It is of a drollness, mes cheries," laughed Tessa Bibye one day, stopping at the cabin by the south wall; "how Francette does but sit in the shade and nurse that half-dead wolf.
"The Maid of the Whispering Hills"
Vingie E. Roe
"Would it not be more prudent to fly back at once to the yacht-if in truth this is the same police agent of whom you recounted to me with such drollness the exploits?
"The Lion's Share"
E. Arnold Bennett
This morning came several maids to my wife to be hired, and at last she pitched upon one Nell, whose mother, an old woman, came along with her, but would not be hired under half a year, which I am pleased at their drollness.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke