10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAMESOMELY»
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... if she “might be the smallest weed,” she could play the “sports of summer's
breed" “gamesomely” :—How does she know? Surely, in this instance, vaulting
ambition to reach beyond the narrow sphere of natural environment o'erleaps
itself.
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Christian Behaviour: A Holy Life, the Beauty of ...
... him from this deplorable condition. Prov. v. 22. 7. To say nothing of the
pleasure and delight that it makes him take in that way to hell in which he walketh
. Isa. Ixvi. 3 ; Prov. vii. 22 — 25. Never went fat ox so gamesomely to the
shambles, ...
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Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics
He could enter into the solemnity of speculation with Wordsworth while floating at
sunset on the lake ; and not the less gamesomely could he collect a set of good
fellows under the lamp at his supper-table, and take off Wordsworth's or ...
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The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion
They might have been quoted from old Fuller or Sir Thomas Brown. " Then the
Interpreter began and said, ' The fatter the sow is, the more she desires the mire ;
the fatter the ox is, the more gamesomely he goes to the slaughter; and the more
...
Abel Stevens, James Floy, 1855
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Islaford, and Other Poems: A Book for Winter Evenings and ...
They loved all gentle things : the lambs that flee, Like fleecy clouds, across the
dewy lea ; The birds that sport, as gamesomely as they, In morning air, or on the
leafy spray ; The bee that swingeth in the buttercup ; The trout that in the
sunshine ...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Complete in ...
... revelry ; Afar the bugles' clanging sound Call'd to the chase the lagging hound ;
The gale breathed soft and free, And seem'd to linger on its way To catch fresh
odours from the spray, And waved it in its wanton play So light and gamesomely.
Sir Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1841
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A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with ...
GAMESOMENESS, gFme-siim-nis. s. Sportiveness, merriment. GAMESOMELY,
gZVme-sfim-ly. ad. Merrily. GAMEST'ER,gA'ms-tt'ir. s. One who is vicioufly
addicted to play; one who is engaged at play; a merry frolicksome person; a
prostitute.
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Poetical Works Complete in One Volume
... The gale breathed soft and free, And.seem'd to linger on itsnway To catch fresh
odours from the spray, And waved it in its wanton play So light and gamesomely.
The scenes which morning-beams reveal, Its sounds to hear, its gales to feel In ...
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The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to ...
... are which yet Then the Interpreter began and said, The fatter the Sow is, the
more she desires the Mire; the fatter the Ox is, the more gamesomely he goes to
the slaughter; and the more healthy the lusty man is, the more prone he is unto
evil.
He could enter into the solemnity of speculation with Wordsworth while floating at
sunset on the lake; and not the less gamesomely could he collect a set of good
fellows under the lamp at his supper-table, and take ofl' Wordsworth's or ...
