lightsomeness
Example Sentences
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There is about her a certain lightsomeness, a glow or flash almost Latin or oriental, or perhaps Celtic.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
Yet Drayton could write well, and had an agreeable lightsomeness of fancy, as his "Nymphidia" proves.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
There was a chatter of voices in the drawing-room, a chatter of a lightsomeness that Henson had never heard before.
From The Crimson Blind by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White
There was lightsomeness and gladness in every breath.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It was Swanhild's wedding-day; but she greeted it with little lightsomeness of heart, and her eyes knew no sleep that night, though they were heavy with tears.
From Eric Brighteyes by Henry Rider Haggard
