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The thrasher was exceedingly wary, and nothing was droller than his manner of approaching anything, whether a worm I had thrown on the matting for him, or the bathing-dish.
They called Ethel very odd, poor girl." "I don't mind," said Ethel. "They may say what they please of me; besides that, I believe it is all Harry's own invention." "Nay, that is a libel on my invention!" exclaimed Harry. "If I had drawn on that, could I not have told you something much droller?" "And was that really all?" said Flora.
But I suppose they think nursing is rather too humble an ambition." "I don't think it so," said Grace briefly. "Then you did n't care for medical distinction." "No." He looked at her quizzically, as if this were much droller than if she had cared. "I don't understand why you should have gone into it.
Daniel Dowlas, as Lord Duberly, is all the droller for being a retired tallow-chandler, ignorant, greasy, conventional, blunt, a sturdy, honest, ridiculous person, who thinks he has observed how lords act and who intends to put his gained knowledge into practical use.
If they were at all in their lives like those who have come after them, the sun baked their bald brows in Summer, and their naked feet poor feet! clapping round in wooden-soled sandals over the frozen stones of Venice were swollen and gnawed with chilblains in winter; and no doubt some fat friar of their number, looking all the droller in his bare feet for the spectacles on his nose, came down Calle Falier then, as now, to collect the charity of bread and fuel, far oftener than the dwellers in that aristocratic precinct wished to see him.
I discovered that there were cabals breaking out in the company, headed by the clown, who you may recollect was a terribly peevish, fractious fellow, and always in ill-humor. I had a great mind to turn him off at once, but I could not do without him, for there was not a droller scoundrel on the stage.
'No, said Guy; 'the fidus Achetes was without his pious Aeneas. 'Very good, Guy, said Charles, enjoying the laugh. 'I could not help thinking of it, said Guy, rather apologising, 'when I was watching Thorndale's manner; it is such an imitation of Philip; looking droller, I think, in his absence, than in his presence. I wonder if he is conscious of it. 'It does not suit him at all, said Mrs.
When he has more of any special dainty than he can eat at the moment, as meat, or bread and milk, he hides it at the back of his tray, or in the hole already spoken of in connection with the corks; and when outside, nothing can be droller than the air of concern with which he goes around the floor, picking up any small thing he finds, left purposely for him, a burnt match, a small key, stray pins, or a marble, and seeks the very best and most secluded spot in the room in which to hide it.
Here is a passage from the XXXth song of Drayton's "Poly-Olbion": Even what is essentially vulgar may be idealized by seizing and dwelling on the generic characteristics. In "Antony and Cleopatra" Shakespeare makes Lepidus tipsy, and nothing can be droller than the drunken gravity with which he persists in proving himself capable of bearing his part in the conversation.
The second morning a youngster came with his papa to the feast, and he was droller, if possible, than his elders. He followed his parent around, with head lowered and mouth wide open, fairly bawling in a loud yet husky tone. The young blackbird does not appear in the glossy suit of his parents. His coat is rusty in hue, and his eye is dark, as is proper in youth.
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