| 1. | "There now you see how droll he is. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 2. | Is life only a game of blind-man's-buff of droll cross-purpose. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 3. | "But what is it all about" she said, with such genuine and droll wonder. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | "But go and see that droll dog," the little man persisted, calling after him. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | Linton eyed him with a droll expression--half angry, half laughing at his fastidiousness. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 6. | It's the droll way he comes out with the things. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 7. | As to Porthos--oh, as to Porthos, faith, that's a droll affair. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 8. | He is so droll He never tells me any thing I am so sorry we cannot stay longer however we shall meet again in town very soon, I hope.. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 9. | Calm is the bottom of my sea who would guess that it hideth droll monster. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 10. | Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
