"Good humor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Agnes' Eve, and if I sell my prose sketch to Filberty's Magazine, I'll be in a good humor to ...
— Daisy's Necklace - And What Came of It • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... of a spendthrift. He was touchy also, and punctilious. "He once had a duel," says Walpole, "with Colonel Glumley, Lady Bath's brother, who had been his great friend. As they were going to engage, Glumley, who had good humor and wit (Braddock had the latter) said: 'Braddock, you are a poor dog! here, take my purse, if you kill me you will be forced to run away, and then you will not have a shilling to support you.' Braddock refused the purse, insisted ...
— The Life of George Washington, Volume I • Washington Irving
... up his nose at this establishment because it was rather shabby. So much liquor had been spilled on the billiard table that the balls stuck to it. Once the game got started though, Lantier recovered his good humor and began to flaunt his extraordinary ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola
... on such things," Max said blandly, having recovered some of his good humor, "but—isn't it usually a ...
— When a Man Marries • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... tall canting specimen of Yankee-dom perched on a water cask that "reckoned ther is right smart chance of folks on this 'ere ship," and "kalkerlate that that boat swinging thar war a good place to stow my fixin's in." The next day thorough system and efficiency was brought out of chaos and good humor prevailed. ...
— Shadow and Light - An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century • Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
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