His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
Margaret Mitche
Gone With The Wind, CHAPTER III
ContextHe liked the casual grace with which they conducted affairs of importance, risking a fortune, a plantation or a slave on the turn of a card and writing off their losses with careless good humor and no more ado than when they scattered pennies to pickaninnies.
Margaret Mitche
Gone With The Wind, CHAPTER III
ContextThere was a cool recklessness in his face and a cynical humor in his mouth as he smiled at her, and Scarlett caught her breath.
Margaret Mitche
Gone With The Wind, CHAPTER VI
ContextWar romances, war weddings, deaths in hospitals and on the field, incidents of camp and battle and march, gallantry, cowardice, humor, sadness, deprivation and hope.
Margaret Mitche
Gone With The Wind, CHAPTER XVII
ContextHe came in, his ears red from the cold, his pinkish hair awry, and stood looking down at her, a faintly humorous smile on his lips.
Margaret Mitche
Gone With The Wind, CHAPTER XXXI
ContextHis voice was soft but there was a vibrant note in it, and looking up into his dark face she saw in it none of the skepticism, the jeering humor she knew so well.
Margaret Mitche
Gone With The Wind, CHAPTER XXXIV
ContextFrank knew that pregnant women must be humored, so he put his pride in his pocket and said nothing more about her running the mills and her going about town at such a time, as no lady should do.
Margaret Mitche
Gone With The Wind, CHAPTER XXXVIII
ContextBut she did not possess his sense of humor which tempered his malice, nor his smile that jeered at himself even while he was jeering others.
Margaret Mitche
Gone With The Wind, CHAPTER XLVIII
ContextShe would not humor her by leaving a lamp burning in the nursery, for then Wade and Ella would be unable to sleep.
Margaret Mitche
Gone With The Wind, CHAPTER LII
ContextHe was bitter now, where he had been pleasantly jeering, brutal where his thrusts had once been tempered with humor.
Margaret Mitche
Gone With The Wind, CHAPTER LX
ContextDanglars was balancing his monthly accounts, and it was perhaps not the most favorable moment for finding him in his best humor.
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo, Chapter 78. We hear From Yanina
ContextThis excess of bilious humor could not be attributed to play; for unlike Porthos, who accompanied the variations of chance with songs or oaths, Athos when he won remained as unmoved as when he lost.
Alexandre Dumas
THE THREE MUSKETEERS, 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
ContextClifford was really clever at that slightly humorous analysis of people and motives which leaves everything in bits at the end.
D H Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover, Chapter 5
ContextShe took this in what seemed the only possible way, with a laugh intended to sink the question itself in his humorous treatment of it.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 2: Chapter 2
ContextIt seemed so queer that they had talked so much and never remembered this simple thing that they laughed more than ever, because they had got into the humor to laugh at anything.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden, CHAPTER XIV
ContextA humorous suggestion was made that she sing the notes on her face whereupon she threw up her hands, sank into a chair and went off into a deep vinous sleep.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby, Chapter 3
ContextHis manner varies from genial bullying when he is in a good humor to stormy petulance when anything goes wrong; but he is so entirely frank and void of malice that he remains likeable even in his least reasonable moments.
George Bernard Shaw
Somewhat mollified by certain cups of very good coffee, he came out smiling and talking, in tolerably restored humor.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin, CHAPTER VI
ContextHaley stood there in very ill humor, having ridden hard the night before, and being not at all pacified by his ill success in recapturing his prey.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin, CHAPTER X
ContextIt was late in the summer afternoon, and the doors and windows of the large parlor all stood open, to invite any stray breeze, that might feel in a good humor, to enter.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin, CHAPTER XXI
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