Shakespeare, As You Like It, act i. sc. 2.
The people thereof [Ephraim] were active, valiant, ambitious of honour; but withal hasty, humourous, hard to be pleased; forward enough to fight with their foes, and too forward to fall out with their friends.—Fuller, A Pisgah Sight of Palestine, b. ii. c. 9.
Or it may be (what is little better than that), instead of the living righteousness of Christ, he will magnify himself in some humourous pieces of holiness of his own.—H. More, Grand Mystery of Godliness, b. viii. c. 14.
Upon his sight of the first signs and experiments of the plagues which did accompany them, he [Pharaoh] demeaned himself like a proud phantastic humorist.—Jackson, Christ’s Everlasting Priesthood, b. x. c. 40.
The seamen are a nation by themselves, a humourous and fantastic people.—Clarendon, History of the Rebellion, b. ii. in init.
Wretched men, that shake off the true comely habit of religion, to bespeak them a new-fashioned suit of profession at an humourist’s shop!—Adams, The Devil’s Banquet, p. 52.
This eased her heart and dried her humourous eye.
Chapman, Homer’s Odysseis, b. iv. l. 120.
Hunger. It was long before this and ‘famine’ were desynonymized, and indeed the great famine year is still spoken of in Ireland as ‘the year of the hunger.’ Still in the main the words are distinguished, ‘famine’ expressing an outward fact, the dearth of food, and ‘hunger’ the inward sense and experience of this fact.
And aftir that he hadde endid alle thingis, a strong hungre was maad in that cuntre.—Luke xv. 14. Wiclif.