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[glad] / glæd /


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Still, Toukta is glad Laos can send power abroad.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

"That moment itself I think has gone down in TV history, so I'm glad to be a part of it," Roxy laughs.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Heyler said she and Edythe Broad are also glad that the collection will take up temporary residence in a building designed by Gehry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

“I’m glad I did because they are stronger than ever,” Perry wrote in an email.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

I’m glad he’s here, but I can’t tell him that.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Nobody is gladder for Rosen, Donoghue, and Engel than constitutional democracy is today.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2022

I was even gladder to see his look of awe, his happy suspension of disbelief in the face of such adult wizardry.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2019

No holdouts, which makes Carroll’s heart even gladder.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2016

I am glad to have finally seen it, but gladder still that my bed is not a bus ride away.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2010

He was obviously glad to be done with the first part of his lecture, but he was no gladder than his listeners.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Across the land this Christmas season, churches old and new, grand or unpretentious, prepare for the gladdest occasion of the Christian calendar.

From Time Magazine Archive

For many an entrepreneurial Pop the gladdest moment of a lifetime is when his No.1 son enters the family firm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Famed in Los Angeles as the gladdest glad-hander of them all, Norris Poulson made the mistake of trying to slug it out with Yorty.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had run over to me and was standing down below with the gladdest face.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

Then the music began again,—the musicians playing gladdest melodies with all their hearts.

From Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages by Emilie Poulsson

The doctor waved his hand to the Royal Orchestra, who immediately struck up with Jesu Christes Milde Moder—since Dr. Bartholomew’s book had recommended that madmen should be gladded with instruments.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

And they must be gladded with instruments of music, and some deal be occupied.'

From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by James Joseph Walsh

This news so gladded the heart of Corydon, that he should not be put out of his farm, that putting off his shepherd's bonnet, he did her all the reverence that he might.

From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Edward Chauncey Baldwin

But I find not the angel in any wise gladded with the same.

From Mistress Margery by Emily Sarah Holt

And they must be gladded with instruments of music, and somedeal be occupied.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele

And God give you to know Christ, and send us a happy meeting in that His blessed habitation, unto the great gladding of your most loving and dutiful daughter, Margery Marnell.

From Mistress Margery by Emily Sarah Holt

But where the devil were you gladding last night, my young master?

From The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père

One day she saw below her in the forest a dear gazelle, gladding her with its soft black eye.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce

God safely quit her of her Burthen, and With gentle Trauaile, to the gladding of Your Highnesse with an Heire    King.

From Henry VIII by William Shakespeare

Oh, noble is the knotted oak, And sweet the gush of sylvan streams, And good the great sun's gladding beams, The blush of life upon the field, The silent might that mountains wield.

From Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems by George Parsons Lathrop


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