He, he, I swear though, your raillery provokes me to a smile.
He was not of a nature to resent this railleryon his own account; it was serious to him only because it touched Diane.
The discovery that he had been taking such pains to abstract himself from eyes which scarcely noticed whether he was there or not brought with it a little bitter raillery at his own expense.
Ethel fell back and joined in the conversation, and Mason had to stand some good natured railleryfrom the girls until Bruce came to his rescue by calling his attention to a group of riders on their right.
It promised be an exciting contest, and they were exchanging good-natured raillery while they sat in their saddles waiting for the signal to start.
The tone of raillery in which he said this was very respectful and suppressed.
When Malone's raillery became rather too offensive, which it soon did, they joined, in an attempt to turn the tables on him by asking him how many boys had shouted "Irish Peter!
The Duke prosecuted his raillery with the greater activity, that he found the old man, though restrained by the place and presence, was rather upon the whole testy, and disposed to afford what sportsmen call play to his persecutor.
Nothing could be more cheerful than his temper: he knew how to pass and receive a joke; raillery was one of his distinguished talents, and with which he possessed that of pointed wit and repartee.
Let it take its course," said the King, "I know of no such fair subject of raillery as the follies of those who should know better.
For if some, even whilst they praise, offend, why should not their polite and neat facetiousness be admired, whose very raillery is delightful and pleasant to him that is the subject of it?
Then follows that pleasant raillery between him and Socrates concerning Agatho, and the encomium of Socrates; and when such discourse was going on, good gods!
How is it possible therefore to determine such raillery as shall delight and please the person that is jested on, when to be smart without offence is no mean piece of cunning and address?
During the vacation she put a heavy penalty of raillery upon his swelling pride and vanity, sarcasm that tried the paternal patience as well as his own.
In the mean time, sir, it may be proper for the house to expedite the bill, against which no argument has yet been produced, and which is of too much importance to be delayed by raillery or invectives.
These imaginations now all subsided again; and she imputed all that Mrs. Ellison had said either to raillery or mistake.
Among these were her jocose behaviour and raillery on that occasion, and her attempt to ridicule his fears from the message which the serjeant had brought him.
Castro watched him at first with contemptuous raillery in his eye; but he grew serious as he saw Manolo go up to the table and begin to play with a neat little revolver which Castro kept by his bedside.
When young, you applauded him; in his old age you hooted and mocked him, because his genius for raillery had gone.
The Comedian cannot pay heed to such fine distinctions, but belabours the whole tribe with indiscriminate raillery and scurrility.
You did not put any faith, did you, in theraillery of those waggish fellows of yesterday?
He had pushed the habit of universal raillery to a point where it blinded him to the genuine impulses of his own nature.
His seraphic raillery elicited sympathetic applause from the ladies, especially from the daughters of the house, who laughed occasionally even before his angelic jokes were well launched.
His vein of personalraillery was rather robust than refined.
He became doubly respected as an opponent, for his reputation for good-humored raillery had been established in his campaigns.
The custom led to much good-natured raillery between them; and in such contests Lincoln was rarely, if ever, worsted.
He never laugh'd at his own Jest, unless the Point of his Raillery upon another requir'd it.
After all that I have said, there is no clearer way of giving Rules for Raillery than by Example.
There is besides (and little worse than this) a mutual Grossness in Raillery that sometimes is more painful to the Hearers that are not concern'd in it than to the Persons engaged.
These, you may be sure, the Raillery of my Friends could do no less than say I had written to myself.
A barrister on one leg might be thought ominous of his client's cause, or afford food for the raillery of his opponent.
This hint was sufficient to give Tom his cue, and I was doomed to be pestered for the remainder of the day with questions and railleryon my progress in the court of Love.
She had fully recovered by now, and the old-time raillery was in the ascendant.
There had been so much raillery in the newspapers that McQuade became furious whenever it was mentioned.
In the midst of her raillery and gaiety she could have put her hands before her face, and hidden tears.
She wanted him always with her; she dissipated his scruples with radiant raillery or drowned them in threatened tears.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raillery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
