This will fully account for the escape of the assassins: your Excellency, in the mean time, can easily overtake and ride among the foremost of the hunters, so that no one will suspect you, while I will keep among my equals, and shout, and laugh the blithest of any."
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
Our spirits rose with the rising day to the blithest altitudes; already we seemed to savor the taste of brisk campaigning; I think we all longed boyishly for action.
"The God of Love"
Justin Huntly McCarthy
Swing, robin, on the budded sprays, And sing your blithest tune;- Help us across these homesick days Into the joy of June!
"Birds and Poets"
John Burroughs