gladsomeness

Example Sentences

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She sang like a bird for very gladsomeness.

From Remember the Alamo by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

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

It is this that makes Háfiz almost the only poet of unadulterated gladsomeness that the world has ever known.

From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Gottheil, Richard James Horatio

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

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 The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel