ill humour
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The swift gallop, the struggle with the furious horse, which again called into play all his force and skill, had quickly dispelled his sudden ill humour.
From Quicksands by Adolph Streckfuss
"Come, come," retorted James, with a good deal of quickness and ill humour, "don't be trying to come over me with your lecturing and cant."
From Christmas Stories by Edward Berens
Batti returned in an ill humour, because nothing had come of the purchase of horses, and the bad beer and black bread of the Remmingen inn were not calculated to soothe his irritation.
From A Noble Name or D?nninghausen by Claire Von Gl?mer
How far better tempered should we all be to others, if we anticipated the mischief that ill humour does to ourselves!'
From The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
To the others I am inclined to think his ill humour was a matter of indifference.
From Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
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