jollity

• But I have decided that we must risk the transforming power of the bulb in the hope that the garden would look benevolently on an attempt at spring jollity, and this time it would not be in our usual batch of five here and ten there. —  dovegreyreader scribbles
• The jollity was all the more startling as it came after a fractious session of Leaders Questions in which the Taoiseach had locked horns with —  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
• Herr Rohn had graduated at Leipzig, but having spent most of his life in Vienna, was a man of exuberant jollity--a man of gold and a gentleman, even as his wife was a truly gentle lady. —  Memoirs
• Walking home that night late from his office the owner was attracted by the sound of jollity, and saw a little room jammed full of mill people enjoying the improvised music of a mouth organ played to the accompaniment of heels. —  Civics and Health
• And even mediocre jokes would convulse the room Jos Curtenty, the renowned card, a jolly old gentleman of sixty, was in the chair, and therefore jollity was assured in advance. —  Clayhanger

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