chaffingly

The old prince disputed it chaffingly, but without getting angry.

War and Peace 2003

He asked her how she could bear to go off chambermaiding and leave her boys; and chaffingly offered to copy off a series of their fingerprints, reaching up to their twelfth year, for her to remember them by; but she sobered in a moment, wondering if he suspected anything; then she said she believed she didn't want them.

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He chaffingly congratulated me on my tracking powers, and expressed regret that I had not made my appearance earlier, so that we might have arranged a race; and by the time we had finished lunch, I was as completely convinced as I had ever been of anything in my life, that he had no connection whatsoever with the Pirate.

The Motor Pirate G. Sidney Paternoster

They used to say, perhaps chaffingly, they wanted to produce the best crop we have ever had in

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"Surely you won't expose your experimental car to the chance of being rammed by the Motor Pirate," remarked Winter, chaffingly.

The Motor Pirate G. Sidney Paternoster

The dance was very well done, and the native audience enjoyed it thoroughly, calling out chaffingly in Visayan to the couple on the floor, and occasionally beating time to the music with hand or foot.

A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Florence Kimball Russel

"Oh, spirits?" exclaimed the other man chaffingly, thinking he was going to pull Mick's leg a bit.

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"My dear fellow," said Bertie, chaffingly, nodding towards a gorgeous

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"Ah, you say that because you are a Turk," said Charley chaffingly.

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The audience, after watching this performance a moment or two, began making their bets, both individually and through the agency of the "farmer," who, standing in the centre of the ring, cried out chaffingly in Visayan to faint-hearted gamesters.

A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Florence Kimball Russel