The principal personage of these last is Si Djeha, whose name was borrowed from a comic narrative existing as early as the eleventh century A.D.

As to the comic stories, it is still the Si Djeha who is the hero, and his adventures differ little with those preserved in Berber, and which are common to several literatures, even when the principal person bears another name.

The Attic poets called him squill-head, and the comic poet Cratinus, in his play Chirones, says; "From Chronos old and faction Is sprung a tyrant dread, And all Olympus calls him The man-compelling head.

195.[Est] Birth of Terrence, Roman comic poet.

A tall man, as thin as a diet, with a face like a comic mask of tragedy..." "Paul dear," said Athenais Reneaux more in sorrow than in anger: "somebody has been taking advantage of your trusting nature.

She came back to the group of girls, flushed and lovely beyond compare, holding up the ravished end of that golden braid with a comic dismay, while her despoiler laughed coarsely from a distance and pinned the trophy to his coat lapel.

The mariner cast a half-comic, half-serious glance upward at the image of the patron saint, ere he replied.

" The Calabrian laid a finger on one cheek, and drew the skin down in a manner to give a droll expression to his dark, comic eye, while the whole of his really fine Grecian face was charged with an expression of coarse humor.

They do both in these days; occasionally with comic results.

What was so irresistibly comic, of course, was the difference between their performance and one's remembrance of regular performances of itto say nothing of one's thoughts as to what Shakespeare would have said about it.

At another time he might have smiled; now the situation had for him nothing of the comic; it was tragically grim, also decidedly unpleasant.

For very few of our comic performances, as thou knowest, give us good ones.

Sally answered for Polly, who was absent; Mrs. Sinclair for herself, and for all her acquaintance, even for Miss Partington, in preferring the comic to the tragic scenes.

His humor, broad and fresh, produced irresistible comic effects.

When he writes in the serious way; the highest flight of his Fancy is some miserable antithesis or seeming contradiction: and in the comic; he is still reaching at some thin conceit, the ghost of a jest, and that too flies before him, never to be caught.

'Tis the most comic part of the whole Play.

"If you could get Clarenceyes, that was his name ain't it a scream?if you could get Clarence soused he was the boy comic.

Indian comic opera.

From their infancy up to what in our comic caricature of words we call "maturity," they have been bandaged.

It attempts a combination, which has so happily succeeded with the preceding writer, of the comic and the pathetic.

For our own part, we must confess; we entertain all possible veneration for parliamentary and ministerial abilities; we should be mortified to rank second to any man in our enthusiasm for the official talents of Mr. Sheridan: But as the guardians of literature, we regretted the loss of his comic powers.

Monsieur Gaston Jollivet, who some time ago committed the offence, grave in our eyes, of publishing a comic ode in which he allows himself to ridicule our illustrious and beloved master, Victor Hugo, but was certainly guilty of none in desiring a return to order, had his arm fractured, it is said.

A novel dealing with colored people who lived in respectable homes and amidst a fair degree of culture and who naturally acted "just like white folks" would be taken in a comic-opera sense.

The explanation of the comic (the ludicrous is based, according to Kant, on a sudden transformation of strained expectation into nothing) lays great (indeed exaggerated) weight on the resulting physiological phenomena, the bodily shock which heightens vital feeling and favors health, and which accompanies the alternating tension and relaxation of the mind.

The sunbonnet girl; a comic operetta in two acts.