All 4 Uses of
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- At one end of the street stood from two to three hundred blithe and hearty labourers waiting upon Chance—all men of the stamp to whom labour suggests nothing worse than a wrestle with gravitation, and pleasure nothing better than a renunciation of the same.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Inwardy, too, he was blithe, and consequently chatty to an exceptional degree.†
Chpt 22-24
- The least spark would kindle the farmer's swift feelings of rage and jealousy; he would lose his self-mastery as he had this evening; Troy's blitheness might become aggressive; it might take the direction of derision, and Boldwood's anger might then take the direction of revenge.†
Chpt 31-33
- And sometimes, when I am excessively hopeful and blithe, a trouble is looming in the distance: so that I often get to look upon gloom in me with content, and to fear a happy mood.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(blithe) carefree and happy -- often unaware of or ignoring something that should be of concern