Even the ill-humored will suddenly discover good humor. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
I. (1) Some doctors that specialize on eyes are ill-humored. From Wordnik.com. [The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction] Reference
I was always ill-humored, vexing my step-mother and making baby cry. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
A woman with one-arm was guiding traffic with an ill-humored smirk on her face. From Wordnik.com. [We Will Elevate (Part Two)] Reference
Jove, wearied by her ill-humored persistency, took back the demi-god and sent her. From Wordnik.com. [Fables For The Times] Reference
This almost imperceptible symptom, and the rather ill-humored look, foretold a storm. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The king was ill-humored about it, and issued the proclamation again for the next day. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
But that frown, which must have been habitual, gave him a distinctly ill-humored look. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Durwald laid a hand on the northerner's shoulder, smiling to counter his ill-humored gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
It is often snappish, petulant, ill-humored, unfair, and sometimes malicious in the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference
My drowsy chaperone was awakened too suddenly, and was therefore very cross and ill-humored for some time after. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
The King was offended by this ill-humored attitude, and continued his raillery in friendly letters which he sent him. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
If you knew him only though his column in The Washington Post, which was often bellicose, you might think he was an ill-humored sort. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Kelly] Reference
The way to meet such ill-humored or offended readers is to gently explain the matter, with that "soft answer which turneth away wrath.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
He smiled at the peasant's ill-humored expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan] Reference
Men find me ill-humored, argumentative, and nervous. From Wordnik.com. [Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel] Reference
Be not ill-humored; you know it is useless to resist me. From Wordnik.com. [The Amulet] Reference
He is restless, ill-humored, easily roused and suspicious. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
Every man is ill-humored who loses such a sum as I have lost. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne] Reference
"Let us go!" said Kayser, drawing himself up in an ill-humored way. From Wordnik.com. [His Excellency the Minister] Reference
He was, therefore, tolerably ill-humored before he entered the arena. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle] Reference
But he was little given to thought, although not ill-humored in intention. From Wordnik.com. [Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders] Reference
Yet it was hot; all was relaxing; summer prevailed in one of its ill-humored moods. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
But boys, when they are ill-humored, and dispute, are always unreasonable and foolish. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo at Play Safe Amusements] Reference
So he stayed on, hour after hour, weary-eyed and taciturn, but by no means ill-humored. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Primitive] Reference
It was three days before Steve Hawn returned, ill-humored, reddened by drink, and worn. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of the Hills] Reference
Lord St. Aldegonde came down late, and looked about him with an uneasy, ill-humored air. From Wordnik.com. [Lothair] Reference
Tutmosis returned to the tent, ill-humored, and repeated the conversation to the pharaoh. From Wordnik.com. [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference
A child may sometimes be slapped by a nurse, usually when the nurse is cross and ill-humored. From Wordnik.com. [Heart and Soul by Maveric Post] Reference
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