jocund

• All is free, open, simple and direct On the top floor is a restaurant, where all lunch in a common, fraternal way, jolly and jocund, as becomes men who carry big burdens The place is democratic to a fault, for the controlling spirits of Twenty-six Broadway are men who have come by a rocky road, having conquered great difficulties, overcome great obstacles, and while often thirsting for human sympathy have nevertheless been able to do without it Success is apt to sour, for it begets an opposition that is often cruel and unjust. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
• For he was riding through an air almost jocund, and his spirit sang within him. —  Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
• And yet in his grand palatial mansion at Kensington I doubt if he was as jocund or as irrepressible as then. —  John Forster
• But Eve is described as "jocund" and "blithe" only when she is intoxicated by the mortal fruit of the tree; and the note of gaiety that is heard faintly, like a distant echo, in the earlier poems, is never sounded again by Milton So it is also with other things. —  Milton
• At Cornouaille, the new-comer is instructed to pay for his jocund advent neither too meanly nor with burdensome extravagance, but in accordance with his rank and his means. —  Life in the Medieval University

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