"Joyance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... going about with pitchers of wine and ale, and other good drinks; and every man drank freely what he would, and there was the greatest game and joyance. ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris
... Sun in heaven was shining gay, All things were joyful on that day; The sea-birds screamed as they wheeled around, And there was joyance in their sound. ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry
... it with a lovelorn maiden's eyes, Cast thine eye round, bethink thee who thou art;— Into no house of joyance hast thou stepped, For no espousals dost thou find the walls Decked out, no guests the nuptial garland wearing; Here is no splendor but of arms. Or thinkest thou That all these thousands are here congregated To lead up the long dances at thy wedding! Thou see'st ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... said Sir Pertinax, scowling also. "Here will I, and with great joyance, cleave me thine impish mazzard and split thee to thy beastly chine. ...
— The Geste of Duke Jocelyn • Jeffery Farnol
... could not be better placed than they would have been at the end of the shorter lines of this same stanza, where they would have dropped into a part of the pause. Another sin of sheer heedlessness—the lapse of grammar in The Skylark, at the top of page 296 (With thy clear keen joyance)— will remind the reader of the special habitual error of ...
— Flower of the Mind • Alice Meynell
... melodies and the place answered them for the sweetness of the songs, whilst the pipes cried out and the lutes made accord with them, till it seemed to Aboulhusn that he was in Paradise and his heart was cheered and his breast dilated. So he sported and joyance waxed on him and he bestowed dresses of honour on the damsels and gave and bestowed, challenging this one and kissing that and toying with a third, plying one with wine and another with meat, till the night ...
— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne |
