lightsomeness

There is about her a certain lightsomeness, a glow or flash almost Latin or oriental, or perhaps Celtic.

Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

We must reflect that, since the many forms of lives are movements — and so with the Intellections — they cannot be identical: there must be different lives, distinct intellections, degrees of lightsomeness and clarity: there must be firsts, seconds, thirds, determined by nearness to the Firsts.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

This results in that flexibility and lightsomeness of the voice, which is one of the most important features in the telling of the tale.

A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

She is first and best in lightsomeness of temper, for the eastern is known as essentially a tragic genius.

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

There was a chatter of voices in the drawing-room, a chatter of a lightsomeness that Henson had never heard before.

The Crimson Blind

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.

The Ruin of a Princess Cl 1912

Francis's lightsomeness had its source in that entire surrender of everything present and passing, in which he had found the interior liberty of the children of God; it drew its strength from his intimate union with Jesus in the Holy

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

"Our citizenship" is to be "in heaven," and we are to "shew forth the excellencies of God" in the lightsomeness and spirituality of His people.

The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910

Brooding sensitiveness and responsibility passed into lightsomeness.

Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906

Carlisle responded to this sensible treatment with what lightsomeness she could muster; but the odd truth was that she hardly listened to

V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905