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1  Of course she was in a bad humour and gave him short answers.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
2  I left the house in bad humour and walked slowly towards the school.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
3  But she did not seem to be in ill humour: she had gone away laughing.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
4  It was his humour to have people know what an ordeal a concert was to him.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER
5  Villona was in good humour because he had had a very satisfactory luncheon; and besides he was an optimist by nature.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AFTER THE RACE
6  Gabriel glanced right and left nervously and tried to keep his good humour under the ordeal which was making a blush invade his forehead.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
7  But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD