blithe

in a sentence

His ardor eventually cools, especially since I ignore his passionate glances and pedal blithely on my way.  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

The nurse went on blithely opening and shutting my drawers, emptying the closet and folding my belongings into the black overnight case.  (source) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, 1971

One day, as Mollie strolled blithely into the yard, flirting her long tail and chewing at a stalk of hay, Clover took her aside.  (source) George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945

For as poor as I appear, I have friends of my own that will be blithe to help me.  (source) Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, 1886

To McCandless's inexperienced eye, there was nothing to suggest that two months hence, as the glaciers and snowfields at the Teklanika's headwater thawed in the summer heat, its discharge would multiply nine or ten times in volume, transforming the river into a deep, violent torrent that bore no resemblance to the gentle brook he'd blithely waded across in April.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

...and you never see a cabin as blithesome as Jim's was when...  (source) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

And, to this end, Or even thou advance thee further, hence Look downward, and contemplate, what a world Already stretched under our feet there lies: So as thy heart may, in its blithest mood, Present itself to the triumphal throng, Which through the' etherial concave comes rejoicing.†  (source) Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, 1320

Thereafter at dawning, when day was yet early, The war-craft of Grendel to men grew unhidden, And after his meal was the weeping uphoven, Mickle voice of the morning-tide: there the Prince mighty, The Atheling exceeding good, unblithe he sat, 130 Tholing the heavy woe; thane-sorrow dreed he Since the slot of the loathly wight there they had look'd on, The ghost all accursed.†  (source) Author Unknown, Beowulf, 1895

To-night, however, she was even in a blither mood than usual.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 1891

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.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, 1874

Suchwise sad-moody moaned in sorrow One after all, unblithely bemoaning By day and by night, till the welling of death Touch'd at his heart.†  (source) Author Unknown, Beowulf, 1895

He looked so irresistibly pleasant, in a word, that three or four good-humoured fellows said, "Good morning, sir! A merry Christmas to you!" And Scrooge said often afterwards, that of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard, those were the blithest in his ears.  (source) Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1843

He waited for ghostly afterimages to form: a baby in its mother's arms, a girl brushing her hair, a young woman twirling blithely in a prom dress.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008