enlivenment

Example Sentences

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The only enlivenment was the appearance of the 19-year-old Dalai Lama, escorted out of Tibet by a Red general three weeks ago as thousands of his subjects wept and prostrated themselves.

From Time Magazine Archive

It cost a trifle more, but it brought more money into the place, and enabled the villagers to partake of the enlivenment, without the feeling that it was a Barmecide feast.

From Red Saunders His Adventures West & East by Phillips, Henry Wallace

At the depots, too, we encountered a new medium of enlivenment.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

Her visits, and those of her mother, or the twins with Miss Bird, were the daily enlivenment of the two old ladies, and were never omitted.

From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald

It was while traversing this bend that we witnessed a singular mirage that lent to the day all the enlivenment it had.

From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson