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
How pleasant, how lovesome, how joyous is life!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John
First he roused Iris of the golden wings to speed forth and call the fair-tressed Demeter, the lovesome in beauty.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew
All angels' life is to look upon Thy face, for Thy cheer is so marvellously lovesome and pleasant to look upon....
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman
‘If thou had ought eny ill will,’ he saith, ‘Thou shoulde have taken my lyffe, And have saved my children thre, All and my lovesome wyffe.’
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank
