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Sentences starting with joy

Joy itself, Daphne, has lost its illuminating power within. [10]
Joy sat upon every countenance. [5]
Joy sat on every countenance, and there was a glad, almost fierce, intensity in every eye, that told of the money-getting schemes that were seething in every brain and the high hope that held sway in every heart. [5]
Joy is the best thing in life, and who bestows it more certainly and lavishly than the little winged god? [10]

Sentences ending with joy

Still, I ask you, do you think there is a reason why from her height she should stoop down to rescue you or give you any joy? [11]
She was twenty-eight years old, and yet she had never kissed a face in joy or to give joy. [11]
And this she would grant him--she esteemed him and would give him the right to protect her, this he felt, with thankfulness and joy. [10]
She grew to womanhood, bringing him daily joy. [11]
The spectators crowded within the bar and surrounded Laura who, calmer than anyone else, was supporting her aged mother, who had almost fainted from excess of joy. [5]
Something stood sentinel within her and forbade her every joy. [2]
We took them with us and marched into Orleans next day through the usual tempest of welcome and joy. [5]
Her face shone with rapturous joy. [2]
Jim was sitting with Nancy on his knee, her head against his shoulder, Sally at his side, her face alight with some inner joy. [11]
Joan was radiant with joy. [5]

Short sentences using joy

The joy of killing! [5]
That is true joy. [5]
They were speechless for joy. [5]
An' no joy! [5]
What joy! [11]
Joy! [5]
Come, joy! [5]

Sentences containing joy two or more times

And Pierre's soul was dimly but joyfully filled not by the story itself but by its mysterious significance: by the rapturous joy that lit up Karataev's face as he told it, and the mystic significance of that joy. [2]
Love is pain," she said in dying, "but this pain--especially that of renunciation for love's sake--bears with it a joy, an exquisite joy, which renders death easy. [10]
May the month of May, called by the Germans the joy month, and which dawns to-day with bright sunshine and a clear, blue sky, be indeed a season of joy to your Majesty! [10]
Wish thy friend joy of his journey, but pray in secret that he have no joy, for then may he return quickly to thee. [11]
Joy, joy, with flying Feet the she-Englishwoman comes! [5]
If we both fall, we are in good company; if you fall, I have the greater joy of escape; if I fall, you have the same joy. [11]
As her experience deepened under the influence of a sorrow which still was joy, and a joy that still was sorrow, her vision became acute and piercing. [11]

More example sentences with the word joy in them

And for the young bloods, whose greatest regret was that they could not send forth a daughter of joy into the Champs Elysee in her carriage, she had ever sent them about their business. [11]
So, even though you will lose the joy of revenge upon a hated enemy, forget what has happened, as I did, and maintain your former affectionate companionship. [10]
And a joyful yet pathetic expression which seemed to beg forgiveness for her joy settled on Natasha's face. [2]
And as the years went on we'd realise how every form of success was offset by something undone in another direction, something which would have given us joy and memory and content--so it seems. [11]
But it is written that every happiness has its sting; and my joy, intense though it was, had in it a core of remorse.... [9]
This day perhaps would witness the sunset of his life's joy, would drive him forth once more to war--to fight, and do nothing but fight, till death should meet him on the battle-field. [10]
Perhaps to-morrow she would not care to; there was no joy in deliberate pleasure. [11]
Then the money would enable her to weave a joy into the sorrow that awaited him. [10]
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]
That is the wonder of it, the pity of it, and the joy of it. [11]
A solitary song-sparrow, without a note of joy, hops along the snow to the dining-room window, and, turning his little head aside, looks up. [4]
It seemed to wither and shrivel up all his joy on its hot, tearing way to his heart. [13]
Sleepless, yet filled with triumphant joy, like a general who has won a glorious victory, he watched through the night. [10]
His eyes, wet with tears of grateful joy, sought the young man's, and, though he had just warned him plainly enough against courting his daughter, his sparkling gaze now asked whether he had ever met an equally bewitching marvel. [10]
Then I laughed with my cousin; and when I was once more alone I marvelled at the mercy of a benevolent Providence, by whose ruling a small joy makes us to forget our heavy griefs, though it were but for a moment. [10]
She was smiling with joy, too, and she held out her wasted hands and drew me toward her, kissing me on both cheeks. [9]
Eva, fairly radiant with joy, nodded assent; and Els heard the ring of pleasure in her clear voice, too, as she exclaimed: "That was just what made the ball so delightful. [10]
Barbara was radiant with joy, for all seemed well between Maria and her brother. [10]
Hawkins was wild with joy, but Sellers was calm. [5]
Her eyes sparkled with joy, and her features wore an expression of compassion only at brief intervals, when the youth spoke of the greatest sufferings which he had borne with his uncle. [10]
Eva's cheeks flushed with joy and pride as she heard how nobly her lover had justified the confidence of his imperial patron. [10]
Adrian hurried home with his vial, and in his joy at bringing the sick lady relief, forgot her headache and struck the knocker violently against the door. [10]
He was pleading with her, in his voice was the peculiar vibrancy that thrilled her, that summoned some answering thing out of the depths of her, and she felt herself yielding with a strange ecstasy in which were mingled joy and terror. [9]
Endue him plenteously with Heavenly gifts; grant him in health and wealth long to live; strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies; and, finally, after this life, he may attain everlasting joy and felicity. [11]
Feeling her way with a stick, she paused now and then to draw in long breaths of sweet air from the meadows, as if in the joy of Nature she found a balm for the cruelties of Destiny. [11]
It had been with a great shout of joy that the consciousness had come to her that she loved and was loved. [4]
With joy I will do this, and a hundred times more. [11]
He fears he will die of joy, before he gets among them. [12]
Joshua knew to whom he and Ephraim owed this favor, and received it with grateful joy. [10]
One there is who knows him through and through, and hath little joy in the knowing. [11]
If only she who is gone might have had the joy of hearing me called senator and praetor! [10]
In that moment, while he still held her hand, she experienced the greatest joy that woman ever knows--the bliss of absolute surrender. [4]
The deep reverence which underlies all Emerson's speculations is well shown in this paragraph:-- "We ought to celebrate this hour by expressions of manly joy. [6]
You can fancy what universal joy the idea of a war with Egypt excited. [10]
The moment we were under way I began to prowl about the great steamer and fill myself with joy. [5]
Danger and separation were now passed, and they rejoiced in the happiness of meeting, yet could not feel genuine joy. [10]
Tears of vexation were in her eyes, and the light of her joy at this visit to the capital flickered, and she wished she were back in Coniston. [9]
For, notwithstanding there were certain hours in those days which brought me sweet love-making, and others of sheer mirth and vanity, yet is the spirit of man so tempered that, when great sorrow follows hard on the greatest joy it sufficeth to darken it wholly. [10]
The old man wept too, but his tears were tears of joy and he repeatedly assured Cambyses that he would recover and have ample opportunity of making amends for the past. [10]
At last we went booming through the Golden Gate, and my pulses leaped for joy. [5]
You know as well as I do that he hasn't had much joy out of life; that he'd like to be different, only he doesn't know how. [9]
I want to weep for joy. [2]
Just as usual, we found the town in a fury of joy, all the bells clanging, everybody shouting, and several people drunk. [5]
As the summer waxed hot we went into the forest at the bidding of my uncle and aunt, who took great joy in seeing their favorite in right good heart and wondrous beauty, Mistress Giovanna having provided her with seemly and brave apparel. [10]
Again a warm wave of joy seemed to surge upward in her breast, and she fancied that her heart was much too small for such a wealth of rapture, and it was already overflowing in hot waves, washing all grief far, far away. [10]
What joy it was to have him back, to be loved by him! [10]
What he felt was the supreme masculine joy of possession. [9]
Today, when there was so much rejoicing on account of Barine, I thought directly, 'Sorrow follows joy, and the second misfortune won't be spared us. [10]
But the joy was short-lived, for somebody asked how we were going to get the animals over. [5]
If a storm was on, the joy was the greater. [11]
Her lover henceforth was no longer her enemy; and as the tumult of the struggle by the breach fell on her ear, she could think with joy of his victorious arms. [10]
Now, whether she was in her laughing joy, or in her crying one, the Marchioness could not help turning to the visitors with an appealing look, which seemed to say, 'You see this fellow--can I help this? [12]
The King's cause was hers, and to be permitted to work for it gained a special charm by her son's appointment to be governor of the country, which filled her with mingled anxiety and joy. [10]
And then he was conscious of a palpitating joy which left in its wake a profound thankfulness. [9]
Not until he was alone in the quiet cabin did the sense of joy in his first great success overpower him afresh. [10]
With Eumedes he visited the unfamiliar scenes around him, and his newly restored gift of sight presented to him here many things that formerly he would scarcely have noticed, but which now filled him with grateful joy. [10]
The exultation of victory, the joy of success, had taken full possession of Ephraim and his youthful band; but when the sun set and there was still no sign of Hur and his band, Nun and his followers were seized with anxiety. [10]
Were there not vast fields of human effort, effort such as his, where he could ease the sorrow of living by the joy of a divine altruism? [11]
It is no vain imagining that I have made my goal, and if I am to bring joy to the wretched I must seek others than he. [10]
His joy collapsed utterly, and he turned away and moped toward the door moaning and lamenting over the bitterness of his luck. [5]
He came to us in the serai and weeping with joy returned to his old trade. [5]
I was nigh upon seventeen years old; Ann was past seventeen already, and I would have expressed my joy as freely as heretofore but that somewhat lay at my heart, and that was concerning my Ann. [10]
That faith, imposed upon me by self-interest in that ancient day, remains my faith today, and in it I find comfort, solace, peace, and never-failing joy. [5]
His face lighted up with joy as he saw her; but, when she repeated the old, disquieting request, he anxiously begged to know what she meant by it. [10]
Her eyes leaped up to brighter degrees of light, her face shone with a joy it had never reflected before, her blood rushed to her finger-tips. [11]
What joy flamed up in the king's eye! [5]
I hold it up as a wall between you and the heathen abomination which you hail with joy in your blindness. [10]
This was joy unspeakable to me, but it made my wife as mad as if he had offered her a personal affront. [5]
It was an unspeakable joy to me to be able to assure her of Herdegen's faithful love, and to repeat to her the many kind words he had spoken concerning her. [10]
Seating himself with unrepressed joy, he looked at us, and a great smile of satisfaction came over his face, that plainly said, "Now my time has come. [4]
Her feet shuffled unevenly on the floor, and it would have been a joy to shake the in valid there with the rapt look in his face. [11]
With blast of trumpets and clash of cymbals love had again set forth to enter, with triumphant joy, the soul which had of late been so desolate, so impoverished. [10]
Why they were transported with joy to see her. [5]
Calm words, slow touch of hand, but, oh, the cry, The long, long cry of passion and of joy Within my heart; the star-burst in the sky-- The world--our world--which time may not destroy! [11]
Her heart is torn between sorrow for her lost relations, and joy at being united again to her love. [10]
Soon other voices took up that cry--tens, scores, hundreds of voices; all the world seemed filled with the brutal joy of it. [5]
During the night too, she had prayed fervently that the Lord might graciously draw to himself this lovely, gentle creature, that He might permit her to recover, and fill her soul with the same love for the Saviour that gave joy to her own. [10]
The wondering shepherds told their breathless tale Of the bright choir that woke the sleeping vale; Told how the skies with sudden glory flamed; Told how the shining multitude proclaimed "Joy, joy to earth! [6]
It cannot be told how it now thrills me with joy to hear you say you are "far happier than you ever expected to be. [7]
Hereupon I hastily told him that we had hunted down the robbers and rescued it, and it was a joy to see how much comfort and delight this was to him. [10]
The general comes to us, Suvorov-like, in a kibitka, and is received with acclamations of joy and triumph. [2]
But at last, to their great joy, it led downwards in a steep descent, with overhanging banks over which the footpaths led; and the clustered houses of the village peeped from the woody hollow below. [12]
They drew near to the unearthly luxury of that Call, now lifting with an unbounded joy. [11]
He declined both, to the lasting astonishment, yet personal joy, of the Cure and the Avocat; but, as time went on, not so much to the surprise of the Little Chemist and Medallion. [11]
Remember, too, that to shew mercy is better than to shed blood; the sword killeth, but the favor of the ruler bringeth joy and happiness. [10]
Ah, what joy to serve a Napoleon once again! [11]
He is accustomed to seeing the publisher impoverish the author--that spectacle must be getting stale to him--if he contracts with the undersigned he will experience a change in that programme that will make the enamel peel off his teeth for very surprise--and joy. [5]
She suffered him to seal his vows with kisses, herself offering him her lips, as her heart swelled with fervent thanksgiving for so much joy and such a full measure of love. [10]
We were anxious to reach it, we were glad to leave it; we note as to all these places that our joy at departing always exceeds that on arriving, which is a merciful provision of nature for people who must keep moving. [4]
It is easy to love with joy so long as both live, though there are worlds between. [11]
As it were, to lose joy, and glow, and fervour of young, sincere and healthy life, to whip up the dying vitality and morbid brain of a consumptive! [11]
Egypt will shake to its foundations--to the joy of its enemies. [11]
Zeb Meader, true to his nature, was self-contained throughout the congratulations he received, but his joy was nevertheless intense. [9]
He came up to his brother, beaming with joy, kissed the hem of his robe, and told him in a tone of triumph that he hoped to become a father. [10]
He snatched her to his breast, and kissed her twice in a very agony of joy, then let her go. [11]
She came near to him, but there was no encouragement to her to play that part which is a woman's deepest right and joy and pain in one--to comfort her man in trouble, sorrow, or evil. [11]
Tranquillity had come to him, and the joy of solitude, and interest in all the wild creatures and crannies of this incomparable valley--and love. [13]
I must submit to have the hated foe, whose blinding was the sole pleasure in my ruined life, look me in the face with insolent joy. [10]
The populace desired to have the delightful news confirmed, and to express, by a public demonstration, the grateful joy which filled every heart. [10]
Denisov evidently tried to expose Rostov to danger as seldom as possible, and after an action greeted his safe return with evident joy. [2]

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