The audience was fond of Harry Hawk, he was a dear, in or out of character, but he was not particularly funny.

If Simms Purdew would turn to him and say: `` Adam, you know when I was a boy, it was a funny thing happened.

This joke was not funny to Linda Kay, and she blushed, as she always did ; ;

He said he was the lonely type and working in a cellar you saw funny things coming out of the cracks in the wall if they wasn't nobody with you.

In his famous meeting with Nixon a couple of years ago he seemed to believe that he was as funny as Ed Wynn.

`` I'm General Burnside's horse, upside down '', Arlene said, sort of gaspingly, for her: even she had to breathe kind of funny when she was in that position.

She made General Burnside's horse's belly do so funny when it was upside down.

He was very funny about the whole thing.

Miss Jen was funny that way, funny that she didn't seem to take to his ideas and perk up.

She was watching me intently, a funny little half-smile on her lips.

The sight of the small man in a uniform much too large for his less than 5-foot frame — the army did not issue uniforms small enough — was so disruptively funny that he was excused from parades and marching drills.

This childhood tragedy likely helped shape Capp ’ s cynical worldview, which, funny as it was, was certainly darker and more sardonic than that of the average newspaper cartoonist.

" From beginning to end, Capp was acid-tongued toward the targets of his wit, intolerant of hypocrisy, and always wickedly funny.

Oddly, one of the column's greatest opponents was the Express newspaper's owner, Lord Beaverbrook, who had to keep being assured the column was indeed funny.

By now she was pretty well used to these funny ways of his.

The concept of mixing pathos with comedy was likely learnt from Karno: Stan Laurel, Chaplin's co-performer at the company, remembered that Karno's sketches regularly inserted " a bit of sentiment right in the middle of a funny music hall turn ".

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.

But it also made him conspicuous to the enemy, if it was the enemy, and he hadn't been spotted already.

He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.

This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

His superiors had also preached this, saying it was the way for eternal honor.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

There was also a dog, a dingo dog.

There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

There was also a boomerang, elaborately carved.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.

The birds were really awake now in a colloquy of music, and light was beginning to creep across the room, touching sill and door, table and chair and all of Doaty's flowers in their artificial blossom and leaf.

On the way to Zion, Uzzah, one of the drivers of the cart whereon the Ark was carried, put out his hand to steady the Ark, and was smitten by God for touching it.

In a key game late in the 2005 season, Steve Smith was ejected for touching an official.

" Xenophanes of Colophon ( c. 500 BC ) thought that the Earth was flat, with its upper side touching the air, and the lower side extending without limit.

And it was both funny and also touching in that it paid tribute to the dedication of these fans.

* Heracles killed Antaeus the giant who was immortal while touching the earth, by picking him up and holding him in the air while strangling him.

On the day after the murder of the Tsar's family, Maria received a messenger from Nicky, " a touching man " who told how difficult was the life of her son's family in Ekaterinburg.

A volume containing articles on a wide variety of topics touching on proverbs was edited by Mieder and Alan Dundes ( 1994 / 1981 ).

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However, there are indications that staying on one's feet was generally considered a positive thing, while touching the knee ( s ) to the ground or being put to the ground was overall considered disadvantageous.

His first featured role was in Creepshow, playing Jordy Verrill, a backwoods redneck who, after touching a fallen meteorite in hopes of selling it, grows moss all over his body.

Later on in the manga she found an angel egg in Urd's room and accidentally swallowed it ( whilst in the process of performing the classic little kid rebellion of touching something that was specifically marked as " hands off!

It was hoped that the students would learn to speak by trying to reproduce what they felt on the speaker's face and throat while touching their own face.

The closest is the miracle of the woman who was healed by touching the hem of Jesus ’ garment ( Luke 8: 43 – 48 ); her name is later identified as Veronica by the apocryphal " Acts of Pilate ".

Paul Johnson writes in Modern Times: " When in 1964 the Harding Papers ( which had not been burnt ) were opened to scholars, no truth at all was found in any of the myths, though it emerged that Harding, a pathetically shy man with women, had a sad and touching friendship with the wife of a Marion store-owner before his presidency.

At this time, Augsburg was not quite touching the left bank of the river, upon which it was basically situated.

In 1655, Huygens proposed that Saturn was surrounded by a solid ring, " a thin, flat ring, nowhere touching, and inclined to the ecliptic.

The Roman fleet is described on that occasion as touching at the promontory of Tyndaris, but the city had not yet fallen into their hands, and it was not till after the fall of Panormus ( modern Palermo ), in 254 BCE, that Tyndaris expelled the Carthaginian garrison and joined the Roman alliance.

In vain did Rib-Addi send touching appeals for aid to the distant Pharaoh, who was far too engaged in his religious innovations to attend to such messages.

Donald Richie comments that in Japan, as in China, although kissing took place in erotic situations, in public " the kiss was invisible ," and the " touching of the lips never became the culturally encoded action it has for so long been in Europe and America.