To decamp is to leave suddenly in great haste to get away; the word is often used humorously.

"That, dear child," he humorously wailed, "is what I want you to find out!

Of course, if you are writing humorously or dramatically, you will not be expected to write your own serious opinions.

" Avery smiled faintly and not very humorously in the darkness.

The hat, as Mr. Sala humorously puts it, resembles an inverted coal scuttle or bucket without handles, and pierced by many holes.

Lausanne is an irregularly built city, and not very agreeable to pedestrians, for its continual steep ascents and descents make it extremely fatiguing, and there is a part of the town to which you ascend by a flight of stairs; the houses in Lausanne have been humorously enough compared to musical notes.

He was just there, the same for everybody, like, she had half humorously observed to her father, a public drinking fountain.

And this launched her into a humorously exaggerated account of what was involved in being secretary, chauffeur and chaperon to a successful opera star.

He looked at her meditatively, and then asked, humorously but gently: "Well Katie, what were you expecting me to do?

And suddenly I was corrupted, driven by that impulse for saving life, that beautiful passion for keeping things alive to suffer which is so humorously grounded in the human race.

Hereupon our host, becoming somewhat indignant, changed countenance, and beckoned his hand, and lo! instantly other wise ones presented themselves from the neighboring buildings, to whom he said humorously, "Our stranger here asks, 'What has a wise one or a wisdom to do with a woman?'"

Diaz, smiling humorously, was followed by a man and a cloaked woman.

and Mr. Beecher said humorously: "You could not hire that carpenter on your house."

" "Suppose, for instance, you should get the job on a profitable basis; the biggest job this concern ever had and one of the biggest ever let anywhere" Mr. Comer's brow was wrinkled humorously.

Yet she smiled humorously when she recognized the boy, and allowed the humour to reach his father when she glanced at him.

He always wrote of this half-humorously....

The other glanced at him humorously, and yet with a bit of intensity, too,as if searching for the meaning under such an unadorned question.

"Some of our family don't marry," and she humorously indicated the occupants of the room by a wave of her knitting needles.

He had obtained permission from the authorities to adopt the child as the parents could not be found, and remarked humorously: "Mademoiselle, it is so convenient to have a family without the trouble of being married!"

He began life as a scene painter, but afterwards turned his attention to the front, rather than the back, of the stageor, as he would humorously explain, "left the saint's occupation to take that of a sinner."

"She slided so gracefully into the foibles, and displayed so humorously the excesses, of a fine woman too sensible of her charms, too confident in her strength, and led away by her pleasures, that no succeeding Lady Townley arrived at her many distinguished excellencies in the character.

Dean Swift sometimes wrote to Mr. Pope on the topic of changing his religion, and once humorously offered him twenty pounds for that purpose.

He had the talent of relating a tale humorously in verse, and his graver poems have both force of thinking, and elegance of numbers to recommend them.

" "Thou'll be for coortin' her next," suggested somebody humorously.

[The first word of Pope's familiar apostrophe is humorously used in the far West as a distinguishing title for the Indian.] "Exactly.