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
It was a lovesome, mystic place, shut in partly by old red brick walls against which fruit trees were trained and partly by a laurel hedge with a wood behind it.
From My Robin by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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 Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
She had short, curling, dark hair, irregular features, and violet eyes—not a bit handsome, but big and bonny and lovesome.
From Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan
I’ve sot ther’ a-smilin’ to see the lovesome buds come along an’ open out, an’ make the air sweet wi’ perfumes an’ color an’ things.
From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Ridgwell Cullum
