1  On the present festive occasion he emerged from his room, when the blithe bells were going, the picture of misery, in a full suit of Sunday penitentials.
2  In a similar feeling of delicacy, we were always blithe and light-hearted with the licence clients.
3  He was so blithe about his murders her blood chilled.
4  The youth, considering himself as separated from the others, was saddened by the blithe and merry speeches that went from rank to rank.
5  He was one of those who wouldn't take care: like some of the first lads as went off so blithe to the war and got killed right away.
6  "You are looking very blithe, upon my word, Tamsie," said Mrs. Yeobright, with a sad smile.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete 7  Her anger had a good effect, however, for she hid it under a smiling face, and seemed unusually blithe and brilliant.
8  How blithely she sang that evening, and how they all laughed at her because she woke Amy in the night by playing the piano on her face in her sleep.
9  There was a long pause, while a blackbird sung blithely on the willow by the river, and the tall grass rustled in the wind.
10  Replacing the fences the Yankees had so blithely burned was a long hard task.
11  She wondered how he could jest so blithely with a rope about his neck and her pitiful circumstances before him.
12  One day, as Mollie strolled blithely into the yard, flirting her long tail and chewing at a stalk of hay, Clover took her aside.