humorsome

Example Sentences

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We grow so humorsome, so obstinate and capricious, and so prejudiced, that it requires a fund of good-nature like yours not to grow morose.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace

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

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

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

From Cordwood by Nye, Bill

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 Rhys, Ernest