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Their chaff was not ill-humoured, and if matters had stood as they evidently imagined, Lucius could have borne it.

From Peter Binney A Novel by Marshall, Archibald

They are all rather whimsical, and sometimes ill-humoured.

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules

He continued thus for weeks, a miserable, ill-humoured, irritated and troubled man.

From The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story by Roussel, John

There, I shall have to go down to breakfast directly, and they will see how I look, they will see I am angry and ill-humoured.

From The Wide, Wide World by Warner, Susan

The simple, ingenuous and acquiescent sweetness with which she said this, was a new pang to her lover:—had she repined, had she looked ill-humoured, his task would not have been so difficult.

From Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter by Opie, Amelia Alderson