sweetfulness

Then come, my sweet, I am athirst for thee; / Mine eyelids quiver with the heat of love, / And like the life-devouring hungry sea / I fain would compass with the waves thereof / Thyself, mine eyes’ content; yea, let me press / Upon thy lips one kiss of sweetfulness.

1869, Henry Martin, “Caro et Spiritus”, in Phædra, and Other Poems, London: (for the Author) John Camden Hotten, […], page 69

Even as mean an animal as a skunk will make himself known to the travelling public, but the so-called “life-long democrat” slinks behind a hedge fenced nom de plume and does not rise to the dignity of the aforesaid animal, tho’ we’ll wager our interest in a gold mine that a skunk can discount Life-Long Democrat on truth, beauty and sweetfulness.

1885 September 24, “Communicated”, in The State Vidette, volume III, number 21, Crete, Neb.

Ask a mother who has a boy bursting into the sweetfulness of manhood what estimate she puts upon him. Would she exchange the love and veneration of that young heart for Alice’s and Phœbe’s happiness and the ephemeral reputation these girls have left their friends and generation? Certainly not. Her language would be, should a proposition be made to build her a world and install her perpetual queen, provided her boy’s love and being were blotted out, Never, never!

1887 June 2, J. W. M., “Old Maids Again”, in New Orleans Christian Advocate, volume 34, number 22 (whole 1609), New Orleans, La., page 2, column 4

We have often received a “thousand kisses” at the caudal extremity of a letter, but it requires a painful stretch of imagination to appreciate such luscious sweetfulness.

1895 August 24, The Neihart Herald, volume V, number 39 (whole 247), Neihart, Mont.

This charity only increases our joy, for the more we give the more we receive, till our hearts overflow with sweetfulness.

1895 August 26, “The First Murderer. The Story Taught the Human Race By the History of Cain and Abel. Fine Arts and the Press Enlighten the World and Serve Religion in Constantly Nobler Ways.”, in The Daily Inter Mountain, volume XV, number 135, Butte, Mont., page 8