Noun, : the gaieties of the New Year season. ,gaiety of dress. From Dictionary.com.
His gayety was a little extravagant, and so it might naturally be if it were forced. From Wordnik.com. [Without a Home] Reference
September, and recalled the gayety of the season for the moment to the desolate metropolis. From Wordnik.com. [London Films] Reference
The outward peace of such a man is but despair well masked; his gayety is the carelessness of. From Wordnik.com. [Amiel's Journal] Reference
It struck me suddenly that her gayety was the same as that she had worn to my birthday party, scarce a year agone. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Carvel — Complete] Reference
For many days they joked each other about that headlong flight, but underneath their gayety was a dread which persisted. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Four-Square] Reference
Even in the hour of social mirth, my gayety is the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
Begun in gayety, to close in gloom. From Wordnik.com. [Verse Memorials.] Reference
Archie's "gayety" with his "six-shooter" seemed to stir no emotion in his father except pride. From Wordnik.com. [Roosevelt in the Bad Lands] Reference
The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is peculiar to hospitable natures. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
The "gayety" was obvious even to the most casual traveler whose train stopped for three noisy minutes at the Medora "depot.". From Wordnik.com. [Roosevelt in the Bad Lands] Reference
She changed from seriousness to a mocking kind of gayety -- that is, to a seriousness so profound that she would not show it. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
The Bishop’s face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is peculiar to hospitable natures. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The curtain fell on the gayety of the waltz scene. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Jacqueline and arrested her gradual return to gayety. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She calmed her fears and returned to the charming gayety of. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
What frank gayety! what a hearty laugh went around the table!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Here and there green branches lent gayety to that city corner. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But the uncertainty of his humor made his gayety more charming. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She continued, however, with a gayety that was a little forced. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He had been sweet, polished, full of witty gayety and naive joy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"All fair people are like that," he affirmed with ironical gayety. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There was a general gayety, but Amedee blushed without knowing why. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Like most hearty, full-blooded men, he had hours of charming gayety. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
All this homely gayety, of which she was the cause, made her feel happy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The dining-hall, brilliantly illuminated, was filled with gayety and laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
These last words were spoken with the careless, mocking gayety of a young girl. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Such a thought sufficed to render the young girl's innocent gayety painful to him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"How horrible is the gayety of the people!" said Olivier d'Entraigues, unguardedly. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Maurice, seated opposite his mother, presided over the repast with his elegant gayety. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The freedom and careless gayety, so characteristic of other nurseries, had no place in this. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
That artistic gayety, bursting out suddenly like a flame, caressed love without offending it. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The patience with which Brigitte opposed these vagaries only served to excite my sinister gayety. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
You see now why, in spite of your gayety, I have not been able to hide my preoccupation from you. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Many of the passengers, with almost childish gayety, landed, and strolled about on the green bank. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She looked at the Prince fixedly, and added, in her clear commanding voice, with a shade of gayety. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She could not decide to leave him, happy to walk with him in the streets, which the sun and the gayety of noon filled. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His curiosity was nearly always baffled; for Claudet seemed to have left all his gayety and conversational powers at La Thuiliere. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It was Micheline, who, with returning gayety, was making up for the three weeks 'sadness she had experienced during Panine's absence. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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