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

Gaze steady where yon starless deep the gaze revolts, And say, Seest thou a Titan forging thunderbolts, Or three fair butterflies at lovesome play?

From The Unknown Eros by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

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

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

I had always supposed that a mocking-bird, like a garden, was "a lovesome thing, God wot."

From The Smiling Hill-Top And Other California Sketches by Winslow, Carleton M.