As fast and far We hurry to behold the blithesome game of War! Hastesistershaste!

A right blithesome morn, methinks, what with my song, and the birds' song, and this poor ass's bellsaye, and the flowers a-peep from the bank yonder.

For, when it should have been droning psalms, it was forever lilting forth some blithesome melody, some merry song of eyes and lips and stolen kisses.

Let mirth abound; let social cheer Invest the dawning of the year; Let blithesome innocence appear, To crown our joy; Nor envy, wi' sarcastic sneer, Our bliss destroy.

My chariot waited, gold and gay: "I'll ride," I said, "to the woods to-day, Out to the blithesome woods away, Where the old trees, swaying thoughtfully, Watch the breeze and the shadow's glee.

She was about twelve years old, and a blithesome, cheerful creature, just as her mother had been.

And the parsons of the past were also a blithesome set of individuals.

It has an untamed, blithesome, healthy ring with it; harmonises well with the common instincts and the broad, common intuitions of common life; can't hurt a prince, and will improve a peasant; won't teach a king wrong things; is sure to infuse happiness amongst men of humbler mould.

sunny, palmy; hopeful &c 858. merry as a cricket, merry as a grig^, merry as a marriage bell; joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial; jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy^; blithesome; gleeful, gleesome^; hilarious, rattling.

But it is at the theatre, as you may well believe, that poets live and die most like the blithesome grasshoppers.

He is a blithesome brother, a welcome guest in hall and hut.

With the bloom of youth on cheek and lip, Turning the spokes with the flashing pin, Twisting the thread from the spindle-tip, Stretching it out and winding it in, To and fro, with a blithesome tread, Singing she goes, and her heart is full, And many a long-drawn golden thread Of fancy, is spun with the shining wool.

Me, oft hath Fancy too, in musing hour Seated (what time the blithesome summer-day Was burning 'neath the fierce meridian ray)

Say, would you build a cottage near Some pleasant grove, where we might hear The blithesome wild birds' pleasing song, From morn till eve, all summer long?

His colouring does not glow or burn; blithesome and delicate, it seems exactly such a beauty-bloom as sense requires for its satiety.

" "Bird of the | wilderness, Blithesome and | cumberless, Light be thy | matin

I FROM TAVERN TO THEATRE "Out of question, you were born in a merry hour," says Don Pedro to the blithesome heroine of "Much Ado About Nothing.

[Footnote A: In "A Milk White Flag," a good specimen of "up-to-date" farce, Mr. Hoyt dallies entertainingly and discreetly with the blithesome topics of undertakers, corpses, and widows.

Pringle was in high feather; he caroled blithesome as he rode: "So those three little owls flew back up in the barn Inky, dinky, doodum, day!

"No power can die that ever wrought for truth; Thereby a law of Nature it became, And lives unwithered in its blithesome youth, When he who called it forth is but a name.

It was a blithesome day and if it had n't been for that "all gone" sort of a feeling, that possesses me when evening draws near and Jack is far away, content might have marked me as her own.

He lingered over the task; the cavalcade and populace went on without them, and when they started they were in the rearward of the blithesome crowd.