It was a winsome sight to soldier vision, but with a certain semblance of pride and reserve about it that caused a hesitancy in my speech strange enough to me.
It was a group of perhaps a dozen,--three or four Federal officers, the remainder ladies, whose bright dresses and smiling faces made a most winsome sight.
They were pretty, winsome looking children, and Mrs. Eldon was roused to something like interest.
Ethel was more mature in looks and manners, Harry becoming quite manly in appearance, and in character also, the two younger girls were budding into lovely womanhood, Nannette being especially winsome in manner.
And when we came to Clovenford, Then said my winsome Marrow, ‘Whate’er betide we’ll turn aside And see the Braes of Yarrow.
For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.
Claire put her head a little sideways, and looked with winsome challenge at her companion; she assumed pretty airs and graces with him, nowadays, which she had never dealt in before the occurrence of a certain momentous episode.
Claire privately thought them very churlish friends to have forgotten anybody so high-bred and winsome as Mrs. Carmichael.
I didna snare the bonnie, bonnie bird, Nor try ony wiles wi' the winsome fairy, But won her young heart where the angels heard, In the bowery glen of Inverary.
I like to dress and mak me clean As ony winsome bride; And think na shame, though my face be seen, At morn or eventide.
The little girl was so winsome that she had captured all their hearts by storm, and they could not do too much for her.
The winsome face disappeared from the portway, and before Brockway could open his lips she was standing beside him.
There was a family resemblance, but in the daughter the magic of femineity had softened the severer characteristics until they became winsome and good to look upon.
He had a winsome way, and he made her say she loved him--more than once or twice--and his heart was satisfied.
The day was quite warm enough for her to wear the summer gown, and she was very winsome and pretty in her starched muslin, with the delicate green buds sprayed over it.
Bertrand painted more pictures and sold them; the children were gay and vigorous and brought life and good times to the home, and the girls grew up to be womanly, winsome lasses, light-hearted and good to look upon.
Build of stone a distant castle In the middle of the ocean, Keep within thy lovely maiden, Train thou there thy winsome daughter, Not long hidden canst thou keep her.
Spake the ancient Lemminkainen To the hostess of Pohyola: "Give to me thy lovely daughter, Bring me now thy winsome maiden, Bring the best of Lapland virgins, Fairest virgin of the Northland.
Spake the hostess of Pohyola: "Dearest daughter, winsome maiden, Dost thou wish a noble suitor?
And doubtless the religion of love won its way to many a stony pagan heart by the winsome spell of the saintly charities and heavenly benedictions of the persecuted Christians.
Its winsome gladness and purity, in an era of unspeakable pollution and sadness, revived the sinking heart of mankind, and made possible a Golden Age in the future transcending far that which poets pictured in the past.
All unwearied they strode to the hill, and swiftly were got to Parnassus and a winsome land, where they were to dwell, honoured of many among men.
Then Maia's son took courage, and sweetly harping with his harp he stood at Apollo's left side, playing his prelude, and thereon followed his winsome voice.
Thereat Phoebus Apollo laughed and was glad, and the winsome note passed through to his very soul as he heard.
Freely do thou bear it hereafter into the glad feast, and the winsome dance, and the glorious revel, a joy by night and day.
Hail, thou of the glancing eyes, thou sweet winsome Goddess, and grant that I bear off the victory in this contest, and lend thou grace to my song, while I shall both remember thee and another singing.
Do thou all this, and then busk the winsome wedding-feast, that is honourable among both men and immortal Gods.
Five winsome girls, from twenty to sixteen: Each young man that calls I say, "Now tell me which you mean!
She attacks rear, flank, and front, all at once, and then she takes your sword in such a winsome way that you are rather glad to surrender.
She was an awkward-looking girl about fourteen, all arms and elbows, but with a rather winsome face lighted by big, serious eyes.
American Patty A Story of 1812 Patty is a brave, winsome girl of sixteen whose family have settled across the Canadian border and are living in peace and prosperity, and on the best of terms with the neighbors and friendly Indians.
Thus hummed Lillie as she walked around this winsome representation of that Puritan maiden, surveying her critically, but with approving eye.
Oh, I know it's dirt cheap," she chirped with winsome blitheness.
Burr, despite his professed fondness for the company of boys, longed to exchange the society of Dominick and Harman for that of their winsome mother.
Madam Blennerhassett instructed Moses to take care of the horses, and side by side with the winsome maiden walked from the landing to the house, followed by a retinue of servants.
Violets would be very becoming to your brown hair and winsome face.
He wouldn't think I had a winsome face if I was the last girl alive, and yet I'm the moral image of Kittie.
Arrived beyond the town gate, though, the winsome maiden encouraged her three admirers to place their heavy knapsacks upon those tiny wheels and to pull their loads, so as not to tire themselves needlessly.
The winsome maids with willing hearts, In youthful beauty all aglow, Right cheerfully perform their parts Where duty's voice may bid them go.
That is a winsome plain; the woods are green, Far stretching under the stars.
And we see how the winsomemeadows of the land of the Phoenix must by their contrast have delighted the souls of men who were harassed on every side as our ancestors were.
The winsome picture of the baptized crowds at Pentecost gives an inkling of the spirit that will sway the new nation.
That winsome wooing Presence became to him stronger than the strongest human attachments of his family and home land.
It is most significant that this most winsomepicture at the end of the book contains the dark, black shadows, which remain in the picture at the end.
Bit by bit the view opens up before his eyes, from the coming of the Lord Jesus out of the opened heavens, on and on, until now the final view of all bursts in a winsome glory before his astonished, delighted eyes.
And again the spirit of winsome pleading breaks out to those unwashed ones who insist on staying outside the gate.
But your strength lies not in such graceful winsome work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "winsome" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
