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Cheerfulness blood humor effecting temperament of sanguineness. [Medieval Physiology: Hall, 130] symbol of cheerfulness because of its bright yellow flowers. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 371] symbol of cheerfulness. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 383] pastoral idyll; title means the cheerful or merry one. [Br. Lit.: “L’Allegro” in Benét, 24–25] the “glad child,” extraordinarily optimistic. [Children’s Lit.: Pollyanna] good-natured despite misadventures; doll with perpetual smile. [Children’s Lit.: Raggedy Ann Stories] (Sunday’s) child bonny and blithe, good and gay. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 309] Zeena’s cousin-companion; brightens Frome’s gloomy house. [Am. Lit.: Ethan Frome] downpour doesn’t dampen singer’s spirits. [Pop. Music: Fordin, 355] Martin’s ever jovial companion. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit] symbolizes good-naturedness in adversity. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The father and mother were old and helpless now, and the number of those about them was diminished more than half; but content and cheerfulness sat on every face, and beamed in every eye, as they crowded round the fireside, and told and listened to old stories of earlier and bygone days. My surprize is the greater because on Wednesday, the very day of his coming to Parklands, we had a most unexpected and unwelcome visit from Lady Susan, looking all cheerfulness and good-humour, and seeming more as if she were to marry him when she got to London than as if parted from him for ever. There were not fewer smiles at the Parsonage than at the Park on this change in Edmund; Miss Crawford looked very lovely in hers, and entered with such an instantaneous renewal of cheerfulness into the whole affair as could have but one effect on him. |
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