gladden

• Today I did, with some difficulty [for my walking is affected] manage to reach my favourite bar at lunchtime and they made me this especially pretty dish of fruit and ice cream to gladden my heart - and my appetite - during this difficult period. —  Sicily Scene
• I need not make other quotations, but throughout the letter every blessing that can gladden or sanctify the human spirit is regarded by the Apostle as being stored and shrined in Jesus Christ: inseparable from Him, and therefore to be found by us only in union with Him And that is the point of all which I want to say--viz. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• All the purity and beauty of the vanished human soul is revealed to us now, when it is no longer in our power to gladden or delight it with our kindness or our praise. —  The Empire of Love
• The sense of the passage is that as everything depends upon its own nature, it cannot, by its action, either gladden or grieve me. —  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon, too, has embalmed this "pet and plaything of the Temple" in some pleasant stanzas The fountain's low singing is heard on the wind Like a melody bringing sweet fancies to mind Some to grieve, some to gladden: around them they cast The hopes of the morrow, the dreams of the past Away in the distance is heard the vast sound From the streets of the city that compass it round Like the echo of fountains, or the ocean's deep call Yet that fountain's low singing is heard over all Entering the houses, we find them mostly of a stereotyped pattern. —  Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885

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