The game of cross-purposes brought about by Diccon's machinations, which forms the plot, is humorously imagined, and worked out with some skill.
It was a humorously perilous business for both of us.
For a moment I stood a little puzzled by this curious request, not knowing exactly how to take it, whether humorously or in earnest.
Keller put the question to the third passenger, using him humorously as a vent to his feelings.
He let his eyes travel humorously over the room before he spoke.
Yet she smiled humorously when she recognized the boy, and allowed the humour to reach his father when she glanced at him.
Then he plucked from back of an ear a half-smoked cigarette, relighted this, and leered humorously at the spreading tangle before him.
Mr. Page Morgan had inherited money, and a certain advantageous position for observing life and criticising it, humorously sometimes, and without any serious intention of disturbing it.
His coarse attempts to treat the situationhumorously were more offensive, if anything, than his guerrilla business tactics.
The ability to put a matter thushumorously was a part of Nelson Langmaid's power with men and juries.
Gilman's death, that succinct list of qualifications for a new rector which he himself, Nelson Langmaid, had humorouslyand even more succinctly epitomized.
He did not pour it out in preaching; delicately, unobtrusively and on the whole rather humorously he managed to present to me in a most disillusionizing light that conception of the university held by me and my intimate associates.
Therefore there is nothing absolutely improbable in Medwin's story, especially when we remember what Hogg half-humorously tells us about Shelley's attraction for women in London.
This fruitless journey of the poet's Mentor is humorously described by Hogg, as well as one undertaken by himself in the following year to Dublin with a similar result.
He recounted little philanthropic misadventures of his own--cases in which he had been humorously misled by the Captain Wraggs of this world, or beguiled by the authors of that polite correspondence--begging letters.
His "natural infirmity of homely plain writing," as he humorously described it, might have drawn students to his works, but they ran considerable risk of lying in utter oblivion.
Fred Rangely was shrewdly and humorously appreciative of her attitude, being the more keenly conscious of the exact situation because he himself made a point of ignoring his acquaintance with Mrs. Sampson.
Indeed," she broke out, half humorously and half pathetically, "the most joyful promise for the Christians hereafter is that they shall neither marry nor be given in marriage.
He chuckled inwardly at the discomfort which he knew his remark brought to Fred, humorously acknowledging himself to be a brute for thus taking advantage of circumstances with a man who had just eaten his salt.
He winkedhumorously at the crowd, and several laughed.
The negotiations with the landlady and the operation of furnishing the house are most humorously pourtrayed in the same letter.
Jack, by tacit consent, was considered commander of the squad, Barney remarking humorously that they would not ask to see his commission until they were in a country where a title meant authority.
At last all the Revolution debt was paid, except that due to her generous sister, Mary Anthony, who used often humorously to assure her she was a fit subject for the bankrupt act.
There is something humorouslypathetic in the death of the Revolution--that firstborn of Miss Anthony.
Ye-es," she answered, just as the serene glance of Count Bunker fell humorously upon them.
Hence they have been humorouslycalled the "tailor theory.
Footnote 22: A parrot which he had humorously taught to say frequently: "Richard Wagner, you are a great man.
He thought humorouslyof Frankenstein, and how he must have felt with the monster in his keeping.
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