'Grandpa won't play cat's-cradle,' said Posy, as Mrs Arabin entered the room. 'No, darling--not this morning,' said the old man. He himself well knew that he would never play cat's-cradle again. Even that was over for him how. 'She teases you, papa,' said Mrs Arabin. 'No, indeed,' said he. 'Posy never teases me;' and he slowly moved his withered hand down outside the bed, so as to hold the child by her frock. 'Let her stay with me, my dear.'
'Dr Filgrave is downstairs, papa.英文原著 · 《The Last Chronicle of Barset》
"What heartache -- ne'er a hill! Inexorable, vapid, vague, and chill The drear sand levels drain my spirit low. With one poor word they tell me all they know; Whereat their stupid tongues, to tease my pain, Do drawl it o'er and o'er again. They hurt my heart with griefs I cannot name; Always the same -- the same."英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
When she got home, she teased me to that extent, so charming, and made so many promises, that I consented to communicate to her the confidences of the old soldier. Next day she received the following episode of an epic which one might call "The French in Egypt."英文原著 · 《A Passion in the Desert》
de Aiglemont had been dining with M. de Vandenesse; her husband had excused himself before dinner was over, for he was taking his two children to the play. They were to go to some Boulevard theatre or other, to the Ambigu-Comique or the Gaiete, sensational melodrama being judged harmless here in Paris, and suitable pabulum for childhood, because innocence is always triumphant in the fifth act. The boy and girl had teased their father to be there before the curtain rose, so he had left the table before dessert was served.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
So at last she had, indeed, guessed aright; he never could give her a real reason, because there was none to give. He had simply "played the mule" (as Sylvestre had said long ago). But everybody had teased him so much about that Gaud, his parents, Sylvestre, his Iceland mates, and even Gaud herself. Hence he had stubbornly said "no," but knew well enough in the bottom of his heart that when nobody thought any more about the hollow mystery it would become "yes."英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》