High spirits

Usage examples of gaiety.

I learnt from it that amorous pleasures are the effect and not the cause of gaiety.

So sang Bibbs, his musical gaieties inaudible to his fellow-workmen because of the noise of the machinery.

As they drove across the Square it seemed almost to have been frozen in a cataleptic silence, the bulbous clusters of the street lamps around the Square burned with a hard and barren radiance--a ghastly mocking of life, of metropolitan gaiety, in a desert scene from which all life had by some pestilence or catastrophe of nature been extinguished.

When we were alone I congratulated her on her high spirits, telling her that my sadness had fled before her gaiety, and that the hours I could spend with her would be all too short.

In the midst of all this gaiety I could not help stealing many a furtive glance towards Callimena.

Wit, cheerfulness, decent manners, attended our delightful party, and did not expel the gaiety and the merry jests with which a Frenchman knows how to season every conversation.

But she did not notice this, for her gaiety made her look prettier than before, and aroused her passions.

I knew none of these people and for a moment the old shyness in me overcame my whisky-stimulated gaiety, and in the pushing and shoving and the din of voices I was looking round for Doddy or Jackie when I came face to face with someone I did know.

The frenzied festivities of Mardi Gras complemented her high-strung gaiety.

We made an excellent supper, which we washed down so well that at last the gaiety which had been simulated ended by being real.

He was a pleasant companion, for his gaiety was inexhaustible and he had a large knowledge of the world.

I found Warsaw in a state of gaiety, for a diet was to be held and everyone wished to know how it was that Catherine had given the Poles a native king.

He was not exactly handsome, but he had a perfect manner and an air of gaiety which seemed infectious, with a thorough knowledge of the laws of good society.

Next day Bolini told me that Brigida was far from suspecting his flight, as owing to his gaiety at the thought of freedom he had contented her so well during the night she had passed with him that she thought him as much in love as she was.

These North Italian cabinets were often covered with intarsia or marquetry, which by its subdued gaiety retrieved somewhat their heavy stateliness of form.