She made objections to the gaiety of my dress; and told me, that if she went to St. Paul's, she could go in a coach without me.

But to the gentlemenas they must be called in right of their ancestors, it seems; for no other do they appear to have: Mr. BELTON has had university education, and was designed for the gown; but that not suiting with the gaiety of his temper, and an uncle dying, who devised to him a good estate, he quitted the college, came up to town, and commenced fine gentleman.

It needs not now be observed, that Mr. Lovelace, in this wanton gaiety of his heart, often takes liberties of coining words and phrases in his letters to this his familiar friend.

It was not until I had reached the drawing-room and was enabled to take a square look at the Bassett that I found the debonair gaiety with which I had embarked on this affair beginning to wane a trifle.

I passed the Gaiety where a middle-aged gentleman, decidedly intoxicated, was engaged in a noisy altercation with a policeman, who was threatening to take him to Bow Street if he did not go quietly home, and at last approached the spot for which I was making.

"The town improves in gaiety every day; the young people are younger than they used to be, and all the old are grown young.

From your rawest infancy you were as much distinguished, as Milton represents the goddess Hebe to have been, by "nods and becks and wreathed smiles;" with this difference, that in her they were marks of gaiety, and in you of demureness; that in her they were unrestrained and general, and in you intended only for a single confidant.

The undesigning gaiety of youth has the strongest claim upon your humanity.

Attentive to the native gaiety of youth, the periods, in which his attention is required, though frequent in their returns, should in their duration be short and inoppressive.

This reflexion ought to raise our admiration of Mrs. Behn, whose genius was of that force, to maintain its gaiety in the midst of disappointments, which a woman of her sense and merit ought never to have met with.

He seems to have had a sprightly genius, and possessed a pleasing gaiety of humour.

It shoots little darts through the circle, and a minute latergaiety all gone, and you looking through that little hole the gaiety left.

We always loved Claire's queer gaiety.

But never one of youoncelooked with me through the little pricks the gaiety madenever one of youonce, looked with me at the queer light that came in through the pricks.

"Here we are!" said Hilda, with a gaiety that absolutely desolated herself, and in the same instant she remembered that George Cannon had preceded her in saying 'Here we are!'

Here is still a passage, very important as a piece of lascivious painting: "How they loved that dear room, so full of gaiety, despite of its rather faded splendour!

Its deadly dullness, however, is too well known to the habitué of the Riviera; and its casino, which never obtained a licence, imparts to it the air of painful effort at gaiety.

Whether that quick transition from pensiveness to a dancing gaiety was the cause, or whether it only helped her beauty, this is certain.

Travellers have remarked the same want of gaiety amongst the Indians of America; and some of them ascribe it to the small development of the nervous system prevalent among these peoples, to which cause also they attribute their wonderful courage in bearing pain.

The occasion was the first performance of Pillars of Society at the Gaiety Theatre, Londonthe first Ibsen performance ever given in England.

A barometer had accordingly been hung, up stage, near the veranda entrance; and, as the scenic apparatus of a Gaiety matinée was in those days always of the scantiest, it was practically the one decoration of a room otherwise bare almost to indecency.

And some day, the observed of all observers in some bright hall of gaiety, he would pass her coldly by, with a cynical smile upon his lips, and she would grow pale and totter and fall into the arms of the bloated Silenus, for whose title she had bartered her purely superficial charms.

Maulevrier was not an intellectual companion, and the distance was wide between the two men; but his lordship's gaiety, good-nature, and acuteness made amends for all shortcomings in culture.

At this period of the year, which has for ages been celebrated for scenes of gaiety and amusement among the laboring, as well as all other classes of society, and when several successive days of idleness occur, I cannot but congratulate your Honor, on the quiet demeanor and general good order, which has happily been maintained throughout the island.

nothing can ever quell your gaiety of heart.