Teased

Examples

• Othello with his occupation gone, she teased. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I went back and teased Dr. John about Madame's devotion to him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Amy bridled up at this insult, and determined to find out the secret, if she teased for an hour. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It will be _her_ turn soon to be teased, said Miss Lucas. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• One is sometimes teased into going out, till one acquires a sort of habit of society, which it becomes difficult to throw off. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I want rest, said I, and I cannot be teased just now. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Now, Graham, I will not have that child teased. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Amy teased Jo, and Jo irritated Amy, and semioccasional explosions occurred, of which both were much ashamed afterward. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Désirée was kept in some measure from the servants, but she teased and pillaged her mamma instead. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Yet after all my task was not an easy one; often I would rather have pleased than teased him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Sometimes she forced herself into my private box, or teased me to make her known to the Duke of Argyle. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises, said Mr. Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Why, it seems only yesterday that I was buttoning Amy's pinafore, and pulling your hair when you teased. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• This was the point--this was where the nerve was touched and teased--this was where the fever was sustained and fed: _she could not charm him_. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I lived very retired, and when I did go out or admit company it was more because I was teased into it than from any pleasure I found in society. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He returned to his work; but he was not teased any more. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Thou art very religious about thy politics, the woman teased him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I got into a passion one day last week, and declared I would not be teased out of my liberty, which I valued more than my life. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The day after, he teased her to know what was the matter; her lips would not unclose. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Edited by Julia