The time straying toward infidelity and confections and persiflage he withholds by steady faith.
John Bull grew apoplectic with angry amazement at the audacious persiflage of Pueckler-Muskau.
Probably they will become like the rest of the world, and furnish no material for the kindly persiflage of the traveler.
I well remember a dinner one day at the Hendersons', when Mr. Morgan and I happened to be in town, and the gay chat and persiflage of the society people there assembled.
It needs the highest culture and the finest breeding to prevent the conversation from running into mere persiflage on the one hand--its common fate--or monologue on the other.
At another juncture we have the first hint of a bit of persiflage which Sheridan afterwards imitated in "The Critic.
On their way back to their rooms Harry and Frank were greeted by all sorts of calls and persiflage from the sophomores, who had gathered in knots to watch them pass.
Drop this persiflage and come down to business," said Browning, winking at the others and nodding toward Hartwick, who did not seem to be taking any interest in what was going on.
He knew exactly what was going on in her mind, and--quite as earnestly beneath his persiflage as he had set himself to woo the widow--he set himself to win her daughter.
But the general attitude of the paper during this time expressed that peculiar tone of mainly Conservative persiflage which has distinguished in literature the great line of writers beginning with Aristophanes.
The persiflage appears, above all, in the speeches of the saturnine Adrian.
This ton de persiflage is very well in our society, but you must be sparing of it, my dear nephew, amongst these roturiers.
We may here find a place for some words of Schluck's persiflage on the Burschen-Comment.
In the persiflageon the Burschen-comment, entitled "Dissertatio de Quomodone, etc.
Even a grave, serious dislike, both Lady Cecilia and Helen agreed that they could bear better than that persiflage which seemed to mock even while it most professed to admire.
Beauclerc could not be drawn out either by Churchill's persiflage or flattery, and he tried both, to talk of his tastes or opinions of women.
It was pleasant to hear the persiflageof office-boys, which began to be original.
June--let it be granted--treated its iconoclastic persiflage with the toleration of contempt.
The irreverent persiflage of the Vision belongs to the now obsolete school of Voltaire, and in biting wit and daring ridicule the performance is not unworthy of that supreme master in diablerie.
He constantly resumes the moralising attitude; and his pungent persiflage is poured out, as if from an apocalyptic vial, upon worldliness and fashionable insolence.
The exact mode of representing Horace's persiflage is, as I have intimated already, not an easy thing to determine.
I looked at his keen blue eye, his lean brown face, and his punishing jaw, and I knew that no airy persiflage would deceive him.
While indulging in a little airy persiflage the girls had a great little trick of pursing their mouths into rosebud shapes over their soda straws, and casting their eyes upward at Eddie.
Now that he had not to meet persiflage and chaff, he was fairly cool and collected.
But I notice that you always say persiflage just as I am getting the better of the argument!
There was the unprecedented situation of silence between the two exponents of persiflage in Little Rivers.
This fellow's not full of all that kind of scholastic persiflage that you are, Jack.
You're mentally incapable of recognizing the line of demarcation between legitimate persiflage and objectionable familiarity.
A very nice adventure that--I frequently think of it," said Villiers, adding his mite to thepersiflage all appeared determined to bestow upon the touchy grenadier.
This was the answer made by Lord Persiflage to his wife when he was told by her of that divorce which had taken place at Trafford Park, and of the departure of Lady Frances for Hendon.
Lady Persiflage had told her sister that as a matter of course the name would be taken.
Lord Persiflage had not at first been willing that it should be so, thinking that his own more modest house might suffice for the marriage of his own daughter.
Only that Lady Persiflage was very unlike her sister, the moment would have been awkward for them all.
Mamma no doubt told her sister, and Lady Persiflage has published it everywhere.
She, the Marchioness, had been unable to keep the secret from her own sister, Lady Persiflage, and Lady Persiflage would undoubtedly tell it to others.
But Lady Persiflage had no idea of saying a word about the lover, or of making herself in any way unpleasant.
With whom the idea first arose Lord Persiflagenever knew.
Lady Persiflage wrote a note to "Dear Fanny," conveying the invitation in three words, and received a reply to the effect that she and her brother would be at Castle Hautboy before the end of November.
Mr. Roden takes the opportunity of assuring Lord Persiflage that he does not and never will claim the name which he understands to have been inscribed in the club books.
A slight frown, a shade of regret, passed over the face of Lady Persiflage as she heard the name.
He did not see Lord Persiflage till a moment before dinner, when he specially remarked that he was introduced as Mr. Roden.
Persiflage has no clerical patronage whatever, and would not interfere about Deans or Bishops for all the world.
