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Sentence Examples
| The tenants were harvesting in the fields, children raced about in wild play and waved gaily when the carriage came in sight. |
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| They fell in the gaily lit hall with a flutter like demented birds attempting flight. |
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| He saw us all peering out from the Club and waved gaily to us, like royalty. |
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| Laurel apparently felt them watching her, and she waved to them, smiling gaily. |
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| The ladies sat at the stern of each boat to cheer their rowers on, waving handkerchiefs and laughing gaily at the sport. |
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| In the centre of the patch of common land there were a stocks, a gallows and a tall gaily coloured pole from which dangled multicoloured strands. |
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| Broken in half, a gaily coloured cloth tied to it fluttered in the mild breeze. |
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| But his own description of life's eternal bounciness seems to me much more gaily Rabelaisian than is the novel as a whole. |
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| The drawing for the house was held at City Hall, gaily dressed with yellow balloons and reverberating with ranchera music. |
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| And now, my hearties, be gay, and gaily read the rest, with ease of body and in the best of kidney! |
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| Their gaily colored flowers resembling miniature ballet dancers in multi-colored tutus will sway and nod winsomely toward you. |
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| She sang gaily waving her arms and then rotating her middle as if in a dance. |
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| Police officers and soldiers patrolling Athens have decorated the straps of their automatic rifles with gaily coloured ones. |
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| Of course, I had never seen a weighted, jangling, belly-swollen giant flop down a chimney and gaily dispense his largesse under a Christmas tree. |
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| Her basket no longer swung jauntily from its place at the crook of her elbow, nor did she bounce gaily on the springy moss beneath her feet. |
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| Do they exert any more influence than gaily coloured gold foot-high statues and silver records that can be displayed, proudly, upon a wall? |
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| The gaily painted rooms continue the Caribbean theme and include a double bed and two bunks with en-suite bathroom. |
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| You looked forward to parking your car gaily, anywhere, without the hassle of a parking attendant breathing down your back waving a parking slip. |
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| The gaily coloured banners and balloons decorating the streets give the impression of an impromptu homecoming party. |
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| As Nicholas and Colette gaily threw horseshoes, laughing merrily and cheering the other on, Caroline stood at the back. |
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| Those who had struck it rich wore black woollen trousers and Napoleon boots, and sported silk sashes and gaily coloured kerchiefs. |
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| Birds twittered gaily, nestled safe between the trees, and flowers unfolded into bright, matured blooms. |
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| Beautiful equines gaily festooned in spotless harness and working in perfect rhythm, will always be the centerpiece of my circus memories. |
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| Under stripy umbrellas belonging to gaily painted hotels, we were drinking cocktails and playing cards. |
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| She seemed to have the most fun with tweed, gaily mixing textures such as a houndstooth alongside a Prince of Wales plaid. |
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| I picked up the flowers and smelt them gaily for extra effect, but he was already crying and too wrapped up in his own world to notice me. |
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| Such as he saw at work were noticeably inferior in physique to the few gaily dressed managers and forewomen who were directing their labours. |
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| Behind them trails the Jumbo Queen, feted by her weighty ladies-in-waiting, waving gaily at the crowd. |
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| Keeping this thought to himself, however, Dev simply grinned and waved gaily. |
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| Man is not to me the respect-worthy person he was before, and so, I have lost my pride in him and can't write gaily nor praisefully about him anymore. |
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| He has something to say and knows precisely how he wants to say it, offering a wealth of information of all sorts as he closes in on his prey and gaily twists the knife. |
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| And at Easter, Americans dunk them in dye and buy pounds of their chocolate likenesses wrapped in gaily colored foil. |
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| Once he was the tweed-jacketed innocent who would gaily stuff his arm up the business end of a cow before accepting a cup of tea from a farmer's wife. |
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| I'm flying past cosy cottages with daffodils waving gaily as I zip by. |
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| It was this Lord Chancellor, after all, who gaily announced that he had abolished himself, only to discover that the constitution didn't allow him to do so. |
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| A day came when she was feeling listless and miserable, and as if in answer to her need, the sight of a gaily coloured open carriage broke her mood like a bubble. |
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| Its gaily coloured lettering made no concessions to tragedy. |
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| All the while there is soft or merry music coming from violins, accordions, barrel organsor small orchestras of street musicians, some of them in gaily colored apparel. |
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| The wilderness towns gaily prostitute themselves to such people. |
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| On another wall was hung a gaily colored quilt made by Harris. |
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| By the 1940s aprons gained a cinched waistline, and were often gaily trimmed with rickrack, buttons, and pockets of contrasting color. |
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| The train clacketed through pine forests and honked derisively at a gaily painted bell-funneled museum piece sidetracked in a clearing. |
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| I love you gaily, madly, high-heartedly! I love you so much that I could laugh and sing! |
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| A businessman, clearly delighted to be on his way home after a long week, was gaily swinging his briefcase as he hopped off the train. |
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| At fairs he play'd before the spearmen, All gaily graithed in their gear-men. |
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| Thinking that it might be Lord Carbury, and that, if so, he would probably not wait until half past nine to break his fast, she ran gaily off. |
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| These cocklings cocker'd we bewail too late, When that we see our off-spring gaily bent, Women manwood, and men effeminate. |
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| She gaily thrust her squarish chin toward the front of the tent. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| The Chevrotte was gaily singing, and she plunged into it like a startled fawn. |
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| Guy, advancing as gaily as if he had been in the tiltyard at Wark, gallantly unhorsed one Saracen with the point of his lance. |
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| Above the incessant roar and burring din they called gaily to each other, gossiping, chatting, telling stories. |
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| You see, Bruce, he said gaily, if there are any scoldings to be had I get em. |
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| In small groups they chattered gaily, laughing and glancing here and there. |
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| After the lapse of half an hour or so, the elder Chester, gaily dressed, went out. |
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| He whistled gaily as he thrust the telegram back in his pocket and started to tune up his racing car. |
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| Imbued with this idea, with sloped rifle we gaily commenced our return march. |
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| They were clumping along, chattering gaily, when Katy jumped and let out a yell that could have been heard a block away. |
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| The Nass Indians paddle a dead chief, gaily dressed, round the coast villages. |
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| A gaily coloured hat hung from one of the boats, and over each floated a red flag shaped like an isosceles triangle. |
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| The bedding is of home manufacture, the jardiniere too, is of modelling clay, gaily painted with water colors. |
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| Menon talked gaily about their journey, the games to-morrow, Creon's training. |
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| Alvira received the news with bubbling delight, which showed gaily in her sparkling black eyes and dimpling cheeks. |
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| Kerbach did not doubt that he had found his odontoglossum, and gaily started for the hacienda. |
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| Angelique interrupted him by laughing gaily, and he joined her in her mirth for a moment. |
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| The Falange were in good spirits as they marched gaily along the dusty highway. |
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| They swathe their bodies from neck to ankle with gaily coloured calico. |
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| But Shirley only laughed gaily at this question, and alertly started up. |
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| Occasionally it was brought out, and, being gaily caparisoned, was ridden by one of the officers at full speed over the hard sand beach. |
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| The basket at her side was full of club moss and gaily tinted toadstools. |
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| Knights and ladies, elves and pages, monks and flower girls, all mingled gaily in the dance. |
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| The animal, which is a native of East Asia, is sometimes gaily coloured. |
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| The girls stood up in the grandstand and waved their banners gaily. |
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| From a side street there now emerged a gaily apparelled cavalcade. |
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| In a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began loading. |
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| So there we stood, gesticulating gaily on the slippery slope. |
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| You step out so gaily on the glittering grass, and then squish! |
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| There were three gaily dressed women, all young and beautiful, one of them with a Peking spaniel upon her lap. |
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| Then, the old church bell rang as gaily as it could, and they all returned to breakfast. |
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| One edition of jelly was trickled from pot to pot, another lay upon the floor, and a third was burning gaily on the stove. |
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| Then he shot the arrow and fell back and would have died, but he lit on a nettle and sprang up too gaily for a corpse. |
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| Prince Andrew gaily bore with his father's ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him with evident pleasure. |
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| Madame Ratignolle could not, so it was she who gaily consented to play for the others. |
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| Mr. marrier gaily soothed him, as he went over to the telephone. |
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| The hours tripped along as gaily as the laughing couples down a country dance. |
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| She walked off gaily with her sister-in-law, Nathanael following. |
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| Especial pains are taken to tip the eyelids most gaily with vermillion. |
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| She greeted me gaily, and began at once to tell me how much ploughing she had done that day. |
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| No longer a prisoner at Woodstock, she rides gaily into Oxford. |
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| His lungs are good enough,' said my aunt, gaily, 'and his dislikes are not at all feeble. |
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| When he had done he went into the restaurant car and dined almost gaily. |
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| He laughed gaily, showing his even teeth, and puling his cap over the thin place, went out and got into his carriage. |
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| As the gaily plumaged creature fluttered to earth its companions and the little monkeys set up a most terrific chorus of wails and screaming protests. |
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| Then he would turn away to the portrait of his dead Lise, who with hair curled a la grecque looked tenderly and gaily at him out of the gilt frame. |
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| A very broad, gaily caparisoned divan, some twelve or fourteen feet long, extended across one side of each room, and opposite were single beds with spring mattresses. |
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| An old, old man and woman, with their children and their children's children, and another generation beyond that, all decked out gaily in their holiday attire. |
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| And so,' he said, gaily, 'we abandon this buccaneer life tomorrow, do we? |
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| They ran in gaily, and after a long wait in the drawing-room sat down to the rough-and-ready lunch, every dish in which concealed or exuded cream. |
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| The church itself was gaily festooned with flowers for the ceremony, while out in the church-yard at one side brown ale flowed freely for all the servitors. |
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| Kim marked down a gaily ornamented ruth or family bullock-cart, with a broidered canopy of two domes, like a double-humped camel, which had just been drawn into the par. |
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| They went out of the pavilion hand in hand, and on through the sunshine they strolled, swinging hands gaily, reacting exuberantly from the week of deadening toil. |
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| Dinner went off gaily, and, although my guardian seemed to follow rather than originate subjects, I knew that he wrenched the weakest part of our dispositions out of us. |
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| One bright afternoon, a gig, gaily bedizened with streamers, was observed to shove off from the side of one of the French frigates, and pull directly for our gangway. |
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| The next moment he had an uninterrupted view of her shoulder, and heard the sound of her voice as she prattled gaily to the man on her other side. |
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