Hedge then mischievously reminded me of my speech in Providence, which I had entirely forgotten, and with a little mutual pleasantry he went on his way and I on mine.
I recall a pleasantryabout Lady Carlisle that was current in London society in the season of which I write.
He treated his sick wife with pleasantry; by pleasantry he consoled his daughters in their chagrins; and lastly he fortified himself thereby, when he felt that a sigh was likely to escape his breast.
It was seldom that conversation had many charms for him in his own house; but there was a savour of pleasantry in the idea of Lord De Guest having been tossed, by which even he was tickled.
She well knew how great a load of sorrow was lying on Lily's heart, hidden beneath those little attempts at pleasantry which she made.
When Lily in pleasantry had accused her of cowardice, her mind had instantly gone off to that other matter, and she had told herself that she was a coward.
Du Peyrou had this scrap printed at Geneva, but its success in the country was but moderate; the Neuchatelois with all their wit, taste but weakly attic salt or pleasantry when these are a little refined.
This unpremeditated pleasantry put them in such good humor, that I was permitted to stay, and partake of it.
I was no longer that timid, and rather bashful than modest man, who neither dared to present himself, nor utter a word; whom a single pleasantry disconcerted, and whose face was covered with a blush the moment his eyes met those of a woman.
He looked at everything with a view to pleasantry alone.
No man who has a true relish of pleasantrycould be offended at this; especially if Johnson in a long intimacy had given him repeated proofs of his regard and good estimation.
I stared at him doubtfully, for at times a pleasantry came out of his bitterness.
Somewhat," said the Honourable Hilary, on whom this pleasantry was not lost.
Well, that was a reference to a little pleasantry Mr. Fox had put up on him some time before.
Stubbe was not only himself a man of science, but a caustic satirist, who blends much pleasantry with his bitterness.
His vein of pleasantry ran more freely in his attacks on the Royal Society than in his other literary quarrels.
Voluminous pleasantry incurs the censure of that tedious trifling which it designs to expose.
He treated with philosophic pleasantry his real contempt of money.
Of the pleasantry and sarcasm, these may be considered as specimens.
A vein of pleasantryis uniformly preserved through the whole of Mac-Flecnoe, and the piece begins and ends in the same key.
Then what a vein of pleasantry is preserved through the whole of Og!
I had spoken jocosely, but she received my pleasantry with a serious face.
This pleasantry of Barrere's proves with what inhuman levity the government sported with the feelings of the people.
I am aware of Mr. Burke's pleasantry on the expression of very little, being greatly diminished; but my exchequer at this time was as well calculated to prove the infinite divisibility of matter, as that of the Welch principality.
An almanack, with a pleasantry on the Convention, or a couplet in behalf of royalism, is handed mysteriously through half a town, and a brochure [A pamphlet.
On other days he often dined, at a stated price, with Mr. Worral, a clergyman of his cathedral, whose house was recommended by the peculiar neatness and pleasantry of his wife.
It is surprising how much erudition Butler has introduced with so good a grace into a work of pleasantry and humor: Hudibras is perhaps one of the most learned compositions that is to be found in any language.
The story of his swallowing opium pills to keep him lively upon the first night of a certain tragedy, we may presume to be a piece of retaliatory pleasantry on the part of the suffering author.
But there was no pretence of pleasantry now: their faces were grave and tired.
Were they poor then, that is was HE poor, really poor beyond the pleasantry of apollinaris and cold beef?
He might really be embarrassed, but he would be sure, to her view, to have muffled in some bravado of pleasantry the disturbance produced at her father's by the removal of a valued servant.
Then decent pleasantry and sterling sense, That neither gave nor would endure offence, Whipp'd out of sight, with satire just and keen, The puppy pack that had defiled the scene.
Cataracts of declamation thunder here; There forests of no meaning spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes.
Of "Bonaventure de Periers, Valet de Chambre de la Royne de Navarre," there are three little volumes of tales in prose, in the quaint or the coarse pleasantry of that day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleasantry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
