Example Sentences

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Alas! is this world so very bright that we can afford to choke up such a domestic fountain of gladsomeness, and sit down by its darkened source without being conscious of a gloom?

From Fire Worship (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

And yet they no whit Do get a larger fruit of gladsomeness Than got the woodland aborigines In olden times.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

Then, in the gladsomeness of contest, everything stirred, and came into activity, shouting for joy.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

No one suspected what kind of gladsomeness that was.

From Hania by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

You sink down in a flowery spot, on the borders of sleep and wakefulness, while your thoughts rise before you in pictures, all disconnected, yet all assimilated by a pervading gladsomeness and beauty.

From The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel