gladsomeness
Example Sentences
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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 Saint of Siena Catherine
Whatever difference of opinion there may be as to the character of the Nightingale's song—whether it partakes more of joyousness or of melancholy—the gladsomeness of the Blackcap's warble is beyond all dispute.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
Withal a man, despite his boisterous gladsomeness and his overflowing joy in what the present has to offer, in whom there is nothing common, nothing low.
From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Richard James Horatio Gottheil
You sink down in a flowery spot on the borders of sleep and wakefulness, while your thoughts rise before you in pictures, all disconnected, yet all assimilated by a pervading gladsomeness and beauty.
From Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
She played a little Nevin, played it with a lightness, gladsomeness, he had never felt in her touch before.
From The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love by Susan Glaspell
