lightsomeness

Example Sentences

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Yet Drayton could write well, and had an agreeable lightsomeness of fancy, as his "Nymphidia" proves.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

As I have said, the key of the color-scheme has a direct emotional effect, so adding to the power and dignity or the grace and lightsomeness of the composition.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh

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

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

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

There is about her a certain lightsomeness, a glow or flash almost Latin or oriental, or perhaps Celtic.

From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack