joyance

Example Sentences

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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

Their joyance was not in their official capacity, for there were still troublous times in the Sandwich Islands.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ye garlands of my God, whose love yet breathes About me; shapes of joyance mystical; Begone!

From The Trojan Women of Euripedes by Euripedes

How durst I hope for the days wherein I now shall dwell, And that assurèd joyance whereof no tongue may tell?

From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by Morris, William

There are woods and waters, and the occasional illusion of an illimitable distance of sylvan joyance.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield