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!"
From Time Magazine Archive
To the brightness and gayety of the first effects succeeds a somber brutishness.
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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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No less accomplished a talent than Ethel Waters is sprightly Marilyn Miller, who always seems illumined by a bright inward gayety.
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Imagining that I, too, was hurrying toward gayety and sharing their intimate excitement, I wished them well.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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I too love France, love all her splendors, her attractions, her gayeties.
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For picture purposes the little consumptive girl and the shabby but sincere gayeties of the Paris Latin Quarter seemed insufficient.
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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
The gayeties of the Metropolis were unknown, except by hearsay, to him, and it was but once a year he met Tony’s friends at Northrop Hall.
From The Dust of Conflict by Harold Bindloss
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