mirthful

• His attempts to express the gay and mirthful, as for instance in the masquerade music of “Traviata” and the dance music of “Rigoletto,” are dreary, ghastly, and saddening; while his ideas of tenderness are apt to take the form of mere sentimentality. —  Great Italian and French Composers
• Jim failed to join in my pćans further than to give a general assent; but he grew unaccountably mirthful, as if something good had happened to him of which he had not yet told us I have invited a few people to my parlors this evening," said he, "and, of course, you will be the guests of honor My wife demurred. —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
• The ladies were made very mirthful, and laughed merrily at many of the quaint yarns that were told them, which were for the most part personal. —  The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century
• Their brains were as dim as were their oil-lit streets at night; though their lives were content and mirthful, and for the most part pious. —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
• All seemed very mirthful, and they rode, and hunted, and danced; and it was never dark night, nor broad daylight, but like early summer dawn before the sun has risen There Randal said that he had quite forgotten his mother and Jean, and the world where he was born, and Fairnilee But one day he happened to see a beautiful golden bottle of a strange shape, all set with diamonds, and he opened it. —  The Gold Of Fairnilee

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