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 is a dear thing a little town, 'a lovesome thing, God wot,' and Priorsford is the pick of all little towns.

From Penny Plain by Douglas, O.

I said they were both the fairest ladies of their courts, and that the Queen of England was whiter, but our Queen very lovesome.

From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various

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.

Gaze steady where yon starless deep the gaze revolts, And say, Seest thou a Titan forging thunderbolts, Or three fair butterflies at lovesome play?

From The Unknown Eros by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton