gladsomeness

Example Sentences

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No one suspected what kind of gladsomeness that was.

From Hania by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

The lamp burnt with its quiet, cheery light as if it were illumining a deed of brightest gladsomeness, and softly, as if with velvety paws, the wind touched the windows.

From The Wish A Novel by Sudermann, Hermann

Cara, while passing, and without stopping, said, with evident gladsomeness: "But I talked long with father to-day, long."

From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah

You sink down in a flowery spot on the borders of sleep and wakefulness, while your thoughts rise before you in pictures, all disconnected, yet all assimilated by a pervading gladsomeness and beauty.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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