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

Fairer and rounder shall be thine arms and thy shoulders when thou hast seen five more summers, yet scarce more lovesome, so strong and fine as now they are. 

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William

On her stow he ere was living with dear wife and lovesome daughter that then over land and seafloor nine years had long outwandered.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

"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

My little heroine—the bonnie, winsome, lovesome Meta—had seen many changes even in her short lifetime.

From In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism by Stables, Gordon