lightsomeness

Example Sentences

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So joyous and merry was he, that the squirrels squeaked and scurried away at sight of him, and the very hyenas laughed in harmony as he passed by singing, "Tra-la-la!" in his blithe lightsomeness.

From The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy by Spielmann, Mabel Henriette

“Shop” was sternly forbidden as a subject of conversation, and the remotest reference thereto was instantly booed into silence, for behind all the lightsomeness of demeanour a weight of anxiety lay on each heart.

From A College Girl by Groome, William H. C.

Carterette, with all her seeming lightsomeness, had sense and self- possession.

From The Battle of the Strong — Volume 4 A Romance of Two Kingdoms by Parker, Gilbert

They left the theater very slowly, with all the lightsomeness and gladness of heart gone.

From The Rebel of the School by Meade, L. T.

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 Maclaren, Alexander