lightsomeness
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Never again with the lightsomeness that had never known sorrow, but light even to gayety with the new and higher love born of tribulation.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss
It vitalizes, warms, fuses, and imparts a lightsomeness to his verse; it creeps and kindles beneath the tissues of his thought.
From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Hiram Corson
He began again, and played more carefully, but still with too much lightsomeness; he couldn't seem to learn to take the situation seriously.
From Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain
This results in that flexibility and lightsomeness of the voice, which is one of the most important features in the telling of the tale.
From A Study of Fairy Tales by Laura F. Kready
“Shop” was sternly forbidden as a subject of conversation, and the remotest reference thereto was instantly booed into silence, for behind all the lightsomeness of demeanour a weight of anxiety lay on each heart.
From A College Girl by William H. C. Groome
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