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...such a fierce group. He pulled a petrified tarantula from his back pocket--"My lucky charm," he explained. "Well, chiefly it's their marital system. You see," he chuckled, "the brother in the Jivarro tribe has with his sister the jus primae noctis, as it were. Enforced incest, a droll habit, you know...
...traveling a far piece to all the frolics and play-parties in the mountain country, Schoolma'am Campbell became friendlylike with Aunt Lizbeth Fields, who had a big store of tales about all manner of things golden; and with Big Nelt, who was mighty queer-turned and droll-natured but a right accommodating man even if he didn't wear shoes except in chilling weather; and with Uncle Tom Dixon, who favored tales where things go in threes. Most all the stories are tales the tellers had always just known, tales that were told in the generations...
...addition to these large-scale forums, the School sponsored a series of weekly speeches by various notables. C. Northcote Parkinson, a robust, droll English-ganization of his perceptive lectures...
...cannot see farther than the end of their noses, my caricatures give De Gaulle the opportunity to be much more farseeing." On top of that, he went on, the general himself likes the drawings. Wrote De Gaulle in a letter to Combat: "The sketches of Pinatel are at once droll and melancholy, like life itself...
...which he "dyd take oute of certeyn bookes of frensshe and reduced it in to Englysshe." Another 400 years and the parfit gentil knights in the pious allegories of Alfred Lord Tennyson startlingly resembled iron-padded Victorian cricketers, later followed by Mark Twain's slapstick farce and the droll sophistications of John Erskine...