Speak not kindly or gently to an ill-humoured fellow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gulistan of Sa'di] Reference

Pale and ill-humoured, he was pacing up and down his study.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Raw Youth] Reference

Is better than confectionery from the hand of an ill-humoured fellow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gulistan of Sa'di] Reference

There was a note of ill-humoured peremptoriness in the sound of his voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bobok] Reference

As usual, his face looked anxious and ill-humoured, and his beard was uncombed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wife] Reference

He continued thus for weeks, a miserable, ill-humoured, irritated and troubled man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference

What women to live with! insincere, ill-humoured, bloodless, brainless nonentities!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

What women to live with! insincere, ill-humoured, bloodless, brainless non-entities!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_] Reference

But that was only for a moment, next day he was worse and more ill-humoured than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Possessed] Reference

Mr Bonteen, however, was not beaten by much, and was in consequence somewhat ill-humoured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phineas Finn] Reference

And he waited; his attitude gave her no help; on the contrary he put on a rather ill-humoured air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret Stonewalled]

When the sea was rough he was usually ill-humoured, and the merest trifle would make him irritable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witch, and other stories] Reference

He was gloomy, ill-humoured, taciturn, was afraid of nobody, and refused to recognize any authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wife] Reference

On meeting a flock of these little busybodies the most ill-humoured observer is forced to burst into laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey] Reference

Whereupon Captain Fizgig got an appointment in the colonies, and Miss Brough became more ill-humoured than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Hoggarty Diamond] Reference

He employed towards him only the most indispensable forms of civility, and made use of the most ill-humoured language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Luther] Reference

After some time had elapsed, she turned out to be ill-humoured, quarrelsome, disobedient, abusive in her tongue and embittering my life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gulistan of Sa'di] Reference

I should probably have grown bitter and ill-humoured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero] Reference

At last he spoke in an unpleasantly harsh, ill-humoured way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap] Reference

They are a picturesque lot, neither vicious nor ill-humoured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia] Reference

"Well -- what now?" demanded Arroyo, in an ill-humoured tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tiger Hunter] Reference

She was not grateful, or ungrateful, or unkind, or ill-humoured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

"They're ten apiece," corrected the woman in ill-humoured tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quest] Reference

Let us make a compact never both to be ill-humoured at the same time.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus] Reference

It was minute dissection without bitterness or ill-humoured innuendo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference

Moreover the place is wearisome, and I am fanciful and often ill-humoured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon of Israel] Reference

Marius shrugged his shoulders; his face suggested that he was ill-humoured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Martin's Summer] Reference

"Yes -- to smooth out all the ill-humoured wrinkles and frowns, I suppose.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy] Reference

The miller felt the hours hang heavily, and he became listless and ill-humoured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

He was sourly ill-humoured all the evening; Juliana wreaked her displeasure on Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference

This he said in a tone which he himself felt to be ill-humoured and almost petulant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference

'Wha's braggin noo, Kirsty?' cried the boy, with a touch of not ill-humoured triumph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heather and Snow] Reference

But it made him so ill-humoured and displeased that it plainly showed in his countenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Arthurian Romances] Reference

'Abusive, difficult and ill-humoured': Nurse's diary reveals what a terrible patient Winston.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

"Lookye here, master," growled Ike in an ill-humoured voice, "ain't I been to market afore?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden] Reference

"No, sir, I don't," said Doctor Chowne, throwing down one of the pieces in an ill-humoured way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore] Reference

You see the orchestra only as an indifferent, ill-humoured, and even wearisome crowd of players.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Future of our Educational Institutions] Reference