"Quietsome" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Comp. L'Allegro, 94, "the jocund rebecks sound." gamesome, lively. This word, like many other adjectives in -some, is now less common than it was in Elizabethan English: many such adjectives are obsolete, e.g. laboursome, joysome, quietsome, etc. (see Trench's English, Past and ...
— Milton's Comus • John Milton |
