10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LONGSOME»
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Teutonic Etymology: The Formation of Teutonic Words in the ...
Fulsome, (foul-like,) nauseous, offensive. Gladsome, (glad-like,) joyous.
Lightsome, (light-like,) joyous. Lithesome, (lithe-like,) pliant. Obsolete. Loathsome
, (loath-like,) hateful. Lonesome, (lone-like,) lonely. Longsome, (long-like,)
tedious.
Josiah Willard Gibbs, 1860
And so from Anglo-Saxon times to very modern days we have had the analogous
word longsome, meaning so long as to be almost wearisome or tedious. It is
common with the Elizabethan writers, so well known to Mr. Lowell, and Prior is
cited ...
William Conant Church, 1873
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
LONGSOME. adj. [from long.'] Tedious ; wearisome by its length.— They found
the war so churlish and longsome, as they grew then to a resolution, that, as long
as England stood in state to succour thore countries, they should but consume ...
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Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
Hu- miles W. of Peterhead. etius, bishop of Avranches, speaks very advanta- •
LONGSOME. adj. [from long.'] Tedious ; geously of this work, but censures some
passages wearisome by its length.— They found the war so as obscene.
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Arabian Nights, in 16 Volumes
0 night, thou art longsome for love-sick sprite * Complaining of Love and its
ecstacy: Thou makest him wakeful, who burns with fire * Of a love, like the live
coal's ardency. The moon is witness my heart is held * By a moonlight brow of the
...
A. V. Williams Jackson, Romesh C. Dutt, 2008
0 night, thou art longsome for love'sick sprite * Complaining of Love and its
ecstacy: Thou makest him wakeful, who burns with fire * Of a love, like the live
coal's ardency. The moon is witness my heart is held * By a moonlight brow of the
...
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Onight, thou art longsome for love sick sprite* Complaining ofLove and itsecstacy
: Thou makest him wakeful, who burns with fire *Ofa love, like the live coal's
ardency. The moon is witness my heart is held * By a moonlight brow of the
brightest ...
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The English dialect dictionary
LONGS. see Long, adv.2 LONGSOME, adj. Sc. Irel. Nlib. Cum. \Vm. Yks. Der. Shr.
Dor. Som. Also in forms langsam Or.I.; langsoni Sh.I. Cum“; langsonie Sc. N.Cy.l
Nlib. Lakel.2 Cum.'l \Vm.n.Yks.1“ ne.Yks.I m.Yks.1; Flangson Sh.I.: langsum Sc.
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The Works of ... Andrew Gray, Etc. [Edited by R. Trail and ...
r \ WWTLJ, words was, the difficulty to attain to mortification, which we conceive
was held forth under that word, crucify ,- which doth import, that' mortification is a
longsome work, as crucifying was a longsome death: as likewise, it doth import, ...
Andrew GRAY (Minister of the Gospel in Glasgow.), John STIRLING (D.D.), Robert TRAIL, 1762
... and to withstand the resolution taken for his repairing from Norway to Denmark,
foreseeing (besides the cumber and cost to these countries, and their Majesties'
travel in so longsome a journey) what occasion of expenses he should have in ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LONGSOME»
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BEN WILLIAMS and MOLLY MOODY — Never trust a trust
SECOND, while everyone thinks he knows what the longsome trust agreement says, nobody wants to read it. We can all quote a little Faulkner, ... «Mississippi Business Journal, Feb 15»
Meditating on Mortality
Stood reading the chapter from the longsome blue-bound book. The quiet domestic tone and rich evocation of textures in Brock-Broido's ... «Harvard Crimson, Oct 13»