loveworthy

Even though the eye be clear and the sight keen, if there were no loveworthy and desirable object, clearness of sight would neither please nor profit a man.

The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916

And therefore such a one walks in heaven, and beholds and apprehends with all saints the nobility of his Beloved, His incomprehensible height, His abysmal depth, length and breadth, wisdom and truth, His bounty and His unspeakable generosity, and all those loveworthy attributes which are in God our Lover without number, and without limit in His most high nature: for all this is He Himself.

The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916

"Knowing her, loving her -- loveworthy as she was -- how could you leave her?"

Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892

The tarnish she had discerned upon her armour, the foxmarks upon her fair page, dispersed under his ardent breath; she realised herself desirable and loveworthy; she arose from the thicket in which she cowered with the light of triumph prophetic in her eyes, the flush of victory after victory prophetic in her cheeks.

Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892

He did look, however, and pitied her deeply; at her lips dry with hatred, which should have been freshly kissed, at her drawn cheeks, into her amazed young heart: eh, God, he knew her loveworthy once, and now most pitiful.

The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892

This seemed so foreign to Faith's nature that Sylvia pondered and grieved over it till the belief came to her that this woman, so truly excellent and loveworthy, did not desire to receive her confidence, and sometimes a bitter fear assailed her that Warwick was not the only reader of her secret trouble.

Moods Louisa May Alcott 1860

"Having," continued the doctor, "granted myself some respite from toil in the laboratory at Marburg, I chose to pleasure voyage, to study yet more the social conditions in this loveworthy land.

The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903