This feeling was strongest that Sunday afternoon when the gaiety and badinage seemed to centre about a new arrival, a handsome, silver-aureoled Catholic priest, confessor to half the parish.
There was badinage and sally, light, foolish stuff, perhaps, but flung like shining nebulae along the way by youth in its whirl of mere being.
Austin lay upon the straw, smoking tranquilly, for everybody leaves a good deal to chance in Spain, and now and then flung a little Castilian badinageat the gasping men who pulled the big sweeps below.
Then, because he did not appreciate Macallister's badinage on that subject, he went into his room and bolted the door behind him before he switched on the light and examined the anisado jar.
When this badinage had been going on for some time, our friend Nix played quite a pretty hoax on the ladies.
She is very good-natured, and enjoys ourbadinage heartily, having a healthy vein of fun of her own, which transmutes all the little events of domestic life into the most refined humor.
This was stock and stencil: the accustomed argot of street badinage of the period; and in such matters Georgie was an expert.
And so Franklin left him alone and swallowed the badinage which he had intended to throw at him.
Strangely enough, Lincoln with all his sense of humor took this badinage seriously, and accused Douglas of telling a falsehood.
In spite of the gay badinage with which she treated this young Westerner, she revealed a depth and positiveness of character, to which indeed her fine, broad forehead bore witness on first acquaintance.
But while Smythe and Marion exchanged more badinage he refilled the magazine of the Savage, and held it ready.
Then swiftly he took himself in hand, and masked his passions under an air of careless badinage that was, for the moment, suited to his purpose.
Congratulations and badinage broke out on all sides; he shook hands until his arm ached and he gave up trying to count the numbers; it was enough that he could recognize one face out of three.
Of course it was all badinage; and yet, if Jack knew everything, the badinage might cover an atrocious hint of his knowledge.
Damer was not especially sensitive, but he felt no great desire to encounter the badinage of the men generally to be found about the store, who, he surmised, would have heard by this time what had happened at the Somasco mill.
He was moving away, when Miss Dundas caught his arm, and by various attempts at badinage and raillery, held him in his place until the countess had made her farewell curtsey to Lady Shafto, and the door was closed.
Before this conversation, in which Pembroke mentioned the name of Constantine with so much badinage and apparent familiarity, he never heard him spoken of by Mary or his aunt without declaring a displeasure nearly amounting to anger.
What badinage to toss into the face of a man who had braved death upon a hundred battle-fields and all for "loyalty!
But he had found that humdrum world in a terribly dynamic condition, in which even badinage and lyrism had turned explosive; and the first day of this visit had become the most fatal epoch of his life.
Those who have had occasion to make the comparison have, without doubt, observed salient points of difference between the styles of badinage prevalent in the Northern and Southern armies.
He was cheery; with his ready Irish wit he had a vein of genial yet jibing badinage that kept queer-tempered fellows in good humour while it pricked them into obedience.
I have reserved for the close numerous instances of woman's facility at badinage and repartee.
After much badinage on one side and the other, he said: "Well, you never yet heard of casting seven devils out of a man.
This badinage was kept up for some little time, so that the prowlers in the cornfield might not suspect that their presence were known to the campers.
Grace laughingly interrupted the badinage by directing Washington to begin packing.
But she spoke little and said practically nothing: which was a shock to Marian Prohack, who had imagined that in the circles graced by Lady Massulam conversation varied from badinage to profundity and never halted.
They appear less uneasy than the men; they even smile at intervals, and reply to the rude badinage uttered in an unknown tongue by the odd-looking strangers around the well.
I now remembered the badinage of Wheatley, and would have returned to question the youth; but I had left him too far in the rear.
I asked her why, and she then asserted that this sort of young man confined himself to flat badinage and personal brag, which he was mistaken in believing to be veiled.
The badinage is the young man's defect in art; the brag is his defect in nature.
Some light badinage on this score from his various acquaintances in the restaurant he parried with a good-humoured nonchalance; then he betook himself to consideration of the menu.
But there are other worlds than this, my son," his mother said, with such sweet seriousness that our badinage ceased for that evening.
In these hours in his own study, where very few, save myself, were permitted to enter, he laid aside all badinageand severe criticism.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "badinage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
