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.