humorsome

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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

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

The Commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms: they aver them to be rebellions.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

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

From Cordwood by Nye, Bill

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