Significados de gentle raillery em inglês

His voice had the note of gentle raillery in it as he said:

He indulged in gentle raillery at God with closed doors.

While this gentle raillery was in progress, BELINDA felt somebody tugging at her dress.

He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always concealed a serious meaning.

There was gentle raillery in her manner.

There was gentle raillery in her tone.

Her voice was tinged with gentle raillery.

Had anything been needed to fix his purpose, this gentle raillery would have been more than enough.

She replied, with gentle raillery-

And when the thrush is on the apple bough outside the window, Margaret will sometimes employ the same gentle raillery.

In her had been magnified that spirit of gentle raillery which made so attractive a part of her mother's character.

So one day she sent for Jeannette, and in a tone of gentle raillery asked her if she had a lover.

And the smile accompanying his words was one of gentle raillery, and suggested nothing of the real tragedy of the thing that had happened.

Moreover, this form of negro folly is not to be destroyed by gentle raillery; it wants hard words, even as certain tumours require the knife.

Gentle raillery, which would do everything necessary in most cases, would be wholly futile here.

"To hesitate over a proposal is to refuse," said he with gentle raillery.