" "Be serious, Kate, and don't tease the boy.

When she did see Prudy again,the sister who pretended to love her so much,she wouldn't take the presents out of her trunk for ever so long, just to tease the naughty girl!

Presently, she teased her sister about this same young man.

He goes about teasing his friends with his new mathematics; he even frantically talks of purchasing Manning's Algebra, which shows him far gone, for, to my knowledge, he has not been master of seven shillings a good time.

IX "THE IMPERIAL RACE" "The public are particularly requested not to tease the Cannibals."

I thought Althea cruel thus to tease the poor man, imputing to him a tender concern for the sufferer of which he had never dreamed; besides, he was chicken-hearted about contagious disorders, and that she knew.

Don't annoy or tease the cat, Don't throw stones, or climb a tree, Don't play in the road.

The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.

"Is that meant to be an official publishing of the bans?" teased her cousin when the laugh that Ruth's naïve confession had raised subsided leaving Larry as well as Ruth a little hot of cheek.

The boys would tease the life out of us.

The Ranger, to tease the artist, had remarked casually,after complimenting them upon the location of their camp,"And you've got some mighty nice neighbors, less than a mile above too.

Nor tease thus a poor creature, entitled to protection, not outrage.

Understanding perfectly that this was said to tease his wife, Lulu yet flushed with pleasure.

Strange, I should thus delight in teasing a woman I so dearly love!

I hastened to assure him that I was only teasing him, and added that I only teased the people I admired and liked.

They're terribly teasing things, cinders; and somebody's always sure to get one.

Churchill copies this remark, and adds; "Dryden has you as the nominative, and ye as the objective, in the same passage: 'What gain you, by forbidding it to tease ye? It now can neither trouble ye, nor please ye.' Was this from a notion, that you and ye, thus employed, were more analogous to thou and thee in the singular number?"Churchill's Gram., p. 25.

One day, when Jarro and Caesar lay on the usual spot before the fire, Clawina sat on the hearth and began to tease the wild duck.

She sat so still that she could hear the ashes falling in the fireplaceso still that the ticking of her watch on the dressing-table teased her ears.

Whilst Jane was teasing Edward, one of the boys seized hold of the handkerchief that blindfolded him, and another boy made a thrust at him in front, and it was only a wonder that Mr. and Mrs. Jameson, who were sitting by, did not speak to the children, to advise a little more quietness in the play.

But when he perceived that every place around Epipolae was filled with armed men, after just teasing the enemy with the discharge of a few missiles, he marched back to the Achradina, not so much through fear of the number and strength of the enemy, as that some intestine treachery might show itself, taking advantage of the opportunity, and he might find the gates of the Achradina and island closed upon him in the confusion.

I understand that sometimes boys will tease their fathers or mothers for an excuse when they do not deserve it, 'Yes, sir,' and sometimes they will loiter about when sent of an errand before school, knowing that they can get a written excuse, when they might easily have been punctual.

Gently tease apart some muscular fibers, noting that they are attached to each other by connective tissue.

I went out to aid them, but did not like the psychology of this street, where death was teasing the footsteps of men, yapping at their heels.

My mind was never at rest there respecting these," said she, pointing to the children; "so that I fairly teased Garie into it.