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joyless
1. Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir
2. I can’t do anything else,” Sarah relented with a joyless frown
3. entrance, inscribed in stone, were the joyless words Bring thy children unto me that I may teach them the ways
4. It was only to be done in a strict, laboratory setting and was a completely joyless affair
5. nounce this joyless and transient human body to devote himself to
6. He was divorced from his wife and you are living in a joyless compromise with Angela
7. It was bad enough that I'd caused the accident which paralysed him, but when he discovered about Sir Anthony and me—' Her throat muscles worked up and down spasmodically and she gave a particularly joyless little laugh
8. Had he been forced, like a lot of church kids, in order to set an example, to spend half his school holidays at the services? Had he never gone fishing for newts in the nearest pond, bringing them home triumphantly in a jam-jar? Had he never kept green caterpillars in a match-box, waiting for them to change magically into butterflies? Had his youth been the joyless one Rafferty imagined it to be? Spent joining in doleful hymns shut inside a damp church while the world and the birds outside were singing sweeter songs? If so, it was no wonder if his youth and capacity for joy had atrophied
9. Religion to them was a joyless burden, for they carried their God on their backs instead of in their hearts
10. feeble, dependent, joyless; a state to be dreaded and shrunk from, not one to be hoped for
11. ' It is a state peculiar to 'death;' in most cases, shadowy, in-ert, feeble, dependent, joyless; a state to be dreaded and shrunk from, not one to be hoped for
12. expences, not permit her to beguile in society, a wearisome, joyless life; for over their mutual fortune she has no power, it must all pass through his hand
13. looking down the long vista of the years that were gone, they saw that from their childhood they had been years of poverty and joyless toil
14. Where there will be no weary, broken men and women passing their joyless lives in toil and want, and no little children crying because they are hungry or cold
15. Running was joyless, but Louie had no other answer to his internal turmoil
16. I mourned the loss, magnified by the memory of the joy I’d felt in the taking of them in a strangely joyless time
17. He could distinguish them not only by their flat, joyless faces, which to Mrs
18. For hours nothing relieved the joyless monotony of things
19. "I prefer always reading what you like best to hear," said Dorothea, who told the simple truth; for what she dreaded was to exert herself in reading or anything else which left him as joyless as ever
20. Those Joyless Puritans who denounce all Lust alike are foolish and innocent of the Ways of the World; for, as there is a Diff’rence betwixt sound and rotten Meat, so, too, there is a Diff’rence betwixt chearful Lust and that gloomy Variety which sickens the Soul
21. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!”
22. And so he managed to be present at prayers, masses for the dead, to confess, make signs of the cross in front of icons, with a quiet mind, without being conscious of the lie, and to continue in the service which gave him the feeling of being useful and some comfort in his joyless family life
23. What for? Why bring up another generation of the same cheated slaves, not knowing why they live, and living such a joyless life?
24. And she was wondering why such empty, joyless lives should exist in a world where there was such deep happiness and joy
