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droll
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The Magic Mountain
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- The phrase "saddled you with" sounded particularly droll coming from him.†
Chpt 3.4 *droll = comical in an unusual way
- "You have such a droll way of speaking, Herr Settembrini," Hans Castorp said.†
Chpt 3.4
- In addition to Madame Chauchat, this consisted of a blond-bearded, lackadaisical gentleman with a concave chest and pop-eyes; a very dark-skinned girl with an original, droll face, golden earrings, and a mop of frizzy hair; Dr. Blumenkohl, who had likewise joined them; and two hunch-shouldered youths.†
Chpt 3.9
- Hans Castorp laughed genially at the "wisp of straw," and at the bit about "beautiful characters," too, or rather, at the droll, despondent way Settembrini related it.†
Chpt 4.1
- With a cunning that was actually foreign to him, he pretended that Fraulein Engelhart's enthusiasm for Frau Chauchat was not in reality what he very well knew it to be, but that her enthusiasm was some neutral, droll fact that he, Hans Castorp, as an uninvolved party standing off at a cool, amused distance, could use to tease the old maid.†
Chpt 4.8
- During the one brief hour after supper—and sometimes that shrank to a mere twenty minutes—when there was some regular social interchange, without exception Madame Chauchat would take her seat at the back of the little salon, an area reserved apparently for the Good Russian table, where she was joined by the gentleman with the concave chest, the droll frizzy-haired girl, silent Dr. Blumenkohl, and the two hunch-shouldered youths.†
Chpt 4.9
- Everyone within earshot began to laugh, because Herr Settembrini had a droll way of telling stories.†
Chpt 4.9
- He would spot him standing among the other guests in the game room of an evening, gazing gloomily and forlornly at the charming, though flawed woman who was sitting on the sofa in the small salon and chatting with frizzy-haired Tamara (that was the droll-looking girl's name), Dr. Blumenkohl, the man with the concave chest, and the hunch-shouldered youths from her table.†
Chpt 5.2
- Droll, eh?†
Chpt 5.6
- And it certainly turned out droll enough—ghastly in fact.†
Chpt 6.3
- Herr Settembrini spoke very graphically, very drolly, about the father in the corner.†
Chpt 6.6
- Boughs of trees adorned with thick pillows, so fluffy someone must have plumped them up; the ground a series of humps and mounds, beneath which slinking underbrush or outcrops of rock lay hidden; a landscape of crouching, cowering gnomes in droll disguises—it was comic to behold, straight out of a book of fairy tales.†
Chpt 6.7droll = comical in an unusual way
- It was a crazy, droll situation.†
Chpt 6.8
- "Yes-yes-yes-yes!" he might say, waving an admonishing finger at them, while turning his head away with a droll smile playing on his ragged lips.†
Chpt 7.4
- It came to a perfectly rollicking close, a droll galop that after a brief hesitation became a shameless cancan, evoking visions of top hats flung into the air, of flying skirts and bouncing knees, and its comic, triumphant ending seemed to have no end.†
Chpt 7.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(droll) comical in an unusual way -- often clever and understated
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)