For this drollery the king gave Ben a hundred pounds.
This is what makes Sancho Panza's drollery the despair of the conscientious translator.
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.
Lady Morley's great vivacity of manner and very peculiar voice added not a little to the drollery of her sallies.
The special and reportable sallies of Sydney Smith have been, of course, often repeated, but the fanciful fun and inexhaustible humorous drollery of his conversation among his intimates can never be adequately rendered or reproduced.
There is a certain amount of the same kind of indelicate drollery in the play of "The Woman taken in Adultery," in this collection.
The next play in which the drollery is introduced, is that of "Herod and the Slaughter of the Innocents.
It must not be supposed that, in subjects like these, the drollery of the scene was accidental; but, on the contrary, the mediaeval artists and popular writers gave them this character purposely.
But in the earlier drama, these scenes of drollery seem frequently to have no connection whatever with the general plot, while Shakespeare always interweaves them skilfully with it, and they seem to form an integral and necessary part of it.
The epigrammatic drollery of Mr. Cholmondeley-Pennell's 'Puck on Pegasus' is well known to many of our readers.
It is the very acme of sentimental courtship, expressed in a spirit of drollery which could not easily be excelled.
A humorous satire of this kind has stolen down to us in that exquisite piece of drollery and grotesque invention, "The Land of Cokaigne.
I wrote him a long letter in return, as full of drollery as I knew how to make it.
No writer ever had a stronger proclivity towards parody than Thackeray; and we may, I think, confess that there is no form of literary drollery more dangerous.
But the virtue of the memoir does not consist in the lessons, but in the general drollery of the letters.
There is a series of ballet scenes, in which "Flore et Zephyr" are the two chief performers, which for expression and drollery exceed anything that I know of the kind.
In compliment to the inexhaustible talent and drollery of George Cruikshank, we have put this article at the head of our department of the Fine Arts; and it well deserves that grace.
There was an air ofdrollery and of superiority in his manner which at once struck and pleased the Hibernian.
Jim was certainly a natural curiosity in respect to the eternal, unceasing vivacity of his animal spirits, which were in a state of effervesence from morning to night, frothing out in some odd freak of drolleryor buffoonery.
Hood's humor and drollery kept in the background the pathos and beauty of his sober productions; and Dr.
Holmes has been likened to Thomas Hood; but there is little in common between them save the power of combining fancy and sentiment with grotesquedrollery and humor.
Her drollery made the poor men so fond of her that she was rarely chastised; and such a wilful, intractable wild Arab it would be hard to find.
Out of the thousands of beggars that I met while there (and many of whom extracted money from my pocket by their wit or drollery when I was not disposed to give it), there was but one of whom I shall make mention in this place.
Wouldn't even open a telegraphic message which came to his hands this morning," said Lady Augusta, with a malicious drollery in her glance towards him.
The slydrollery of his eye, as he spoke, almost extorted a half-smile from Davis.
There was a racy twinkle in that reverend eye as he said the last words, so full of malicious drollery that Davis could not help remarking it; but all Classon gave for explanation was, "This to her health and happiness!
They discussed many other things, not forgetting Sancho, whom his master praised for his drollery and criticised for being a booby.
We simply relate this drollery as a pleasant blasphemy of an English priest against the bishop of Rome.
In some of our towns the holy foreskin has been borne in procession, and it is preserved yet in certain sacristies without this piece of drollery causing the least disturbance in families.
He said this with cool drollery and point, in the patois of the native, so that he set us all laughing, in spite of our mutual apprehensions.
But presently I got upon my feet, and with a little air of drollery straightened out my clothes and flicked a handkerchief across my gaiters.
After this we glide politely from women as they blossom in the drollery of Cruikshank.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drollery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
