And, after that promise of forgiveness, she never referred to it; there was never the slightest innuendo, teasing, reproach.

I was teasing him the other day, telling him that he ought to live at the Savoy, now that he's a two-thirds member of the firm.

"I was only teasing, ma.

" The words were spoken with something of the old teasing intonation that had once deluded Lydia Sessions into the faith that she held a relation of some intimacy to this man.

O unpersuadable, with teasing eyes, I am in a most pitiable state.

Byron himself says it has no plot, but he kept teasing his questioners with mysterious hints, e.g. "It was the Staubbach and the Jungfrau, and something else more than Faustus, which made me write Manfred;" and of one of his critics he says to Murray, "It had a better origin than he can devise or divine, for the soul of him."

She said that he seemed to take delight in teasing her.

One day she found Willie teasing me by snatching at a bone that I was gnawing.

And she would dart after him and box his ears and laugh her happy laugh and look as proud as a queen over every teasing word.

I've been teasing him, pretending to be a worldling, but foreign travel and entertaining in London are just about as unsuited to me as to Peter.

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

She hates me for my teasing ways.

Yet 'my teasing ways,' it seems, 'are intolerable.

To have the better excuse to avoid his teasing, I am ready dressed to go to church this morning.

And for the same sake, Sir, no more teasing.

The moment the rough covering my teasing behaviour has thrown over her affections is quite removed, I doubt not to find all silk and silver at the bottom, all soft, bright, and charming.

On several occasions when Betty had been especially teasing, Yorke had seen fit to retaliate by seeking Kitty's side, and, although he was far from suspecting it, he had thus piqued his little lady-love extremely.

Nay, two, possibly three, are as many as Clarissa would deem consistent with good manners," returned the maid, unable to forego the pleasure of teasing him; "indeed, I am bewildered even now remembering sundry engagements already made.

He was very fond of fun and laughter, and though he had quite made up his mind to buy Tom, he was now teasing Haley, and pretending to think that he was asking too much money for him.

After she had defied him and put him into a stewing rage, she would smooth him the right way and, with teasing little cajoleries, nurse him back to a pleasant humor.

Envy not the wretched Poet Doomed to pen these teasing strains, Wit so cramped, ah, who can show it, Are the trifles worth the pains.

I missed his presence in the house, his pounding of the old piano with four dumb notes in the middle, as he bawled thereto rollicking sea and comic songs; I missed his energetic dissertations on spurs, whips, and blood-horses, and his spirited rendering of snatches of Paterson and Gordon, as he came in and out, banging doors and gates, teasing the cats and dogs and tormenting the children.

These flies that you're pursuingI hardly felt their little teasing feet through my thick fur.

"I made it," she said, teasing him.

A woman who wanted a new bonnet, and who could not obtain it by the ordinary method of teasing, found it very convenient as a dernier ressort to fall into a trance state and demand a bonnet as a physiological necessity.