railery

Those garments which she wore with such an appearance of ease and comfort had been the result of many an hour of anxiety, for how was she to tell, from her husband's railery, what colors the terrible old lady in Kensington would probably like?

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

I am conscious that my collecting these relations may expose me to the railery and ridicule of a very numerous tribe of wits in this age, who value themselves extremely on their contempt of supernatural stories, and their disbelief of all things which relate to apparitions or returns from that state in which souls go when they depart from the body.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

He would look out of the car door and hail a comrade in the next car with, "Watch me when we reach Columbia, will you," while the comrade would send back a lot of good-natured railery.

History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert

Philip had so good a character that the grief he affected on this occasion passed for reality upon all the house, and the flight of Alice had no other effect than to excite a new spring of railery on the loss of his mistress.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

If she sees others blush, she will be given to flippant railery which will make her unpleasing to her friends.

What's in a Dream: A Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams 1901

Reputations crumbled beneath the weight of her sarcasm, and her delicate railery could banish as effectually as an imperial ukase.

Clarimonde: A Tale of New Orleans Life, and of the Present War. By a Member of the N. O. Washington Artillery. 1863

It is said that frequently by his cool, good natured railery, he has caused the victim of his sport to turn upon and strike him.

An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 John Niles Hubbard 1856

The object is sometimes effected by a playful railery, and affectation of indifference, in other regions; but it is not so in the Old Dominion.

The Knights of the Horse-Shoe; A Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion. 1845

Philip had so good a character that the grief he affected on this occasion passed for reality upon all the house, and the flight of Alice had no other effect than to excite a new spring of railery on the loss of his mistress.

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed Hayward, A L 1735

I am conscious that my collecting these relations may expose me to the railery and ridicule of a very numerous tribe of wits in this age, who value themselves extremely on their contempt of supernatural stories, and their disbelief of all things which relate to apparitions or returns from that state in which souls go when they depart from the body.

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed Hayward, A L 1735