Lady Geraldine was rather tame, and not even pretty; it was up hill work talking to her, and he was just in the humour for a chaffing match with cousin Kate.
When anyone came he did not want the place to look untidy; and, laughing, chaffing Ethel a little, he set about putting things in order.
Ah, but her twaddle isn't half as bad as the chaffing I get.
That tickled the lads immensely, and nothing but the appearance of a slight refection would have induced them to stop chaffing the poor Worm, who could not see any thing funny in the beautiful resignation he had shown on this trying occasion.
Shirley and I had been chaffing each other about the persistence with which Armitage seemed to follow us.
As a particular friend of the house, he turned the tables by adroitlychaffing Lady Pridmore and the Prince, and by ministering gaily to Mary's and Silvia's tempered ecstasies.
John Vaughan attempted to slip through at night while they were chaffing one another.
The Southern boys were chaffingthe Northerners over their oft repeated defeats.
But here she was, chaffing the colonel and chattering childish jargon to Anne.
His tone was rather a chaffing one, a recall to the intercourse of everyday life.
Loss of blood," laughed Rory, "don't bechaffing a poor boy.
Sambourne) is not good, but quite as kind as Sala's remarks were on that occasion in chaffing Sambourne for turning up in morning costume.
Sometimes he sent me some chaffing note written in a disguised hand, and disguised drawing; but the latter experiment, although it failed to deceive, certainly entertained me greatly.
He felt that he could more easily endure physical pain than the chaffing of his fellows at San Leon.
Their nonsense and good natured chaffing of one another kept him amused at all times and was doubly pleasant to him that night.
In another spot, on the lawn, I saw a young man in evening dress chaffing a bare-shouldered girl who looked no more than fifteen "What!
There was a good deal of chaffing at this point in the proceedings--the lazy men giving occasion for a slight administration of rebuke, and the able men affording scope for good-humoured pleasantry and badinage.
And with such chaffingand gaiety the year came to an end.
It was all delicate, delicious chaffing which showed Howells at his very best--all too short for his listeners.
I suppose you didn't know what I thought of you, Wenna, because I kept chaffing you and Mabyn?
Men are either afraid of them or detest them: gentlemen don't like to puzzle their brains over a witticism, nor do they admirechaffing that is beyond their comprehension.
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