Sentence Examples

  • 1 "He is too much given to horse-play in his raillery, and comes to battle like a dictator from the plough.
  • Various repressive remedies were proposed, but Shaftesbury maintained that fanaticism was best encountered by "raillery" and "good-humour."
  • Spenser, in "Colin Clout's come home again," calls him with a spice of raillery "old Palaemon" who "sung so long until quite hoarse he grew."
  • If you pressed him for an opinion he took refuge in raillery, and threw out some paradox with which it was not easy to cope.
  • It was also used by a class of bards or itinerant soothsayers known by the name of vates, of whom the most famous was one Marcius, and in the "Fescennine verses," as sung at harvest-homes and weddings, which gave expression to the coarse gaiety of the people and to their strong tendency to personal raillery and satiric comment.
 
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