The Colonel was a gentleman of pleasant, waggish humour.
But Mr. Lambert was always laughing in his waggish way, and, indeed, he did not look the least angry.
Then they smiled and exchanged waggish looks with each other, of which Harry did not understand the meaning, nor why they cast knowing glances at the two other guests over their wine.
The Winsome Waggish Warblers proved to be a quartette of rabbit singers, two gentlemen and two lady rabbits.
And now you shall listen to the Winsome Waggish Warblers, who have often cheered me in my moments of anguish.
At this stage of affairs it was privately explained to him who and what his waggish customer was, and tickets were no more mentioned during the journey.
The rest of the populace were enjoying no such solace from any waggish interpretation of the future.
Mr. Curtis executed his sketch of Field in good faith; Field's sketch of Mr. Curtis was a marvel of waggish invention.
His waggish mind found no end of humor in creating a son for Mr. Crane, who was christened after his father's stage partner, Stuart Robson Crane.
And the farmers tossed their heads with an incredulous and waggish air.
He who chanced to be next Simon suddenly put his tongue out at him with a waggish air and shouted at him: "No papa!
A waggish Fellow of his college, however, one day removed his chair double the distance from the table, which the doctor not observing, began to eat as usual.
After a few potations, the waggish pair persuaded the exhilarated Frenchman that there was an inexcusable partiality in offering to one lady, and not extending a similar courtesy to another.
As was usual in most of the young cadet's discourses, he glided into that half-boastful and half-waggish vein in which he delighted to refer to his own pursuits and aspirations after military glory.
A feature of Nickie's very humorous and original impersonation of the Yarra-banker was his waggish begging.
Nickie put it on in a waggish humour, and stood moralising as three pretty Spanish dancers, in charge of a toreador, passed in.
One would have said that some waggish creature was producing them and amusing himself with our embarrassment.
The hypothesis of jugglery and mystification, dear to certain critics, has not the least application to this case, although I admit that rappings and movements are often produced as practical jokes by waggish persons.
Cousin Monica looked in my face with her old waggish smile, and laughed.
A waggishwhite man whispered to Allen David, the chief, that the bride must be saluted.
Our waggish friend again whispered in the ear of the chief, telling him that the officiating clergyman must perform the duty to make the marriage legal.
When he had placed the first pair, some of the spectators in the vast circle applauded, and others bantered the banderillero in a waggish tone, alluding to his hobbies.
Gallardo, dressed in a rich jacket like a country gentleman, his head uncovered, and his coleta smooth and shiny, received his banderillero with waggish amiability.
This ignorant, unconscious fearlessness of his made him a little waggish in the matter of whales; he followed these fish for the fun of it; and a three years' voyage round Cape Horn was only a jolly joke that lasted that length of time.
Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!
The Commodore sends a Challenge to Gamaliel, and is imposed upon by a waggish invention of the Lieutenant, Peregrine, and Gauntlet.
I shall then begin with this gentleman," continued the waggish head of the forecastle, turning towards the still motionless chief of the marines.
At least, they meant that the conversation should be serious; but Brush was such a merry waggish fellow, that he seldom could talk very long upon any subject without a laugh or a joke.
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