Gayety is like a spring rendering the soul elastic; the people bend but rise again.
The renewed blood then bears gayety to the brain, and the body persuades the soul that everything is for the best in the best of worlds.
The climate is warm, the gorge sheltered, the air pure, the gayety of the sun is cheering.
He received me with his usual cordiality; but I saw the gayety and benevolence of his countenance had fled; he had an eye full of care and anxiety.
XLVII BUT there was no trace of gayety in the excited and subdued tones in which, later, she called him into the hothouse.
The repellent contraction of Anthony's heart expanded in a light and careless curiosity, youthful contempt mingled with the gayety of his morning mood, and he hastened his steps until he had again overtaken his inquisitor.
The two boys were a decided addition to the gayety of the Dorrance Domain.
And as for myself, I want to get well rested this summer, for during the winter, my city life is very full of gayety and excitement.
And even had the children wanted to stay there, which they didn't, Mrs. Dorrance would have been afraid that their irrepressible gayety would have been too freely exhibited.
The gayety of the immortals was appreciated by a people that counted their years by their games.
She also appeared in comic operas, and in Paesiello's "La Frascatana" particularly delighted the public by the graceful lightness and gayety of her comedy.
He had run through a great fortune, and the good-humored gayety with which he won money from his friends was only equaled by the nonchalance with which he had squandered his own.
Why, if Paris is all gayetyand pleasure, are people put in dungeons, and then to death?
He seemed to bring back the hopes of youth and a certain gayety to which she had long been a stranger.
Your eye seldom meets mine now, your words are measured, your actions cautious, your innocent gayetyall gone.
She was talking with her usual quiet gayety to half-a-dozen people already.
Mary departed for London with Lady Mainwaring, and Alicia, as if to show that she needed no chaperonage, conducted herself with a little less gayety than when Mary was there.
The gayety of her look suddenly fell to hesitation.
Mrs. Archinard spoke from the sofa, having watched the scene with a slight air of injury; Hilda's unwonted gayety constituted a certain grievance.
Under Katherine's gayety there was a fierce beating of caged wings, and Odd fancied at times that, freed, the imprisoned birds might be strong and beautiful.
It really behoved him to solve Hilda's dubious position and, if possible, help her to a more normal outlook; he felt the task far more feasible since that glimpse of gayety and confidence.
On his return from the Vatican, Franz carefully avoided the Corso; he brought away with him a treasure of pious thoughts, to which the mad gayety of the maskers would have been profanation.
Fortunately, as regarded this circumstance at least, his painful past gave to his countenance an indelible sadness, and the glimmerings of gayety seen beneath this cloud were indeed but transitory.
Oh, how charitable, kind, and good you are; you affect this gayety to inspire me with courage.
In his whole life, perhaps, Franz had never before experienced so sudden an impression, so rapid a transition from gayety to sadness, as in this moment.
Rosina, totally unconscious of what was impending over her head, entered fully into the spirit of gayety which prevailed, and absorbed the pleasure of the scene with open heart and hands.
Perhaps it is the Custom House which takes all the gayety out of the First and Second Classes before they can get ashore in America.
Every one was out after the rain and all faces reflected that exuberant gayety which seems to be born about five o’clock in each continental city.
His mood altered, and the light of a street lamp showed that every tinge of gayety had fled his face.
I suppose our small village seems a very quiet sort of place to pass the winter in, now that you have become accustomed to the noise and gayety of a great city.
There are not a few who, even in this life, seem to be preparing themselves for that smileless eternity to which they look forward, by banishing all gayety from their hearts and all joyousness from their countenances.
As the night advanced, the gayety gradually died away in the arcades; the bands of music ceased to play, and the brilliant crowd dispersed to their homes.
Here was the scene of their transient gayety and loveliness; here were the very traces of their elegance and enjoyment; but what and where were they?
His usual gayety was at an end, he had no longer a joke or a song for his neighbors, and, in short, became the most miserable animal in the Alhambra.
The gayety of madame appeared to consist in an occasional visit to paw and maw and grandmaw, up the river a few miles, where she was raised.
The evening gayety of the town was well distributed.
There was a kind of predetermined and willful gayety about Asheville however, that is apt to be present in a watering-place, and gave to it the melancholy tone that is always present in gay places.
But a constant round of gayety was not to her taste; she loved quiet home pleasures and intellectual pursuits far better.
She was ever ready to help on the gayety in any way, and was always in voice to sing, provided some one else started the song to give her courage.
Her natural gayetywas almost unquenchable; not even unending work and poverty could entirely subdue her or embitter her.
The "tea equipage" was now served in what at Paris is called the English fashion; the Contessa presided over it, the guests gathered round the table, and the evening passed away in the innocent gayety of a domestic circle.
Yet the dinners, though simple, were perfect of their kind; and the host so contrived to infuse his own playful gayety into the temper of his guests, that the feasts at his house were considered the pleasantest at Paris.
In it there was not much wit, but there was a prevalent vein of gayety, and the gayety was never violent, the laughter was never loud; the scandals circulated might imply cynicism the most absolute, but in language the most refined.
The crimson splash of her rouged lips did not suggest the cocotte, but the lady with a dash of gayety in her temperament.
The Cafe de Paris is one of the places where the respectable go to watch les autres and to catch a real gayety by contagion of a gayety that is mechanical and altogether as unreal as play-acting.
Palmer's abstraction and constraint were in sharp contrast to the gayety of the others.
The moment she was alone for the short ride home, her gayety evaporated like a delicious but unstable perfume.
With these nerves stupefied, her natural gayety asserted itself, and a fondness for quiet and subtle mockery--her indulgence in it did not make her popular with vain men sufficiently acute to catch her meaning.
There is nothing for me to catch up here--unless it be the gayety with which the air is saturated.
There was no laughter, none of the gayety with which one has so often reproached this race--but neither were there any tears.
Mr. Breckon ruled himself and continued--"as strenuously and unquestionably as he ought, he has greater reason than other men for gayety through his faith in a happier state of being than this.
My frank opinion is, that a rest from the gayety of Quicksands will do you good.
For at half-past five the little station, forlorn all day long in the midst of the twisted cedars that grew out of the heated sand, assumed an air of gayety and animation.
Had he not poured out to Honora, with a charming gayety and frankness, many of his financial troubles?
With all this there is singularly little merely animal enjoyment among them: they do not drink liquor; the majority, I was told, do not even smoke tobacco; there is no gayety among the people.
The most frequent guest was the Archduke Louis, whose gayety of temperament and easy humor induced him to pass nearly every evening with us.
He seemed unaffectedly rejoiced to greet his parents, and had something of the gayety and the tenderness of a boy returned from school.
I grant the splendor of your London world; but, honestly speaking, it wants the freedom of ours--a freedom which unites gayety with polish.
Of Paris, now that she has fallen again into one, of her political paroxysms, there is little gayety to be noted.
Then, relating with lively vein his adventures by the way, he continued to delight Lord Lansmere by his gayety till the time came to retire to rest.
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