lightsome

Example Sentences

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Re-imagining Benny Goodman,” Mr. Etkin, a Israeli clarinetist with a lightsome disposition, pays a contemporary homage to the artist known in his day as the King of Swing.

From New York Times

Of course, it helps that the play is 50 minutes, but the cast is so agreeable and the script is so lightsome that those minutes fly by.

From New York Times

Happy were I if I could stay like you in hope, and lead the pleasant summer life, beneath the lightsome looks of her whom I love best.

From Project Gutenberg

Singing and dancing like the lightsome, joyous people they are, the couples hasten to the altar without more ado.

From Project Gutenberg

In a word, tasting the full relief of emancipation, I became so gay and lightsome that even the smoke and din of London, when I re-entered it, failed to subdue the unusual humour.

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