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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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 P. Austin Nuttall
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 Mary Hallock Foote
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 John Black
Borderers, buccaneers, robber, and humorsome people, like Dugald Dalgetty and Bailie Nicol Jarvie and Macwheeble, whom he said he preferred to any person in "Waverley," were the characters he delighted in.
From Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
