Though 'tis to save his country's towers he mounts his fiery steed She has no cheerful word for him, no blessing and godspeed; And were there some light pretext to keep him at her side, In chains of love she'd bind him there, whate'er the land betide.

" Clarendon, indeed, informs us, that on the morning before the battle, Falkland, "very cheerful, as always upon action, put himself into the first rank of the Lord Byron's regiment."

He is cheerful, frank, and witty.

Our survey began with pictures of horrid slaughter and desolation: it ends with the picture of a world covered with cheerful homesteads, blessed with a sabbath of perpetual peace.

"The bright colors and tone of cheerful confidence," says Grote, whose account of the plague follows, "which pervaded the discourse of Pericles, appear the more striking from being in immediate antecedence to the awful description of this distemper.

I invited you to draw near a bright fire which blazed in the chimney, and looked the only cheerful thing in the room.

I had no idea that he had ever been unhappy; his voice was always kind and cheerful; I had never before seen him weep, or shew any such signs of grief as those in which I used to express my little troubles.

"THE END OF THE WORLD" An officer who was wounded in the fighting thus vividly describes the battle of Neuve Chapelle: "Modern warfare is such an infernal business that any man who is not killed ought to be cheerful.

On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend, Preserve him social, cheerful, and serene, And just as rich as when he served a queen.

Even Bandy-legs took on a more cheerful air, and brightened up after hearing Max say this.

So long, boys!" He waved them a cheerful goodbye, once more smiled at each in turn, whirled on his heel, and was gone, seeming to vanish in the shadows of the nearby woods like "a wisp of smoke when the wind strikes it," as Steve remarked.

Pa tried to be cheerful, and he said: "Well, we will give the evening performance, and when the Indians are all in the tent we can turn out the lights and turn the boys loose on them, and maybe they will find some of the money in their breech clouts.

"He was never seen to be transported with mirth, or dejected with sadness; always cheerful, but rarely merry, at any sensible rate; seldom heard to break a jest; and when he did, he would be apt to blush at the levity of it: his gravity was natural, without affectation.

"I'm sure I don't mind," said Peter; and his tone was quite alert and cheerful.

The summer flowers are not more cheerful than the spring blaze, the spring blackness of richness, or the spring whirr and flutter.

Here and there, on these beautiful highlands, we find ancient ladies, bright-eyed and cheerful, who tell us they have occupied the selfsame housebuilt, Kentucky-fashion, with chimney outsidefor forty years or so.

How can people in this State wear cheerful countenances?

Then wise work is Cheerful, as a child's work is.

She was cheerful and kind, but so serious that he felt the constant pressure of her pain.

After tea half an hour, or perhaps an hour, remains before bed-time; in this time, which ought to be spent in light, cheerful talk or play, the rest of the lessons must be learned.

'Every one is sorry when you go!' Margaret was not a gushing person, but she stooped and kissed the cheerful little woman, and pressed her small hand affectionately.

Any one could cable 'Pleasant voyage,' and sign the telegram 'Tom,' which gave it a friendly and encouraging look, because somehow 'Tom' is a cheerful, plucky little name, very unlike 'Edmund.'

Is there a twisted and hardened heart in the community he beams upon it from his cheerful eye, he speaks out of his great charity, he gives the friendly pressure of his large hand, and that hardened heart dissolves and its frozen hopelessness loses itself in tears.

The worst of it isI gather from common reportthis infidel is a Cheerful Infidel, whereas a true infidel should bear upon his face the living mark of his infamy.

Tilted back in a chair, with his feet on the table, he absorbed the cheerful heat from the stove, sent up clouds of smoke, and wondered if the half-breed had already started back into the South.