lightsomeness
- a word derived from lightsome.
Example Sentences
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Carlisle responded to this sensible treatment with what lightsomeness she could muster; but the odd truth was that she hardly listened to Hugo.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor
Yet Drayton could write well, and had an agreeable lightsomeness of fancy, as his "Nymphidia" proves.
From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell
George went at his task with much too much lightsomeness of spirit and disrespect for the situation.
From Chapters from My Autobiography by Twain, Mark
“Shop” was sternly forbidden as a subject of conversation, and the remotest reference thereto was instantly booed into silence, for behind all the lightsomeness of demeanour a weight of anxiety lay on each heart.
From A College Girl by Groome, William H. C.
There is about her a certain lightsomeness, a glow or flash almost Latin or oriental, or perhaps Celtic.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack
