He has a mild nature.

And yet he's very jolly. He's extremely jolly.

Peter is a merry fellow.

The dinner was a very merry one.

Nancy has a very lively and sweet temperament.

The lad looked healthy and bright.

It sounded cheerful and animated, and its articulation was extremely distinct.

Vasenka was really a good sort, simple, kind hearted, and very jolly.

I believe that Most100 is youthful and funny news media.

Through his sleep he heard laughter and Veslovsky's and Oblonsky's merry talk.

Or did the pattern of abuse amount to so many orders from superiors to soften up prisoners for interrogation?

John Steinbeck's first novel, Cup of Gold (1929), is about Henry Morgan's life.

At first the sounds of merry general talk and shouts of laughter over their supper could be heard, then songs and more laughter.

He was creative, generous, funny, loving and talented, and I will miss him dearly.

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Her face shone with a vivid glow, but it was not a joyous glow it resembled the terrible glow of a conflagration on a dark night.

'Come along! Never mind!' shouted a merry, bearded, red faced peasant showing a row of white teeth and holding aloft a greenish vodka bottle that glittered in the sunshine.

Of course, there was much else in the manifesto fantasies about reviving the medieval Knights Templar, for example that suggests a more bizarre disposition, and Wilders was quick to distance himself from Breivik s violent methods.

Everybody has the wrong idea. They think Buddha was so boring, and they're so surprised when they meet Dalai Lama and he's fairly jolly.

She felt almost as she used to feel when, as a child, she was locked up in a room for punishment and heard her sister's merry laughter.

To the huge power of the Russian presidency Putin adds his own aloof temper and a familiarity, from his KGB years, with the subtle levers of Russia's bureaucracy.

A former military head of state, Buhari, has cut the stern personality of being incorruptible, a man who keeps his words and does not allow the trappings of power to cloud his judgement.

As in all languages, some elements are traditional and others are recent innovations... hand signs are not only a way of communicating information, but also serve as full bodied ways of expressing nuance, humor, and individual personality.

Vronsky listened with pleasure to the merry prattle of the pretty young woman, agreed with what she said, and half in fun gave her advice in a word he immediately took up his habitual manner with women of her kind.

Terenty the coachman tied to a tree the horses, that were swishing their tails to drive away the flies, stretched himself full length in the shade, pressing down the high grass, and smoked his pipe, while from the bathing house came the sound of the incessant merry squealing of the children.

On the pavement at the corner of the street, in a short fashionable overcoat and a small fashionable hat, his teeth gleaming between his smiling red lips, young, gay, and beaming, stood Oblonsky, determinedly and insistently shouting and demanding that Karenin should stop.

While she was talking to the porter, Michael the coachman, rosy and cheerful, came up in his smart blue coat with a watch chain, evidently proud of having carried out his errand so well, and handed her a note.

Just for a moment Vronsky was staggered having brought back from Moscow the impression of a totally different world, but immediately, as though he had put his foot into an old slipper, he re entered his former gay and pleasant world.

SAID SEREZHA, as on the day before his birthday he returned rosy and bright from a walk, and gave his overcoat to the tall old hall porter, who looked smilingly down from his height at the little fellow. 'Well, has the bandaged official been to day?

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The worst moment had been when returning home from the theatre merry and satisfied, with an enormous pear in his hand for his wife, he did not find her in the drawing room nor, to his great surprise, in the study, but at last saw her in her bedroom with the unlucky note which had betrayed him in her hand.