44 Verbs to Use for the Word pleasantries

" "Is it the usage, friend Hofmeister," demanded the baron, "to enjoy these admirable pleasantries often here in Vaud?"

At about tea time, Mr. Karslake, faultlessly arrayed, ambled in, selected a table diagonally across the room from the caisse, exchanged pleasantries with the waiter who served him a picon, and used a copy of The Evening Standard & St. James's Gazette as a cover for his wistful admiration of Sofia.

Pippo had lost all his pleasantry under the dread signs of the hour, and Conrad, trembling with superstition and terror, was free from hypocrisy.

"I would not have let fallen an unseasonable pleasantry in the venerable presence of Misery, to be entitled to all the wit that ever Rabelais scattered.

o' yours getting on, Nat?" Mr. Smith met the pleasantry coldly; the ailment referred to was one of some standing and had been a continual source of expense in the way of balsams and other remedies.

The man in brown, who so unseasonably interrupted his pleasantry, is an officer of justice, and has probably taken him before a magistrate, to answer some one of his numerous creditors.

And Janet permitted herself some pleasantry.

You must come, and invent some pleasantry to propitiate the merriest of all deities.

Reassured by the apparent abstraction of his friend, the commandant gathered himself and essayed a pleasantry.

"Very well, sir," replied Mr. Rushton, who seemed to relish these pleasantries of Mr. Roundjacket"very well, sir, turn into a bear as much as you choose; but, for heaven sake, don't become a poetical bear.

For a long time, the two men sat moodily smoking in their dark nook, watching the occasional passers-by; listening to the subdued laughter and soft voices of the women, the guttural pleasantries of the men.

"It will be well, if you maintain this pleasantry much longer, at the expense of Her Majesty's customs.

Here the expression can only mean pleasantry, for whoever has humour has wit, although it does not follow that whoever has wit has humour....

During each period he lodged with his brother, whose household he scandalized by such freaks as smoking his pipe of tobacco in the parlor, offering questionable pleasantries to the female servants, and cursing and swearing in the hallways with a fecundity and an ingenuity that would have put the most godless sailor about the docks to the blush.

Now, I would beg the kind-hearted adherents to this theory not to think I am seeking to play off a satirical pleasantry upon it, if I express a hope, which is earnest and true, that, if there be an immortality for any class of dumb animals, the donkey shall go into it first, and have a better place in it than their parlor dogs or nicely-groomed horses.

He was thought to be a man of strong natural parts, and possessed a very agreeable pleasantry of temper.

Wit and a gamut I don't believe ever signified a Parliament, whatever the glossaries may say; for they never produce pleasantry and harmony.

The punning on the fairies' names recalls Bottom's pleasantries (M.N.D. iii. 1), and the resemblance is certainly too close to be accidental.

The manner in which Wyatt received this harmless pleasantry convinced me, at once, that he was mad.

Yet I am still distracted by doubts, remembering the pleasantry of her female companions respecting her wish for a husband.

Le Brun writes: "Some ladies asked me to repeat this pleasantry.

"What news from bas, old fellow?" To all which ingenious pleasantries my companion replied in kindintroducing me at the same time to two or three of the nearest speakers.

" I should have resented these pleasantries from an ordinary stranger, but this libertine might be held to have earned his charter, and moreover I had further use for him.

Green sleeves,' &c. While the examination was going on, the present Talisker, who was there as one of M'Leod's militia, could not resist the pleasantry of asking Kingsburgh, in allusion to his only song, 'Had she green sleeves?' Kingsburgh gave him no answer.

Few novels admit of a second reading; but the Waverley series will never lose their attractionand to remember when and where, and with whom you first read each of them, may perhaps revive many pleasantries.

44 Verbs to Use for the Word  pleasantries