humorsome

Example Sentences

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He smiled a dry, humorsome smile—the smile of a shrewd miller casting up his thirlage upon the mill door when he sees the fields of his parish ripe to the harvest.

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

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)

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

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

Yes, it's funny, but I guess his poor wife didn't find it very humorsome.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)