27 adjectives to describe humorists

I do not want Plato or Gibbon or any of the learned brotherhood by my bedside, nor the poets, nor the novelists, nor the dramatists, nor even the professional humorists.

Amongst them was a gray-haired friend of mine, who is a genuine humorist.

What an indefatigable humorist is our actor?

In PUNCHINELLO No. 11 will be commenced a new burlesque serial, "The Mystery of Mister E. Drood," written expressly for this paper by the celebrated humorist, ORPHEUS C. KERR.

He is a practical humorist, full of perverse tricks, but all intended for effect, and without a particle of malice.

His procedure was to bring together a number of these fantastic humorists, and "squeeze out the humor of such spongy souls," by playing them off upon each other, involving them in all manner of comical misadventures, and rendering them utterly ridiculous and contemptible.

Arbuthnot, a truly genial humorist, has hardly had justice done him.

Banim, the great Irish novelist, withered early out of life upon a government pittance of a pension; Griffin gave up literature, became a monk, and found in youth a grave; Carleton, one of the most gifted humorists that ever painted the many-colored pictures of Irish character, is now struggling against the pressure of a small income in his advancing years.

He sarved an attachment," replied the inevitable humorist of all Californian assemblages.

And so our inimitable humorist has made delightful fun of the solid books,which no gentleman's library should be without,the Humes, Gibbons, Adam Smiths, which, he says, are not books at all, and prefers some "kindhearted play-book," or at times the Town and County Magazine.

" "I hope, therefore, my dear Mrs. Prue," I continue to say to my wife, who looks up from her work regarding me with pleased pride, as if I were such an irresistible humorist, "you will allow me to believe that the depth may be calm although the surface is dancing.

Therefore "professional literary humorists," as they may be called, have not been much considered in making up this collection.

A curious book on it has lately been published in Trinidad by Mr. Thomas, a coloured gentleman, who seems to be at once no mean philologer and no mean humorist.

Ordinary reviewers do not seem to have perceived at all that a rare humorist, humanist and master of prose had arisen, although among the finer intellects who had any inclination to search for excellence for excellence's sake Lamb made his way.

You're a pretty good chief of policebut you're a rotten humorist.

Whately he was punished by that rough humorist.

per series, merely by cramming the mouths of the asinine with mock-majestic details of fine lifethis found favour with an indolent no less than sagacious humorist; and the fatal example was set.

She has lived her book, and I feel proud of it for the sake of the country I came from, where people toil and bake and suffer and are kind; where every second sun-burnt bushman is a sympathetic humorist, with the sadness of the bush deep in his eyes and a brave grin for the worst of times, and where every third bushman is a poet, with a big heart that keeps his pockets empty.

The Germans as unconscious humorists maintain their supremacy hors concours.

Last week some unknown humorist, evidently considering that Gabrielle was not making sufficient progress in her knowledge of English, took upon himself to give her a private lesson.

"Old Dofunny"the unsuspecting humorist meant her father by this jocular nom de guerre, and she dared not resent it.

The first was entitled 'The Widow Grey,' but I recollect nothing of it except that the principal character was a benevolent humorist, a Dr. Allison.

Harris is primarilyin his best worka humorist, and only secondarily a short story writer.

She was married (if we rightly interpret the language of the allegory) to a "fool,"that is to say, to a very absurd and ridiculous person, under whose conduct she was exposed to the "whips and scorns," the disdain and bitter retaliation, natural to the union of a beautiful and accomplished, though vain and haughty woman, with a very eccentric, irritable, and bombastic humorist.

Some coarse town humorist would leer upon him from the doorwaya leer of furtive, devilish cunningand whisper hoarsely, "Hist!

27 adjectives to describe  humorists