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1. Calling on every ounce of his experience and all of his blithe abilities, honed to perfection through dealing with cabinet crises and the terrier snappings of the gutter press, the great politician read through a few pages silently
2. Calling on every ounce of his experience and all of his blithe
3. It seemed no one else would understand, but even he – the last time she’d spoken to him – had seemed, well, blithe in his responses to her questions about his well-being, uncharacteristically not appearing to sense her deep concern
4. And Indifference…Do we not see here a blithe indifference to the greatest slaughter of human beings since the Mongol invasions of the thirteenth century; a slaughter that is the direct consequence of a failed ideology?
5. But in a couple hours all seemed blithe
6. reputation as an aviator she was not surprised by his blithe approach to risk
7. It turned away from the blithe country
8. She will be blithe in her security
9. A bit of all right, little old England was, he had been thinking, taking a few blithe steps about his hotel bedroom while he waited for his Charles Street call to go through
10. If an officious friend had stood in that breathless couple's path and told them in glowing terms how much happier they would be if they lived their life a little more fully and from its other sides, how much more delightful to stride along gaily together in their walks, with wind enough for talk and laughter, how pleasant if the man were muscular and in good condition and the woman brisk and wiry, and that they only had to do as he did and live on cold meat and toast, and drink nothing, to be as blithe as birds, do you think they would have so much as understood him? Cold meat and toast? Instead of what they had just been enjoying so intensely? Miss that soup made of the inner mysteries of geese, those eels stewed in beer, the roast pig with red cabbage, the venison basted with sour cream and served with beans in vinegar and cranberry jam, the piled-up masses of vanilla ice, the pumpernickel and cheese, the apples and pears on the top of that, and the big cups of coffee and cakes on the top of the apples and pears? Really a quick walk over the heather with a wiry wife would hardly make up for the loss of such a dinner; and besides, might not a wiry wife turn out to be a questionable blessing? And so they would pity the nimble friend who wasted his life in taking exercise and missed all its pleasures, and the man of toast and early rising would regard them with profound disgust if simple enough to think himself better than they, and, if he possessed an open mind, would merely return their pity with more of his own; so that, I suppose, everybody would be pleased, for the charm of pitying one's neighbour, though subtle, is undeniable
11. And Charlotte was so sincere, was so honestly grieved by the hopeless dulness of the fulfilment of what had once been the blithe promise of young girlhood, that I began to feel distressed too, and cast glances of respectful sympathy at the poor lady
12. You might as well try, she thought, to buttonhole water; and she would laugh and go back to whatever she was doing with a blithe feeling that it was very ideal, this perfect independence of one another, this spaciousness of freedom to do exactly what each one liked
13. If Galileo had never discovered the relative facts of Astronomy, we humans would never have despoiled the Earth we live on with such blithe unfeeling abandon
14. They slid down the slope like two blithe sprites, hand in hand on a silent night
15. ” I said blinking at him blithe by my accurate prediction
16. OF THAT BLITHE THROAT OF THINE
17. Of that blithe throat of thine from arctic bleak and blank,
18. It might seem no hardship to some of us, but to a pretty, blithe young girl, it was not only tedious, but very trying, and the thought of Laurie and his friends made it a real martyrdom
19. Her anger had a good effect, however, for she hid it under a smiling face, and seemed unusually blithe and brilliant
20. Of cooks and cook-maids there were over fifty, all clean, brisk, and blithe
21. Hearing, like a blithe refrain,
22. Blithe wa s the singing of the young girls ove r the ir te st-tube s, the Pre de stina tors whistle d a s the y worke d, a nd in the De ca nting Room wha t glorious joke s we re cra cke d a bove the e m pty bottle s! But the Director's fa ce, a s he entered the Fertilizing Room with Henry Foster, wa s gra ve, wooden with severity
23. Rose’s blithe tone would be remarkable for a mother who fully understood Rosemary’s surgery or its outcome; perhaps she did not
24. A week ago she lay ill, four days on the couch, but today she was free, blithe, mocked at peril
25. As they long grass as blithe as a squirrel
26. I was grieved for my brother, and very much distressed to think of what had happened to blithe Dicky, as I was wont to call my nephew when he was a laddie, and I would fain have gratified the spirit of revenge in myself; but I brought to mind his roving and wanton pranks, and I counselled his father first to abide the upshot of the wound, representing to him, in the best manner I could, that it was but the quarrel of the young men, and that maybe his son was as muckle in fault as Swinton
27. was going on, for as she looked down the street, trying to adjust her mind to the new There were dozens of them and several were three stories high! Everywhere building Atlanta, she heard the blithe sound of hammers and saws, noticed scaffoldings rising and saw men climbing ladders with hods of bricks on their shoulders
28. He was so blithe about his murders her blood chilled
29. But the gamblers in this instance were acting no differently from those who call themselves investors, in their blithe disregard of the fact that they were paying 140 millions for an enterprise with about 10 millions of resources
30. He had been an artisan of famed excellence, and with plenty to do; owned a house and garden; embraced a youthful, daughter-like, loving wife, and three blithe, ruddy children; every Sunday went to a cheerful-looking church, planted in a grove