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Sentences starting with humor

Humor makes me reflect now to-night, it sets the thinking machinery in motion. [5]
Humor is out of place in a dictionary. [5]
Humor came not easily to him, but charity and courage and unselfishness he had in abundance. [9]

Sentences ending with humor

The Parson, you would say, was the east wind, and only his intimates know that his peevishness is only a querulous humor. [4]
Charley said he would go with me,--Charley, my Captain's beloved friend, gentle, but full of spirit and liveliness, cultivated, social, affectionate, a good talker, a most agreeable letter-writer, observing, with large relish of life, and keen sense of humor. [6]
She was bounding with youth, health, and innocence, and good humor. [4]
So it is with humor. [5]
Mark Twain's work was always of a kind to make people talk, always important, even when it was mere humor. [5]
The great hall, the largest in London, was thronged at each appearance, and the papers declared that Mark Twain had no more than "whetted the public appetite" for his humor. [5]
Let us hope that our worthy has not been presented as being wholly without a sense of humor. [9]
The press was so great, that it was difficult to get through it; but the crowd was a picturesque one, and in the highest good humor. [4]
A crew of saints cabined in those little caravels and tossed about on that coast for six weeks would scarcely keep in good humor. [4]
The crowd surged round, jammed together, in the best possible humor. [4]

Sentences containing humor two or more times

It was plain that he had a deep fondness for humor, yet he never laughed; he never even chuckled; in fact, humor could not win to outward expression on his face at all. [5]
Captain Smith was perhaps too serious a knight to see the humor of these encounters, but he does not lack humor in describing them, and he adopted easily the witty courtesies of the code he was illustrating. [4]
Rostov had been out of humor from the moment he noticed the look of dissatisfaction on Boris' face, and as always happens to those in a bad humor, it seemed to him that everyone regarded him with aversion and that he was in everybody's way. [2]
The humor in it is not always of a high order; it would hardly pass for humor today at all. [5]
Also, he had humor, humor in rich abundance, and always wanting to break out. [5]
This has given him the false reputation of being without humor and without the appreciation of humor. [5]
Americans are not Englishmen, and American humor is not English humor; but both the American and his humor had their origin in England, and have merely undergone changes brought about by changed conditions and a new environment. [5]
Each had humor, but the humor of each was fundamentally different. [4]
His humor enlivens and enlightens his morality, and his morality is all the better for his humor. [5]

More example sentences with the word humor in them

Now, ma'am, if you was wantin' to make a long an' fast ride across the sage--say to elope--" Lassiter ended there with dry humor, yet behind that was meaning. [13]
Suddenly I discovered with a flush that she was looking at me intently, without embarrassment, but with an expression that seemed to hint of humor in the situation. [9]
It would be wasted time to try to argue her out of her delusion, it couldn't be done; I must just humor it. [5]
Mr. King, who was put in good humor by falling on his feet, as it were, in such agreeable company, amused himself by studying the guests as they entered. [4]
The little princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. [2]
Now Mrs. Northcutt was Chester's sister, a woman who in addition to other qualities possessed the only sense of humor in the family. [9]
In dress he was always neat; he was quick to lend a hand to a being in distress, brute or human; was overflowing with good humor, and was the idol of all his acquaintances. [4]
Mark Twain's mother was a woman of sturdy character and with a keen sense of humor and tender sympathies. [5]
In releasing the vessel, the ragamuffins seem to have had a touch of humor, for they gave the captain a "receipt" for what they had taken, and an order on the British consul at Messina to pay for the same. [4]
It ain't any use to tell me a bluejay hasn't got a sense of humor, because I know better. [5]
It is perhaps unnecessary to say that there is no intentional humor in these documents. [5]
Therefore you ought to respect their little prejudices, and humor their little whims, and put up with their little foibles until they get to crowding you too much. [5]
When Henderson rose to propose the health of Jerry Hollowell, neither he nor the man he eulogized as a creator of industries whose republican patriotism was not bound by State lines nor circumscribed by sections was without a sense of the humor of the situation. [4]
So he failed to make his point, and reddened a little, and was not in the best humor, I thought, when he left the table. [6]
But I've got to humor her--there's no other way. [5]
It was impossible to get this whim out of him, and the young doctor had tact enough to humor him in it. [6]
Suspended pictures were thrown down, but oftener still, by a curious freak of the earthquake's humor, they were whirled completely around with their faces to the wall! [5]
The three parted, therefore, not in the best humor all round. [6]
They rather lent themselves to the humor of the hour, and probably by their demeanor encouraged the respect for the day on Cape Breton Island. [4]
Exquisitely, reverently, as the story was told, it had in it the, touch of quaint and gentle humor which could only have been given to it by Mark Twain. [5]
Bret Harte and the rest of the little Pacific-slope group were also on the staff of these papers, and for a time, at least, the new school of American humor mustered in San Francisco. [5]
No files of the paper exist today, so we cannot judge of the quality of humor that stirred up trouble. [5]
To our eyes the legitimate drama of to-day is the one in which the day is reflected, both in costume and speech, and which touches the affections, the passions, the humor, of the present time. [4]
He laughed at the idea of carrying a loaded pistol about with him; but still it seemed only fair, as the old Doctor thought so much of the matter, to humor him about it. [6]
Well, humor is the great thing, the saving thing, after all. [5]
And now, in the Essay we have just been looking at, I find that "his books have no melody, no emotion, no humor, no relief to the dead prosaic level. [6]
But your suggestion that you and your family found humor in it twenty-eight years ago moved me to look into the matter. [5]
He had decided that Mr. Worthington was in too good a humor to know anything of them. [9]
We may believe that Clemens felt little in the spirit of humor, but to such an invitation he must send a cheerful, even if disappointing, answer. [5]
I am afraid that a lightsome disposition and a relish for humor are not so common in those whose benevolence takes an active turn as in people of sentiment, who are always ready with their tears and abounding in passionate expressions of sympathy. [6]
No one could tell what humor Caracalla might be in when he returned. [10]
I do not suppose that any other statesman ever had such a colossal sense of humor, combined with the ability to totally conceal it. [5]
The eyebrows were straight, the brown eyes looked at the world with an almost scornful sense of humor, and I marked that there was determination in the chin. [9]
Come, let's have some music; nothing else will keep him in good humor till lunch-time. [4]
Your humor is so very subtle, and elusive--(well, often it's just a vanishing breath of perfume which a body isn't certain he smelt till he stops and takes another smell) whereas you can smell other (Remainder obliterated. [5]
The Indians caught Smith's humor, and some of the men who ran away to seek Kemps and Tussore were mocked and ridiculed, and had applied to them --Smith's law of "who cannot work must not eat;" they were almost starved and beaten nearly to death. [4]
Philometor and my sister know very well what my humor is, and what to expect of me. [10]
We know that since Gulliver there has been no piece of original humor produced in England equal to "Knickerbocker's New York"; that not in this century has any English writer equaled the wit and satire of the "Biglow Papers. [4]
But now, great Sesostris,"--the name she gave to Orion when she was in a good humor with him, "it is time that you should see what I have brought you. [10]
Remembering his keen sense of humor, Clemens reported to him cheering and amusing incidents. [5]
It suited Jethro's sense of humor to play the game that way--and it was very effective. [9]
Carmen had never seen him exactly in this humor and was almost subdued by it. [4]
But we did see her on the Rhine; she was the most disgusted traveler, and seemed to be in very ill humor with her maid. [4]
He was continually saying: "I think I'll grow some like that, old man," or "Have those cut," and the like,--a kind of humor in which the captain took an incredible delight. [9]
His humor, his satire, and his fearlessness were dreaded weapons. [5]
They were not rewarded by anything new except at the landing, where, behind the bath-houses, the bathing suits were hung out to dry, and presented a comical spectacle, the humor of which seemed to be lost upon all except themselves. [4]
Generally the toy represents twins, so swathed and bound; and, not infrequently, the bold conception of the artist carries the point of the humor so far as to introduce triplets, thus sporting with the most dreadful possibilities of life. [4]
Brief letters to Redpath of this time have an interest and even a humor of their own. [5]
It must be read only in the clear realization of Mark Twain's attitude toward orthodoxy, and his habit of humor. [5]
It was a rather grim stroke of humor, but I understood its meaning full well, and felt the force of its menace. [6]
Amid all the pressure and distress that the burdens of office brought upon him, his unfailing sense of humor saved him; probably it made it possible for him to live under the burden. [7]
Newport despatched the presents round by water a hundred miles, and the Captains, with fifty soldiers, went over land to Werowocomoco, where occurred the ridiculous ceremony of the coronation, which Smith describes with much humor. [4]
While dinner was preparing, the whole party were on the lake in boats, equipped with fishing apparatus, and if the trout had been in half as willing humor as the fisher, it would have been a bad day for them. [4]
They were all philosophers of the shrewd sort, and they all had humor. [4]
To this new phase his sense of humor did not rise. [9]
Field had a perfect genius for that sort of thing, as many extant specimens attest, and for that sort of practical joke; but to my thinking the humor of the piece is too mellow --not hard and bright and bitter--to be Eugene Field's. [5]
Barrow's task was particularly hard, because he was made a confidant in full, and therefore had to humor Tracy's delusion that he had a father, and that the father was an earl, and that he was going to send a cablegram. [5]
Jethro stood poring over the register, when a distinguished-looking elderly gentleman with a heavy gray beard and eyes full of shrewdness and humor paused at the desk to ask a question. [9]
It is humor or fun such as one expects, let us say, from the peasants of Thomas Hardy, outside of Hardy's books. [5]
The letters are open imitations of the "Spectator" and the "Tatler," and, although sharp upon local follies, are of no consequence at present except as foreshadowing the sensibility and quiet humor of the future author, and his chivalrous devotion to woman. [4]
There was argument on his side--and the bulk of the advantage --so I judged it best to humor him. [5]
The Professor went off a little out of humor. [6]
This has something of the flavor of the man we were to know later; the quaint, gentle resignation to disappointment which is one of the finest touches in his humor. [5]
By the bones of my father, this puling sentiment of thine but ill accords with my humor. [5]
Even the Library of Humor, which Howells, with Clark, of the Courant, had put together for him, he left with Osgood until that publisher failed, during the spring of 1885. [5]
Riley is full of humor, and has an unfailing vein of irony, which makes his conversation to the last degree entertaining (as long as the remarks are about somebody else). [5]
She was out of humor that day, besides she shared some of her father's political ambition. [9]
The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. [5]
Mr. Ticknor speaks of his sermons as "full of intellectual wealth and practical wisdom, with sometimes a quaintness that bordered on humor. [6]
But I find nothing in the manly sentiment and true tenderness of Irving to warrant the sentimental gush of his followers, who missed his corrective humor as completely as they failed to catch his literary art. [4]
But Keraunus was not in the humor to accept caresses; he pushed her aside with an angry: "Leave me alone," and then went on: "If Hadrian were to ask me 'Where are your daughters on the occasion of the festival? [10]
His work was no longer trivial, crude, and showy; it was full of dignity, beauty, and power; his humor was finer, worthier. [5]
There is, however, no hint of humor, and only a mild suggestion of the author of the Innocents Abroad in this early attempt. [5]
The sixth one mortally wounded the Colonel, who remarked, with fine humor, that he would have to say good morning now, as he had business uptown. [5]
It will be more to my present humor to call back a little glimpse of the simple and colorless good times we used to have in our village homes in those peaceful days--especially in the winter. [5]
But there is more than this; with all its humor there is a sense of real delight in what may be called obscenity for its own sake. [5]
You have a mongrel perception of humor, nothing more; a multitude of you possess that. [5]
This largeness of modified conception cannot be made apparent in such brief extracts as we can make, but they will show its quality and the author's humor. [4]
The artist and Miss Lamont, in search of the picturesque, had the courage, although the thermometer was in the humor to climb up to ninety degrees, to explore the Baptist encampment. [4]
A whole night might be spent in recounting the stories of his wit, humor, and harmless sarcasm. [7]
Whereas, woe is me, I return in infinitely better humor with the world than I ever was before, and with a most melancholy good opinion and good will for the great mass of my fellow-creatures! [4]
I found Captain McCord there, and said, as pleasantly as my humor would permit-- 'I have come to say good-bye, captain. [5]
Ay, and wrestling matches in the severe manner of the backwoods between the young bucks, more than one of which might have ended seriously were it not for the high humor of the crowd. [9]
Although not having mastered yet the German language, he exercised a marked attraction by a conversation sparkling with wit, humor, and originality. [6]
She had given Mark Twain sound advice as to his letters, which he had usually read to her, and had in no small degree modified his early natural tendency to exaggeration and outlandish humor. [5]
But best I loved to hear Captain Sevier, whose talk lacked not force, but had a daring, a humor, a lightness of touch, that seemed more in keeping with that world I had left behind me in Charlestown. [9]
Not a sincere line in it, and not a character that invites respect; a book which is one long waste-pipe discharge of goody-goody puerilities and dreary moralities; a book which is full of pathos which revolts, and humor which grieves the heart. [5]
The old long-deferred Library of Humor came up again for discussion, when in the fall of 1885 Howells associated himself with Harper & Brothers. [5]
I closed the lecture at last with one despairing shriek--with one wild burst of humor, and hurled a joke of supernatural atrocity full at him! [5]
His wisdom well knew when to humor a man, and when to chastise. [9]
Rogers had a keen sense of humor and had always been a great admirer of Mark Twain's work. [5]
The world, however, it must be owned, has scarcely yet the courage of its humor, and dullness still thinks it necessary to apologize for anything amusing. [4]
It is smart; it is saturated with humor. [5]
The pity of it all, the pathetic humor of it, there was none to see; they themselves were unconscious of it. [5]
Considering who it is that draughted this law, there is a certain amount of humor in it. [5]
His delightful humor is of the kind which dissipates and destroys national prejudices. [5]
Follow the pitiful inventory of insignificances of the forlorn being he describes with a pathetic humor more likely to bring a sigh than a smile, and then mark the grand hyperbole of the last two lines. [6]
Yet it is interspersed with strokes of humor and observations full of good sense. [4]
It was an ingenious thing and it had a genuine touch of humor about it, too. [5]
Her fancy is infinite, and her humor not always refined. [6]

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