lovesome

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"A Garden," burbled Victorian Poet Thomas Edward Brown, "is a lovesome thing, God wot!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Ulenspiegel, thinking sadly of Nele, thus made answer: “I come from Flanders, a lovely land and filled with lovesome girls.”

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de

Then there fell the great yearning upon me, that never yet went into words;   While lovesome and moansome thereon spake and falter'd the dove to the       dove.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean

How pleasant, how lovesome, how joyous is life!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John

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