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

‘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

I’ve sot ther’ a-smilin’ to see the lovesome buds come along an’ open out, an’ make the air sweet wi’ perfumes an’ color an’ things.

From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Cullum, Ridgwell

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

It was a lovesome, mystic place, shut in partly by old red brick walls against which fruit trees were trained and partly by a laurel hedge with a wood behind it.

From My Robin by Burnett, Frances Hodgson