How To Use Gladsome In A Sentence
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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
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It was the gladsomeness of innocence that he had seen dancing in the moonlight.
The Little Minister
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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
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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
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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'.
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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
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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
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Water came ‘to cheer the high and lowly,’ and ‘a gladsome shout from the mass goes out’ to welcome its arrival.
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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
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Elaine made polite conversation over their gladsome cries.
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Athena stood there, tiredly shaking her head at his gladsome smirk, some simper that made it apparent he was trying to toy with her.
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Gladsome and gay forget thine every grief * Full often grief the wisest hearts outwore:
Arabian nights. English
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The same learned authority, from whose lucid and fascinating pages we enjoyed the first glimmerings of the 'gladsome light of jurisprudence,' says (vol.i. p. 264): 'The command and application of the public force, to execute the law, maintain peace, and resist foreign invasion, are powers so exclusively of an executive nature, and require the exercise of powers so characteristical of this department, that they have always been _exclusively_ appropriated to it in every well-organized government upon earth.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The old Doctor's sleeping apartment, which was the front room on the ground floor, we have converted into a parlor; and, by the aid of cheerful paint and paper, a gladsome carpet, pictures and engravings, new furniture, _bijouterie_, and a daily supply of flowers, it has become one of the prettiest and pleasantest rooms in the whole world.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
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a gladsome occasion
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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
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a gladsome smile
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Men who see the misery and despair produced by capitalism think with joy of the days to come when the misery and despair are replaced by gladsomeness and hope.
The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg