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Example Sentences for "chaffing "


The conversation did not flag for an instant, so that the princess, who always kept in reserve, in case a subject should be lacking, two heavy guns-the relative advantages of classical and of modern education, and universal military service-had not to move out either of them, while Countess Nordston had not a chance of chaffing Levin.

" Obviously the landowner was chaffing Sviazhsky, who, far from resenting it, was apparently amused by it.

Rostov lived, as before, with Denisov, and since their furlough they had become more friendly than ever.


Denisov never spoke of Rostov's family, but by the tender friendship his commander showed him, Rostov felt that the elder hussar's luckless love for Natasha played a part in strengthening their friendship.


Denisov evidently tried to expose Rostov to danger as seldom as possible, and after an action greeted his safe return with evident joy.


On one of his for ... ging expeditions, in a deserted and ruined village to which he had come in search of provisions, Rostov found a family consisting of an old Pole and his daughter with an infant in arms.


They were half clad, hungry, too weak to get away on foot and had no means of obtaining a conveyance.


Rostov brought them to his quarters, placed them in his own lodging, and kept them for some weeks while the old man was recovering.


One of his comrades, talking of women, began chaffing Rostov, saying that he was more wily than any of them and that it would not be a bad thing if he introduced to them the pretty Polish girl he had saved.


Rostov took the joke as an insult, flared up, and said such unpleasant things to the officer that it was all Denisov could do to prevent a duel.


When the officer had gone away, Denisov, who did not himself know what Rostov's relations with the Polish girl might be, began to upbraid him for his quickness of temper, and Rostov replied: "Oh, undoubtedly!" said Prince Andrew, and with sudden and unnatural liveliness he began chaffing Pierre about the need to be very careful with his fifty-year-old Moscow cousins, and in the midst of these jesting remarks he rose, taking Pierre by the arm, and drew him aside.


"Oh, she nearly knocked our gentleman's hat off!" cried the red-faced humorist, showing his teeth chaffing Pierre.


"Awkward baggage!" he added reproachfully to a cannon ball that struck a cannon wheel and a man's leg.


But Passepartout persisted in chaffing him by asking him if he made much by his present occupation.


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