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

"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

Thou wast fair, thou wast bonnie, my Marion, And lovesome thy rising breast-bane; The dew sat in gems ower thy ringlets, By the thorn when we were alane.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

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

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