lightsomeness
Example Sentences
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It extends beneath the choir transepts and chapter-house; in consequence of the steep declivity on which the cathedral stands it is of unusual height and lightsomeness.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
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
It was Swanhild's wedding-day; but she greeted it with little lightsomeness of heart, and her eyes knew no sleep that night, though they were heavy with tears.
From Eric Brighteyes by Henry Rider Haggard
Sheep ointment seems to daub the dead-hued sky, And night shuts up the lightsomeness of day, All dark and absent as a corpse's eye.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare
There is about her a certain lightsomeness, a glow or flash almost Latin or oriental, or perhaps Celtic.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
