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But by your favour, sir, 'tis not so easy; her father has already promised her; and the young gentleman comes up with them: I partly know the man—but the old squire is humoursome; he's stout, and plain in speech, and in behaviour; he loves none of the fine town tricks of breeding, but stands up for the old Elizabeth way in all things.

All these people were as bilious as they could be, humoursome, mistrustful, the victims of a moral and physical supersensitiveness.

The humoursome Wagtails and that rare visitant the Waxwing, hopped along together, followed by the Swallows and the Martins, and a whole posse of Finches of various orders, particularly the Chaffinches who were joking with the Linnets.

"Pray be not so morose or humoursome," he wrote, "as to refuse all things you have not known so long as Christ's College."

Peter was, on the other hand, a most humoursome varlet and excellent company on a wet day.