gladsomeness

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I had always passionately loved Nature in her adornments of colour and of dewy pearls, and clung to her closely with the gladsomeness of youth.

From Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. by Michaelis, Emilie

She played a little Nevin, played it with a lightness, gladsomeness, he had never felt in her touch before.

From The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love by Glaspell, Susan

No one suspected what kind of gladsomeness that was.

From Hania by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

And yet they no whit Do get a larger fruit of gladsomeness Than got the woodland aborigines In olden times.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

Moreover dawn was now appearing; the birds were singing louder every minute; the silence of night was dying in the gladsomeness of a new day.

From The Coming of the King by Hocking, James