Rejoicing

Examples

• It was a day of some wild rejoicing, and a festival. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Great rejoicing on both sides of the ocean followed, and the public print was filled with accounts of the enterprise. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The girl returned, rejoicing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The crowd accompanied him with cries of triumph and shouts of Hosanna, a word of rejoicing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The rooks cawed, and blither birds sang; but nothing was so merry or so musical as my own rejoicing heart. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She then ran gaily off, rejoicing as she rambled about, in the hope of being at home again in a day or two. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Crispin had just made a bull's eye, and was rejoicing in a modest way over his success, so Maurice, to encourage him, patted his shoulder. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Use the means at your command, and you can do this and cause a rejoicing that will resound from one end of the land to the other. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I looked grave, and said, It would, I thought, be time enough to prepare the rejoicing when we knew we should have occasion to rejoice. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I join with you most cordially in rejoicing at the return of peace. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In a moment they were all out of the chaise, rejoicing at the sight of each other. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The news of the capture of Holly Springs and the destruction of our supplies caused much rejoicing among the people remaining in Oxford. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And to die without knowing one good piece o' rejoicing in all her days! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Now, said Holmes, when the rejoicing lackey had disappeared, having secured the future, we can afford to be more lenient with the past. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• And then this money came only to me: not to me and a rejoicing family, but to my isolated self. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There were rejoicings at home on other birthdays, as I knew from what I heard the girls relate to one another--there were none on mine. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The first public display of its illuminating power was made at the rejoicings for the peace of Amiens, in 1802, on which occasion part of the work-shops of Messrs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• He returned to the village amidst the rejoicings of his fellow clansmen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Their repeal was greeted by riotous rejoicings in London, more hearty even than those in the colonies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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