1 They were affectionate, humorous, discursive, but not the letters of a lover.
2 He 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.
3 She took this in what seemed the only possible way, with a laugh intended to sink the question itself in his humorous treatment of it.
4 Carol was shuddering with the vicarious shame which sensitive people feel when they listen to an "elocutionist" being humorous, or to a precocious child publicly doing badly what no child should do at all.
5 There was also a humorous office-boy.
6 Carol was left to Dave, who tried to entertain her with humorous accounts of Ella Stowbody's fondness for chocolate peppermints.
7 He was a bulky, gauche, noisy, humorous man, with narrow eyes, a rustic complexion, large red hands, and brilliant clothes.
8 Look now at Stubb; a man who from his humorous, deliberate coolness and equanimity in the direst emergencies, was specially qualified to excel in pitchpoling.
9 Tranquilly permitting these irregular cursings to evaporate, Stubb then in a plain, business-like, but still half humorous manner, cursed Pip officially; and that done, unofficially gave him much wholesome advice.
10 Usually, when Lena referred to her life in the country at all, she dismissed it with a single remark, humorous or mildly cynical.
11 He looked like a humorous philosopher who had hitched up one shoulder under the burdens of life, and gone on his way having a good time when he could.
12 He seemed to hear some one make a humorous remark in a low tone.
13 I smiled at the notion; it seemed to me at the time to be humorous; and I made my preparations with the most studious care.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 14 Clifford was really clever at that slightly humorous analysis of people and motives which leaves everything in bits at the end.
15 The reddleman vented a low humorous laugh when he saw his adversary return with these.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current