Playfulness

Examples

• She knew that, in spite of his playfulness, his eyes could not change from their darkened vacancy, they were the eyes of a man who is dead. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Only his playfulness, gen'lm'n,' said the head hostler encouragingly; 'jist kitch hold on him, Villiam. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I am playful; playfulness is a part of my amiable character. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• There was a certain playfulness about her too, such a piquancy or ironic suggestion, such an untouched reserve. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She met this with a pale gleam of her old playfulness. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She received my attentions with an easy, friendly, goodhumoured playfulness, which exactly suited me. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It requires great powers, great nicety, to give her playfulness and simplicity without extravagance. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• There was little roughness in the sport, and much playfulness. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She does not _think_ evil, but she speaks it, speaks it in playfulness; and though I know it to be playfulness, it grieves me to the soul. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Affecting that air of playfulness, therefore, which is delightful in a woman one loves, she opened the letter directly, and read its contents. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Accident and spies intermix themselves against my playfulness, and spoil the fruit, perhaps--who knows? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Husband and wife I know, from this playfulness. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And he never ingratiated himself anywhere, not in the slightest, but kept to himself, for all his apparent playfulness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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