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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