humorsome

Example Sentences

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His eyes twinkled with a humorsome light, but his face was shrewd, alert and aggressive.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

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)

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

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

"You'll think me humorsome, boy, but I hev an odd fancy."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various