The morning sun looked softly down upon the broad green earth, which like a mighty altar was sending up clouds of perfume from its breast, while flowers danced
gayly in the summer wind, and birds sang their morning hymn among the cool green leaves.
It was drawn by one hundred pairs of white mice, and the Poodle sat on the coachman's seat and snapped his whip
gayly in the air, as if he were a real coachman in a hurry to get to his destination.
I lunged
gayly with my stick at a lamp-post and missed it, whereat a street-urchin grinned, and I winked at him and slipped twopence down his back.
"What a time that fellow is gone!" he exclaimed
gayly. "Perhaps I had better go and get the book myself."
When they first descried Mercy running to the door, they brightened
gayly with the merriment of a child.
"Well," said he, "I hardly know; we always liked to hear the trumpet sound, and to be called out, and were impatient to start off, though sometimes we had to stand for hours, waiting for the word of command; and when the word was given we used to spring forward as
gayly and eagerly as if there were no cannon balls, bayonets, or bullets.
Children munching oranges, six thousand fans fluttering and glimmering, everybody happy, everybody chatting
gayly with their intimates, lovely girl-faces smiling recognition and salutation to other lovely girl-faces, gray old ladies and gentlemen dealing in the like exchanges with each other - ah, such a picture of cheery contentment and glad anticipation!
"And yet, Monsieur le Frondeur," said Mazarin
gayly, "the affair which you have taken in charge must, from the king "
I asked her if she thought she could brave the ascent, and she laughed
gayly in my face.
They stood in long black lines, waiting before the pit entrances of the theatres-- short-coated boys, and girls in sailor hats, all shivering and chatting
gayly. There was a blurred rhythm in all the dull city noises-- in the clatter of the cab horses and the rumbling of the busses, in the street calls, and in the undulating tramp, tramp of the crowd.
In the trees, the birds sang
gayly among the rustling leaves.
In those days such a coat would often be worn by workmen for ease in working, but it has come down to us only as the
gayly colored coat worn by heralds.