Adjective : the joyous sounds of children at play. From Dictionary.com.
"It can be a kind of joyousness, an embrace of melancholy that defeats it," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Fearlessness and Fidelity] Reference
A strange kind of joyousness that mystified the Dixons; but Eustace looked hard at Nesta and nodded meaningly. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
My heart was free, filled with the joyousness of youth. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
It was a musical embodiment of the love of life and of its joyousness. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference
It all spoke of the freedom of the wilderness, and of the joyousness of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
But the kennels, with all their joyousness, have sad little tragedies at times. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
One voice irritated him greatly; it was faintly familiar in its loud joyousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
The haunts of the poor, at this moment, infuse a sanguine joyousness into her soul. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
"It's your pure joyousness, I think," went on Warren as though he had not heard her. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
Warruk, the black Jaguar, lived with a measure of joyousness that was brimming over. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
"I am so happy!" she said clearly, and her girl-voice held a note of pure joyousness. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
Grass and breeze and golden skylight were saturated with a strange ether of joyousness. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Life is so real, so strong, so full of joyousness and of beauty, -- and on the other side of. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
"I think it is all arranged," he said, but without the joyousness of his first announcement. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
He would miss her teaching and guidance; miss her strange inspiration of joyousness and courage. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
But for me, laughter reveals trust and joyousness, humility and helplessness in the face of love. From Wordnik.com. [The Spiritual State: A Voyage Apart in the Same Direction] Reference
He was still amiable and uncomplaining; but his elasticity, his free-hearted joyousness was gone. From Wordnik.com. [A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren] Reference
April forgave her the laugh, because it was not composed of merriment nor any elements of joyousness. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Yes, he was -- and especially so, and more than all else -- on account of the joyousness of his soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Those who were about him said the elasticity of his movements and joyousness of his manner were marked. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
The men who have been spoken of dealt largely in satire and humor; but joyousness deals in infinitely more. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Christmas had lost much of its joyousness this year, but still there was a little flavor of merriment left. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
Devonshire, and found there a recrudescence of the old calm joyousness that he believed had somehow left him. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
And, instead of branching out into general vague illustrations of what I mean by this lyric joyousness, I shall. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Nothing, however, charmed the Ferrarese so much as the never failing, graceful joyousness of Alfonso's young wife. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
It does not check the true joyousness of Girlhood's nature, nor cast any darkening line into the future character. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
With all her brightness and joyousness, there was also a strange timidity, at times, and shyness, and furtive glances. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
And Sally, in the joyousness of her mood, felt that all places would be alike delightful in the company of her brother. From Wordnik.com. [The Village by the River] Reference
Burns; and the "Kirn," or Harvest Home, the wind-up of the season, the epitome of the lyric joyousness of the whole year. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Her cultivated intellect, her beauty, and the irresistible joyousness of her being charmed all who came into her presence. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
The fact of being wife and mother or husband and father should imply dignity and joyousness, no matter how humble the home. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
There was a calm serenity overspreading his handsome features, which wore a joyousness of expression that was irresistible. From Wordnik.com. [A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren] Reference
These blunders, miscalled ill-luck, do not soothe the temper, and they certainly do not assist him to joyousness and success. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Only the growing -- those who each moment are becoming something more than they were -- feel the worth and joyousness of life. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
Both girls in the first reaction from the stress of their war against death were brimming with joyousness, notwithstanding fatigue. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Almost at once they caught the overtone of human joyousness, and they turned with strange smiles to each other, and it was "Pierre?". From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
And every evening, in the little dark streets, bursts forth the overflow of joyousness, fresh, childish, but withal grotesque to excess. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Every feature is awake and full of life; every movement of her sweet body, clad in its white gown, proclaims a very joyousness of living. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
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