"Cheerfulness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... since I had known him, Monkton seemed to be in high spirits. He talked and jested on all sorts of subjects, and laughed at me for allowing my cheerfulness to be affected by the dread of seasickness. I had really no such fear; it was my excuse to my friend for a return of that unaccountable depression under which I had suffered at Fondi. Everything was in our favor; ...
— The Queen of Hearts • Wilkie Collins
... compelled to return to Texford. She was struck with the appearance of cheerfulness which May maintained, while she did everything she could think of to cheer the spirits ...
— Won from the Waves • W.H.G. Kingston
... little brown dog did not reform. With unabated cheerfulness he continued to dig in Miss Clementina's geranium bed, and to ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... meagre, but it was much needed, and as the sea had gone down during the night and the morning was beautiful, it was eaten not only in comfort, but with some degree of cheerfulness. While they were thus engaged, Goff looked up and exclaimed ...
— Sunk at Sea • R.M. Ballantyne
... creatures in a state of siege. The pretty wall-paper didn't help them out, nor any consciousness of the blossoming orchard in the chill spring air. The colonel noted the depression in his two defenders and, by a spurious cheerfulness, tried to bring them back to the warmer ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
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