"Teasingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Piers. "My mistake!" He flicked the child's cheek teasingly, and then abruptly stooped and kissed it. "Don't be angry, Queen of the fairies! It ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... 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 the ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... that I do, in spite of my boast," Joe answered. "It may be a joke, and, again, it may be the real thing. You may be an heiress, Miss Morton," and Joe bowed teasingly. ...
— Joe Strong on the Trapeze - or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer • Vance Barnum
... one thing I should like to ask you, Cousin Molly: how do you happen to know so much about true love?" And the young man, his equanimity entirely restored, looked teasingly at his cousin. ...
— Molly Brown's Orchard Home • Nell Speed
... to the dear invalid, who had appeared so bright and cheerful that he seemed almost like his old merry self. When Alsie was recounting to him all the pretty things she had found in her stocking, he said, teasingly, "Now don't get into mine, too—I'm going to wait until Uncle Dick and his little tots come before I take my allotted hour ...
— Grandfather's Love Pie • Miriam Gaines
... and you have been walking over the hills of home with Madge and Nelly. Nelly has found some excuse to leave you,—glancing at you most teasingly as she hurries away. ...
— Dream Life - A Fable Of The Seasons • Donald G. Mitchell
... animated scrimmage. Her braid promptly gave away her identity, for no other girl in school possessed such long tresses; and Jerome was elated at having so readily discovered who his prisoner was, all the more so because this was the first time Tabitha had been caught; so he teasingly cried, "Aha, this ...
— Tabitha at Ivy Hall • Ruth Alberta Brown
... She smiled teasingly. "Ah, poor Marko. I knew you'd simply hate it, my coming in like this. Does it seem terribly unconventional, improper, to you, shut up with me in ...
— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson
... her teasingly about what she calls her obtuseness, going straight ahead with her work, never knowing when she was snubbed or defeated, giving the undiluted doctrine to people without ever perceiving their frantic efforts to escape, and ignoring all the humorous features of the campaigns. Miss Anthony ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper
... appeared to delight him. He grinned and placed the points of his fingers together stretching out his legs in a careful attitude of indifference which might even mean disapproval. " To-morrow," he murmured teasingly. ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane
... baby boy that Hen Tomlins had gotten for Christmas and how happy the little man was making toys for the toddler who followed him about from morning till night. And because her eyes were still wet with tears he laughed teasingly and said: ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds
... great friends with Archelaus while he was at Botallack last autumn, I've heard," he said teasingly. "Indeed, I did think that even when I lost Vassie I might ...
— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse
... how Martin is going to be paid what we owe him," she answered teasingly. "Don't let ...
— The Skylark of Space • Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby
... adventure gleefully when they were all assembled at dinner; and the amusement it excited was great. Berkeley insisted teasingly that her deliverer would develop into one of the workmen from Washington, employed by General Smith in the renovation of Shirley. One of the carpenters, or—as he looked gentlemanly and wore a coat, ...
— Princess • Mary Greenway McClelland
... laughed at his guilty look, and Judith teasingly said, "We ought to call him 'The Man Who Lost His Memory,' ...
— Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... remark eminently personal. The hue of one's hair is a misfortune, not a fault," he submitted teasingly. "In Kitty you must at least allow that the red takes a more pleasing form than it ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... instant with panic. She bent her head lower, holding the rose against the side of her hat, watching it with a zealous eye, once again to test the effect. He thought she was coquetting, and leaned a little towards her. He would have been ready to touch her face teasingly with his forefinger. ...
— Nocturne • Frank Swinnerton
... playfully and teasingly, "I thought you would remember her name. If you remember her name you must ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White
... There, I took Jerry's news away from her. That pays up for what she did to you." Muriel glanced teasingly at Jerry. ...
— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester
... of boundaries, taxes, taxes to the State, and, when he had explained the matter a little, Isak began to see that there was something reasonable in it after all. The Lensmand turned to his companion teasingly. "Now then, you call yourself a surveyor, what's the extent of cultivated ground here?" He did not wait for the other to reply, but noted down himself, at a guess. Then he asked Isak about the crops, how much hay, how many bushels of potatoes. And then about ...
— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun
... think." And she knitted her brows and shaped that small mouth to a Cupid's bow, whence many an arrow has shot through me. "Why, I can't say." And she smiled teasingly. ...
— Cupid's Middleman • Edward B. Lent
... her voice in amazed query. "For mercy's sake, haven't you been proving that you're not afraid of him?" Once more, jubilantly, teasingly, wrought upon by the revived spirit of the intimacy of the old days, she assumed a playful pose with him, but this time her sincerity of soul was behind the situation. "Don't you realize, sir, that the calendar of the Hon. Jodrey Wadsworth Corson, on this day and date, is crowded with strictly ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... his. "Just as the dance was beginning she had to go to the telephone. Some ranch business, I don't know what. But she sent word she would be here immediately—I believe," and Marcia made her remark teasingly, though she did want to know, "that a certain mysterious gentleman who masquerades as a horse-breaker is ...
— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory
... she wanted, and she could not suppress a quiet groan. A sad stillness pervaded the hut. Pyotr leaned his head upon one shoulder; his little beard, narrow and sharp, stuck out comically on one side, and gave his shadow swinging on the wall the appearance of a man sticking out his tongue teasingly. Stepan sat with his elbows on the table, and beat a tattoo on the boards. His wife stood at the oven without stirring; the mother felt her look riveted upon herself and often glanced at the woman's face—oval, swarthy, with a straight nose, and a chin cut ...
— Mother • Maxim Gorky
... before now," Molly began teasingly, but seeing the real trouble in her friend's face, she relented and ...
— Half a Dozen Girls • Anna Chapin Ray
... like to see you a few years hence when your education is complete," she returned, evading his question teasingly. "But you mustn't marry, or you will ...
— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
... that you are not surprised at the result," said the oldest of the officers, a man of late middle age, rather affectionately and teasingly. He wore a single order on his breast, a plain iron cross, and the insignia of his rank was ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer
... laughing a bit teasingly as the motor started and the little craft darted away from the float and took to the ...
— Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis - Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen • H. Irving Hancock
... Jinit?" she asked teasingly. "Mr. Martin won't go to Dr. Murray since Tom Teeter goes—you'll ...
— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith |
