spleenful

Example Sentences

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A Peugeot had a headlight demolished by a spleenful buffalo; another car hit a giraffe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah, those maladette bestie di serpenti—they swarmed among the rocks: they were of every kind and size; worst of all, the spleenful naja.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Douglas, Norman

Smallbones kept up a fiery run of comment and spleenful argument on every individual who backed the doctor in his demand for moderation.

From The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country by Cullum, Ridgwell

His fluency was as remarkable as ever, and at first as spleenful; by-and-by his outrageous mood gave way, and, in response to some of Rainham's adroit thrusts, he condescended to stand on his defence.

From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Dowson, Ernest Christopher

But the gauntlet now is nearly run,   The spleenful forts by fits reply, And the burning boat dies down in morning's sky.

From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Melville, Herman