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
Now what shall be our verdict in this case, lovesome ladies?
From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
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
She had short, curling, dark hair, irregular features, and violet eyes—not a bit handsome, but big and bonny and lovesome.
From Mary Gray by Tynan, Katharine
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
