cheared

Updated: May 2, 2025

Handkerchiefs are waved, flowers are flung before his way, words of welcome fall upon his ear, in answer to which he bows with stately grace, smiles most pleasantly, and gives such signs of delight as "cheared the hearts of all loyal subjects even to extasie and transportation."

J. Fitzgerald (Joseph Fitzgerald) Molloy - Royalty Restored

Proceedings in the South Sea, till Ship-wrecked on the Island of Juan Fernandez. At length, on the 14th November at noon, our spirits were cheared by seeing the coast of Chili; yet here we found ourselves under very great difficulties.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 : Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.

"Sweet powers of kindness and compassion!" cried the old man, "look upon this creature with pity! she who raised the depressed, she who cheared the unhappy! she whose liberal hand turned lamentations into joy! who never with a tearless eye could hear the voice of sorrow! is This she herself! can This be Cecilia!"

Fanny Burney - Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3

He then departed to find Mr Nightingale, and the good woman returned to comfort her daughter, who was somewhat cheared at what her mother told her; and both joined in resounding the praises of Mr Jones. The interview between Mr Jones and Mr Nightingale. The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves.

Henry Fielding - History of Tom Jones, a Foundling