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

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

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

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

At the depots, too, we encountered a new medium of enlivenment.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward