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
Yet there were sweet chains in the little hands that held her gown, and in the thought of the lonely old man who depended on her for enlivenment.
From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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
Fancy that, by way of enlivenment to poor Georgina after her nervous fever!
From Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Her visits, and those of her mother, or the twins with Miss Bird, were the daily enlivenment of the two old ladies, and were never omitted.
From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald
