They cried so hard that their caps fell off, and then they said: "We will send for Dr. funnyman."
"Little White Barbara"
Eleanor S. March
When Dr. funnyman came he looked at Little White Barbara through an eye-glass and a magnifying glass and an opera-glass and a telescope, and then he said to Aunt Dosy and Aunt Posy: You must go to London and buy her some Laughing Medicine.
"Little White Barbara"
Eleanor S. March
funnyman, the great wit, was asked, because of his jokes; and Mrs. Butt, on whom he practises; and Potter, who is asked because everybody else asks him; and Mr. Ranville Ranville of the Foreign Office, who might give some news of the Spanish squabble; and Botherby, who has suddenly sprung up into note because he is intimate with the French Revolution, and visits Ledru-Rollin and Lamartine.
"A Little Dinner at Timmins's"
William Makepeace Thackeray