drolls

Ere long little plays called drolls were exhibited; puppet shows such as "Pickle Herring," or the "Taylor ryding to Brentford," or "Harlequinn and Scaramouch."

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

There is little except a few of the "drolls" which give the child pure fun unmixed with excitement or confusion.

Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1922

"drolls," until Harding appealed to his religion and morality against them.

The Life of John Ruskin 1893

"drolls" might be thought of in later times, they were acted by the best comedians "then and now in being."

A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856

But what is certain, no matter which of these drolls receives the blessing of the right-wing electorate, is the impotence each would bring to the election.

Jim Worth: America Newtered Jim Worth 2012

The story drolls on about all the measures she has taken increase her chances of getting pregnant.

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Lastly, the story starts with 20 minutes of action and then drolls along until an awesome chase scene through the jungle and an ending that make die-hardfans suck in some deep breathes.

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See, with attention all the shops, drolls, tumblers, rope-dancers, and hoc genus omne: but inform yourself more particularly of the several parts of trade there.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Yea, he advises such princes as are lovers of the Muses rather to entertain themselves at their feasts either with some narration of military adventures or with the importune scurrilities of drolls and buffoons, than to engage in disputes about music or in questions of poetry.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Thus mimics, drolls, Menander and his actors were admitted into banquets, not because they can free the eye from any pain, or raise any tickling motion in the flesh; but because the soul, being naturally philosophical and a lover of instruction, covets its own proper pleasure and satisfaction, when it is free from the trouble of looking after the body.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004