As he himself had said, it was only for his livelihood that he was a lively Hood-although he was always brimming over with Comicalities; and he never felt more deeply the dignity of his profession and his own force and weight than when he was engaged on serious work.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
This last would appear in the occasional suffering it caused Moxy, the youngest, to do as his father required, but oftener in the incongruity between the lovely expression of the boy's face, and the oddity of it when it became the field of certain Comicalities required of him-especially when, stuck through between his feet, it had to grin like a demon carved on the folding seat of a choir-stall.
"Weighed and Wanting"
George MacDonald
All these absurdities of the worthy woman, who is truly pious and charitable, might have passed unnoticed, if nature, amusing herself as she often does by turning out these ludicrous creations, had not endowed her with the height of a drum-major, and thus held up to view the Comicalities of her provincial nature.
"Modeste Mignon"
Honore de Balzac