humorsome

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His eyes twinkled with a humorsome light, but his face was shrewd, alert and aggressive.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

But, while she said it, Pearl laughed, and began to dance up and down, with the humorsome gesticulation of a little imp, whose next freak might be to fly up the chimney.

From The Scarlet Letter by Foote, Mary Hallock

One of his contemporaries describes him as "so humorsome, proud, and capricious, that he was rather a ministry spoiler than a ministry maker."

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by McCarthy, Justin

It is a humorsome display of frolic; a whole cornucopia of the most vivacious jokes is emptied into it.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John

My friend, Baron von Essen, the father of the young man whom you lately met in my saloon, as he advanced in life grew humorsome and eccentric.

From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Thirlwall, Connop