"Risibility" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Old Matthew's risibility was evidently much tickled by the sense of their thwarted purpose. Despite the mournful conditions under which he was at that moment abroad, he could not forbear to wish them, from his place in the procession, "a gay canny mornin'"; ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine
... most disgusting quality: 'He that stands to contemplate the crouds that fill the streets of a populous city, will see many passengers whose air and motion it will be difficult to behold without contempt and laughter; but if he examine what are the appearances that thus powerfully excite his risibility, he will find among them neither poverty nor disease, nor any involuntary or painful defect. The disposition to derision and insult, is awakened by the softness of foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell
... Risibility, and a sense of the ridiculous, is generally considered to be the property of man, though Le Cat states that he ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 • Various |
