Finis is the Latin word for finish, and here it is the last droll picture--a Zany laughing at his portrait in this comical book, which he seems vastly to enjoy.
A Zany is not an idiot, but often a funny clever fellow, paid to make people laugh.
A zany is a kind of clown Who wanders idly up and down, And wags his head, and shakes his bells, And chortles at the tales he tells.
A paltry wretch he had, half-starved, That him in place of zany served.
When again the Imperial zany and his fan-bearers and posturing eunuchs had passed us and the High Priest and his Acolytes were opposite us, Maternus slipped forward between two of the Praetorians of the escort.
I know you cannot offer me less; take it or leave it, howsoever, both it and I are at your service (zany sings another song).
Zany left a large circle of sorrowing friends, if not relatives.
None knew better than he that the occurrence would stir up matters among the Indians on the other side, and he would have been a zany to invite a return shot by remaining a fair view to those who would investigate the matter offhand.
The explanation of it was that the Shawanoe was a zany or lunatic.
When Brownlee finds out what will do the job, he does it, and we have a tame zany on our hands.
A good many of our kind of zany do drink or take drugs--about fifty per cent of them.
Brownlee and his boys want to study every zany we bring in, whether he can be helped or not.
A paltry wretch he had, half starved, That him in place of zany served.
Above all, he was in favor with the "head Linkum man," and Zany belonged to that class ever ready to greet the rising sun.
Zany disdainfully, "you'd mek lub ter Aun' Suke ef she fed you.
Moreover, the fact that he had proved himself to Zany to be no longer a mere object for ridicule added not a little to his elation.
Miss Lou's room being on the side of the house furthest from the scenes of the early morning, she had slept on till Zany wakened her.
The impossible remedies suggested by Zany depressed Miss Lou all the more, for they increased her impression of the hopeless character of her position.
Down came the apron, revealing black eyes blazing through the tears which were dashed right and left as Zany cried, "You ole himage, w'at you keer?
Zany and Chunk 'make up,' and a good deal of their characteristic love-making will be worked in to relieve the rather sombre state of things at this stage.
Zany was too alert not to observe the interview and the omens of trouble in the compressed lips of "ole miss" and the steel-like gleam of her eyes.
Not only was he puzzled, but Zany also and Aun' Jinkey were sore perplexed at Miss Lou's silence.
There was a knock at the door and Zany quickly entered.
Mrs. Baron put her thin lips together in a way which meant volumes, and went out on her housekeeping round, giving orders to Zany in sharper, more metallic tones than usual.
In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission.
Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.
The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him.
The jack pudding, jester, or zany of a mountebank, usually dressed in a party-coloured coat.
Pickle herring; the zanyor merry andrew of a mountebank.
The youth never doubted that he would carry out this threat, and he would have been a zany to draw the explosion of wrath.
He knew that so long as he obeyed orders he would be unharmed, and he would have been a zany had he hesitated to do so.
A very handsome border (or half-border rather), with a zany in the corner, used frequently in J.
