What is "gamesome"

Usage examples of "gamesome".

He is the most gamesome and light-hearted of all the whales, making more gay foam and white water generally than any other of them.

Again and again to such gamesome talk, the dexterous dart is repeated, the spear returning to its master like a greyhound held in skilful leash.

Not a straw could him escape, Ever gamesome as an ape, But yet harmless as a sheep.

As he unclosed the wicket, at its very entrance, standing so that in spite of every caution a full view of Monina was at once afforded, stood a young man, whose countenance bespoke him to be ever on the alert for gamesome tricks, or worse mischief.

You yourself said that some new player must have entered the gamesome unknown genius of crime, who has organized the independent thieves into one great conspiracy.

Time came when this sort of thing was no longer a gamesome event, but a foregone conclusion.

Evelyn, a laughing cherub, a gamesome infant, without idea of pain or sorrow, would, shaking back his light curls from his eyes, make the halls re-echo with his merriment, and in a thousand artless ways attract our attention to his play.

The rough and undulating rent which marked the severance of the building was now thickly covered with ivy, which in its gamesome luxuriance had contrived also to climb up a remaining stack of tall chimneys, and to spread over the covering of the large oriel window.

She had mentioned Storri in a mood of mischief, as one spurs a gamesome horse to stir its mettle.

Ask thy little gamesome Sriva, when thou comest home to wed her, if I be not better able than thou to please a woman.

Judging you dispassionately, I found that you were a very charming gamesome animal,--physically perfect--with a Mind somewhere if one could only discover it, and a Soul or Spirit behind the Mind--if one could only discover that also.

He is the most gamesome and light-hearted of all the whales, making more gay foam and white water generally than any other of them.