comicalities

All these absurdities of the worthy woman, who is truly pious and charitable, might have passed unnoticed, if nature, amusing herself as she often does by turning out these ludicrous creations, had not endowed her with the height of a drum-major, and thus held up to view the comicalities of her provincial nature.

Modeste Mignon 2007

As he himself had said, it was only for his livelihood that he was a lively Hood -- although he was always brimming over with comicalities; and he never felt more deeply the dignity of his profession and his own force and weight than when he was engaged on serious work.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

Emma sometimes came home and repeated her triumphs and comicalities to this faithful friend, but receiving no answering smile, but, on the contrary, a solemn word of reproof or warning, she would often burst into a flood of peevish tears, saying that Dora was getting cross, and did not love her as formerly.

Be Courteous or, Religion, the True Refiner Mrs. M. H. Maxwell

And when, with aching ribs and a moist pocket-handkerchief -- for an accomplished _chatouilleur_ must be able to laugh till he cries -- he retires from the scene enlivened by his efforts, it is with the proud consciousness that his contagious chuckle, as much as author's _jokes_ or _buffo's_ comicalities, has contributed to set the theatre in a roar.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

The comicalities to be found in shop signboards in the English language are endless.

India and the Indians Edward Fenton Elwin

Men became jibbering idiots with shell-shock, as I saw some of them, but others rejoiced when they saw our shells plowing into the enemy's earthworks, laughed at their own narrow escapes and at grotesque comicalities of this monstrous deviltry.

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

The ten thousand high-grade comicalities which exist in the world are sealed from their dull vision.

The Mysterious Stranger; A Romance by Mark Twain [pseud.] with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. 1916

This pair took the stage, all others considerately withdrawing; and presently, after a period of heartrending comicalities, the Scotchman, speaking as though he had a mouthful of hot oatmeal, proceeded to narrate an account of a fictitious encounter with a bear.

Europe Revised 1910

Whim held the five in the rear seats absorbed in their own maudlin comicalities.

The Lookout Man B. M. Bower 1905

In this condition of chaos Mr. Lincoln was certainly bound to prevent anarchy, without regard to any comicalities which might creep into his technique.

Abraham Lincoln Morse, John T 1899