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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
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 John Black
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 Anna Katharine Green
But you're welcome to it, as some of it is rather humorsome, the laugh may do you good ef the story don't.
From Work: a Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott
