blithesome

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Noah Brooks, a journalist, claimed that "few persons would recognize the hearty, blithesome, genial, and wiry Abraham Lincoln of earlier days" if they were to meet him again during his presidency.

From Salon • May 29, 2011

It was to commemorate the birth of this son that Wagner wrote his most blithesome work, Siegfried, the third of the Ring tetralogy.

From Time Magazine Archive

His alchemy remints fables into wondrous blithesome magic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the seamed cliff of his forehead, his eyes lurk in shadowed caves, agile, probing, grave, blithesome and wise.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Captain Cleggs returned aboard, His blithesome crew convulsive roar'd, To see him altered so.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various