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I have just mentioned Niels Andersen, and this good figure, at once so droll and so lovable, emerges all riant in my memory.

Vā′riant, a different form of the same original word: a different reading, e.g. in a manuscript.—adj. diverse, variable, inconstant.—At variance, in disagreement.

She sauntered on in an arch and riant humor.

Everything is riant, stirring, singing, in the world that I behold from my balcony.

These poems almost equal Holmes's for rich and riant humor.