There is a humorous tale as to one of his early books which was, through mistake of the publisher, put forth without the author's name.
Observe also in the village of Douglas and West Park on the West Side, just over the city line, the angular, humorous Peter Laughlin and Burton Stimson arranging a similar deal or deals.
Dinner was served, and the talk flowed on; they discussed the growth of the city, a new church that Lord was building ten blocks farther out; Rambaud told about some humorous land swindles.
More recently, the newspapers having begun to pay humorous attention to both himself and Mr. Tiernan, because of their prosperity and individuality, he resented it.
He published several works; and among others a humorousessay entitled "Laus Podagrae"--The Praise of the Gout.
With this letter Durer sent to his correspondent a humorous sketch, in pen and ink, of apes dancing, which in 1776 was still preserved in the Public Library of Basle.
Von Murr illustrates one passage by a quotation from Swift which is not remarkable for its delicacy; and he also says that Durer's eighth letter is written in the humorous style of that writer.
I doubt you ever have a chance to try that dire lack, my Con," said Captain Myles, with a humorous look at her.
Stephen Hopkins looked ready to burst out into hot wrath, but Myles Standish gave him a humorous glance, and shrugged his shoulders.
Gino was too courteous: he would not break off negotiations by sharp denial; he loved this civil, half-humorous bargaining.
There was something very humorous in the idea of Miss Abbott approaching Gino, on the Rocca, in the spirit of a district visitor.
There he stayed the driver while he made a last, a humorous appeal.
He was no match for his sister in the humorous bouts waged over his head against his father's prejudices and cherished social schemes.
Jack could scarcely keep a serious face, as this humorous lament displayed the pride of the Dominion and the unconscious Boeotianism of the provincial.
Kate Boone was like her father only in strong will, vehement purpose, and a certain humorous independence that made her a great delight among even the anti-Boone partisans in both Acredale and Warchester.
His “Conversion of Colonel Quagg” is one of the most humorousshort stories ever written.
Thus, Henry Irving found it advisable to take criminal proceedings against a paper for a perfectly harmless and very humorous skit written by Mr. G.
Everything of a humorous and adventurous kind which took place in the West End in those days was put down to the medical students of the Metropolis.
The anxiety of the sub-editor was soon appeased, and O’Shea sat down to reel off a column of humorous descriptive copy such as he alone on that staff could produce.
Sheridan later on recalled the playgoer to the fact that to give a humorous presentation of society as it is means the highest pleasure to the patron and the highest profit to the playwright.
Indeed, I fear that to his habit of “giving away the secrets of the Prison House” in humorous recital and to mixed audiences may be attributed the events which immediately preceded his transference from Peterborough Court to Shoe Lane.
He possessed a vein of humour which was quite his own, and his drawings always found a place in one or other of the humorous publications.
Wilde was sitting immediately behind the pair, and next to William Mackay, to whom, as the play proceeded, he indulged in a series of humorous commentaries.
She had a dreadful, humorous tongue, an indecent disregard of public or private opinion, and her gift of mimicry was as appalling as her opinion about the Germans.
It is humorous also; without humour it would not make the mark it is certain to make.
Well,' the Professor said, somewhat constrainedly, 'that is a more or lesshumorous condensed description of a very important study.
Where, indeed,' said Sir Rupert, with a sigh of humorous pathos.
There was clearly and obviously a droll and humorous side to the career and the companionship of Captain Sarrasin and his wife.
A volume of forty-three pieces of humorous verse, including a quartette of Drawing-room Ballads, and seven Cockney Carols.
Foolscap 4to, with over 60 very original and humorous pen-and-ink sketches by the author.
They stared with a humorous horror at one another.
There is no question, I think, that Arthur's grave and humorous ways attracted her.
He was in one of the strangest humours which can have sway over that unconsciously humorous animal, man.
Should then my humorous vein run wild, some latitude allow.
Others, like "The Journey to Brundusium," are mere narratives, relieved by humorous illustrations.
It is difficult otherwise to understand how he could have stumbled at Maecenas's table on a dish so overdosed with garlic as that which provoked this humorous protest.
Indeed, she seemed to take great pains to give a humorous twist to everything he said, as if she regarded even the words in which he tried to unfold his deeper thoughts as mere jests.
She gave a light and humorous aspect to everything she said, and permitted him scarcely an opportunity for a solitary "tete-a-tete.
Stanton, on the contrary, grew more undisguised and demonstrative in his attentions, although he aimed to conceal his feeling under the humorous and bantering style of address that was habitual with him.
The laird has slept with his ancestors for some years, remembered sometimes with a smile on account of his humorous eccentricities, always with a sigh when his surviving friends and neighbours reflect on his kindliness and genuine beneficence.
No one has ever doubted that Johnson's depreciation of The Conduct of the Allies was half special perversity (for he was always unjust to Swift), half mere humorous paradox.
The charm of the young women, all brave and humorous and gay, and all trailing clouds of glory from the fairyland from which they have just come.
He must fairly acknowledge that he was disappointed, and that the Euphuist, far from being accounted a well drawn and humorous character of the period, was condemned as unnatural and absurd.
Happy are they who are not only subjected to the caprices of Dame Fortune, but held bound to account and be responsible for them, and that to a sovereign as moody and fickle as her humorous ladyship herself!
In Every Man out of his Humour, there is a humorous debate upon names most fit to bind the relation betwixt Sogliardo and Cavaliero Shift, which ends by adopting those of Countenance and Resolution.
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