"Humor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had started so many things in a speech that he scarce knew when or how to stop. Commons, both sides, rather liked to hear him struggle with his verbiage. Later he developed the rapier thrust, some snatches of humor, a trifle of contempt. He learned the value of playing with a rhetorical period that he might later leap upon a climax. Frank B. Carvell was periodically egged on to bait the member of Portage. He did it well. I recall once when the member for Carleton was spluttering ...
— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino
... the woman said in reply. She understood the condition of her husband's mind. She saw clearly that she must humor him. ...
— The Watchers of the Plains - A Tale of the Western Prairies • Ridgewell Cullum
... of humor on his part cheered us. Perhaps, seeing how sporting we were about the weather, he was going to like us after ...
— Tenting To-night - A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the - Cascade Mountains • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Julian himself relates, (p. 274) with some humor, the circumstances of his own metamorphoses, his downcast looks, and his perplexity at being thus suddenly transported into a new world, where every object appeared ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon
... interesting experiences. The style is simple and amusing, showing the writer possessed of a keen sense of humor and the fitness of things, as well as justice. It is particularly interesting to women whether they sympathize with the views of the writer or otherwise.—Rochester ...
— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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