The party was filled with gaiety when the clowns arrived. From LearnThat.org.
She sought solitude, and avoided us when in gaiety and unrestrained affection we met in a family circle. From Wordnik.com. [I.10] Reference
If he wants to be danced, we see that he has discovered that gaiety is exhilarating to us; if he refuses to be moved, we take notice that he fears to fatigue us. From Wordnik.com. [Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney] Reference
His gaiety was the mask for a most unsleeping energy and very great ability. From Wordnik.com. [The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad] Reference
But the gaiety was apparently forced; he whistled, and tried an occasional much-strained joke on the attendant sepoy. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Life Behind the Purdah] Reference
Even in the hour of social mirth, my gaiety is the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Burns] Reference
I did not want to go, for I don't feel like any kind of gaiety, but Mrs. T---- insisted. From Wordnik.com. ['My Beloved Poilus'] Reference
Deep joy and full happiness comes less often than gaiety which is light and airy as is playfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Nothing Pure « So Many Books] Reference
I know as well as you do, that I haven't the kind of gaiety you like in a man. From Wordnik.com. [Patty's Suitors] Reference
From this kind of gaiety Martial graduates into another -- that of pleasantry. From Wordnik.com. [History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour] Reference
There is a kind of gaiety in the thing, as if he were bursting with some good news. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare] Reference
But the stranger, probably taking their silence for a gathering shame, continued with a kind of gaiety. From Wordnik.com. [The Ball and the Cross] Reference
Last night, it had been a kind of gaiety; to-day the mood was quiet, but not at all despondent; there was life in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Readjustment] Reference
Every kind of gaiety was postponed, and Madame de Cleves being herself much indisposed, confined herself entirely at home. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess of Cleves. An Historical Novel] Reference
He looked, she thought, like what one believes aristocracy to be when one is young: a brilliant kind of gaiety without guilt. From Wordnik.com. [The Fountainhead]
To drown remembrance and regret, I remained in town, striving in a course of what moralists call 'gaiety' to forget what I had lost. From Wordnik.com. [Much Darker Days] Reference
A kind of gaiety quite different from his good humour at home. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
'gaiety' on New Year's night, the consequences would be other than instant starvation. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Mysteries] Reference
Perhaps in utter loneliness; or in the midst of that artificial gaiety which is more wretched than solitude. ". From Wordnik.com. [Run to Earth A Novel] Reference
The merry blue eyes were full of gaiety and light. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Such nonsense all adds to the gaiety of sporting debate. From Wordnik.com. [Dustin Johnson has only himself to blame for PGA Championship gaffe] Reference
"The divorce colony, all frivolity and gaiety," you say?. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
In all the excitement of the chase and the gaiety of the. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
Study seemed the last thing to be thought of amid such gaiety. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference
"All right, I won't do it again," cried Betty with forced gaiety. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
She loved their gaiety, liked to touch their sturdy little limbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
"If ever?" added Alan quickly with as much gaiety as he could summon. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
A symbol of lighthearted gaiety which will follow a time of gloom or worry. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
And with their plastic smiles and forced gaiety, scene after scene is cringeworthy. From Wordnik.com. ['Sex And The City 2': Sheiks, Shrieks And Eeks] Reference
Fourteen of the Preludes are full of light, gaiety, serenity and a kind of happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Chopin's Small Miracles] Reference
Call me a curmudgeon, but I detested those forced moments of gaiety and collegiality. From Wordnik.com. [When You Just Don't Fit In At The Office] Reference
In the railway-carriage was nothing but gaiety and handshaking and ingenuous questions. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Under her gaiety and in spite of her courage, this distress became more apparent with time. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
Phil also brought into my life more laughter, gaiety, irreverence for rules, and originality. From Wordnik.com. [Gifted And Cursed] Reference
With all this, there is a playfulness, a spontaneous gaiety, which dispels weariness or monotony. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
She is the Fenella of the fireside; the will-o'-wisp of our souls; our gaiety; the life of the house. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
He tried to settle down again to his old life of feasting and gaiety, but somehow he couldn't throw himself into it. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
It's all sci-fi modernism and game-show gaiety, with psychotically jovial mixes of xylophone, glockenspiel, harp and bassoon. From Wordnik.com. [All I Want For Christmas...] Reference
"Heck, mon!" cried Momsey, with her usual gaiety, and throwing off the cloud of gloom that had momentarily subdued her spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
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