"Joyful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... us joyful cities, strong and fair, Knowledge we sought and gathered wisdom rare. And all this time you laughed ...
— Spirits in Bondage • (AKA Clive Hamilton) C. S. Lewis
... hope those brave musicians and those who died that others might live, "On joyful wings cleaving the sky," ocean and icebergs forgot did upward fly, and on their flight to the spirit world continued the song, "Nearer, my ...
— Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures • George W. Bain
... only could command success, he instantly advanced, at the head of three thousand soldiers, to attack the strongest and most populous city of the Illyrian provinces. As he entered the long suburb of Sirmium, he was received by the joyful acclamations of the army and people; who, crowned with flowers, and holding lighted tapers in their hands, conducted their acknowledged sovereign to his Imperial residence. Two days were devoted to the public joy, which was celebrated by the games of the circus; but, early on the morning ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon
... purpose to Pessinus, a city in the territory of the Celts of Asia Minor; and the rough field-stone, which the priests of the place liberally presented to the foreigners as the real Mother Cybele, was received by the community with unparalleled pomp. Indeed, by way of perpetually commemorating the joyful event, clubs in which the members entertained each other in rotation were instituted among the higher classes, and seem to have materially stimulated the rising tendency to the formation of cliques. With the permission thus granted for the -cultus- of Cybele the worship of the Orientals ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... Gray Wolf's side and with a joyful whine she laid her head over his neck. Twice he had fought the Fight of Death for her. Twice he had won. And in her blindness Gray Wolf's soul—if soul she had—rose in exultation to the cold gray sky, and her breast panted against Kazan's ...
— Kazan • James Oliver Curwood
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