Lighthearted

Usage examples of blithe.

He remembered Aby living, Aby on Moon, blithe and beautiful, coming down the road in the safe lowlands.

So much belief, so much authority seemed to have been invested by the builders in these primitive, faceless idols, guardians of the blithe, naked Ama girls, that Bond had a ridiculous urge to kneel and ask for their blessing as the Crusaders had once done before their God.

I mind it just as well as if it had been only yestreen--who should make his appearance at the room door but the bailie himself, and a blithe face he had?

Black marauders among blithe birds of peace and joy, they watched like sable spirits near the nests, or on some near sea rocks, sombre and alone, blinked evilly at the tall bright cliffs and the lightsome legions nestling there.

Our gudeman leans owre his kale-yard dyke, And a blithe auld bodie is he.

With Fudge to feed the Hungry Bum She plays the Girl Philanthropist -- Each pinchbeck, boy Millenium She swings, a Bangle, at her wrist -- Blithe Parrot and Pert Egoist, You threaten her with Night and Sorrow?

A well of sealed and secret happiness, Whose waters like blithe light and music are, Vanquishing dissonance and gloom?

Dayling maidens went in bands trimly decked out throughout all the host and served the warriors with meat and drink, and sang the overword to their lays, and smote the harp, and drew the bow over the fiddle till it laughed and wailed and chuckled, and were blithe and merry with all, and great was the glee on the eve of battle.

Each revived memory arose resharpened by the untempered lens of blithe innocence.

A man wandered right into his death, blithe and believing, until madness sucked his companions down into that delusionary hell with him.

Meanwhile, amid blithe dreams of marriage that play ceaselessly before my eyes, I stare deep into the waters of the Bosphorus, flowing clearer than usual on this sunny winter morning, on guard for an ominous sign within its currents.

Blithe when the Orisha shaman exploded from the earth in front of the dog, eyes bulging with madness, jagged teeth bared in a grin of savagery.

Kris and I, the day we set off in blithe ignorance to Trox Island, could have benefited hugely from cross references from beacons at Panama, Swan Island and Bimini.

He had detected a delightful innocence in her during her casting of the circle, a blithe unawareness of her abilities.

It was amusing to see the five seniors treat the cajoling, demanding, pleading requests that arrived regularly from the combined military strength of the First Federal Federation and the Keiretsu with blithe indifference.