delightsome
Americanadjective
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Origin of 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
Rambling on discursively, she struck upon an idea, too fraught with delightsome mischief not to urge her to immediate action.
From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion
We shrink from that apparent termination, as if beyond it there could be but a shadowy, spectral life in which nothing is substantial, nothing lively, nothing delightsome, nothing strong.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus
All this delightsome countryside is Hogg-land too, let us remember, as well as Scott-land.
From In the Border Country by W. S.
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