How To Use Lightsome In A Sentence
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HERE let us linger at will and delightsomely hearken
The Watchman and Other Poems
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a lightsome buoyant step
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Many a pleasant, and many a profitable, hour have I spent in his "delightsome" library!!!]
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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So also was the text; and delightsomely appropriate withal.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
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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
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We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work, upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work, upon a lightsome ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure of the eye.
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The sun of autumn shone, lying like a benediction upon the land whose fruits were gathered; among the hips and haws in the hedges the birds, their family cares all over, sang lightsomely, with vacant hearts.
A Sheaf of Corn
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Beneath, the scene was open and lightsome, and the robin redbreast was chirping his best, to atone for the absence of all other choristers.
Saint Ronan's Well
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The last thing one hears of her, she is tripping up stairs to bed, talking lightsomely or warbling; and one meets her in the morning, the very image of bright morn itself, smiling briskly at you, so that one takes her for a promise of cheerfulness through the day.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
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But what is lightsome and blithe in her, was debonaire in him.
CHAPTER XVIII
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Addressing vast audiences, the former slave ‘touches chords in the inner chambers thereof which vibrate music now sweet, now sad, now lightsome, now solemn, now startling, now grand, now majestic, now sublime’.
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What idea is more beguiling than the notion of lightsome spirits, free of time and space and human weakness, hovering between us and all harm?
TIME.com: Top Stories
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Hawthorne said: "Happiness may walk soberly in dark attire as well as dance lightsomely in a gala-dress.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.
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For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them 2 Nephi 5:21.
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After that, we spend a few hours talking about how Democrats, gentiles, and Tammy Wynette are all going to Hell and how we think the Lamanites gentiles call them Indians in the local church look much whiter and more "delightsome" this year, just as Our Prophet, Spencer W.
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And I dressed me again, and got my armour upon me, and afterward was I in a more lightsome state of the mind; and yet very ready to come again unto my sleep.
The Night Land
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Then you take a little jump, and what follows immediately is lightsome and pattering.
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What more delightsome than an infinite variety of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours, the greene mantle of the earth, vniuersall mother of vs all, so by them bespotted, so dyed, that all the world cannot sample them, and wherein it is more fit to admire the Dyer, than imitate his workemanship.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions
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Sallys, the latent vapour in the earth, the drooping leaves and flowers, the birds and beasts and creeping things, the gardeners to sweep the dewy turf and unfold emerald velvet where the roller passes, the smoke of the great kitchen fire wreathing itself straight and high into the lightsome air.
Bleak House
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It comes chiefly from Austria and Siberia; yet Greene in his "Philomela," 1615, speaks of "the Hyssop growing in America, that is liked of strangers for the smell, and hated of the inhabitants for the operation, being as prejudicial to the one as delightsome to the other.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
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Presently, when I had come near to being comfortable, there chanced a lightsome step upon the floor behind me, and, turning, I discovered that Mistress Madison was surveying me with a roguish and somewhat amused air.
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
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'Implying that I dislike _you_,' said Sidwell, lightsomely.
Born in Exile
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See the marks he has there left of his love in condescending so low for us; see how easy he has made that bed, and how lightsome, for us, by lying in it himself; when we look into the grave, where we expect we must lie, to take off the terror of it, let us look into the grave where the Lord lay; the place where our
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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trilling songs with a lightsome heart
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I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals.
Chapter 29
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Still more profound a touch is that where Ottima, daring her lover to the "one thing that must be done; you know what thing: Come in and help to carry," says, with affected lightsomeness, "This dusty pane might serve for looking-glass," and simultaneously exclaims, as she throws them rejectingly from her nervous fingers, "Three, four -- four grey hairs!" then with an almost sublime coquetry of horror turns abruptly to Sebald, saying with a voice striving vainly to be blithe --
Life of Robert Browning
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The big chair creaked delightsomely to the ears of Elly Precious.
Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings
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“Mony a dainty ane,” said Madge; “and blithely can I sing them, for lightsome sangs make merry gate.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Mrs. Plummet shed real tears when I told her my good news at six o'clock that night; and more tears a fortnight later when I moved out of my little hall bedroom, and my feather-weight trunk, lightsomely balanced on the shoulders of one man, was conveyed to the express-wagon and thence to new lodgings in Irving Place.
The Fifth Wheel A Novel
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I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals.
Chapter 29
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she walked lightsomely down the long staircase
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Now they want to take away whitesome delightsome JESUS from our schools.
The Passion of the Cracker: Saving the un-Jesused of Escambia County
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In those long lightsome Irish summer evenings when the sun doesn't sink until after ten o'clock, the family would linger onboard at the mooring.
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This song they carolled on such dulcet wise and so delightsomely that to the king, who beheld and hearkened to them with ravishment, it seemed as if all the hierarchies of the angels were lighted there to sing.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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There were just then about 600 of them on duty at Resina Garcia, and as they were for the most part dressed in spotless white they looked delightsomely clean and cool.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
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Henry sitteth not over delightsomely on his throne, seeing he hath captivated [captured] the four childre of my sometime Lord of March, and shut them close in the Castle of Windsor.
The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
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Start your day lightsomely and get some positive energy in our Bulle Lobby Bar.
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It had flustered me greatly, but she only laughed ringingly and delightsomely as I backed out of the room.
The Yeoman Adventurer
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'Guessed the work was going well; you sing so lightsomely to-day, Grete!
Farina
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As there was no abatement of the blows of the boat against the embankment, no reply nor explanation, a shot from the gun of one of the levee-watch came skipping lightsomely over the water as
The Crucial Moment 1911
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In what vernacular tongue, for instance, does Mr. Hunt find a lady's waist called _clipsome_ (p. 10) -- or the shout of a mob "enormous" (p. 9) -- or a fit, _lightsome_; -- or that a hero's nose is "_lightsomely_ brought down from a forehead of clear-spirited thought" (p. 46) -- or that his back "drops" _lightsomely in_ (p. 20).
Famous Reviews
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Lightsome show film of translucent lacteal eye, need not be cleaned or rip off, can sleep after direct daub.
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Then was Christian glad and lightsome, and said, with a merry heart, He hath given me rest by his sorrow, and life by his death.
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And the smaller arches above, how delicate and lightsomely graceful!
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Shahrazad awoke and signalled to her sister Dunyazad who sat up and said, “Allah upon thee, O my sister, recite to us some new story, delightsome and delectable, wherewith to while away the waking hours of our latter night.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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So what had seemed darksome before now appears most perfectly lightsome to every sort of person-to the dense as well as to the discerning.
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I read, and kindled; nor found I what to do to those deaf and dead, of whom myself had been, a pestilent person, a bitter and a blind bawler against those writings, which are honied with the honey of heaven, and lightsome with Thine own light: and I was consumed with zeal at the enemies of this Scripture.
The Confessions
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Sigismund dreaming delightsomely after his haying.
Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.
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Material forms, containing light incorporated in them, need still a light apart from them that their own light may be manifest; just so the Beings of that sphere, all lightsome, need another and a lordlier light or even they would not be visible to themselves and beyond.
The Six Enneads.
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Availability will become delightsome and easy, for in each person the soul will see the face of her Love.
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‘unlightsome’ (Milton), ‘healthsome’ (_Homilies_), ‘ugsome’ and
English Past and Present
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Each of the three characters, plus an eccentric psychiatrist, is precisely located - and lightsomely elsewhere.
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Quoth the Sultan, O Shahrazad, how excellent are these thy stories, and how delightsome!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night