His attitude was irresistibly droll; he tried to make himself look as much as possible like a dog, and I thought he succeeded to admiration.

* With the serious duty on the part of those who are working together with God for the salvation of men, there drift along in the current of his providences certain incidents that are exceedingly droll.

There was something so inconceivably droll in the lamentation that his hearers laughed despite their uneasiness.

Rosamond cocked up her left eyebrow with an ineffably droll look, which encouraged Charlie to say, "Such fierceness can only be prompted by personal experience.

What was really curious in the affair was the naively droll manner in which the advocate for the defence opened his pleading before the Lord Ordinary.

" He found it wildly droll to puzzle out those "crossed" four sheets of trivialities written in an Italian hand so minute and orderly that the finished page suggested a fly-screen.

Monsieur"here she sighed in a delightfully droll way and swept Calvert a courtesy"as an American you are a great disappointment!"

Yes, a capital story that of 'The Two Seaborn Babbies,' and wonderfully droll, I think.

When ee comes before e, or may be supposed to do so, or when ll comes before l, one of the letters is dropped that three of the same kind may not meet: as, free, freer, freest, freeth, freed; skill, skilless; full, fully; droll, drolly.