He was very talkative, far more so than suited my humor, as we went on.

He could well appreciate the humor of the sketch, which Donald never had understood, and the caricature was as clever as it was amusing.

She had soon recovered her good-humor, and now laughed as loudly as the loudest.

"How would you define humor?" "Why, humor is something funny.

Scott's letters show the man,frank, cordial, manly, tender, generous, finding humor in difficulties, pleasure in toil, satisfaction in success, a proud courage in adversity, and the purest happiness in the affection of his friends.

Evelyn now, for the first time, saw the real humor of the situation.

However, a good breakfast and the sincere apologies of the hotel people did much to restore his good humor.

With another desperate effort to swallow his whole soul, he found himself face to face with Captain Snipes, whose flushed face showed his ill humor.

But she more particularly brought her good humor, her health, her courage in rising early, in watching over the farmyard, the dairy, the whole home, like an energetic active housewife, who was ever bustling about, and always the last to bed.

Of his later plays, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Winter's Tale, and Pericles show a decided falling off from his previous work, and indicate another period of experimentation; this time not to test his own powers but to catch the fickle humor of the public.

" "You!" laughed Fanny, who had regained her good-humor.

Jack bore the banter very equably, knowing that Olympia was rather striving to keep his spirits up and divert him from the tears in his mother's eyes than indulge her own humor.

His dialogues have been imitated by Fontanelle and Lord Lyttleton, but these authors do not possess his humor or pungency.

"Would it fit your humor," asks Mr. Pepys, when we have been handed to our seats, "would it fit your humor, if we go around to the Rose Tavern for some burnt wine and a breast of mutton off the spit?

"Oh, not very much!" answered De Chauxvillea cautious man, who knew a woman's humor.

Needless to say that McIntyre lacks humor.

My place was always on his knee when he was within our doors, and he held me there with unfailing good humor during his long talks with my mother, of which I, for the most part, comprehended nothing, except that oftentimes they spoke of me, and then he would smooth my hair with great tenderness.

The object of these periodicals was to reflect the passing humors of the time, and to satirize the follies and minor immoralities of the town.

There the story turned on a single "humor," Katharine's bad temper, just as the story in Jonson's Silent Woman turned on Morose's hatred of noise.

To such a degree can a fault persisted in change the natural humor of a man.

His appearance was greeted with a general laugh, for the spectators relished the humor of the caricature with infinite goût.

Clarendon had already drawn a series of lifelike portraits of men of action in the stormy period of the Revolution: Addison was to sketch the society of his time with a touch at once delicate and firm; to exhibit its life in those aspects which emphasize individual humor and personal quality, against a carefully wrought background of habit, manners, usage, and social condition.

Little misfortunes are like a rash, which carries off bad humors from a too robust body.

I, who have borne for years with the caprice of school-girls, can surely bear the humors of one man, especially when his name shields me from other sorts of ills.

He watched over them in sickness, and administered to all their wants; but his tender solicitude for their health and comfort, only excited suspicion, and increased their ungrateful ill humor.