delightsome
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Captain John Smith, who first entered the bay in 1608, was so taken with the "fruitful and delightsome" place that he declared, "Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation."
From Time Magazine Archive
Laurie’s eyes followed her with pleasure, for she neither romped nor sauntered, but danced with spirit and grace, making the delightsome pastime what it should be.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
The flower planting was done by Mr. John Cope; and the garden is delightsome in proportions, contour, and aspect.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
There's nothing delightsome without society, no society so sweet as matrimony.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Edward John Hardy
This added to my other employments the delightsome one of courting, and we were married on the first of January, 1858.
From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Orange Jacobs
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