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

"We shall eat our breakfast ten miles from town," Derry said, as their car carried him out into the country, "and there's a lovesome garden—" "With old-fashioned flowers and a fountain and a Cupid?"

From The Tin Soldier by Bailey, Temple

Jesus, my precious darling, my love, my life, my beloved, my most worthy of love, my heart's balm, Thou art lovesome in countenance, Thou art altogether bright.

From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman

“Medoubteth if she will ever be as lovesome as I. I was much better favoured at her years.—Art thou aweary, sweeting?”

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah