I tell thee, 'tis only humour and good fellowship can mend this wretched world, and there is nought so lacking in humour as a swordunless it be your prating priest or mumbling monk.

We observed a sort of aristocratic contempt for political activity and then fretted and fumed over the low estate to which our government had fallenand never saw the humour of it all.

Mrs. Lavington began something about propriety, but was stopped with another pound's worth of oaths by the squire, who, however, had tolerably recovered his good humour, and hurried Mrs. Lavington and Honoria, laughingly, into the dog-cart, saying 'Argemone's safe enough with Smith; the servants will lead the horses behind them.

Then David and Jonathan agree upon a sign between them, by which David may know Saul's humour without his bow-bearer finding out David.

On the contrary, the more he became an object of public interest, the less did he indulge his capricious humour.

During my lord's many absences these school days would go on uninterruptedly: the mother and daughter learning with surprising quickness, the latter by fits and starts only, as suited her wayward humour.

and Matthiolus ascribe other virtues to it, and will have it purge other humours as well as this.

Since men are so irreclaimably disposed to mirth and laughter, it may be well to set them in the right pin, to divert their humour into the proper channel, that they may please themselves in deriding things which deserve it, ceasing to laugh at that which requireth reverence or horror.

Every one by experience knows how easily false news do rise, and how nimbly they scatter themselves; how often they are raised from nothing, how soon they from small sparks grow into a great blaze, how easily from one thing they are transformed into another; especially news of this kind, which do suit and feed the bad humour of the vulgar.

" Oddly enough they thoroughly appreciate the humour of the wonderful things that went on fifty and a hundred years ago.

He administers physic with a farce, and gives his patients a preparative of dancing on the rope, to stir the humours and prepare them for evacuation.

yet because these books are not at hand to every man, I will briefly touch what kind of meats engender this humour, through their several species, and which are to be avoided.

"Whoever examines his own imperfections, will cease to be fastidious; whoever restrains humour and caprice, will cease to be squeamish.

When men, to raise an admiration of their wit, to please themselves, or gratify the humours of other men, do expose their neighbour to scorn and contempt, making ignominious reflections upon his person and his actions, taunting his real imperfections, or fastening imaginary ones upon him, they transgress their duty, and abuse their wits; 'tis not urbanity, or genuine facetiousness, but uncivil rudeness or vile malignity.

This little Creature hath his severall humours, And these their excrements; these met together, Enflamed by anger, made a deadly poison; And by how much the creatures body's lesse

In the great crisis of 1812, indeed, the volcano was quiet, leaving the Souffriere of St. Vincent to do the work; but since then he has shown an ugly and uncertain humour.

Many pursue it merely out of servility and flattery, to tickle the ears, to soothe the humour, to gratify the malignant disposition or ill-will of others; who upon the least discouragement would give over the practice.

But even the most apprehensive of journeys may hold its humours.

'I don't believe the swine will ever appear in force,' said Roy, who had lost all his good humour and was looking absolutely savage.

Our Hellebore is at present looked upon principally as an alterative, and in this light is frequently employed, in small doses, for attenuating viscid humours, promoting the uterine and urinary discharges, and opening inveterate obstructions of the remoter glands: it often proves a very powerful emmenagogue in plethoric habits, where steel is ineffectual or improper.

Let me entreat ye, madam, not to fear, For, by the honesty of Little John, It's but a tragic scene we have in hand, Only to fit the humour of the queen, Who is the chiefest at your troth-plight feast.

I carry this humour so far, that I take it unkindly to be left out, even when a funeral is going on in the house of a dear friend.

We can weep together over the pathos of the poor Yorkshireman, whose county has never produced some humour not intelligible to the rest of the world.

But I'll curb him; his allowance, whilst I live, shall be small, and so he shall be sure not to spend much: and if I die, I will leave him a portion that, if he will be a good husband, and follow his father's steps, shall maintain him like a gentleman, and if he will not, let him follow his own humour till he be weary of it, and so let him go.

A chearful Mind is not only disposed to be affable and obliging, but raises the same good Humour in those who come within its Influence.