gaily-dressed

On either side of the slope there were groups of pandies with their bayonets fixed, glowering but doing nothing to help, and off to one side I saw a little gaily-dressed group of natives by a temple on a knoll - Azeemoolah was there, talking to Wheeler, who was gesturing towards the barges, so I walked across towards them, through the silent groups of pandy riflemen, and as I came up Azeemoolah was saying:

Fiancée 2010

At noon the gaily-dressed pack of small children clamors by, waving their construction paper creations as they skip home for lunch.

The Corners Jane Hammons 2010

Sara said, morphing back into a living flapper, standing in the midst of a big party where gaily-dressed couples danced the night away.

Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 11.2 of 31.1 2009

People were all holidaymaking (if that can be where there is no work), and enjoying themselves, the surf-bathers in the sea, and hundreds of gaily-dressed men and women galloping on the beach.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Mary Axe: pressing on the road all the gaily-dressed ladies whom she could see from the window, and making them unconscious lay-figures for dolls, while she mentally cut them out and basted them.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

Everyone pressed back against the wall and waited stilly while the enemy circled vainly above the strange spectacle of this crimson rock banded with thousands of gaily-dressed Arabs, nesting like ibises in every cranny of its face.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

“Luise Ivanovna, you can sit down,” he said casually to the gaily-dressed, purple-faced lady, who was still standing as though not venturing to sit down, though there was a chair beside her.

Crime and Punishment 2002

On either side of the slope there were groups of pandies with their bayonets fixed, glowering but doing nothing to help, and off to one side I saw a little gaily-dressed group of natives by a temple on a knoll — Azeemoolah was there, talking to Wheeler, who was gesturing towards the barges, so I walked across towards them, through the silent groups of pandy riflemen, and as I came up Azeemoolah was saying:

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

On either side of the slope there were groups of pandies with their bayonets fixed, glowering but doing nothing to help, and off to one side I saw a little gaily-dressed group of natives by a temple on a knoll - Azeemoolah was there, talking to Wheeler, who was gesturing towards the barges, so I walked across towards them, through the silent groups of pandy riflemen, and as I came up Azeemoolah was saying:

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

With that, he almost hurled a gaily-dressed gentleman aside on either hand; they both turned to glare angrily, then got hastily out of his way.

Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963