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. |
She sang gaily waving her arms and then rotating her middle as if in a dance. |
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. |
Birds twittered gaily, nestled safe between the trees, and flowers unfolded into bright, matured blooms. |
Under stripy umbrellas belonging to gaily painted hotels, we were drinking cocktails and playing cards. |
But his own description of life's eternal bounciness seems to me much more gaily Rabelaisian than is the novel as a whole. |