spleenful
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A Peugeot had a headlight demolished by a spleenful buffalo; another car hit a giraffe.
From Time Magazine Archive
His fluency was as remarkable as ever, and at first as spleenful; by-and-by his outrageous mood gave way, and, in response to some of Rainham's adroit thrusts, he condescended to stand on his defence.
From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Ernest Christopher Dowson
But the gauntlet now is nearly run, The spleenful forts by fits reply, And the burning boat dies down in morning's sky.
From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville
To see the gathering grudge in every breast, Smiles on her lips a spleenful joy express'd; While on her wrinkled front, and eyebrow bent, Sat stedfast care, and lowering discontent.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
We regretted, for Thackeray's own sake, that he had permitted himself, in some spleenful moment, to commit an injustice, which would sooner or later be apparent to his own mind.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various
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