The playful tone assumed by him was certainly not sustained by Mr. Booth.
As some one remarks, "she had a playful way of tapping a speaker in a public meeting, as a skillful driver touches his horses with the tip end of his whip.
Her conversation, though generally serious, earnest and logical, was sometimes playful and always good humored.
He is full of spirits, playful as can be, but there is no vice in him.
No gaudy slave to a fair one's brow Was the rose, or the ruby, or emerald now, But lighted with souls by the playful elves, The brilliants and blossoms seemed dancing themselves.
Its great distinction should be ease—the entire absence of apparent effort—the presence of thatplayful spontaneity which proclaims the master.
My writings were always marked by freedom, boldness, pungency, and satire upon public manners; at the same time, moral and playful in expression.
She replied in a playful tone: "You will laugh; but you must know I am a countess.
Ruskin himself, as he grew older, found more interest in the playful industry of Carpaccio than in the laborious games, the stupendous Titan feats of Tintoret.
Like, for example, Rossetti and Carlyle, Ruskin was fond of playful nicknames and grotesque terms of endearment.
She saw from his smile that there was something at the back of the playful request, and for a moment hesitated, but reading in his countenance that he wished her at least to make the attempt, she put it in her mouth.
Lady Margaret's own genuine behaviour had indeed little of the matronly in it; when her husband came into the room, she seemed to grow instantly younger, and her manner changed almost to that of a playful girl.
Her playful tone relieved, as she intended it should, Helen's too keen emotion; and this too was felt with the quickness with which every touch of kindness ever was felt by her.
She was gay as Lady Betty Modish, sentimental as Cecilia or Indiana, and playful as Rosara in the "Barber of Seville.
She was also a good comedian in playful and witty parts.
The subject was too directly and commandingly interesting to furnish any opening to that secondary and playful interest which arises from the management by art and the subjugation of an intractable theme.
To her aunt she spoke with a touch of playful affection; when her eyes turned to Warburton, their look almost suggested the frankness of simple friendship, and her tone was that of the largest confidence.
As though she could read his thoughts, Rosamund addressed him again in the most naturally playful tone.
This tone of playful gaiety was kept up some time after the departure of the lieutenant of police.
Longshanks became so deadly pale, and remained so motionless, that now he really personified a fearful spectre of the murdered king, whose mask he had assumed in a playful mood.
He started at the compliment, which a playful smile seemed instantly to contradict.
She held him familiarly by the hand, and bent on him tenderly her dark playful eyes, whilst he, half ashamed, seemed to expect some important reply from old Henner.
How often in my sleeping visions I see my beloved wife, or my playful children surrounded with the pleasures of home in my sweet little cottage, or walk with them in some pleasant grove or flowery field, as in years past.
There was a faint blush on the clear pale cheek, a soft yet playful light in the grave dark-blue eyes, which had not been visible in the countenance of the young lady in the pearl-coloured robe.
You must consign one column to the playful comments and witticisms of Savarin.
Yet the dinners, though simple, were perfect of their kind; and the host so contrived to infuse his own playful gayety into the temper of his guests, that the feasts at his house were considered the pleasantest at Paris.
When in their own houses we usually find them very playful and childlike.
His characterization, however, is more marked with serious satire than playful ridicule: the later Roman satirists, rather than the comic authors, were his models.
