Word Finder - joys

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A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.

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They will be a source of strength and joy in your life.

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Anything that causes such a feeling.

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the joys and demands of parenthood

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Luck or success; a positive outcome.

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The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.

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To feel joy, to rejoice.

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To enjoy.

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To give joy to; to congratulate.

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To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.

Their joys are few; their sorrows are many.

This will help you learn more about what her individual joys, feelings, and motivations are.

These printable intimate love coupons are just the beginning; you may be surprised at the places they can lead and the joys they may inspire.

One of the joys of pear shaped engagement rings is that there are a variety of styles and designs to choose from.

The Franciscan Crown rosary has seven decades, each of which evokes one of the seven joys of Mary.

A Franciscan rosary tattoo evokes the same meditation on these joys.

They are Love, Sorrow at the sorrows of others, Joy in the joys of others, and Equanimity as regards one's own joys and sorrows.'

If any one was ever awake to the joys of living it was the minnesinger, troubadour or goliard, and the world had to wait until Rousseau and Burns before its external beauty was discovered, or at least deeply appreciated, by any but a few Dutch artists.

Interest is confined to the actions, passions, sufferings and joys of human life, to its pathetic, tragic, humorous and sentimental incidents.

But I do not scorn to descend thence to the Piraeus, where Socrates sketched the plan of his republic. I shall mount to the double summitlof Parnassus; I shall revel in the joys of Tempe."

Balancing these mystic joys is the stern tone of his Resolutions, in which he is almost ascetic in his eagerness to live earnestly and soberly, to waste no time, to maintain the strictest temperance in eating and drinking.

Scorpio has a tendency to overindulge in most of life's joys.

Ramin (about the middle of the 11th century), can compete with Nizami in the wonderful delineation of character and the brilliant painting of human affections, especially of the joys and sorrows of a loving and beloved heart.

A thoroughly healthy, well-balanced, harmonious nature, accepting life as it came, with all its joys and sorrows, and living it beautifully and hopefully, without canker and without uncharity.

Livingstone was no hurried traveller; he did his journeying leisurely, carefully observing and recording all that was worthy of note, with rare geographical instinct and the eye of a trained scientific observer, studying the ways of the people, eating their food, living in their huts, and sympathizing with their joys and sorrows.

The nation, worn out by the long disorders consequent on the captivity of King John and the insanity of Charles VI., abandoned itself to the joys of peace.

All ignorant we dared to own The joys we now dissemble; The greenfinch on the apple bough Could make my enemies tremble.

He agreed and two weeks ago discovered the joys of speeding humps, raised slabs, potholes and overgrown bushes.

David Hasselhoff 24 Mb When The Hoff was in London last year, his hotel chambermaid switched him on to the joys of Magic.

It remarked upon Clarke's " Damascene conversion to the joys of sterling " .

Ron also fulfilled another long-standing engagement, to address a meeting devoted to the joys of nature.

Sounds like another great reason for us mommies to partake in the joys of a hearty guffaw!

My Chinese boyfriend made me eat jellyfish Oh the joys of going for Dim Sum!

Another, the moving symphonic poem, " Heartbeat of Baghdad, " celebrates the joys and sorrows of this ancient city.

The reader can become obsessive too, equally absorbed by Sylvia'a account of the joys of nose-picking as by her emotional neediness.

Some of the joys of ascorbic acid are that it produces a range of color from delicate pastels to vivid colors of striking intensity.

In his later prose memoirs, he records in hypnotic and possibly obsessive detail the joys of nature and countryside pursuits.

Amy shows Lance the joys of whipped cream, a rather steamy situation.

And joy of all joys, I'm playing waitress for the evening, which includes making the starter.

Voltaire never wrote anything equal to Omars fascinating rhapsodies in praise of wine, love and all earthly joys, and his passionate denunciations of a malevolent and inexorable fate which dooms to slow decay or sudden death and to eternal oblivion all that is great, good and beautiful in this world.

He believed that Christianity had existed from all eternity, and that the Greeks and Romans, sharing in God's truth, would share also in the celestial joys.

The joys of heaven and the pains of hell are depicted in vivid sensuous imagery, as is also the terror of the whole creation at the advent of the last day and the judgment of the world.

Of the six parts into which it is divided, the first translates into manysided music the joys and sorrows, the thoughts and fancies, the studies and ardours and speculations of youth; the second, as full of light and colour, grows gradually deeper in tone of thought and music; the third is yet riper and more various in form of melody and in fervour of meditation; the fourth is the noblest of all tributes ever paid by song to sorrow - a series of poems consecrated to the memory of the poet's eldest daughter, who was drowned, together with her husband, by the upsetting of a boat off the coast of Normandy, a few months after their wedding-day, in 1843; the fifth and the sixth books, written during his first four years of exile (all but one noble poem which bears date nine years earlier than its epilogue or postscript), contain more than a few poems unsurpassed and unsurpassable for depth and clarity and trenchancy of thought, for sublimity of inspiration, for intensity of faith, for loyalty in translation from nature, and for tenderness in devotion to truth; crowned and glorified and completed by their matchless dedication to the dead.

At the same time it is probable that the serene joys of virtue and the grieflessness which the sage was conceived to maintain amid the worst tortures, formed the main attractions of Stoicism for ordinary minds.

I was delighted, for my mind was full of the prospective joys and of the wonderful stories I had heard about the sea.

To be able to read for one's self what is being willed, thought and done in the world--the world in whose joys and sorrows, failures and successes one feels the keenest interest--that would indeed be a happiness too deep for words.

Beside the tomb sits a weary soul, rejoicing neither in the joys of the past nor in the possibilities of the future, but seeking consolation in forgetfulness.

Sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used to be his old schoolroom, and looking into Natasha's wildly bright eyes, Rostov re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it.

It was as if joy--a supreme joy apart from the joys and sorrows of this world--overflowed the great grief within her.

But a complex and difficult process of internal development was taking place all this time in Pierre's soul, revealing much to him and causing him many spiritual doubts and joys.

Princess Mary had two passions and consequently two joys--her nephew, little Nicholas, and religion--and these were the favorite subjects of the prince's attacks and ridicule.

In the midst of the conversation she noticed "Granddad" give Bennigsen a quick, subtle glance, and then to her joys she saw that "Granddad" said something to "Long-coat" which settled him.

She did not think of applying submission and self-abnegation to her own life, for she was accustomed to seek other joys, but she understood and loved in another those previously incomprehensible virtues.

We see people around us go through the joys and sorrows of life and we watch and note how they handle life.

The joys and tragedy of his own life find their way onto the page in a moving, witty and spellbinding tale.

His second track fully exploited his vocal talents, his rich voice adding depths to a song about the joys of a past love.

Wedding vows are meant to express the joys of being together.

And joy of all joys, I 'm playing waitress for the evening, which includes making the starter.

Councilors were told of the joys of 24 hour cities and not warned of the risks.

One of the joys of parenthood is watching a baby and siblings form a bond that will last throughout their lifetime.