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  • "Since he lost his heart to Miss What's-her-name, that pretty 'Jollity' girl, with the double-barrelled repeating wink, and the postcard grin."

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • The day was spent in mirththe Lenni-Lenape nation and Jollity the soldiers paradingof the Delaware Valley marching with fife & Drum and Huzzaing as they passd the poles their hats adornd with white blossoms

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • The music is very suitable as it is Jupiter - The Bringer of Jollity - and in this ceremony we are indeed going to rejoice and celebrate the advent of Stuart and Jemma's second child, Jove.

    tequilamonky Diary Entry tequilamonky 2009

  • We passed this Day and the following Night in Jollity enough; but the next Morning my Steward came to Town, and was soon informed of this my

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Jollity, and slept in the Bed of Adultery, till Heaven, all − just and good, awak'd me out of this my impious Delirium, by the Revolution which soon follow'd.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • We passed this Day and the following Night in Jollity enough; but the next Morning my Steward came to Town, and was soon informed of this my

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Jollity, and slept in the Bed of Adultery, till Heaven, all − just and good, awak'd me out of this my impious Delirium, by the Revolution which soon follow'd.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Carved above its mantel in richly gilded letters was the motto HILARITAS SAPIENTIAE ET BONAE VITAE PROLES—“Jollity is the offspring of wisdom and living well.”

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • Carved above its mantel in richly gilded letters was the motto HILARITAS SAPIENTIAE ET BONAE VITAE PROLES—“Jollity is the offspring of wisdom and living well.”

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • The Cavalcade being over, the Couples went up into an upper Room, where they concluded the evening with great Jollity.

    The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

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