blithe as the birds and wise as the bees. From LearnThat.org. [Violet Fane]
Was loved for her blithe spirit. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Spoke with blithe ignorance of the true situation. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She recalled the blithe, Holmesian quickness of his deductions. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
Presently, surely enough, some one ran up the front steps and came into the wide hall, and Sally's voice called a blithe "Hello!". From Wordnik.com. [Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby] Reference
The best approach to life, Highsmith seems to say, is a kind of blithe nonchalance. From Wordnik.com. [This Woman Is Dangerous] Reference
Sorry to be a party pooper, tweeps: I no longer subscribe to the kind of blithe consumerism that seems to underpin this prompt. From Wordnik.com. [Best of 2009: Packaging and tea] Reference
That kind of blithe comparison obscures more than it clarifies. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas D. Kristof] Reference
At the Shubert, Blakemore and company make the hard work of getting a laugh quite "blithe" indeed. From Wordnik.com. [SacBee -- Latest News] Reference
His wife, too, looked 'blithe' and cheerful, and nothing could keep his mother's tongue from wagging. From Wordnik.com. [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference
"blithe" and careless existence of the ancient peoples. From Wordnik.com. [Letters on Literature] Reference
Many were the blithe birds that warbled them o'er. From Wordnik.com. [The Lyrics And Legacy Of Stephen Foster] Reference
Fruitless indeed, but blithe and strenuous spring. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
The very air with their blithe merriment did ring. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference
Oh, blithe at fair an 'market fu' aften I hae been. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
The swallows circling blithe, with slant brown wing. From Wordnik.com. [Lilith The Legend of the First Woman] Reference
The eddies have an air too, and brave it is and blithe. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference
Somehow the blithe reassurance that this is consistent with the. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
She was blithe as dawn, while the dressmaker was gloomy as night. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Are they not blithe devils 'round the caldron?" muttered the woman. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Poor Emily's blithe voice was mute now, and her light step rarely heard. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
That's also the last blithe, carefree sentence in the novel, incidentally. From Wordnik.com. [Six Degrees Of Alienation] Reference
But Reuben had leaped to the conquest, and carried a blithe heart with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
Fenice right blithe and bids John lead her thither, and John makes no demur. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
Sir Marhaus was right blithe that he should have to do with such a gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
There came a bright little flourish, and she sang, joyous and blithe as a lark. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
We had set out blithe and merry, riding jauntily down the wild valley of the Tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
Before they took office, a lot of the Tories entertained a blithe belief about spending. From Wordnik.com. [Spending cuts: When ministers talk of lynch mobs, you know they're scared] Reference
Dressed in her pink tights, she looked like a blithe nymph playing with rollicking cupids. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
A blithe summer month had plunged them into the most terrible war of the scarred old earth. From Wordnik.com. [Four Days The Story of a War Marriage] Reference
Outwardly he appears full sad; but his heart is blithe within, for it looks to have its joy. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
"We'll go, Mary!" said Mr. Shelton, blithe as a lark -- several things had raised his spirits!. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
This didn't sound like the blithe-spirited girl he'd pursued for a year, then wooed and subdued. From Wordnik.com. [Next Door, Next World] Reference
Two blithe little girls danced in and out, and the old grandfather sat holding a white-haired boy. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
What if we were doing all this in the blithe belief that more property rights mean more innovation?. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
And if you read between the lines of Obama's address, you can detect some Depression-era blithe spirit poking through the gloom. From Wordnik.com. [The Quitter Economy] Reference
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