lightsomeness

Example Sentences

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I will cheer you by my songs, and strive to inspire in others the joy and lightsomeness of heart I feel in my present state.

From The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends by Mathews, Cornelius

I have sung them all;—youth's lightsomeness that fleets,   Pure friendship, my most fondly cherished dreams, Wild blossoms and the winds that steal their sweets,   Wood odors, and the star that whitely gleams.

From In Divers Tones by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

The footsteps above were distinguishable, though it was manifest that they moved with lightsomeness and circumspection.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

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

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