gaities

The toils of state shall from this moment devolve upon thee; and from this moment, the delights of empire unallayed shall be mine: I will recline at ease, remote from every eye but those that reflect my own felicity; the felicity that I shall taste in secret, surrounded by the smiles of beauty, and the gaities of youth.

Almoran and Hamet John Hawkesworth

Could the pleasures or the gaities of the world cast one cheering beam upon their lonely home?

Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland Abigail Stanley Hanna

They look into the open grave, or watch the passing funeral perhaps with a momentary sadness, and turns lightly again to the active concerns of life, mingling in its gaities and dissipation, dancing on to the very whirlpool that is soon to engulf their frail bark, and bear it away where hope can never come.

Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland Abigail Stanley Hanna

Washington is so well known to English people that I need not pause to describe the city, its gaities and pleasures.

Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison 1865

THE gaities of Washington, to which I alluded in my first chapter, were soon eclipsed by the clouds that gathered in the political horizon.

Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison 1865

Whatever the gaities of the Carnival may have been formerly, it is scarce possible to conceive

The Diary of an Ennuyée 1827

But though she is a good-natured, obliging woman; she is so immersed in the love of public diversions! so fond of routs, drums, hurricanes Bless me, my dear! how learned should I have been in all the gaities of the modern life; what a fine lady, possibly; had I not been carried into more rational (however to me they have been more painful) scenes; and had I followed the lead of this lady, as she (kindly, as to her intention) had designed I should

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

The general opinion of my friends was that life with Mr. Pulitzer would be one long succession of happy, care-free days spent along the languorous shores of the Mediterranean -- days of which perhaps two hours would be devoted to light conversation with my interesting host, and the remainder of my waking moments to the gaities of Monte Carlo, to rambles on the picturesque hillsides of Rapallo and Bordighera, or to the genial companionship of my fellow-secretaries under the snowy awnings of the yacht.

An Adventure with a Genius Alleyne Ireland

Our fortune was equally suitable, so that we meet without any of those obligations, which always produce reproach or suspicion of reproach, which, though they may be forgotten in the gaities of the first month, no delicacy will always suppress, or of which the suppression must be considered as a new favour, to be repaid by tameness and submission, till gratitude takes the place of love, and the desire of pleasing degenerates by degrees into the fear of offending.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746