lightsome

How To Use lightsome In A Sentence

• HERE let us linger at will and delightsomely hearken The Watchman and Other Poems
• a lightsome buoyant step
• I perceive a flock of snow-birds, skimming lightsomely through the tempest, and flitting from drift to drift, as sportively as swallows in the delightful prime of summer.
• But nowe it is high time for vs to weigh our ancre, to hoise vp our sailes, to get cleare of these boistrous, frosty, and misty seas, and with all speede to direct our course for the milde, lightsome, temperate, and warme Atlantick The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
• I have known a Man thoughtful, melancholy, and raving for divers days, who forthwith grew wonderfully easy, lightsome and cheerful, upon a Discharge of the peccant Humour, in exceeding purulent Metre.
• Having made sure that the bed on which it rested was firm and moderately dry, he covered the box with a strewing of last year's leaves, cunningly trailed a bramble or two over it, and pursued his way more lightsomely, albeit still under some oppression: for the house stood formidably high, and he feared all converse with women. Hocken and Hunken
• A good, brave man hath walked aforetime on your margent, himself as bright, and usefull, and delightsome as you, sweet river. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
• Many a pleasant, and many a profitable, hour have I spent in his "delightsome" library!!!] Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
• So also was the text; and delightsomely appropriate withal. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
• And being given not merely to fleece but utterly to flay men, they no sooner espy a foreign merchant in the city, than they find out from the book of the dogana how much he has there and what he is good for; and then by caressing and amorous looks and gestures, and words of honeyed sweetness, they strive to entice and allure the merchant to their love, and not seldom have they succeeded, and wrested from him great part or the whole of his merchandise; and of some they have gotten goods and ship and flesh and bones, so delightsomely have they known how to ply the shears. The Decameron, Volume II