gladsomeness

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Alas! is this world so very bright that we can afford to choke up such a domestic fountain of gladsomeness, and sit down by its darkened source without being conscious of a gloom?

From Fire Worship (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

With what gladsomeness he pushes the sleigh before him; within it sits, buried beneath furs, shawls, rugs, veils, what appears to be a formless mass, and yet!--he is proud to drive a beautiful woman.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von

Wetzel alone did not seem infected by the spirit of gladsomeness which pervaded.

From Betty Zane by Grey, Zane

No one suspected what kind of gladsomeness that was.

From Hania by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Even after he had left college, he retained the sunny outlook, the gladsomeness and the bloom of boyhood.

From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring