quizzings

Updated: May 21, 2025

Their little spirits rose visibly as the work went on such beaming eyes such glowing cheeks and innocent looks of sparkling triumph to their friend and father, who smiled back like Jupiter, and quizzings of each other to stimulate to greater speed.

Charles Reade - It Is Never Too Late to Mend

'So be it, quoth I; 'we are the very pink and perfection of the true Attic' 'Done with you! says Callicles, 'frequent quizzings are a whetstone of conversation' 'For my part, cries Eudemus, it grows chill I like my liquor stronger, and more of it; I am deathly cold; if I could get some warmth into me, I had rather listen to these light- fingered gentry of flute and lyre. 'What is this you say, Eudemus? says I; 'You would exact mutation from us? are we so hard-mouthed, so untongued?

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

Fotheringham's quizzings of John, at whom he laughed continually, though all the time it was plain that there was no one in the world whom he so much reverenced. The solitary possession of her own mornings was now no boon to Theodora.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife