Which preposition to use with drollery

of Occurrences 12%

Beneath his bushy black brows danced a pair of little gray eyes that could not stand still for very drollery of humor.

in Occurrences 4%

When the square of the town was reached, the theatre was stopped like the ancient car of Thespis, and the actors treated the people to a few comical drolleries in imitation of Aristophanes.

with Occurrences 3%

Look at Rapp with his twenty wounds, endeavouring to exchange little delicate drolleries with that young lady.

on Occurrences 2%

The two guests looked at each other with a growing drollery on either face, and presently broke into a laugh.

for Occurrences 1%

At her side was the Vicomte de Ségur, who was essaying by the witty sallies and delightful drolleries for which he was so famous to bring a smile to her lips; but, although the rest of the company was convulsed by his brilliant nonsense, the Duchess's pale face did not lose its serious expression until Mr. Morris, followed by Calvert, entered the room.

at Occurrences 1%

Belgium stared its inhospitality, its contempt, its cynical drolleries at the invader.

as Occurrences 1%

But it is quite possible that the daily companion of one of the most indefatigable jesters that ever lived may have been unable to see a joke; that she regarded her husband's wilder drolleries as mere horse-collar grimacing, and that the point of his subtler humour escaped her altogether.

than Occurrences 1%

The fluttering string, whose only reason for being at all was to keep the queer head-gear from sailing away on the wind, gave a touch of the ludicrous to the boyish hat which, in its turn, lent more drollery than dignity to the sanctified face of the old theologian.

about Occurrences 1%

" "I see: it was some other man who told you all these drolleries about the eternal importance of mankind," the head observed, with an unaccountable slackening of interest.

Which preposition to use with  drollery