Sometimes it issueth from wantonness and levity of mind, disposing a man to sport with anything, how serious, how grave, how sacred and venerable soever.

She has an easy levity in her air, manner, voice, and discourse, that speak (sic) all within to be comfortable....

She heard the man's words and shuddered at the bantering levity with which he spoke of his own death.

Excuse my levity on such an occasion.

but I partook of Byron's levity at the idea of personages so consequential wandering destitute in the streets, seeking for lodgings, as it were, from door to door, and rejected at all.

I have been guilty of carelessness and levity to them, indeed; but of carelessness and levity only; and that owing to a pride that has set me above meanness, though it has not done every thing for me.

Everything about Myrtilla Williamson was scrupulously, determinedly dainty, from the flowered tea-gown about her slim, girlish figure,her predilection for that then novel and suspected garment was regarded as a sure mark of a certain Parisian levity by her neighbours,to her just a little "precious" enunciation.

But on the whole Byron's feeling towards Keats was one of savage contempt during the young poet's life, and of bantering levity after his death.

There is an artificial levity about dancing that adds to the dignity of no man: from some it may detract: a clergyman for instance is supposed to have other things to do, and it might hurt him in the opinions of those with whom his influence is necessary, and impair his usefulness; therefore a clergyman should never dance.

" Unable to maintain his composure in the face of such levity during office hours, Mr. Skinner withdrew, still wrapped in his sub-Antarctic dignity.

who, mistaking her levity for a more tender feeling, was presumptuous and reckless enough to endanger her reputation;[70] while her imprudent encouragement of the attentions of Richelieu, which subsequently caused her so much and such bitter suffering, has also become matter of history.

They have made even levities into secrets.