gladsome

How To Use gladsome In A Sentence

• She played a little Nevin, played it with a lightness, gladsomeness, he had never felt in her touch before. The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love
• It was the gladsomeness of innocence that he had seen dancing in the moonlight. The Little Minister
• Mellow and fluent though they be, the utterances are not indicative of gladsomeness nor of a sprightly disposition; nor are they songs. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
• A garden is a gladsome thing, he said to himself, surveying the new translucent lime-green growth on the beech hedge. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
• He tells me Teddy may be headed for the priesthood and adds this gladsome note, ‘He drives the head of ‘campus ministry’ nuts, who has told Ted he is on a ‘crusade'.
• The holy man was fearful lest so delicious an abode should enervate the minds of his disciples, that the vigor of their intellect, so requisite for penitential reflections, should become relaxed when surrounded by objects so pleasant to the senses; and lest that which inspired gladsomeness should make them lose the seriousness necessary in prayer, and deprive them of the spiritual delight which is felt therein. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
• In these more sensuous moods he is so filled with the simple Chaucerian gladsomeness of spring that he can sing, or make one of his characters sing -- for after all, his characters are but so many sides of himself -- Platform Monologues
• Water came ‘to cheer the high and lowly,’ and ‘a gladsome shout from the mass goes out’ to welcome its arrival.
• Of course they had every reason to carry that dreadful burden of sacrifice without very much gladsomeness in their hearts. Some Reflections on the War
• Elaine made polite conversation over their gladsome cries.