gladdened

How To Use gladdened In A Sentence

• 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...
• Alexander was also gladdened by the timely arrival of reinforcements fresh from Antipater in Macedonia. Alexander the Great
• 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
• The one near my University served a wonderful noodle soup that gladdened the heart on dull, overcast winter afternoons.
• 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.
• 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
• The sight of the flowers gladdened her heart .
• Mine is not a heart to be gladdened by the sight of a drum on every seat. Times, Sunday Times
• 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
• 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