lightsomely

How To Use lightsomely In A Sentence

• And the smaller arches above, how delicate and lightsomely graceful!
• 'Implying that I dislike _you_,' said Sidwell, lightsomely. Born in Exile
• 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
• HERE let us linger at will and delightsomely hearken The Watchman and Other Poems
• 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
• 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
• 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
• So also was the text; and delightsomely appropriate withal. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
• 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
• 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.