It is true that on such occasions he was not conspicuous for any special mirthfulness; but his good-humour had always been somewhat subdued in character. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Herr Klüber, for his part, did everything he supposed conducive to the mirthfulness of the company; he begged them to sit down in the shade of a spreading oak-tree, and taking out of a side pocket a small booklet entitled, ‘Knallerbsen; oder du sollst und wirst lachen!’ ❋ Unknown (2006)
Their mirthfulness and kindliness are most winning; their horses, food, clothes, and time are all bestowed on one so freely, and one lives amongst them with a most restful sense of absolute security. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
The Hawaiians are a handsome people, scornful and sarcastic-looking even with their mirthfulness; and those who know them say that they are always quizzing and mimicking the haoles, and that they give everyone a nickname, founded on some personal peculiarity. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
Levin felt envious of this health and mirthfulness; he longed to take part in the expression of this joy of life. ❋ Unknown (2003)
But it was too late; the consulting detective had blinked away; his mirthfulness, manifesting itself at the most inopportune times, ❋ Cover, Arthur Byron (1979)
When "Vanity Fair" first appeared, we thought we saw in it the germ of a journal which might be an exponent of our national spirit of mirthfulness, and we took occasion to say so briefly. ❋ Various (N/A)
He spurned everything mean and ungenerous, -- was genial in disposition, indeed brimming with mirthfulness, and, in every situation, attracted to himself numerous friends. ❋ Mrs. William T. Savage (N/A)
Roland, and the encouraging countenance maintained by Telie Doe, who seemed little affected by their forlorn situation, gradually tranquilised her mind, and enabled her the better to preserve the air of levity and mirthfulness, which she so vainly attempted at first to assume. ❋ Robert M. Bird (N/A)
After making known to him the object of my visit, the desire of being numbered among the _personnel_ of his enterprise, the conversation quickly took that turn of mirthfulness that was at the bottom of Favre's character. ❋ Various (N/A)
G. _ Frank, thee must not transcend the truth in thy mirthfulness. ❋ Various (N/A)
The Sabbath worship extended into Monday's conversation, and Tuesday's bargain, and Wednesday's mirthfulness, and Thursday's controversy, and Friday's sociality, and ❋ Rev. John Gerardus Fagg (N/A)
Granted, a measure of truth in the charge; for large mirthfulness and large imitation lead children to do things "just for fun," which all the time they know better than to persist in. ❋ Agnes H. Morton (N/A)
Indeed, the innocent unconsciousness of anything derogatory to her name or character which belonged to Adèle, and her consequent cheery mirthfulness, were sources of infinite annoyance to Miss Eliza. ❋ Various (N/A)
The summer and autumn of 1862, found her in the hospitals in Tennessee, ready on all occasions for the most difficult posts of service, ministering at the bed-side of the sick and desponding, cheering them with her warm words of encouragement and sympathy, and her pleasant smile and ready mirthfulness, the very best antidote to the depression of spirits and home-sickness of the worn and tired soldier. ❋ Mary C. Vaughan (N/A)
Her clear, keen, hazel eye looks as if it could sparkle with mirthfulness, as in fact it could; there are in it both the subtile flash of wit and the subdued light of humor; and though the whole face smiles, it has yet a certain decisive firmness that speaks the soul immutable in good. ❋ Various (N/A)
I heard him laugh, with the hereditary mirthfulness of men of that occupation. ❋ Various (N/A)
His complexion was dark, and his eyes hazel; and when his countenance was lit upon the recitation of some witty tale, he looked the impersonation of mirthfulness. ❋ Various (N/A)
He had lost the mirthfulness and loquacity of the previous day, and we rode on for a full hour in silence. ❋ James R. Gilmore (N/A)
With pecocke well ydight, 'which we gather, and our fair dames weave into brilliant fans that flutter and snap in many a gay assembly, and whose myriad eyes of blue and purple smile with irresistible mirthfulness into the most hostile countenances. ❋ Various (N/A)
