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We watch shooting stars, pointing out the Plough, Cassiopeia and the North Star to our sticky-fingered, happy-hearted kids.

Set your family free: rural bliss in Spain Mimi Spencer 2010

[32] Self-restrain, he believed, would best be cultivated if he made men see in himself one who could not be dragged from the pursuit of virtue by the pleasure of the moment, one who chose to toil first for the happy-hearted joys that go hand-inhand with beauty and nobleness.

Cyropaedia 2007

For taking the first step in this bold and happy-hearted movement, for throwing a welcome sop to gay and questioning fans everywhere, and for giving the wingers yet another part of the world to feel uncomfortable in, hats off to J.K. Rowling!

Dead Fictional British Pagan from Another World Sets Wingnuts Frothing (Yay, Rowling!) « Lean Left 2007

Then there arrived on the scene a mere schoolboy — a merry, happy-hearted youth, but at the same time strong and well-grown.

The Yellow Fairy Book 2003

Quarles — happy-hearted, generous, and optimistic — to write the letter.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

They were a happy-hearted, aspiring lot, and they got as much as five dollars sometimes for an

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Finally, we close this list with a Chinese proverb which should be inscribed on the lintel of every door in Christendom: "The happy-hearted man carries joy for all the household."

Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

Beside one of these I would place a happy-hearted soul, who laughs through the window of the eye and on whose face you can read,

Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain

Thus the nun continued to speak to the band of little girls, who had eagerly gathered around her; thus was she wont to teach them lessons of wisdom in a sprightly, gay, happy-hearted way, as if generosity, unselfishness and self-denial were the most natural traits imaginable, and the whole world fair because it is God's world, and we are all His children.

Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley

The youngest, little Gluck, was happy-hearted and kind, but he had a hard life with his brothers, for Hans and Schwartz were so cruel and so mean that they were known everywhere around as the "Black Brothers."

How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Sara Cone Bryant