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For a decade he has rejoiced at being known as "the worst hated and most utterly unscrupulous man in China."

From Time Magazine Archive

I have the most intense admiration for Régnault, and in reading his biography it has rejoiced me to find the author in such thorough sympathy with his subject.

From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

The intelligence we have received by your letters, Mr. Boutwell, &c., of the Lord's doings among you, as a people, at the Sault, has rejoiced our hearts much.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

"It may be said that not only the Court, but the entire kingdom has rejoiced in the rupture of the proposed marriage."

From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Barine, Arvede

I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy.

From The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus by Teresa, of Avila, Saint