How To Use Gladden In A Sentence
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Obviously we can't promote all of the comments to the main section, but the fact that readers are leaving dialogue bits in the comments really gladdens our hearts.
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Gat lots of economics questions, and it gladdens our hearts.
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The sight of the flowers gladdened her heart .
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GRANVILLE; at the other, the dapper figure, with its indescribable air of old-fashioned gentlemanhood, the light of his smile shed impartially on the benches opposite, but his slight bow reserved for the MARKISS, as, leaning across the table, he pinked him under the fifth rib with glittering rapier -- this is a sight that will never more gladden the eye in the House of Lords.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891
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Mine is not a heart to be gladdened by the sight of a drum on every seat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Under the streamlined hood of the four-wheeler, there was much to gladden the heart of the owner.
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They only stuck the blonde chick in there just to gladden the old woodies in Jesusland.
Think Progress » Despite denouncing threats against Democrats, Fox and Friends broadcast e-mails rationalizing them.
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The angel Gabriel was despatched to him with that short chapter of the Koran, which we call the ninety - fourth, beginning with the words "Have we not gladdened thy breast?
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred
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That has to stand as one of the stranger things I've heard in the past few years, and it gladdens my heart if only because the level of sheer preposterousness in rock music has sadly fallen lately.
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You find that love is not sporadic, not individual, that it does not begin with you or end with you, that it does not dissociate you, and you do not warm to the world-organic kinship, you do not hear the overword of the poets and philosophers of all times, you do not see the visions that gladdened the star-forgotten nights of saints?
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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If she wrote these stories to gladden others, it seems they could not quite touch her own heart, and that may be because she never received the serious critical acclaim she wanted.
On Georgette Heyer « Tales from the Reading Room
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That is a situation to gladden many a heart, but what is the reason behind the turn around in fortunes?
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The formation of union gladdened the hearts of the students who had been demanding this privilege for quite some time now.
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If he is saddened, that is certainly much more than that his elders should be gladdened.
The Children
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It gladdens my heart to see you again.
A Time of War
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The cry of Stena chills the vitals of slumbring off the motther has been pleased into the harms of old salaciters, meassurers soon and soon, but the voice of Alina gladdens the cockly-hearted dreamerish for that magic moning with its ching chang chap sugay kaow laow milkee muchee bringing becker-brose, the brew with the foochoor in it.
Finnegans Wake
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Instead, it received across-the-board critical acclaim, without much in the way of promotion, and became the kind of minor success story that gladdens the heart.
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There's a giddy and gladdening eclecticism in the range of topics and tone.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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The worms looked good and healthy, and the compost they produced would gladden the heart of any gardener.
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Cockerington Princess, champion of her own sex, also came to gladden our eyes, while the converting into stables of theretofore unused stone winery buildings went apace ....
Jack London's Old Sherry Building Converted to Horse Barn
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The one near my University served a wonderful noodle soup that gladdened the heart on dull, overcast winter afternoons.
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I wonder what trinket or snippet of insincere flattery might gladden their hearts.
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Their action will only grieve those near and dear to the people and gladden their enemies.
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The sight of pieces of skin may gladden the heart of the consumer.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Avaunt, O Whiteness,463 wherein naught of brightness gladdens sight
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Today, express your gratitude . Gladden the heart of a person . Praise the wonder of the earth.
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Alexander was also gladdened by the timely arrival of reinforcements fresh from Antipater in Macedonia.
Alexander the Great
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But making an extra trip to the galley a little later, I was gladdened by the sight of Harrison staggering weakly from the rigging to the forecastle scuttle.
Chapter 6
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One of the things I like most about minestrone is its sheer bulk: it's really a big bowl of carb-based joy, with a hefty garnish of vegetables to gladden the heartstrings of health.
How to cook perfect minestrone soup
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Alcohol gladdens my heart in a way that no other mood enhancer ever has.
Times, Sunday Times
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The river's flowing produces a melodious sound that gladdens their ears.
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On every average page of Shakespeare you are greeted and gladdened by at least five words that you never saw before in his writings, and that you never will see again, speaking once and then for ever holding their peace -- each not only rare, but a nonsuch -- five gems just shown, then snatched away.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
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So acquaint me with the facts of the case for naught shall befal thee save that which shall begladden thee; and, when thou shalt have spoken sooth, fear not harm shall betide thee.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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If it does happen, there will be for the very first time in Europe Conservatives and Unionists representing all four parts of the United Kingdom as a single grouping in Brussels - that's a fact which will surely gladden every true Unionist heart.
Wales turns True Blue!
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Above us, among the stones of the slope, hang bunches of Christmas fern; around the foot of the trees we uncover trailing clusters of gray-green partridge vine, glowing with crimson berries; we rake up the prince's-pine, pipsissewa, creeping-Jennie, and wintergreen red with ripe berries -- a whole bouquet of evergreens, exquisite, fairy-like forms that later shall gladden our Christmas table.
The Hills of Hingham
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It gladdens my heart to see you again.
A Time of War
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It was a sight which would gladden the heart of any angler-hundreds of brown trout running a small stream to spawn.
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In the common-room one day sat as merry a company of carousers as ever gladdened the soul of an old tantivy boy.
The Tavern Knight
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In some ways this federal Europe would gladden the hearts of the founding fathers of European integration.
2021: The New Europe
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The sight itself is enough to serve as stress buster, gladdening one's heart.
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Liedertafel" (Society for vocal music) and as teacher, and then to the numerous pretty melodies intermixed with national airs, in which particularly the old "Dessauer march" is skilfully interwoven, then the wellknown student air "Was kommt dort von der Hoeh '", which of course gladdens the heart of every student old or young.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
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Inland, they could perceive other sand-hills, higher than that to which they had climbed, and long crested "combings", with deep valleys between; but not one object to gladden their sight, nothing that offered promise of either food, drink, or shelter.
The Boy Slaves
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Over the next two years, the Rao government pushed through a collection of market-based reforms that would gladden the heart of any economic liberal.
Zero-Sum Future
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Yes; you will no doubt be astonished to hear that the plain "seedsman" at the town end, who sells you your roots and bulbs and seedlings, keeps in his pay a staff of plant-hunters -- men of botanical skill, who traverse the whole globe in search of new plants and flowers, that may gratify the heart and gladden the eyes of the lovers of floral beauty.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
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It was one of those evenings of surpassing loveliness, such as gladdened our hearts only at long intervals.
Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865
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The sight of pieces of skin may gladden the heart of the consumer.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The shift, in any case, is a step sure to gladden multilateralist hearts.
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Sometimes, people and institutions change, and get better, and produce surprising results that gladden the heart.
Travails of a Washington sports fan
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It's about that which gladdens a woman's heart the most: jewellery.
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This should gladden my libertarian heart - government intervention doesn't work!
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But it is with sincere amiability that the imperial writer, who was indeed little used to be ironical, adds that the lively respect and affection of the junior had often "gladdened" him.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
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His unabashed Eurocentrism would gladden George Will's wizened heart, but he hasn't yet outed himself as a flaming Italophile.
Boing Boing
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Would her sparkle have brightened my days, her wit and humour gladdened my heart?
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His speech to Demos today on an open society – the product of more than a year's internal discussion – was one to gladden the left-liberal's heart.
Nick Clegg can only deliver on this rhetoric with Labour | John Kampfner
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Who sat anarchically at a dallas real estate for sale, gladdened a authoritarianism, and for the inexhaustibly sphenoid clingfish vespidae to the sum of reinvigorated sphenoid we are spectacularly aesthetic besotted.
Rational Review
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When Nur al-Din foregathered with his mother and father, they were gladdened in each other with the utmost gladness and care and affliction ceased from them, whilst his parents joyed no less in the Princess Miriam and honoured her with the highmost honour.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Mine is not a heart to be gladdened by the sight of a drum on every seat.
Times, Sunday Times
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A comment left on Lex's post certainly gladdens my heart.
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Huckleberries flourish on the timbered slopes, and kinnikinick gladdens many a gravelly stretch or slope.
Wild Life on the Rockies
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In Dr Gerry Mander's temporary absence, we wondered how easy it would be to imagine the new spruce Question Time, relocated to Glasgow and forced, by the general absence of Westminster politicians, to feature instead those who have otherwise gladdened our week.
I'm sorry. Do speak up. I didn't quite catch that | Euan Ferguson
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The prices charged were outrageous, and my libertarian heart was gladdened.
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And the spectacle of so many women doing something practical for such a vital cause will gladden the heart.
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It gladdens me to see young people doing volunteer work.
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He was retro with a twist, sticking to a page layout that would seem familiar to a 19th-century newspaper reader; favoring the garish and grotesque in a way that would have gladdened a Joseph Pulitzer or a William Randolph Hearst; and, oddly, doing more to encourage the reading of traditional journalism on the Internet than anyone else.
Time For A Slow-Word Movement
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That time of year when the soul can't help but be gladdened by the returning flocks of small, colourful creatures darting about the streets and lawns of Cambridge, warbling incomprehensibly.
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From crackers to carol singers, Santa to stocking fillers, everything about the festive season is designed to gladden the hearts of children.
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Still, whose heart is not gladdened by the idea of archaeologists at the barricades?
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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Queen, by name Lona, who, though she wept and prayed at many a shrine, had never a child to gladden her eyes.
Indian Fairy Tales
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Thy sweet name refreshes the wearied, Thy peaceful brightness giveth sight to the blind, the sweet odour of Thy perfumes gladdens the righteous, the blessed fruit of Thy womb satisfies the Saints.
The Oratory of the Faithful Soul; or, Devotions to the Most Holy Sacrament, and to Our Blessed Lady.
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I came away with a gladdened heart and a burning desire to lobby the body corporate of my work building to donate an unused display cabinet for similar gallery concept.
Unexpected pleasures
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Even if they are tonked, the fixture will gladden hearts in a few towns in Patagonia, where descendants of Welsh settlers still speak Welsh and hold eisteddfods.
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The ineloquent coherence of the book gladdened and surprised me.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whittling something down to its essentials gladdens my editor's heart.
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The king thus inaugurated is now presented as a bridegroom, who appears in garments richly perfumed, brought out from ivory palaces -- His royal residence; by which, as indications of the happy bridal occasion, He has been gladdened.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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When I looked around our little church, where a literal Scriptural quorum of two or three was gathered together, my eye was gladdened by the sight of a charming new suit of reseda cloth with a heliotrope toque!
A Woman Rice Planter
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Moynihan was gladdened by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but the pleasure soon gave way to a dozen years of self-inflicted pain.
A Born Controversialist
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Duke loves his brass," sidemen would tell me, and throughout these recordings, you hear how gladdened his brass made him, as he would smile broadly when they drove the ensemble.
The Duke, Before My Time
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For some reason, his dismissal of the buxom brunette gladdened Regin.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior