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(Satire) '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Humourous and sad - but mostly sad.
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Humourous aside: In that ad he also says he wants to "start actually focusing on what we have in common".
Hillary And Obama Camps Duke It Out Over Her Alleged "Screw 'Em" Comment 2009
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That an Opera may be written after the Manner of Modern Musick mentioned above, fill'd with Shrieks instead of Song, must be either a Sign of Madness, a Comick Pose, or, what is worse, that the Composer is pretending to a Humourous Irony.
"Portuguese opera stars, dressed as vacuum cleaners, singing in English..." Ann Althouse 2008
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That an Opera may be written after the Manner of Modern Musick mentioned above, fill'd with Shrieks instead of Song, must be either a Sign of Madness, a Comick Pose, or, what is worse, that the Composer is pretending to a Humourous Irony.
"Portuguese opera stars, dressed as vacuum cleaners, singing in English..." Ann Althouse 2008
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Humourous account of her mother and Mr. Hickman in their little journey to visit her dying cousin.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Humourous account of Lord M., of himself, and of his two cousins Montague.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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"Humourous Conceits of Sir John Falstaff" on the title-page, was entered on the Stationers 'Registers under date of 25th February 1598, and was published within a short period.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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'Satiro-Mastix, or the Untrussing of the Humourous Poet.'
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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Chapman, George, plays on Biron's career by, 51 _n_, 395 _n_ 1 his _An Humourous Day's Mirth_, 51 _n_ his _Blind Beggar of Alexandria_, 51 _n_ his censure of sonnetteermg, 106 his alleged rivalry with Shakespeare for Southampton's favour, 134 135
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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Humourous writers, therefore, as Sterne in particular, delight, after much preparation, to end in nothing, or in a direct contradiction.
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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