joyance
Example Sentences
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Their joyance was not in their official capacity, for there were still troublous times in the Sandwich Islands.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the joyance of the Doles could not be extinguished by such considerations, for to them had been born a son christened Sanford Ballard Dole.
From Time Magazine Archive
From undiscovered regions Only the angels know, Great winds of aspiration Perpetually blow, To free the sap of impulse From torpor of distrust, And into flowers of joyance Quicken the sentient dust.
From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss
You shall never more have farms nor lands; you shall never more have joyance nor gladness; you shall rot forgotten in a hole as you had never done brave things for the King's grace.'
From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox
Ah, how great a maid's annoyance, Sick and chafed her bosom is,-- And to make her only joyance, Withered lips bestow a kiss!
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Hardenberg, Friedrich von
