lightsomeness
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It vitalizes, warms, fuses, and imparts a lightsomeness to his verse; it creeps and kindles beneath the tissues of his thought.
From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Hiram Corson
George went at his task with much too much lightsomeness of spirit and disrespect for the situation.
From Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain
Carterette, with all her seeming lightsomeness, had sense and self-possession.
From The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms by Gilbert Parker
Kindelon seemed to muse for a brief space; and any such unconversational mood was rare, as we know, with his mercurial lightsomeness of manner.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
It was Swanhild's wedding-day; but she greeted it with little lightsomeness of heart, and her eyes knew no sleep that night, though they were heavy with tears.
From Eric Brighteyes by Henry Rider Haggard
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