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Definition of Drolling
1. droll [v] - See also: droll
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drolling
Literary usage of Drolling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Biographical Dictionary by John G. Gorton (1851)
"drolling (MARTIN)' born at Oberg- heim 1752, died 1817, an eminent painter.
He delineated familiar life with great truth and beauty, both of sentiment and ..."
2. The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias George Smollett (1780)
"... drolling a little upon the corporal, who had been run over by а dragoon in
the retreat—« he had faved ' thee ' 'Saved!' cried Trim, interrupting Yorick, ..."
3. The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood by Thomas Ellwood, Charles George Crump (1900)
"death, something like an epitaph, in a drolling style, as himself was wont to use.
And thus it was :— Beneath this stone depressed doth lie The mirrour of ..."
4. A New Guide to the Museum, Palace and Gardens of Versailles: Being an Exact by Klefer, printer, Versailles, printer Klefer, Versailles (1850)
"Cardinal Richelieu presents the Palais-Royat, - to Lewis XIII, by H. Lecomte,
from thn original by drolling, in iSiS, placed in the gallery of the ..."
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