gladsomeness

Example Sentences

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And yet they no whit Do get a larger fruit of gladsomeness Than got the woodland aborigines In olden times.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

No one suspected what kind of gladsomeness that was.

From Hania by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Alas! is this world so very bright that we can afford to choke up such a domestic fountain of gladsomeness, and sit down by its darkened source without being conscious of a gloom?

From Fire Worship (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Then, in the gladsomeness of contest, everything stirred, and came into activity, shouting for joy.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

Then let us rise above all imperfection, and set our heart, as I said, on true virtues, which are of such joy and gladsomeness as tongue could not tell.

From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine, of Siena, Saint