raillery

• Masterpieces of fine raillery, their features are written in lines of fire upon the flesh of the hypocrite and the false devotee. —  The Life of Jesus
• Making due allowance for that good-natured raillery which is one of the spices of existence, it may be truthfully said that anyone who laughs in earnest at the West calls attention merely to his own shallow conceit. —  The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country
• Not an object in the shape of a petticoat escaped some raillery, and scarcely 160~~ a town raff but what met with a corresponding display of university wit, and called forth many a cutting joke: the place itself is an extensive wood on the summit of a hill, which commands a glorious panoramic view of Oxford and the surrounding country richly diversified in hill and dale, and sacred spires shooting their varied forms on high above the domes, and minarets, and towers of Rhedycina. —  The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
• He was expecting every moment that his young wife would gently upbraid him for his raillery, and he had not long to wait. —  Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times
• The doctor in a passion cry'd, "Your raillery is misapply'd; Experience I have[11] dearly bought; You know I am not worth a groat: But you resolved to have your jest, And 'twas a folly to contest; Then, since you now have done your worst, Pray leave me where you found me first Footnote 1: Collated with Stella's copy.--_Forster Footnote 2: Erasmus Lewis, Esq., the treasurer's secretary Footnote 3: By time.--_Stella Footnote 4: Is now contented,--_Stella. —  The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2

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