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

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

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

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

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