Gaiety

On leave, many of your men gravitate towards the Piccadilly neighbourhood, where, despite the black-out, rationing and high prices, a certain spirituous gaiety is still achieved, but this is more likely to lower the bank account than to raise the view of the earnestness of our war-effort. ❋ Unknown (1942)

If he wants to be danced, we see that he has discovered that gaiety is exhilarating to us; if he refuses to be moved, we take notice that he fears to fatigue us. ❋ Unknown (1904)

She sought solitude, and avoided us when in gaiety and unrestrained affection we met in a family circle. ❋ Unknown (1826)

I took leave of him with regret. his gaiety is inoffensive, & our intimacy at Lisbon created many ideas & associations which he only partakes. this evening he will be at Bath; & I hope my mothers affairs will now be settled comfortably; the plan of settling them once fixed, I expect her here. ❋ Unknown (1797)

His son seems weaker in his understanding, and more gay in his temper; but his gaiety is that of a foolish, overgrown school-boy, whose mirth consists in noise and disturbance. ❋ Unknown (1778)

Notwithstanding all my daughter says in gaiety of heart, she would sooner even relinquish the man she loves, than offend a father in whom she has always found the tenderest and most faithful of friends. ❋ Unknown (1769)

This doesn’t surprise, since Lubitch’s stamp of forced gaiety is all over this gilded fabergé egg of a film chronicling Catherine the Great (Tallulah Bankhead) as she seduces a young army officer (William Eythe). ❋ Unknown (2009)

If at such scenes she was seen for an instant, she appeared to behold them with the composed indifference of one to whom their gaiety was a matter of no interest, and who seemed only desirous to glide away from the scene as soon as she possibly could. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Laughter is easily restrained, by a very little reflection; but as it is generally connected with the idea of gaiety, people do not enough attend to its absurdity. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In the midst of all this gaiety, that is to say on the 12th of February, ❋ Various (N/A)

His gaiety was the mask for a most unsleeping energy and very great ability. ❋ Edward John Thompson (1916)

But the gaiety was apparently forced; he whistled, and tried an occasional much-strained joke on the attendant sepoy. ❋ Unknown (1901)

She had the Irish voice, pitched on a low note, an instrument more apt for pathos than for gaiety, which is, perhaps, what gives to its gaiety so special a charm. ❋ Martin Ross (1888)

This he chose merely as a matter of fancy and to give himself an air of rejoicing, for, as he justly reasoned, gaiety, which is good under every circumstance, is especially so in the face of great dangers. ❋ Anatole France (1884)

H.s contribution to our gaiety was the verbatim report of a call he had made upon William H. Vanderbilt, whom he had found just about starting out of town, with his trunks actually in the front hall, but who had stayed to receive the narrator. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Even in the hour of social mirth, my gaiety is the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner. ❋ John Campbell Shairp (1852)

Untroubled by conscience, he could launch out on any subject whatever; and his early life, spent in that species of so-called gaiety which was then the routine of every young man of the world, gave him ample experience to draw upon. ❋ Philip Wharton (1847)

Though the idea of gaiety seems inconsistent with Ferrara, they have an opera, corso, and the same round of festivals and merriment as other Italian towns, but I never saw so dismal a place. ❋ Charles Greville (1829)