How To Use Raillery In A Sentence
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It would appear that he was chiefly resorted to for comic underplots, in which he brought in a good deal of horseplay, and a power of reporting the low-life humours of the London of his day more accurate than refined, together with not a little stock-stage wit, such as raillery of Welsh and Irish dialect.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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Was she reading too much into what appeared to be humorous raillery ?
LASTING TREASURES
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His tone had lost its raillery and the words were spat out.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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Could one have imagined that the brilliant wit, the luxuriant raillery, and the fine and deep sense of PASCAL, could have combined with the most opposite qualities -- the hypochondriasm and bigotry of an ascetic?
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
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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
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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Passions ran high as raillery at the religious orders, and attacks on collaborationist elites found expression in personal correspondence and in the press.
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New Australians were treated with wary raillery.
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He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always concealed a serious meaning.
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Excuse, madam, a little innocent raillery I met you both, with a discomposure on your counte-nances.
Sir Charles Grandison
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That from or on which something is developed. recure v. To cure again. raillery n.
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Won't this type of biting raillery create enemies for you when it is published?
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He assumed a tone of raillery, which is, perhaps, the readiest mode of escaping from the feelings of self-reproof.
Woodstock
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Having, in this manner, diverted herself with my confusion, till her raillery was almost exhausted, she congratulated me very seriously upon the partiality of Lord Orville, and painted to me, in the strongest terms, his disinterested desire of being married to me immediately.
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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I wish I could once clearly understand the state of your mind about Mr Vincent, and then I should be able to judge how far I might indulge myself in raillery without being absolutely impertinent.
Belinda
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The raillery of the two main characters lacks any real emotional context.
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In short, that agreeable turn, that gaiety, which yet maintains the delicacy of its character, without falling into dulness or into buffoonery; that elegant raillery, which is the flower of fine wit, is the qualification which comedy requires.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
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Then came the sly intimation, the oblique remark, all that sugar-lipped raillery which is fitted for the situation of a man about to do a foolish thing, whether it be to publish or to marry, and that accompanied with the discreet nods and winks of such friends as are in the secret, and the obliging eagerness of others to know all about it.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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He excelled in that specious, though apparently heedless raillery, which is so apt to slip without suspicion into a lady's ear; and he could ply his suit, under this disguise, with such seeming artlessness and unconcern, that a lodgement in the citadel was sometimes effected ere the garrison was aware of the intrusion.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
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When the event was an unlucky one, the song was a burlesquely pathetic complaint, and always with a vein of raillery running through it.
Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
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Prince Charles does not escape raillery from others.
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How would one teach that poem to a future generation that had come to regard the word as a piece of raillery?
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The king's persistency in begging her not to veil so austerely a face which the gods had made for the admiration of men, his evident vexation upon her refusal to appear in Greek costume at the sacrifices and public solemnities, his unsparing raillery at what he termed her barbarian shyness, all tended to convince her that the young
King Candaules
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These extravagancies set all the company in a laughter; at which the Bonza was so enraged, that he flew out into greater passion, till the king commanded his brother to impose silence on him; after which, he caused his seat to be taken from under him, and commanded him to withdraw, telling him, by way of raillery, "That his choler was a convincing proof of a Bonza's holiness;" and then seriously adding, "That a man of his character had more commerce with hell than heaven.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16
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These extravagancies set all the company in a laughter; at which the Bonza was so enraged, that he flew out into greater passion, till the king commanded his brother to impose silence on him; after which, he caused his seat to be taken from under him, and commanded him to withdraw, telling him, by way of raillery, “That his choler was a convincing proof of a Bonza's holiness;” and then seriously adding,
The Works of John Dryden
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They took their revenge in raillery, which was not always good-natured.
Queechy
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The thoughts of becoming a subject of raillery for coxcombs, and losing my money to boot, stung me to the quick; but I made a virtue of my indignation, and swore that no man should with impunity either asperse the character of Melinda, or turn my behaviour into ridicule.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always concealed a serious meaning.
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Apparently, it therefore equates to humorous ridicule in the general sense, or good-honoured raillery.
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You, young man,” she proceeded, addressing Roland Graeme, and at once softening the ironical sharpness of her manner into good-humoured raillery, “you, who are all our male attendance, from our Lord High Chamberlain down to our least galopin, follow us to prepare our court.”
The Abbot
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The talking of the people was a sustained murmur from which now and then a few intelligible words escaped: a greeting, some bit of raillery, a reprimand to a horse, an oath.
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There was laughter and raillery as he came aboard dripping, but Armand allowed the incident to be treated as a joke.
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In all seriousness, and raillery aside, it was and is inspiring to know that a site like this can be so successful and have such a loyal following.
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And so commences the raillery, at the expense of the grousing giant.
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Orlando, utterly unable to answer this raillery, now wished her once more health and happiness; and said (again vainly attempting to appear unconcerned) – 'I really do not love to contradict ladies, my dear Mrs Lennard! so you must have your own way, however your suspicions may wrong me.'
The Old Manor House
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And though his income, as you know, was so small, he never ran in debt, and by an exact but open oeconomy, escaped all imputation of meanness: while by forbearing either to conceal, or repine at his limited fortune, he blunted even the raillery of the dissipated, by frankly and good humouredly meeting it half way.
Camilla
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Instead she had been met with smiles and good-natured raillery; and she had an uncomfortable feeling that her fellow committeewomen were already enraged at her and preparing to turn against her.
The Long Chance
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He was too much a banterer himself to miss the undercurrent of raillery.
The Puppet Crown
