Waggish

from the dark Came waggish fauns, and nymphs, and satyrs stark, With dancing and loud revelry,—and went Swifter than centaurs after rapine bent.— Sighing an elephant appear’d and bow’d Before the fierce witch, speaking thus aloud In human accent: ‘Potent goddess!

“Are there many more of you to come?” “A million all but one!” replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man.

How waggish of you!“ In a cold voice, the Baron said: ”You have a flux of the mouth, Piter. “ ”But I am happy, my Baron.

There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel in his heart by any means waggish then.

Henrika and Cornelius van den Meer plan a feast for their friends in Haarlem and Amsterdam, for those who have staked sums of capital on the tulip cargoes, and also for those whose tongues are waggish and whose wallets are heavy.

Here also belong an occasional propensity of the spirit to let itself be deceived (perhaps with a waggish suspicion that it is not so-and-so, but is only allowed to pass as such), a delight in uncertainty and ambiguity, an exulting enjoyment of arbitrary, out-of-the-way narrowness and mystery, of the too-near, of the foreground, of the magnified, the diminished, the misshapen, the beautified—an enjoyment of the arbitrariness of all these manifestations of power.

This ignorant, unconscious fearlessness of his made him a little waggish in the matter of whales; he followed these fish for the fun of it; and a three years’ voyage round Cape Horn was only a jolly joke that lasted that length of time.

He’s a waggish fellow.

In elevating these two regions into the rank of empires, the waggish trader falls in with the craze of Don Quixote.

No one had ever seen him so waggish, or so happy.

Waggish in the streets.