Vocabulary Word
Word: winsome
Definition: charming (in a childlike way); agreeable; gracious; engaging
Definition: charming (in a childlike way); agreeable; gracious; engaging
Sentences Containing 'winsome'
For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.
That glad, happy air, that winsome sky, did at last stroke and caress him; the step-mother world, so long cruel--forbidding--now threw affectionate arms round his stubborn neck, and did seem to joyously sob over him, as if over one, that however wilful and erring, she could yet find it in her heart to save and to bless.
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