merriness

He looked straight into her face and some of the merriness left his eyes.

It was never merriness which made eyes sparkle that way.

Well, sir, be it as the style shall give us cause to climb in the merriness.

It wasn't the hysterical undertone so much as the genuine merriness on top.

There was merriness there too, an optimistic resolve against the odds.

She was so lively, so natural that you forgot her appearance in the glow other warm merriness.

Lysaer's formal sovereignty broke before a grin of boyish merriness.

The merriness that had brightened her when she had conducted the tofu torture was gone.

Merriness is only part of it.

Darci Kistler danced with a merriness that perfectly caught the character of the ballet.

Lit to merciless merriness, Arithon tipped back the rum jug.

'Meriadoc', short 'Merry', is designed to maintain the reference to merriness contained in the original name.

The dirty rings consume our merriness.

You could talk shoes with Susan (dazzlingly shod herself), which makes for merriness and a sense of sisterhood.

She laughed, her merriness returning.

The reader expected, the note said, "something of the poetry and fire and merriness and sadness of Mexico."

The gray eyes narrowed and the face lost a little of its merriness, though she did bend her lips slightly in the parody of a smile.

It tinkled, an old-world merriness.

This is a glittering outdoor party, where chaos and merriness reign and nothing is as it normally is.

Yet . . . the palpable merriness of everyone around her denied the prospect of threat or harm.

And Geralyn Delcorso makes merriness the cruelest mockery here, dancing the role of Colombina.

That was apparent in the merriness of children as they watched brown water spurt from the fountain of the playground at 96th Street and Fifth Avenue.

While for some people this Swedish baritone's name evokes the light-hearted merriness of, say, Papageno, the singer has been exploring his darker side of late.

There was a kind of growling merriness, with drink, cursing, fumbling at plackets, gaming, a richer though darker version of the dayworld of the free.