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

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

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

It was while traversing this bend that we witnessed a singular mirage that lent to the day all the enlivenment it had.

From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson

On these occasions they never left their tower and its court, and had no enlivenment save an occasional gift of dainties or message of inquiry from the ladies at Bellaise.

From The Chaplet of Pearls by Yonge, Charlotte Mary