mirth-loving

The tale is a romp but a romp under a shadow: We know something that these wholesome and mirth-loving young people in 1912 or so don't.

Growing Pangs Alexandra Mullen 2011

The pleasure with which this innovation was received by the lively and mirth-loving Canadians showed the difference in character between themselves and the American ladies.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Perhaps she expresses the general feeling of her careless, pleasure-loving, mirth-loving people, who, whatever commands they disobey, fulfil the one, “Take no thought for the morrow.”

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Do you recollect any of the serious conflicts that mirth-loving brain of yours used to get you into with that diminutive creature Wales

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

I heard one night in a lonely mountain-village in the Eastern Caucasus from the lips of a Daghestan mountaineer a humorous story which had been told me less than a year before by a student of the Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio, and which I had supposed to be an invention of the mirth-loving sophomores of that institution.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

There are a thousand minute shreds of the absurd which my duller sense overlooks, but which never can hope to escape your mirth-loving vision.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

How swiftly glided the mirth-loving nights as -- the enchanting strains of the prima donna hushed -- we adjourned to thy ever to be praised bottegua!

A Love Story A Bushman

She was in a gentle, musing mood, but at his entrance she instantly rallied to her old mirth-loving spirit.

Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates

There was a packet too for each of the crew, containing some little joking gift, prepared by the mirth-loving Dr. Pansch, and a useful present also; while the officers were each and all remembered.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

To Sarah's affectionate, mirth-loving temperament, this was misery greater than could be expressed.

Hetty's Strange History Anonymous