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    levity


    1. Constantinople in its prime might have come close to the scope and hubbub of this city, but never had the levity she saw here


    2. After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported


    3. Noticing this, his friend decided to inject some levity


    4. The vices of levity and vanity necessarily render him ridiculous, and are, besides, almost as ruinous to him as they are to the common people


    5. They both smiled at her for some levity


    6. “So, we have a pair of final contenders,” she commented quietly, her usual levity tempered by a note of seriousness


    7. Charles tries to bring some levity into the conversation and into the room, "We just done that for a laugh


    8. Charles, still wanting to inject more levity into the room, "Yeah, good in'it


    9. ' There are people who would call that levity, Mrs


    10. What do you have for me other than a stupid attempt at levity?”

    11. That bit of levity relaxed everyone except Jake and judging from our responses it pleased Keta


    12. Place a high priority on laughter and levity


    13. seeing the levity in the situation but offered a good natured reply


    14. “A little levity turns labor into play


    15. ” I hated to spoil such a wonderful moment with levity


    16. start things out with a little levity


    17. In retrospect, I can vividly recollect the various hunches which I treated with ignominy and levity, but which I now realise were kind of inkling intended to reveal to me the identity of Ben Thomas


    18. You were exactly balanced in the present, without a single oscillation towards either the past, a period you hadn't then learned to regard with the levity for which you are now so remarkable, or to the future, which you at that time, however much the attitude may amuse you now, thought of with doubt and often with fear


    19. To talk with such levity, such heartlessness, of Fanny's death, _Fanny's_ death, who had been all that he had ever known of life--flaming, throbbing, torturing, exquisite life, compared to which his and Audrey's existences were nothing but the sleep of slugs


    20. "You will excuse any levity, but that was some kiss she just gave him

    21. But though one portion of her mind was repeating this with nervous levity, the other was full of concern for the number of journeys up and down all those stairs the parlourmaid was being obliged to make


    22. ” My attempt at levity, poor though it was, at least put a smile on her face


    23. The sheriff looked at him for several moments as he tried to reconcile the boy's levity with the serious subject of arrest


    24. It was more a stab at kindhearted levity than a serious query


    25. Kurt and the others broke out laughing in a moment of levity they needed to loosen the tension


    26. Levity is having a sense of humor and a lighthearted approach to life


    27. Levity puts situations in their proper context, the divine framework in which everything is a learning lesson and learning is fun


    28. Levity is the choice to see this humor not just in past experiences, but in present and future ones as well


    29. All levity left the Colonel’s voice as he leaned


    30. Besides, you still have to drive me back to my car,” he added, trying to insert a little levity

    31. discover, and which, perhaps, in that season of giddiness and levity,


    32. The simple rise, as by specific levity, not into a particular virtue, but into the region of all the virtues


    33. Singular, communed the guest with himself, the wonderfully unequal faculty of metempsychosis possessed by them, that the puerperal dormitory and the dissecting theatre should be the seminaries of such frivolity, that the mere acquisition of academic titles should suffice to transform in a pinch of time these votaries of levity into exemplary practitioners of an art which most men anywise eminent have esteemed the noblest


    34. O'MOLLOY: (In barrister's grey wig and stuffgown, speaking with a voice of pained protest) This is no place for indecent levity at the expense of an erring mortal disguised in liquor


    35. I had long been sensible that, in getting Mr Pittle the kirk, I had acted with the levity and indiscretion of a young man; but at that time I understood not the nature of public trust, nor, indeed, did the community at large


    36. How can you top that?” She was aiming at levity but it was clear Mattie was anxious


    37. On one occasion, as though she had lost all patience, she flew out at him about the aimlessness of his life and the levity of his opinions


    38. "At any rate," he said, changing suddenly to a tone of bitter levity, "you would


    39. The cruel futility of things stood unveiled in the levity and sufferings of that incorrigible people; the cruel futility of lives and of deaths thrown away in the vain endeavour to attain an enduring solution of the problem


    40. The levity of some of the younger women in and about Trantridge was marked, and was perhaps symptomatic of the choice spirit who ruled The Slopes in that vicinity

    41. "Izz—please, please forget my momentary levity!" he cried


    42. The mother, you know, had always that levity about her, which makes me anxious for the children


    43. It seemed to him this evening as if the cruelty of his outburst to Rosamond had made an obligation for him, and he dreaded the obligation: he dreaded Lydgate's unsuspecting good-will: he dreaded his own distaste for his spoiled life, which would leave him in motiveless levity


    44. It was a dreadfully austere inquiry, but levity was not our note, and, at any rate, before the gray dawn admonished us to separate I had got my answer


    45. They sound like Things to eat!” said I, hoping to add some Levity to this distressing Conversation


    46. He took a breath, but then let it out again, and his levity faded


    47. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its


    48. "Phoenix Descending," to borrow Barron's headline, was a nice combination of levity and brevity for the short sellers


    49. Edmund had already gone through the service once since his ordination; and upon this being understood, he had a variety of questions from Crawford as to his feelings and success; questions, which being made, though with the vivacity of friendly interest and quick taste, without any touch of that spirit of banter or air of levity which Edmund knew to be most offensive to Fanny, he had true pleasure in satisfying; and when Crawford proceeded to ask his opinion and give his own as to the properest manner in which particular passages in the service should be delivered, shewing it to be a subject on which he had thought before, and thought with judgment, Edmund was still more and more pleased


    50. And when he killed for revenge, or in self-defense, he did that also without hysteria, for it was a very businesslike proceeding which admitted of no levity










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