lovesome
Example Sentences
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"A Garden," burbled Victorian Poet Thomas Edward Brown, "is a lovesome thing, God wot!"
From Time Magazine Archive
I’m neither a lovesome young damsel nor a hobgoblin, that thou shouldst set eyes on me thus.
From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by W. (William) Rainey
And on that day, to the rebec gay They frolicked with lovesome swains; They are gone, they are dead, in the churchyard laid, But the tree—it still remains.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
There she stood, with Aurea’s collar lying on her dear neck, and Viridis’ girdle about her shapen loins, and Atra’s ring on her lovesome finger.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
"You've the lovesome hand with the beasties," said Pan as he smiled down on the lambs and me.
From The Golden Bird by Edward L. Chase
