humorsome

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And so, with a careless and humorsome wave of his hand to one side, he went down the staircase, and so out into the quadrangle of the Palace.

From Red Axe by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The Commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms: they aver them to be rebellions.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Tailors, Carlyle's humorsome name in "Sartor" for the architects of the customs and costumes woven for human wear by society, the inventors of our spiritual toggery, the truly poetic class.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

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

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