1 To him, who was never gay but in her presence, her gaiety seemed plain proof of indifference.
2 By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse.
3 "You're letting your supper get cold," she admonished him with a pale gleam of gaiety.
4 Under the arbor sat the married women, their dark dresses decorous notes in the surrounding color and gaiety.
5 Scarlett had an uneasy feeling that this man who was not received was the only one present who knew what lay behind her wild gaiety and that it was affording him sardonic amusement.
6 But to Scarlett, newly emerged from the chrysalis of widowhood, all the war meant was a time of gaiety and excitement.
7 As wet June days passed into a wetter July and the Confederates, fighting desperately around the entrenched heights, still held Sherman at bay, a wild gaiety took hold of Atlanta.
8 With the tide of hysterical gaiety and excitement flooding the city, they rushed into matrimony.
9 She had not met his eyes once that evening and the hard bright gaiety with which she had treated him was frightening.
10 Melanie was young but she had in her all the qualities this embattled remnant prized, poverty and pride in poverty, uncomplaining courage, gaiety, hospitality, kindness and, above all, loyalty to all the old traditions.
11 Even at this affair, which brought out the young smart set, the hunting squire set, the respectable intellectual set, and the solid financial set, they sat up with gaiety as with a corpse.
12 Carol forswore herself; declared that Gopher Prairie had the color of Algiers and the gaiety of Mardi Gras.
13 We must restore the last of the veterans to power and follow them on the backward path to the integrity of Lincoln, to the gaiety of settlers dancing in a saw-mill.
14 She suddenly understood that they could be depended upon to laugh with her at Mrs. Bogart, and she now saw Juanita Haydock's gossip not as vulgarity but as gaiety and remarkable analysis.
15 Through all this restless July after she had tasted Bresnahan's disturbing flavor of travel and gaiety, she wanted to go, but she said nothing.