drollery

• Its phantasy is found in gaiety and drollery, and it has called up the Nuremberg of the Middle Ages, with its guilds, its poet- artisans, its pedants, its cavaliers, to draw forth the most fresh laughter in the midst of the highest, the most ideal, poetry. —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End"
• This drollery is customary here at Whitsuntide The second excursion is thus described July, 1831.—The day before yesterday honest Wurfel called on me; Czapek, Kumelski. —  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician, Volume 1
• Paul was irresistible in his drollery, and whether it was mimicry or original humour, you could not but revel in its quaint conceits. —  The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)
• If caricature is drollery, and not humour, as Carlyle says it is, Mr. May is above all things a humorist, and not at all a droll. —  The History of "Punch"
• Whereupon the black eyes glittered with a kind of wicked drollery, and apparently she began to sing, keeping time with her hands and feet, spinning round, clapping her hands, knocking her knees together, in a wild, fantastic sort of time; and finally, turning a somersault or two, she came suddenly down on the carpet, and stood with her hands folded, and a most sanctimonious expression of meekness and solemnity over her face, only broken by the cunning glances which she shot askance from the corners of her eyes. —  Tales of Fantasy and Fact

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