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  • The next morning I awoke with joy in my heart.
  • My heart is singing for joy this morning.
  • When the children saw the trees all aglow with brilliant colors they clapped their hands and shouted for joy, and immediately began to pick great bunches to take home.
  • The Tin Woodman loved Dorothy most tenderly, and welcomed with joy the return of the little old Wizard.
  • In that moment of obvious joy, Alondra barely had an accent.
  • He had taken out his new Lotus Elise and gone for a joy ride first.
  • This philosophical sceptic is full of humble joy in salvation, of deep love for the Saviour.
  • Maybe you would have lost her anyway, but at least we would have had some joy for a while.
  • The memory of it is a joy forever.
  • Think what a joy it would be to all of my friends to hear me speak naturally!!
  • "The eggs... the eggs are teaching the hen," muttered the count through tears of joy, and he embraced his wife who was glad to hide her look of shame on his breast.
  • My thoughts flowed easily; I felt a sense of joy in the composition.
  • Could the joy of love, of earthly love for a man, be for her?
  • All the best of me belongs to her--there is not a talent, or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not been awakened by her loving touch.
  • In the dim shadow of the curtain her luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that were in them.
  • In 1758 he returned with mingled joy and regret to England, and was kindly received at home.
  • She was delighted, and showed her joy, by hugging and kissing him, much to his embarrassment.
  • Even I, a poor secretary of the Russian Embassy, do not feel any need in token of my joy to give my Franz a thaler, or let him go with his Liebchen to the Prater...
  • It looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its joy at the approach of the Emperors.
  • The morning was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of joy and happiness.
  • There is no greater joy for an artist than to know their work is in the hands of someone who truly understands it.
  • At nightfall, "sobbing for excess of joy," the crusaders came to the Sepulchre from their treading of the winepress, and put their blood-stained hands together in prayer.
  • The beads were sewed in the right place and I could not contain myself for joy; but immediately I lost all interest in the doll.
  • The harbour was our joy, our paradise.
  • Helen has the vitality of feeling, the freshness and eagerness of interest, and the spiritual insight of the artistic temperament, and naturally she has a more active and intense joy in life, simply as life, and in nature, books, and people than less gifted mortals.
  • To the joy and pride of the whole army, a personal interview was refused, and instead of the Sovereign, Prince Dolgorukov, the victor at Wischau, was sent with Savary to negotiate with Napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were actuated by a real desire for peace.
  • Pierre too when she had gone almost ran into the anteroom, restraining tears of tenderness and joy that choked him, and without finding the sleeves of his fur cloak threw it on and got into his sleigh.
  • Carmen gazed down at Matthew, overwhelmed with the joy of motherhood.
  • It is said that he expired in a sudden transport of joy upon hearing the news of the vote at Westminster for the restoration of Charles II.
  • That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
  • When she came, everything about me breathed of love and joy and was full of meaning.
  • I shall never forget the ripple of alternating joy and woe that ran through that beautiful little play, or the wonderful child who acted it.
  • I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.
  • Words are powerless to describe the desolation of that prison-house, or the joy of the soul that is delivered out of its captivity.
  • If you knew all the joy I feel in being able to speak to you to-day, I think you would have some idea of the value of speech to the deaf, and you would understand why I want every little deaf child in all this great world to have an opportunity to learn to speak.
  • As he came in sight of the rose-bushes that grew near the side of the house, he suddenly clapped his hands, and with a little shout of joy stopped to look at them; they were all covered with lovely rosebuds.
  • I clapped my chubby hands for joy when I saw that the rose-bushes were covered with lovely buds.
  • Yes, it is a tomb in which hope, joy and the power of acting nobly lie buried.
  • The thrills of joy and thrills of pain are undistinguishable.
  • "To the health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!" he cried, and at the same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm.
  • It was as if joy--a supreme joy apart from the joys and sorrows of this world--overflowed the great grief within her.
  • He finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed Pierre, who, with tears of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all sides.
  • How happy I am! cried Natasha, shedding tears of joy and excitement and embracing her mother.
  • When Prince Andrew spoke (he could tell a story very well), Natasha listened to him with pride; when she spoke she noticed with fear and joy that he gazed attentively and scrutinizingly at her.
  • But am I really to abandon forever the joy of Prince Andrew's love, in which I have lived so long?
  • There was no joy in life, yet life was passing.
  • If it weren't for the joy of hearing the usual glowing report, the conference would almost be a waste of time – almost.
  • The pure joy of it chased away all his doubts.
  • Even so, she'd never seen anything that made joy spring up within her.
  • The joy of the gospel, expressing itself in songs and thanksgivings, is damped (iii.
  • His purpose is to restore in the hearts of the readers the joy of the Spirit, by making them see that Christ fulfils every need.
  • Every Maori was a soldier, and war was the chief business and joy of his life.
  • I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
  • Suddenly, to his great joy he saw little Lucy Martin lean over her desk and whisper to the girl in front of her.
  • One day, to the great joy of all, some ships arrived from another country.
  • Then, full of joy, the musician hastened to Corinth, not stopping even to change his dress.
  • And when he had blessed them, all began to sing; and the whole forest was filled with sweetness and joy because of their wonderful melodies.
  • Then, to his great joy, a ship came near and anchored in the little harbor.
  • He knew only of those things that give joy and health and peace.
  • I clung to her, trembling with joy to feel the earth under my feet once more.
  • Few know what joy it is to feel the roses pressing softly into the hand, or the beautiful motion of the lilies as they sway in the morning breeze.
  • Joy deserted my heart, and for a long, long time I lived in doubt, anxiety and fear.
  • I hope the glad news which you will tell them will make their hearts beat fast with joy and love.
  • There are about a hundred girls, and they are all so bright and happy; it is a joy to be with them.
  • She has learned to connect certain movements of the body with anger, others with joy, and others still with sorrow.
  • A smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face.
  • "Ah! what joy for the princess!" exclaimed she: "At last!
  • They were very long, and Pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to understand what was being read.
  • The general comes to us, Suvorov- like, in a kibitka, and is received with acclamations of joy and triumph.
  • Having once more entered into the definite conditions of this regimental life, Rostov felt the joy and relief a tired man feels on lying down to rest.
  • That is why I experienced such joy when I felt that I loved that man.
  • With ever-growing horror, and no sense of joy or relief, he gazed at what was taking place.
  • Sarah's expression went from surprise to joy in the blink of an eye.
  • The two brothers stared at each other, and she choked back a sob, joy and horror flying through her.
  • But I do owe you for the joy of pregnancy that I took away from you.
  • She expected joy at the offer but felt wary instead.
  • Her smile lit the table and she and her little brother, who was being the perfect gentlemen in his spring suit, were obvious­ly the pride and joy of Ma and Pa.
  • Eventually Alex would come around, and working on the room together would be joy shared.
  • In her mind's eye, she could see Mom, gray-haired, wrinkled and tired - but still taking joy in putting food on the table for Dad.
  • They would take each challenge and know the joy and pride of working through it together.
  • All types of valves are with few exceptions operated by a link motion, generally of the Stephenson type, occasionally of the Allan type or the Gooch type, or with some form of radial gear as the Joy gear or the Walschaert gear, though the latter gear has characteristics which ally it with the link motions.
  • "I have seen many men" (wrote Sir William Kingston, governor of the Tower) "and also women executed, and all they have been in great sorrow, and to my knowledge this lady has much joy and pleasure in death."
  • Three days later the latter town surrendered, amid demonstrations of joy on the part of the inhabitants.
  • One day there was a great shout on the ship for the people saw the land and they were full of joy because they had reached a new country safely.
  • What an inexpressible joy it will be to read about Achilles, and Ulysses, and Andromache and Athene, and the rest of my old friends in their own glorious language!
  • The thought of their gentle courtesy and genuine kindness brings a warm glow of joy and gratitude to my heart.
  • Would the heart, overweighted with sudden joy, stop beating for very excess of happiness?
  • If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success.
  • Then he began to imagine that the Russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that this was not so but that on the contrary the French had run away.
  • One thing he continually realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the possibility of active brotherly love among men, which Joseph Alexeevich had revealed to him.
  • "Yes, it is the same oak," thought Prince Andrew, and all at once he was seized by an unreasoning springtime feeling of joy and renewal.
  • On the faces of all was one common expression of joy at the commencement of the long-expected campaign and of rapture and devotion to the man in the gray coat who was standing on the hill.
  • But at the door she stopped as if her conscience reproached her for having in her joy left the child too soon, and she glanced round.
  • If they could only bring back the joy they once shared — the trust.
  • What joy to talk with other children in my own language!
  • My spirit could not reach up to his, but he gave me a real sense of joy in life, and I never left him without carrying away a fine thought that grew in beauty and depth of meaning as I grew.
  • I hope your Christmas Day will be a very happy one and that the New Year will be full of brightness and joy for you and every one.
  • When her fingers light upon words she knows, she fairly screams with pleasure and hugs and kisses me for joy, especially if she thinks she has me beaten.
  • Alex drove his white Dodge truck home and she followed him in her new white Buick Le Sabre feeling equal amounts of joy and guilt.
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