I'd like to show you some of its drolleries.

When he wrote at all it was merely to set down some fanciful drolleries with no thought of publication.

This is a partial list from Songs and Drolleries.

Oh, there were drolleries in both Houses.

Many of his works were published in his book of Songs and Drolleries.

The Psalter abounds in images of grotesques and drolleries that today are considered humorous.

This last comparison is just, because beneath the math drolleries lurks a penetrating satire of Victorian society.

But his drolleries served sometimes to hide, more often to express, a soldierly genius, the effect of which the Russian army did not soon outgrow.

In unending scenes and drolleries, they clutched amulets, tools, and coins.

And then for the second time that day I was looking at a small, dark cottage with carven-Swiss drolleries around the windows and doors.

Display books of the Gothic period in particular had very elaborate decorated borders of foliate patterns, often with small drolleries.

"I am in no mood for your drolleries, Doctor Jones," said Doctor Ho.

This is not to say that "Gringos" isn't full of Mr. Portis's familiar drolleries.

Lincoln ended the Cabinet with a reading from Petroleum V. Nasby's latest book of drolleries.

He wrote in a practised but rather untidy hand, adding a few simple decorative flourishes such as grotesque drolleries or ornamental scrollwork.

Another manuscript that contains many drolleries is the Luttrell Psalter, which has hybrid creatures and other monsters on a great deal of the pages.

Quoting one of Molly's more overt drolleries about the male genitals, she asks: "Did Joyce make that up?

She delivered her character's drolleries with the understatement they require, and she did nicely with her one song, "Liaisons."

Foer, by his own account, frowns upon the seductions of Manhattan-style celebrity, the chance to clink wineglasses and trade drolleries all over town.

Anonymous, An Antidote Against Melancholy, one of the most important and earliest collections of "drolleries"

This God utters blasphemous Pythonesque drolleries, and smites the wicked with "a 19 percent pay cut backdated to the beginning of time."

Some songs were one-joke drolleries, like one about Jews from Kentucky who "drink our mint juleps from a kosher dill jar."

Now men go forth with jests and drolleries To preach, and if but well the people laugh, The hood puffs out, and nothing more is asked.

I saw to-day at dinner venerable divines and sage- looking men convulsed with laughter at his drolleries and quaint, odd manners.

There are wide borders, many with flowers and other objects and drolleries, and another group with trompe l'oeil imitations of bronzes.

Mike and Dave looked at each other with dark drollery.

"It was never a very good drollery anyhow," he said to no one in particular.

I'd like to show you some of its drolleries.

I wonder who the vampire stole that particular drollery from.

Anyway, these workers were welcome to a bit of rough-edged drollery.

A time like this was when a bit of drollery kept you sane, she amended.

If ever I tried to turn our talk to serious matters, he deflected my questions with his drollery.

But sadly, after all this drollery, our next target was untouchable.

Next, the drollery of an English comic brought forth mild laughter.

There's a real strain of Dutch drollery about him.

But even your drollery can hardly distract me tonight.

It may be held in check by drollery or pop craftsmanship, but it's never far below the surface.

When he wrote at all it was merely to set down some fanciful drolleries with no thought of publication.

I can't help loving that man, for all his drollery and waggishness.

His gift for drollery surfaces only occasionally, in highly subdued form.

"Thomas, what a fund of deep drollery you have!

For this reason they tend to be disproportionately amused when one of their number makes a joke, or even a small drollery.

She expected his usual drollery, or at least that glower he had so perfected.

It was a night of drollery suffused with a yearning for gentler days.

The accompanying graphics, which owe something to cartoon strips, add to the drollery.

He's serious, but with drollery around the edges.

I laughed at his drollery and he laughed, too.

His query was quietly put, his expression suddenly without drollery.

Though no sooner was any topic started, than by some drollery, which set every one a-laughing, he made them forget what had been said.

They were not men given to drollery.