serio-comical

"I don't exactly know," answered the individual addressed, shaking his head with a serio-comical expression; "but stifle me with the night-mar, if ever I'm cotched riding a race with death on horseback agin."

Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life Emerson Bennett

Ludicrous mistakes are everywhere met with, where this serio-comical people have attempted to imitate name, trade-mark, and everything complete.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

He remembered, too, with a serio-comical kind of remorse, the manner in which he had spoken to Mrs. Costello about Maurice.

A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel Harry Coghill 1871

A few days later she added more commendations to the journal-letters she kept for the anxious mothers at home, and this serio-comical event was the cause of her fresh praises.

A Garland for Girls Louisa May Alcott 1860

The doctor looked at Mr. Simlins, with a serio-comical expression.

Say and Seal, Volume I Susan Warner 1852

The head of Fritz, just showing above the shoulder of the shikarree, while his body was shrouded in a piece of shaggy yak-skin, presented a very ludicrous spectacle, and his countenance wore quite a serio-comical expression.

The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

He was a man of diminutive stature, and with a countenance of a serio-comical cast.

The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

Striker's remonstrance sounds strange -- under the circumstances, serio-comical.

The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850

But other fellows also wished to examine the suspicious headgear, and it passed from hand to hand before it was returned to my father in a more or less damaged condition, Even then a good many men were not satisfied respecting our nationality, but during that incident of the hat -- a laughable one to me nowadays, though everything looked very ugly when it occurred -- there had been time for the men's angry passions to cool, to a considerable extent at all events; and after that serio-comical interlude, they were much less eager to inflict on us the summary law of Lynch.

My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887

"I invite you all to see the magical, tragical, incomparable, serio-comical task I am about to perform.

Johnnie and Billie Bushytail 1910