Example Sentences

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In the midst of all that glee and gamesomeness it was strange to see one standing joyless.

From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Pogany, Willy

Then came a little stream and the horses splashed it about like children from very gamesomeness.

From The Marquis of Lossie by MacDonald, George

And she, seeing him so roguish, and knowing it all for the gamesomeness of youth, forgave him willingly.

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de

If you yourself can withstand three cheers at beholding these vivacious fish, then heaven help ye; the spirit of godly gamesomeness is not in ye.

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Melville, Herman

What he had done up to this hour had been done in the roystering, inconsiderate gamesomeness of boyhood.

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher