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become cheerful



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If anything she had become cheerful and certainly as human as any girl he had known.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Every now and then Milton’s optimism would sway my mother and she would become cheerful for a day or two.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

You will be a better boy if you conquer your weakness, and become cheerful and contented, than you could have been, had no sacrifice been required of you.

From Arthur Hamilton, and His Dog by Anonymous

We are told that at Chios there was a head of Artemis set high up, which appeared morose to those entering the temple, but when they left it seemed to have become cheerful.

From Religion and Art in Ancient Greece by Ernest Arthur Gardner

Ivan," said she, "we will forget, forget all, excepting that we love each other, and thus only can I become cheerful.

From The Daughter of an Empress by Nathaniel Greene




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