Example Sentences

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Recall how lightsomely it ran down the snowy slope, from the Big Chimney Cabin to the river trail, that morning they set forth.

From The Magnetic North by Robins, Elizabeth

Alexander agreed, and they set to work to carry on a conversation, lightsomely fluttering from topic to topic.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

Patton's residence caught fire from blazing brands which consumed them speedily, and the heavens were soon alive with burning bits of wood, which being borne on the breeze sailed lightsomely away.

From The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by Stewart, George

“So lightsomely dropped in, his lordly back, His thigh so fitted for the tilt or dance.”

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette

So bare was thy fine throat, and curls of black So lightsomely dropp'd on thy lordly back.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James