enlivenment
Example Sentences
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The only enlivenment was the appearance of the 19-year-old Dalai Lama, escorted out of Tibet by a Red general three weeks ago as thousands of his subjects wept and prostrated themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu was an insatiable devotee of society, and abounded with a fund of mirth for the enlivenment of the dullest company.
From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh
The winter of 1770 was one of unusual severity; and she found resources for a further enlivenment of the court in the frost itself.
From The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Yonge, Charles Duke
Our friend began the day prosperously, finding everybody cordial and gay, and doing, as he thought, his full share towards the enlivenment of each call.
From From the Easy Chair, series 3 by Curtis, George William
The professors walked in colorful solemnity beneath the elms and up the middle aisle of the chapel, lending both to outdoors and indoors the enlivenment of hoods red, yellow, purple.
From Bertram Cope's Year by Fuller, Henry Blake
