What is "teaze"

Usage examples of "teaze".

Stanton, to teaze her and to justify his interference, had told her that Mr.

Then another part of the pattern became apparent and began to teaze me.

He told us that he had once seen a copper-head bite himself to death, from being teazed by a stick, while confined in a cage where he could find no other victim.

Here and there one caught on the crest of some grey-bouldered knoll, and was teazed into fleecy threads that trailed melting instead of tangling.

For I could see how spiteful she was being when she teazed me about your Father.

Eaco, and filled him with such apprehensions, that he had frequently teazed his comrades with false alarms of being near the dens of lions, and being sure of seeing them in such and such a thicket, so that at last they paid little or no regard to his representations, and, in the present instance, acquainted us with his disposition, and advised me to order the horses forward, and to continue our route, as we were three days from any habitation, and our provisions nearly exhausted.

Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well just now, when I was teazing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton?

He has been teazing me to allow of his coming into this country, and lodging somewhere near INCOG.

Humbled as he now is, I cannot forgive him such an instance of pride, and am doubtful whether I ought not to punish him by dismissing him at once after this reconciliation, or by marrying and teazing him for ever.

Wilson and Clara smiled while John continued his teazing until they reached the rectory.

Then his sister, Catharine, took him in hand, but he spent his time in teazing the girls of her school, and she was compelled to give him up as a hopeless case.

He told us that he had once seen a copper-head bite himself to death, from being teazed by a stick, while confined in a cage where he could find no other victim.

Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well just now, when I was teazing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton?