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Meanings of riant in English

Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness.

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Examples for "laughing"
1
Being fatigued; laughing; being amused; having been elected; running; having been running.
Graded Lessons in English / An Elementary English Grammar Consis...
2
The men were no longer laughing, which meant Skylan had a problem.
Bones of the Dragon
3
Nora burst out laughing; and in the midst of her mirthfulness exclaimed:
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
4
The girl looked up; the sun was laughing full in her eyes.
The Song of the Blood-Red Flower
5
I can't help laughing, really laughing, for the first time in months.
Catching Fire
Usage of riant in English
1
Her riant health was unalterable.
Alice of Old Vincennes
2
Until they had rightly appraised the value of his friendship, women had been wont to regard him with a riant curiosity.
A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
3
It is what the French call un paysage riant, and I assure you, it does more than smile these lovely June mornings.
A Hilltop on the Marne / Being Letters Written June 3-September ...
4
He looked from the porch upon the riant, dissipated two, and commanded and cajoled and made tremendous threats, but to no purpose.
A Man and a Woman
5
021a.jpg the Lord de Riant Finding The Widow With Her Groom
The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 3 (of 5)
6
The fragrant odour of the wine, O how much more dainty, pleasant, laughing (Riant, priant, friant.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
7
'Lord God!' thought I, 'is this all?' A scene as quiet and riant as this we-have at home!
O. T., A Danish Romance
Riant through the time