gayety
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gayeties
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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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Actor Lunt, brought face to face with his pre-War inamorata, exerts all his gayety, willfulness, passion in an attempt to gain just one more night with her.
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Gay flowers beckoned to be plucked for coat lapels; breezes would blow at hair loosed in vernal gayety.
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Casual U. S. readers supposed this meant that Edward of Wales would eschew gayety for some weeks.
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Her manner was languid, and her gestures without that gayety which had so marked her before.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
For picture purposes the little consumptive girl and the shabby but sincere gayeties of the Paris Latin Quarter seemed insufficient.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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He is rather partial to widows, for example, and always looks upon their innocent gayeties with an indulgent eye.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
She joined in all our little gayeties; she laughed with us.
From The Heart's Country by Mary Heaton Vorse
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