" "How very droll you will look!
" said Raffles, with an affected explosion, "that reminds me of a droll dog of a thief who declined to know the constable.
He had somehow picked up a troop of droll children, little hatless boys with their galligaskins much worn and scant shirting to hang out, little girls who tossed their hair out of their eyes to look at him, and guardian brothers at the mature age of seven.
I remember they made me laugh uncommonly—there's a droll bit about a postilion's breeches.
Garth had her droll aspects, but her character sustained her oddities, as a very fine wine sustains a flavor of skin.
"It is a droll little church.
There was not a single point in which we differed; I would not have had you by for the world; you are such a sly thing, I am sure you would have made some droll remark or other about it.
One of my favorite teachers at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau was known of his droll sense of humor.
It was droll to look at, or you may say it was mournful—all depends on what you think of when you see it; and I thought about it, and thought this and that of many things that were in the cart: or I might have done so, and that comes to the same thing.
"I LOVE the children," said the Moon, "especially the quite little ones—they are so droll.
"Now," said he, "how droll things are in this world!
He did not like the student, and would grumble when he saw him cutting out droll or amusing pictures.
