gaiety

• We inspected Slafe's activities with interest and responded readily to his autocratic gestures indicating positions and poses we should take in order to be incorporated in his record But our gaiety was again succeeded by another period of despondency; we repeated all our antics, struggles and despair. —  Greener Than You Think
• It was spent as Christmas-day should be spent--in affectionate family intercourse, and not in a wild gaiety which is calculated to drive away all thought and recollection of the great and glorious event it is intended to celebrate on that day. —  Ernest Bracebridge School Days
• Even in the hour of social mirth, my gaiety is the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner. —  Robert Burns
• They preserve all the eagerness of the first few days and that imperishable French gaiety which is an additional weapon for our troops That evening I felt them vibrating in unison with me more keenly than ever There was little doubt that I should have to appeal to their courage again presently, for something unusual was happening in front of us. —  In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry
• Whether the gaiety was assumed in order to hide his depression, or whether he was really able to take the matter lightly, I cannot tell. —  Milly Darrell and Other Tales

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