humour,

‘Is it fair to ask,’ he said, as Clennam gave him his hand with a real feeling of thankfulness for his candour and good – humour,

Little Dorrit 2007

Pecksniff, clapping his young friend on the back in his droll humour,

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

Truly, Lamb House was no sanctuary, but rather a “small, crammed and wholly unlucrative hotel,” and the hermit no meagre solitary but a tough and even stoical man of the world, English in his humour,

The Death of the Moth, and other essays 2002

"This day week, and in the meantime I would advise you as a friend to practise well with your arms," and, added the baron with grim humour,

Heiress of Haddon William E. Doubleday

All these things are familiar to most travellers, suffice it, therefore, to say, that on the present occasion Old Neptune was in a good humour,

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

They have not got rid of their dangerous companion, by whom the Romish church is indicated, when they are accosted by a man of a quite different shape and humour,

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831 Various

Yahoos; they hustled and mobbed the Guides, shouting with rough humour,

The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband

While reminding one, as she often does, of Jane Austen's humour,

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

All the same, 'she went on, with her unfailing good humour,

The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907

Of the two of them, both mellow men of learning and of kindly humour,

The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905