A young lady told me an adventure that befell her and her sister, which is rather a droll illustration of the manners of a French Canadian lumberer.
Take the following for an example of the many droll things which have happened to me during my travels.
I took the piece of dirty crumpled newspaper from his hand; and, struck with the drollquizzing humour of the lines, I have preserved them ever since.
After the first few whiffs he took it from his mouth, and, with a droll look across at Verrian, said, "Who was your fair friend?
The sex-partisanship, which is such a droll fact in women when there is any question of their general opposition to men, possessed them all, and they stood as, one girl for the reality of their triumph.
To one of my temperament, however, it seems very droll that reason should lead the way to love, and the heart come limping after.
Hold your peace, then, drink to the author, and let his inkstand with the double cup endow the Gay Science with a hundred glorious Droll Tales.
September had come, and he had merrily sent off two happy boy-sportsmen with the keeper, seeing them over the first field himself, and leaning against the gate, as he sent them away in convulsions of laughing at his droll auguries.
The first milking lesson was a droll one; but after several scares and many vain attempts, Rose at last managed to fill her cup, while Ben held Clover's tail so that it could not flap, and Dr.
To laugh at the droll business is to be in good humour with the boy, whose self-sufficiency is only brought into offensive prominence by attempts to justify it.
The elegant Martin cut such a very droll figure as a hero.
The Bishop loves a joke, and Demming is a droll fellow.
It is a droll little underground theatre--literally underground, with no windows, no opening of any kind to the light of day, and no ventilation.
The professed subject of the lecture being that of a story familiar to children, harmonised well with the droll placard which announced its delivery.
I have brought a frien' of our dear, droll Cooley with me to tea.
Honorable Chandler Pedlow arrived this morning from Paris and that droll Mr. Cooley I have learn is coincidentally arrived also.
And in case my compliments should miss their aim, I was always ready to cover my retreat with some agreeable pleasantry, which would often earn me the name of an "oddity" or a "droll fellow.
You droll creature, you will be the death of me yet!
And, come to think of it, it is droll enough that I should have been that very moment commenting on your personal appearance, when your cousin came upon this mission.
In general he showed himself as droll as ever, but there were days when, as John said, "all the skip was gone out of the Jack.
She vented her feelings in a bray, which Grif imitated, convulsing all hearers by the sound as well as by the wink the one eye gave, and the droll waggle of one erect ear, while the other pointed straight forward.
Jill, tweaking a large orange square off the round nose of her neighbor, causing it to wrinkle up in a droll way, as the gum made the operation slightly painful.
This was such a droll way of taking it, that they had to laugh; and Frank took his humiliation so meekly that Jack soon fell to comforting him, instead of crowing over him.
I think of taking out a patent," concluded Ralph, joining in the boys' laugh at the droll idea.
I follow Marion and his daring troopers through the swamps of Georgia and the Carolinas;' and in following them up, the lecturer interspersed his exciting narrative with sundry droll episodes.
Later in the day the great tent was upset by a gust of wind, accompanied by a thunder-shower, and a droll scene followed, which caused considerable excitement.
Relate thedroll idea which thou hadst the other day for a new piece!
They think it very droll to see nuts put on the table in their shell, and ask why our servants cannot take the trouble to peel the fruit, and take the bones out of the meat.
To one of these the droll contrivances which attracted our notice was affixed.
And the legends, fables, and touching or droll superstitions concerning it are endless," said the white-headed doctor beside me.
But you, as an Englishwoman, would hardly conceive how droll to me was my first experience of one of these receptions.
A mighty fine and great Dinner; and the Appetite of the Company droll to observe, and hear MR.
Mighty droll to see him in a fine House make himself at Home after the Fashion of a Bumpkin, and hear him in his rustical Drawl and Twang relate all the News and Tattle of his Village.
Droll to see a little Boy stand astride stuffing into his Mouth a Pie whole like a Pantomime Clown.
One or two droll ones, as the Slide, and Drawing for the Militia, did make me laugh; but to think how many Woodcuts as good as the best you can get in a little Miscellany published weekly, cost you 3d.
But they enjoyed themselves in their Way, whatever that was, and I in mine, thinking how droll they looked, so earnestly attending to a mere Show of Dexterity.
His costume was as droll as the girls'; for Uncle Augustus, who had figured the week before in some private tableaux, had a full Brother Jonathan suit.
She laughed, as she rolled away in her carriage, thinking what droll figures they were, and how Prudy blinked through her glasses.
On the contrary, he listened to the Frenchman's complaint with a droll air; and if he had not known of the matter before, his smile betrayed him.
Evidently he was by original temperament a droll and joyous humourist, with high animal spirits; and, withal, an infantine simplicity at times, like the clever man who never learns the world and is always taken in.
Gay and active, indeed bold as a boy sometimes, so that she would lead in taking the rather dangerous leap from a balcony of our high ground floor into the garden, clever, and full of droll fancies, she dwelt much in her own thoughts.
For a long time I was the moving spirit in this play, and we had no lack of talented mimes, personators of sentimental heroes, and droll comedians.
I got a droll characteristic note from the Duke of Wellington and a cordial hearty one from Sir H.
The very sight of Torrance brings in my head a little droll matter of some years ago, when I had made a tryst with the poor oaf at the cross of Edinburgh.
It was droll how Alan dwelt on Mr. Riach's stature for, to say the truth, the one was not much smaller than the other.
Well," said Alan, with one of his droll looks, "I was rather in hopes it would maybe get us that boat.
