lightsomeness
Example Sentences
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Sheep ointment seems to daub the dead-hued sky, And night shuts up the lightsomeness of day, All dark and absent as a corpse's eye.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare
Never again with the lightsomeness that had never known sorrow, but light even to gayety with the new and higher love born of tribulation.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss
They left the theater very slowly, with all the lightsomeness and gladness of heart gone.
From The Rebel of the School by L. T. Meade
Carlisle responded to this sensible treatment with what lightsomeness she could muster; but the odd truth was that she hardly listened to Hugo.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
It vitalizes, warms, fuses, and imparts a lightsomeness to his verse; it creeps and kindles beneath the tissues of his thought.
From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Hiram Corson
