Citations:lightsomely

English citations of lightsomely

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• 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Snow Flakes”, in Twice-Told Tales, volume 2, Boston: James Munroe & Co., page 160:

  Evening—the early eve of December—begins to spread its deepening veil over the comfortless scene; the fire-light gradually brightens, and throws my flickering shadow upon the walls and ceiling of the chamber; but still the storm rages and rattles against the windows. Alas! 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 snow-birds skimming lightsomely through the tempest, and flitting from drift to drift, as sportively as swallows in the delightful prime of summer.

• 1920 November, Ruth H. Lomnitz, “Interval”, in Western Reserve University Bulletin, volume 23, number 6, Cleveland, Ohio, page 4:

  Colette, come thou, dance with me, / Round this gnarled old apple tree, / Every measure lightsomely, / Colette, come thou, dance with me.

• 1921, Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams, Garden City, New York, Toronto: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 23:

  Lightsomely descending the narrow stairway, she whistled as she went, her fingers drumming time on the rail; and, still whistling, she came into the dining-room, where her mother and her brother were already at the table. The brother, a thin and sallow boy of twenty, greeted her without much approval as she took her place. ¶ “Nothing seems to trouble you!” he said. ¶ “No; nothing much,” she made airy response. “What's troubling yourself, Walter?”

• 1942 May, J. Frank Dobie, “Coyote Traits and Trails”, in Arizona Highways, volume 13, number 5, Phoenix, Arizona: Arizona Highway Department, page 42:

  Anyhow, one evening about sundown a smart coyote was trotting across the grass when he put his foot down over a cricket singing his song. He was lightsomely singing “Sereno en Aquellos Campos”—peacefully in those fields—when the coyote's paw cut his song short.