Humours
[hju:məz]
Examples
- For if I had that chance, in one of the humours he drives me into--he'd go down, sir! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You are not aware of half my humours yet. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And you have never any odd humours, my dear. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Well, Mr. Moore, you should contend against these changeful humours. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The humours and dispositions of the Laputians described. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Finally, she sits down crying on a block of stone, and is in all the known and unknown humours of her sex at once. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We shall soon improve our youthful humours. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Upon this question the decisions of the courts of justice were not uniform, but varied with the authority of government, and the humours of the times. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But a wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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