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

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

"You've the lovesome hand with the beasties," said Pan as he smiled down on the lambs and me.

From The Golden Bird by Chase, Edward L.

"We shall eat our breakfast ten miles from town," Derry said, as their car carried him out into the country, "and there's a lovesome garden—" "With old-fashioned flowers and a fountain and a Cupid?"

From The Tin Soldier by Bailey, Temple

I said they were both the fairest ladies of their courts, and that the Queen of England was whiter, but our Queen very lovesome.

From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various