overjoy
Example Sentences
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There’s a mix-and-match feel to Battlefront II’s multiplayer that I think is going to overjoy some fans, and infuriate others.
From The Verge ● Jun. 11, 2017
Are we not overjoy, dearest, and cannot speak?
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Then Alaeddin passed through it and was met by his wife, when they embraced and exchanged kisses with all delight until they wept for overjoy.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Adam cried, 'The Lily;' but the sweet voice at his side, Grown tremulous and faint with overjoy, Could only whisper, 'Purity.'
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
History of the World," he is describing Roman energy in the founding of colonies: "Such an offer, were it made in England, concerning either Virginia or Guiana, it selfe would not overjoy the multitude.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
