The brick house did not speedily become a sort of wayside inn, a place of innocent revelry and joyous welcome; but the missionary company was an entering wedge, and Miranda allowed one spare bed to be made up "in case anything should happen," while the crystal glasses were kept on the second from the top, instead of the top shelf, in the china closet.
The brick house did not speedily become a sort of wayside inn, a place of innocent revelry and joyous welcome; but the missionary company was an entering wedge, and Miranda allowed one spare bed to be made up "in case anything should happen," while the crystal glasses were kept on the second from the top, instead of the top shelf, in the china closet.
All the feathered songsters who had made joyous the bright day had gone to bed.
Listening to all these joyous voices, Peter forgot for a time what had brought him to the Smiling Pool.
CHAPTER XXVI: Love Fills The Heart Of Whitefoot Joyous all the winds that blow To the heart with love aglow.
But by and by Whitefoot began to feel less joyous.
Ephraim was in the room, and Henry, evidently joyous and triumphant, addressed both him and Anna.
She thought with joyous anticipation of the warm, bright, sitting-room, the supper, and the vivacious good-natured conversation.
Mynors entered, joyous and self-possessed, a white rose in his coat: he shook hands with Mr.
' 'You know it is, Anna,' she frowned, and then breaking into a joyous anile: 'But isn't he nice?
Emanuel was indeed very joyous that night.
Entering on the level of a Grande Place, I found myself, with the suddenness of magic, plunged amidst a gay, living, joyous crowd.
For some reason—gladdened, I think, by a sudden return of the golden glimmer of childhood, roused by an unwonted renewal of its buoyancy, made merry by the liberty of the closing hour, and, above all, solaced at heart by the joyous consciousness of that treasure in the case, box, drawer up-stairs,—I fell to playing with the handkerchief as if it were a ball, casting it into the air and catching it—as it fell.
There, as elsewhere, the CHURCH strove to bring up her children robust in body, feeble in soul, fat, ruddy, hale, joyous, ignorant, unthinking, unquestioning.
PEG BOWEN COMES TO CHURCH When those of us who are still left of that band of children who played long years ago in the old orchard and walked the golden road together in joyous companionship, foregather now and again in our busy lives and talk over the events of those many merry moons—there are some of our adventures that gleam out more vividly in memory than the others, and are oftener discussed.
Green Gables was a busy and joyous house that forenoon.
They set out accordingly about ten o'clock in the morning, Herbert confident, Neb joyous, Pencroft murmuring aside,— "If, on my return, I find a fire at the house, I shall believe that the thunder itself came to light it.
And the sun shone and the flags fluttered and the games were played and the dances danced, and as the gayeties went on and the joyous afternoon passed, his little lordship was simply radiantly happy.
The Earl often was silent, listening and watching the joyous, glowing face.
But she was not joyous: her married life had fulfilled none of her hopes, and had been quite spoiled for her imagination.
