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He turned up in Venice under an assumed name, roistered it gamily with a night-livered crew.

From Time Magazine Archive

His Week-End is a melodrama of gamily high life, told with unaffectedly high spirits.

From Time Magazine Archive

This musical marriage of vaudeville and burlesque has been gamily adapted from Plautus; the girls owe their best lines to nature; and Zero Mostel is master of the hilarious revels.

From Time Magazine Archive

I looked at him, at Spikes standing wearily on three legs but with his ears perked gamily ahead, and down at the gray, worn-out horse of Perry Potter's.

From The Range Dwellers by Bower, B. M.

It was like him to play his poor joke gamily, at the last, and pretend he didn't care.

From The Rim of the Desert by Anderson, Ada Woodruff