll, and a heart of gold
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Dry, droll, and a heart of gold
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As soon as he was dismounted, Louisa sprung up, shook her petticoats, and running up to me, gave me a kiss, and drew me to the sideboard, to which she was herself handed by her gallant, where they made me pledge them in a glass of wine, and toast a droll health of Louisa's proposal in high frolic
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As for the changeling, whose curious engine had been thus successfully played off, his shift of countenance and gesture had even something droll, or rather tragi-comic in it: there was now an air of sad repining foolishness, superadded to his natural one of no meaning and idiotism, as he stood with his label of
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‘But what is it all about?’ she said, with such genuine and droll wonder
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And he began telling with droll good-humor how, after not sleeping all night, he had, wearing an old fur-lined, full-skirted coat, got into Alexey Alexandrovitch’s
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"It is a droll little church
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Garth had her droll aspects, but her character sustained her oddities, as a very fine wine sustains a flavor of skin
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He had somehow picked up a troop of droll children, little hatless boys with their galligaskins much worn and scant shirting to hang out, little girls who tossed their hair out of their eyes to look at him, and guardian brothers at the mature age of seven
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of a droll dog of a thief who declined to know the constable
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’Twas almost droll how they argu’d betwixt themselves
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Little did I dream that Coxtart would truly propose a Counter-Scheme whereby each Wench earn’d a Share of the Profits of the House according to her Seniority and Industriousness! But now I saw that my Determination had frighten’d Coxtart, particularly when she saw all too clearly the Threat of her most valu’d Wenches all departing at once; and suddenly my bluffing Brazenness to acquit myself of Blame had turn’d me into the Heroine of all the House! ’Twas droll indeed! ’Twas perhaps a Lesson to me
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Then he recounted an episode in which the husband played the part of the lover, and he- the lover- assumed the role of the husband, as well as several droll incidents from his recollections of Germany, where ‘shelter’ is called Unterkunft and where the husbands eat sauerkraut and the young girls are ‘too blonde
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Linton eyed him with a droll expression—half angry, half laughing at his fastidiousness
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"It is very droll," said Zephine
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You are droll
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