For the people who were shovelling away on the house-tops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball—better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest—laughing heartily if it went right, and not less heartily if it went wrong.
1852, [Richard Hildreth], chapter LI, inThe White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive, Boston, Mass.: Tappan and Whittemore; Milwaukee, Wis.: Rood and Whittemore,page332:
There are a good many of these girls whom it is quite enough to spoil the temper of thebest-natured woman in the world to have in the house with them.
Rasmus was a tall, powerful man, with a weather-beaten, furrowed face of agood-natured expression.
1964 August, “Dr. B lights a pre-election fuse”, inModern Railways, page76:
However, the immediate howls of outrage from the industry were in many cases less thangood-natured.
2017, Charles Duff, “What About the Linen?”, inCharley’s Woods: Sex, Sorrow and a Spiritual Quest in Snowdonia, London: Zuleika,→ISBN,page145:
I had a rival for Marcel’s affections, a boy who later became the king of recorded classical music andconfrère of Herbert von Karajan. I was vile to this poor chap who, like a cheerful Papageno, was muchbetter-natured than I was.
