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This, however, he would not by any means consent to, so he remained all the evening with his helmet on, the drollest and oddest figure that can be imagined; and while they were removing his armour, taking the baggages who were about it for ladies of high degree belonging to the castle, he said to them with great sprightliness:

It certainly could not be the Bishop; even though he was considered the most absent man in the whole kingdom, and people told the drollest anecdotes about him.

Above stairs, the remainder of the evening passed cheerfully away; for the doctor was in high spirits; and however fatigued or thoughtful Harry Maylie might have been at first, he was not proof against the worthy gentleman's good humour, which displayed itself in a great variety of sallies and professional recollections, and an abundance of small jokes, which struck Oliver as being the drollest things he had ever heard, and caused him to laugh proportionately; to the evident satisfaction of the doctor, who laughed immoderately at himself, and made Harry laugh almost as heartily, by the very force of sympathy.

I confess this is the drollest thing I have ever met with in the course of my extensive foreign transactions, and you may readily suppose it has greatly roused my curiosity.

A commanding presence, whose voice impresses with each hearing, Thomas is perhaps the drollest Sondheim sorceress I've encountered.

However, in one of the drollest essays, he talks about the accumulation of books as if it were an eating disorder, culminating in "bibliographical love handles."

I try to remember, as my drollest grandmother used to say, "Just think of how much worse we all would have turned out without her."

The drollest of the lot are the self-confessed atheists who pretend to worship Thor and Odin, all the while ridiculing Christians for believing in their "superstition."

Jim Calder laid that idea out for me in the clearest (and drollest) manner: "I worked with Melissa Smith at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco," he told me, "and we were always joking that basically I am teaching sex and faith.

Jack Dee, one of comedy's drollest and most lugubrious characters, has a new memoir out called Thanks For Nothing which details the jobs he endured before hitting the big time.

In one of pic's drollest scenes, colleagues honor the dignified, pipe-smoking Horten at a retirement dinner featuring their unique take on toasts and party games.

Reply: I received 22 solutions, the drollest of which was Murray Pearce's "If I was the President, and Mrs.