jocularities

Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said.

Archive 2006-02-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006

Formal chit-chat isn't my style -- a little gallantry, a few jocularities to see if she will or she won't, a pinch on the buttocks, and off we go.

Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

Then, amidst the animal jocularities that were looked on as wit in that day, the bridegroom followed, and the best man locked the door on the married pair and put the key in his pocket.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

She would eat only convent fare at first, notwithstanding the importunities of the waiters, and the jocularities of the captain, and particularly of the clerk.

Balcony Stories Grace E. King

These familiar jocularities, redeemed by their general good humour from the charge of disrespect, are harmless compared with the sustained campaign of ridicule directed against Prince Albert as tailor and sportsman.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

At dinner, her father, still in high spirits, observed that she had again ` ` dressed up '' in honour of his second descent of the stairs; and Walter repeated his fragment of objectionable song; but these jocularities were rendered pointless by the eventless evening that followed; and in the morning the carnations began to appear tarnished and flaccid.

Alice Adams 1921

He jibed at him as a vulgar impostor; but it is easy to perceive, under his scornful jocularities, the traces of an uneasy respect.

The End of General Gordon: Paras. 67-99 1918

At dinner, her father, still in high spirits, observed that she had again "dressed up" in honour of his second descent of the stairs; and Walter repeated his fragment of objectionable song; but these jocularities were rendered pointless by the eventless evening that followed; and in the morning the carnations began to appear tarnished and flaccid.

Alice Adams Booth Tarkington 1907

Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said;

The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

Sophia was pleased because he admired her, and because with her he dropped his bedside jocularities, and talked plainly as a sensible man will talk when he meets an uncommonly wise woman, and because he echoed and amplified her own thoughts.

The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1899