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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) i. f. 46 sig. H4 Her happy-making hand, of whome one looke From Nous and Cosma all their beauty tooke.

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres v. ciii. Ee2 Yet happy haples day, blest-ill-lost breath, Both for our better fortune, and your owne.

1601 R. Linche tr. G. Nanni Hist. Treat. Trav. Noah sig. Miij Now there wanted not any terrene or earth-born delight or felicitie which might make this happie-seeming potentate more fortunat, mightie, or contentfull.

1645 J. Milton On Time in Poems 20 Him, t'whose happy-making sight..When once our heav'nly-guided soul shall clime.

1780 Mirror No. 89 Much of the employment a shop-keeper gets, is owing to the attraction of a happy-fancied sign, advertisement, or shop-bill.

1828 A. M. Porter Coming Out in J. Porter & A. M. Porter Coming Out & Field of Forty Footsteps II. 573 From the hour in which that happy-hearted foreigner joined forces with the English peer's Italian wife, Lady Donnington's fashion declined.

1861 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ 2nd Ser. 110 A singularly happy, and happy-making man.

1882 J. Brown Miss Stirling Graham in John Leech & Other Papers 173 She retained to the last her..happy-heartedness.

1921 D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia 56 Old wood..happy-seeming as iron never can be.

1924 M. B. Lowndes Terriford Myst. iii. 35 Yet she looked so happy-natured.

1946 E. Sitwell Fanfare for Elizabeth xv. 155 Katherine Parr, a happy-natured, placid woman.

1952 S. Spender Learning Laughter 103 I never noticed such a happy-seeming family.

2003 National Post (Canada) 4 Mar. al1/6 A band of vigorous and happy-looking young men, calling themselves the Derailers, entertained scores of dancers.