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Citations:funny-looking

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English citations of funny-looking

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  • 1807, H. Ellen Browning, A Girl's Wandering in Hungary, page 124:
    The dairy was a funny-looking place.
  • 1827, Amelia Opie, Madeline, page 71:
    ... but you are so comical, so merry, and so funny-looking, that I should never have thought you were married;
  • 1848, Albert Smith, Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth (contributors), Bentley's Miscellany - Volume 24, page 336:
    ... that funny-looking man, with his long hair, sunken eyes, red face, and high collar
  • 1925, Bessie Blackstone Coleman, Willis Lemon Uhl, James Fleming Hosic, The Pathway to Reading - Book 3, page 231:
    At last a funny-looking old gentleman hired her, and they started off to his funny-looking old house.
  • 1979, Gerald Mast, The Comic Mind - Comedy and the Movies, page 194:
    Semon's comedy was merely that of a funny and funny-looking character who pulled any familiar joke out of the film gag bag.
  • 1992, Thomas Wolfe, James William Clark (Jr.), The Lost Boy - A Novella, page 47:
    My lord! when I go uptown and walk down the street and look at all these funny-looking little boys and girls hanging around the drug-store ...
  • 1998, Nancy A. Walker (editor), What's So Funny? - Humor in American Culture, page 245:
    But they (Kramer's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, for example) must depend on funny-looking comic personalities rather than human pretzels, balls, and rubber bands.