The rooms rang with silvery voices of women and delightful laughter, while the fiddles went merrily, their melodies chiming sweetly with the joyance of his mood. Booth Tarkington, Monsieur Beaucaire, 1900
... overhead the soaring skylark sang, as it were, to express the joyance of the day. Gilbert Parker, A Ladder of Swords, 1904
The natural progress of her life, however, is fragmented in Hong’s kaleidoscopic fusion of reality and fantasy. Richard Brody, "Idiosyncratic Romance at the New York Film Festival," The New Yorker, October 2, 2017
Things had happened, in the last few hours, with a kaleidoscopic rapidity--the whirl of events had left her mind in a dazed condition. Margaret E. Sangster, The Island of Faith, 1921
I'd prefer not to be a grinch, but it’s always been beyond me why people like to argue about literary prizes. Willing Davidson, "Pullet Surprise," The New Yorker, April 20, 2009
Every family has a grinch: the person who wants to sleep in instead of opening presents, refuses to sing Christmas carols, or eats a Twix instead of plum pudding. Sally Holmes, "Anna Wintour Is the Grinch Who Stole the Christmas Tree," The Cut, December 26, 2013
... he enlarged his sphere of action from the cold practice of law, into those vast social improvements which law, rightly regarded, should lead, and vivify, and create. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lucretia, 1846
Faber vivifies the atmosphere and environment of the fictional planet, from its marked humidity to its insect life, with fascinating specificity. Nicole Lamy, "Books for Left-Brained Readers," New York Times, October 2, 2018
Alas! on my knees I supplicate you to forbear--Will you leave me a prey to Frederic? Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, 1746
I ask you but to extend to one whose fault was committed under strong temptation that mercy which even you yourself, Lord King, must one day supplicate at a higher tribunal, and for faults, perhaps, less venial. Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman, 1825
The thundering acclamations, which greeted the close of that luculent and powerful exposition, the zeal with which the concourse hailed him unanimously Savior of Rome and Father of his country ... Henry William Herbert, The Roman Traitor, 1846
... now he would favour us with a grace ... expatiating on this text with so luculent a commentary, that Scott, who had been fumbling with his spoon long before he reached his Amen, could not help exclaiming as he sat down, 'Well done, Mr. George!" John Gibson Lockhart, The Life of Sir Walter Scott, 1837–1838
... Re-coinages, which had the same Effect in depreciating nummary Denominations in France, that frequent and large Emissions of Paper-Money have in our Colonies ... William Douglass, "A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America," 1740
His capital does not have a numerical or nummary value, but it nonetheless has a value, if only in the sustenance he gets out of putting it to productive use. Manu Saadia, Trekonomics, 2016