lightsomeness

Example Sentences

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Yet Drayton could write well, and had an agreeable lightsomeness of fancy, as his "Nymphidia" proves.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

The unobtrusive, but distinctly felt, alliteration which runs through it, contributes something toward this lightsomeness.

From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Corson, Hiram

George went at his task with much too much lightsomeness of spirit and disrespect for the situation.

From Chapters from My Autobiography by Twain, Mark

The footsteps above were distinguishable, though it was manifest that they moved with lightsomeness and circumspection.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

Kindelon seemed to muse for a brief space; and any such unconversational mood was rare, as we know, with his mercurial lightsomeness of manner.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar