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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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 Green, Anna Katharine

I then, in a humorsome way, marked it "dictated letter" and sent it away.

From Cordwood by Nye, Bill

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

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