gayety
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"In 1914, as a man already old, I was witness to the courage, gayety and fortitude of Paris under the German bombardment!"
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In activity and gayety the scene was like a hunt meet or steeplechase.
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Her father reproaches himself for having made his wife spend her life so far from the village whose gayety she had loved.
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He looked tired and had abandoned his familiar pose of gayety.
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All the gayety which Wang Lung had never had from his labor on the land was held here in the walls of this house, where men met to play and never to work.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
I too love France, love all her splendors, her attractions, her gayeties.
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When Marceline came back to the Hippodrome in 1915 after a trip abroad, his crowds were already beginning to prefer the silent flutter of faces on a screen to the gayeties of a nimble droll.
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For picture purposes the little consumptive girl and the shabby but sincere gayeties of the Paris Latin Quarter seemed insufficient.
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For Jean did not care enough for these things to make the effort worth her while, and May would have had to content herself with the gayeties provided by other people.
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
The gayeties of the Metropolis were unknown, except by hearsay, to him, and it was but once a year he met Tony’s friends at Northrop Hall.
From The Dust of Conflict by Bindloss, Harold
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