Mellow and fluent though they be, the utterances are not indicative of gladsomeness nor of a sprightly disposition; nor are they songs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference

It was the gladsomeness of innocence that he had seen dancing in the moonlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Minister] Reference

So shall we praise Thee with gladsomeness, O most gracious Father, for Thy dear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference

As it glistens in the morning sunshine, it would fill the spectator's heart with gladsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonnets XVII and XVIII] Reference

As for Miss St. Quentin herself, an innate gladsomeness pervaded her aspect not easy to resist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference

The day which is knowledge, purity, gladsomeness, the cheerful day will be ours if we hold by Him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke] Reference

Of course they had every reason to carry that dreadful burden of sacrifice without very much gladsomeness in their hearts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Reflections on the War] Reference

I had always passionately loved Nature in her adornments of colour and of dewy pearls, and clung to her closely with the gladsomeness of youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel $c translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore.] Reference

Mild thoughts they plant, and they joy to see mild thoughts take root; refinement of manners and of mind, and the gladsomeness of literary culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace] Reference

Then let us rise above all imperfection, and set our heart, as I said, on true virtues, which are of such joy and gladsomeness as tongue could not tell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Catherine Benincasa] Reference

On the opposite side of the balcony sat our true British princess, Elizabeth, looking all kind-hearted gladsomeness for the happy pageant about to pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference

Men who see the misery and despair produced by capitalism think with joy of the days to come when the misery and despair are replaced by gladsomeness and hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg] Reference

Alas! is this world so very bright that we can afford to choke up such a domestic fountain of gladsomeness, and sit down by its darkened source without being conscious of a gloom?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Worship (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")] Reference

Not a few have a character of the sublime; many are pathetic; some have a profound meaning under a strange disguise; but their predominant character is their brightness and gladsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legends of Saint Patrick] Reference

It was pleasure enough to watch that childlike gladsomeness, like studying a new life, and the relief it gave him to see her so happy perhaps opened his mind to somewhat of the same serene enjoyment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife] Reference

You sink down in a flowery spot on the borders of sleep and wakefulness, while your thoughts rise before you in pictures, all disconnected, yet all assimilated by a pervading gladsomeness and beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice Told Tales] Reference

'No, no,' said John; it was absurd! 'and vexed at having checked her gladsomeness, he added,' It is I rather who should ask your pardon, for looks that will not make a cheerful figure in your description. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife] Reference

For many weeks no new prisoners had come in to rouse their drooping courage with news of the progress of our arms towards final victory, or refresh their remembrances of home, and the gladsomeness of "God's Country.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Andersonville — Volume 4] Reference

D'Arville) in which the ring of the blue bells sounds the gladsomeness of springtime and the intoxication of love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison] Reference

I grieved not to serve them -- yea, lovingly and with gladsomeness I abased myself in their presence: for they are my brothers, I said, and the mastery is theirs by right of older birth, and by right of the mightier strivings of the hidden fire that uplifted them above me. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference

Hours of perfect gladsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 1] Reference

Silent to any gladsomeness of sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE RECLUSE PART FIRST] Reference

Do get a larger fruit of gladsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Nature of Things] Reference

For me that image of pure gladsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE PRELUDE BOOK ELEVENTH] Reference

Pleasure's Aurora, Day of gladsomeness!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playful Poems] Reference

She sang like a bird for very gladsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remember the Alamo] Reference

To summer-gladsomeness unkind.    From Wordnik.com.  [MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820 XVIII. OUR LADY OF THE SNOW] Reference

And gladsomeness, where'er I be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

Cara, while passing, and without stopping, said, with evident gladsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonauts] Reference