She is first and best in lightsomeness of temper, for the eastern is known as essentially a tragic genius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

There was a chatter of voices in the drawing-room, a chatter of a lightsomeness that Henson had never heard before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Blind] Reference

This results in that flexibility and lightsomeness of the voice, which is one of the most important features in the telling of the tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference

I have sung them all; -- youth's lightsomeness that fleets.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Divers Tones] Reference

Brooding sensitiveness and responsibility passed into lightsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life] Reference

For the gaunt, bony frame and limbs of Hepzibah, as compared with the tiny lightsomeness of.    From Wordnik.com.  [House of the Seven Gables] Reference

George went at his task with much too much lightsomeness of spirit and disrespect for the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters from My Autobiography] Reference

Yet Drayton could write well, and had an agreeable lightsomeness of fancy, as his "Nymphidia" proves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books Second Series] Reference

I will cheer you by my songs, and strive to inspire in others the joy and lightsomeness I feel in my present state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians] Reference

As for the little girl, all the squalor of the abode served but to set off her lightsomeness and brightsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance] Reference

The footsteps above were distinguishable, though it was manifest that they moved with lightsomeness and circumspection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793] Reference

The unobtrusive, but distinctly felt, alliteration which runs through it, contributes something toward this lightsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference

I will cheer you by my songs, and strive to inspire in others the joy and lightsomeness of heart I feel in my present state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends] Reference

It vitalizes, warms, fuses, and imparts a lightsomeness to his verse; it creeps and kindles beneath the tissues of his thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference

Carlisle responded to this sensible treatment with what lightsomeness she could muster; but the odd truth was that she hardly listened to.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference

Never again with the lightsomeness that had never known sorrow, but light even to gayety with the new and higher love born of tribulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss] Reference

He began again, and played more carefully, but still with too much lightsomeness; he couldn't seem to learn to take the situation seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters from My Autobiography] Reference

It was Swanhild's wedding-day; but she greeted it with little lightsomeness of heart, and her eyes knew no sleep that night, though they were heavy with tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

There it is, like some persistent minor in a great piece of music, wailing on through all the embroidery and lightsomeness of the cheerfuller and loftier notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke] Reference

'The company separated at an early hour,' consoled for the loss of their bargains and the emptiness of their pockets by the lightsomeness of their heads and hearts. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6] Reference

"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 Wordnik.com.  [A College Girl] Reference

For the gaunt, bony frame and limbs of Hepzibah, as compared with the tiny lightsomeness of Phoebe's figure, were perhaps in some fit proportion with the moral weight and substance, respectively, of the woman and the girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of the Seven Gables] Reference

I always see great beauty and lightsomeness in these classic and Grecian edifices, though they seem cold and intellectual, and not to have had their mortar moistened with human life-blood, nor to have the mystery of human life in them, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference

At such a time it is made to sing a song, which, readily awakening the sympathies of the soul, causes the listener to recognize and feel the effects of the intonations of pathos, of passion, of deepest melancholy, or those of lightsomeness and wildest joy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music and Some Highly Musical People] Reference

It was fixed during the very years that are for youth the age of lightsomeness, of joy, of budding bloom, during those three years and four months of captivity in the Tower of the Temple when she saw die, one after another, her father, her mother, her aunt, her brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference

And to this very day, though touched with a stroke which prevented her from moving far out of her chair, Ailie Skirving showed the good blood and high - hearted lightsomeness that had won the young laird of Craig Ronald upon the Loch Grannoch side nearly fifty years before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference

It seemed all strange to him, for the old farm life had become largely a memory, and it was but yesterday that he was in college, one of a thousand, full of all energy and lightsomeness, and here he was alone in the wood as in a monastery, and all else was somehow like a dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man and a Woman] Reference

In all his life, including its earliest and happiest days, he had never known such a spring and zest as now filled his veins, and gave lightsomeness to his limbs; this spirit gave to the beautiful country which he trod a still richer beauty than it had ever borne, and he sought his ancient home as if he had found his way into.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies] Reference

A third is in its lightsomeness of movement, its go, when well-freighted with thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference

"Such a repugnance to the hard conditions of long life is common to all sensitive and thoughtful men, who minister to the luxury, the refinements, the gayety and lightsomeness, to anything, in short, but the real necessities of their fellow-creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")] Reference

Made lighter with thy lightsomeness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

And night shuts up the lightsomeness of day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference