Lovesome

The latter was particularly meaningful: While introducing it, Mr. Heath pondered Strayhorn's clever linguistics in devising the word "Lovesome," but then, perversely, his treatment of the flower was anything but lovesome. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

Say, there was one real fine man theah, big an 'han'some, kinda like you, but not neah as lovesome. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Genuinely constructive criticism is a lovesome thing, God wot. ❋ Imogen (2009)

Then they displayed her in the fourth bridal dress and she came forward shining like the rising sun and swaying to and fro with lovesome grace and supple ease like a gazelle-fawn. ❋ Unknown (2006)

His Highness the King loveth thee and hath a daughter, a winsome lady and a lovesome, to whom he is minded to marry thee. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Thanks for sharing your pastry recipe as a perfect pastry is a lovesome thing! ❋ Unknown (2008)

House under the Wood (as very seldom betid), and the witch-wife was speaking to her in friendly fashion (as for her) and blaming her for fleeing away, and was taunting her with the failure of her love, and therewith telling her how fair a man and lovesome was the ❋ Unknown (2007)

The old carle laughed outright now, and said: How so, dear child? because ladies so sweet and lovesome as thou be sent by love, and love rendeth apart that which was joined together. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Fairer and rounder shall be thine arms and thy shoulders when thou hast seen five more summers, yet scarce more lovesome, so strong and fine as now they are. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And, forsooth, for as grievously as my heart was wrung by the yearning of me for my love, yet was it a joy unto me to think that he went there desiring me, and that whom he desired was not the poor wretched creature chained there in her nakedness, with her body spoiled by torment and misery, but the glad maiden whom he had so often called fair and lovesome. ❋ Unknown (2007)

On her stow he ere was living with dear wife and lovesome daughter that then over land and seafloor nine years had long outwandered. ❋ Unknown (2003)

From the edge of the rich, flowery fields on which I trod to the midway sides of the snowy Olympus, the ground could only here and there show an abrupt crag, or a high straggling ridge that up-shouldered itself from out of the wilderness of myrtles, and of the thousand bright-leaved shrubs that twined their arms together in lovesome tangles. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Jonas did not, in spite of his pose, look like the typical hero of folk tale or scribe's tome; he was not seven feet tall, for instance, nor did he have a handsome, lovesome face with flashing blue eyes, or a broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted marvel of a figure. ❋ Laurence M. Janifer (1967)

"We shall eat our breakfast ten miles from town," Derry said, as their car carried him out into the country, "and there's a lovesome garden --" ❋ Temple Bailey (N/A)

And that night Jean said to Derry, "I am glad there were flowers to make it lovesome -- and I am glad there were vegetables to make it right." ❋ Temple Bailey (N/A)

(1830–1897) 1A Garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! ❋ Unknown (1919)

(1830–1897) 7671A Garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! ❋ Unknown (1919)