"Teasingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Diana. "I cut sets three days last week. Of course," she added teasingly, "I did my hands up in lemon juice and kid gloves ...
— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... are mistaken; I am certain they have no such intention: on the contrary, they all even teasingly persist in thinking me ...
— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney
... Philadelphia. Mr. Lee teasingly told me that most newcomers want to "do" the city so he and Virginia would take me round. They took me to see all the places I studied about in history class. I've done the Betsy Ross House, Franklin's Grave, Old Christ Church and Old Swede's ...
— Patchwork - A Story of 'The Plain People' • Anna Balmer Myers
... the younger's face. Lounsbury was smiling half teasingly, yet undoubtedly he was ...
— The Plow-Woman • Eleanor Gates
... were!" I exclaimed, teasingly. "Not one of you arrived at the point of consenting to the presence of a second wife in your home until it was impossible for ...
— The Story of a Pioneer - With The Collaboration Of Elizabeth Jordan • Anna Howard Shaw
... to win the love of a man like you. 'For it looks very much like it,' Uncle Robert used to say, wagging his head wickedly at me. Of course they liked you. Aunt Mildred used to sigh, and look across teasingly at Uncle, and say, 'When I think of Chris, it almost makes me wish I were younger myself.' And Uncle would answer, 'I don't blame you, my dear, not in the least.' And then the pair of them would beam upon me their congratulations that I had won ...
— Moon-Face and Other Stories • Jack London
... he, teasingly, "I think nothing! I only know what your ladyship was good enough to ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... shelving it on to me like that," said Ann teasingly. "What you really mean is that you and Tony are getting awfully bored with ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... aunt!" he said half-teasingly, half-seriously. "You're worse than a drug-taker. Whatever makes a highly-respectable, shrewd old lady like you cherish such an insensate fancy for this ...
— The Middle of Things • J. S. Fletcher
... with Hugh," she said teasingly, as they came down the steps to the street, where both sleighs ...
— Miss Dexie - A Romance of the Provinces • Stanford Eveleth
... Lucy; show them to us!" cried Evelyn, as Lucile put both her hands teasingly over the letters, ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... little happenings and doings of her day. Presently a more serious subject came up for discussion. The word "marriage" was mentioned. Wilhelmine blushed and lowered her eyes, while the baron sounded her teasingly on her feelings for ...
— A Nest of Spies • Pierre Souvestre
... to like the life," he went on, "by the time you are educated enough to leave us." He turned teasingly to Cesca. "You think the white squaw can cross the desert ...
— The Heart of the Desert - Kut-Le of the Desert • Honore Willsie Morrow
... day, according to Billy's note, and can't escape. You'll have wound up the whole family by tattoo. Quite a good day's work. Billy's opposers will do well to take warning and keep out of the way hereafter," he continues, teasingly. "Oh—ah—corporal!" he calls, "who was the young officer who just drove off in the carriage with ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... the window. "I guess you'd rather anyhow have all your time to write poetry instead of studying." She glanced around just in time to see Lila's lips set in a grimmer line as the lead in the short pencil snapped beneath a more impatient jab of the dull knife. She laughed teasingly. ...
— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz
... you're very grand, don't you," said the girl teasingly. "Well, you're not, and I can tell you we're not going to let you off so easy. You've got to pay for the use of our playhouse. I'll take this in pay," and she grabbed ...
— Little Maid Marian • Amy E. Blanchard
... it before now," Molly began teasingly, but seeing the real trouble in her friend's face, she relented and asked, "What's ...
— Half a Dozen Girls • Anna Chapin Ray
... one piece of advice to give you, Gladys, in addition to my parting blessing,' he said teasingly. 'How much will you give ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... only policeman in the world," said Philip teasingly. "I saw a very fat, red-faced old policeman in Borsham the other day, and he had a little twinkle in his eye, which seemed to say: 'Where are the little boy and girl who have been breaking ...
— The Gap in the Fence • Frederica J. Turle
... a thin, flat box, turned it round and round, glanced at her, balancing it teasingly in the palm of ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... playfully and teasingly, "I thought you would remember her name. If you remember her name you ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White
... she laughed, caressively, teasingly, 'Ah, what a fine game you played with the Professor's daughter—didn't ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... smile). I was hoping the darn thing would bust. (Miss Howard sniffs. Murray grins at her teasingly.) It keeps you from talking to me. That's ...
— The Straw • Eugene O'Neill
... she would love to come! do let me run in and ask her!" she urged, as they neared the house. "Ten to one she will not come until her mamma comes home to tell her if it is 'the correct thing' or not," said Fred, teasingly. ...
— Miss Dexie - A Romance of the Provinces • Stanford Eveleth
... justified. There was a knock at the study door, discreet, insistent, menacing, and it was Mr. Cowl's knock. He entered, smiling gravely and yet, as it were, teasingly. His easy bigness, florid and sinister, made a disturbing contrast with the artless and pure simplicity of Audrey in her new black robe, and even with Miss Ingate's pallid maturity, which, after all, was passably innocent and ingenuous. Mr. Cowl resembled a great beast good-humouredly ...
— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett
... jealous," said Schmielke teasingly, and laughed. "Naturally it can't be agreeable for her to have the fair ...
— Absolution • Clara Viebig
... Arthur generously refrained from repeating the particulars of his interview with the little girl who, as the days went by, interested him so much that he forgot his Virginia pride, and greatly to Mrs. Atherton's surprise, indulged with her in more than one playful romp, teasingly calling her his little "Metaphysics," and asking if she ...
— Darkness and Daylight • Mary J. Holmes
... Thoughts swarmed teasingly through his head, like wasps about a rotting fruit. So at last he had seen Genevieve, and had held her in his arms and kissed her. And that was all. His plans for the future had never gone beyond ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... work-table and watched him. He did not touch his tools at first, but figured for a long while on a piece of paper, and measured the planks and made marks on them. While he was thus engaged, he whistled softly to himself, or teasingly pulled at his half-ear. Grandmother moved about quietly, so as not to disturb him. At last he folded his ruler and turned a cheerful ...
— My Antonia • Willa Sibert Cather
... said they were engaged—so what did it matter? Everybody but John Jr., who was John Jr. still, and who while openly denying the engagement, teasingly hinted "that 'twas ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes
... a publisher you should be better informed on your subject," observed the elder man half teasingly. "I am going to Boston on Saturday. If your father is willing would you like to go along with me and spend the ...
— Paul and the Printing Press • Sara Ware Bassett
... like a grey owl. You ought to go out and race through the snow, till it whirls up about your ears ... that's the thing to freshen you up....' And then she presses cold hands against my cheek, till I shiver, and looks teasingly. And then all my dull humour's gone, and I can't help laughing at her, and calling ...
— The Song Of The Blood-Red Flower • Johannes Linnankoski
... you say?" inquired Wunpost teasingly. "Didn't I tell you, right here, I was going to ...
— Wunpost • Dane Coolidge
... broad young man with bright ginger hair walked slowly past their house, and slowly, solemnly even, uncovered. Linda's father pulled her ear teasingly, in ...
— The Garden Party • Katherine Mansfield
... the spreading Deva, fabulosus amnis. Observe too these images stand unique in the speeches of Imogine, without the slightest resemblance to anything she says before or after. But we are weary. The characters in this act frisk about, here, there, and every where, as teasingly as the Jack o' Lantern-lights which mischievous boys, from across a narrow street, throw with a looking-glass on the faces of their opposite neighbours. Bertram disarmed, outheroding Charles de Moor in the Robbers, befaces the collected knights ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
