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Lovable   /lˈəvəbəl/   Listen
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Lovable  adj.  Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love. "Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat."






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"Lovable" Quotes from Famous Books



... John Forster, biographer of Dickens, an intimate friend of his own grandfather and father, as a man of violent, noisy passions, but very lovable; his ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn

... love," she put in at last, a little wistfully; "they are not its essence. A man may be a barbarian and yet lovable." ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther

... with the newspaper, and sat for two hours, staring straight before him, until, just after four o'clock, the door was suddenly flung open, and a slim, athletic young girl, with a wealth of soft fair hair, a perfect countenance, a sweet, lovable expression, and a pair of merry blue eyes, burst into ...
— Hushed Up - A Mystery of London • William Le Queux

... dreaming distance, its atmosphere of the far off come near, chastened by journeying, fine with the unfamiliar, its solemn changes towards the impenetrable night, was too large a thing and fraught with too much tender and lovable invention to be worshipped in any selfishness. It made her feel as if she could gladly be a martyr for unseen human beings, as if sacrifice would be an easy thing if made for those to whom such beauty would appeal. Brotherhood rose up and cried ...
— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens

... public, in turn, worshipped her; she had acted her many parts, laughed, cried, sinned, and waxed exceeding happy—and now she was to be cast out into the darkness. Must she not have shivered when she entered her house in Lower Grosvenor Street for the last time? Poor lovable creature! There could be for her now neither lights, nor laughter, nor applause; all would be gloom and ...
— The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield • Edward Robins


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