lovesome
Example Sentences
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"A Garden," burbled Victorian Poet Thomas Edward Brown, "is a lovesome thing, God wot!"
From Time Magazine Archive
There she stood, with Aurea’s collar lying on her dear neck, and Viridis’ girdle about her shapen loins, and Atra’s ring on her lovesome finger.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William
“She is a lovesome little maid as yet,” said Mrs Tremayne.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah
"Wait but a little moment, then, while I go in to fetch the magic-glass, that will show you your face, Immanâla, handsome and lovesome."
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter
And on that day, to the rebec gay They frolicked with lovesome swains; They are gone, they are dead, in the churchyard laid, But the tree—it still remains.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes
