humorous

• I must not be taken to mean that the living original of Falstaff was as richly humorous, as inexhaustibly diverting as the dramatic counterfeit who is now a citizen and chief personage in that world of literature which outlasts all the fleeting shows of the so-called real world. —  The Man Shakespeare
• Several weeks ago when I ran across him accidentally he was humorous, almost cynical. —  The Life and Letters of Walter H Page
• That given in this chapter is merely intended to show how he illuminated the lightest and most ephemeral topics of the day with a literary touch at once acute and humorous, and certainly unconventional. —  Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
• I tried to keep up my courage by recalling the humorous things Oscar had said during the cross-examination. —  Oscar Wilde
• "But, my dear Lady Mary," rejoined Cottrell, whose sense of the humorous was again highly gratified by the outcome of the trip to —  Belles and Ringers

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