"There the air is coming from the sea, washes the pollution away," he declared happily.

Although most elected officials will happily declare a food holiday when a trade association or commodity group asks, the proclamations don't really mean much.

Hat declared happily as we stepped into the woods.

"It still works," he declared happily, as the lights spun and bleeped.

'We can now sleep in peace,' he declared happily.

She had, she declared happily, made a great deal of progress in the last few days, so she was going to write letters and read.

"We'll have dinner in half an hour and then have coffee on the terrace," she declared happily.

"This is the greatest game in the world," he happily declared in an aside as the campaign trail opened anew for him.

In this era of direct democracy, he happily declares, "Congress will have to listen to us."

"I'm going on a shopping spree next week," she declared happily.