Meaning of sweetfulness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being sweetful.

uncommon, uncountable

Examples

“Then come, my sweet, I am athirst for thee; / Mine eyelids quiver with the heat of love, / And like the life-devouring hungry sea / I fain would compass with the waves thereof / Thyself, mine eyes’ content; yea, let me press / Upon thy lips one kiss of sweetfulness.”

“Yes, the alarm of cruel war broke into the sweetfulness of the dreams / Of these / Betrothed and devoted / Lovers!”

“Even as mean an animal as a skunk will make himself known to the travelling public, but the so-called “life-long democrat” slinks behind a hedge fenced nom de plume and does not rise to the dignity of the aforesaid animal, tho’ we’ll wager our interest in a gold mine that a skunk can discount Life-Long Democrat on truth, beauty and sweetfulness.”

“Ask a mother who has a boy bursting into the sweetfulness of manhood what estimate she puts upon him. Would she exchange the love and veneration of that young heart for Alice’s and Phœbe’s happiness and the ephemeral reputation these girls have left their friends and generation? Certainly not. Her language would be, should a proposition be made to build her a world and install her perpetual queen, provided her boy’s love and being were blotted out, Never, never!”

“We have often received a “thousand kisses” at the caudal extremity of a letter, but it requires a painful stretch of imagination to appreciate such luscious sweetfulness.”

“This charity only increases our joy, for the more we give the more we receive, till our hearts overflow with sweetfulness.”

“You are not trying General Keneny for the fact that he did not nurse this pure, sweet cherub back to sweetfulness, gentleness and piety.”

“No words can describe how its hush and its rest and its solace and its sweetfulness hath calmed and soothed the aching brain and fevered pulse and stinging nerve, […]”

“The Southern League championship season was inaugurated today. Birmingham and Montgomery locked horns in this city and Nashville and Atlanta tossed the sweet tinge of sweetfulness into the hearts of the faithful in the Georgia capital.”

“The grateful soul labors and strives to express more completely that sweetfulness of delight, and finds no words to do so; and such is the worth of these few words that if only one iota be changed the meaning of the whole message is instantly diminished.”

“The lady is very particular about her servants. They must have the best of references, be well appearing, of quiet demeanor and always the pink of sweetfulness.”

“That Beautiful and Realistic Comedy of Modern Life / The CLIMAX / By EDWARD LOCKE / Musical Theme by Joseph Carl Breil / A Play of Sweetfulness and Strength”

“He listened to the sweet strains of the music and liked it, It soothed him, calmed him, and sent sense of sweetfulness and restfulness through his tired soul.”

“You, you have been butchered, and will go down to posterity as ‘The man with the lily,’ etc., by Carola Dolci — such color — and sweetfulness.”

“The wonderful preservation of her voice throughout her lengthy career on the operatic stage is really phenomenal, and gratifying not only to herself but to everyone who has had the privilege of listening to its range and sweetfulness since her return from Europe.”

“And Inky the Indian boy — Hurree Jamset Ram Singh in full—whose idea of English was to say, “The sweet[-]fulness of these jam-iferous tarts is terrific.””

“Moans escaped her, broke out as nerves disturbed into a tingling and acute awakeness, quivered and throbbed with final, and finest sweetfulness of joy.”

“How does self-surrender come into this path of Jnana Marga as we normally and naturally take it to be the sweet and joyful merger of the little individuality of the Bhakta with the Immensity of his Beloved God Whom the Upanishad describes as rasa-swarupa (the Embodiment of Joy or sweetfulness)?”

“[MARK] BLANKENSHIP: […] And it - as we're talking, it makes me realize that's why this show for me became about sweetness with thoughtfulness. It's sweetfulness (ph) with respect for the humanity of the people on screen.”

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