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Here, in a substantial family chaise, setting forth betimes to take advantage of the dewy road, come a gentleman and his wife, with their rosy-cheeked little girl sitting gladsomely between them.

From The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The peasants looked out upon the world from beneath their brows, as their cottages from beneath the pines; and they lived gladsomely, as they should.

From Tales of the Wilderness by Pilniak, Boris

"Oh, just leave it to Hicks!" quoth he, gladsomely.

From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by Elderdice, J. Raymond

Here, in a substantial family chaise, setting forth betimes to take advantage of the dewy road, come a gentleman and his wife with their rosy-cheeked little girl sitting gladsomely between them.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

She walked so gladsomely that she trod on the air.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)