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    gaiety


    1. celebrations, he could still appreciate the gaiety of the


    2. air was full of gaiety


    3. The second of those remedies is the frequency and gaiety of public diversions


    4. The gaiety and good humour which those diversions inspire, were altogether inconsistent with that temper of mind which was fittest for their purpose, or which they could best work upon


    5. The natives were full of song and gaiety


    6. gaiety along the streets than before


    7. The harvest was plentiful, much more than it had been two seasons ago, and the gaiety that the overflowing bounty produced was infectious


    8. “Wow! We really look great!” he laughed, and then the room seemed to shine with gaiety


    9. My father was quite strict and didn't think that the gaiety of all who attended these affairs was quite appropriate


    10. Adolescents who had seen their parents attacked or killed joined the game with an eager gaiety and free-spiritedness that brought tears to my eyes

    11. It is the sin that man dares to smile at, and smoothes over under the names of gaiety, unsteadiness, wildness, and irregularity


    12. Added to this air of gaiety ,a constant stream of jokes ,pranks , donkey rides and Moorkha Sammelans: a gathering where a group of poets read out their funnypoems and satire in front of an audience


    13. I was born amidst such color and gaiety


    14. And the gaiety of the company is more fun


    15. There were letters this morning from England that wiped out all the gaiety of yesterday; letters that _reminded_ me


    16. I distrusted my uncle's gaiety


    17. The year went by in a flurry of gaiety as I received and accepted numerous invitations to parties, dances, and socials in order to raise monies for the poor and underprivileged in Paris


    18. The 3-tiered fountain loomed in majestic proportions and the cooling liquid sprinkled us in spattering gaiety


    19. "Oh, how dreadful of me!" she said, hastily doing it, but with gaiety


    20. " Then an idea struck her, and looking up at him with sudden gaiety she said, "Can't we have a hyphen?"

    21. Above the gaiety of the crowds one could hear the shrill cry of some belated newsboys, calling an "Extra Special"--the only superlative left to one of the more enterprising papers whose every issue was an "Extra


    22. Lucy tried to bring gaiety into this attitude by pointing out the proof she was giving him of how very submissive she was to the person she happened to live with,--'And presently all my submissiveness will be concentrated on you,' she said gaily


    23. They went to the Gaiety


    24. Comédie Française was about to appear at London’s Gaiety Theater, and the


    25. Faithlessness, fickleness, sensuality, flirtatiousness, stylishness, motherhood, gaiety and good humor


    26. Her former sparkle and gaiety were not there


    27. Then, again, gaiety, jokes, caresses, kisses, swerves on the road and close calls to disaster


    28. Then back to the car, back to a subsonic sixty, back to gaiety, back to kisses and swerves and near plunges in the sand


    29. gaiety and zest of life that the foreign communities provided, were new and exhilarating


    30. Under the appalling shadow of the Augustinian Deity, the spirit of innocent gaiety has been greatly paralyzed

    31. I extolled her beauty, her gaiety, her wit, so warmly, that my praises excited in him a desire to see a damsel adorned by such attractions


    32. Miss Thomas, one of the typists, said to her friend that if the Cabinet was going to sit much longer she should miss her boy outside the Gaiety


    33. for we always conversed, whenever good fortune and my ingenuity gave us the chance, with the greatest gaiety and cheerfulness, mingling tears, sighs, jealousies, doubts, or fears with our words; it was all on my part a eulogy of my good fortune that Heaven should have given her to me for my mistress; I glorified her beauty, I extolled her worth and her understanding; and she paid me back by praising in me what in her love for me she thought worthy of praise; and besides we had a hundred thousand trifles and doings of our neighbours and acquaintances to talk about, and the utmost extent of my boldness was to take, almost by force, one of her fair white hands and carry it to my lips, as well as the closeness of the low grating that separated us allowed me


    34. To make an end, senor, these are my last words to thee: whether thou wilt, or wilt not, I am thy wife; witness thy words, which must not and ought not to be false, if thou dost pride thyself on that for want of which thou scornest me; witness the pledge which thou didst give me, and witness Heaven, which thou thyself didst call to witness the promise thou hadst made me; and if all this fail, thy own conscience will not fail to lift up its silent voice in the midst of all thy gaiety, and vindicate the truth of what I say and mar thy highest pleasure and enjoyment


    35. And that this is the truth may be seen by the countless plays that a most fertile wit of these kingdoms has written, with so much brilliancy, so much grace and gaiety, such polished versification, such choice language, such profound reflections, and in a word, so rich in eloquence and elevation of style, that he has filled the world with his fame; and yet, in consequence of his desire to suit the taste of the actors, they have not all, as some of them have, come as near perfection as they ought


    36. "If Roland was not a more graceful person than your worship has described," said the curate, "it is no wonder that the fair Lady Angelica rejected him and left him for the gaiety, liveliness, and grace of that budding-bearded little Moor to whom she surrendered herself; and she showed her sense in falling in love with the gentle softness of Medoro rather than the roughness of Roland


    37. This gaiety did not impose upon anybody, but they tried to look as if it did for his sake, and he got on very well till Mrs


    38. In short, it seemed as though mirth and gaiety were frisking and gambolling all over the meadow


    39. All then mingled together, forming chains and breaking off again with graceful, unconstrained gaiety; and whenever Love passed in front of the castle he shot his arrows up at it, while Interest broke gilded pellets against it


    40. "That," said Don Quixote, "is not and ought not to be called deception which aims at virtuous ends;" and the marriage of lovers he maintained to be a most excellent end, reminding them, however, that love has no greater enemy than hunger and constant want; for love is all gaiety, enjoyment, and happiness, especially when the lover is in the possession of the object of his love, and poverty and want are the declared enemies of all these; which he said to urge Senor Basilio to abandon the practice of those accomplishments he was skilled in, for though they brought him fame, they brought him no money, and apply himself to the acquisition of wealth by legitimate industry, which will never fail those who are prudent and persevering

    41. The friendly frankness was disturbed, the sunshine had a shadow over it, and despite their apparent gaiety, there was a secret discontent in the heart of each


    42. Montesinos told me that all those forming the procession were the attendants of Durandarte and Belerma, who were enchanted there with their master and mistress, and that the last, she who carried the heart in the cloth, was the lady Belerma, who, with her damsels, four days in the week went in procession singing, or rather weeping, dirges over the body and miserable heart of his cousin; and that if she appeared to me somewhat ill-favoured or not so beautiful as fame reported her, it was because of the bad nights and worse days that she passed in that enchantment, as I could see by the great dark circles round her eyes, and her sickly complexion; 'her sallowness, and the rings round her eyes,' said he, 'are not caused by the periodical ailment usual with women, for it is many months and even years since she has had any, but by the grief her own heart suffers because of that which she holds in her hand perpetually, and which recalls and brings back to her memory the sad fate of her lost lover; were it not for this, hardly would the great Dulcinea del Toboso, so celebrated in all these parts, and even in the world, come up to her for beauty, grace, and gaiety


    43. Sancho returned to his master mightily pleased with this gratifying answer, and told him all the great lady had said to him, lauding to the skies, in his rustic phrase, her rare beauty, her graceful gaiety, and her courtesy


    44. "God bless me!" said the duke aloud at this, "who can have done the world such an injury? Who can have robbed it of the beauty that gladdened it, of the grace and gaiety that charmed it, of the modesty that shed a lustre upon it?"


    45. But all his gallantry, wit, and gaiety, all his graces and accomplishments, would have been of little or no avail towards gaining the fortress of my pupil, had not the impudent thief taken the precaution of gaining me over first


    46. He pictured her to himself working in the evening by their side beneath the light of the lamp; she would embroider him slippers; she would look after the house; she would fill all the home with her charm and her gaiety


    47. How they loved that dear room, so full of gaiety, despite its rather faded splendour! They always found the furniture in the same place, and sometimes hairpins, that she had forgotten the Thursday before, under the pedestal of the clock


    48. The priest did not need any persuading; he went out to go and say mass, came back, and then they ate and hobnobbed, giggling a little without knowing why, stimulated by that vague gaiety that comes upon us after times of sadness, and at the last glass the priest said to the druggist, as he clapped him on the shoulder—


    49. The child's gaiety broke Bovary's heart, and he had to bear besides the intolerable consolations of the chemist


    50. Night came and they went home, and there was a ladies' dancing party, for Don Antonio's wife, a lady of rank and gaiety, beauty and wit, had invited some friends of hers to come and do honour to her guest and amuse themselves with his strange delusions







































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    Synonyms for "gaiety"

    gaiety playfulness merriment glitter showiness finery flash liveliness mirth spirit vivacity

    "gaiety" definitions

    a gay feeling


    a festive merry feeling