lightsomeness
Example Sentences
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‘The company separated at an early hour,’ consoled for the loss of their bargains and the emptiness of their pockets by the lightsomeness of their heads and hearts.’
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
They left the theater very slowly, with all the lightsomeness and gladness of heart gone.
From The Rebel of the School by L. T. Meade
Sheep ointment seems to daub the dead-hued sky, And night shuts up the lightsomeness of day, All dark and absent as a corpse's eye.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare
There it is, like some persistent minor in a great piece of music, wailing on through all the embroidery and lightsomeness of the cheerfuller and loftier notes.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren
Yet Drayton could write well, and had an agreeable lightsomeness of fancy, as his "Nymphidia" proves.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
