humorsome
Example Sentences
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But, while she said it, Pearl laughed, and began to dance up and down, with the humorsome gesticulation of a little imp, whose next freak might be to fly up the chimney.
From The Scarlet Letter by Foote, Mary Hallock
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
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 Alcott, Louisa May
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 McCarthy, Justin
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
