humorsome

Example Sentences

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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

Indeed, he frowned at it, as if he felt that the gravity of the situation admitted of nothing frivolous or humorsome.

From That Affair Next Door by Green, Anna Katharine

My gudesire's hair stood on end at this proposal, but he thought his companion might be some humorsome chield that was trying to frighten him, and might end with lending him the money.

From The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural by Rhys, Ernest

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

"You'll think me humorsome, boy, but I hev an odd fancy."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various