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

She had been so bright and lovesome yesterday at this time.

From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Green, Anna Katharine

Ulenspiegel, thinking sadly of Nele, thus made answer: “I come from Flanders, a lovely land and filled with lovesome girls.”

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de

How pleasant, how lovesome, how joyous is life!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John

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