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_ Not yet, but I design it one shall last its Life-time: Nay, you shall not see it -- Look, _Gardee_, how he teazes me!
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Georgia by the Russians is to Persia what a flea which has got into my shirt is to me: it teazes me now and then, but if I gave myself the least trouble, I would hunt it out in a minute.
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And Solomon himself is no more than man; the truth-compelling ring extorts the confession that an itch of vanity still tickles and teazes him; the Queen of Sheba, seeker for wisdom and patroness of culture, after all likes wisdom best when its exponents are young men tall and proper, and prefers to the solution of the riddles of life by elderly monarchs one small kiss from a fool.
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The third person thundered to me in an abstraction for ever so long, and at intervals I hear him still, only you shall not to-day, because he talks 'damnable iterations' and teazes you.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Also if another than myself happens to take coffee or break bread in the room here, he teazes straightway with eyes and paws, ... teazes like a common dog and is put out of the door before he can be quieted by scolding.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Very bashful with ladies, and for ever sparring with Bisarre, who teazes him unmercifully
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The third person thundered to me in an abstraction for ever so long, and at intervals I hear him still, only you shall not to-day, because he talks 'damnable iterations' and teazes you.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
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Also if another than myself happens to take coffee or break bread in the room here, he teazes straightway with eyes and paws, ... teazes like a common dog and is put out of the door before he can be quieted by scolding.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
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Come, I will tell you a story, on one positive understanding, namely, that whoever teazes, or even
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As it is, he teazes me to death with chusing to suppose that I could get it into all the Reviews at a moment's notice -- I!! who have been set up as a mark for them to throw at, and would willingly consign them all to Hell flames and Megaera's snaky locks.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
grandpa27 commented on the word teazes
Teazes looks like it is a variant of teases. Emily Dickinson uses it thus. Obsolete these days.
April 4, 2009