He will pull the largest roses, and chase the gayest butterflies.
He had a thorough acquaintance with the gayest and most disreputable sides of Parisian life, and left a number of more or less witty stories dealing with it.
Marie Pauline (1780-1825), the gayest and most beautiful member of the family, was born at Ajaccio on the 20th of October 1780.
With this office he combined those of first secretary to his father, the lord-lieutenant of Ireland, and Irish secretary of war, and a seat in each of the two Houses of Commons at Westminster and Dublin, winning at the same time the repute of being "the gayest man in Ireland except his father."