Citations:lightliness

English citations of lightliness

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• 1840 May, “G.”, “Notices of New Works”, in Southern Literary Messenger, volume 6, number 5, Richmond: Thomas W. White, page 392:

  “ […] When breaking clear, upon the ear, / From out the pine-topp'd hill, / In sprightliness and lightliness, / The welcome whip-poor-will / Was heard, I've sat in mute delight, / With Maggie and the bird of night.”

  (Review of George B. Wallis's Specimens in Literature; or Scraps and Sketches, from a Printer's Portfolio, of the same year.)

• 1875 April 17, Annie Thomas, “Ended!”, in Harper's Weekly, volume 19, number 955, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 322:

  They had left Irish and taken good root on English soil for several centuries, and the sole trait which could be discovered in Guy that seemed to indicate the presence in his veins of some of the erratic blood of Erin was a certain lightliness in love that made wary parents and guardians very shy of him.

• 1899, Shirley Gilliland, “The Public Kodak, Third and Last Call”, in Proceedings of the Iowa State Bar Association's Fifth Annual Meeting Held at Sioux City, Iowa; July 12 and 13, 1899., Tipton, Iowa: Tipton Conservative, published 900, page 95:

  I think there is no respect in which we so much discredit the profession generally as in the lightliness with which we appear to look upon perjury. The honest witness, if adverse, often gets little better treatment than the notorious prevaricator.

• 1909, Jessie Mackay, “The Knight that Rode Away”, in Land of the Morning, New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, page 40:

  Sits the good Lord who is Fountain of Knightliness / Balancing all in an iris of rain,— / Slayers to death, but the sinners of lightliness, / Homeless, to follow the moorlight again;— / […]

• 1910, Thomas Walker, Sir William Wallace, His Life and Deeds, Glasgow: Muir, in modern prose (from the edition of Dr. Jamieson) of original by Henry the Minstrel (Blind Harry), book 11, page 301:

  Then said Wallace: “ […] Scottish men have helped this realm out of its distresses, and methinks for such good deeds you ought to give us good words. What may you speak of your enemies but ill?” ¶ They made answer in mere lightliness, and also disdained him in their words. ‘You Scots,’ they said, ‘have ever yet been false.’