Having or displaying warmth or affection.
1 Ay, she's a lovesome lass,-andHelmar thought so, too.
2 I had always supposed that a mocking-bird, like a garden, was "a lovesome thing, God wot."
3 She had short, curling, dark hair, irregular features, and violet eyes-nota bit handsome, but big and bonny and lovesome .
4 Eleanore the beautiful, the lovesome , was- Ididnot, could not finish the sentence, even in the silence of my own mind.
5 Gardens are costing us dearly; so could we do more with them, asks Marc Coleman A garden is a lovesome thing.
6 When we find it, it must be a lovesome garden, with the old-fashioned flowers, and a fountain with a cupid-and a fish-pond.
7 It is a dear thing a little town, 'a lovesome thing, God wot,' and Priorsford is the pick of all little towns.
8 There she stood, with Aurea's collar lying on her dear neck, and Viridis' girdle about her shapen loins, and Atra's ring on her lovesome finger.
9 The New Yorker, July 28, 1945 P. 13 A label is a lovesome thing, as any child knows who buys candy bars.
10 But the gate which led to the Lovesome Garden was open wide, so that one might see the Cupid as he rode his swan.
11 "You've the lovesome hand with the beasties," said Pan as he smiled down on the lambs and me.
12 "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-
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