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Updated: June 16, 2025
Bat sat down on the desk where he could read over the other's shoulder. The proof reeked of "gore" and "shambles" and "heavily armed masked men" and rifle shots thick as hail stones with a sheriff careening over the Mesas at break neck speed slathered with zeal for law. "What reforms are you jollying along now?" asked Bat. "We'll jolly you fellows when this comes out."
Perhaps Roy had allowed his propensity for banter and jollying to run too far in his treatment of Pee-wee. At all events, the younger boy had found himself a bit chagrined at times that their discussions had not been wholly three-handed.
This is an expression of the men on the Western Front when they have a premonition that their time on earth is short. A sudden fear smote me, but I banished the thought and started jollying him profanely. "Now, Corporal, you know what damn nonsense it is to talk that way! Do you want to wish it on yourself?" "No, Grant, I should say not, but I can't help thinking it, all the same."
Tooting, with a vexed laugh, "why are you always jollying me? You ain't any older than I am." "I'm not as old, Ham. I don't begin to have your knowledge of the world." "Come off," said Mr. Tooting, who didn't know exactly how to take this compliment. "I came in here to have a serious talk. I've been thinking it over, and I don't know but what you did right."
Old settlers tell how when Sir George arrived every grievance, disaster, suspicion, or bit of gossip was faithfully carried to him, and his patience and ingenuity were freely exercised in "jollying" the people and giving them condescending attention. Sir George married in time, and on occasion brought Lady Simpson, who was a native of the country, to visit the Red River Settlement.
I wasn't planning to be turned into a galley slave during hot weather." Seeing that he had his victim thoroughly terrified Walter thought it time to shift the jest. "Don't fret. I was only jollying, old chap," declared he. "Bob won't really stand over you with a whip. He is the best fellow alive. Still, he will expect you to work if you set out to do so.
Geoffrey, I'm talkin' serious an' don't want none o' your jokes or jollying." "Solemn as an owl, Mrs. Trapes!" "Well, then, how d' you suppose you can keep a wife and children, maybe, by selling peanuts that way or any way?" "Oh, when I marry I shall probably turn my attention to er other things, Mrs. Trapes." "What things?" "Well to my wife, in the first place." "Oh, Mr.
"Young man, I heard you speak the other night at the Chamber of Commerce banquet. You're a born orator, and what is better than that, you've common sense and humor. How would you like to be mayor of Herculaneum next fall?" "Mayor?" gasped Warrington. "Yes." "I'd make a fine mayor," with forced laughter, but thinking rapidly. "Aren't you jollying me, Senator?" "I'm dead in earnest, Warrington.
He turned on the loafer with a wintry smile. "You best organize right away, an' count me in." Sunny's eyes glowed with triumph. He had feared the man's ridicule. He had expected to see his lean shoulders go up in silent contempt. And then, he knew, would have followed a storm of sarcasm and "jollying" from Sandy and the others.
"I'm a crook because it pays me to be a crook," said the girl calmly. "If it's jollying along one of the colonel's blue-eyed innocents, or keeping a watchful eye upon Mr. King, or acting trustful maiden to some poor fool from the country why, I'm ready and willing, because that's my job. But this is a different matter altogether.
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