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The only enlivenment was the appearance of the 19-year-old Dalai Lama, escorted out of Tibet by a Red general three weeks ago as thousands of his subjects wept and prostrated themselves.

From Time Magazine Archive

How deadly dull would be the details Stevenson gives in these letters but for the enlivenment of humor!

From The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric by Cody, Sherwin

The professors walked in colorful solemnity beneath the elms and up the middle aisle of the chapel, lending both to outdoors and indoors the enlivenment of hoods red, yellow, purple.

From Bertram Cope's Year by Fuller, Henry Blake

Our friend began the day prosperously, finding everybody cordial and gay, and doing, as he thought, his full share towards the enlivenment of each call.

From From the Easy Chair, series 3 by Curtis, George William

She has been very kind, and my great enlivenment," said Ermine, "and she can't be expected to know how little we want her.

From Clever Woman of the Family by Yonge, Charlotte Mary