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The second course at a feast included 'joly amber potage; jiggots of venison, stopped with cloves; lamprey, with galentine, marchpane; fritter-dolphin; leche-florentine'.

Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) 2008

France, so many came forward "with such a good will and joly corage," wrote Ribaut, "as we had much to do to stay their importunitie."

A Brief History of the United States

The greater part came forward, and "with such a good will and joly corage," writes the commander, "as we had much to do to stay their importunitie."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various

Come out of that 'great-aunt' mood, and let's be joly while we can.

Winding Paths Gertrude Page 1897

The old mother had taken, not cherry-laurel water, nor even cherry-brandy, but joly good ale, and olde, which, far from fitting her to reveal the darksome lore of futurity, had rendered her loath to leave the festive board of the present.

The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

It's not even a joly failure like Dreamcast was and that makes my happiness even sweeter.

UK:RESISTANCE 2009

Centuries_, doe affirme thatt not to bloshe is a sign of noble bloods and gentyl lineage -- for itt may bee planely seene that every base-borne churle's daughter blosheth, if thatt yee give hir a poke under ye chinn, whereas ye countesse of highe degre only smileth sweetlie and sayth merily, '_Aha! messire -- tu voys que mon joly couer est endormy_!' for shee well knoweth that a gentyllman, like ye kynge, can doe noe wronge.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

Nous nous aprochames du Continant et cotoyames les Provinces de Pensilvanie Jersey, et Maryland, iusqu'a ce que nous decouvrimes Cap Henry en Virginie a la gauche de L'embouchure de James River, Un Vent de Nordoest nous favorisant nous entrames fort bien en cette Riviere et arrivames heureusement a Guiguetan presentement nomé Hampton un bourg assez joly le premier a lentrée de Virginie, apres un Voyage ou passage de deux mois, fort heureux n'ayant eu qu'un Seul orage qui n'a duré qu'une couple d'heures, et n'ayant point eu de maladies. nous y restames une nuict et un jour pour nous raffrechir.

Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois 1920