Here, he said, was "a humorist who never left you hanging you head for having enjoyed his joke.
It was a scene for a painter: the great American humorist on one side of the game and that silly little creature on the other, with the Matterhorn for a background.
I regard Mark Twain as the foremosthumorist of the age.
American humorist Shillaber, distinguished for her misuse of learned words; also another celebrity who attempted to sweep back the Atlantic with her mop, the type of those who think to stave back the inevitable.
He is somewhat of a humorist and a little tinctured with pride.
Then we went on in silence through the falling mist, but the humorist took the lead.
We all laughed except the humorist who could not see the joke.
William headed the procession and we had gone about a quarter of a mile and were near the great cone when William stopped suddenly and grasped the humorist by the arm, almost white with terror.
No professional humorist can hope to equal them because when he writes one he does it with deliberate intent to be funny and invariably he betrays his hand.
This view of heaven, seen through the temperament of a humorist and a philosopher, is provocative and thought-compelling more than it is amusing or ludicrous.
The quality with which Mark Twain invests his disquisitions upon morals, upon conscience, upon human foibles and failings, is the charm of the humorist always--never the grimness of the moralist or the coldness of the philosopher.
Mark Twain's most delightful trick as a popular humorist was to strike out some comic epigram, that passed currency with the masses whose fancy it tickled, and also had upon it the minted stamp of the classic aphorism.
Mr. Clemens asseverated that the only way to be a great American humorist was to be a great human humorist--to discover in Americans those permanent and universal traits common to all nationalities.
The fame of the Western humorist had already reached the ears of Hingston; and as soon as he reached Virginia City, he went to the office of the 'Territorial Enterprise' and asked to be presented to Mark Twain.
There is a "sort of contemporaneous posterity" which has registered its verdict that Mark Twain was the greatest humorist of the present era.
In the same way, Mark Twain as humorist has sought the highest common factor of all nations.
The German edition of his works, in six volumes, published by Lutz of Stuttgart, in 1898, I believe, contained an introduction in which he was hailed as the greatest humorist in the world.
Nor is his international vogue as a humorist to be attributed to any tricks of style, to any breadth of knowledge, or even to any depth of intellectuality.
He is represented as a humorist of about fifty-three, who, having a mind to marry a fashionable young woman, but feeling a doubt, consults his friends upon this momentous question.
He let nature have its way in such exquisite poems as the Lines to His Mother’s Picture and the Loss of the “Royal George,” while any humorist might envy the delightful abandonment of John Gilpin.
The most confirmed humorist could hardly be expected to indulge in drolleries in the presence of a girl who stuck her nose in the air and put on enough side for six.
Was this the side-splitting humorist Betty had talked so much about for months after the wedding--and then abruptly refused to mention again?
The present writer has seen many an innocent person in a state of nervous collapse over a barbed thrust made by a satirizing humorist in the columns of a paper.
The mien of the humorist when off the stage is dolorous.
A humorist like Raabe allows the oppressive a place within him, and is untroubled because he recognizes that it is an integral part of his lot, of humanity's lot.
The idealist or pessimist seeks to emphasize one of the two sides, the realist simply takes them as they are and bears them, the humorist tries to reconcile one with the other.
I saw the deed done recently, and you ought to have been there to watch the humorist turn green with envy.
To tell the truth, every humorist knocks out a dozen doctors.
The humorist was not kindly disposed toward autograph collectors, and the fact that in this case the collector aimed to raise the standard of the hobby did not appease him.
He was sitting in Mark Twain's sitting-room in his home in Hartford waiting for the humorist to return from a walk.
With a few words about his fall he draws tears from his followers and even from the caustic humorist Enobarbus.
Falstaff's ease and enjoyment are not simply those of the happy man of appetite;[5] they are those of the humorist, and the humorist of genius.
In a few minutes hundreds of people will assemble, all looking up, while the humorist melts away.
I ejaculated, as I jumped into a hansom for room 13, recalling to mind that my fellow-worker was not the only humorist who has been superstitious.
Leonard supposed that he should either see or hear of the humorist in the course of the day.
As the reader will expect, no trace of Burley could Leonard find: the humorist had ceased to communicate with the Beehive.
In the same way the true humorist writes about a man sitting down on his hat because the act of sitting down on one's own hat (however often and admirably performed) really is extremely funny.
Whatever the reason, the fact is indisputable that the humorist must pay the penalty of his humor, he must run the risk of being tolerated as a mere fun-maker, not to be taken seriously, and not worthy of critical consideration.
II A humorist is often without honor in his own country.
V After all, it is as a humorist pure and simple that Mark Twain is best known and best beloved.
In short, as the Marshall town humorist explained in the columns of the Advance, "the proposition that the Manton house is badly haunted is the only logical conclusion from the premises.
Ballad: The Played-Out Humorist Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is, Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said.
And that NISI PRIUS nuisance, who just now is rather rife, The Judicial humorist - I've got HIM on the list!
Oh happy was that humorist - the first that made a pun at all - Who when a joke occurred to him, however poor and mean, Was absolutely certain that it never had been done at all - How popular at dinners must that humorist have been!
Ah, well, he's always had the reputation of being a humorist and a gentleman.
