This quaint scholar, a marvel of simplicity and universal optimism, is a constantly recurring and delightfully humorous character in the Letters.

At times he is calm, persuasive, grimly humorous, as if conversing; at other times, wildly exclamatory, as if he were shouting and waving his arms at the reader.

Some mildly humorous verses "To an Elephant." "As Sh. says of religion"Shakespeare, I assume, in "Hamlet," III., 4, 47, 48: And sweet Religion makes A rhapsody of words.

The effect of the Young Turk coup in the Balkan States was as any one who visited them at that time can testify, both pathetic and intensely humorous.

At first Esther had exposed and laughed at them as merely humorous mistakes; but that attitude had long been replaced by a cold disgust which did not scruple to call things by their right names.

But once we have established the tone, we should notexcept sometimes for broadly humorous effectschange it needlessly or without clear forewarning.

The situation began to appear faintly humorous to her.

Katie, very smart that night in white gown and black hat, appealed to him as distinctly humorous in the role of world weariness.

Frankly humorous as "Pickwick" is, Dickens, in a preface to a later edition, recorded with satisfaction that "legal reforms had pared the claws of Messrs. Dodson and Fogg," that the laws relating to imprisonment for debt had been altered, and the Fleet Prison pulled down.

Upon his recovery he boarded for years at the house of the Unwins, cultured people who recognized the genius hidden in this shy and melancholy yet quaintly humorous man.

There was something exquisitely humorous to him in the idea of thus turning to his own use the information which Davidson had accumulated for his fraudulent purposes.

Evidently he is saying something dignifiedly humorous to her, for she is laughing.

Lover was a typical Irishman of the old schoolhigh-spirited, witty, and jovially humorous; and his work is informed with a genuine Irish raciness that gives it a perennial freshness.

But those who do not allow accidental and external dissimilarities to obscure for them the inward and essential resemblances of things, must often, I think, have experienced from one of the Shandy dialogues the same sort of impression that they derive from some of the most nobly humorous colloquies between the knight and his squire, and must have been conscious through all outward differences of key and tone of a common element in each.

In justification he told the story of yesterday, in his own peculiarly humorous way; and when I saw myself thus reflected, the ridiculous tendency of my words and manner struck me forcibly, and I was almost ready to laugh.

Some of these ran for a time beside the cart, with glad cries, their clear, ringing voices raised in comments of a professedly humorous character.

"And I wonder how you arrived at that conclusion," he said with a twist of the mouth that was scarcely humorous.

The author does not here obtrude himself, does not importune us to admire his exquisitely compassionate nature; on the contrary, he at once amuses us and enlists our sympathies by that subtly humorous piece of self-analysis, in which he shows how large an admixture of curiosity was contained in his benevolence.

Laird says, 'I am going to send the young laird abroad,' 'What for?' asks the tenant; answered, 'To see the world;' tenant replies, 'But, lord-sake, laird, will no the world see him?'" An admirably humorous reply is recorded of a Scotch officer, well known and esteemed in his day for mirth and humour.

He could see Neil laughing at him as though it was an unusually humorous joke in which they were playing a part.

Whether sleeping, quarrelling, or playing, whether curious, frightened, or angry, its interest is continuously humorous, but the Adélie penguin in the water is another thing; as it darts to and fro a fathom or two below the surface, as it leaps porpoise-like into the air or swims skimmingly over the rippling surface of a pool, it excites nothing but admiration.

"You're humorous, How, deliciously humorous; and still you haven't the vestige of a sense of humour."

It does not seem to me, however, that Irving's best short stories, such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, are essentially humorous stories, although they are o'erspread with the genial light of reminiscence.

His first story did not attract me as much as others further on, such as, for instance, that excellently humorous one, "The Angel from Viper," though here and in other places a lady called St. Hilda, obviously not she of Whitby, confused me a little.

It is as fantastically humorous as the Riders to the Sea is tragical.