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If she scorn, I mourn, I retire to despair, joying never .

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Flint was asked why a man like himself, "after he has amassed millions, goes on increasing his collection instead of retiring and en- joying life."

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh, my brethren, methinks I am with you, weeping with you, joying with you, praying with you, and hearing with you.

From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas

And man and horse, and hound and horn, Destructive sweep the field along; While, joying o'er the wasted corn, Fell Famine marks the maddening throng.

From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various

This is not sadness in the wood; The yellowbird Flits joying through the solitude, By no thought stirred Save of his little duskier mate And rompings jolly.

From More Songs From Vagabondia by Carman, Bliss