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Cheeringly   Listen
adverb
Cheeringly  adv.  In a manner to cheer or encourage.






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"Cheeringly" Quotes from Famous Books



... he whispered, "you will break poor Louis's heart, already sore enough with thinking of his foolish conduct." "Be not cast down, Catharine," said her brother, cheeringly: "we may not be so far from home as you think. As soon as you are rested we will set out again, and we may find something to eat; there must be strawberries ...
— Canadian Crusoes - A Tale of The Rice Lake Plains • Catharine Parr Traill

... killt!' said the Squire, with a groan. 'To think what a feller might have done, if he had only have spread his-self judishuslously as he came tumblin' onto 'em spang! Wal!' (looking cheeringly to young Tyler,) 'you couldn't do more'n fire both barrils into 'em, ef they was ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various

... matter?" he asked, cheeringly, the rumble of the traffic destroying the carrying-power of their voices. He leaned toward her, very anxious to solve any difficulty which might confront her, perfectly willing to ensnare her by kindness. "Isn't there ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser

... godlike self. To each and all in cheering tones he spoke, Mesthles and Glaucus and Thersilochus, Asteropaeus and Hippothous, Medon, Deisenor, Phoreys, Chromius, And Ennomus the seer: to all of these His winged words he cheeringly address'd: ...
— The Iliad • Homer

... are in the cavern; but there is nothing to go that I know of. It's all right. Stand up, old fellow, and come along," replied Bill, cheeringly. ...
— From Powder Monkey to Admiral - A Story of Naval Adventure • W.H.G. Kingston

... think I will. The fact is, you seem to be so well in body and happy in mind, so comfortable and respectable in worldly matters, and speak so cheeringly of another world—to which I know that the rapid current of time is hurrying us both—that I'll follow in your wake, and try to make a little headway in ...
— Select Temperance Tracts • American Tract Society

... had used it for the glory and exaltation of his country; because he loved her with an ardour the most vivid and extreme; because he had shed the light entrusted to his charge both on the lofty dwelling and on the lowly hearth, but most brightly and cheeringly upon the latter, for that was his peculiar charge. We feel assured that the events of that day, and the sentiments which were then inspired and uttered, will produce a marked effect upon the disposition of the country at large. It seemed ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 • Various

... and Aunt Hannah will live forty or fifty years longer yet, and see your grandchildren, and maybe your great-grandchildren. You two are the stuff that centenarians are made of," exclaimed the young man cheeringly. ...
— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... you till times change, and the tide of calamity which of late days has set so strongly in against us takes a turn. But the fact is, sometimes I feel it absolutely necessary to unburden my mind. To papa I must only speak cheeringly, to Anne only encouragingly—to you I may give some hint of ...
— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter

... awkwardness, she cheeringly represents to him, but it can only last a moment. He is ...
— The Mystery of Edwin Drood • Charles Dickens

... spoken cheeringly to her husband when he left her, but her own heart began to sink when she was alone; and so strong was her desire to save one who bad been so true a friend to her Bassanio, that she determined to go to Venice and speak in ...
— The Children's Portion • Various

... bear up," replied her companion, cheeringly; "a little farther, and we shall be safe: look! yonder is Granada, just showing itself in the valley below us. A little farther, and we shall come to the main road, and then we shall find plenty ...
— Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • Washington Irving



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