My dear lady seemed, on this particular September day, restless from very joyousness of spirit, and unable to stay long in one place, or occupy herself with one thing.
Like the birds and the flowers, she seemed to recover her beauty and joyousnessin the morning sunshine.
Now, Jack's features, by long indulgence in the gayer emotions, had immovably moulded themselves into an expression of joyousness and hilarity.
Her hair, parted slightly on one side, clustered in ringlets above a full, fair forehead; while a melancholy expression about her small, compressed mouth seemed to counteract the joyousness of the upper part of her countenance.
It was imagined to be the light at the mouth of the Christiansand Fiord, the name of which, amidst the bustle and joyousness of the moment, I could but indistinctly learn, and cannot now remember.
Nothing shall separate us, and even the king of terrors shall have no terrors for us; in the joyousness of our union of souls we will defy him.
To do my utmost to add to your happiness and to give joyousness to your heart and gayety to your soul.
A passionate love, which you are too weak to overcome, has filled your heart, and therefore its joyousness is dimmed.
Frederick William's joyousness had at first been assumed, to hide his embarrassment; and he felt greatly relieved by Wilhelmine's manner.
But now, as brother and sister, they were free to greet in light-hearted joyousness a new dawn.
At the head of the table sat the illustrious host, beaming with an air of joyousness that astonished even his friends.
The first was the portrait of the late duke, Louis de Nevers, in all the pride of that youth and joyousness which was so tragically extinguished in the moat of Caylus.
Where most of all he gives us a sense of the exuberant joyousness and buoyancy of life is in the sketches of the seaside--the newly discovered joys of which had then not become commonplace to people of the middle class.
The men who have been spoken of dealt largely in satire and humor; but joyousness deals in infinitely more.
But he had never learned the true philosophy of joyousness in the sincere love of nature, the deep phases of humanity, and the affluence and purity of strong affection.
But surely, the great sage of humor, glorious Father Rabelais, of later days, was an exception to the prevailing rule of joyousness in literature?
The glad spirit of nature could not be wholly suppressed, and from amid the social oppressions of the times sweet voices fell upon the ear, celebrating the praises of woman, the love of beauty, and the joyousness of life.
In order to illustrate the lack of true joyousness in the literature of the world, Mr. Leland takes a rapid survey of some of the most distinguished writers in ancient and modern times.
The joyousness which informed each crystalline phrase electrified the ear.
As I came slowly out of this poverty and solitude, the joyousness of my spiritual experience increased: the nights were no longer at all a time of sleep or repose, but of rapturous living.
The peculiar atmosphere of almost playful joyousness which they created whenever they appeared together was something which could not be described, but which diffused itself like sunlight.
Never had I seen Annie so stirred into joyousness by George's presence as she seemed to be by this boy's.
Sometimes his nostrils dilated, and he would look up as if he were actually drinking in the ozone of the air; and he seemed younger than ever, with a joyousness born of sheer intoxication with life.
Yet what joyousness like hers, when she wills; because of her unwavering hope, her inexhaustible fount of love?
As soon as her weakness was past, and once more she was able to go about with Alan, her old joyousness returned.
It all spoke of the freedom of the wilderness, and of the joyousness of life.
Everywhere, in grassy pampa, forest island, reedy marsh and in the streams and lagoons, life teemed and the creatures were filled with the joyousness of living.
Warruk, the black Jaguar, lived with a measure of joyousness that was brimming over.
Du Guesclin promised to procure it; and then the joyousness of the soldier resumed its ascendancy, and they cried, that they had more confidence in him than in all the bishops of France or at Avignon.
Not that his disappointments had soured him; only that this ever-present sorrow had added to the cares of his life, and in later years had taken much of the spring and joyousness out of him.
The dancing joyousness and laughing music of her notes carried the men with them.
The last rag of that mood of tremulous joyousness which had invested her as she drove over the plains to the ball with her father, left her.
The innocence and sheer joyousness of her laughter had reassured him, but, as the evening wore on, she seemed to become intoxicated with her own gaiety.
Her cultivated intellect, her beauty, and the irresistible joyousness of her being charmed all who came into her presence.
Nothing, however, charmed the Ferrarese so much as the never failing, graceful joyousness of Alfonso's young wife.
It appears to her a phantasmal garden, with an atmosphere of brilliance and joyousnessthat may have their home in that realm where Thomas the Rhymer lived; but can have no relationship to her bitter realities.
The whole garden heard it, though it had been but a faint and passing breath, and the whole garden was thrilled with the joyousness it brought.
It was like a sudden dawn, a curtain of shadow snatched aside, revealing the joyousness of early day.
