joylessly Ootah built his own home.
"The Eternal Maiden"
T. Everett Harré
You know this; and when you ask me why I am content to live alone, without either wife or child-and I love children, even those of other people-a solitary man dragging out my days and nights joylessly enough-I tell you: I am openly and honestly a worshipper of our old gods, and I will not go to church because I scorn a lie.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
Ann fulfilled her every duty, down to the very least of them, by reason that she had a steadfast spirit and great dominion over herself; but she got small thanks, and by her own fault, inasmuch as she did it joylessly.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers