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
It was a lovesome, mystic place, shut in partly by old red brick walls against which fruit trees were trained and partly by a laurel hedge with a wood behind it.
From My Robin by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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 Earle, Alice Morse
I had always supposed that a mocking-bird, like a garden, was "a lovesome thing, God wot."
From The Smiling Hill-Top And Other California Sketches by Winslow, Carleton M.
"You've the lovesome hand with the beasties," said Pan as he smiled down on the lambs and me.
From The Golden Bird by Chase, Edward L.
