Her absorption in the small gaieties of the society there surprised him.
To the surprise of Alice, Ruth took to the small gaieties of the village with a zest of enjoyment that seemed foreign to one who had devoted her life to a serious profession from the highest motives.
The young gentlemen stayed in Fallkill a week, and were every day at the Montagues, and took part in the winter gaieties of the village.
It is true that I had been, since the age of seventeen, no stranger to the gaieties and dissipations afforded by the capitals of Europe; I may say I had exhausted these, yet always with some degree of quiet, including intervals of repose.
He was all gaieties and little stories in a way I had never heard before; he kept us in quiet laughter; in a word, he was charming.
You tell me that you come in from the gaieties and amusements and little parties, which, after all, are natural to your age and to the position in which God has placed you, full of dissatisfaction and restlessness of mind.
Bob Purnett had been right about him; in his scheme of life, after the gaieties of youth, came "settling down.
There, my dear, dry your eyes, and give me a full description of all your gaietiesin London.
And so another year went by, quiet and uneventful, varied only by our Christmas gaieties and the festivities of the cricket week.
But she felt that she would gladly exchange the gaietiesand cool climate of Darjeeling for the torments of the Terai again, if only it would bring him to her side.
To most girls life on an Indian tea-garden would not seem alluring; for they would find themselves far from socialgaieties and the society of their kind.
He noticed, moreover, that the social gaietiesof Darjeeling did not engross her.
The only gaieties at Cannes in those days consisted in village festivals, which are known in Provence as Romerages, the equivalent of the Pardons in Brittany.
The gaieties of Court and Carnival soon obliterated, for a time at least, the memory of the discomforts of the journey; and the warning of the old witch, if remembered at all, was thought of with pity or dismissed with mirth.
The night was stifling; the stairs and the supper-room were filled with a struggling mob; and George spent an hour of purgatory wondering at the gaieties of his class.
All her own gaieties have been under Lady Kirkaldy's wing, or that of Mrs. William Egremont's relations, and only in a quiet moderate way.
We must save those for the concert, or whatevergaieties they may have.
I hadn't expected Patty and Elise to indulge in quite such grown- up gaieties as dining out here, but I hadn't the heart to refuse for them your kind invitation.
Yet the work and the few gaieties which fell to our share, while adding to our experiences, broke up to some degree the old domestic habits of the battalion.
It would be vain to imagine that this high purpose was always in James's mind, or that his splendour and gaieties were part of a plan for the better regulation of the kingdom.
He shrunk from the rural gaieties and companionship he had before courted and enlivened, and, for the first time in his life, the mourner felt the holiness of solitude.
It possesses no decorative forerunners; it is not a thing derived; its parents are the gaieties of modern Paris.
You will have to look at the gaieties from your bedroom window, and even your meals will have to be brought you.
Sarah, characteristically indifferent to gaieties "made to order," had determined not to appear below.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gaieties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
