humorsome
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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 Connop Thirlwall
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 Ernest Rhys
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
One of his contemporaries describes him as "so humorsome, proud, and capricious, that he was rather a ministry spoiler than a ministry maker."
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy
I then, in a humorsome way, marked it "dictated letter" and sent it away.
From Cordwood by Bill Nye
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