Even though it was a scary story, she told it very humorously. From LearnThat.org.
Dickens had humorously suggested a special service of intercession at St. Paul's Cathedral. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I thought the term humorously outrageous in American Pie and then annoying once it became widely "accepted". From Wordnik.com. [Got MILF?] Reference
A "Ribu" is the term humorously coined for a mountain in Indonesia with an elevation of (as the name suggests) at least 1,000 meters. From Wordnik.com. [The Jakarta Post Breaking News] Reference
The eyes that now rested on her humorously were the beautiful eyes which had once looked into her soul. From Wordnik.com. [The New Magdalen] Reference
I thought the term humorously outrageous in American Pie and then annoying once it became widely “accepted”. From Wordnik.com. [Got MILF? | Her Bad Mother] Reference
That is what I was kind of humorously trying to do there with that video. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2009] Reference
A 'humorously' exaggerated Picasso painting fetches £8. 1m. From Wordnik.com. [The Blog of Kev] Reference
Picasso was said to "humorously" exaggerate the neck of his subject. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
My final vision perhaps was of a sacred reliquary not so much rudely as familiarly and "humorously" torn open. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Hours] Reference
Jacqueline was said to have had a short neck and the artist would often "humorously" exaggerate its size in portraits. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
Jacqueline was said to have had a short neck and the artist would often '' humorously '' exaggerate its size in portraits. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
"Faith, and what's that?" murmured Nora, half humorously. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers] Reference
Gazing at him in a humorously contemptuous manner as he said. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
"The devil or the deep sea," replied Jim, humorously inclined. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
Ms. Nomani humorously refers to him as the mosque's "bouncer.". From Wordnik.com. [Islamic Feminists Storm Some Barricades] Reference
This was said in a light, careless, humorously sceptical tone. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Two soldiers are better than one," asserted Mr. Dean humorously. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
"Guess you don't need a stuffed snake, Sarah," he said humorously. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
"Don't give up the ship -- girl, I mean," she finished humorously. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College] Reference
Then half wistfully, half humorously, Mrs. Herrick turned to Flora. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
"I hate to stay alone here in the dark," remarked Berwick humorously. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
"Of course, I'm only telling you what I've heard," she said humorously. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
He would fling out his hand with a humorously despairing gesture about it. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference
"We really wore our hair in that style, didn't we?" he continued humorously. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
But as the kettle made no reply, the men passed on, Arnaud humorously relates. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin banter humorously, like adventure movie heroes should. From Wordnik.com. [The Phantom Media Blitz] Reference
She was surprised to see him so unstudied, so uncritical, so humorously anecdotal. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
Another Burwash man posed his vicar more agreeably and humorously in another manner. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
He afterwards declared humorously that one of his reasons for not pleading guilty was. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
It was a staggering proposition, but Richard preserved his calm and remarked humorously. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
"And it's the part of wisdom to watch a rising batch of bread," Levi returned humorously. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
"Now as to things of the heart," -- he stopped suddenly -- he even scowled half humorously. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
He humorously calls it a 'short story of a certain boy of my acquaintance I will call John.'. From Wordnik.com. [Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on] Reference
"Well sir, and how's the law coming on these days?" inquired old Jephthah somewhat humorously. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
"Which will be mighty little," said Berwick humorously, "because my appetite is growing some.". From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
"Well, I'm glad you think to-night isn't an average performance," declared her brother humorously. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
"At the play-acting again, Master Gilian?" said the dominie a little bitterly, a little humorously. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
He was smiling down into her eyes and repeating half humorously, half gallantly, and altogether beautifully, she thought, Keats 'lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
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