Riant

Amongst the rest, he descried a city ordered after the fairest fashion in the midst of a verdant and riant land, rich in trees and streams, with gazelles pacing daintily over the plains; whereat he fell a-musing and said to himself, Would ❋ Unknown (2006)

Now when she ended her lines, she mounted and they set forward with her, crossing and cutting over wold and wild and riant dale and rugged hill, till they came to the shore of the Sea of ❋ Unknown (2006)

Fel 'hen' riant o'r ardal, fe fedra i ei sicrhau nad Plaid Cymru sydd wrth wraidd yr sefyllfa hynod anffodus hon ond yn hytrach rhes o weinyddiaethau Llafur Caerdydd a ddistyrodd y galw am addysg Gymraeg. ❋ Dyfrig (2008)

In the original French ( "Ses cheveux dans ses yeux, et riant au travers") Hugo doesn't say a word about them; as nearly as I can tell, she's just laughing through her unkempt hair. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Avant de lire ce cauchemareve, arretez de manger ou de faire quoique ce soit qui pourrait vous etouffer en riant!! ❋ Pinku-tk (2007)

I saw fertile fields, riant vegetation, strange trees — I heard the cry of cricket and pee-wit, and sibilant sound of many insects, all of which seemed to tell me, “At last you are started.” ❋ Henry Morton (2004)

Our eyes are somewhat startled by the amount of bright and vivid green: for some reason, unknown to us, the shore is far more riant than the northern section; and the land might be called quasi-agricultural. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The Wady Surr now began to widen out, and to become more riant, whilst porphyry was almost the only visible rock. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Amongst the rest, he decried a city ordered after the fairest fashion in the midst of a verdant and riant land, rich in trees and streams, with gazelles pacing daintily over the plains, whereat he fell a-musing and said to himself, "Would I knew the name of yon town and in what land it is!" ❋ Naipaul, V.S. (1981)

Rusticum; [5] Arnauld d'Andilli, in so many respects rendered illustrious, who retired to the convent of Port Royal, (that divine solitude, where the whole country for a league round breathed the air of virtue and holiness, to quote Mad. de Sevigné's words), and who sent each year to the queen some of that choice fruit which he there with such zeal cultivated, and which Mazarin "appelloit en riant des fruits bénis." ❋ Samuel Felton (N/A)

Whether it was the simple magnitude of its quaint, straight-lined cathedral, or the generally charming and _riant_ aspect of the town, one does not know, but the sentiment was worthy of both the man and the place. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Throwing open the double casements of the widow's sanctum, I may not call it boudoir, when I leapt out of bed to enjoy the fresh morning air, — underneath was a noisome dunghill, grim gables frowned on either hand, but beyond was the _riant_ landscape just described. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)

No two sisters could have been more different in bearing and appearance; Maria was a delicate blonde, with a _riant_ face, and an animated manner -- we had said almost _peculiarly Irish_ -- rushing at conclusions, where her more thoughtful and careful sister paused to consider and calculate. ❋ Various (N/A)

I cure her for nothing — pour ses beaux yeux, 'a-t-il ajouté en riant. ❋ Dorothy Leigh (1923)

Because she seems cynical and crass, she cries with trumpet-call to the mind of the dreamer; because she is riant and mad, she speaks to the grave sanity of the poet. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)

Laissant pendre, en riant, nos pieds au fil de l’eau, ❋ Unknown (1920)

He observes all human traits, whether of moral sophistry or ethical casuistry, with the genial sympathy of a lover of his kind irradiated with the riant comprehension of the humorist. ❋ Archibald Henderson (1920)

"L'auteur se proposait de faire beaucoup rire les spectateurs, mais il voulait aussi qu'ils se corrigeassent en riant." ❋ Wilton Wallace Blanck�� (1916)

The middle-age architecture, the baronial hall, and the spacious and lofty rooms, of this fine old place, so unlike the mean and cramped externals of English middle class life, gave the sentiment of a large and freer existence, and were to me a sort of poetic cultivation, aided also by the character of the grounds in which the Abbey stood; which were riant and secluded, umbrageous, and full of the sound of falling waters. ❋ Unknown (1909)