| 1. | Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles I feel funny. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 2. | Woman it pretty self- into a waggish courag. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | As waggish boys in game themselves forswear. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then. - from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | Of all the bold, denying Spirits, The waggish knave least trouble doth create. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| 6. | He was always ready for either a fight or a frolic but had more mischief than ill-will in his composition and with all his overbearing roughness, there was a strong dash of waggish good humor at bottom. - from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |
| 7. | This ignorant, unconscious fearlessness of his made him a little waggish in the matter of whales he followed these fish for the fun of it and a three years' voyage round Cape Horn was only a jolly joke that lasted that length of time. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 8. | "A million all but one" replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |