Meaning of sweetful | Babel Free

Definitions

Characterised by sweetness; delightful; charming.

uncommon

Examples

“Vnder a Popler Themis did repoſe her, / And from a brier a ſweetfull branch did plucke:[…]”

“No Friend attending, ſave the warbling Bird / Of Night, which kindly tun’d her melancholy Song / With ſweetful Mone, in Pity to her Fate.”

“For Maſter Billy Thrumm being juſt out of his Time, his Mamma was reſolved to have a Rout to celebrate his Freedom; and her Spouſe, Mr. Churchwarden, dealing in Rabbit Skins, and the Warehouſe at that Time being empty, ſhe inſiſted upon having the Card-tables ſpread there; becauſe, ſhe ſaid, it was a ſweetfuller Place, than where Madam Hipſhott the Overſeer’s Wife kept her’s;”

“This sweetful day will all be lost[…]Come lovley Jenny haste away / Quickly come make no delay / Come & view these sweetful flowers / Nurs’d by Aprils softest showers / Haste & greet their happy shade / Soon they’l wither soon they’l fade / Then haste my dearest haste away / Come & taste the sweets of May”

“I begin to read two or three chapters for a time; but the sweetful words draw me to read about eight or nine chapters.”

“Of sweetful tones would you deprive the lute?[…]The seasons meet her on this sweetful land, / Persuasion crowns her on this Paphian strand;”

“In his own language, he wasted the “sweetful fragrance of his voice upon the desert air.””

“Her sweetful voice that laughed so clear, / And her own nameless, winsome way, / The simple dress she loved to wear, / Eyes that but looked, and I drawn near— / Now closed in Night for aye!”

“I sā! yow are feer, my beloved; ah, and sweetful; likeways, our bed is green.[…]Yar lips air liken onto a trid o’ scarlet, and yar spache is sweetful: yar timples air liken onto a bit o’ pomegranate ’ithin yar locks.”

“He [Cicero] travelled to Athens for the recovery of his health, where his body was so strengthened by gymnastic exercises as to become firm and robust, and his voice, which had been harsh, was thoroughly formed and rendered sweetful and sonorous.”

“Swiftly the news, / The dolorous sad news, because ’twas sad, / To Athens came. It reached the queen as she / Sweetful reclined within her room, and mused / Upon the thwarting of her love:[…]”

“Forthwith I mingled with my fellow-men, / And studiously from records of the past, / And from the flowing tide of human being, / Cull’d deepest knowledge of their history,— / Intent to fructify my life with theirs / In sweetful, wide communion.”

“The beauty of the poem, and that which we desire to emphasize, is the sweetful simplicity that pervades it.”

“They had sat by the sea-shore many evenings, and the murmuring of the waters lulled their spirits into the / Calmness of a / Sweetful repose, / A nepenthe of rest, / And in that calmness, so / Placid, pure and sweet, / Came visions, dreams and thrills / Of the happiness and bliss / That was to be!”

“God be praised for the storms of life, for they make, by the contrast, the rest which is coming more sweetful and more beautiful.”

“And as they stept, / The maiden wept, / So sweetful was Love’s tune!”

“When Pierre boards the ship, Nguyen smiles // as if he invented ice cream, / French Vanilla, and Pierre can / taste how sweetful it is to win”

“Sung with a sweetful and unbridled innocence, the songs on Emmylou Harris’ latest LP reflect the country singer’s enduring qualities in a way that pacifies.”

“I’d love to banter heart to heart and slowly feast on words from honest streams, but hunger’s king or else we’d simply starve in each other’s slowly weakening arms… retelling our dreams of love. And what a sweetful death that’d dearly be.”

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