humorsome

Example Sentences

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

From Cordwood by Nye, Bill

Yes, it's funny, but I guess his poor wife didn't find it very humorsome.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

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

Borderers, buccaneers, robber, and humorsome people, like Dugald Dalgetty and Bailie Nicol Jarvie and Macwheeble, whom he said he preferred to any person in "Waverley," were the characters he delighted in.

From Waverley by Scott, Walter, Sir

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)