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
“She is a lovesome little maid as yet,” said Mrs Tremayne.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
There she stood, with Aurea’s collar lying on her dear neck, and Viridis’ girdle about her shapen loins, and Atra’s ring on her lovesome finger.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
A Garden is a lovesome thing, God wot; Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot, The veriest school of Peace; And yet the fool Contends that God is not in gardens.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
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 William Morris
