The sun of autumn shone, lying like a benediction upon the land whose fruits were gathered; among the hips and haws in the hedges the birds, their family cares all over, sang lightsomely, with vacant hearts. ❋ Mary E. Mann (N/A)
The last thing one hears of her, she is tripping up stairs to bed, talking lightsomely or warbling; and one meets her in the morning, the very image of bright morn itself, smiling briskly at you, so that one takes her for a promise of cheerfulness through the day. ❋ Various (N/A)
Mrs. Plummet shed real tears when I told her my good news at six o'clock that night; and more tears a fortnight later when I moved out of my little hall bedroom, and my feather-weight trunk, lightsomely balanced on the shoulders of one man, was conveyed to the express-wagon and thence to new lodgings in Irving Place. ❋ Olive Higgins Prouty (1928)
Having made sure that the bed on which it rested was firm and moderately dry, he covered the box with a strewing of last year's leaves, cunningly trailed a bramble or two over it, and pursued his way more lightsomely, albeit still under some oppression: for the house stood formidably high, and he feared all converse with women. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
In what vernacular tongue, for instance, does Mr. Hunt find a lady's waist called _clipsome_ (p. 10) -- or the shout of a mob "enormous" (p. 9) -- or a fit, _lightsome_; -- or that a hero's nose is "_lightsomely_ brought down from a forehead of clear-spirited thought" (p. 46) -- or that his back "drops" _lightsomely in_ (p. 20). ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)
As there was no abatement of the blows of the boat against the embankment, no reply nor explanation, a shot from the gun of one of the levee-watch came skipping lightsomely over the water as ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
Hawthorne said: "Happiness may walk soberly in dark attire as well as dance lightsomely in a gala-dress." ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
'Implying that I dislike _you_,' said Sidwell, lightsomely. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
'Guessed the work was going well; you sing so lightsomely to-day, Grete! ❋ George Meredith (1868)
I know not if ever more exhilarated feelings blessed the youth; they made him trip along the silent road, in a gush of joyfulness, at the rate of some six miles an hour; I know not if ever such delicious thoughts of Emily's attachment, and those gorgeous mysteries in India, of adventure, enterprise, escape, had heretofore caused his heart to bound so lightsomely within him, like some elastic spring. ❋ Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849)
While she thus awaited the midnight knell that was to summon her to the innumerable sisterhood of departed years, there came a young maiden treading lightsomely on tip-toe along the street from the direction of the railroad dépôt. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
Gray, sullen clouds hang about the sky, or sometimes cover it with a uniform dulness; at other times, the portions towards the sun gleam almost lightsomely; now, there may be an airy glimpse of clear blue sky in a fissure of the clouds; now, the very brightest of sunshine comes out all of a sudden, and gladdens everything. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
The last thing one hears of her, she is tripping up stairs to bed, talking lightsomely or warbling; and one meets her in the morning, the very image of bright morn itself, smiling briskly at you, so that one takes her for ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
While she thus awaited the midnight knell, that was to summon her to the innumerable sisterhood of departed Years, there came a young maiden treading lightsomely on tiptoe along the street, from the direction of the Railroad Depot. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
I shiver and think it time to be disconsolate, but, taking a farewell glance at dead Nature in her shroud, I perceive a flock of snowbirds skimming lightsomely through the tempest and flitting from drift to drift as sportively as swallows in the delightful prime of summer. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
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