lightsomeness

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This results in that flexibility and lightsomeness of the voice, which is one of the most important features in the telling of the tale.

From A Study of Fairy Tales by Kready, Laura F.

Mallarmé plunged his verses into a secret darkness of symbols, until the words with their subterranean meaning almost became unintelligible, while Verlaine gave his lines the dream-rapt lightsomeness of a music never heard before.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan

It extends beneath the choir transepts and chapter-house; in consequence of the steep declivity on which the cathedral stands it is of unusual height and lightsomeness.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

There was a chatter of voices in the drawing-room, a chatter of a lightsomeness that Henson had never heard before.

From The Crimson Blind by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)

“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.