gayety

• “A round of gayety is alike fascinating and unprofitable; it wastes time, distracts attention, and makes everyday duties and pleasures appear dull and uninteresting.”

  The Mother's Book

• “So do I, darling," says the mother, and looks at her with a tender inquisitiveness that makes the sweet girl flinch, and affect for a moment a noisy gayety, which is not in her heart.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865

• “For many days they joked each other about that headlong flight, but underneath their gayety was a dread which persisted.”

  A Man Four-Square

• “It struck me suddenly that her gayety was the same as that she had worn to my birthday party, scarce a year agone.”

  Richard Carvel — Complete

• “He had been dull, just at first, and his gayety was a little forced, but after his first glass of champagne he brightened up very much, and had begun to tell a funny story.”

  Many Waters

• “The outward peace of such a man is but despair well masked; his gayety is the carelessness of”

  Amiel's Journal

• “September, and recalled the gayety of the season for the moment to the desolate metropolis.”

  London Films

• “His gayety was a little extravagant, and so it might naturally be if it were forced.”

  Without a Home

• “Even in the hour of social mirth, my gayety is the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner.”

  The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham

• “Evening is the festive hour in camp; though I judge, from what I have seen and heard, that our camp has little of the gayety which is commonly associated with the soldier's life.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862

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