umbrageous

• He was “umbrageous,” ready to be discomposed by the action of others, but, if not vexed or startled, he was elaborately courteous. —  Henrik Ibsen
• The middle-age architecture, the baronial hall, and the spacious and lofty rooms, of this fine old place, so unlike the mean and cramped externals of English middle-class life, gave the sentiment of a larger and freer existence, and were to me a sort of poetic cultivation, aided also by the character of the grounds in which the Abbey stood; which were riant and secluded, umbrageous, and full of the sound of falling waters. —  Autobiography
• He became an abbe and a saint, peevish, umbrageous, and as excessively devout as his more famous brother was excessively the opposite. —  Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2)
• We have a pleasant   home, a good garden, ponds full of fish, and a pleasing valley   somewhat like Shenstone's—deep, umbrageous, and with a talkative   stream running down it. —  Lives of the English Poets
• We have a pleasant house, a good garden, ponds full of fish, and a pleasing valley, somewhat like Shenstone's--deep, umbrageous, and with a talkative stream running down it. —  Evolution, Old ; New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin

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