In the circus of to-day the melancholy ghost of the court fool effects the dejection of humbler audiences with the same jests wherewith in life he gloomed the marble hall, panged the patrician
sense of humor and tapped the tank of royal tears.
This fact, and the similar occurrence during my first talk with Tars Tarkas, convinced me that we had at least something in common; the ability to smile, therefore to laugh; denoting a
sense of humor. But I was to learn that the Martian smile is merely perfunctory, and that the Martian laugh is a thing to cause strong men to blanch in horror.
Randall and Hannah had no
sense of humor; Rebecca possessed and showed it as soon as she could walk and talk.
But her expression was very different; the something about the mouth which had hinted at a
sense of humor had developed wonderfully; her eyes were gentler and milder, her smile more frequent and tender.
We had the
sense of humor. Our merriment was Gargantuan.
Conscious of having honestly presented himself at the inn in Anne's interests, as well as in the interests of the ladies at Windygates, it appealed to his
sense of humor to find himself kept at arm's-length by the very woman whom he had come to benefit.
The Colonel, with little
sense of humor and of the fitness of things, related a somber episode of those dark and bitter days, in which he had acted a conspicuous part and always formed a central figure.
It ain't any use to tell me a bluejay hasn't got a
sense of humor, because I know better.
"When we saw this, there was nothing else for us to do but to rise from our chairs, shake our two predecessors warmly by the hand and congratulate them on thinking of this charming little joke, which proved that the old French
sense of humor was never likely to become extinct.
Alban felt the reproof; she had appealed to his most readily-impressible sense--his
sense of humor. He rather enjoyed seeing his own prejudice against women grotesquely reflected in this flighty stranger's prejudice against men.
Like her father, Mayor Sara Duterte said Saturday her
sense of humor is twisted.