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Happy thoughtlessness! ay, and enviable harmless vanity, which thus produced a gaite du coeur worth all my philosophy!
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003
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"Mais quelle gaite, quelle gaite," she kept saying.
Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933
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It is a dialect form of Old Fr. gaite, cognate with watch.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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He was carrying on dreadful, shaking at the gaite, and calling out it was 'is
The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905
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I will venture to apply to your case; 'Amour, delicatesse, et gaite;
The Fallen Leaves Wilkie Collins 1856
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Sir, you have naturally delicatesse and gaite -- but the last has, for some days, been under a cloud.
The Fallen Leaves Wilkie Collins 1856
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I usually accompanied him and his father along the boulevards to his flat in the Faubourg St. Honore, and on that evening he could do nothing but exclaim, 'Mais, quelle gaite d'esprit, cher maitre!'
My Life — Volume 2 Richard Wagner 1848
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Now comes the kinge in grande arraie; And the scholairs presse alonge the waye, Till ye Easterne gaite was thronged so rounde,
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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Vive la gaite de coeur et la bell pastime, vive la beau France et revive ma cher Empreur.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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Happy thoughtlessness! ay, and enviable harmless vanity, which thus produced a _gaite du coeur_ worth all my philosophy!
Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Mary Wollstonecraft 1778
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