She lay long hours by the wharf-boats of busy towns, exchanging one cargo for another, in that anarchic fetching and carrying which we call commerce, and which we drolly suppose to be governed by laws.
Wilhelm retired to his room, and indulged in the following reflections," is a mode of analysis which would not be practised nowadays; and all that fancifulness of nomenclature in Wilhelm Meister is very drolly sentimental and feeble.
At times her movements, which she must have studied so hard to master, were drolly womanish, especially those of the whole person.
This Piece has a very odd Effect, being so drolly executed that you don't miss the Body.
The barrel was stood on the floor, when the drinker calmly expelled the mouthful of its contents, and drolly remarked: "And I have not drunk that, you see!
It is done so drolly and so quickly, with such a pretty pout, that in truth I cannot think of being angry, although I shall certainly have to-morrow a blue mark on my arm; about that there is no doubt.
Was Hugh--whose big eyes and stone visage so drolly fitted each other yet seemed so sadly unfitted to this big emergency--was he insisting that it would be idle for him to go to Basile without the twins, as was only too true?
It is done so drolly and so quickly, with such a pretty pout, that in truth I can not think of being angry, although I shall certainly have tomorrow a blue mark on my arm; about that there is no doubt.
Tom Davies described it drolly enough: 'He laughs like a rhinoceros.
Little John clucked his teeth drolly at this sight.
Then Marian, who had heard of the wedding at Plympton Church, told it so drolly that tears stood in the Queen's eyes from merriment.
The surprised poet greets him with bluff good-nature, laments drolly his inability to do the proper thing by him in the matter of drinks, and overwhelms him with eager, naive questions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drolly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
