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

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.

Fairer and rounder shall be thine arms and thy shoulders when thou hast seen five more summers, yet scarce more lovesome, so strong and fine as now they are. 

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William

Assuredly, lovesome ladies, Filomena speaketh sooth in that which she saith of friendship and with reason com504plaineth, in concluding her discourse, of its being so little in favour with mankind.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John

I’ve sot ther’ a-smilin’ to see the lovesome buds come along an’ open out, an’ make the air sweet wi’ perfumes an’ color an’ things.

From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Cullum, Ridgwell