"Word of honor?" queried Colonel Musgrave, with an odd quizzing sort of fondness for the little novelist, as the colonel took the proffered hand.

He said, with quizzing eyes: "Would it do any good to quote Lombroso, and Maudsley, and Gall, and Krafft-Ebing, and Flechsig, and so on?

They were drawn up on both sides the path, bent on quizzing me.

" She looked down on me from the rock with the old quizzing humour in her eyes.

Under cover of a popular medley, Kitty overheard Fletcher quizzing her for the amusement of Miss Pinkbonnet, who was evidently making up for lost time.

These, and a thousand other little expedients, by which the arts of Quizzing and Banter flourish, practice will soon teach you.

"She is already taken up with her affair with Mr. Verty." "What!" cried Ralph, beginning to have the tables turned upon him, and to suffer for his quizzing.

Ridicule N. ridicule, derision; sardonic smile, sardonic grin; irrision^; scoffing &c (disrespect) 929; mockery, quiz^, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage; quizzing &c v.; asteism^. squib, satire, skit, quip, quib^, grin. parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie^; farce &c (drama) 599; caricature.

Oh, curse it!" said he, changing his tone, "you're only quizzing me to see how I should lookyou do it too well, you little coquette!" Belinda again assured him she was entirely in earnest, and that she was incapable of the sort of coquetry which he ascribed to her.

This is surely a mere assumption of superiority from his Lordship's rank, and is the sort of quizzing he might use to a person who came to hire himself as a valet to him at Long'sthe waiters might laugh, the public will not.

I remember his quizzing a common friend of ours,one much esteemed by us all,who had a wonderful ability of falling asleep in an instant, when not talking.

When Mr. Wordsworth mimicked the sleep, with his head on one side, anybody could have told whom he was quizzing.

Fond of quizzing, yet not very maliciously.

The gallant member is on the shoulders of two men, who are peeping out and quizzing.

Old Anazeh on my right sat in grim silence, quizzing each talker in turn with puckered eyes.

One day, however, the royal Duke, being left with only Lady , the young Roscius, and the painter, and his patience being, perhaps, worn a little with the tedium of an unusually long sitting, thought to beguile an idle minute by quizzing the personal appearance of the Royal Academician.

"A wag should have wit enough to know when other wags are quizzing him."

Miranda took the blushing face between her palms, and with quizzing eyesand noseinquired: "Is there any reason under heaven why Anna Callender shouldn't go to bed and have glad dreams?"

'Mr. Dunborough struck me, because I would not let him fire on the crowd,' Sir George explained, blandly raising his quizzing glass, but not using it.

Approaching the window in trepidationfor her ladyship's wrath was impartial, and as often alighted on the wrong head as the rightthe tutor saw that she had dropped her quizzing-glass, and was striving with shaking handsbut without averting her eyes from the scene outsideto recover and readjust it.

Andreas knew that MacGahan was quizzing him, but it was exceedingly droll how he purred and bridled under the light touch of that genial humourist, whose merits his own countrymen, to my thinking, have never adequately recognised.

Under one arm he bore his gold-edged hat, and as he strolled forward, peering coolly about him through his quizzing glass, I thought I had never seen such graceful assurance, nor such insolently handsome eyes, marred by the faint shadows of dissipation.

Am I well laced, with nobody to aid me save Cecile, poor child, and Benny to hold the candleshe being young enough for the office?" "Happy, happy Benny!" murmured Sir George, inspecting her through his quizzing-glass from head to toe.

Think, cousinranks of them all a-simper, ogling me through a hundred quizzing-glasses!

With a good fire, however, and plenty of hot tea, we succeeded in making ourselves very comfortable inside the yurt, and passed away the long evening in smoking Circassian tobacco and pine bark, singing American songs, telling stories, and quizzing our good-natured but unsophisticated Cossack Meranef.