Use happy in a sentence
Sentences starting with happy
- Happy fellow that you are! [10]
- Happy is he whose pathway at the beginning of life's evening is once more so brilliantly illumined by the sun of love. [10]
- Happy the man who wins her! [2]
- Happy the old, who see Nature purified before they depart. [6]
- Happy are they who on this eventful night can wash their faces in those waters just as the cathedral bell tells midnight; for at that precise moment they have a beautifying power. [4]
- Happy are those who go with unworn, unsatiated sensibilities from the New World to the Old; as happy, it may be, those who come from the Old World to the New, but of that I cannot form a judgment. [6]
- Happy little enclosure, where thieves cannot break through and steal, where Death himself hesitates to enter, and makes a visit only now and then at long intervals, lest the fortunate inhabitants should think they had already reached the Celestial City! [6]
- Happy we if we can follow Honora, and we must be prepared to make many friends and drop them in the process. [9]
- Happy as Petya was, he felt sad at having to go home knowing that all the enjoyment of that day was over. [2]
- Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. [4]
Sentences ending with happy
- He hoped this youth to whom she was attached would make her life happy. [6]
- To this the young mother would not consent, and the visitor departed with some chillingly-polite phrases, part English, part French, beyond the exact comprehension of Pierre, and leaving the father and mother and little Marguerite happy. [11]
- And I hope you will make him happy. [9]
- You have gold, You will be free; you will make her happy. [13]
- We only want you to be happy. [4]
- These will make you really contented and happy. [5]
- I will make you happy. [9]
- But I'll make you happy. [13]
- I could have wished that you both had taken longer to reflect, but I hope with all my heart that you will be happy. [9]
- His good name will be restored, and the rest of his life will be happy. [5]
Short sentences using happy
- Five simple, happy years--then war. [9]
- He was happy with me. [11]
- He was happy with her. [11]
- How happy she was! [4]
- A happy man was Wilson. [5]
- I didn't feel very happy. [5]
- But she was very happy. [2]
- He was so very happy. [10]
- And I am very happy! [2]
- What a happy surprise! [10]
Sentences containing happy two or more times
- That, he knew, would make Edith happy, and to make her happy seemed now very much like a worthy object in life. [4]
- Marcus, no doubt, will be happy to have won you; but if he does not succeed in gaining his mother's consent he will not continue happy you may rely upon it. [10]
- I'd be angry when he was angry, miserable when he was miserable, happy when he was happy. [11]
- And when he was out of sight his comrades let fly their laughter in a storm of happy satisfaction--and then quieted down, and were less happy, less satisfied. [5]
- Ah, yes, she was happy, more than happy, and yet not entirely so, for happiness must be bright, and a dark, harassing shadow fell again and again over the sunny enthusiasm which irradiated her nature and lent her a haughtier bearing. [10]
- Oh, we have wandered far, my dear, and we have loved apace; A little hut we built upon the sand, The sun without to lighten it, within, your golden face,-- O happy dream, O happy No Man's Land! [11]
- Yes, the woman up there looked happy, almost insolently happy. [10]
- Happy, thrice happy, those whom He chasteneth. [9]
- He recalled all those visions that came to him when, his professional triumphs achieved, he should have a happy home, and happy faces by his fireside. [11]
- Yet nearly all the time you're awake it fairly kills you, for you feel some one always at your elbow whispering, 'you'll never be happy again, you'll never be happy again! [11]
More example sentences with the word happy in them
- It lies in your power to comfort a sad and loving heart, and to give it one happy moment before death. [10]
- He is sure you will be cursed happy over it, and says that you predicted he would go over to the Whigs. [9]
- I only wish you were all as happy as I am. [2]
- And how happy you ought to be with him!--a man who knows what is in books, and who has seen for himself, what is in men. [6]
- Pardon me, for you know that nobody cares more for you than I do,--I hope that you are happy in all your relations with this young friend of yours. [6]
- The elixir made you happy, my father, because you are good and pure, and because the beautiful, to the pursuit of which you have dedicated your life, ennobles everyone and makes every thing harmonious that comes from you. [10]
- That must make you happy, father.--But tell us, pray tell us where the wound hurts that the murderer gave you? [10]
- Only I thought you had struck out a new idea, and invented a scheme that was going to revolutionize the timeworn and ineffectual methods of the--" He stopped, and turned to Blake, who was happy now that another had taken his place on the gridiron. [5]
- That's the question--can you be happy, even if I went and you stayed? [11]
- Ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know these poignant joys and sorrows. [2]
- They had not yet said anything to each other, except how happy, how glad, how thankful they were to have each other again; then a sentinel passed, and she started up, exclaiming anxiously: "So late, so late; Zorrillo will be waiting! [10]
- She looked happy, yet grave withal; it was the gravity of an uncommon earnestness. [11]
- For the three years I was in the mounted police, I could count a story for all the days o' the calendar --and not all o' them would make you happy to hear. [11]
- Livy darling, six years have gone by since I made my first great success in life and won you, and thirty years have passed since Providence made preparation for that happy success by sending you into the world. [5]
- Captain Hawthorne's beautiful yacht, tastefully decorated, was in waiting, and the happy bride and her friends immediately departed on a bridal trip to Lahaina and Haleakala. [5]
- I know you would not be happy when you heard that we were crying for your loss. [12]
- I said I would make him permanently happy, and I have done it. [5]
- And so matters would have remained, and in a few weeks, after passing the examination, I should have returned to my happy mother, had not a perverse Fate willed otherwise. [10]
- Surely no one would have predicted when Ruth left Philadelphia that she would become absorbed to this extent, and so happy, in a life so unlike that she thought she desired. [5]
- How admiringly they would gaze up at him in his high seat as he gloved himself with lingering deliberation, while some happy hostler held the bunch of reins aloft, and waited patiently for him to take it! [5]
- Ah, if necessity would but make me happy too, by giving you your liberty, that on these many miseries endured we might set up a sure home. [11]
- I said he would be happy the rest of his days, and he will, for he will always think he is the Emperor, and his pride in it and his joy in it will endure to the end. [5]
- But if you would be happy in Berkshire, you must carry mountains in your brain; and if you would enjoy Nahant, you must have an ocean in your soul. [6]
- Albeit methought it would be a happy chance if we might stand at the altar at the same time with Herdegen and Ann, Gotz's impatience, which had waxed no lesser even during his journeyings, was set against our waiting for my brother's coming. [10]
- This beautiful happy world they would have dark, gloomy, melancholy, hideous; thy kingdom, great Phoebus, is sunny, joyful and bright . [10]
- Even the policemen wore happy smiles, and in some instances the election officers themselves in absent-minded exuberance thrust bunches of ballots into the boxes! [9]
- And these simple words, her look, and the expression on her face which accompanied them, formed for two months the subject of inexhaustible memories, interpretations, and happy meditations for Pierre. [2]
- These are the words the Irishman sang: "She was a queen, she stood up there before me, My blood went roarin' when she touched my hand; She kissed me on the lips, and then she swore me To die for her--and happy was the land. [11]
- I have been wondering whether we shall be as happy when the world discovers that you are great. [9]
- However, as the woman seemed likely to die with the convulsions that were tearing her, they concluded that the third could do no more than put her out of her misery with a happy dispatch. [5]
- A half-mad woman, without memory, knew again whence she came and whither she was going; and bewildered and happy, with a hungering tenderness, moved her hand over the head of her poor dwarf, as though she would know if he were truly her own son. [11]
- When he was within twenty paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling tenderness and ecstasy such as he had never before known. [2]
- Janus was pleased with the ready repartee and exclaimed: "How bright and happy you look! [10]
- She was astir with the birds of a morning, and near the last to retire at night, and happy as the days were long. [9]
- Those eyes, filled with happy tears, gazed at him timidly, compassionately, and with joyous love. [2]
- If it broke with a loud crack I was very happy, and cried, 'Ah! [10]
- His face lighted with a happy solution of his thought; he put the bark hastily in his pocket. [5]
- Miles sprang forward, with a happy confidence, to meet her, but she checked him with a hardly perceptible gesture, and he stopped where he was. [5]
- Was this man with a flushed face, staring eyes, disordered hair and hoarse voice, that favorite of fortune whose happy nature, easy demeanor, sunny gaze and enchanting song had bewitched her soul? [10]
- She returned home with a bright face, happy in having done her best, and instantly went into the kitchen to see Barbara. [10]
- Many times I wished that the charming anecdotes had not stopped with their happy climaxes, but had continued the pleasing history of the several benefactors and beneficiaries. [5]
- But the central wisdom which was old in infancy is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise. [6]
- Whether these anticipations will ever be realized, and whether increased leisure will make us all happy, is a subject of importance; but it is secondary, and in a manner incidental, to another and deeper matter, which may be defined as the responsibility of attractiveness. [4]
- You and I will do this: the Church will bless us, the State will thank us; your home and country will be safe and happy, your father and brother honoured. [11]
- If wounded, I will be your nurse; will never stir from your side if you are ill, and when I see you happy will retire, and feast my eyes from afar on your glory and happiness. [10]
- This the governor's widow had wholly lacked; and how happy were they who could call such a heart their own! [10]
- For the sleeper whose dream here on earth he, Charles, had beautified in so many ways, a happy waking had long since followed in the land for which she had never ceased to yearn. [10]
- Miss Wallace, to whom the next letter is written, had known Mark Twain in Bermuda, and, after his death, published a dainty volume entitled Mark Twain in the Happy Island. [5]
- He had that wholesome, happy look, so uncommon in our arid countrymen,--a look hardly to be found except where figs and oranges ripen in the open air. [6]
- So, during this whole sad period I was rarely utterly wretched, often joyous and happy, though sometimes the victim to the keenest spiritual anguish. [10]
- And so the whole family was as happy as birds, and nobody could be gratefuler and lovinger than what they was to Tom Sawyer; and the same to me, though I hadn't done nothing. [5]
- Since I heard who you was, I haven't had a happy hour. [9]
- Even Louis himself, who had had his moments of torture and suspicion when the appeal was read, was now in a kind of happy reaction. [11]
- There were others who had climbed to success in their own way, some by happy accident, some by a force which disregarded anything in their way, and some by sheer honest rough merit, through which the soul of the true pioneer shone. [11]
- The manner in which, after he permitted her to speak, she had disclosed in a low whisper her happy yet disquieting secret, hovered before him now as one of the most pathetic incidents in a life full of varied experiences. [10]
- And Honora wondered whether there were not an element of truth in what Mr. Dewing said of their hostess--that she thought nothing immoral except novels with happy endings. [9]
- You don't care whether she's happy in this world or the next; what you want is what you can see of her, for your life in this world only. [11]
- It left me when we met here, when I heard your voice again; and for a moment I was happy. [11]
- And after all, when we have good appetites and are fairly happy, why should we complain? [9]
- True, Barbara came when she was in a particularly happy mood, because a letter from Wolf stated that he already felt perfectly at home in Quijada's castle at Villagarcia, and that Dona Magdalena de Ulloa was a lady of rare beauty and kindness of heart. [10]
- The capital needed, when peace comes, to ensure a happy and contented democracy must be procured without encroaching on the minimum standard of life, and without hampering production. [9]
- And now, if what Philip said was true (and I doubted it not), here at last was the chance come again to win her without whom I should never be happy. [9]
- What sound wit, what keenness of observation, what a happy gift of invention, the old comic writers had at their disposal! [10]
- Had I said what I thought, I should have said: even if he had to go on dying, to die continually before my eyes, I should have been happy compared with what I am now. [2]
- They had forgotten what grass was like, and the velvety green meadows seemed paradise to their surprised and happy eyes after the long habit of seeing nothing but dirty lanes and streets. [5]
- Poor old Hannah wetted the parched lips and softly stroked the hot brow, murmuring endearing and pitying words, and thanking the Father of all that the mother was happy and did not know. [5]
- How happy they were under their solemn aspect! [6]
- Very likely they were soiled pencil notes, written to some school sweetheart --to "Becky Thatcher," perhaps--and tossed across at lucky moments, or otherwise, with happy or disastrous results. [5]
- And if there were questionings and little panics of doubt, did not these moments also reveal Margaret to herself more certainly than the hours of happy dreaming? [4]
- And if this were possible, if these two could be happy in love and honor, should she Klea come between the couple to divide them? [10]
- If only Dolly were not ill again from the shock, I should be happy indeed. [9]
- The Pappas Brothers were evidently as happy in this drab environment as they had ever been on the sunny mountain slopes of Hellas, and Janet sometimes wondered at this, for she had gathered from her education in the Charming public school that Greece was beautiful. [9]
- And their officers were equally happy. [9]
- Anger and surprise were depicted on his countenance, which was usually so happy. [10]
- I am very well, and as happy as I can be when you are away. [6]
- To-morrow morning, dear, we'll turn our faces from this scene of sorrow, and be as free and happy as the birds. [12]
- Everything will be well now, we shall be so wonderfully happy. [10]
- But she seems well and fairly happy. [9]
- For very many weeks it was a happy kingdom. [11]
- Softened by affectionate weakness and no longer able to resist the impulse to see his little Belita happy, he whispered: "Poor thing, poor young lovers! [10]
- He suspected that we were not wholly happy in being winners in such a game,--he even believed that we could wish as much as any others to change the game and the prizes. [9]
- Rested and refreshed, we took the rail happy and contented. [5]
- Never before were we together so well betimes, Margery, and happy hours are few. [10]
- No doubt, if we had now known her for the first time, we should have admired her exceedingly, and probably have accounted her thrice happy in filling so well her brilliant position. [4]
- But what shall we call the fault-finder, who spoils his friend's innocent enjoyment of a happy morning by his sharp reproaches? [10]
- About how happy we are; and about friends left behind in the earth, and how to influence them for their good. [5]
- Not now, when we are so happy. [9]
- Mother always says we are happy when we deny self in order to do good. [10]
- Which is another way of saying, that between us and the front door of our happy homes there are rattlesnakes that can sting--Nahoum's arm is long, and his traitors are crawling under the canvas of our tents! [11]
- All happy that way for while. [11]
- She is in Washington, apparently the happy favorite of a brilliant society. [5]
- Now her confidence was, as it were, confirmed by letter and seal, and this made her happy. [10]
- How happy he was when he went to bed! [10]
- And Mr. Plimpton was the more hurt since the happy suggestion was his own, and he had had no little difficulty in getting Mr. Beatty to agree to it. [9]
- And how happy was the choice of that word harnessed! [9]
- Them poor things was that glad and happy it made my heart ache to see them getting fooled and lied to so, but I didn't see no safe way for me to chip in and change the general tune. [5]
- Strange that she was so young still, and that was so long past--when he stood on a mountain, and, clambering a high wall of rock, looked over into a happy No-man's Land. [11]
- The box she was seeking was among the last and, while handing it to Bias, she muttered: "Oh, yes, certainly--it does one good to destroy a foe, but no less to make her foe happy! [10]
- Little Miss Dolly was often at the Hall after that happy week we spent together; and her home, Wilmot House, was scarce three miles across wood and field by our plantation roads. [9]
- But the doctor was not in a happy frame of mind, and seemed willing to forget the present in the past: things went wrong, somehow, and the time was out of joint with him. [6]
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