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Your blog is hilarious and I have placed a link to it on my blog, Lugubrious Drollery.
Some Cakes Need No Commentary Jen 2008
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He is also, by their device, engaged in an Adventure with the Exciseman, who does not find his Account in his own Drollery.
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He is also, by their device, engaged in an Adventure with the Exciseman, who does not find his Account in his own Drollery.
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Exciseman, who does not find his Account in his own Drollery.
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As such it is referred to in an advertisement appended to Wit and Drollery (1661) by the bookseller, NATHANAEL BROOK. 49
Bygone Beliefs 1969
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One Language may be the best adapted, for Poetry and Eloquence, another for Philosophy and science, and another for Drollery and
John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759 1966
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Drollery, Jokes, Smutt, and Stories of a Tavern the Guests at a
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Drollery, whimsicality, the kind of humour that borders on the fantastic, was my line.
Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955
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But it is true that _Punch_ does not indulge so much as once he did in caricature -- which after all, as Carlyle has pointed out, is not Humour at all, but Drollery.
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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Wit and Drollery, Jovial poems, corrected and amended with new
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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