The mob did not lynch the audacious humourist.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
"Miss Holly, Howard, was an only daughter, and brought up by an old humourist of a father, whose idol she was, whilst she yielded every sense to his guidance.
"The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. I"
Sophia Reeve
The dictum of a modern humourist, that to laugh at a man properly you must first love him, would have seemed to an ancient Roman a contradiction in terms.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar