gay-hearted

Have I not said that I was a gay-hearted, golden, bearded giant of an irresponsible boy that had never grown up?

Chapter 15 2010

Such gay-hearted freedom was not always well taken, and in time Voltaire's eyes were opened to the terms on which he really stood.

Voltaire 2007

But in the epoch of aerial warfare now beginning, “the era of the giant battleship of the air—the lone, gay-hearted, swashbuckling hero of the sky is likely to become more and more rare,” he wrote.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

But in the epoch of aerial warfare now beginning, “the era of the giant battleship of the air—the lone, gay-hearted, swashbuckling hero of the sky is likely to become more and more rare,” he wrote.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

He was a gay-hearted, thoughtless, rollicking young lad, when he came up to town; and it may therefore be imagined that he easily fell into the peculiar ways and habits of the office.

The Three Clerks 2004

This was a long and serious observation for the gay-hearted Derry to make, but he shrewdly fathomed the pastoral duty underlying the seemingly casual remark.

Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates

It isn't human nature; it isn't wifely nature; and although Sarah was a little gay-hearted herself, she wasn't going to stand any such nonsense -- to speak lightly -- from

Fair to Look Upon Mary Belle Freeley

There was in my regiment during the war -- I was a chaplain -- a certain corporal, a gay-hearted fellow and a good soldier, of whom I was very fond -- with whom on occasion of his recovery from a dangerous sickness I felt it my duty to have a serious pastoral talk; and while he convalesced I watched for an opportunity for it.

Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

Allee was most familiar with the brown-eyed dream-child, the little family at the parsonage were quite well acquainted with her, and occasionally Gail caught a fleeting glimpse of that hidden spirit, but to the rest of the little world in which she lived she was a bright-eyed, gay-hearted little romp, whose efforts to lend assistance to others were always leading her into mischief, oftentimes with unhappy results.

At the Little Brown House Ruth Alberta Brown

Or gay-hearted boldly break into gatherings of young men.

More Translations from the Chinese Arthur Waley 1927