mirths

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirths, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.

The Conan Chronicles Volume I by Robert E. Howard Adam Whitehead 2008

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirths, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.

Archive 2008-10-01 Adam Whitehead 2008

Here are then, to these moralities, a smiling train of mirths supplied by

George Cruikshank 2006

Many more of the mirths in this little book are excellent, especially a great figure of a parson entering church on horseback, — an enormous parson truly, calm, unconscious, unwieldy.

George Cruikshank 2006

Maris, Sir Gareth, Sir Dinadan, what by water and what by land, they brought La Beale Isoud unto Joyous Gard, and there reposed them a seven night, and made all the mirths and disports that they could devise.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

And every day once, for any mirths that all the ladies might make him, he would once every day look toward the realm of Logris, where King

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

And then there was made great joy and mirths in that court.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

To part with the exhilarating bustle and tumult, the blueness of the sky, the sunlight that tingles on well-known street corners, the plumber's bills and the editor's checks, the mirths of fellowship and the joys of homecoming when lamps are lit -- all this is too close a fibre to be stripped easily from the naked heart.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

And that time of Lent ne signifieth but mournings, and it is to wit that the sequence is said after Alleluia, and it is said specially on holy days and solemn, in signifying the plenty and the multitude of mirths and consolations that is signified by the said

The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

Many more of the mirths in this little book are excellent, especially a great figure of a parson entering church on horseback, -- an enormous parson truly, calm, unconscious, unwieldy.

George Cruikshank William Makepeace Thackeray 1837