1 She remained gloomily in her room until afternoon and then the sight of the returning picnickers with wagons piled high with pine boughs, vines and ferns did not cheer her.
2 A hundred voices took it up, sang it, shouted it like a cheer.
3 But suddenly the Home Guard gave a cheer and it was taken up by the other uniformed guests.
4 The whole town had turned out to see them off and they stood, close packed, under the wooden awnings of the stores on Peachtree Street and tried to cheer.
5 Everyone looked cheerful even if the cheer was strained.
6 You are just saying that to try to cheer me up.
7 But for all her encouragement and cheer, there was a queer dead look in his eyes.
8 You are on the verge of what is vulgarly called a 'crying jag' and so I shall change the subject and cheer you up by telling you some news that will amuse you.
9 Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated for that, yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on his underlings to the attack.
10 A fierce cheer was their response.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 11 If we bend down our eyes, the dark vale shows her mouldy soil; but if we lift them, the bright sun meets our glance half way, to cheer.
12 The abounding good cheer of these English whalers is matter for historical research.
13 Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes, barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.
14 It seems to cheer him to mention the subject.
15 The line fell slowly forward like a toppling wall, and, with a convulsive gasp that was intended for a cheer, the regiment began its journey.