With a tongue which made men gasp with laughter, with as comic a gift as ever woman had, and as equally comic a face, she had been a good-natured little tyrant in her way.
You trapped him into marrying you, with your kicking and your comic songs, and your tricks of the stage, and you parted us--parted him and me forever.
He has composed two or three comic operas, written four or five articles in the Siecle, and voted five or six years on the ministerial side.
Women were sitting and standing about, when a herd of swine dashing in threw everything over and put the ladies to flight, and so called forth one of those comic effects of terror in which Paul de Kock took such delight.
Wilhelm Busch lays his whole emphasis on the comical effects of simplicity; he knows how to reduce an object in a masterly fashion to its elemental lines, which are comic in themselves by their epigrammatic pregnancy.
The public laughed, being accustomed to peasants in a comic opera, and, at best, his pictures were honoured by a caricature in a humorous paper.
All the comic journals of Paris were as much occupied with him as with the crinoline, the noiseless pavement, the new tramways, or the balloon.
In Munich Carl Enhuber was especially fertile in the invention of comic episodes amongst the rustics of the Bavarian highlands, and his ponderous humour made him one of the favourite heroes of the Art Union.
But Defregger, who up to the age of fifteen had kept his father's cattle on the pastures of the Ederhof, had shared the joys and sorrows of the peasantry long enough to know that they are neithercomic nor sentimental people.
Ansell gives us, certainly, a more comic representation of the meeting of the Emperors than any other caricaturist (July 1807).
To conclude with a comic song to be sung by the Pope, and a Grand Chorus by the crown’d heads.
If I may say anything so impossible, it seems to me that I look like a comic valentine of you," said Mr. Bell, as they began to dance.
Henry Raliegh and Rae Irvin, illustrators, were also listed, but the formidable California showing came with the category of cartoonists and "comic artists" employed on New York newspapers.
He is a legend, built up out of countless comic stories and newspaper cartoons.
He and his colleague, Bathhouse John, have figured in my mind as a pair of absurd, imaginary figures, such as might have been invented by some whimsical son of a comic supplement like Winsor McCay.
Two of the other men at the table had studios in the same building: Crandall, who made pictures for a comic weekly, and Baldwin, who was a magazine illustrator.
A trifle may amuse him, because he knows that a comic element, that a grain of folly and gaiety is found in every human creature and in every situation.
He is constantly on the watch for thiscomic element, and is past-master in the art of discovering it.
I apologize for using the word comicjust now, I should have said tragic.
A rollicking, humorous novel of English student life; with 200 comic illustrations.
In this he used a sort of bitter irony, a mixture of the serious and the comic (for the monster was not wanting in wit), a sort of profound derision of the human race.
All the rich comic sayings of this celebrated humorist.
A new humorous volume, filled withcomic illustrations by the author.
A humorous volume of travels; with fiftycomic illustrations by the author.
Her face was like an old and tattered comic mask which, though it has been flung aside as no longer provocative of pleasant mirth, still carries upon its cheeks and eyebrows the smears of the rouge pot and the pencil.
Age which is beautiful only when it has become expressive of repose--of serene renouncement--showed to Laura's eyes only as a ghastly and comic travesty of youth.
The most elegiac and the most comic are only separated by a variety of digestive functions.
Comic poets must be of one kind, tragic poets of another, and elegiac, of the uncertain class.
Mr. Grew's chest collapsed, and he became suddenly conscious of his comic face in its rim of sandy whiskers.
The comic part of it was that his only idea of making what is known as "a return" was to devote himself to the Professor's family.
Is there anything especially comic in my lunching out?
Bingley the manager, who assumed all the chief tragic and comic parts except when he modestly retreated to make way for the London stars, who came down occasionally to Chatteries; was great in the character of the "Stranger.
When Bacon brought out his comic Irish novel of 'Barney Brallaghan,' off went Bungay to Dublin, and produced his rollicking Hibernian story of 'Looney MacTwolter.
Then ensued a scene as comic as any ever invented by dramatist, but from which the parties came off with some perplexity, and no loss of honour.
Haines was the best comic actor, in his peculiar line of comedy, during nearly thirty years that he was one of "their majesties' servants.
He always acted Shylock as a ferociously comic character.
She was pretty, clever, and eighteen; but she was not destined to become either the tragic or the comic queen.
The mixture of comic scenes with tragic is not its worst fault.
But the comic when it is human becomes quickly painful.
And then I said acidly: "Am I to understand that you have ferreted out something comic in the history of Flora de Barral?
There was something comic too in the whole situation, in the poor girl and myself waiting together on the broad pavement at a corner public-house for the issue of Fyne's ridiculous mission.
What was one to do," exclaimed Mrs. Fyne with almost comic exasperation.
This was thecomic relief of an absurdly dramatic situation.
The deceived husband was always a comic figure; he probably always will be.
Yet it is just there that Boccaccio's comic genius is seen at its best; it is his most frequent theme.
Like every other comic master, he naturally finds some of his choicest material among them, who always have been, are now, and ever will be a never-failing source of amusement.
You can, moreover, boast of several comic actors who are perfect masters of buffoonery and grimace; though, to be free with you, I think in these qualifications you are excelled by the players of Amsterdam.
Wilkie's realism he finds more humourous than the funniest cartoon in the funniest comic journal.
Our first visit was to the Holborn Music Hall, and there we heard one or two songs that gave the audience immense delight--some comic, some more comic from being sentimental-maudlin.
But in comic dialogue the difficulty is to move rapidly and yet keep up the brilliant ball-throwing demanded in this form; and without lucidity and rapidity no drama, whether of repartee or of character, can live.
But while the futilities of 'Don Quixote' are tragic because terrene, the futilities of 'Tristram Shandy' are comic because they are derived from the order of things.
Anatole France, airily mischievous humour, and a perpetual coruscation of the comic spirit.
He had the plan for a comic opera; indeed, he had sketched it as early as 1845, at the same time as the plot of "Lohengrin.
Much of it, including most of its philosophy and wit, belongs in the very fullest sense to the greatcomic dramatist of France.
Favart in comedy and comic opera, is claimed the honour of having played parts for the first time in the costumes historically appropriate to them.
Besides amusing his own people and keeping them out of mischief, Marshal Saxe found Favart's Comic Opera Company useful in promoting his negotiations with the enemy.
The repentance of the criminal was so comic that it touched the actress's heart.
It was a serio-comic fixture, and as such does not call for detailed description.
But Punch and the Sporting Times, and even the comic French paper which Archie might not look at, were powerless to distract him to-day.
George might come in to see if he would fancy a game of battledore and shuttle-cock, or the cook might step up with a little cake, or the butler himself might bring him a comic paper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
