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Spleenful   Listen
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Spleenful  adj.  Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy. "Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny." "Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, Across the bridge that spann'd the dry ravine."





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"Spleenful" Quotes from Famous Books



... idols. By degrees That Truth he mocked forsook him. Year by year His face grew dark, and barbed his tongue though smooth, Manner and mind like grass-fields after thaw, Silk-soft above, yet iron-hard below: Spleenful that night at Sebert's blithe discourse He answered thus, with seeming-careless eye Wandering from wall to roof: 'I like your Church: Would it had rested upon firmer ground, Adorned some airier height: ...
— Legends of the Saxon Saints • Aubrey de Vere


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