humorsome

Example Sentences

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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 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

We grow so humorsome, so obstinate and capricious, and so prejudiced, that it requires a fund of good-nature like yours not to grow morose.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace

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

If you look at it one way, the thing's humorsome.

From The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" by Bindloss, Harold