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"Why do you think of a gulch when—" She stopped with a sudden recollection that he was not used to persiflage.
A MOUNTAIN WOMAN AND OTHERS(AKA ELIA WILKINSON) ELIA W. PEATTIE
"Come on," said Berwick, paying no attention to Jim's persiflage.
FRONTIER BOYS IN FRISCOWYN ROOSEVELT
Persiflage of this kind helped to make the men feel at home.
THE A.E.F.HEYWOOD BROUN
Florida listened to his persiflage with an air of sad distraction.
A FOREGONE CONCLUSIONWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
He was a person to be plied with the driest brand of North British persiflage.
NOTES OF A CAMP-FOLLOWER ON THE WESTERN FRONTE. W. HORNUNG
She knew how to push raillery and persiflage to the very frontiers of truth, and even peep over and see what lay beyond.
THE FORTUNES OF GLENCORECHARLES JAMES LEVER
At another juncture we have the first hint of a bit of persiflage which Sheridan afterwards imitated in "The Critic."
A BOOK OF BURLESQUEWILLAM DAVENPORT ADAMS
However, "broad-browed Verulam," let not that brow's breadth cloud or corrugate in vexation at my persiflage.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 93, DECEMBER 31, 1887VARIOUS
Modern historians do not discuss this movement with the persiflage and flippancy with which Flint regards it.
EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS 1748-1846VARIOUS
“But I am,” she assured him, pleased and flattered with the centering of their persiflage on herself.
THE SQUIRREL-CAGEDOROTHY CANFIELD

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