Well I remember when I read the opening lines, and how they came upon me sweetly as the flowing breath of a bright spring.
The day is spent, the lily folds Her leaves upon her breast; The violets close their dewy eyes And sweetly sink to rest.
My vanity forbids me (instead of the more sweetly consecrating it) a form in which you run me so close.
None of them begs any more; they have each a nosegay to offer you; they were out and gathering it before you had awakened out of your sleep, and the supplicating face looks as sweetly at you as the present which the hand is holding out.
She spoke so sweetly and persuasively, that Leroy was profoundly touched.
His eyes grow very heavy, not a word, That his weak senses may come sweetly home.
What stinking things, and how sweetly they become us!
Glad beyond all expression," replied her lover, the angry light of battle instantly dying out of his eyes as he looked upon her sweetly pitiful face.
Her faith in him was sweetly unreasonable, but it was immensely strong.
The tone of despondency in which this speech was delivered, struck sweetly on the ear of Marion Wade.
Thus sweetly absorbed, he had advanced along the road to the distance of some two or three hundred yards, from the place where Garth had left him.
And the enclosed being a violet, had "hinted" so sweetly that a sort of blissful misery of anticipation had been thrilling her nerves and flushing and paling her cheeks all the day.
The soft confusion, the flushing cheek and drooping eye, that sweetly contradict the open plainness of her speech, were missing.
But you never forget the sweetly spicy savor of the flesh-pots of Egypt!
And the brown stream washed merrily round him, singing low, but as sweetly as he had ever heard it.
Get your breath, my dear, for 'tis sweetly pretty to see 'ee dance.
In a tone so weak and lowly, Sweetly weak and soul-subduing.
So droopt that friend, who, through the livelong day Of icy cold that chill'd my inmost life, Sat like a bird upon the outside branch, And sweetly sang me songs of coming Spring.
Ere the budding soul, so sweetly shy, Had opened its core to the coming kiss Of an earthly love that was born to die Ere it filled her heart with its hallowed bliss.
How sweetly it sounds; how nicely the words fit each other!
It was a sweetly fair spring morning, that made us step forth blithely.
Father, father, kiss thy child, Thy affection prove; When my mother sweetly smil'd Her look was love.
Softly in the cradle lie; A mother's heart thy wants supply; She can rest if thou repose, Sweetly then thine eyelids close.
The pillow's soft on which you rest, And sweetly you have fed; Still lean upon your mother's breast Your weary little head.
She spoke in the sweetly practical tone of one who is firmly resolved not to permit any nonsense.
In the midst of the emotional scene, Cousin Pussy alone remainedsweetly matter-of-fact.
This was the season when for a long while people sat talking at open windows, and from the Warden's garden came sweetly up the scent of May flowers.
I never saw a pair go down so sweetly to the gate.
Then I went back to my room and slept an hour or so, as deeply and sweetly as I ever slept in my life.
With us women it is altogether different: we do not willingly efface a word which sounds sweetly to our ears, much less a line, much less a whole page of our poor life.
Sweetly the west wind whistled about his head as he ran.
But the thought that was setting her pulses to beating was as sweetly human as that of any bride since Eve.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sweetly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
