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

“Medoubteth if she will ever be as lovesome as I. I was much better favoured at her years.—Art thou aweary, sweeting?”

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah

I’m neither a lovesome young damsel nor a hobgoblin, that thou shouldst set eyes on me thus.

From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by Rainey, W. (William)

Ah, how lovesome should you be, under dat bush by the gate, that hath de yellow flowers, when de sun was setting, and all golden behind you!

From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by Rainey, W. (William)

Then there fell the great yearning upon me, that never yet went into words;   While lovesome and moansome thereon spake and falter'd the dove to the       dove.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean