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"But then you can have no friends if your rooms are full of babies," Madame von Marwitz objected, still with mild playfulness. "No," Karen had to admit it; "but while they were very small I do not think I should have much time for friends in the house, should I. And we think, Gregory and I, of soon taking a tiny cottage in the country, too."
Bryant in his seat in the Senate, said, 'It is a good head, but I do not see Thanatopsis in it." Bryant is never thought of as a humorist, and his poetry is devoid of playfulness. But in this letter to his mother, in which he announces his marriage with Frances Fairchild, we have evidence that Bryant had a strong sense of humor.
"Is the spirit of the Pool properly exorcised now, Malcolm?" asked Elizabeth, with her old playfulness. Then he clasped her close. "I have her safe in my own keeping. Dearest," in a low, vibrating tone full of tenderness, "if I ever grow supine or forgetful in my great happiness, and the memory of these long years of misery and unrest fade away, you must bring me here and I shall remember."
"Then I might tell you, you had no right to please yourself," she answered, still with the same air of playfulness; "you have got a brother, you know and yes, I hear you growl; but if he is a poor old broken man out of health, it is the more reason you should not vex him, nor hamper yourself with a helpless commodity."
The dread was all about. The forest became seemingly nearly lifeless. There was less barking and yelping, less reckless playfulness of wild creatures, less rustling of the leaves and pattering along the forest paths. There was fear and quiet, for Sabre-Tooth had come!
He was beloved by all ranks: by the poor for his boundless charity and sympathy; and by his equals, not only for these qualities, but for his sunny temper, bright wit, and playfulness, which showed in his conversation, his letters, and in many a droll, elegant, and scholarly jeu d'esprit, thrown off by a mind that could do nothing without gracefulness.
It lies in your own power to be Edgar's brother! No, no, Isabella, you sha'n't run off, she continued, arresting, with feigned playfulness, the confounded girl, who had risen indignantly.
But Average Jones was in no mood for playfulness now. "That restricts the judge's endeavors to the house and garden," said he, "since, of course he'll see the advertisement." "I'll see that he does," said Miss Graham maliciously. "Good! I'll also ask you to watch the garden for any suspicious excavating." "Very well. But is that all?" Miss Graham's voice was wistful. "Isn't it enough?"
Thackeray's playfulness was a marked peculiarity; a great deal of the time he seemed like a school-boy, just released from his task. In the midst of the most serious topic under discussion he was fond of asking permission to sing a comic song, or he would beg to be allowed to enliven the occasion by the instant introduction of a brief double-shuffle.
"You'se pinter dar's been kin ob scrugin up agin me, an he neber do dat befo'. Now he's right twixt you'se legs es if he was feerd on someting." George caressed the dog, and said: "What's up, old fellow?" and then was perplexed that, instead of answering him with wonted playfulness, the poor brute should begin to whine and yelp.