blithesome
adjective
lighthearted; merry; cheerful.
blithesomely
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a word derived from
blithesome.
Example Sentences
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How often in the summer-tide, His graver business set aside, Has stripling Will, the thoughtful-eyed, As to the pipe of Pan, Stepped blithesomely with lover's pride Across the fields to Anne.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
It was ten-thirty of the morning whose dawn T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., had blithesomely hailed with an impromptu musicale and saengerfest on "Lookout There!" rock, and the football triumvirate were in togs.
From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by J. Raymond Elderdice
A lover sighing for his mistress would have sighed less blithesomely and to the very end of his plaint.
From The Justice of the King by Hamilton Drummond
A moment of silence on Hicks' part; then the sunny youth grinned at his beloved Dad, as he responded blithesomely: "I'm Pollyanna, that old Bannister and I won out, Dad!"
From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by J. Raymond Elderdice
"It isn't so nice to-day, is it?" she called blithesomely.
From Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
