When the next morning he joined the cavalcade, it was only by his extreme paleness that the struggle and agony of the past night could be traced, and he answered with correspondent cheerfulness William's cordial greetings.
Martin, with an expression of face which set off the cheerfulness of Mark's visage to great advantage.
It is to be hoped, for the general cheerfulness of mankind, that such a doleful little pet was never seen as Mr Moddle looked when he complied.
No sound of cheerfulness or hope was heard; no pleasant talk beguiled the tardy time; no little group made common cause against the full depression of the scene.
His interest in his young acquaintance and preserver seemed to quicken his vivacity and cheerfulness in a wonderful degree, and he drew upon his stores of knowledge and anecdote in a manner which delighted his listener.
They struggled on for some time, but, at length, their cheerfulness sank beneath the chilling influence of those fixed, sad, downcast eyes and heedless ears.
A tidy attendant, a few flowers and books, wonderfully enhance the cheerfulness of the room.
All the rooms throughout the house are furnished in the best of style, and in a manner to afford the utmost comfort and cheerfulness of surroundings for the sick and afflicted who seek this remedial resort.
Frederick performed the work with an ardour and cheerfulness which showed that it was a real pleasure to him.
David said to Madame Bastien: "While accepting with comparative cheerfulness the modest existence led by the members of your household, madame, has he never seemed to crave wealth and luxury, or deplore the fact that he does not possess them?
This is the season of cheerfulness and gaiety, and we were likewise to have our festival at the Poço da Panella.
Here was the ceremony of the last century in the morning, and in the evening the cheerfulness of an English party of the present day.
A young-looking man of about thirty years of age, well made, and neat in his dress, his cheerfulness of disposition often breaking out in a short crisp laugh, but thoughtful enough when something important is to be done.
There was a cheerfulnessin his manner, that gained our confidence at once, and rendered him a general favourite.
Both M'Leay and myself, therefore, encouraged any cheerfulness that occasionally broke out among them, and Frazer enlivened them by sundry tunes that he whistled whilst employed in skinning birds.
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman,--repose in energy.
Amid desolate scenery it spreads a cheerfulness that detracts nothing from its power over the imagination, while it relieves it of its terrors by presenting a green bulwark to defend us from the elements.
If those great windows were staringly bright, health and cheerfulness seemed to look in at them.
There was no fire in the chimney, and even all the signs of the fire of the other day had been carefully cleared away; the clean empty fireplace looked a mournful assurance that its cheerfulness would not soon come back again.
Then came Southampton, the embarkation, and a sort of enforced cheerfulness and admiration of the ship.
Men and horses absolutely exhausted, but yet there is that spirit ofcheerfulness which never fails Tommy Atkins even under such conditions as these.
Though their equipment was very imperfect and their training had scarcely begun, they fought in the trenches with all the cheerfulness and doggedness of their race.
Without sympathy life is nothing; and would it not have been a want of candor on her part to affect a cheerfulness which she did not feel, or pretend a respect for those toward whom it was quite impossible she should entertain any reverence?
The work of reconstruction, already in the forming, meant for them going back to the beginning for a fresh start, but on every hand one heard in spite of this words of hope and cheerfulness that the disaster was no greater.
When others are looking for accommodations she should at once and with all cheerfulness so dispose of her baggage that the seat beside her may be occupied by anyone who desires it, no matter how agreeable it may be to retain possession of it.
Society does not require mirth, but it does demandcheerfulness and unselfishness, and you must help to make and sustain cheerful conversation.
Indeed, he had little cause for cheerfulnessas to the past, present, or future.
But they, seeing him who had laid cheerfulness upon them as a duty becoming more and more sad and keeping aloof from them, imagined that he was tortured with temptations of the devil.
Those which followed, presided over by the vicars, have neither the same cheerfulness nor the same charm; the crude glare of full day has driven away the hues of dawn and the indescribable ardors of nature at its awakening.
To set her an example of cheerfulness he added to this letter a Laude in the vulgar tongue which he had himself set to music.
In almost every instance the reply indicates that bodily and mental labor was endured with less fatigue than before, and that an increased activity of mind and body was accompanied with increased cheerfulness and animal enjoyment.
There is, generally, more cheerfulness and vivacity.
I found cheerfulness to be like life itself--not to be created by any argument.
And even when he was empty-handed, his unfailing cheerfulness made his visits a benefaction.
He knew he could not live through another year, and he had stopped making plans for himself, but he listened with unfailing cheerfulness to other people's.
There are but two things which, in my opinion, can reasonably deprive us of this cheerfulness of heart.
A man finds himself pleased, he does not know why, with the cheerfulness of his companion: it is like a sudden sunshine, that awakens a secret delight in the mind, without her attending to it.
A good mind may bear up under them with fortitude, with indolence, and with cheerfulness of heart.
Cheerfulness in an ill man deserves a harder name than language can furnish us with, and is many degrees beyond what we commonly call folly or madness.
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Atheism, by which I mean a disbelief of a Supreme Being, and consequently of a future state, under whatsoever title it shelters itself, may likewise very reasonably deprive a man of this cheerfulness of temper.
Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulnessfixed and permanent.
After having mentioned these two great principles, which are destructive of cheerfulness in their own nature, as well as in right reason, I cannot think of any other that ought to banish this happy temper from a virtuous mind.
If we consider cheerfulness in three lights, with regard to ourselves, to those we converse with, and the great Author of our being, it will not a little recommend itself on each of these accounts.
The best stained glass is often that stained by weather, by centuries of weather, [116] and we may well be grateful for the amazing cheerfulness of the interior of Amiens, as we actually find it.
I was the first to whom he had uttered a syllable since the day on which she had been carried out of the house which she had so long filled with the spirit of cheerfulness and comfort.
The sad story was related to the rest of the party, and all cheerfulness for the time was at an end.
Cheerfulness returned to their countenances, and elasticity to their step.
But he was evidently deeply impressed with the critical state of the country, though maintaining an outward air of cheerfulness and serenity.
