Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, Across the bridge that spanned the dry ravine.

God forbid I should live through all of eternity in the company of two such raucous and spleenful harridans!'

Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor, And let my spleenful sons this trull deflower.

The Duke of Orleans is a rich and powerful aristocrat, arrogant and ruthless, "a spleenful detracting Lord."

Even so, their straw poll was delivered solidly to the conservative columnist Patrick J. Buchanan, much as they loved Mr. Dornan's spleenful warm-up act with its warnings against abortion and "pro-active" homosexuality.