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overjoyed

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“Mrs. Clarke will find us a safe place to talk, and a hot meal, too. I expect she will be happily surprised to see me, and overjoyed to meet you.”

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The teachers were also overjoyed to see Penelope.

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When I told Francis I was pregnant, he was overjoyed and wanted us to get married right away.

He set out how the couple had called off their search for a donor, overjoyed when Hutton informed them she was a match and offering "not just respite but rescue".

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In the latest adventure, Obelix -- the menhir delivery man with superhuman strength -- suffers a particularly bad bout of "saudade", and at one point laments: "I'm feeling down while being overjoyed."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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