There had been a good-humoured strife between Fazil and the priest the night before, as to who should be the one armed follower to accompany his father, and he had chosen the priest.
This circumstance was satirised, as the reader must remember, by Cervantes, who did not always spare chivalry itself in his good humoured satire of the romances of chivalry.
This principle of chivalric pride did not escape the good-humoured ridicule of Cervantes.
All this the jade said with so much cunning, and managed and humoured it so well, and wiped her eyes and cried so artificially, that he took it all as it was intended he should, and once or twice she saw tears in his eyes too.
This alarmed me again; not that I feared trusting the good-humoured creature with it, if there had been anything of just suspicion in her; but this affair was a secret I cared not to communicate to anybody.
How did my blood flush up into my face when I reflected how sincerely, how affectionately, this good-humoured gentleman embraced the most cursed piece of hypocrisy that ever came into the arms of an honest man!
We lived this week in all the innocent mirth imaginable, and our good-humoured Quaker was so pleasant in her way that it was particularly entertaining to us.
He humoured it and offended it and soothed it again with practised deliberation.
There is a sturdy squareness of face and figure; a good-humoured obstinacy; a civil importance.
No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks every day.
Mary, as much displeased, and nearly as much humoured as himself, answered that nothing but coals were ever burnt in that grate.
She was perfectly good-humoured and at her ease; she had a pleasant word and smile for everybody.
And yet she had a ready sympathy for the girl's troubles and humoured her without stint, though she sometimes declared that Nan was queer and flighty.
Sometimes she humoured them, but more frequently she laughed at them as the girl grew older.
Rough, good-humoured fellers like us don't need apologies, or any social fal-lals at all.
While the Mackenzie dog, with his ox-like strength, is peaceable and good-humoured in all sorts of weather, there is a good deal of the devil in the northern Spitz and Airedale and it is a question which likes a fight the best.
After that Miki began exploring along the foot of the slope, and for a scant hundred yards Neewa humoured him by following, but beyond that point he flatly refused to go.
And all at once good-humoured little Miki felt the devil rising in him.
He enquired in a friendly, though general way, after her family, and looked and spoke with the same good-humoured ease that he had ever done.
Lizzy is not a bit better than the others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good humoured as Lydia.
I like William Hazlitt and his sister very much indeed, & I think Mrs. Hazlitt a pretty good-humoured woman.
To people oppressed with feeling, the loss of a good-humoured happy man that has been friendly with them, if he were no brother, is bad enough.
I at first humoured him with a specious proposition, but have since joined his true friends in advising him to give it up.
Well this affair promises some amusement," said Ned Hayward, when they had again reached the little parlour, which in his good-humoured easy way he now looked upon as common to them both.
Look at the good-humoured smile, too, the buoyant, boisterous, overflowing satisfaction that is radiating from every point of that rosy countenance.
You know that he is good-humoured notwithstanding all his faults, and I cannot but think that if those who might have led him to better things had not withdrawn from him so completely, he might now have been a different man.
But there sat the future guardian of Leonora, the picture of good-humoured indolence.
The discomfort attached to her presence and vindictive recollections embarrassed the good-humoured old monarch, though it was unable to drive him beyond his equanimity.
I have been apologizing for you," said Lady Lane pointedly, as Eric hurried late and ill-humoured into the drawing-room.
One of his neighbours interrupted the ill-humoured train of thought by introducing himself in a pleasant, soft brogue.
This he said with good-humoured English pleasantry.
Why, sir, a man grows better humoured as he grows older.
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