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It is gladdening to find, in such a student, one of the children of light.

From Retrospection and Introspection by Eddy, Mary Baker

O sweet in the sheen of thy raiment, The sight of thy beauty is gladdening!

From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)

See, in the valley greens the gracious spring; The warbling bird is gladdening the leaves!

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various

It is torture to the diseased eye; it is gladdening to the sound one.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander

On the religious development of the last thirty years I can find but little that is gladdening, to myself, at any rate, to say.

From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.