No wonder she was disappointed, and a little out of humor with her young guardians.
He did not notice, in the wild humor which had seized him, who Martin's companion was, though probably at another time it would have struck him that there was no one in the house quite so tall.
But I thought only that she was ill and excited, and I fancied it was best to humor her.
His good-humor made the people laugh also and crowd round his cart closely, shouting uproariously when some buxom lass submitted to be kissed.
Good humor and fat living stood out all over him; yet for all that he looked stout enough and able to take care of himself with any man.
She is in no humor now for questions or curious looks; gaining the house without encountering any one, she runs up-stairs, and seeks refuge in her own room.
The rich and racyhumor of a natural converser fresh from the plow.
The peculiarities which individualize and distinguish thehumor of Addison.
A slender degree of patience will enable him to enjoy both the humor and the pathos.
To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire.
It was not her humortomanage those over whom she had gained an ascendant.
Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical.
The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one.
To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor.
The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.
The humorofraveling into all these mystical or entangled matters.
He was in a thoroughly bad humor by the time he had reached the scene of Thomas Bellows’ latest activities.
Hence it is not flippant humor that traces the trotting-horse back to Laud.
For if the horse is not in humor for the work, it is idle to persist.
The specimens of the wit and humor of this eccentric divine, which have been preserved, are often of a different character; and not a few of them of that description, which are called practical jokes.
She embraced the children all together in a lump, with a mixture of humorand tenderness delightful to see, and left a shilling among them to buy a cake.
Finding his patient eagerly desirous, on recovering herself, to see Mr. Brock immediately, he had thought it important to humor her, and had readily undertaken to call at the rectory with a message to that effect.
His darling little Neelie-- "I was in no humor to be persecuted with his 'Darling Neelie' after what I had gone through at the theater.
I'm in a fine humor for tackling the resident gentry; and if I don't go at once, I'm afraid it may wear off.
He was in high good-humor that day, and he hit me so hard that he toppled over, in his drunken state, with the force of his own blow.
And I am in a fine humor for playing--that is another.
If I had been in the humor for it, I should have burst out laughing in his face.
I might be in a humor to sit here for some time longer, thinking thoughts like these, and letting them find their way into words at their own will and pleasure, if my Diary would only let me.
I am in a fine humor for writing to Mother Jezebel.
The doctor held up both hands, in polite deprecation, and looked as if he was beginning to recover his good humor again.
Now did Pedgift Junior shine brighter than ever he had shone yet in gems of caustic humor and exquisite fertilities of resource.
But I was in no humor for laughing, and (my notes of hand being all paid) I was under no obligation to restrain my natural freedom of speech.
Hardinge, laughing still, yet with something in his gaze that tells her he would forbid them to play if he could, if only to humor her.
Never was any man less in the humor to provoke hostilities, and particularly from old friends.
She blushes sometimes, occasionally she smiles with a good-humor meant to deprecate these attacks, and now and then, when the sallies have been pushed too far, I have seen her in tears some hours after.
Frank was in no humor to disturb so innocent and so pleasing a delusion, and he gave no further opposition; and now they both descended the path which led to the little inn of the village.
Since disease and marching armies and the like are to leave us, humor and sentimentalism of a sort and gold lace of many sorts must likewise be foregone.
Uncle Ben grunted and grunted, and was soon in such ill humor because Thomas would not listen to his arguments to change his plan that he spread his blankets upon the floor, crawled into them, and was presently snoring uproariously.
Indian Jake was most mysterious, and he was in great good humorwith it all.
Lowell had talked to me of him before I met him, celebrating his peculiar humor with that affection which was not always so discriminating, and Holmes was one of the first Cambridge men I knew.
In one of his own eyes there was a cast of such winning humor and geniality that it took the liking more than any beauty could have done, and the sweetest, shy laugh in the world went with this cast.
One incident of the imperial audience Mark Twain omitted from his book, perhaps because the humor of it had not yet become sufficiently evident.
The tale was a ghastly burlesque, its humor of the most disheartening, unsavory sort.
No one could be reserved or reprovingly distant, or any of those unfriendly things with a person like that; certainly not Jervis Langdon, who delighted in the humor and the tricks and turns and oddities of this eccentric visitor.
As for the humor of the book, it has been chiefly famous for that.
Howells recalls this incident delightfully, and expresses the belief that the humor of the situation was finally a greater pleasure to Clemens than the actual visit to Concord would have been.
The audience was in a shoutinghumor from the start.
Bliss was a shrewd and energetic man, with a keen appreciation for humor and the American fondness for that literary quality.
It is the freshest, wildest humor in the world, but there is tragedy behind it.
The archbishop turned to him who spoke and answered, "Sire, your fool in a most unseemly humor plagues us.
He held out his hands to her in piteous supplication, and for a moment for very pity's sake there came the temptation into Perpetua's mind to humor the poor ruin.
A friend whispered to me that she was as observing and fond of humor as her husband.
Nevertheless, I must believe that the joyous, tender humor of your books clings about your more immediate life, and makes some of that sunshine for yourself which you have given to us.
From the flashes of childish humor which he would display on such occasions, my friend sometimes gave him the nickname of "Sun-beam.
Such wretched walking put the finishing-stroke to our ill-humor by smearing and soiling our clothes; for my part, I inwardly anathematized travelling in general, more especially in rainy weather.
I certainly fancied you were indulging your own humor without thinking about me.
There was a revolt against it, for the hero thus engendered had qualities which the national sense of humor could not endure in silence.
Permit me to recommend, in the most particular manner, the cultivation of harmony and good agreement, and your endeavor to destroy that ill-humor which may have got into officers.
The cry that broke from the girl's lips halted any further essays at humor of this sort.
The sense of dry humor that characterized the elder McTavish took in the situation at once.
When they mounted into the empty attic they found the window invitingly open, and, after waiting a few minutes to humor the moon, the soldier volunteered to reconnoiter.
Instantly Billy's fur cap was off, showing his heavy hair, which was browner than during the months of exposure to the summer sun, but although his face was also less tanned, his eyes were as blue and as full of humor as ever.
