jocundity

• “By no means undignified, the face presented that combination of slyness and jocundity which we are accustomed to imagine of the canonical jolly-dogs in mediaeval tales.”

  The Hand of Ethelberta

• “However, his spirits were not in their usual flow of jocundity just now, and his lively face was dashed with care.”

  Mary Anerley

• “The first was answered in a tone of bullying jocundity.”

  Despair's Last Journey

• “Tu es juif, n'est ce pas?" said the big man, with a sort of bullying jocundity.”

  Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile

• “The swaggering jocundity of his manner had all gone.”

  VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea

• “Mrs. Howitt naively, 'the young reformers indulged in much jocundity when the day's work was done.”

  Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

• “It was all endured easily enough, and now and then there were outbursts of rollicking jocundity in spite of it The mere physical suffering of privation is not a thousandth part of its pain.”

  The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography

• “She could remember no more of them than that they had seemed to hold a high singing and jocundity, issuing from some region of haze and golden light; and they seemed to hover, ever on the point of being recaptured, yet ever eluding all her mental efforts.”

  Widdershins

• “Lorelei realized before long that this very jocundity of his, since it fed upon constant change and excitement, constituted the gravest menace to their happiness.”

  The Auction Block

• “Before their imperturbable jocundity what bad humour can exist?”

  The Tapestry Book

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