gayety

A round of gayety is alike fascinating and unprofitable; it wastes time, distracts attention, and makes everyday duties and pleasures appear dull and uninteresting.

The Mother's Book 1831

"So do I, darling," says the mother, and looks at her with a tender inquisitiveness that makes the sweet girl flinch, and affect for a moment a noisy gayety, which is not in her heart.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

For many days they joked each other about that headlong flight, but underneath their gayety was a dread which persisted.

A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912

It struck me suddenly that her gayety was the same as that she had worn to my birthday party, scarce a year agone.

Richard Carvel — Volume 05 Winston Churchill 1909

It struck me suddenly that her gayety was the same as that she had worn to my birthday party, scarce a year agone.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

It struck me suddenly that her gayety was the same as that she had worn to my birthday party, scarce a year agone.

Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

He had been dull, just at first, and his gayety was a little forced, but after his first glass of champagne he brightened up very much, and had begun to tell a funny story.

Many Waters 1905

The outward peace of such a man is but despair well masked; his gayety is the carelessness of

Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885

September, and recalled the gayety of the season for the moment to the desolate metropolis.

London Films William Dean Howells 1878

His gayety was a little extravagant, and so it might naturally be if it were forced.

Without a Home Edward Payson Roe 1863