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)

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

His eyes twinkled with a humorsome light, but his face was shrewd, alert and aggressive.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

There was Kemp, the stout tragedian; gray John Lowin, the walking-man; Diccon Burbage, and Cuthbert his brother, master-players and managers; Robin Armin, the humorsome jester; droll Dick Tarlton, the king of fools.

From Master Skylark by Bennett, John

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