Example Sentences

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She was ever the ready, willing nurse, the writer of bulletins to those away, the cheerer of long, sad hours of suffering.

From Maria Edgeworth by Zimmern, Helen

The cheerer, thou, of our in-door sadness, He is the friend of our summer gladness: What hinders, then, that ye should be Playmates in the sunny weather, And fly about in the air together?

From The Children's Garland from the Best Poets by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

Not he," said Bones, "not he, dear old cheerer.

From Bones in London by Wallace, Edgar

All at once I came upon a merry party of some half-dozen ladies and gentlemen, just going in at a large house, when one of the gentlemen stopped and gave me quite a cheerer.

From Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season by Fenn, George Manville

Would I might have cheered thee, whenas thou foundest never a cheerer!'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir